Richard Lester

Richard Lester

Total Credits at Criticker: 7 (Actor), 23 (Director), 1 (Writer)

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    A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
    A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom. (imdb)
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    A Hard Day\
    A 'typical' day in the life of the Beatles, including many of their famous songs. (imdb)
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    Superman II
    Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to marry Lois, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth. (imdb)
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    Superman III
    Synthetic kryptonite laced with tobacco tar splits Superman in two: good Clark Kent and bad Man of Steel. (imdb)
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    Help!
    Ringo finds himself the human sacrifice target of a cult and the band must try to protect him from it. (imdb)
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    Petulia
    San Francisco physician, Archie Bollen, is divorcing, sorting out new relationships with his ex, her new man... (imdb)
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    The Knack ...and How to Get It
    In England, the times are a changing: it's mods and rockers. On the day Nancy gets off the London train, cases in hand, looking for the YWCA, Colin has had enough of missing out on the sexual revolution. He begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal Tolen to teach him 'the knack' - how to score with women. (imdb)
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    The Three Musketeers
    The young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a king's musketeer.He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, each of whom challenges him to a duel. D'Artagnan finds out they are musketeers and is invited to join them in their efforts to oppose Cardinal Richelieu, who wishes to increase his already considerable power over the king. (imdb)
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    The Four Musketeers
    The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter. (imdb)
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    Finders Keepers
    On the run from the police and a female roller derby team, scam artist Michael Rangeloff steals a coffin and boards a train... (imdb)
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    Juggernaut
    Some unknown maniac is threatening a navigation company to blow up one of its luxury transatlantics, the "Britannic", now in high sea with 1200 passengers. He is asking for a £500,000 ransom, otherwise the 7 bombs aboard will explode. An experienced anti-bomb squad is sent to the "Britannic", but although all the bombs are located, a very high skill level will be necessary to dismantle them. Perhaps that task is impossible... (imdb)
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    Royal Flash
    Ne'er-do-well Harry Flashman is coerced by Otto von Bismark into impersonating a prince. (imdb)
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    The Mouse on the Moon
    Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new set of plumbing, they request foreign aid from the U.S. for Space Research... (imdb)
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    Robin and Marian
    A sort of tragicomedy/adventure film, "Robin and Marian" picks up the Robin Hood legend some twenty years after most versions of the story, with Robin and his sidekick Little John returning to their old Sherwood haunts world-weary from the Crusades and their sickening brutality... (imdb)
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    How I Won the War
    This film features former Beatle John Lennon and Roy Kinnear as ill-fated enlisted men in under the inept command of Lieutenant Earnest Goodbody. The story unwinds mostly in flashbacks of Lieutenant Goodbody who has lower-class beginnings and education which make him a poor officer who commands one of the worst units of the army. (imdb)
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    The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
    There is no plot as such. This is a slapstick comedy. It shows a lots of gags. (imdb)
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    The Bed Sitting Room
    Set in post-nuclear-holocaust England, where a handful of bizarre characters struggle on with their lives in the ruins, amongst endless heaps of ash, piles of broken crockery and brick, muddy plains, and heaps of dentures and old boots... (imdb)
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    The Return of the Musketeers
    The reunion of the four Musketeers twenty years later. (TCM.com)
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    It\
    The hero and heroine want to popularize a trad jazz in their town. Some older people feel displeased about a trad jazz, and prevent their trying. The hero and heroine go to London television studio to ask trad jazz musician to support their trial. (imdb)
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    Cuba
    A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner. (imdb)
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    Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
    A "prequel" of sorts to "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," chronicling the two outlaws' lives in the years before the events portrayed in the Newman/Redford movie.
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    The Ritz
    On his deathbed Carmine Vespucci's father tells him to "get Proclo". With "the hit" on, Gaetano tells a cab driver to take him where Carmine can't find him. He arrives at the Ritz, a gay bathhouse where he is pursued amorously by "chubby chaser" Paul B. Price and by entertainer Googie Gomez who believes him to be a broadway producer. His guides through the Ritz are gatekeeper Abe, habitue Chris, and bellhop/go-go-boys Tiger and Duff.
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    Get Back
    As part of Paul McCartney's World Tour, this video provides examples of the band on stage, and the antics associated with just such a major undertaking. (imdb)
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