The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle (2005)

Actors: Allan Corduner (actor), Emily Blunt (actress), Sinéad Cusack (actress), Brian Cox (actor), Tim McInnerny (actor), Douglas Henshall (actor), Saskia Reeves (actress), Colin Monie (editor), Brian Pettifer (actor), Anthony Calf (actor), Ralph Riach (actor), Stephen Burt (miscellaneous crew), John Bett (actor), Kate Carin (costume designer), Finlay Welsh (actor),

Plot: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Henshall) is the author of the famous Sherlock Holmes books. This movie shows us how Doyle came up with the idea of the 'super detective' and how he uses the techniques of his mentor Joseph Bell (Cox) in his books. After his father dies, Doyle has to take care of his wife Reeves, who is very ill. This becomes tricky when he falls in love.

Genres: Crime, Drama,

Finding Neverland (2004)

Actors: Kate Winslet (actress), Bob Weinstein (producer), Julie Christie (actress), Toby Jones (actor), Radha Mitchell (actress), Neal Israel (producer), Paul Whitehouse (actor), Ian Hart (actor), Dustin Hoffman (actor), Johnny Depp (actor), Ray Donn (actor), Mackenzie Crook (actor), Greg Bennett (actor), Jan A.P. Kaczmarek (composer), Harvey Weinstein (producer),

Plot: The movie details the experiences of "Peter Pan" author 'J.M. Barrie' (qv), which lead him to write the children's classic. He got to know four children who have no father. Drawing from his time with the kids, he writes a story about children who don't want to grow up.

Keywords: 1900s, 19th-century, actor, applause, author, based-on-play, based-on-true-story, bear, bow-tie, boy
Genres: Biography, Drama, Family,
Taglines: Unlock your imagination. How far can your imagination take you. Where will your imagination take you?

Quotes:

Charles Frohman: [talking about plans for Peter Pan]... And you have a pirate ship on stage, surrounded by tons and tons of water, James, that's a lot of water.::J.M. Barrie: It's a lot of water?::Charles Frohman: Yes, and that's a lot of money.

Peter Llewelyn Davies: That scepter's made of wood.::J.M. Barrie: Yes, well, we do dream on a budget here, don't we?

Mary Ansell Barrie: I'm tired of waiting, James. I'm tired of looking like a fool.::J.M. Barrie: Well I can't very well give up the play.::Mary Ansell Barrie: No. Just... come home to me at the end of the day. No more trips to the country, no more long evenings in the park. If you can't give us that much of a chance... Then we must end this... and I will.

Michael Llewelyn Davies: Excuse me, sir, you're standing on my sleeve.::J.M. Barrie: [moves his foot and looks down to face Michael] Am I? So sorry. I might point out you're lying under my bench.

Peter Llewelyn Davies: This is absurd. It's just a dog.::J.M. Barrie: Just a dog? *Just*? [to Porthos] Porthos, don't listen! [to Peter] Porthos dreams of being a bear, and you want to shatter those dreams by saying he's *just* a dog? What a horrible candle-snuffing word. That's like saying, "He can't climb that mountain, he's just a man", or "That's not a diamond, it's just a rock." Just.

George Llewelyn Davies: Excuse me, is he bothering you, sir? My brother can be an extremely irritating sort of person.::J.M. Barrie: Ah, Prince George, I take it. And what precisely is um... [to Michael] What did you say your name was?::Michael Llewelyn Davies: Michael.::J.M. Barrie: What precisely is Michael's crime?::George Llewelyn Davies: He's my younger brother.::J.M. Barrie: Ah, fair enough. Sorry lad, I cannot free you.::Michael Llewelyn Davies: That's all right.

J.M. Barrie: In punishment for lack of an interesting pirate name, Peter shall walk the plank.

J.M. Barrie: Young boys should never be sent to bed... they always wake up a day older.

Michael Llewelyn Davies: [Jack and George are sword fighting] Stab him, George. You can do it!

Jack Llewelyn Davies: My name be Nibs the Cutthroat, feared by man and greatly desired by the ladies.::Sylvia Llewelyn Davies: Jack!

Houdini (1998)

Actors: David Warner (actor), Pen Densham (producer), Ron Perlman (actor), Curt Lowens (actor), Rhea Perlman (actress), Grace Zabriskie (actress), George Segal (actor), Frank McRae (actor), Jack McGee (actor), Phil Hawn (actor), Mark Ruffalo (actor), Paul Sorvino (actor), Johnathon Schaech (actor), Pen Densham (writer), John Watson (producer),

Plot: This biographical film tells the story of Harry Houdini, from his birth and immigration to the U.S., through his career in show business as first an escape artist and then a seance debunker, and finally his tragic death. We also see his relationship with wife Bess.

Keywords: 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, escape-artist, illusion, magic, medium, seance
Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: He made a life out of cheating death

Photographing Fairies (1997)

Actors: Simon Boswell (composer), Mike Newell (producer), David Sterne (actor), Edward Hardwicke (actor), Neville Phillips (actor), Philip Davis (actor), Frances Barber (actress), Ben Kingsley (actor), Michael Culkin (actor), Sean Barton (editor), Catherine Charlton (miscellaneous crew), Clive Merrison (actor), James Greene (actor), Alex Heffes (miscellaneous crew), Jon Duncan (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photographer. Following the war and still in grief Charles is given some photographs purporting to be of fairies. His search for the truth leads him to Burkinwell, a seemingly peaceful village seething with secrets where he becomes drawn into a web of passion, romance and violence..

Keywords: 1910s, accident, accidental-death, adultery, afterlife, alps, angel, animated-nudity, animated-sequence, anniversary
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery,

FairyTale: A True Story (1997)

Actors: Peter O'Toole (actor), Peter Wight (actor), Harvey Keitel (actor), Tim McInnerny (actor), Bill Nighy (actor), Anna Chancellor (actress), Paul McGann (actor), Anton Lesser (actor), David Calder (actor), Mel Gibson (actor), Peter Mullan (actor), Harry Fielder (actor), Don Henderson (actor), Tom McLoughlin (producer), Bruce Davey (producer),

Plot: Based on factual accounts, this is the story of two young girls that, somehow, have the ability to take pictures of winged beings... which certainly causes quite a stir throughout England during the time of the first World War. Everyone, except the girls who think it's quite normal, are excited about this "photographic proof" that fairies exist... even the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini pay the girls a visit.

Keywords: 1910s, africa, angel, backstage, based-on-true-story, bath, betting, billiards, bluebells, boy
Genres: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery,
Taglines: Believe.

Quotes:

Harry Houdini: Anything can be faked by anyone.

Harry Houdini: Never try to fool children. They expect nothing and therefore see everything.

Harry Houdini: Cover your ass!::Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Cover my what?

Polly Wright: I don't know which frightens me more, that the children are lying or that they are telling the truth.

Polly Wright: Frances, I've been down the beck a hundred times. Why haven't I ever seen any of them?::Frances Griffiths: Grownups don't know how to believe.

Edward Gardner: The photographs... they're genuine, then?::Harold Snelling: As the King's beard.

Edward Gardner: The girls will be herding the fairies back this way. I'm certain both girls are clairvoyant, and perhaps mediums as well. Together, they create an etheric field which allows the fairies to metabolize subtle amounts of ectoplasm into their bodies. That's how they're able to capture them on film. Do you see? No. Well, uhm... Well I don't expect you to understand.

Polly Wright: Thank you.::Elsie Wright: For what?::Polly Wright: For the photographs.

Judith: Is it true all Africans are cannibals?::Frances Griffiths: I've never met one. Do you have anymore stupid questions?

Frances Griffiths: I think I know what it means when they say that my Daddy's missing.::Elsie Wright: It means they don't know where he is.

The Other Side (1992)

Actors: Frank Finlay (actor), Richard E. Grant (actor), Cathryn Harrison (actress), Gareth Davies (director), Paddy Higson (producer), David Ashton (writer),

Genres: Drama,

The Stamp of Greatness (1985)

Actors: Iain Cuthbertson (actor), Jack McKenzie (actor), Robin Crichton (producer), Robin Crichton (director),

Genres: Drama,

The Great Houdini (1976)

Actors: Bill Bixby (actor), Jack Carter (actor), Peter Cushing (actor), Paul Michael Glaser (actor), Wilfrid Hyde-White (actor), Geoffrey Lewis (actor), Clive Revill (actor), Adrienne Barbeau (actress), Nina Foch (actress), Ruth Gordon (actress), Maureen O'Sullivan (actress), Sally Struthers (actress), Melville Shavelson (writer), Peter Matz (composer), Melville Shavelson (director),

Genres: Biography, Drama,

Touha Sherlocka Holmese (1971)

Actors: Jirí Sebor (miscellaneous crew), Juraj Herz (actor), Josef Hlinomaz (actor), Josef Kemr (actor), Eduard Kohout (actor), Pavel Landovský (actor), Václav Lohniský (actor), Radovan Lukavský (actor), Miroslav Machácek (actor), Vladimír Mensík (actor), Otto Simánek (actor), Josef Somr (actor), Václav Trégl (actor), Václav Voska (actor), Bohus Záhorský (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Crime,

Conan Doyle und der Fall Edalji (1966)

Actors: Hans Zesch-Ballot (actor), Hans Elwenspoek (actor), Alexander Golling (actor), Paul Klinger (actor), Richard Lauffen (actor), Friedrich Maurer (actor), Hartmut Reck (actor), Ellen Frank (actress), Karl-Heinz Bieber (director), Alfons Höckmann (actor), Harry Hertzsch (actor), Rolf Unkel (composer), Harry Engel (actor), Karl Striebeck (actor), Rolf Becker (writer),

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