A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia 1990  TV, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Christopher Menaul
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Alexander Siddig, Denis Quilley, Nicholas Jones, Roger Hammond, Peter Copley, Paul Freeman, Polly Walker, Gillian Barge, Jim Carter, Michael Cochrane, Robert Arden
T.E. Laurence (Ralph Fiennes) and Syrian King Emir Feisal (Alexander Siddig) attend the 1919 Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I and argue for Arab independence in a political environment that makes their task very difficult.
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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed 1970  PG, 101 min.
Genre: Horror / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Peter Cushing, Simon Ward, Veronica Carlson, Freddie Jones, Thorley Walters, Maxine Audley, George Pravda, Geoffrey Bayldon, Harold Goodwin, Peter Copley, Colette O'Neil, Frank Middlemass, Jim Collier, Frank Middlemass, Norman Shelley
Dr. Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) visits his colleague Dr. Brandt (George Pravda) who has been committed to an insane asylum. While there, Frankenstein blackmails a doctor, Karl (Simon Ward), and his lover Anna (Veronica Carlson) into helping him free Brandt. After escaping from the asylum, Frankenstein accidentally kills Brandt and then transplants Pravda's brain into asylum employee Professor Richter (Freddie Jones)–an act that will lead to death and destruction.
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Gawain and the Green Knight 1973  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Adventure
aka: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Director: Stephen Weeks
Cast: Murray Head, Nigel Green, Ciaran Madden, Robert Hardy, David Leland, Anthony Sharp, Ronald Lacey, Murray Melvin, George Merritt, Peter Copley
An English legend is brought to the screen in this cheap, but watchable, film of Sir Gawain (Murray Head) who has lost his wager with the Green Knight (Nigel Green) and now must solve the Green Knight's riddle or lose his head.
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Jane Eyre 1970 TV, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Delbert Mann
Cast: George C. Scott, Susannah York, Ian Bannen, Jack Hawkins, Rachel Kempson, Jean Marsh, Nyree Dawn Porter, Kenneth Griffith, Peter Copley, Clive Morton, Fanny Rowe, Susan Lawe, Angharad Rees, Hugh Latimer, Nan Munro
Charlotte Bronte's gothic novel is again brought to the screen in this offering about orphanage-raised Jane (Susannah York) who takes a job as governess at the English manor of the tyrannical Edward Rochester (George C. Scott). Jane is attracted to Rochester, and he returns her affections. They make plans to marry. But, when Jane learns that Rochester is already married, it will take Jane's courage and love to rise above their world, which is crashing around them.
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The Knack 1965  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: The Knack...And How to Get It
Director: Richard Lester
Cast: Rita Tushingham, Ray Brooks, Michael Crawford, Donal Donnelly, William Dexter, John Bluthal, Wensley Pithey, Charles Dyer, Peter Copley, Margot Thomas
Tolen (Ray Brooks) has a "knack" with women, and he frequently entertains them in his room. Schoolteacher Colin (Michael Crawford), not at all a ladies' man, asks Tolen for advice but is not satisfied with Tolen's answers. His solution: get a big bed. So, with the help of another boarder, Tom (Donal Donnelly), he gets one and as they head home with the bed they meet Nancy (Rita Tushingham) and invite her along. When they get home, she meets Tolen and the fun REALLY begins.
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Mosquito Squadron 1969  G, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Boris Sagal
Cast: David McCallum, Suzanne Neve, David Buck, David Dundas, Charles Gray, Dinsdale Landen, Michael Anthony, Vladek Sheybal, Nicky Henson, Bryan Marshall, Peter Copley, Robert Urquhart
During World War II, RAF pilot Quint (David McCallum) must tell his best friend's wife, Beth (Suzanne Neve), that her husband has been killed during a bombing raid. A new romance between Quint and Beth, who were a couple before she met her husband, is rekindled. Quint then receives orders to bomb a rocket factory but is also told that there are POWs there, including his best friend. Quint devises a plan to free the POWs and then bomb the plant, but his friend is killed in the otherwise successful operation.
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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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The Sword and the Rose 1953  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ken Annakin
Cast: Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James Robertson Justice, Michael Gough, Jane Barrett, Peter Copley, Rosalie Crutchley, Gerard Oury, Ernest Jay, D.A. Clarke-Smith
In this Disney historical drama, Mary Tudor (Glynis Johns) falls in love with Charles Brandon (Richard Todd), and they survive attempts to sabotage their happiness.
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The Third Secret 1964 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: Charles Crichton
Cast: Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Diane Cilento, Pamela Franklin, Paul Rogers, Alan Webb, Rachel Kempson, Peter Sallis, Patience Collier, Freda Jackson, Judi Dench, Peter Copley, Nigel Davenport, Charles Lloyd Pack
TV commentator Alex Stedman (Stephen Boyd) conducts a private investigation into the case of the supposed suicide of a famous London psychiatrist. Stedman had been one of the deceased's patients and doubts that the death was a suicide. The dead man's daughter, Catherine (Pamela Franklin), also believes that it was not a suicide and gives Stedman a list of her father's patients. While interviewing the patients (Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, and Diane Cilento), Stedman learns that all three had secrets in their lives. Then, Stedman comes across another patient–Catherine–who finally confesses that she killed her father to prevent being sent to an institution.
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Victim 1961 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price, Anthony Nicholls, Peter Copley, Norman Bird, Peter McEnery, Donald Churchill, Derren Nesbitt, John Barrie, John Cairney, Alan MacNaughtan
Homosexuality was illegal in England in the 1960s, and this film is one of the first to influence the "opening up" of the discussion on the subject. Melville Farr (Dirk Bogarde) is a married lawyer who had demonstrated homosexual tendencies in the past and had a male lover. Being illegal, such people were often blackmailed, and Melville gets involved with the issue when he takes on the blackmailing in court.
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 Witness for the Prosecution 1982 TV, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alan Gibson
Cast: Ralph Richardson, Diana Rigg, Beau Bridges, Deborah Kerr, Donald Pleasence, David Langton, Richard Vernon, Michael Gough, Wendy Hiller, Peter Sallis, Frank Mills, Michael Nightingale, Peter Copley, Patricia Leslie, John Kidd
A good cast makes this TV remake of Agatha Christie's story fun to watch. Aging lawyer Sir Wilfred Robarts (Ralph Richardson) is tended to by aggressive nurse Plimsoll (Deborah Kerr) and is the defender for Leonard Vole (Beau Bridges) who is accused of murdering a wealthy woman for her money. Problems arise when Vole's wife Christine (Diana Rigg) decides to divorce him and testify for the prosecution. And, that's just one of the many surprises in store for Sir Wilfred. Deborah Kerr won an Emmy for her role in this TV production.
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| 1. A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia (1990)
2. Foreign Intrigue (1956)
3. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1970)
4. Gawain and the Green Knight (1973)
aka: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
5. Jane Eyre (1970)
6. The Knack (1965)
aka: The Knack...And How to Get It
7. Mosquito Squadron (1969)
8. Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
aka: Five Million Years to Earth
9. The Sword and the Rose (1953)
10. The Third Secret (1964)
11. Victim (1961)
12. Witness for the Prosecution (1982)
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