Becket 1964  N/R, 148 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Glenville
Cast: Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Donald Wolfit, John Gielgud, Pamela Brown, Martita Hunt, Sian Phillips, Paolo Stoppa, Gino Cervi, Felix Aylmer, David Weston, Percy Herbert, Christopher Rhodes, Inigo Jackson, Niall MacGinnis
Twelfth-century England is the setting for this insightful story. It involves the long friendship between King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) and Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury (Richard Burton). Their friendship reaches a crisis when Becket must choose between his duties to God as Archbishop and his loyalties to the King. Among the several Academy Award nominations were Best Picture, Director, Actor (both Burton and O'Toole), and Supporting Actor (John Gielgud for his role as King Louis VII of France).
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Betrayed 1954  N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gottfried Reinhardt
Cast: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Victor Mature, Louis Calhern, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Ian Carmichael, O.E. Hasse, Niall MacGinnis, Nora Swinburne, Roland Culver, Leslie Weston, Christopher Rhodes
Dutch intelligence officer Colonel Pieter Deventer (Clark Gable) has his work cut out for him in uncovering a Nazi traitor during World War II.
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The Colditz Story 1955  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cast: John Mills, Eric Portman, Christopher Rhodes, Lionel Jeffries, Bryan Forbes, Ian Carmichael, Richard Wattis, David Yates, Frederick Valk, Denis Shaw, Anton Diffring, Eugene Deckers
During World War II, Germany used "escape proof" Colditz Castle to imprison the Allied officers who tried to escape from conventional camps. This is the true story of Maj. P.R. "Pat" Reid (John Mills) about his successful attempt to escape from Colditz through a subterranean tunnel.
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Operation Amsterdam 1959 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Michael McCarthy
Cast: Peter Finch, Eva Bartok, Tony Britton, Alexander Knox, Malcolm Keen, Christopher Rhodes, Tim Turner, John Horsley, Alfred Burke, Carl Jaffe
Based on a true story, this film, set in 1940, follows a foursome whose job is to move a fortune in diamonds from Amsterdam to England before the Nazis show up–only hours away. To make it to safety, they must avoid not only the Nazis but the sympathizers as well, AND one of the four may be on the other side.
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A Terrible Beauty 1960 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Night Fighters
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Anne Heywood, Dan O'Herlihy, Cyril Cusack, Richard Harris, Marianne Benet, Niall MacGinnis, Harry Brogan, T.P. McKenna, Christopher Rhodes
This film involves a behind-the-scenes look at recruiting and sabotage efforts of the Irish Republican Army.
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| 1. Becket (1964)
2. Betrayed (1954)
3. The Colditz Story (1955)
4. Operation Amsterdam (1959)
5. A Terrible Beauty (1960)
aka: Night Fighters
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