The commander of a failed 1928 Arctic airship expedition is remembering the events of the “Italia” airship flight, crash and subsequent rescue efforts. Read More »
Tag Archives: Peter Finch
The Nuns Story (1959) Fred Zinnemann, Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Drama
In 1930, in Belgium, Gabrielle van der Mal is the stubborn daughter of the prominent surgeon Dr. Hubert van der Mal that decides to leave her the upper-class family to enter to a convent Read More »
Raid on Entebbe (1976) Irvin Kershner, Peter Finch, Charles Bronson, Yaphet Kotto, Action, Drama, History
Make Me an Offer (1955) Cyril Frankel, Peter Finch, Adrienne Corri, Rosalie Crutchley, Comedy
A struggling antiques dealer (Peter Finch) thinks he has found the answer to his problems when he stumbles across a precious vase amid a range of other less desirable items. Read More »
The Dark Avenger / The Warriors (1955) Henry Levin, Errol Flynn, Joanne Dru, Peter Finch, Adventure, Drama, History
During the 14th century, the Hundred-Year War between France and England ends in a truce. The English army occupies French Aquitaine Read More »
I Thank a Fool (1962) Robert Stevens, Susan Hayward, Peter Finch, Diane Cilento, Drama
A physician is employed by an attorney, played by Peter Finch, who formerly prosecuted her on charges of euthanasia to watch over his mentally ill wife.
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The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952) Ken Annakin, Richard Todd, Joan Rice, Peter Finch, Action, Adventure, Family
Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King’s palace. On the way home his father is murdered by hench men of Prince John. Robin takes up the life of an outlaw, gathering together his band of merry men with him in Sherwood Forest, to avenge his father’s death and to help the people of the land that Prince John are over taxing.
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The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968) Robert Aldrich, Kim Novak, Peter Finch, Ernest Borgnine
A sexy starlet resembles Lylah Clare, a flamboyant star of the thirties, who died mysteriously and tragically on her wedding night gets a chance to play her in a biographical film directed by Lylah’s real-life husband (Peter Finch) and history repeats itself as he falls for her reincarnation.
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In the Cool of the Day (1963) Robert Stevens, Peter Finch, Jane Fonda, Angela Lansbury, Drama, Romance
After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple, the bored, fragile wife falls hopelessly in love with the husband’s ex-colleague who is married to a long suffering and emotionally and physically scarred woman. The couple soon run off to Greece together to pursue the romance.
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The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) Robert Aldrich, James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Adventure, Drama
A cargo plane goes down in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for an airplane they will build to escape before their food and water run out.
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The Detective / Father Brown (1954) Robert Hamer, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Amateur detective Father Ignatius Brown defies his Bishop and decides to transport to Rome a holy relic from his church – a cross that once belonged to St. Augustin – rather than allow the more elaborate plans to proceed. On the channel crossing he becomes suspicious of a fellow traveler, a Mr Dobson, whom Brown quickly determines is not the automobile salesman he claims to be. He does befriend another priest whom he takes into his confidence but soon realizes that his suspicions should have been reversed. The fake priest is in fact Gustave Flambeau a professional art thief and an expert at disguise. After he gets away with the cross, Brown refuses to work with the police, insisting that he wants to save the man’s soul, not put him in prison. With the assistance of his friend Lady Warren, Father Brown sets a trap for Flambeau but Brown realizes that his work is only just beginning.
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