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[maggiecheungs]

Henry, for all our sakes, think of England and not of your disappointed love for this man... You have an obsession about him, which is unhealthy and unnatural... If Thomas Becket were a faithless woman, you'd behave no differently. Sweet Jesus, tear him out of your heart!

Becket (1964) dir. Peter Glenville

[weirdlookindog]

Blood of the Vampire (1958)

poster art by Joseph Smith

[myfavoritepeterotoole]

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) directed by David Lean

Peter O'Toole as T. E. Lawrence

Omar Sharif as Sherif Ali

Alec Guinness as Prince Feisal

Anthony Quinn as Auda Abu Tayi

Donald Wolfit as General Archibald Murray

Jose Ferrer as the Turkish Bey

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[mariocki]

Death at Broadcasting House (1934)

"You can't go in there, there's a play being broadcast."

"I'm looking for Variety?"

"That's eight floors down."

"Yes, but I've just come eight floors up!"

"Then it'll be sixteen floors from where you started."

[eriksangel666]

Hey sorry but um. Your best friend. Yeah. The archbishop of canterbury. Yeah. He’s not gonna give up that priest to face justice. Yeah, sorry about that

[letterboxd-loggd]

Room at the Top (1959) Jack Clayton

February 5th 2023

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[byneddiedingo]

Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)

Cast: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, José Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Wolfit, I.S. Johar, Gamil Ratib, Michel Ray, John Dimech, Zia Mohyeddin. Screenplay: Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson, based on the writings of T.E. Lawrence. Cinematography: Freddie Young. Production design: John Box. Film editing: Anne V. Coates. Music: Maurice Jarre.

It's often said that David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia is one of those films that must be seen in a theater. That statement gets my back up: If a movie's story and performances are secondary to its spectacle, is it really a good movie? As it happens, I first saw Lawrence in a theater in the year of its release (or at least its European release, which was 1963), but it was a theater in Germany and the film was dubbed in German. Only moderately fluent in spoken German, I don't think I followed the dialogue very well, though I certainly appreciated the spectacle, especially Freddie Young's Oscar-winning cinematography. It took some later viewings on TV in the States for me to grasp the movie's story, though the film was trimmed for time, interrupted by commercials, and subjected to atrocious panning-and-scanning because viewers objected to letterboxing of wide-screen movies. So this viewing was probably my first complete exposure to Lean's celebrated film. And though I watched it at home -- in HD on a 32-inch flat screen TV -- I think I fully appreciated both the spectacle and the story. Which is not to say that I think the movie is all it's celebrated for being. The first half of the film is far more compelling than the latter half, and some of the casting is unforgivable, particularly Alec Guinness as Prince Faisal and Anthony Quinn as Auda. Guinness was usually a subtle actor, but his Faisal is mannered and unconvincing. Quinn simply overacts, as he was prone to do with directors who let him, and his prosthetic beak is atrocious. Omar Sharif, on the other hand, is very good as Ali. The producers are said to have wanted Horst Buchholz or Alain Delon, but they settled on Sharif, already a star in Egypt, and made him an international star. His success points up how unfortunate it is that they couldn't have found Middle Eastern actors to play Faisal and Auda. In his film debut, Peter O'Toole gives a tremendous performance, even though he's nothing like the shorter and more nondescript figure that was the real T.E. Lawrence, and it's sad that screenwriters Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson couldn't have found room in the script to trace the origins of Lawrence's obsession with Arabia. For that omission, a good read is Scott Anderson's  Lawrence in Arabia: Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East, which not only depicts Lawrence's complexity but also the madness of the spy-haunted, oil-hungry wartime world in which he played his part. It's beyond the scope of even a three-and-a-half-hour movie to tell, though it could make a tremendous TV miniseries some day.

[andrepitz]

Es sind nicht die Schachfiguren, die gewinnen, es sind die Schachspieler*innen. https://andrepitz.de/2024/09/07/gesehen-lawrence-of-arabia-1962/

[weirdlookindog]

Blood of the Vampire (1958) - British Quad

[myfavoritepeterotoole]

Peter O'Toole and Donald Wolfit

Becket (1964) directed by Peter Glenville

Peter O'Toole as King Henry II

Donald Wolfit as Gilbert Foliot, Bishop of London

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Final dos anos 1940, Yorkshire, Inglaterra. O jovem ambicioso Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey), que acaba de se mudar da sombria fábrica da cidade de Dufton, chega a Warnley para assumir um cargo seguro, mas mal remunerado, no Departamento do Tesoureiro do Borough. Determinado a ter sucesso, e ignorando as advertências de um colega, Soames (Donald Houston), ele é atraído por Susan Brown (Heather Sears), filha do magnata industrial local, Brown (Donald Wolfit). Ele lida com a ascensão social de Joe enviando Susan para o exterior; Joe procura consolo com Alice Aisgill (Simone Signoret), uma mulher mais velha e infeliz que se apaixona por ele. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)

[miracletitta]

Richard wordsworth

Richard wordsworth tv#

Richard wordsworth tv#

He also played leading parts in British TV dramas such as Huntingtower and The Tripods. Later he played a scene as a sinister taxidermist with James Stewart (whom he described as 'a perfect gentleman') in Alfred Hitchcock's second version of The Man Who Knew Too Much. His film career included a standout performance as the monstrous astronaut in The Quatermass Xperiment, which launched Hammer Film Productions’ famous run as the UK’s foremost producers of horror movies. Later he would tour Australia as Fagin in the musical Oliver which he also produced. He also found success as Captain Hook in several Christmas productions of Peter Pan. After successful Shakespearian seasons at the Old Vic and Stratford-upon-Avon, he starred in the musical Lock Up Your Daughters which launched the Mermaid Theatre in London. In classical theatre he worked with John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit, Anthony Quayle and Richard Burton. He quickly developed a talent for character acting which sustained him and his family through a long and richly varied career. But he quickly found acting more to his taste and, after performing at the Cambridge Footlights, he decided to study drama at the Embassy School of Acting in London. As a young man he followed in the footsteps of his clergyman father, reading Divinity at Cambridge University. He was the great-great-grandson of the poet William Wordsworth. Richard Curwen Wordsworth (19 January 1915 – 21 November 1993) was an English character actor.

[suspiria76]

BLOOD OF THE VAMPIRE

UK

1958

Directed by Henry Cass

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