Absolution 1978  R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anthony Page
Cast: Richard Burton, Dominic Guard, David Bradley, Billy Connolly, Andrew Keir, Willoughby Gray, Preston Lockwood, James Ottaway, Brook Williams, Jon Plowman
Two students (Dominic Guard and Billy Connolly) in a posh British boy's school are driven insane by deadly secrets. A dictatorial priest (Richard Burton) becomes the casualty of his own misdeeds when confronted with these secrets. It took 10 years for this movie to be released in the U.S., well after Burton's death.
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Attack on the Iron Coast 1968  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: Lloyd Bridges, Andrew Keir, Sue Lloyd, Mark Eden, Maurice Denham, Glyn Owen, George Mikell, Walter Gotell, Bill Henderson, John Welsh
Sir Frederick Grafton (Lloyd Bridges) leads a Canadian commando group on a daring attack against the German fleet off the French coast.
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Blood from the Mummy's Tomb 1971 PG, 94 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Seth Holt, Michael Carreras
Cast: Andrew Keir, Valerie Leon, James Villiers, Hugh Burden, George Coulouris, Mark Edwards, Rosalie Crutchley, Aubrey Morris, David Markham, Joan Young
Based on Bram Stoker's tale, "Jewel of the Seven Stars," this is a typical Hammer film–but the director, Seth Holt, died shortly before completion of the film. An archeologist (Andrew Keir) searches for, and finds, the tomb of a wicked Egyptian queen. The sarcophagus is taken to London where it is noted that the queen is perfectly preserved. His daughter now appears to have inherited the wicked traits of the queen, and revenge for defiling the tomb begins. Remade as "The Awakening."
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Catholics 1973 TV, 78 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Conflict
Director: Jack Gold
Cast: Trevor Howard, Martin Sheen, Raf Vallone, Cyril Cusack, Andrew Keir, Michael Gambon, Leon Vitali, Godfrey Quigley, Seamus Healy, John Kelly, John Franklyn, Patrick Long, Cecil Sheridan, Tom Jordan, Liam Burk
The Vatican sends emissary Father Kinsella (Martin Sheen) to a remote monastery where the Abbot (Trevor Howard) lives in relative seclusion and refuses to adapt to contemporary times. The Abbot has been using the Latin Mass, which is not what the Church is using in the modern day. The Abbot is torn between keeping his Latin Mass or giving in to the powers of his Church.
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 Cleopatra 1963 G, 245 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Martin Landau, Pamela Brown, Roddy McDowall, Michael Hordern, George Cole, Hume Cronyn, Cesare Danova, Kenneth Haigh, Andrew Keir, Robert Stephens, Francesca Annis, Gregoire Aslan
This film stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton as Cleopatra and Marc Antony, but the film is more famous for the off-screen romance of the two stars. Cleopatra is queen of Egypt and uses her wiles to begin an affair with Roman emperor Julius Caesar (Rex Harrison) in order to gain power to retain her empire. When Caesar is killed in the Roman Senate, Cleopatra seduces Roman general Marc Antony planning to make him her protector. But, Marc Antony is defeated at the Battle of Actium, and the doomed lovers meet for the last time. The film won four Oscars (Best Cinematography, Art Direction, Costume, and Special Visual Effects) and had five nominations including Best Picture and Actor (Harrison).
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The Devil-Ship Pirates 1964 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Thriller
Director: Don Sharp
Cast: Christopher Lee, Duncan Lamont, Barry Warren, Harry Locke, Andrew Keir, Michael Ripper, Suzan Farmer, Charles Houston, Leonard Fenton, John Cairney, Ernest Clark, Natasha Pyne, Jack Rodney, Philip Latham, Annette Whiteley
Spanish pirate Captain Robeles (Christopher Lee) has been fighting along with the Spanish Armada. After his ship suffers damage, Robeles pulls into a British port in a small village and convinces the residents that Spain won the battle and that Spain now rules them. Robeles proceeds to run the town–until pirate Manuel (Barry Warren) jumps ship and comes to the aid of the townsfolk.
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Dracula: Prince of Darkness 1966 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Revenge of Dracula
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Andrew Keir, Francis Matthews, Jack Lambert, Suzan Farmer, Charles "Bud" Tingwell, Thorley Walters, Philip Latham, Walter Brown, George Woodbridge, Philip Ray, John Maxim, Joyce Hemson
This sequel to "Horror of Dracula" again features Christopher Lee as Count Dracula. Tourists visit the grounds of Count Dracula's Castle Karlsbad in the Carpathian Mountains, and one of them, Alan Kent (Charles "Bud" Tingwell), is sacrificed in a ritual to bring Count Dracula back to life. Dracula then turns Alan's wife Helen (Barbara Shelley) into a vampire. Meanwhile, the remaining tourists seek refuge, but Dracula and his new vampire are on their trail.
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The Fall of the Roman Empire 1964  N/R, 175 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Anthony Mann
Cast: Alec Guinness, Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, James Mason, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Quayle, John Ireland, Mel Ferrer, Omar Sharif, Eric Porter, Finlay Currie, Andrew Keir, Douglas Wilmer, George Murcell, Norman Wooland
Marcus Aurelius (Alec Guinness) rules the Roman Empire and tells his daughter Lucilla (Sophia Loren) that he has chosen his adopted son Livius (Stephen Boyd) to inherit the throne instead of the legal heir Commodus (Christopher Plummer). After Marcus Aurelius is murdered, Commodus claims the throne. Lucilla wants Livius to claim the throne, but her pleas to him fall on deaf ears. Meanwhile, Commodus is wreaking havoc and murdering anyone who poses a threat to his rule. Now he sees Lucilla as a threat and orders her death. This time, Livius does come to her rescue, slays Commodus, and brings an end to his evil rule.
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The Fighting Prince of Donegal 1966  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Michael O'Herlihy
Cast: Peter McEnery, Susan Hampshire, Tom Adams, Gordon Jackson, Andrew Keir, Donal McCann, Richard Leech, Peter Jeffrey, Marie Kean, Bill Owen
A young Irish prince, Hugh O'Donnell (Peter McEnery) rescues his people from the encroaching English forces during the Elizabethan era in this exciting Disney film.
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Lion of the Desert 1981 PG, 162 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Moustapha Akkad
Cast: Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger, John Gielgud, Irene Papas, Raf Vallone, Gastone Moschin, Andrew Keir, Robert Brown, Ewen Solon
Set between the years 1929 and 1931, this is the story of the leader of a rebel band, Omar Mukhtar (Anthony Quinn), who stands in the way of Mussolini's (Rod Steiger) efforts to take over Libya.
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The Long Duel 1967 N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Ken Annakin
Cast: Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard, Harry Andrews, Andrew Keir, Charlotte Rampling, Laurence Naismith, Maurice Denham, Virginia North, Terence Alexander, Marianne Stone
Sultan (Yul Brynner) leads his people in a revolt against bondage enforced through British rule in India.
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Lord Jim 1965 N/R, 154 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Peter O'Toole, James Mason, Curt Jurgens, Jack Hawkins, Eli Wallach, Paul Lukas, Daliah Lavi, Akim Tamiroff, Andrew Keir, Jack MacGowran
This is a good film adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel about a merchant seaman (Peter O'Toole) who jumps ship in a storm and then spends his life trying to atone for his act of cowardice.
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The Maggie 1954 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: High and Dry
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Cast: Paul Douglas, Alex Mackenzie, James Copeland, Abe Barker, Tommy Kearins, Hubert Gregg, Geoffrey Keen, Dorothy Alison, Andrew Keir, Mark Dignam, Jameson Clark, Moultrie Kelsall
After American financier Calvin B. Marshall (Paul Douglas) arranged to ship needed cargo to a remote Scottish island, he figures out that he was conned and now is left to deal with the captain of a very leaky boat, "the Maggie."
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Pirates of Blood River 1962 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance
Director: John Gilling
Cast: Kerwin Mathews, Christopher Lee, Glenn Corbett, Marla Landi, Oliver Reed, Andrew Keir, Peter Arne, Michael Ripper, Jack Stewart, David Lodge, Marie Devereux, Diane Aubrey, Dennis Waterman, Desmond Llewelyn
Hammer Films presents this high-seas adventure about young Jonathan Standing (Kerwin Mathews) who is exiled by his father (Andrew Keir) to a penal colony. The penal colony is invaded by pirates led by Captain LaRoche (Christopher Lee), and Jonathan leads LaRoche and his pirate ship to his Caribbean home where LaRoche believes a treasure is buried. LaRoche takes control of the town while searching for the treasure, and many are killed in the process. Finally, LaRoache finds the treasure–a gold statue of Jonathan's grandfather–and attempts to haul it away. But, Jonathan and his cohorts attack the raft, the statue falls overboard and sinks to the bottom of the sea, La Roche is killed, and the survivors return home.
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Quatermass and the Pit 1967 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
aka: Five Million Years to Earth
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Cast: James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley, Julian Glover, Duncan Lamont, Bryan Marshall, Peter Copley, Thomas Heathcote, Grant Taylor, Robert Morris
Workers excavating a subway line under London discover the remains of an ancient beast that could lead to the secret of the ancestry of human beings.
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 Rob Roy 1995  R, 139 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Cast: Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt, Tim Roth, Andrew Keir, Eric Stoltz, Brian Cox, Brian McCardie, Gilbert Martin, Vicki Masson
Robert Roy MacGregor (Liam Neeson) is the mythical Scottish hero of the 18th century. He stands for honor, but due to a misunderstanding between him and the English Marquis of Montrose, Rob is hunted down by British soldiers. Tim Roth was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor.
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The Royal Hunt of the Sun 1969 G, 120 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Irving Lerner
Cast: Robert Shaw, Christopher Plummer, Nigel Davenport, Leonard Whiting, Michael Craig, Andrew Keir, William Marlowe, James Donald, Percy Herbert, Alexander Davion
If it's historical accuracy you're after, this tale of Spanish explorer Pizarro (Robert Shaw) and his trek into Peru will disappoint, but the story is entertaining. While looking for Incan treasures, Pizarro meets Incan God/King Atahualpa (Christopher Plummer) and becomes torn between his quest and a developing admiration for the king. Based on a successful stage play by Peter Shaffer.
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The Shell Seekers 1989 TV, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Waris Hussein
Cast: Angela Lansbury, Sam Wanamaker, Denis Quilley, Sophie Ward, David Simeon, Irene Worth, Christopher Bowen, Andrew Keir, Michael Gough, Patricia Hodge
Penelope (Angela Lansbury) suffers a severe heart attack. During her recovery she comes to realize the mistakes she has made in her life and is determined to regain the happiness she knew in her younger days, especially on the beach. Excellent made-for-TV adaptaton of Rosamunde Pincher's best seller.
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The Thirty-Nine Steps 1978 PG, 102 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Don Sharp
Cast: Robert Powell, David Warner, Eric Porter, Karen Dotrice, John Mills, George Baker, Ronald Pickup, Andrew Keir, Robert Flemyng, Timothy West
In this, the second remake (Alfred Hitchcock made the classic version), Richard Hannay (Robert Powell) and Appleton (David Warner) evade espionage agents during World War I.
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The Viking Queen 1967 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Don Chaffey
Cast: Don Murray, Carita, Donald Houston, Andrew Keir, Adrienne Corri, Niall MacGinnis, Wilfrid Lawson, Nicola Pagett, Percy Herbert, Patrick Troughton, Sean Caffrey, Denis Shaw
In the first century, Queen Salina (Carita) rules the native Britons after the death of her father, King Priam. She honors his deathbed wish that she share her rule with Roman Governor Justinian (Don Murray) in order to maintain peace. All goes well–until Justinian and Salina fall in love, and enemies on both sides come to the fore.
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| 1. Absolution (1978)
2. Attack on the Iron Coast (1968)
3. Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971)
4. Catholics (1973)
aka: The Conflict
5. Cleopatra (1963)
6. The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964)
7. Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
aka: Revenge of Dracula
8. The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
9. The Fighting Prince of Donegal (1966)
10. Lion of the Desert (1981)
11. The Long Duel (1967)
12. Lord Jim (1965)
13. The Maggie (1954)
aka: High and Dry
14. Pirates of Blood River (1962)
15. Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
aka: Five Million Years to Earth
16. Rob Roy (1995)
17. The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)
18. The Shell Seekers (1989)
19. The Thirty-Nine Steps (1978)
20. The Viking Queen (1967)
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