Pilot-Major John Blackthorne (Richard Chamberlain), an English ship pilot, whose vessel wrecked Read More »
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Casanova (1987) Simon Langton, Richard Chamberlain, Faye Dunaway, Sylvia Kristel
A very long, beginning-to-end life story of an eighteenth century womanizer Read More »
Joy in the Morning (1965) Alex Segal, Richard Chamberlain, Yvette Mimieux, Arthur Kennedy
Carl Brown and Annie McGairy are in love. Their Irish immigrant parents knew each other in the old country Read More »
The Bourne Identity (1988) Roger Young, Richard Chamberlain, Jaclyn Smith, Anthony Quayle
An unconscious man is washed ashore on the beach of a small French village during a heavy storm. Read More »
Ordeal in the Arctic (1993) Mark Sobel, Richard Chamberlain, Catherine Mary Stewart, Melanie Mayron
Everybody expected military flight Boxtop 22 from Thule into the vast frozen wilderness of Canada’s North Western territories to be boring routine Read More »
Wallenberg: A Hero’s Story (1985) Lamont Johnson, Richard Chamberlain, Alice Krige, Kenneth Colley
The story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat responsible for saving thousands of lives from the Nazi Holocaust. Read More »
Lady Caroline Lamb (1972) Robert Bolt, Sarah Miles, Jon Finch, Richard Chamberlain
A noblewoman doomed to a loveless marriage falls into a scandalous affair with the dashing Lord Byron. Read More »
The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella (1976) Bryan Forbes, Richard Chamberlain, Gemma Craven, Annette Crosbie
In the tiny kingdom of Euphrania, the King and his court are most anxious to get Prince Edward wed. But Edward wants to marry for love. Read More »
Twilight of Honor (1963) Boris Sagal, Richard Chamberlain, Nick Adams, Claude Rains, Drama
US Air Force veteran Ben Brown has been charged with the murder of aging Cole Clinton, a leading citizen of Durango County, New Mexico. Read More »
The Three Musketeers (1973) Richard Lester, Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Action, Adventure
The young D’Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a king’s musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, each of whom challenges him to a duel. Read More »
The Man in the Iron Mask (1977) Mike Newell, Richard Chamberlain, Patrick McGoohan, Louis Jourdan, Adventure, Drama, History
Fed up with the the insufferably cruel behavior of Louis XIV (Richard Chamberlain), a group of musketeers plot to replace the king with his twin brother, Philippe (also Chamberlain). They kidnap Phillipe and temporarily lock him in the Bastille, where he is inevitably recognized as a dead ringer for Louis. Word gets back to the king and, fearing for his safety, he decides to have his brother locked in an iron mask and subsequently imprisoned for life.
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The Music Lovers (1970) Ken Russell, Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Jackson, Max Adrian, Drama, Biography, Music
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is given the Ken Russell treatment in The Music Lovers, which means that there is plenty of music, plenty of passion, plenty of debauchery, and plenty of excess. Tame by Russell’s later standards (Lisztomania), The Music Lovers nevertheless thrives on creative and sexual anguish. Richard Chamberlain plays Tchaikovsky with a bug-eyed intensity as a composer consumed by his art – so consumed that his romantic attachments become bisexual and irrational. He falls in love with Nina (Glenda Jackson), the hysterical trollop he marries with dire consequences. As he explodes emotionally, his public performance of Piano Concerto in B flat minor becomes a cue for flashbacks to a series of discomforting childhood events that suggest incestuous relations with his sister. Back in real time, Tchaikovsky has to deal with Nina’s outbursts while juggling his homosexual urges and his almost hidden desire for Count Anton Chiluvsky (Christopher Gable). The film also details the curious relationship between Tchaikovsky and his rich patroness, the middle-aged widow Madame Nadedja von Meck (Isabella Telezynska), who loves Tchaikovsky deeply, but refuses to meet him – their only communication being through letters, even though he lives on her estate. Andre Previn and the London Symphony Orchestra perform Tchaikovsky’s music.
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