Elizabeth Barrett’s tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Read More »
Tag Archives: John Gielgud
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 »
The Prime Minister (1941) Thorold Dickinson, John Gielgud
A biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist 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 »
Prospero’s Books (1991) Peter Greenaway, John Gielgud, Michael Clark, Michel Blanc, Drama, Fantasy
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the ‘The Tempest’.
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Julius Caesar (1970) Stuart Burge, Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, John Gielgud, Drama, History, War
All star cast heads up this 1970 remake of the William Shakespeare classic tale of the betrayal of the the Roman senate against their emperor, the plotting and scheming that led up to the assassination of the title charecter, and all of Romes’ fickleness towards the events.
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