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Tag Archives: John Gielgud
The Wicked Lady (1983) Michael Winner, Faye Dunaway, Alan Bates, John Gielgud
Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Read More »
Providence (1977) Alain Resnais, Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, John Gielgud
Clive Langham (Sir John Gielgud) spends one tormenting night in his bed suffering from health problems and thinking up a story based on his relatives. Read More »
The Canterville Ghost (1986) Paul Bogart, John Gielgud, Ted Wass, Andrea Marcovicci
A young American family of three inherits an English castle, only to find it haunted by the lively spirit of a disgraced ancestor Read More »
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) Tony Richardson, Trevor Howard, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud
A chronicle of events that led to the British involvement in the Crimean War against Russia and which led to the siege of Sevastopol Read More »
Play For Today: Home (1972) Lindsay Anderson, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Dandy Nichols
In a mental home, two elderly men become unlikely friends. Read More »
King Richard the Second (1978) David Giles, Derek Jacobi, John Gielgud, Jon Finch
The incompetent Richard II is deposed by Henry Bolingbroke and undergoes a crisis of identity once he is no longer king. Read More »
Becket (1964) Peter Glenville, Richard Burton, Peter O’Toole, John Gielgud
Debauched King Henry II installs his longtime court facilitator Thomas Becket as the Archbishop of Canterbury Read More »
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957) Sidney Franklin, Jennifer Jones, John Gielgud, Bill Travers
Elizabeth Barrett’s tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Read More »
Secret Agent (1936) Alfred Hitchcock, John Gielgud, Madeleine Carroll, Robert Young
During the first world war, novelist Edgar Brodie is sent to Switzerland by the Intelligence Service. Read More »
Inside the Third Reich (1982) Marvin J. Chomsky, Rutger Hauer, John Gielgud, Maria Schell
A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler’s young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Read More »
The Prime Minister (1941) Thorold Dickinson, John Gielgud, Diana Wynyard, Will Fyffe
A biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and confidante of Queen Victoria. Read More »
The Scarlet and the Black (1983) Jerry London, Gregory Peck, Christopher Plummer, John Gielgud, Drama, History, War
Fr. Hugh O’Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian Resistance families. Read More »
The Good Companions (1933) Victor Saville, Jessie Matthews, Edmund Gwenn, John Gielgud, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Film musical taken from JB Priestley’s novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1977) Joseph Strick, Bosco Hogan, T.P. McKenna, John Gielgud, Drama
Stephen Dedalus is a young man growing up in Ireland in the early part of the 20th century. Read More »