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Tweltfth Night (1969)
$15.00Sir Alec Guinness, Sir Ralph Richardson and Joan Plowright star in this merry on-stage mix-up of identity, gender and love in Tony Award-winner John Dexter’s production of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Originally broadcast on Britain’s ITV, this classic performance captures all the slapstick, puns and double entendres that have amazed and amused audiences for over four hundred years.
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The Comedians (1967)
$15.00Set in the Haiti of “Papa Doc” Duvalier, The Comedians tells the story of a sardonic white hotel owner and his encroaching fatalism as he watches Haiti sink into barbarism. Complications include a friendship with a rebel leader, politically “charged” hotel guests, an affair with the wife of a European ambassador, and the manipulations of a conniving British arms dealer.
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The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
$15.00Two British agents are murdered by a mysterious Neonazi organization in West Berlin. The British Secret Service sends agent Quiller to investigate. Soon Quiller is confronted with Neonazi chief “Oktober” and involved in a dangerous game where each side tries to find out the enemy’s headquarters at any price.
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Doctor Zhivago (1965)
$15.00Doctor Zhivago is the filmed adapation of the Russian novel by Boris Pasternak from director David Lean that was an international success and today deemed a classic. Omar Sharif and Julie Christie play two protagonists who in fact love each other yet because of their current situation cannot find a way be together.
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Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious (1965)
$25.00A lonely German clerk captures two American flyers and keeps them as prisoners in his basement long after WWII has ended. Director Gottfried Reinhardt’s 1965 comedy stars Alec Guinness, Robert Redford and Michael Connors.
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The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
$15.00Drawn from the same events that later inspired Gladiator, the film charts the power-hungry greed and father-son betrayal that led to Rome’s collapse at the bloody hands of the Barbarians.
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
$15.00An epic about British officer T.E. Lawrence’s mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.
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H.M.S. Defiant (1962)
$15.00Defiant’s crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant’s first officer makes this difficult, and when the captain is disabled, the chance for violence increases.
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Our Man in Havana (1959)
$15.00Is a light hearted and satirical tale of political espionage and intrigue in pre-Castro Cuba.
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The Scapegoat (1959)
$15.00An Englishman (Alec Guinness) in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.
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The Horse’s Mouth (1958)
$15.00A somewhat vulgar but dedicated painter searches for the perfect realization of his artistic vision, much to the chagrin of others.
Playing Gulley Jimson, a deceptively scruffy bum, Alec Guinness captures the essence of an artist possessed by the need to create. Guinness’ performance and his Oscar -nominated screenplay create both stirring drama and hilarious tomfoolery as the vagrant Jimson races from bar to pawnshop to wealthy art patron to fulfill his artistic quest. Kay Walsh is brilliant as the cantankerous barmaid doomed to help Jimson on his wildest mission yet. -
Barnacle Bill (1957)
$15.00A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as ‘All at Sea’
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