List of the best Peter Glenville movies: Becket(1964), Term of Trial(1962), Summer and Smoke(1961), Hotel Paradiso(1966), Me and the Colonel(1958), Good Time Girl(1948), Hotel Paradiso(1966) ... ...
Drama, History
UK|USA
1964
148 Minutes
Director
Richard Burton Peter O'Toole John Gielgud Gino Cervi Paolo Stoppa Donald Wolfit David Weston Martita Hunt Pamela Brown Sian Phillips
king henry ii archbishop priest courtier brooding dark palace england royal court rome corruption alcoholism royalty salvation religion rivalry revenge 12th century
King Henry II of England comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant Thomas Becket, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the King's.
Drama
UK
1962
113 Minutes
Director
Laurence Olivier Simone Signoret Sarah Miles Roland Culver Frank Pettingell Thora Hird Dudley Foster Norman Bird Newton Blick Allan Cuthbertson Nicholas Hannen
teacher wife student bleak somber school england household student-teacher relationship alcoholism guilt marital problems seduction revenge temptation 1960s
In Britain, a high-school girl becomes infatuated with her English teacher but, after he rejects her amorous advances, she goes to the police and accuses him of indecent assault.
Drama
USA
1961
118 Minutes
Director
Geraldine Page Laurence Harvey Rita Moreno Una Merkel John McIntire Thomas Gomez Pamela Tiffin Malcolm Atterbury Lee Patrick Casey Adams Earl Holliman
doctor spinster beautiful woman neighbor melodramatic emotional passionate mississippi small town romance hedonism small-town life unrequited love love triangle rise transformation 1910s
Plain, repressed spinster falls for a dashing young medical student, but he prefers the wilder life, until it's too late.
Comedy
UK
1966
100 Minutes
Director
Alec Guinness Gina Lollobrigida Robert Morley Peggy Mount Akim Tamiroff Marie Bell Derek Fowlds Robertson Hare Ann Beach Leonard Rossiter David Battley
Monsieur Feydeau has writer's block, and he needs a new play. But he takes an opportunity to observe the upper class of 1900 Paris, Monsieur Boniface with a domineering wife, and the ... See full summary »
Comedy
1958
110 Minutes
Director
jewish refugee colonel fiancé nazi witty engaging profound paris castle england race relations invasion holocaust anti-semitism world war ii rivalry underdog love quest 1940s
An anti-Semitic Polish colonel (Curt Jurgens) and his French girlfriend (Nicole Maurey) escape Nazis, thanks to a wily Polish Jew (Danny Kaye).
Crime, Drama
1948
81 Minutes
Jimmy Rosso
Jean Kent Dennis Price Griffith Jones Flora Robson Herbert Lom Bonar Colleano Hugh McDermott Peter Glenville Nora Swinburne Elwyn Brook-Jones Jill Balcon
juvenile delinquent soldiers gang members police officers brash uneasy house club london manchester, england crime spree juvenile crime awol adventure pursuit fall 20th century
A British magistrate (Flora Robson) tells the story of a wayward girl (Jean Kent) who joins two GI deserters in a crime spree.
Comedy
UK
1966
100 Minutes
Director
Alec Guinness Gina Lollobrigida Robert Morley Peggy Mount Akim Tamiroff Marie Bell Derek Fowlds Robertson Hare Ann Beach Leonard Rossiter David Battley
Monsieur Feydeau has writer's block, and he needs a new play. But he takes an opportunity to observe the upper class of 1900 Paris, Monsieur Boniface with a domineering wife, and the ... See full summary »