King Lear (2015)

Actors: Jamie Fowler (actor), Tommie Grabiec (actor), Richard Holborn (actor), Ross McNamara (actor), Umar Mushtaq (actor), André Raposo (actor), Tommie Grabiec (producer), Tommie Grabiec (writer), Chris Grabiec (composer), Sarah Grabiec (composer), Simon Cathcart (director),

Plot: The decadent Cornwall and sultry Regan are informed by Edmund that Gloucester (Edmund's father) has betrayed them to the powers of France. The vicious henchmen Gold and Silver, on Cornwall's orders have Gloucester captured, beaten and questioned. During this bloody and gruesome interrogation Cornwall removes Gloucester's eyes as the loyal servant Tamarys watches with wicked glee. Scillius stands up for Gloucester and attacks Cornwall, which prompts Regan to prove her loyalty and butcher Scillius. Gloucester is thrown out, eyeless, to make his sorry way to Dover!

Genres: Short,

King Lear (2015)

Actors: Alexander Barnett (actor), Daniel Clark (actor), Sean Coe (actor), Cezar Constantine (actor), Michael Crowley (actor), Michael Crowley (actor), Jared Doreck (actor), Vince Eisenson (actor), Philip Fletcher (actor), Peter Holdway (actor), Reed Imhoff (actor), Reed Imhoff (actor), Warren Jackson (actor), Josh Katz (actor), Craig Allen (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Lear: 1. Nothing can come of nothing: speak again.

Cordelia: 1. Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty According to my bond; no more nor less.

Lear: 1. Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes.

Lear: So young, and so untender? Lear:::Cordelia: So young, my lord, and true.::Lear: Let it be so; - thy truth, then, be thy dower.

Lear: Come not between the dragon and his wrath.

Kent: 1. Kill thy physician, and the fee bestow Upon the foul disease.

Cordelia: Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides

Regan: 1. Tis the infirmity of his age: yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself.

Edmund: 1. Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take More composition and fierce quality Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed, Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops Got 'tween asleep and wake?

Edmund: 1. Now, gods, stand up for bastards!

Merlin (1998)

Actors: John Addison (actor), Roger Ashton-Griffiths (actor), Timothy Bateson (actor), Keith Baxter (actor), Peter Bayliss (actor), Peter Benson (actor), Daniel Brocklebank (actor), Darragh Byrne (actor), Rory Byrne (actor), Nicholas Clay (actor), Paul Curran (actor), Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Jason Done (actor), Peter Eyre (actor), Robert Addie (actor),

Plot: The legend of King Arthur, this time, from the perspective of the King's Wizard, Merlin. Merlin is a creature born of pagan magic, living in a world converting to Christianity. Merlin is beside Arthur as he gains Excalibur, builds Camelot and is betrayed by his wife, Guinevere. Merlin and Arthur are both menaced by the plots of Morgan Le Fey, her son by Arthur, Mordred, and their cohorts. Through it all, Merlin tries to keep Arthur from the destructive path set by fate.

Keywords: 5th-century, 6th-century, adventure-hero, arthurian-legend, barbarian, battle, battlefield, betrayal, black-magic, blood-on-snow
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance,
Taglines: The most magical adventure of all time. Imagine a world where dreams come true...and magic is real.

Quotes:

King Uther Pendragon: You've tricked me, Merlin.::Merlin: Come, come Uther. I am a wizard, that's my business.

Mordred: Why didn't you kill him, Auntie Mab?::Queen Mab: Because that's what he wanted me to do.

Merlin: You killed her.::Queen Mab: No, I didn't. I only let her die.

Ambrosia: And you can tell Her Royal High and Mighty Queen Mab that magic or no magic, if she harms you in any way, I'll have her guts for my boot laces.

Mordred: Die, dear Auntie Mab? That's the last thing I shall do.

Queen Mab: Don't die!::Mordred: Die? That is the last thing I shall do.::[dies]::Queen Mab: No... [roars]

Lady of the Lake: It's human to make mistakes Merlin, and part of you is human, the best part.

Morgan: I like the old ways. The old ways gave me Mordred. And they made me beautiful.::Merlin: But beauty is only an illusion.::Morgan: Beauty is always only an illusion.

Vortigern: It's easy to die knowing you'll die for your country.

Lady of the Lake: Good king. Bad king. You judge too easily Merlin. You will learn.

King Lear: A Critical Guide (1997)

Actors: Peter Balderstone (actor), Brian Blessed (actor), Mark Burgess (actor), Mark Denny (actor), Keith Frederick (actor), Graham McTavish (actor), Jason Riddington (actor), Iain Stuart Robertson (actor), Robert Smallwood (actor), Stanley Wells (actor), Robert Whelan (actor), Claire Laurie (actress), Caroline Lennon (actress), Hildegard Neil (actress), Phillipa Peak (actress),

Genres: Documentary, Short,

Kung Lear (1997)

Actors: Anders Andersson (actor), Keve Hjelm (actor), Gudmar Klöving (actor), Michael Meschke (actor), Pär Milstam (actor), Thomas Roos (actor), Carlo Schmidt (actor), Kjell Tovle (actor), Tilde Björfors (actress), Annika Brunsten (actress), Maria Eggers (actress), Anna Eklund (actress), Josephine Selander (actress), William Shakespeare (writer), Peter Oskarson (director),

Genres: ,

King Lear (1983)

Actors: Colin Blakely (actor), John Cording (actor), Brian Cox (actor), Paul Curran (actor), Harry Fielder (actor), Ronald Forfar (actor), John Hurt (actor), Jeremy Kemp (actor), Esmond Knight (actor), Robert Lang (actor), Robert Lindsay (actor), Leo McKern (actor), Laurence Olivier (actor), Edward Petherbridge (actor), Geoffrey Bateman (actor),

Plot: Lear is an aging King who wants to retire by abdicating to his three daughters. However, in an act of petty ego stroking, he asks them who among them loves him most. While two daughters eagerly toady to him, his one loving daughter, Cordelia, refuses play along with this foolish charade. In a rage, Lear exiles her along with his one loyal aide who dares to stick up for her. This foolish move works to Lear's sorrow as his two remaining daughters cruelly and gradually strip him of his status and possessions until he is rendered an insane hermit attended only by his fool. All the while, the illegitimate son of another lord is plotting his own ambitions while contributing to this tragic tale of ego and familial cruelty.

Keywords: abandonment, ambition, banishment, based-on-play, betrayal, blindness, brother-murders-brother, character-name-in-title, craziness, cruelty
Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

King Lear: You do me wrong to take me out of the grave. Thou art a soul in bliss.

Gloucester: As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport.

King Lear: Ay, every inch a king.

King Lear: How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

Kent: Fellow, I know thee.::Oswald: What dost thou know me for?::Kent: A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking, whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deny'st the least syllable of thy addition.

King Lear: I know you do not love me, For your sisters have, as I remember, done me wrong. You have some cause; they have not.::Cordelia: No cause, no cause.

Edmund: Now gods, stand up for bastards.

Excalibur (1981)

Actors: Emmet Bergin (actor), Charley Boorman (actor), Keith Buckley (actor), Gabriel Byrne (actor), Nicholas Clay (actor), Gerard Mannix Flynn (actor), Paul Geoffrey (actor), Ciarán Hinds (actor), Eamon A. Kelly (actor), Garrett Keogh (actor), Michael Muldoon (actor), Liam Neeson (actor), Niall O'Brien (actor), Liam O'Callaghan (actor), Robert Addie (actor),

Plot: The myth of King Arthur brought once again to the screen. Uthur Pendragon is given the mystical sword Excalibur by the wizard Merlin. At his death Uthur buries the sword into a stone, and the next man that can pull it out will be King of England. Years later Arthur, Uthur's bastard son draws Excalibur and becomes king. Guided by Merlin, Arthur marries Guenivere and gathers the Knights of the Round Table. Arthur's evil half-sister Morgana sires a son with him, who may prove his downfall.

Keywords: 5th-century, 6th-century, adultery, affection, anger, armor, arthurian-legend, assumed-identity, attraction, axe
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy,
Taglines: No mortal could possess it! No kingdom could command it! Forged by a god. Foretold by a wizard. Found by a king.

Quotes:

Arthur: Now, once more, I must ride with my knights to defend what was, and the dream of what could be.

Merlin: STAND BACK! Be silent! Be still!... That's it... and look upon this moment. Savor it! Rejoice with great gladness! Great gladness! Remember it always, for you are joined by it. You are One, under the stars. Remember it well, then... this night, this great victory. So that in the years ahead, you can say, 'I was there that night, with Arthur, the King!' For it is the doom of men that they forget.

Arthur: Move aside! This is the king's road - and the knights you joined arms against were his very own.::Lancelot: I await the king himself. His knights are in need of training.::Arthur: I am King. And this::[draws the sword]::Arthur: , is Excalibur, sword of kings from the dawn of time. Who are you? What do you seek?::Lancelot: I am Lancelot of the Lake, from across the sea. And I have yet to find a king worthy of my sword.::Arthur: That is a wild boast. You lack a knight's humility!::Lancelot: Not a boast, sir. But a curse. For I have never met my match in joust or duel.::Arthur: Move aside!::Lancelot: I will not. You must retreat, or prove your worth in the test of arms under the eyes of God.::Arthur: Then may He give me the strength to unhorse you. And send you with one blow, back across the sea.::Lancelot: Then come across, sir.

Uther: The sword. You promised me the sword.::Merlin: And you shall have it; but to heal, not to hack. Tomorrow, a truce; we meet at the river.::Uther: Talk. Talk is for lovers, Merlin. I need the sword to be king.

Merlin: Now look, I once stood exposed to the Dragon's Breath so that a man could lie one night with a woman. It took me nine moons to recover. And all for this lunacy called, "love", this mad distemper that strikes down both beggar and king. Never again. Never.

[Arthur has broken Excalibur on Lancelot's chest]::Arthur: Merlin! What have I done?::Merlin: You have broken what could not be broken! Now, hope is broken.::Arthur: My pride broke it. My rage broke it! This excellent knight, who fought with fairness and grace, was meant to win. I used Excalibur to change that verdict. I've lost, for all time, the ancient sword of my fathers, whose power was meant to unite all men... not to serve the vanity of a single man. I am... nothing.

Arthur: Merlin, where are you going?::Merlin: Where do you think? You have a kingdom to rule.::Arthur: But how? I don't know how.::Merlin: You knew how to draw the sword from the stone.::Arthur: That was easy.::Merlin: Was it? I couldn't have done it.

Merlin: It is a lonely life, the way of the necromancer... oh, yes. Lacrimae Mundi - the tears of the world.

Merlin: Remember, there's always something cleverer than yourself.

Merlin: You're not listening... well, your heart is not. Love is deaf as well as blind. That's it.

The Sky's the Limit (1975)

Actors: Richard Arlen (actor), Norman Bartold (actor), Ben Blue (actor), Ben Cooper (actor), Ike Eisenmann (actor), Alan Hale Jr. (actor), Huntz Hall (actor), Lloyd Nolan (actor), Pat O'Brien (actor), Robert Sampson (actor), Bill Zuckert (actor), Jeanette Nolan (actress), Ron Miller (producer), Harry Spalding (writer), Chuck Keehne (costume designer),

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Family,

King Lear (1971)

Actors: Cyril Cusack (actor), Tom Fleming (actor), Ian Hogg (actor), Søren Elung Jensen (actor), Robert Langdon Lloyd (actor), Jack MacGowran (actor), Patrick Magee (actor), Paul Scofield (actor), Barry Stanton (actor), Alan Webb (actor), Susan Engel (actress), Anne-Lise Gabold (actress), Irene Worth (actress), Michael Birkett (producer), Sam Lomberg (producer),

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,

Man of Conflict (1953)

Actors: John Agar (actor), Edward Arnold (actor), Benjie Bancroft (actor), Jerry Burns (actor), Robert Carson (actor), John Hamilton (actor), Herbert Heyes (actor), Russell Hicks (actor), John Holland (actor), Frank O'Connor (actor), Leslie K. O'Pace (actor), John Pettit (actor), Lee Phelps (actor), Richard Reeves (actor), Fay Roope (actor),

Plot: Young man comes home to get ready to take over the family company, only to find that his father has been corrupted by power. In addition, he falls for the daughter of one of his father's poverty-stricken workers.

Keywords: family-company
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: A DARING STORY OF LOVE AND INTRIGUE! (original print ad - all caps)