 Clash of the Titans 1981  PG, 118 min.
Genre: Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Desmond Davis
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Harry Hamlin, Judi Bowker, Burgess Meredith, Claire Bloom, Maggie Smith, Ursula Andress, Jack Gwillim, Susan Fleetwood, Sian Phillips
This fantasy film is based on Greek mythology. Perseus (Harry Hamlin) is the mortal son of Zeus who is cast off when his mother angers his father. Once he reaches manhood, he learns that his destiny is to rescue the fair Andromeda by passing several tests, such as taming Pegasus and bringing back the head of Medusa. For now, the gods allowed human courage and daring, but they would be ever alert of the danger of humans' rising above the power of the gods. Great special effects.
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Heat and Dust 1982  R, 133 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James Ivory
Cast: Julie Christie, Greta Scacchi, Christopher Cazenove, Julian Glover, Susan Fleetwood, Shashi Kapoor, Madhur Jaffrey, Nickolas Grace, Zakir Hussain, Barry Foster, Patrick Godfrey, Jennifer Kendal
Fascinated by her Great-Aunt Olivia's (Greta Scacchi) letters, Anne (Julie Christie) heads to India to research Olivia's life and find out why she was a subject of scandal 60 years ago. As she investigates, Anne is pulled into India's culture as the film cuts back and forth from modern-day India and Anne's life to life in India as seen by Olivia.
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Persuasion 1995 PG, 103 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Roger Michell
Cast: Amanda Root, Ciaran Hinds, Corin Redgrave, Susan Fleetwood, Phoebe Nicholls, Fiona Shaw, Judy Cornwell, John Woodvine, Samuel West, Sophie Thompson, Simon Russell Beale, Felicity Dean, Emma Roberts, Richard McCabe
Based on Jane Austen's novel, this is the tale of two 19th-century people, Anne Elliot (Amanda Root) and Captain Wentworth (Ciaran Hinds), who belong to different worlds in society but rise above criticism and pursue their romance and eventual happiness.
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Summer's Lease 1989 TV, 220 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Martyn Friend
Cast: Susan Fleetwood, John Gielgud, Michael Pennington, Rosemary Leach, Annette Crosbie, Jeremy Kemp, Caroline Waldron, Suzanne Hay, Sammy Glen, Gabrielle Anwar, Leslie Phillips, Feodor Chaliapin Jr.
In this made-for-TV miniseries, British housewife Molly Pargeter (Susan Fleetwood) arrives in Tuscany with her family for what could be a perfect family holiday. But, it turns out that there is more to this vacation than she had planned, and there are secrets surrounding their missing landlord. Molly teams up with her off-beat father (John Gielgud), and, together, they work to solve the mysteries. John Gielgud won an Emmy for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Special.
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White Mischief 1987 R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Radford
Cast: Greta Scacchi, Charles Dance, Sarah Miles, Joss Ackland, John Hurt, Hugh Grant, Trevor Howard, Geraldine Chaplin, Susan Fleetwood, Alan Dobie
England was at war in 1940 when a newly wed couple Jock and Diana Broughton (Joss Ackland and Greta Scacchi) left for diplomatic duty in Kenya. Once there, they participate in a carefree lifestyle that seems to contain little morality.
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Young Sherlock Holmes 1985 PG-13, 109 min.
Genre: Adventure / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Sophie Ward, Anthony Higgins, Freddie Jones, Nigel Stock, Michael Hordern, Susan Fleetwood, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Earl Rhodes, Brian Oulton, Patrick Newell, Donald Eccles, Walter Sparrow, Vivienne Chandler
This film uses the premise that Sherlock Holmes (Nicholas Rowe) and Dr. John Watson (Alan Cox) met for the first time when they were young college students. Then the film explores what might have happened when those two characters first got together, updated with 1980s special effects and action, though different from the "old" Sherlock.
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| 1. Clash of the Titans (1981)
2. Heat and Dust (1982)
3. Persuasion (1995)
4. Summer's Lease (1989)
5. White Mischief (1987)
6. Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
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