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Manufacturer: Squirrel Films Distribution Ltd
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Max Wall, Bill Fraser, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood

Manufacturer: Uca
Starring: Paul Scofield, Anne-Lise Gabold, Ian Hogg, Tom Fleming, Alan Webb
Directed By: Peter Brook

With its high-intensity plot about an attempt to assassinate French President Charles de Gaulle, the bestselling novel by Frederick Forsyth was a prime candidate for screen adaptation. Director Fred Zinnemann brought his veteran skills to bear on what has become a timeless classic of screen suspense. Not to be confused with the later remake The Jackal starring Bruce Willis (which ...

Manufacturer: Uca
Starring: Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair, Alan Badel, Tony Britton
Directed By: Fred Zinnemann

Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Starring: John Hurt, Richard Burton, Cyril Cusack, Roger Lloyd-Pack
Directed By: Michael Radford

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Robbie Coltrane, Samuel Irons, Cyril Cusack, Michael Hordern
Directed By: Gavin Millar

Filmed in the widescreen splendour of "Panavision Super 70" and blessed with the finest production values that Hollywood clout can buy, this tale of spunky Irish immigrants forgot one crucial ingredient: a decent screenplay. The film is entertaining enough, and director Ron Howard brings his technical proficiency to the simple plot, culminating in a dynamic, breathtaking depiction of the Oklahoma ...

Manufacturer: 4 Front Video
Starring: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Thomas Gibson, Robert Prosky, Barbara Babcock
Directed By: Ron Howard

The classic science fiction novel by Ray Bradbury was a curious choice for one of the leading directors of the French New Wave, François Truffaut. But from the opening credits onward (spoken, not written on screen), Truffaut takes Bradbury's fascinating premise and makes it his own. The futuristic society depicted in Fahrenheit 451 is a culture without books. Firemen still race around in ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Starring: Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring, Jeremy Spenser
Directed By: François Truffaut

The 1967 Franco Zeffirelli film of The Taming of the Shrew had all the ingredients to make it a high point in Shakespearian cinema. In Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor it starred the most bankable couple in Hollywood history as the sparring leads in the Bard's quick-firing comic battle of the sexes; and in Zeffirelli, it had a director with a Shakespearian pedigree second to none. But ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Cyril Cusack, Michael Hordern, Alfred Lynch
Directed By: Franco Zeffirelli

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment (UK)
Starring: Bud Cort, Ruth Gordon, Cyril Cusack, Vivian Pickles, Ellen Geer
Directed By: Hal Ashby

Black comedies don't come much blacker than cult favourite, Harold and Maude (1972), and they don't come much funnier either. It seems that director Hal Ashby was the perfect choice to mine a load of eccentricity from the original Colin Higgins script, about the unlikely romance between a death-obsessed 19-year-old named Harold (Bud Cort) and a life-loving 79-year-old widow named Maude ...

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Starring: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack, Charles Tyner
Directed By: Hal Ashby