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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Escape from Sobibor 1987  TV, 150 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
aka: Escape
Director: Jack Gold
Cast: Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacula, Rutger Hauer, Harmut Becker, Jack Shepherd, Emil Wolk, Simon Gregor, Linal Haft, Jason Norman, Robert Gwilym, Eli Nathenson, Kurt Raab, Eric P. Caspar, Hugo Bower, Klaus Grunberg
During World War II, Jewish death camp prisoners at Sobibor plot an against-all-odds escape from their Nazi captors. There are 600 inmates, almost 300 escape, and many would later be recaptured and killed. But, their decision–considering whether or not to reduce themselves to killers–to fight against the Nazis does result in the Nazis closing the death camp and planting a forest in its place. The film is based on a true story.
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The Return of the Native 1994  PG, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jack Gold
Cast: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Ray Stevenson, Clive Owen, Joan Plowright, Steven Mackintosh, Claire Skinner, Paul Rogers, Celia Imrie, Peter Wight, Gregg Saunders
Beautiful Eustacia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) lives in rustic Egdon Heath, but she dreams of living in Paris and thinks she has found her escape by marrying a Paris jeweler, Clym (Ray Stevenson), Plans go awry when Clym, for health reasons, opts to remain at Egdon Heath, but, undaunted, Eustacia now sets her sights on the rogue, Damon (Clive Owen).
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She Stood Alone 1991  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Jack Gold
Cast: Mare Winningham, Ben Cross, Robert Desiderio, Taurean Blacque, Daniel Davis, Lisa Marie Russell, Harry Gibbs, Fredric Cooke, Monica Calhoun, Michael Oppenheimer
Set in the 1830s, this is the biography of Prudence Crandall who fought for education rights of young black girls despite repercussions from other forces in her community. Good Disney fare.
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| 1. Aces High (1977)
2. Catholics (1973)
aka: The Conflict
3. Escape from Sobibor (1987)
aka: Escape
4. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)
5. Man Friday (1975)
6. The Return of the Native (1994)
7. She Stood Alone (1991)
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