Set in the Haiti of “Papa Doc” Duvalier, The Comedians tells the story of a sardonic Welsh hotel owner Read More »
Tag Archives: Peter Glenville
Summer and Smoke (1961) Peter Glenville, Laurence Harvey, Geraldine Page, Rita Moreno
Since childhood, spinster Alma Winemiller has loved handsome young Dr. John Buchanan 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 »
Term of Trial (1962) Peter Glenville, Laurence Olivier, Simone Signoret, Sarah Miles
Graham Weir is an alcoholic schoolteacher whose criminal record for refusing to fight during World War II Read More »
Hotel Paradiso (1966) Peter Glenville, Gina Lollobrigida, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley
Monsieur Feydeau has writer’s block, and he needs a new play. Read More »
Me and the Colonel (1958) Peter Glenville, Danny Kaye, Curd Jürgens, Nicole Maurey
Jacobowsky, a Jewish refugee, flees from the Nazis with an aristocratic, anti-semitic Polish officer trying to get papers to England. Read More »
The Prisoner (1955) Peter Glenville, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Wilfrid Lawson, Drama
A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. As a prince of his church, and a popular hero of this people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and afterward his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conquerer. Read More »