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Subgenre Sampler
Kidnapped (1971)- Dir. Delbert Mann
Feat. Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins… - A dashing Michael Caine heads this ambitious adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s tales of 18th century Scotland. Grand, if ultimately unrealised…
Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)- Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman… - The last Czars of Russia get an appropriately lavish send–off in this wagon–load of Hollywood corn. With Tom Baker (as Rasputin) and…
Hawaiians, The (1970)- Dir. Tom Gries
Feat. Charlton Heston, Tina Chen, Geraldine Chaplin… - Brotherly relations are strained when the black sheep returns home, plantation building and pineapple stealing ensues. Bloated sequel to HAWAII…
Heroic Ones, The (1970)- Dir. Chang Cheh
Feat. David Chiang, Chin Han, Ti Lung… - Martial arts film set in 1880s imperial China, where a Mogul king secretly assembles his loyal generals on a mission to take on his greatest rivals.…
Patton (1970)
- Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Feat. George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates… - George C. Scott is unnervingly convincing as the real life WW2 General with whose military convictions were indeed unnerving. Co–written by…
Waterloo (1970)- Dir. Sergei Bondarchuk
Feat. Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles - Napoleonic epic from the Russian director of WAR AND PEACE is dramatically woolly, but includes superb, sprawling battle–scenes. Rod Steiger…
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.
Andrei Rublev (1966)- Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Feat. Anatoli Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko - Enthralling historical drama vividly portrays the 15th Century Russian painter who was encumbered by the political turbulence of the time.
Bible, The (1966)- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, John Huston… - A sincere, if not entirely successful, attempt to transpose the Old Testament to the screen – from Adam to Isaac. Appropriately grand and…
Khartoum (1966)- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Charlton Heston… - Lavishly mounted biopic of General Gordon's defeat by Arab tribesmen in 1833.
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