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Tag Archives: Alan Bates
Nicholas’ Gift (1998) Robert Markowitz

Fact based drama about an American couple on vacation in Italy in 1994 with their two children who are attacked and shot by highway bandits. Read More »
Hollywood North (2003) Peter O’Brian

A Canadian producer buys the film rights of a famous Canadian novel, Lantern Moon and wants it to reflect his home country. Read More »
Silent Tongue (1993) Sam Shepard, Alan Bates, Richard Harris, River Phoenix

Mad with grief after the death of his Kiowa wife, Talbot awaits death under a tree with her body beside him. Read More »
The Statement (2003) Norman Jewison, Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton, Alan Bates

Set in modern day France, the story of Pierre Brossard who, as a young man, was a Nazi executioner under the Vichy regime. Read More »
The Grotesque (1995) John-Paul Davidson, Alan Bates, Theresa Russell, Sting

Sir Hugo is more interested in reconstructing dinosaur bones than in paying attention to his wife, Lady Harriet. Read More »
The Running Man (1963) Carol Reed, Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick, Alan Bates

Hard up and with a grudge against insurance companies, Rex Black feigns his death Read More »
Le Roi de coeur / King of Hearts (1966) Philippe de Broca, Alan Bates, Geneviève Bujold, Pierre Brasseur

During the latter part of World War I, Private Charles Plumpick is chosen to go into the French town Read More »
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972) Peter Medak, Alan Bates, Janet Suzman, Peter Bowles

A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain-dead. Read More »
A Voyage Round My Father (1982) Alvin Rakoff

Before creating the beloved courtroom drama Rumpole of the Bailey, writer John Mortimer Read More »
An Englishman Abroad (1983) John Schlesinger, Alan Bates, Coral Browne, Charles Gray

Actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow, and meets a mysterious Englishman. Read More »
Nijinsky (1980) Herbert Ross, Alan Bates, George De La Pena, Leslie Browne

Set in the early 1910s at a time of passionate artistic experimentalism Read More »
Butley (1974) Harold Pinter, Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Richard O’Callaghan

A day in the life of Ben Butley. But definitely not a day to remember for this T.S. Eliot scholar at the University of London. Read More »
Nothing But the Best (1964) Clive Donner, Alan Bates, Denholm Elliott, Harry Andrews

Success has James Brewster’s name written all over it, and he also has his heart set on his boss’ daughter. Read More »
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Alan Bates, John Schlesinger

Based on Thomas Hardy’s 19th century novel, Bathsheba Everdene is a willful Read More »