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The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo (1974) more movies like this

directed by David Green, David Greene
featuring Richard Chamberlain, Tony Curtis, Trevor Howard, Louis Jourdan, Donald Pleasence

Richard Chamberlain stars in this lavishly appointed adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas adventure story. When Count Edmond Dantes (Richard Chamberlain) is stripped of his wealth and sent to prison for crimes he did not commit, he swears to get revenge against those who wronged him. With the help of Abbe (Trevor Howard), a fellow prisoner, ...

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Halloween

Halloween (1978) more movies like this

directed by John Carpenter
featuring Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Loomis, P.J. Soles, Charles Cyphers

It was "The Night HE Came Home," warned the posters for John Carpenter's career-making horror smash. In Haddonfield, Ilinois, on Halloween night 1963, 6-year-old Michael Myers inexplicably slaughters his teenage sister. His psychiatrist Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) can't penetrate Michael's psyche after years of institutionalization, but he knows ...

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The Hallelujah Trail

The Hallelujah Trail (1965) more movies like this

directed by John Sturges
featuring Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Jim Hutton, Pamela Tiffin, Donald Pleasence

In The Hallelujah Trail, Lee Remick plays temperance leader Cora Templeton Massingale, who is determined to halt a shipment of whiskey headed for Denver. The shipment is being escorted by the US cavalry, under the guidance of Col. Thadeus Gearhardt (Burt Lancaster). As the Denver miners thirstily await the precious booze, Gearhardt must fend off ...

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The Night of the Generals

The Night of the Generals (1967) more movies like this

directed by Anatole Litvak
featuring Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence, Philippe Noiret, Charles Gray

Military Intelligence officer Major Grau (Omar Sharif) investigates the brutal murder of a Warsaw prostitute in this mystery set during World War II. Grau's only clue is that the murderer was wearing the uniform of a Nazi general. The three suspects include Gabler (Charles Gray), who fears his harridan wife more than anything, the icy General Tanz ...

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Escape from New York

Escape from New York (1981) more movies like this

directed by John Carpenter
featuring Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes

The year is 1997. Manhattan Island is now a heavily guarded maximum-security prison, where the scum of the earth have converged. When Air Force One crash-lands in Manhattan, the president (Donald Pleasence) is held hostage by its denizens. One-eyed mercenary Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) is strong-armed into rescuing the chief executive. He is ...

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Soldier Blue

Soldier Blue (1970) more movies like this

directed by Ralph Nelson
featuring Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasence, John Anderson, Jorge Rivero

A cavalry unit in Colorado is conducting two important cargoes to Fort Reunion, home of the 11th Colorado Volunteers: Cresta Marybelle Lee (Candice Bergen), the fiancée of an officer in the unit until two years ago, when she was taken by the Cheyenne, and who just escaped; and Captain Battles (Dana Elcar), the paymaster, with a strongbox ...

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Prince of Darkness

Prince of Darkness (1987) more movies like this

directed by John Carpenter
featuring Donald Pleasence, Jameson Parker, Victor Wong, Lisa Blount, Dennis Dun

Proving that you can never guess what you'll find when you clean out the basement, a man of the cloth discovers that ultimate evil has made a hiding place in his cellar in this tale of terror. Father Loomis (Donald Pleasance) is a priest who discovers a strange object in a church basement -- a canister filled with a swirling and volatile green ...

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Oh, God!

Oh, God! (1977) more movies like this

directed by Carl Reiner
featuring George Burns, John Denver, Teri Garr, Donald Pleasence, Ralph Bellamy

Adapted by Larry Gelbart from the novel by Avery Corman, the film stars John Denver as Jerry Landers, the assistant manager of a grocery store who is chosen by God (George Burns) to spread the Word to the rest of the world. Not surprisingly, Jerry is soon labelled a basket case: even his loving wife Bobbie (Teri Garr) doubts her husband's sanity. ...

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Halloween II

Halloween II (1981) more movies like this

directed by Rick Rosenthal
featuring Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Charles Cyphers, Jeffrey Kramer, Lance Guest

While John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic Halloween irrevocably changed the style of horror cinema with its simple but relentlessly tense story, it triggered more than a decade's worth of uninspired, exploitative knock-offs, and one could easily list Halloween II among these failures. As with its predecessor, this film was written and produced by ...

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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) more movies like this

directed by Dwight H. Little
featuring Donald Pleasence, Ellie Cornell, Danielle Harris, George Wilbur, Michael Pataki

And still they come? This fourth entry in the Halloween franchise focuses on Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris), the niece of ubiquitous masked-killer Michael Myers (George P. Wilbur). Jamie tries to lead a normal life, but she can't escape the vengeance of her "funny uncle," who once more escapes from the looney bin. The only echo of the original ...

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Dracula (1979) more movies like this

directed by John Badham
featuring Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence, Kate Nelligan, Trevor Eve

In the late '70s, Frank Langella starred in the hit Broadway play Dracula, written by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston. Langella's charisma and the surreal, black-and-white sets designed by cartoonist Edward Gorey were the chief outstanding features of the play, which was otherwise undistinguished. While this film production of the play ...

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Will Penny (1967) more movies like this

directed by Tom Gries
featuring Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence, Lee Majors, Bruce Dern

Rambling along at its own measured pace, Will Penny is a vivid western character study, completely dominated by the rapport between stars (Charlton Heston) and (Joan Hackett). Heston plays Will Penny, an aging and impoverished cowboy. With his cohorts Blue (Lee Majors) and Dutchy (Anthony Zerbe), the trio sets out to find employment before winter ...

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The Thief and the Cobbler (1995) more movies like this

directed by Richard Williams
featuring Donald Pleasence, Jennifer Beals, Jonathan Winters, Matthew Broderick, Vincent Price

Master animator Richard Williams (best known for his work on Who Framed Roger Rabbit?) created this visually dazzling full-length cartoon. Tack (voice of Matthew Broderick) is a shy and humble cobbler in love with the beautiful Princess Yum Yum (voice of Jennifer Beals). Tack gets his chance to impress the Princess when he's pressed into service ...

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Fantastic Voyage (1966) more movies like this

directed by Richard Fleischer
featuring Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, Donald Pleasence, Arthur O'Connell, William Redfield

Stephen Boyd heads a team of scientists sent on a bizarre experimental mission. Through a revolutionary and as-yet untested process, the scientists and their special motorized vehicle are miniaturized, then injected into the blood stream of a near-death scientist (Jean del Val). Their mission is to relieve a blood clot caused by an assassination ...

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The Eagle Has Landed (1976) more movies like this

directed by John Sturges
featuring Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter, Donald Pleasence

John Sturges directed this taut adaptation of Jack Higgins' suspense novel about an attempted kidnapping of Winston Churchill by the German high command during World War II. When it is discovered that in November 1943 Winston Churchill is scheduled to spend a weekend in a country home in Norfolk, the Germans plan to kidnap him. Heinrich Himmler ...

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Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995) more movies like this

directed by Joe Chappelle
featuring Tom Proctor, Donald Pleasence, Mitchell Ryan, Marianne Hagan, Paul Rudd, Leo Geter

Picking up six years after the events of Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers, this competently produced but ultimately disappointing sequel attempts to tie up the uneven horror series' loose ends with a less-than-convincing resolution. This installment opens with Jamie Lloyd (J.C. Brandy), young niece of supernatural psycho-killer Michael ...

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Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) more movies like this

directed by John Hough
featuring Eddie Albert, Ray Milland, Donald Pleasence, Kim Richards, Ike Eisenmann

This fast-paced Disney endeavor stars Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann as two adolescents with acute psychic powers. The kids are actually space aliens, but suffer from amnesia and are unaware of their origins. Pursued by greedy business-mogul Ray Milland, who wants to harness their special powers for his benefit, Kim and Ike are rescued by likeable ...

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The Treasure of the Amazon (1984) more movies like this

directed by René Cardona, Jr.
featuring Stuart Whitman, Emilio Fernández, Donald Pleasence, Bradford Dillman, John Ireland

An action adventure about a group of fortune hunters who search for gold and jewels in the jungles of South America. All Movie Guide

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Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) more movies like this

directed by Dominique Othenin-Girard
featuring Donald Pleasence, Danielle Harris, Wendy Kaplan, Ellie Cornell, Donald L. Shanks

In Halloween 5, one of the less successful of the series of sequels to the original Halloween, the infamous Michael Myers (Donald Shanks), returns to stalk his niece and kill her. Jamie (Danielle Harris) is hospitalized and unable to speak because of her trauma during Michael's last killing spree. She has visions of where Michael will appear and ...

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Arch of Triumph (1985) more movies like this

directed by Waris Hussein
featuring Anthony Hopkins, Donald Pleasence, Lesley-Anne Down

Erich Maria Remarque's novel Arch of Triumph was originally adapted to film in 1948 with stars Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman under the direction of Lewis Milestone. This TV-movie remake aired May 29, 1985. Anthony Hopkins and Lesley-Anne Down play the star-crossed lovers whose prewar romance in Paris is endangered by intrigue and revenge. ...

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Terror in the Aisles (1984) more movies like this

directed by Andrew Kuehn
featuring Donald Pleasence, Nancy Allen

Director Andrew Kuehn has excerpted brief segments of terror and suspense in a wide variety of horror movies and strung them together with added commentary, as well as some enacted narrative, to create a compilation of cinematic, fright-inducing effects. Donald Pleasance and Nancy Allen provide the commentary on topics such as "sex and terror" ...

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THX 1138 (1971) more movies like this

directed by George Lucas
featuring Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie, Ian Wolfe

Based on his award-winning student short, George Lucas's debut feature cerebrally celebrates the possibility for individual freedom against all odds. In a 1984-esque white-washed future underground dystopia where sexuality is banned, all humans sport shaved heads and the same shapeless outfits as they go about their work in a mandated state of ...

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Shadows and Fog (1992) more movies like this

directed by Woody Allen
featuring Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, John Malkovich, Kathy Bates, Madonna, Donald Pleasence, Lily Tomlin

Woody Allen's black-and-white curiosity piece is a mixture of influences -- from German silent film expressionism to Franz Kafka's nightmare worlds to the contemporary fables of Wim Wenders. Woody Allen plays the nebbish clerk Kleinman (in a throwback to his characters from Sleeper and Love and Death), who is awakened in the middle of the night by ...

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The Barchester Chronicles (1982) more movies like this

directed by David Giles
featuring Alan Rickman, Donald Pleasence, Geraldine McEwan, Nigel Hawthorne, Susan Hampshire

Adapted from a series of novels by Anthony Trollope, the Masterpiece Theatre production of The Barchester Chronicles features Donald Pleasence as Reverend Harding. Scandal taints the town of Barchester after the local church becomes the object of a scathing investigative report about the use of church funds. The husbands of Harding's daughters are ...

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Guinevere (1994) more movies like this

directed by Jud Taylor
featuring Sheryl Lee, Sean Patrick Flanery, Noah Wyle, Brid Brennan, Donald Pleasence

This made-for-TV romance is a reworking of the legend of King Arthur's queen and tells how she forsook her real love and married Arthur in order to bring England together. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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