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Category Archives: Drama
AGE OF CONSENT (1969)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Michael Powell SCREENWRITER: Peter Yeldham FILM STARS: James Mason, Helen Mirren, Jack MacGowran, Neva Carr Glyn, Andonia Katsaros, Michael Boddy, Harold Hopkins, Slim De Grey, Max Meldrum, Frank Thring, Tommy Hanlon Jr., Clarissa Kaye, Judith McGrath … Continue reading
FIGHT CLUB (1999)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: David Fincher SCREENWRITER: Jim Uhls FILM STARS: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Jared Leto, Holt McCallany, Zach Grenier, Eion Bailey, Peter Iacangelo, Thom Gossom Jr. COUNTRY: USA THIS BOOK AUTHOR: Chuck Palahniuk … Continue reading
UNDER MILK WOOD (1972)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Andrew Sinclair SCREENWRITER: Andrew Sinclair FILM STARS: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O’Toole, Siân Phillips, Glynis Johns, Vivien Merchant, Victor Spinetti, Ryan Davies, Angharad Rees, Ray Smith, Michael Forrest, Ann Beach, Glynn Edwards, Bridget Turner, Talfryn … Continue reading
THE SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA (1976)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Lewis John Carlino SCREENWRITER: Lewis John Carlino FILM STARS: Kris Kristofferson, Sarah Miles, Jonathan Kahn, Margo Cunningham, Earl Rhodes, Paul Tropea, Gary Lock, Stephen Black, Peter Clapham, Jennifer Tolman COUNTRY: England THIS BOOK AUTHOR: Yukio Mishima … Continue reading
WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Mike Nicolls SCREENWRITER: Ernest Lehman FILM STARS: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis, Agnes Flanagan (uncredited), Frank Flanagan (uncredited) COUNTRY: USA THIS BOOK AUTHOR: Edward Albee TYPE: Play PUBLISHER: Penguin THIS EDITION PUBLISHED: 1984 … Continue reading
MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: John Schlesinger SCREENWRITER: Waldo Salt FILM STARS: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Barnard Hughes, Bob Balaban COUNTRY: USA THIS BOOK AUTHOR: James Leo Herlihy TYPE: Novel PUBLISHER: panther THIS EDITION PUBLISHED: 1970 … Continue reading
WAKE IN FRIGHT (1971)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Ted Kotcheff SCREENWRITER: Evan Jones, Ted Kotcheff FILM STARS: Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, Jack Thompson, John Meillon, Norman Erskine, Slim DeGrey COUNTRY: Australia THIS BOOK AUTHOR: Kenneth Cook TYPE: Novel PUBLISHER: Penguin … Continue reading
SONS AND LOVERS (1960)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Jack Cardiff SCREENWRITER: Gavin Lambert, T.E.B. Clarke FILM STARS: Trevor Howard, Dean Stockwell, Wendy Hiller, Mary Ure, Heather Sears, Donald Pleasence. COUNTRY: Great Britain THIS BOOK AUTHOR: D.H. Lawrence TYPE: Novel PUBLISHER: Penguin THIS EDITION PUBLISHED: … Continue reading
POWER WITHOUT GLORY (1976)
THE FILM (Mini Series) DIRECTOR: Douglas Sharp, Keith Wilkes, David Zweck, Oscar Whitbread, John Gauci, Michael Ludbrook SCREENWRITER: Howard Griffiths, Cliff Green, Sonia Borg, Roger Simpson, Tom Hegarty, John Marti STARS: Martin Vaughan, Rosalind Speirs, John Wood, Heather Canning, Terence … Continue reading
THE ARRANGEMENT (1969)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Elia Kazan SCREENWRITER: Elia Kazan FILM STARS: Kirk Douglas, Faye Dunaway, Deborah Kerr, Richard Boone, Hume Cronyn, Harold Gould, Michael Murphy, John Randolph Jones, Charles Drake, Barry Sullivan COUNTRY: USA THIS BOOK AUTHOR: Elia Kazan TYPE: … Continue reading
If you do any other posts featuring Colin Firth could you not do the Bridget Jones movies? The movie version…