A flying boat has to ditch off an island in the Pacific. Along with the injured owner-pilot the passengers include a policeman and his smuggler prisoner Read More »
Tag Archives: Richard Attenborough
The Sand Pebbles (1966) Robert Wise, Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Candice Bergen
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary Read More »
Omnibus – Made in Ealing (1986) Alan Yentob, Richard Attenborough, Jill Balcon, Michael Balcon
A BBC Omnibus special documentary about Ealing Studios Read More »
The Human Factor (1979) Otto Preminger, Richard Attenborough, Nicol Williamson, Derek Jacobi
When Arthur Davis, a junior bachelor in the British secret service’s African section Read More »
Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) Bryan Forbes, Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Margaret Lacey
Myra and Billy Savage are a married couple living in London. Read More »
Gift Horse (1952) Compton Bennett
In 1940, a mothballed American destroyer is commissioned in the Royal Navy. Read More »
Dunkirk (1958) Leslie Norman, John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee
Two stories in one – an easygoing British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. Read More »
The Angry Silence (1960) Guy Green, Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, Michael Craig, Drama
The right of every individual to be different from his fellow men is the theme behind this internationally-hailed, British production. Read More »
Young Winston (1972) Richard Attenborough, Simon Ward, Robert Shaw, Peter Cellier, Biography, Drama, War
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill (Simon Ward), including his childhood years Read More »
Conduct Unbecoming (1975) Michael Anderson, Michael York, Richard Attenborough, Trevor Howard, Drama, Crime, Mystery
A company of British soldiers in colonial India is shaken when the widow of their most honored hero is assaulted. Read More »
Brighton Rock (1947) John Boulting, Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Pinkie Brown is a small-town hoodlum whose gang runs a protection racket based at Brighton race course. Read More »
Eight O’Clock Walk (1954) Lance Comfort, Richard Attenborough, Cathy O’Donnell, Derek Farr, Crime, Drama
Taxicab driver Tom Banning is led to an abandoned bomb-site by an eight-year-old girl as an April-fool prank. Read More »
10 Rillington Place (1971) Richard Fleischer, Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt, Biography, Crime, Drama
A seemingly model citizen living in mid-century London, John Christie (Richard Attenborough) is actually a killer. Masquerading as a doctor, he convinces guileless women that he can cure whatever might ail them, and when they follow him to his home, he chokes them to death and buries them in a makeshift graveyard. Based on a series of real-life killings, the story follows John as he cons a pregnant bride (Judy Geeson) and wonders if he might have found a scapegoat in her husband (John Hurt).
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A Bridge Too Far (1977) Richard Attenborough, Sean Connery, Ryan O’Neal, Michael Caine, Drama, History, War
The true story of Operation Market Garden, the Allies attempt, in September 1944, to hasten the end of WW2 by driving through Belgium and Holland into Germany. The idea was for US airborne divisions to take the towns of Eindhoven and Nijmegen and a British airborne division, reinforced by a Polish airborne brigade, to take the town of Arnhem. They would be reinforced, in due course and in turn, by the British XXX Corps, land-based and driving up from the British lines in the south. The key to the operation was the bridges, as if the Germans held or blew them, the paratroopers could not be relieved. Faulty intelligence, Allied high command hubris and stubborn German resistance would ensure that Arnhem was a bridge too far.
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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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