Chasing Rainbows (1988)

Actors: Eric Keenleyside (actor), Tony Lower (editor), Wayne Robson (actor), James Bradford (actor), Jack Jessop (actor), Bruce Pittman (director), Paul Gross (actor), Michael Riley (actor), John Friesen (actor), Richard Yearwood (actor), William Fruet (director), Patricia Hamilton (actress), Louise Laparé (actress), James Mainprize (actor), Wanda Cannon (actress),

Genres: ,

Cromwell (1970)

Actors: Patrick Magee (actor), Bryan Pringle (actor), Victor Maddern (actor), Timothy Dalton (actor), Robert Morley (actor), George Merritt (actor), Geoffrey Keen (actor), Michael Goodliffe (actor), Charles Gray (actor), Alec Guinness (actor), Harry Fielder (actor), Richard Harris (actor), Frank Finlay (actor), Nigel Stock (actor), Patrick Holt (actor),

Plot: Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War.

Keywords: 1640s, 17th-century, altar, america, anarchy, archbishop, arrest, artillery, battle, battlefield
Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War,

Quotes:

Oliver Cromwell: Now do we see in what contempt this King holds this house and this nation.

Oliver Cromwell: You are no more capable of managing the affairs of this nation than you are of running a brothel!

President Bradshaw: Sir, you are before a court of law!::King Charles I: I see I am before a *power*...

Oliver Cromwell: It's an odd thing, Mr. Ireton. Every man who wages war believes God is on his side. I'll warrant God should often wonder who is on his.

King Charles: A democracy, Mr. Cromwell, was a Greek drollery based on the foolish notion that there are extraordinary possibilities in very ordinary people.

Oliver Cromwell: Against the King? You mean a civil war? In England? Huh! You know not the ways of this nation. Such things do not happen here.

King Charles: Do you mean, sir, that I should declare war on my own people?::The Earl of Strafford: Aye, before they declare war on you!

John Pym: We would as much go back to our homes and our farms as pursue this mockery of a government one more day.

Henry Ireton: Though Strafford's hand be upon this warrant, I see in this business not the hand of Strafford, but that of the King.::Oliver Cromwell: It is not the function of this House to sit in judgment upon this King. The fault lies with those people from whom the King has sought counsel.

John Pym: I say then that this House is resolved that we shall vote - no money for the King! Neither will we take up arms against our Scottish brethren unless Parliament is allowed to function as the true voice of the people of England, and not as a gathering of lackeys to the King.

The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)

Actors: Robert Rietty (actor), Raymond Massey (actor), Gibb McLaughlin (actor), Laurence Hanray (actor), Nigel Bruce (actor), Allan Jeayes (actor), Leslie Howard (actor), A. Bromley Davenport (actor), Derrick De Marney (actor), Anthony Bushell (actor), O.B. Clarence (actor), Edmund Breon (actor), Melville Cooper (actor), Arthur Hambling (actor), Walter Rilla (actor),

Plot: Leslie Howard plays Sir Percy Blakeney, an 18th century English aristocrat who leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror. Based on the novel by Baroness Orczy.

Keywords: 1790s, 18th-century, ambassador, aristocrat, artist, based-on-novel, based-on-play, blackmail, boxing, brother-sister-relationship
Genres: Adventure, Drama,
Taglines: The Scarlet Pimpernel. Who Was He... What Was His Strange Power?

Quotes:

Percy Blakeney: They seek him here, they seek him there, / Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. / Is he in heaven? Or is he in hell? / That damned elusive Pimpernel!

Percy Blakeney: [before reciting his poem to Winterbottom] Slap me, I'm bubbling over with good humor this morning. Would you believe me, I've just written a masterpiece.::Col. Winterbottom: Who, sir? You, sir?::Percy Blakeney: Me, sir::Col. Winterbottom: No, sir.::Percy Blakeney: Yes, sir. All about this mysterious Pimpernel fellow. How it came to me Heaven only knows, because it was the busiest moment of the day. Damn me, I was tying my cravat.

Citizen Chauvelin: [after reciting his poem to Chauvelin] Delightful.::Percy Blakeney: What?::Citizen Chauvelin: Especially that line, "Those Frenchies seek him everywhere."::Percy Blakeney: Yes, I like that, too, because you see, I hear that they do and that gives the line a sort of something... sort of gives it... uh... uh... something. Uh... u-uh... if I make myself clear.::Citizen Chauvelin: Clear as crystal.

Percy Blakeney: Open up your sleeves, man. Let your ruffles take the air. Let them flow. Let them ripple.

Col. Winterbottom: Are you being offensive, sir?::Percy Blakeney: Who, sir? Me, sir? No, sir.

Percy Blakeney: Magnificent fight this afternoon, my dear. Gad! That Mendoza's got quick ears. In the 10th round, when Jackson had him down, I shouted, "Get up, Mendoza!" And damn me, he did and sink me, he won!

Prince of Wales: Why, damn me, Percy, you're brainless, spineless, useless: But you do know clothes!

Lady Marguerite Blakeney: Can't you rise above trivialities for once?::Percy Blakeney: Can't rise above anything more than three syllables, my dear - never could.

Armand St. Just: [of Marguerite's betrayal of St-Cyr] So that is why you ceased to love her. What a tragedy.::Percy Blakeney: Ceased? I shall love her until the day I die. That's the tragedy.

Lady Marguerite Blakeney: Oh but Percy, through me, a good, a generous man my lose his life. Oh Percy, what can I do? How can I warn him?::Percy Blakeney: Warn him? Against what?::Lady Marguerite Blakeney: Against the danger if he goes back to France.::Percy Blakeney: Well, if he's the kind of lunatic I take him to be, your warning's not going to stop him.::Lady Marguerite Blakeney: But he might be going to his death.::Percy Blakeney: That's all the fellow lives for. Besides, he doesn't know you're in love with him.::Lady Marguerite Blakeney: I'm not in love with him! I admire his head of wisdom, but I'm not in love with him.::Percy Blakeney: Oh, but you are. It's a dangerous game, my dear. Falling in love with a phantom. For all you know, he might be a married man who is deeply in love with his wife.

The Royal Box (1914)

Actors: Oscar Eagle (director), Thomas Carrigan (actor), Adrienne Kroell (actress), William Nicholas Selig (producer), Clifford Bruce (actor), Palmer Bowman (actor), Charles Coghlan (writer), Gertrude Coghlan (actress),

Genres: Drama,

Beau Brummel (1913)

Actors: James Young (director), Etienne Girardot (actor), Rex Ingram (actor), James Morrison (actor), Edwin R. Phillips (actor), James Young (actor), Helene Costello (actress), Julia Swayne Gordon (actress), Clara Kimball Young (actress), Eugene Mullin (writer), Booth Tarkington (writer), Charles Chapman (actor),

Genres: Action, Adventure, Short,