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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The Heroes of Telemark 1965  N/R, 131 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Anthony Mann
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson, Michael Redgrave, David Weston, Karel Stepanek, Alan Howard, Roy Dotrice, Anton Diffring, Eric Porter
This story is based on the true World War II event involving nine Norwegian commandos who try to blow up a Nazi factory doing nuclear research.
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Masque of the Red Death 1964  N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, David Weston, Patrick Magee, Skip Martin, Nigel Green, Robert Brown, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Julian Burton
This is one of Vincent Price's best horror films. He plays the villainous Prince Prospero of Spain who hides in his castle while the Bubonic Plague sweeps over the countryside.
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Witchcraft 1964  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Don Sharp
Cast: Lon Chaney Jr., Jack Hedley, Jill Dixon, Viola Keats, David Weston, Marie Ney, Diane Clare, Yvette Rees, Victor Brooks, Marianne Stone
Warlock Morgan Whitlock (Lon Chaney Jr.) unsuccessfully tries to keep the family cemetery from being dug up by developers. You see, the cemetery is filled with witches who were burned at the stake 300 years ago, and the construction awakens them from their sleep.
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| 1. Becket (1964)
2. The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
3. Masque of the Red Death (1964)
4. Witchcraft (1964)
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