A tontine is established for a dozen children, a tontine being a kind of bet/insurance Read More »
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Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1962) Sidney Lumet, Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards
Author Eugene O’Neill gives an autobiographical account of his explosive homelife Read More »
Play For Today: Home (1972) Lindsay Anderson
In a mental home, two elderly men become unlikely friends. Read More »
On the Night of the Fire (1939) Brian Desmond Hurst, Ralph Richardson, Diana Wynyard, Romney Brent
A barber steals £100 from a tailor to settle his extravagant wife’s debts. Read More »
The Passionate Stranger (1957) Muriel Box, Ralph Richardson, Margaret Leighton, Patricia Dainton
Novelist Judith Wynter gets inspiration for her new book when her wheelchair-bound Read More »
South Riding (1938) Victor Saville, Edna Best, Ralph Richardson, Edmund Gwenn
“Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings Read More »
The Bed Sitting Room (1969) Richard Lester, Rita Tushingham, Ralph Richardson, Peter Cook
Set in post-nuclear-holocaust England, where a handful of bizarre characters struggle Read More »
The Silver Fleet (1943) Vernon Sewell, Gordon Wellesley
Jaap van Leyden (Sir Ralph Richardson) is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. Read More »
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) Hugh Hudson, Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell, Ralph Richardson
A shipping disaster in the nineteenth century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. Read More »
The Looking Glass War (1969) Frank Pierson, Christopher Jones, Pia Degermark, Ralph Richardson
During the Cold War, the British Intelligence receives a blurred photograph from East Germany Read More »