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Where Eagles Dare

Where Eagles Dare (1968) more movies like this

directed by Brian G. Hutton
featuring Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure, Michael Hordern, Patrick Wymark

An expensive but enormously profitable war picture, Where Eagles Dare centers upon a daring rescue and even more daring escape. Disguised as Nazi officers, commandoes Maj. John Smith (Richard Burton), Lt. Morris Schaffer Clint Eastwood and six other courageous souls parachute behind enemy lines. Their mission: to rescue an American general, held ...

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The Night of the Iguana

The Night of the Iguana (1964) more movies like this

directed by John Huston
featuring Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon, James Ward

Filmed on location in Mexico by John Huston, Night of the Iguana stars Richard Burton as Rev. Shannon, an alcoholic defrocked minister, who scratches out a living as a south-of-the-border tour guide. His latest customers are several American schoolteachers, and he guides their bus to a rundown hotel owned by flamboyant widow Maxine Faulk (Ava ...

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The Wild Geese

The Wild Geese (1978) more movies like this

directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
featuring Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Hardy Kruger, Stewart Granger

The plot of this of this adaptation of the Daniel Carney's novel, sprinkled throughout a series of extended Sam Peckinpah-inspired action sequences, deals with a collection of mercenary toughguys -- Colonel Allen Faulkner (Richard Burton), Lieutenant Shawn Fynn (Roger Moore), Rafer Janders (Richard Harris), Pieter Coetzee (Hardy Kruger) -- who are ...

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The Sandpiper

The Sandpiper (1965) more movies like this

directed by Vincente Minnelli
featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint, Charles Bronson, Robert Webber

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton -- then Hollywood's most bankable couple -- appeared onscreen together for the third time in this romantic drama shot on beautiful locations along the Big Sur region of the California coastline. Laura Edwards (Elizabeth Taylor) is a free-thinking artist and Bohemian who is raising a her teenage son, Danny ...

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) more movies like this

directed by Mike Nichols
featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis

"You are cordially invited to George and Martha's for an evening of fun and games." Thus read the ad copy for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, which in 1966 went farther than any previous big-studio film in its use of profanity and sexual implication. George (Richard Burton) is an alcoholic college professor; Martha (Oscar-winner Elizabeth Taylor) ...

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Ice Palace

Ice Palace (1960) more movies like this

directed by Vincent Sherman
featuring Richard Burton, Robert Ryan, Carolyn Jones, Martha Hyer, Jim Backus

Based on the Edna Ferber novel, this engrossing period piece covers the triumphs, tragedies, loves, and sorrows of a few generations of Alaskan settlers between the first World War and the granting of statehood in 1959. Zeb (Richard Burton) is a local despot whose tough personality dominates the region. He is openly bigoted against the Inuit, and ...

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The Robe

The Robe (1953) more movies like this

directed by Henry Koster
featuring Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Michael Rennie, Jay Robinson

Historically important as the first CinemaScope feature film, 20th Century-Fox's The Robe is fine dramatic entertainment in its own right. Based on the best-selling novel by Lloyd C. Douglas, the film stars Richard Burton as the wastrelly Roman tribune who is assigned by a weary Pontius Pilate (Richard Boone, who spends the whole of his single ...

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Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great (1956) more movies like this

directed by Robert Rossen
featuring Richard Burton, Fredric March, Claire Bloom, Danielle Darrieux, Harry Andrews

The short life and quick death of Alexander the Great is recounted in this literate historical epic. Decked out in a blonde wig, Richard Burton stars as the Grecian warrior who conquered the known world while only in his twenties, then wept because there were no more worlds left to conquer. While the film's 141 minutes are occasionally bogged down ...

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Cleopatra

Cleopatra (1963) more movies like this

directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown, Roddy McDowall, George Cole, Martin Landau

In 1963, this colossal and opulent $60 million spectacular was epic in every sense of the word -- an epic investment, an epic in the annals of Hollywood gossip, and, ultimately, an epic flop that nearly dragged 20th Century Fox down the Nile along with Cleopatra's barge. Handsomely mounted by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who replaced Rouben Mamoulian as ...

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The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew (1967) more movies like this

directed by Franco Zeffirelli
featuring Alfred Lynch, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Michael York, Vernon Dobtcheff, Michael Hordern, Natasha Pyne, Victor Spinetti

Franco Zeffirelli's adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is a zesty version of the classic comedy, highlighted by performances by Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor and Nino Rota's score. Instead of simply filming a play, Zeffirelli turned Shakespeare's text into a lively, cinematic movie, with sweeping sets and ...

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The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1965) more movies like this

directed by Martin Ritt
featuring Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner, Sam Wanamaker, George Voskovec

Based on the novel by John Le Carre, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold stars Richard Burton as a dispirited, end-of-tether British secret agent. He comes in from "the cold" (meaning he is pulled out of field operations) to act as a undercover man behind the Iron Curtain. To make his staged defection seem genuine, Burton goes on an alcoholic toot ...

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The Comedians

The Comedians (1967) more movies like this

directed by Peter Glenville
featuring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov, Paul Ford

The humorous title of this story taken from the novel by Graham Greene gives the viewer the wrong impression. The story concerns the residents of a once-posh hotel in Haiti and the fate of the country's people under the despotic dictator Papa Doc Duvalier. Martha (Elizabeth Taylor) is the philandering wife of a South American ambassador Peter ...

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Doctor Faustus

Doctor Faustus (1968) more movies like this

directed by Nevill Coghill, Richard Burton
featuring Hugh Williams, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Andreas Teuber, Ian Marter, Elizabeth O'Donovan

Richard Burton co-directed (along with Nevill Coghill) this labor of love that records a performance given by Burton at Oxford University in 1966 of Christopher Marlowe's 400-year-old verse play. Burton plays Faust, a medieval doctor who sells his soul to Mephistopheles (Andreas Teuber) in exchange for mastering all human knowledge. The Devil ...

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Sea Wife

Sea Wife (1957) more movies like this

directed by Bob McNaught
featuring Joan Collins, Richard Burton, Basil Sydney, Cy Grant, Ronald Squire

In this melodramatic adventure set after the British evacuated Singapore in 1942, a ship is torpedoed and only four people survive. They are a nun, an RAF officer, a godless bigoted business magnate, and a black purser. The four drift for days before getting themselves washed up on a small desert island. Before they reach the shore, a shark ...

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The V.I.P.'s

The V.I.P.'s (1963) more movies like this

directed by Anthony Asquith
featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan, Elsa Martinelli, Margaret Rutherford, Maggie Smith

Terrence Rattigan, the playwright who brought us the multicharactered, multistoried Separate Tables, again offers us an episodic cross-section of humanity in The V.I.P.'s. When a heavy London fog paralyzes all air traffic, the lives of several people are profoundly affected. As indicated by the title, most of the characters in this portmanteau ...

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Wagner

Wagner (1983) more movies like this

directed by Tony Palmer
featuring Richard Burton, Vanessa Redgrave, Laszlo Galffi, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson

Originally a nine-hour British miniseries, this film on the last four decades in the life of Richard Wagner may have taken its long-winded cue from the lengthy operas of the famous 19th-century German composer and musical theorist -- the Ring des Nibelungen is 14-15 hours in itself, divided into four separate operas. This biographical film begins ...

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Bitter Victory

Bitter Victory (1957) more movies like this

directed by Nicholas Ray
featuring Richard Burton, Curd Jürgens, Ruth Roman, Raymond Pellegrin, Anthony Bushell

In Nicholas Ray's WWII drama, two British officers, Captain Leith (Richard Burton) and Major Brand (German character actor Curd Jürgens, who would later play Bond foe Karl Stromberg in The Spy Who Loved Me), a South African, are being considered to lead a daring raid to steal crucial documents from a Nazi stronghold in Libya. The two don't seem ...

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Anne of the Thousand Days

Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) more movies like this

directed by Charles Jarrott
featuring Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas, Anthony Quayle, John Colicos

Anne of the Thousand Days is the belated film adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's 1948 stage play. The story concentrates on the romance between Britain's King Henry VIII (Richard Burton) and his ill-fated second wife Anne Boleyn (Genevieve Bujold). After holding out for marriage rather than an illegitimate union, Anne marries Henry after he sheds ...

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Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland (1983) more movies like this

directed by Kirk Browning
featuring Kate Burton, Richard Burton, Zeljko Ivanek, Colleen Dewhurst, Geoffrey Holder

Part of the Broadway Theater Archives, this stage production of Lewis Carroll's children's fantasy Alice in Wonderland was directed by Kirk Browning. Kate Burton plays young Alice, the little girl who wanders into a bizarre wonderland that just gets more and more curious. Her real-life father, Richard Burton, plays the White Knight. Also starring ...

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Candy

Candy (1968) more movies like this

directed by Christian Marquand
featuring Charles Aznavour, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, John Huston

In this big-budget adaptation of Terry Southern's satiric sex farce (the sort of project that could get an immediate green light in the late 1960's and at practically no other time before or since), Ewa Aulin is Candy, a sweet young woman who doesn't seem entirely aware of the powerful sexual desire she brings out in men. While her father (John ...

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Hamlet

Hamlet (1964) more movies like this

directed by Bill Colleran
featuring Richard Burton, Michael Ebert, Barnard Hughes, Robert Milli, Alfred Drake

This 199-minute Broadway production of Shakespeare's classic tragedy was directed for the stage by John Gielgud, who also provides the voice of the Ghost. Richard Burton plays the lead in Hamlet, the dramatic and tragic tale of a Danish prince whose obsessive desire for certainty is his ultimate undoing. The entire production was filmed by ...

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The Assassination of Trotsky

The Assassination of Trotsky (1972) more movies like this

directed by Joseph Losey
featuring Richard Burton, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Valentina Cortese, Luigi Vannucchi

This film is Joseph Losey's mood piece that delves into the psychological makeup of Frank Jackson (Alain Delon), the assassin of exiled Russian Communist leader Leon Trotsky (Richard Burton). The tale chronicles the final few months of Trotsky's life, from the May 1940 raid upon Trotsky's Mexican compound until August of that year when Jackson's ...

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Exorcist II: The Heretic

Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) more movies like this

directed by John Boorman
featuring Linda Blair, Richard Burton, Louise Fletcher, Max von Sydow, Kitty Winn

Four years after her bout of demonic possession, Regan MacNeil seems at peace as she enjoys a privileged but lonely adolescence. Her actress mother, absent on-location, leaves her in the care of her childhood nanny, Sharon, who feels inextricably bound to her young charge despite the terror she endured during the girl's possession. Regan attends ...

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1984

1984 (1984) more movies like this

directed by Michael Radford
featuring John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack, Gregor Fisher

Directed by British filmmaker Michael Radford, Nineteen Eighty-Four is the second film adaptation of the George Orwell novel. The film is set during April of 1984 in post-atomic war London, the capital city of the repressive totalitarian state of Oceania. Winston Smith (John Hurt) is a government bureaucrat whose job is rewriting history and ...

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Green Grow the Rushes

Green Grow the Rushes (1951) more movies like this

directed by Derek N. Twist
featuring Roger Livesey, Honor Blackman, Richard Burton, Frederick Leister, John Salew

Though Green Grow the Rushes has the look and feel of an Ealing comedy, the film was actually produced through the auspices of British Lion. The story takes place on the southern coast of England, where through a bureaucratic oversight a small patch of land in Kent is protected from outside legal intervention by an ancient charter. It is here that ...

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