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Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Christopher Plummer, Michael Caine, Edward Fox
Directed By: Richard Attenborough, Guy Hamilton, John Sturges

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: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
Starring: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Frances O'Connor, Reese Witherspoon, Judi Dench
Directed By: Oliver Parker

After years of enduring Roger Moore in the role of James Bond, it was good to have Sean Connery back in 1983 for Never Say Never Again, a one-time-only trip down 007's memory lane. Connery's Bond, a bit of a dinosaur in the British secret service at (then) 52, is still in demand during times of crisis. Sadly, the film is not very good. In this rehash of Thunderball, Bond is pitted ...

Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Starring: Sean Connery, Kim Basinger, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Max von Sydow, Barbara Carrera
Directed By: Irvin Kershner

1977's A Bridge Too Far by director Richard Attenborough features an all-star cast in an epic rendering of a daring but ultimately disastrous raid behind enemy lines in Holland during the Second World War. A lengthy and exhaustive look at the mechanics of warfare and the price and futility of war, the film is almost too large for its aims but manages to be both picaresque and affecting, ...

Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Olivier, Ryan O'Neal, Maximilian Schell, Liv Ullmann
Directed By: Richard Attenborough, Sidney Hayers

Sir Richard Attenborough's 1982 multiple-Oscar winner (including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor for Ben Kingsley) is an engrossing, reverential look at the life of Mohandas K. Gandhi, who introduced the doctrine of nonviolent resistance to the colonized people of India and who ultimately gained the nation its independence. Kingsley is magnificent as Gandhi as he changes over the course ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Starring: Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Martin Sheen, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox
Directed By: Richard Attenborough

Manufacturer: Icon Home Entertainment
Starring: Julia Stiles, Luke Mably, Edward Fox, Miranda Richardson, Kam Heskin
Directed By: Martha Coolidge, Catherine Cyran

Another costume drama, another classic literary adaptation, and another stellar cast. You can't help thinking that it all becomes a matter of routine for commissioning editors at the BBC. But panic not: Oliver Twist is, yet again, a strong piece of work, and well worth adding to the corporation's impressive collection. Based, as you'd expect, on the Dickens text, and adapted with real ...

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: Timothy Spall, Rob Brydon, Gregor Fisher, Edward Fox, Tom Hardy

Writer Harold Pinter and director Joseph Losey always hoped to make an adaptation of Proust's A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. Their version of L.P. Hartley's novel The Go-Between offers tantalising hints as to how the Proust film might have turned out. An old man (Michael Redgrave) thinks back to a summer many years before when, as a young boy, he stayed with the aristocratic Maudsley ...

Manufacturer: Optimum Home Entertainment
Starring: Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave, Dominic Guard
Directed By: Joseph Losey

There's something about this film that's so irresistible, despite its grandiose manipulation. Maybe because it recounts the greatest air battle in history, achieving the greatest aerial battle in film history. Maybe because it has such a terrific cast (Harry Andrews, Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Curt Jurgens, Laurence Olivier, Nigel Patrick, Christopher Plummer, Michael Redgrave, Ralph ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Trevor Howard, Michael Caine, Edward Fox, Ralph Richardson
Directed By: Guy Hamilton