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Green Grow the Rushes (1951)- Dir. Derek Twist
Feat. Richard Burton, Honor Blackman, Roger Livesey… - Minor comedy, of the English variety, set in a brandy–soaked Kent village.
Desert Rats, The (1953)- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Richard Burton - No–nonsense British Army officer Richard Burton assumes command of an Australian platoon, but struggles to win their respect. Sequel to The…
Robe, The (1953)- Dir. Henry Koster
Feat. Richard Burton - Richard Burton acquires Jesus' robe after supervising his crucifixion and becomes wreaked with fear and guilt. A lavish biblical epic, the first film…
Alexander the Great (1956)- Dir. Robert Rossen
Feat. Richard Burton, Fredric March, Claire Bloom - Earnest epic follows the life and early death of the Greek warrior who conquered the entire known world. This seismic production has Richard Burton…
Bitter Victory (1957)- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Richard Burton, Curt Jurgens, Ruth Roman… - Superior war drama is set around a WW2 mission by British commandos in North Africa, trying to retrieve vital papers from a German HQ before…
Sea Wife (1957)- Dir. Bob McNaught
Feat. Richard Burton, Joan Collins, Basil Sydney… - Melodramatic adventure tale with Burton and Collins adrift on a raft after their ship is sunk by the Japanese. Clunky, but oddly compelling, though…
Look Back in Anger (1958)- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Mary Ure - Richard Burton plays the angry–young–man to the hilt in this grimly realistic slice of British life in the '50s. Based on John Osborne's…
Longest Day, The (1962)- Dir. Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki
Feat. John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum… - One the great WW2 films, with over 40 international stars. The large scale battle scenes have taken some outdoing.
Cleopatra (1963)- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Rex Harrison, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton - Magnificent sets and Rex Harrison's dynamic Caesar are the saving graces of this, Hollywood's most extravagant turkey. Both Liz Taylor and Richard…
Night of the Iguana, The (1964)- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Richard Burton, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon… - Tennessee Williams–scripted brew of melodrama, old–style religion and sexual repression sees defrocked priest/alcoholic Richard Burton…
Becket (1964)
- Dir. Peter Glenville
Feat. Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud… - Stinging, fact–based epic turns the trusted relationship between King Henry II (O’Toole) and his best friend, the Archbishop of Canterbury…
Hamlet (1964)- Dir. Bill Colleran, John Gielgud
Feat. Richard Burton, Hume Cronyn - Highly successful Richard Burton Broadway production of "Hamlet", deliberately staged in the style of a "dress rehearsal", but performed in front of…
Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Richard Burton, Oskar Werner, Claire Bloom… - Stark yet gripping adaptation of John Le Carre's espionage novel. Richard Burton plays the dispossessed spy reluctantly engaged in the most dangerous…
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
- Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor - High powered melodrama with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in peak form as a married couple whose dinner party turns into a violent debacle.…
Taming of the Shrew (1966)- Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Feat. Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor - Famous couple Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor star as Petruchio and Katharina in this spirited parody of gender role plays. Zeffirelli succeeds…
Boom! (1968)- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Sir Noel Coward… - Thud: Only film buffs who admire Losey's very original directorial style are likely to appreciate fuzzy adaptation of Tennessee Williams' The Milk…
Candy (1968)- Dir. Christian Marquand
Feat. Ewa Aulin, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton… - Sixties sex farce that satirizes pornographic stories through the adventures of its naive eponymous heroine, played by Swedish model, Ewa Aulin.…
Where Eagles Dare (1969)- Dir. Brian G. Hutton
Feat. Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure… - Exciting adaptation of Alistair MacLean's WW2 novel concerning British paratroopers rescue mission from an impregnable castle.
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)- Dir. Charles Jarrott
Feat. Richard Burton, Genevieve Bujold, Irene Papas… - Opulent recounting of the doomed romance between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn with a gallery of fine performances and stunning costume design.
Staircase (1969)- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Rex Harrison, Richard Burton, Cathleen Nesbitt - Sitting somewhere between farce and melancholy, a pair of aging barbers bicker over the possibility of ending their loving but often volatile…
Under Milkwood (1971)- Dir. Andrew Sinclair
Feat. Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O'Toole… - Celebrated radio play by Dylan Thomas gets a surprisingly successful visual rendering, though some will always prefer the original format for Thomas'…
Raid on Rommel (1971)- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Richard Burton, John Colicos, Wolfgang Preiss - In 1942 Libya, a German–speaking British Intelligence officer uses former British POWs, some dressed in German uniforms, to fulfill a secret…
Klansman, The (1974)- Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Richard Burton, Lee Marvin, Cameron Mitchell… - Samuel Fuller co–wrote this trashy Southern potboiler, graced with the acting chops of Richard Burton and Lee Marvin as landowner and sheriff…
Voyage, The (Il Viaggio) (1974)- Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Sophia Loren, Richard Burton, Ian Bannen - Melodrama from Italian master De Sica sees an incurably ill Sophia Loren torn between the love of two brothers (Richard Burton and Ian Bannen, both…
Brief Encounter (1974)- Dir. Alan Bridges
Feat. Richard Burton, Sophia Loren, Jack Hedley… - The BBC revisit David Lean's classic unrequited romance, with Richard Burton and Sophia Loren excellent as would–be lovers who meet on a train…
Equus (1977)- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Peter Firth, Richard Burton, Joan Plowright… - Straightforward adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s play concerning a disturbed stablehand (Peter Firth) with an equine fixation who has blinded some…
Medusa Touch, The (1978)- Dir. Jack Gold
Feat. Richard Burton, Lee Remick, Derek Jacobi… - Garbled but entertaining thriller stars Burton as a paranormally–gifted writer who psychiatrist (Remick) tries to wean him from his murderous…
Wild Geese, The (1978)- Dir. Andrew McLagen
Feat. Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris… - Trashily entertaining adventure yarn has a gaggle of middle–aged mercenaries drawn into a rescue job for a kidnapped politician in deepest…
Absolution (1978)- Dir. Anthony Page
Feat. Richard Burton, Billy Connolly 
Wagner (1983)- Dir. Tony Palmer
Feat. Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud… - Epic tele–production with Richard Burton as the manic German composer. Includes the Tony Palmer documentaries "In From the Cold? A Portrait of…
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