King Lear (2008)

Actors: Ian McKellen (actor), William Shakespeare (writer), Frances Barber (actress), Sylvester McCoy (actor), Jonathan Hyde (actor), Romola Garai (actress), Trevor Nunn (director), Monica Dolan (actress), David Weston (actor), William Gaunt (actor), Philip Winchester (actor), Kieran Bew (actor), Peter Hinton (actor), Seymour Matthews (actor), Guy Williams (actor),

Genres: Drama,

The First Part of Henry the Sixth (1983)

Actors: John Benfield (actor), John Benfield (actor), Michael Byrne (actor), Jonathan Miller (producer), William Shakespeare (writer), Brenda Blethyn (actress), Bernard Hill (actor), Bernard Hill (actor), Derek Farr (actor), Derek Farr (actor), Ron Cook (actor), Ron Cook (actor), Trevor Peacock (actor), Jane Hawley (miscellaneous crew), John Wilders (miscellaneous crew),

Genres: ,

The Tragedy of King Lear (1982)

Actors: Darryl Hickman (actor), Brian Kerwin (actor), William Shakespeare (writer), Chris Donovan (miscellaneous crew), David Groh (actor), Mike Kellin (actor), Olaf Pooley (actor), Sam Anderson (actor), John Laughlin (actor), Daryl Anderson (actor), John Laughlin (actor), Joel Bailey (actor), Charles Aidman (actor), Michael Barnathan (miscellaneous crew), Bart Braverman (actor),

Plot: King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.

Keywords: based-on-play, character-name-in-title, shakespeare's-king-lear, tragedy
Genres: Drama,

The Life of Henry the Fifth (1979)

Actors: William Shakespeare (writer), Julian Glover (actor), Brenda Bruce (actress), Alec McCowen (actor), Garrick Hagon (actor), Bryan Pringle (actor), Thorley Walters (actor), John Wilders (miscellaneous crew), Cedric Messina (producer), Alan Shallcross (miscellaneous crew), Gordon Gostelow (actor), John Abineri (actor), Robert Harris (actor), Anna Quayle (actress), Tim Wylton (actor),

Genres: Biography, Drama, War,

King Lear (1971)

Actors: Patrick Magee (actor), William Shakespeare (writer), Cyril Cusack (actor), Mogens Skot-Hansen (producer), Paul Scofield (actor), Peter Brook (director), Peter Brook (writer), Jack MacGowran (actor), Alan Webb (actor), Ian Hogg (actor), Anne-Lise Gabold (actress), Irene Worth (actress), Søren Elung Jensen (actor), Kasper Schyberg (editor), Barry Stanton (actor),

Plot: The Shakespeare tragedy that gave us the expression "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child." King Lear has not one but two ungrateful children, and it's especially galling because he turned over his entire kingdom to them. Paul Scofeld is an ancient, imposing shell of a Lear tormented by his too-long life as well as by daughters he calls "untatural hags." At one point, the king looks his eldest daughter, Goneril (Ireme Worth), straight in the eye and declares, "Thou art a boil, a plague-sore, of embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood." These are the troubles not even the best-trained family counselor could ever hope to resolve.

Keywords: banishment, based-on-play, battle, betrayal, blindness, brother, castle, character-name-in-title, court-jester, curse
Genres: Drama,

Passport to Pimlico (1949)

Actors: Frederick Piper (actor), Arthur Howard (actor), Fred Griffiths (actor), Arthur Lovegrove (actor), Sam Kydd (actor), Michael Hordern (actor), Raymond Huntley (actor), James Hayter (actor), Harry Locke (actor), Charles Hawtrey (actor), Winston Churchill (actor), Stanley Holloway (actor), Michael Craig (actor), Bill Shine (actor), Basil Radford (actor),

Plot: When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, an area of London, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is, in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory. The British Government attempt to regain control by setting up border controls and cutting off services to the area. The 'Burgundians' fight back...

Keywords: bank, barbed-wire, bomb, bream, bureaucracy, burgundy, buried-treasure, customs, diplomacy, double-decker-bus
Genres: Comedy,
Taglines: Pimlico is the home of hilarity! To Fun! To Laughter! Laugh your way to happiness It's the wittiest comedy in years! French Goings-On In The Heart Of London

Quotes:

Frederick Albert 'Fred' Cowan: You can't push English people around like sacks of potatoes.::Jim Garland: English?::Connie Pemberton: Don't you come that stuff, Jim Garland! We always were English, and we'll always be Englsh, and it's just because we are English that we're sticking up for our rights to be Burgundians!

P.C. Spiller: Blimey, I'm a foreigner.

P.C. Spiller: I've had the police after me.

Professor Hatton-Jones: Forgive me - are you a bleeder? When you cut yourself, do you bleed interminably?

Straker: Do you think we shall get more than two main dishes?::Gregg: Oh, I hope so. I haven't had a good feed since that last deadlock in Moscow.

Edie Randall: Here's to the Burgundy Lido!

Charlie Randall: [being forcefed a sweet] I don't want a sweet.::Edie Randall: You'll have a sweet and like it.

King Lear (1948)

Actors: Alan Wheatley (actor), William Shakespeare (writer), Henry Oscar (actor), Rosalie Crutchley (actress), Patrick Troughton (actor), Ursula Howells (actress), Royston Morley (producer), Royston Morley (director), Reginald Tate (actor), John Baker (actor), Robert Harris (actor), John Chandos (actor), William Devlin (actor), Cyril Conway (actor), Robert Sansom (actor),

Plot: King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.

Keywords: based-on-play, character-name-in-title, shakespeare's-king-lear, tragedy
Genres: Drama,

The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France (1944)

Actors: Ernest Thesiger (actor), Valentine Dyall (actor), Michael Shepley (actor), Esmond Knight (actor), Anthony Newley (actor), John Laurie (actor), Laurence Olivier (actor), Gerald Case (actor), George Cole (actor), Leo Genn (actor), Felix Aylmer (actor), Niall MacGinnis (actor), Arthur Hambling (actor), Laurence Olivier (producer), Ralph Truman (actor),

Plot: In the inspired Olivier concept, Shakespeare's play begins as a performance in the Globe Theatre, shifting in broad cinematic terms to an epic narrative of Henry V, who had developed from a dissolute youth to a purposeful monarch. Proving his ability as a soldier and skillful leader, he unites the dissident factions in the English army and goes on to crush the French, against enormous odds, at Agincourt. Arranging a treaty with the French court, he woos Princess Katharine to whom he is formally betrothed as part of the peace agreement.

Keywords: 1400s, 15th-century, actor-director-writer, agincourt-france, agincourt-pas-de-calais, archbishop, based-on-play, battle, battle-of-agincourt, bishop
Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War,
Taglines: Laurence Olivier's Presentation in Technicolor of Henry V

Quotes:

[first lines]::Chorus: O! for a Muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention; a kingdom for a stage, princes to act and monarchs to behold the swelling scene. Then should the war-like Harry, like himself, assume the port of Mars; and at his heels, leashed in like hounds, would famine, word, and fire crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles all, the flat unraised spirits that hath dared on this unworthy scaffold to bring forth so great an object: can this cockpit hold the vasty fields of France? or may we cram within this wooden O [gesturing around at the stage] the very casques that did affright the air at Agincourt? On your imaginary forces work: Suppose within the girdle of these walls are now confined two mighty monarchies, whose high upreared and abutting fronts the perilous narrow ocean parts asunder: Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts: Think when we talk of horses that you see them printing their proud hoofs in the receiving earth; for 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings, carry them here and there, jumping o'er times, turning the accomplishment of many years into an hour-glass: for the which supply, admit me Chorus to this history; who, prologue-like, your humble patience pray gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play.

The Beloved Rogue (1927)

Actors: John Barrymore (actor), Henry Victor (actor), Lucy Beaumont (actress), Marceline Day (actress), Rose Dione (actress), Walter Anthony (writer), John Barrymore (writer), George Marion Jr. (writer), Alan Crosland (director), Bryan Foy (miscellaneous crew), Nigel De Brulier (actor), Bertram Grassby (actor), Dickie Moore (actor), Angelo Rossitto (actor), Slim Summerville (actor),

Plot: In 1432, while François Villon is still an infant, his father dies as a martyr to his devotion to France. François grows up to be a renowned poet, an ardent patriot, and a notorious carouser who is not above criminal acts. During the revels of All Fools Day, he insults Duke Charles of Burgundy, for which King Louis XI, who is afraid of Charles, banishes Villon from Paris. In exile outside the city walls, François looks for ways to protect France from Burgundy's plots. When Charles plans to have one of his associates marry the king's ward Charlotte, Villon successfully disrupts the engagement, but for so doing is sentenced to death. But Villon finds a way to exploit Louis's superstitious nature long enough to give him another chance to serve France, while at the same time seeking the hand of Charlotte.

Keywords: 1400s, adventurer, burgundy, catapult, food, forced-marriage, france, françois-villon, king, martyr
Genres: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance,

Quotes:

François Villon: Happy is Paris, where fools reign once a year - while everywhere else the fools reign all the time!

François Villon: Every man has two souls - one for the world, and one for the woman he loves.

Joan the Woman (1916)

Actors: Hobart Bosworth (actor), Walter Long (actor), William Conklin (actor), Horace B. Carpenter (actor), Charles Clary (actor), William Elmer (actor), Raymond Hatton (actor), Jack Holt (actor), Jack Hoxie (actor), Donald Crisp (actor), Ernest Joy (actor), Nigel De Brulier (actor), Fred Kohler (actor), Lucien Littlefield (actor), Tully Marshall (actor),

Plot: John Trent, a World War I British officer, finds an ancient sword in his trench bunker just prior to volunteering for what will amount to a suicide mission the next day. That night he is visited by the spirit of Joan of Arc and is transported back to the 15th Century. Joan's career begins when, as a peasant girl, she meets Trent's ancestor, also an English soldier, fighting for the Burgundians. After Trent is captured, Joan is brought to the attention of the beleaguered Dauphin, heir to the French throne, who cannot be crowned because the English hold the royal city of Orleans. The weak Dauphin is impressed by her vision and apparently heaven-sent powers which border on the supernatural and ultimately gives her command of the armies. She is victorious at Orleans and the new King is crowned. Joan resists Trent's entreaties of love and continues her struggle to free the rest of her country from English occupation. Sinister forces, both English and French, conspire against her and she is captured. Tortured and condemned, she dies at the stake but never loses her faith and vision.

Keywords: 1430s, 15th-century, accused-of-witchcraft, armor, bishop, bunker, burned-at-the-stake, character-name-in-title, christ-figure, clergy
Genres: Adventure, Drama, History, Mystery, War,
Taglines: Based on the life of the immortal Joan of Arc

Quotes:

Jeanne d'Arc: No sword once drawn for France - shall be thrown down!

Jeanne d'Arc: Englishman, there is room in each heart but for one love - mine is for France!

Eric Trent: God forgive us, we have burned a saint!