The Barbarian and the Lady 1939  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Alexis Granowsky
Cast: Harry Baur, Anthony Bushell, Roger Livesey, Patricia Roc, Joan Gardner, Frederick Culley, Joe Cunningham, Charles Farrell, Stafford Hilliard, Bernard Miles, Ann Wemyss
Re-cut and shortened to 70 minutes, this film was made from "The Rebel Son," an English language version of the 1936 French film "Tarass Boulba." It tells the story that includes battles in the 1500s between the Polish and Cossacks. Harry Baur takes on the role of warrior Taras Bulba. The story was remade in 1962 as "Taras Bulba."
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The Entertainer 1960  N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tony Richardson
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Brenda De Banzie, Joan Plowright, Roger Livesey, Albert Finney, Alan Bates, Daniel Massey, Shirley Anne Field, Thora Hird, Miriam Karlin
This is the screen adaptation of John Osborne's insightful play about the vaudeville era coming to an end. In this case, Archie Rice (Laurence Olivier) is a man of high expectations but not much talent who, upon hearing that his son (Albert Finney) is dead, must confront the truth about his life.
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 Hamlet 1969  G, 119 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tony Richardson
Cast: Nicol Williamson, Gordon Jackson, Anthony Hopkins, Judy Parfitt, Mark Dignam, Marianne Faithfull, Roger Livesey, Anjelica Huston, Michael Elphick, Ben Aris, Michael Pennington, Gordon Jackson, Clive Graham, Peter Gale, John J. Carney
Filmed as a play, this is another version of Shakespeare's play about the Danish prince, Hamlet (Nicol Williamson), whose father was killed. Soon after the king's murder, his widow Gertrude (Judy Parfitt) marries Claudius (Anthony Hopkins) who was the king's brother. The ghost of the king talks to Hamlet and tells him to be kind to Gertrude but to murder Claudius. To accomplish the goal and avoid suspicion, Hamlet fakes madness. His "madness" sets off a string of deaths–including those of Claudius, Gertrude, Hamlet's chief counsel Polonius (Mark Dignam), and Polonius' daughter Ophelia (Marianne Faithfull) who had loved Hamlet, and Hamlet as well.
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I Know Where I'm Going 1945 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Powell
Cast: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown, Finlay Currie, Petula Clark, John Laurie, Walter Hudd, Catherine Lacey, Valentine Dyall, Jean Cadell
Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller) is determined to marry her fiance, a wealthy industrialist, when she embarks on her trip to the Scottish Hebrides. However, along the way she falls in love with Torquil MacNeil (Roger Livesey) and decides on marriage for love rather than for money. A Scottish delight.
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The League of Gentlemen 1960  N/R, 114 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes, Kieron Moore, Terence Alexander, David Lodge, Patrick Wymark, Robert Coote
To aid in his efforts to rob a bank, ex-Army Colonel Hyde (Jack Hawkins) recruits former officers and uses military discipline with great success.
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 N/R, 163 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast: Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook, James McKechnie, Roland Culver, David Hutcheson, Ursula Jeans, John Laurie, Felix Aylmer, Albert Lieven, Neville Mapp, Spencer Trevor, David Ward, Jan Van Loewen, Valentine Dyall
This story is told through flashbacks to relate experiences of British army officer Clive Candy (Roger Livesey) as he participates in the Boer War, World War I, and World War II and fights propaganda used in the wars. Over several decades, with each war Clive becomes involved with different women (each played by Deborah Kerr). "Colonel Blimp" is adapted from a comic strip about upper-crust members of the military created by cartoonist David Low.
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The Master of Ballantrae 1953 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: William Keighley
Cast: Errol Flynn, Roger Livesey, Anthony Steel, Beatrice Campbell, Yvonne Furneaux, Felix Aylmer, Mervyn Johns, Charles Goldner, Ralph Truman, Francis De Wolff
This film is based (loosely) on Robert Louis Stevenson's story of the Scottish rebellion. Errol Flynn fights against the British monarchy–and his own brother (Anthony Steel) for the woman he loves.
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 A Matter of Life and Death 1946  PG, 104 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Fantasy / Thriller
aka: Stairway to Heaven
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Richard Attenborough, Marius Goring, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, Kathleen Byron, Bonar Colleano, Abraham Sofaer, Joan Maude, Robert Atkins, Bob Roberts, Edwin Max, Betty Potter
Returning from a World War II bombing run, Squadron Leader Peter Carter (David Niven) realizes his plane will not make it. He talks on his radio to RAF worker June (Kim Hunter) and then jumps, certain that he will die. But a miracle occurs, and Carter awakens in the surf (the angels couldn't find him in the fog, so he didn't die). He and June meet, fall in love, and talk Heaven into waiting.
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Oedipus the King 1968 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Philip Saville
Cast: Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Lilli Palmer, Richard Johnson, Cyril Cusack, Roger Livesey, Donald Sutherland, Friedrich von Ledebur
Filmed in the manner it was first performed over 2000 years ago in a Greek amphitheater, this is the story of Oedipus (Christopher Plummer) who solves the riddle of the Sphinx and, unknowingly, kills his father and marries his mother in this Sophocles tragedy.
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Of Human Bondage 1964 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ken Hughes
Cast: Kim Novak, Laurence Harvey, Robert Morley, Siobhan McKenna, Nanette Newman, Roger Livesey, Jack Hedley, Ronald Lacey, John Sutton
This is another good adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel. The young medical student is played well by Laurence Harvey, and Kim Novak takes on role of the promiscuous waitress with whom he is obsessed.
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The Rebel Son 1939 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: Alexis Granowsky
Cast: Harry Baur, Anthony Bushell, Roger Livesey, Patricia Roc, Joan Gardner, Frederick Culley, Joe Cunningham, Charles Farrell, Stafford Hilliard, Bernard Miles, Ann Wemyss
This is the English-language version of the French "Tarass Boulba" and tells the story and battles in the 1500s between the Polish and Cossacks. Harry Baur takes on the role of warrior Taras Bulba. The film was later re-edited and renamed "The Barbarian and the Lady" and was remade in 1962 as "Taras Bulba."
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Rembrandt 1936 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alexander Korda
Cast: Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester, Edward Chapman, Walter Hudd, Roger Livesey, John Bryning, Allan Jeayes, Raymond Huntley, John Clements, Sam Livesey, Austin Trevor, Abraham Sofaer, Laurence Hanray
Charles Laughton is excellent in his role of the famed Dutch painter, Rembrandt. The film covers the last three decades of the painter's life during which he had three wives. After his first wife dies, Rembrandt marries his housekeeper Geertje (Gertrude Lawrence) but that doesn't work when he turns to his maid Hendrickje (Elsa Lanchester), and Geertje leaves him. Hendrickje becomes pregnant, and they marry, but she dies. However, during the decades covered in the story, Rembrandt paints some of his most creative work.
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That Dangerous Age 1949 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
aka: If This Be Sin
Director: Gregory Ratoff
Cast: Myrna Loy, Roger Livesey, Peggy Cummins, Richard Greene, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Elizabeth Allan, George Curzon, Barry Jones, William Mervyn, Patrick Waddington
An illicit affair between Lady Cathy Brooke (Myrna Loy) and Michael Barclaigh (Richard Greene) becomes the subject of rumormongers when her husband (Roger Livesey) becomes ill.
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| 1. The Barbarian and the Lady (1939)
2. The Entertainer (1960)
3. Hamlet (1969)
4. I Know Where I'm Going (1945)
5. The League of Gentlemen (1960)
6. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
7. The Master of Ballantrae (1953)
8. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
aka: Stairway to Heaven
9. Oedipus the King (1968)
10. Of Human Bondage (1964)
11. The Rebel Son (1939)
12. Rembrandt (1936)
13. That Dangerous Age (1949)
aka: If This Be Sin
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