The King's Speech (2010)

Actors: Claire Bloom (actress), Bob Weinstein (producer), Helena Bonham Carter (actress), Timothy Spall (actor), Geoffrey Rush (actor), Geoffrey Rush (producer), Guy Pearce (actor), Roger Hammond (actor), Adolf Hitler (actor), Colin Firth (actor), Anthony Andrews (actor), Michael Gambon (actor), Derek Jacobi (actor), Alexandre Desplat (composer), Harvey Weinstein (producer),

Plot: Tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stammer and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country through war.

Keywords: 1930s, abdication, apostrophe-in-title, archbishop-of-canterbury, australian, biplane, britain, british-royal-family, bromance, brother-brother-relationship
Genres: Biography, Drama, History,
Taglines: It takes leadership to confront a nation's fear. It takes friendship to conquer your own. When God couldn't save The King, The Queen turned to someone who could. When his nation needed a leader, when the people needed a voice, an ordinary man would help him find the courage. Find Your Voice. The Nation Awaits...

Quotes:

Lionel Logue: What was your earliest memory?::King George VI: I'm not... -here to discuss... -personal matters.::Lionel Logue: Why are you here then?::King George VI: Because I bloody well stammer!

Lionel Logue: Do you know any jokes?::King George VI: ...Timing isn't my strong suit.

King George VI: [Sees Logue is sitting on the coronation throne] What are you doing? Get up! You can't sit there! GET UP!::Lionel Logue: Why not? It's a chair.::King George VI: No, that. It is not a chair. T-that... that is Saint Edward's chair.::Lionel Logue: People have carved their names on it.::King George VI: [Simultaneously] That... chair... is the seat on which every king and queen has... That is the Stone of Scone you ah-are trivializing everything. You trivialize...::Lionel Logue: [Simultaneously] It's held in place by a large rock. I don't care about how many royal arseholes have sat in this chair.::King George VI: Listen to me. *Listen to me!*::Lionel Logue: Listen to you? By what right?::King George VI: By divine right if you must, I am your king.::Lionel Logue: No you're not, you told me so yourself. You didn't want it. Why should I waste my time listening?::King George VI: Because I have a right to be heard. I have a voice!::Lionel Logue: [pauses] Yes, you do.::[Longer pause]::Lionel Logue: You have such perseverance Bertie, you're the bravest man I know.

[watching a clip of Hitler speaking]::Lilibet: What's he saying?::King George VI: I don't know but... he seems to be saying it rather well.

King George VI: Every monarch in history has succeeded someone who is dead. Or just about to be. My predecessor's not only alive, but very much so. Bloody mess. Can't even give them a Christmas speech.::Lionel Logue: Like your dad used to do.::King George VI: Precisely.::Lionel Logue: He's not here anymore.::King George VI: Yes he is: he's on that shilling I gave you.::Lionel Logue: Easy enough to give away. You don't have to carry him around in your pocket. Or your brother. You don't need to be afraid of the things you were afraid of when you were five.

King George VI: ...a sieve of thisted siffles!

Stanley Baldwin: Sir, I have asked to see you today in order to tender my resignation as Prime Minister.::King George VI: I'm so sorry to hear that... Mr Baldwin.::Stanley Baldwin: Neville Chamberlain will take my place as Prime Minister. It's a matter of principle. I was mistaken. I have found it impossible to believe that there is any man in the world so lacking in moral feeling as Hitler. And that the world may be hurled for a second time into the abyss of destructive war. Churchill was right all along. This was always Hitler's intention. I'm only very sorry to leave you at this great time of crisis.::Stanley Baldwin: [pauses]::Stanley Baldwin: I'm very much afraid, sir, that your greatest test is yet to come.

Queen Elizabeth: [Using the name "Mrs. Johnson"] My husband's work involves a great deal of public speaking.::Lionel Logue: Then he should change jobs.::Queen Elizabeth: He can't.::Lionel Logue: What is he, an indentured servant?::Queen Elizabeth: Something like that.

Myrtle Logue: Will their Majesties be staying for dinner? [Logue and Bertie look panic-stricken. Elizabeth comes to the rescue]::Queen Elizabeth: We would love to, such a treat, but alas... a previous engagement. What a pity.

Lionel Logue: [as George "Berty" is lighting up a cigarette] Please don't do that.::King George VI: I'm sorry?::Lionel Logue: Please don't smoke. I believe sucking cigarette smoke into your lungs will kill you.::King George VI: I need to relax. My physicians say it relaxes the throat.::Lionel Logue: They're idiots.::King George VI: They've all been knighted.::Lionel Logue: [sarcastic] Makes it official then.

Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun (1988)

Actors: Rosalie Crutchley (actress), Stefanie Powers (actress), Jack Thompson (actor), Timothy West (actor), Claire Bloom (actress), Peter Bowles (actor), John Rubinstein (actor), Geoffrey Beevers (actor), Billy Kearns (actor), Brian Cox (actor), James Fox (actor), Sverre Anker Ousdal (actor), Frederic Forrest (actor), John Addison (composer), Stefanie Powers (producer),

Plot: The singular life of Beryl Markham - renowned aviatrix, author and adventurer - is depicted. Raised by her father in colonial East Africa, Beryl hunted with the Maasai, bred thoroughbred horses, romanced Denys Finch-Hatton and defied constraining social rules. Based upon her own memoir 'West With the Night'.

Keywords: based-on-article, character-name-in-title, two-part-tv-movie
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 Second Part of Henry the Sixth (1983)

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

Genres: ,

Quotes:

Dick the Butcher: The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

The Black Arrow (1948)

Actors: Walter Kingsford (actor), Nelson Leigh (actor), Billy Bevan (actor), Leyland Hodgson (actor), Edgar Buchanan (actor), Leslie Denison (actor), Tom Dillon (actor), Paul Cavanagh (actor), Harry Cording (actor), Chuck Hamilton (actor), Roy Darmour (actor), Louis Hayward (actor), Russell Hicks (actor), Halliwell Hobbes (actor), George Macready (actor),

Plot: Sir Richard Shelton, a young British nobleman, returns from the War of the Roses to find his father dead and his accused murderer, Sir John Sedley, living in the forest with a fugitive band of die-hard rebels like Robin Hood. Shelton's uncle, his father's sinister and cruel half-brother, Sir Daniel Brackley, is living on his father's estates and has reinstated cruel corporal punishment among the peasants, something his father had abolished. Shelton's suspicions are aroused when a yeoman loyal to Brackley is murdered using a black arrow. Other Brackley henchman, including Shelton's former mentor and Master-at-Arms, who had access to the supposed murder of his father by Sedley are also on the Black Arrow's death list. Shelton's growing antipathy toward Brackley is complicated by his uncle's desire to marry Sedley's beautiful daughter, an ambition shared by Shelton.

Keywords: 15th-century, arrow-in-chest, bare-chested-male, bare-chested-male-bondage, based-on-novel, betrayal, bible, bribery, broken-neck, chivalry
Genres: Action, Adventure, History, Romance,

Quotes:

Duke of Gloucester: I don't enjoy indoor archery especially with myself as a possible target.

Bennet Hatch: [Disarmed by Shelton and at his mercy] Have it done,lad! There'a one thing I can still teach yuh, and that's how to die.

Joanna Sedley: Well, it's about time that someone appreciated a woman. England will never be great until she's had a queen or two.

Lawless: [after throwing an arrow into a list of four names] Three to go! Three black arrows for three black hearts!

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.

Jane Shore (1915)

Actors: Tom Coventry (actor), Roy Travers (actor), Rowland Talbot (writer), Bert Haldane (director), F. Martin Thornton (director), Rolf Leslie (actor), Blanche Forsythe (actress), William Barker (producer), Rachel de Solla (actress), Thomas H. MacDonald (actor), Maud Yates (actress), Dora De Winton (actress), Robert Purdie (actor), Nicholas Rowe (writer), Nelson Phillips (actor),

Genres: Biography, Drama, History,

The Black Arrow (1911)

Actors: Oscar Apfel (director), Harold M. Shaw (actor), Charles M. Seay (writer), Robert Louis Stevenson (writer), Charles Ogle (actor), Richard Ridgely (actor), Charles M. Seay (actor), Edgar L. Davenport (actor), Jack Chagnon (actor), Nathalie Jerome (actress),

Genres: Drama, Short,