Tony Richardson
Country: UK
Total Credits at Criticker: 25 (Director), 6 (Writer)
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A juvenile offender at a tough reform school impresses its governor with his running ability and is encouraged to compete in an upcoming race, but faces ridicule from his peers.
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The film talks about a family that weathers all sorts of disasters and keeps going in spite of it all... (imdb)
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A chronicle of events that led to the British involvement in the Crimean War against Russia and which led to the siege of Sevastopol and the fierce Battle of Balaclava (imdb)
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Satire on the funeral business, in which a young British poet goes to work at a Hollywood cemetery. (imdb)
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Tom Jones, the adopted son of a British country squire, is a love-'em-and-leave-'em lady charmer who goes blithely from bed to bed, while managing to get into enough other mischief to come within moments of being hanged. (imdb)
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Serious problems occur in a small French village, and suspicion immediately falls on a masculine Italian woodcutter who lives in the area with his adolescent son and a friend. But a new schoolteacher has also recently arrived, and she is not quite what she seems.
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Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman.
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A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values. (imdb)
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A border agent involved in drug smuggling decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market. (imdb)
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The setting is the comfortable Connecticut home of a well-to-do family. Agnes is a determined, powerful woman who feels she must hold her husband together and present a brave face to the world. Her husband, Tobias, is both retired and retiring, a man who cannot quite face up to life. (imdb)
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Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990) - TV Movie
Three short stories come to the screen, each focused on a man and a woman. The first is set in the 1940s, the other two in the 1920s. In "The Man in a Brooks Brothers Suit," a businessman of about 40 plies a younger Leftist women with liquor aboard a train... (imdb)
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Black and white, gay and straight, mothers and daughters, class, and coming of age. Jo is working class, in her teens, living with her drunk and libidinous mother in northern England... (imdb)
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Archie Rice, a pathetic music hall comic, plagued by debts, manipulates those around him in a defiant and selfish attempt to survive against improbable odds. He drinks, makes crude philosophical jokes about sex and politics and humiliates his lamenting, gin-soaked wife. Archie lures his father, Billy Rice, out of retirement for a benefit performance which will ultimately bring financial aid to Archie and his impractical investments. (imdb)
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Hank Marshall is a tough, square-jawed, straitlaced Army engineer and nuclear science expert, assigned to help conduct weapons-testing in 1950's America. Hank has become a thorn in the side of the Army, though, for a couple of very different reasons. He is an outspoken opponent of atmospheric testing, though his superiors hold contrary views and want to squelch his concerns... and his reports... (imdb)
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Unable to support his family in the Australian outback, a man turns to stealing horses in order to make money. He gets more deeply drawn into the outlaw life, and eventually becomes involved in murders. Based on the life of famed 19th-century Australian outlaw Ned Kelly. (imdb)
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The first Hamlet filmed in color. The film, a departure from big-budget Hollywood renditions of classics, was made with a small budget and a very minimalist set, consisting of Renaissance fixtures and costumes in a dark, shadowed space. A brick tunnel is used for the scenes on the battlements. The Ghost of Hamlet's father is represented only by a light shining on the observers. (wikipedia)
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The Phantom of the Opera (1990) - TV Movie
A two-part miniseries based on Gaston Leroux's now-classic novel, "The Phantom of the Opera." A masked figure haunts the Paris Opera House and risks his life to win the heart of the only woman he ever loved. (TCM.com)
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Tracy, a young ghetto woman, puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her ambition leads her into the lives of people who are determined to get a piece of her long before she can realize her dream. (imdb)
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Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes to be intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who's searching a sailor known many years before. Alan and Anna begin the search on board a yacht bound for Greece, but they don't find the sailor, while Louis de Mozambique, after a stop in Africa, joins the party and suggests that the sailor may never have existed other than in Anna's mind. (imdb)
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William Faulkner's steamy tale set in the South in the 1920s. Governer's daughter is seduces and raped by a Cagin who returns after she's married to cause her further trouble. (imdb)
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As a surprise, two horse owners decide to ride their animals themselves in a steeplechase. But Bill Davidson's horse "Admiral" behaves weirdly... (imdb)
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Albinus (Williamson) leaves his wife and daughter to be with the beautiful, and much younger, usherette Margot (Anna Karina) of his local theatre. However, Margot is only interested in his money and soon deceives him with the talented, but not-to-be-trusted, artist Rex...
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Momma Don't Allow (1955) - Short Film
A night at the Wood Green Jazz Club - an example of 'Free Cinema' (imdb)
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A Death in Canaan (1978) - TV Movie
When a teenager is accused of his mother's murder, the community of Canaan rallies to his defense.
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Othello (1955) - TV Movie
The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
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