Richard Brooks
Director, Actor
Films to Rent
- Deadline U.S.A. (1952)
- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Humphrey Bogart
- Tightly scripted account of the newspaper business. Editor–in–Chief: Humphrey Bogart.
- Blackboard Jungle, The (1955)
- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Glenn Ford, Sidney Poitier, Vic Morrow
- Famously controversial on release and first of the 'Rock–n–roll' films, this lifted the lid on the heated youth tensions in 50s America.…
- Brothers Karamazov, The (1957)
- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom…
- A sumptuous Hollywood version of Dostoyevsky's classic novel of Czarist Russia.
Centred around Karamazov (Cobb) and his four disparate offspring,…
- Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman
- Compelling melodrama based on Tennessee Williams' play of greed, lust and impotence in a wealthly Southern family. Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor…
- Elmer Gantry (1960)
- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Shirley Jones
- The Sinclair Lewis novel set in the American Midwest of the 20s, is splashed across the screen in true barnstorming style, with a big–canvas of…
- Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight…
- The South at its over–ripest, Tennessee Williams providing a repressive, smalltown setting for gigolo Paul Newman and faded movie–star…
- Lord Jim (1965)
- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Peter O'Toole, James Mason, Jack Hawkins…
- Professionals, The (1966)
- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan…
- A taut precursor to THE WILD BUNCH, with a gang of American mercenaries making an incursion into Mexican territory to rescue a beautiful hostage…
- In Cold Blood (1967)
- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe…
- A masterpiece of crime fiction adapted from Truman Capote’s novel about events surrounding the senseless murder of an innocent family by two…
- Bite the Bullet (1975)
- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Gene Hackman, James Coburn
- Gene Hackman and James Coburn are adversaries who contest a gruelling 700–mile horse race.
- Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Diane Keaton, Richard Gere, Tuesday Weld…
- Repressed schoolteacher Diane Keaton cruises the singles bars of New York for action, and has mixed results in a series of dispiriting encounters. An…
- Wrong is Right (1982)
- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Sean Connery, George Grizzard, Robert Conrad…
- Patchy media satire with Connery as a newsman on the trail of two nuclear weapons that have fallen into terrorist hands. Some fine supporting turns…