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Richard Burton |
Peter O'Toole |
John Gielgud |
Gino Cervi |
Paolo Stoppa |
Donald Wolfit |
David Weston |
Martita Hunt |
Pamela Brown |
Siân Phillips |
Felix Aylmer |
Percy Herbert |
Inigo Jackson |
Niall MacGinnis |
Christopher Rhodes |
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Peter Glenville |
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Plot Summary:
As the story opens, King Henry II, who ruled England from 1154 to 1189 has entered Canterbury Cathedral to do penance at the tomb of his former friend, Thomas Becket. Bare to the waist, the king kneels to receive a flogging from Saxon monks. He begins to reminisce, recalling at first the carefree, promiscuous adventures with Becket, then his favorite drinking and wenching companion. A violently emotional drama that probes the changing relationship between two young men - between two close friends bound together by similar pride of flesh and spirit who become deadly enemies as they pursue their separate destinies . . . that of king . . . and saint.
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Adventure |
Drama |
History |
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Richard Egan |
Ralph Richardson |
Diane Baker |
Barry Coe |
David Farrar |
Donald Houston |
Anna Synodinou |
Kieron Moore |
John Crawford |
Robert Brown |
Laurence Naismith |
Anne Wakefield |
Ivan Triesault |
Charles Fawcett |
Michalis Nikolinakos |
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Rudolph Maté |
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Plot Summary:
Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of them his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army more than 20 times as large. The actual heroism of those who stood (and ultimately died) with Leonidas helped shape the course of Western Civilization, allowing the Greek city states time to organize an army which repelled the Persians. Set in 480 BC.
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Eddie Albert |
Paul Anka |
Arletty |
Jean-Louis Barrault |
Richard Beymer |
Hans Christian Blech |
Bourvil |
Richard Burton |
Wolfgang Büttner |
Red Buttons |
Pauline Carton |
Sean Connery |
Ray Danton |
Irina Demick |
Fred Dur |
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Ken Annakin |
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The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, the US, Britain, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day. The longest day."
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Biography |
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Romance |
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Charlton Heston |
Sophia Loren |
Raf Vallone |
Geneviève Page |
John Fraser |
Gary Raymond |
Hurd Hatfield |
Massimo Serato |
Frank Thring |
Michael Hordern |
Andrew Cruickshank |
Douglas Wilmer |
Tullio Carminati |
Ralph Truman |
Christopher Rhodes |
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Anthony Mann |
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Eleventh-century Spain is divided into Christian kingdoms and Moorish strongholds. The young Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar—dubbed El Cid by his followers—vows to see his country at peace, free from the invader. Vigorously brave and resourceful, the noble knight hates bloodshed and faces treason charges at court for the clemency shown to some emirs. His accuser, Gomez, father of his fiancée, Chimene, dies in the resulting duel. Chimene's avowed vengeance plot fails and Rodrigo is given her hand; the marriage is not consummated and she enters a convent. On Ferdinand's death, his kingdom is divided among his three children. Sancho challenges the decision and imprisons Alfonso, who is released by the Cid. The African war-lord, Ben Yssef, takes advantage of the quarrel by having Sancho assassinated. Alfonso now claims that throne, too, and exiles the Cid. Chimene realizes the nobility of her husband and joins him, but returns to the convent with their two children, when he goes into battle against Ben Yussef. The years pass, El Cid becomes a revered warrior, but refuses to aid Alfonso, preferring his own strategy. He lays siege to Valencia, catapulting food into its starving garrison; when the Valencians kill their evil ruler, Al Kadir, they offer the crown to the Cid. He sends it to Alfonso, who rushes, hysterically gratified, to his side. But the Cid has been hit by a stray arrow. Attended by Chimene, he hides the wound from his men and prepares a final bid to drive the Moors from Spain.
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Vikings, The
[1958,
USA] from $1.99
Mightiest Of Men... Mightiest Of Spectacles... Mightiest Of Motion Pictures!
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Kirk Douglas |
Tony Curtis |
Ernest Borgnine |
Janet Leigh |
James Donald |
Alexander Knox |
Maxine Audley |
Frank Thring |
Eileen Way |
Edric Connor |
Dandy Nichols |
Per Buckhøj |
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Richard Fleischer |
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Einar and Eric are two Viking half-brothers. The former is a great warrior whilst the other is an ex-slave, but neither knows the true identity of the other. When the throne of Northumbria in Britain becomes free for the taking, the two brothers compete against one another for the prize, but they have very different motives - both involving the princess Morgana, however.
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Audrey Hepburn |
Henry Fonda |
Mel Ferrer |
Vittorio Gassman |
Herbert Lom |
Oskar Homolka |
Anita Ekberg |
Helmut Dantine |
Tullio Carminati |
Barry Jones |
Milly Vitale |
Lea Seidl |
Anna-Maria Ferrero |
Wilfrid Lawson |
May Britt |
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King Vidor |
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At the beginning of the 19th century, Napoleon's forces controlled much of Europe. In Russia, one of the few countries still unconquered, the army prepares to face Napoleon's troops in Austria. Among the soldiers are Nicholas Rostov (Jeremy Brett) and Prince Andrei Bolkonsky (Mel Ferrer). Pierre Bezukhov (Henry Fonda), a friend of Andrei's and self-styled intellectual who "knows what's right but still does wrong," is not interested in fighting. Pierre's life changes when his father dies, leaving him a vast inheritance. He is attracted to Natasha Rostov (Audrey Hepburn), Nicholas's sister, but gives in to baser desires and marries the shallow, materialistic Princess Helene (Anita Ekberg). The marriage quickly ends when Pierre discovers his wife's true nature. Andrei is captured and later released by the French, and returns home only to watch his wife die in childbirth. During a visit to the country months later, Pierre and Andrei meet again. Andrei sees Natasha and falls in love, but his father will only permit the marriage if they postpone it for one year. While Andrei is away in Poland on a military mission, Natasha is drawn to Anatole Kuragin (Vittorio Gassmann), a scoundrel and libertine. Pierre tells Natasha of Anatole's past before she can elope with him. Napoleon (Herbert Lom) invades Russia. Pierre visits Andrei on the eve of the battle, and observes the battle that follows. Traumatized by the carnage, he vows to kill Napoleon himself.
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Ingrid Bergman |
Yul Brynner |
Helen Hayes |
Akim Tamiroff |
Martita Hunt |
Felix Aylmer |
Sacha Pitoëff |
Ivan Desny |
Natalie Schafer |
Grégoire Gromoff |
Karel Stepanek |
Ina De La Haye |
Katherine Kath |
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Anatole Litvak |
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Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While Bounin is coaching her he comes to believe she is really Anastasia. In the end the Empress must decide her claim.
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Rita Hayworth |
Stewart Granger |
Charles Laughton |
Judith Anderson |
Cedric Hardwicke |
Alan Badel |
Basil Sydney |
Maurice Schwartz |
Arnold Moss |
Asoka |
Sujata |
David Ahdar |
Ray Beltram |
Bobker Ben Ali |
Frederic Berest |
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William Dieterle |
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In the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod and Queen Herodias. The latter wants John dead, but Herod fears to harm him due to a prophecy. Enter beautiful Princess Salome, Herod's long-absent stepdaughter. Herodias sees the king's dawning lust for Salome as her means of bending the king to her will. But Salome and her lover Claudius are (contrary to Scripture) nearing conversion to the new religion. And the famous climactic dance turns out to have unexpected implications...
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Hedy Lamarr |
Victor Mature |
George Sanders |
Angela Lansbury |
Henry Wilcoxon |
Olive Deering |
Fay Holden |
Julia Faye |
Russ Tamblyn |
William Farnum |
Lane Chandler |
Moroni Olsen |
Francis McDonald |
William 'Wee Willie' Davis |
John Miljan |
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Cecil B. DeMille |
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Though his people, the Israelites, are enslaved by the Philistines, Samson, strongest man of the tribe of Dan, falls in love with the Philistine Semadar, whom he wins by virtue of a contest of strength. But Semadar betrays him, and Samson engages in a fight with her real love, Ahtur, and his soldiers. Semadar is killed, and her sister Delilah, who had loved Samson in silence, now vows vengeance against him. She plans to seduce Samson into revealing the secret of his strength and then to betray him to the Philistine leader, the Saran.
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