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Post by petrolino on Aug 24, 2024 2:31:58 GMT
Well since your thread was of his Shakespeare films I figured it would have been more complete. I really haven’t seen MERCHANT & LEAR, although I should have done that considering last year’s 50th and 40th anniversary of both. I haven’t seen OTHELLO in a while although I recently bought a box set of Warner-owned Shakespeare films (their MIDSUMMER, MGMs ROMEO & JULIET, Branagh’s HAMLET) so I ought to give it a better look.
Laurence Olivier was a great admirer of the Shakespearian work of Ukrainian director Grigori Kozintsev according to literature published by Mr. Bongo Films, director of 'Hamlet' (1964) and 'King Lear' (1971).
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Post by petrolino on Aug 24, 2024 2:52:10 GMT
Had some exceptional roles in the 70s too. The Boys from Brazil (1978)Dracula (1979)
You made it a done deal for me ... seems he worked with almost all of my favourite English actors of all time, be it James Mason and Donald Pleasence whom you so graciously mention, Malcolm McDowell and Alan Bates whom I raised in response to spiderwort's mention of Evelyn Waugh, Charles Laughton so recently profiled here by teleadm or Robert Donat whom he's mentioned on this here thread, Frank Finlay as mentioned by the Shakespeare crowd ... hell, he worked with his pals Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud (naturally), with horror legends Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, with Boris Karloff, Michael Redgrave, Alec Guinness, Peter O'Toole, Albert Finney, Robert Shaw, Michael Caine, Terence Stamp, John Hurt, Jeremy Irons, Bob Hoskins and countless others, just needed to work with Cary Grant, David Hemmings and Robin Askwith (if he didn't) and he'd have reached some kind of zenit.
'This Kiss-Off' : Ben Kingsley, Laurence Olivier & Dustin Hoffman
'Romeo And Juliet'
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Post by spiderwort on Aug 24, 2024 18:29:22 GMT
I recently watched Malcolm McDowell in a restored version of the television piece 'She Fell Among Thieves' (1978) which was screening on the BBC4 channel, a showcase for Eileen Atkins, directed by Clive Donner, based on a novel by Dornford Yates, with a screenplay by novelist Tom Sharpe no less.
Outside of his work in British theatre and film, McDowell was a noted television actor in his early days and my absolute favourite is 'The Collection' (1976) with McDowell joined by his friends Alan Bates and Helen Mirren, with the gaffer Larry Olivier, based on a play by the greatest English playwright of the modern history of violent pauses, Harold Pinter. Are you kidding me?!
Network DVD
Oh, I would love to see this! And as for Pinter and violent pauses, he was the writer from whom I learned that less is always more. (Subtext, subtext, subtext.)
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Post by politicidal1 on Aug 25, 2024 0:21:47 GMT
Even though he died in 1989, his last film appearance was in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) as the main villain Totenkopf (in hologram form). The effect was achieved from using his early appearances and manipulating the footage.
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Post by petrolino on Aug 26, 2024 3:01:15 GMT
Perhaps the ultimate big studio punishment for a performer, during a window opening of Shakespearian time, was being denied the right to work with Laurence Olivier, as this harsh internet movie database fact attests to.
'When Carroll Baker refused to play a nymphomaniac in the trashy Too Much, Too Soon (1958), Warner Bros. refused to loan her out to appear opposite Laurence Olivier, Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in The Devil's Disciple (1959).'
- IMDB Trivia
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Post by timshelboy on Aug 26, 2024 8:33:41 GMT
I especially Like him in WUTHERING HEIGHTS, REBECCA, BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING and MARATHON MAN
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