Dead Man's Folly 1986  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: Clive Donner
Cast: Peter Ustinov, Jean Stapleton, Constance Cummings, Ralph Arliss, Tim Pigott-Smith, Jonathan Cecil, Kenneth Cranham, Susan Wooldridge, Christopher Guard, Jeff Yagher, Nicollette Sheridan, Caroline Langrishe, Margorie Yates, Leslie Schofield, Jack Ellis
A detective novelist, Ariadne Oliver (Jean Stapleton), has been asked to create a "Murder Hunt" game with a pretend murder for a fair at Nass House. She calls in friend Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov) when she suspects problems. It's a good thing she called him because people are found dead during the hunt. Now, Poirot and his assistant, Captain Hastings (Jonathan Cecil), set out to solve the real murders.
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 Les Miserables 1978  TV, 150 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Glenn Jordan
Cast: Richard Jordan, Anthony Perkins, Cyril Cusack, Claude Dauphin, John Gielgud, Flora Robson, Celia Johnson, Ian Holm, Joyce Redman, Christopher Guard
This made-for-TV adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic tale features Richard Jordan as Jean Valjean, the persecuted ex-convict, and Anthony Perkins as the mean-spirited policeman, Javert, who trails him for 40 years. The lavish production–with a great cast–includes scenes that have been ignored by other makers of this story.
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Loophole 1980 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Break In
Director: John Quested
Cast: Albert Finney, Martin Sheen, Susannah York, Colin Blakely, Jonathan Pryce, Robert Morley, Alfred Lynch, Christopher Guard, Tony Doyle, Gwyneth Powell
An architect, needing extra money, agrees to help a gang of bank robbers break into a high-security vault inside a London bank.
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 The Lord of the Rings 1978 PG, 135 min.
Genre: Animation / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Cast: Christopher Guard, John Hurt, Dominic Gould, Michael Scholes, William Squire, Andre Morell, Norman Bird, Annette Crosbie, Anthony Daniels, Simon Chandler, Michael Graham Cox, David Buck, Peter Woodthorpe, Fraser Kerr
The Hobbits and Middle Earth are the focus of this film–a combination of animation and live-action cinema–covering part of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic trilogy. The Hobbit Frodo (voice of Christopher Guard) is assigned the mission of destroying the all-powerful, magical ring that allows its users to rule the world. With warriors Gandelf (voice of William Squire), Aragorn (voice of John Hurt), and Boromin (voice of Michael Graham Cox) in tow, Frodo sets off on a difficult journey, eluding the evil Mordor's warriors, to take the ring to a place where it can be destroyed.
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| 1. Dead Man's Folly (1986)
2. Les Miserables (1978)
3. A Little Night Music (1977)
4. Loophole (1980)
aka: Break In
5. The Lord of the Rings (1978)
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