Herbert Lom
Series
Publisher
MGM (Video & DVD)
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Peter Sellers is "in top form" (Cue) in this zany adventure that finds the accident-prone InspectorClouseau using some of his most outlandish disguises ever. With "ferociously funny karate encounters" (Time) with the enigmatic Cato (Burt Kwouk) and dangerous intrigue with a sexy Russian spy (Lesley-Anne Down), this hysterical comedy will strike your funny bone! Driven over the edge by the maddeningly incompetent Clouseau, former Chief Inspector Dreyfus...
3) El Cid
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
2008, c1961
Language
English
Description
The adventures of Rodrigo Diaz, who was given the name of El Cid and became one of Spain's national heroes in the eleventh century.
Author
Language
English
Description
Set on the North West Frontier of colonial India in 1905. A British Army Officer, Captain Scott (Kenneth More) is sent to rescue a five year old Indian Prince (Govind Raja Ross) and his American governess, Catherine Wyatt (Lauren Bacall) certain death at the hands of rebel tribesman.
Author
Language
English
Description
A major figure of Spanish cinema, Pere Portabella's contributions have included a variety of roles (such as co-producing Buñuel's Viridiana), but most importantly as the director of a number of groundbreaking films from the 1960s and 1970s. Filmed on the set of Franco's cult film Count Dracula starring Christopher Lee, Vampir-Cuadecuc mixes making-of footage with an investigation into the figure of the vampire. Both playful and deadly serious, with...
8) Mr. Topaze
Author
Language
English
Description
Honest French teacher Albert Topaze (Peter Sellers) is fired after refusing to alter the bad grades of a baroness' grandson. Sensing an opportunity, actress Suzy (Nadia Gray) convinces her lover, corrupt city council member Castel Benac (Herbert Lom), to hire Topaze as a managing director for one of his businesses to mitigate any suspicion. When Topaze learns he is being used, he decides to swindle his manipulators. Based on a Marcel Pagnol play,...
Author
Language
English
Description
War and Peace is a commendable attempt to boil down Tolstoy's long, difficult novel into 208 minutes' screen time. In recreating the the social and personal upheavals attending Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia, $6 million was shelled out by coproducers Carlo Ponti, Dino de Laurentiis and Paramount Pictures. Some of the panoramic battle sequences are so expertly handled by second-unit director Mario Soldati that they appear to be Technicolor-and-Vistavision...