Dragonslayer (1981)

THE HEIRESS (1949) dir. William Wyler

for @cinemaocd on the occasion of her birthday, some favourite swoonsters in jammies or robes or other glorious nightwear <3

Director King Vidor, Robert Donat, and Ralph Richardson during the filming of THE CITADEL (1938).

Tales From the Crypt (1972) - Belgian poster

Psst, wanna read the book this flap copy is about (and another one that adds some context)?

In the cast of the 1964 Sir John Gielgud-Richard Burton Hamlet was William Redfield, playing Guildenstern. During the three months of the play’s preparation, from the rehearsals through the out-of-town tryouts to the gala opening night on Broadway, William Redfield wrote a series of letters describing the daily happenings and his impressions of them. Here, ‘beaten with a stick, and told to behave’, as Mr. Redfield claims, they have been made into Letters from an Actor, a brilliantly unusual book and surely one of the most stimulating and delightful ever to come from the theatre. It is itself a series of plays within a play. Certainly here is an account of Gielgud’s production—inspired and erratic, flamboyant and puzzling—and of Burton’s determined approach to this most challenging of roles; certainly it tells of the processes by which a cast that included Eileen Herlie and Alfred Drake forged one of the most talked-of performances of Hamlet. But in the wings are a hundred and one other figures who throng this stage as surely as the players. Elizabeth Taylor is there in person, a lovely and admired bystander. Olivier is there, unseen but ever-present in argument and anecdote, a magician commanding the Shakespearian stage. So also are Ralph Richardson, Guthrie, Edith Evans, O’Toole and Brando; the Lunts, Guinness, Scofield, Barrymore, Diana Wynyard, even Burbage and Garrick; and above all the towering presence of Shakespeare himself. Our guide throughout is William Redfield: perceptive, acerbic, witty, a teller of tales cautionary and hilarious—an actor. When Paul Scofield read these Letters he wrote to him: ‘I’ve always admired the way you can turn the confusion of an acting “problem” into a lucid and witty conversation piece .... Your book is so full of affection for your subjects, and it’s very moving to rediscover one’s love for such as Burton and Gielgud through the medium of your marvellously vivid letters. I’ve never seen the tortuous and elusive process of the production of a play from first to last so truthfully realized .... The book is endlessly fascinating. Your observation has a spot-on accuracy. I feel I was there .... You can write! Actors rarely can, but you can.’ To which we can only add that it is also great good fun.

Then sign up for Emails from an Actor! More information here. :D

Ralph Richardson, December 19, 1902 – October 10, 1983.

On the set of Lindsay Anderson’s O Lucky Man! (1973). Photo by Eva Sereny.

The Heiress (William Wyler, 1949).

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland (1972)

(it's on YouTube so you can watch it for nothing!)

Directed by William Sterling

Starring Fiona Fullerton as Alice

with Spike Milligan as the Gryphon

Michael Hordern as the Mock Turtle

Roy Kinnear as the Cheshire Cat

Peter Bull as the Duchess

Ralph Richardson as the Caterpillar

Happy New Year everybody

why not celebrate by watching the wonderful 1972 Alice and singing your heart out!

Time Bandits' original motion picture soundtrack is available on vinyl for the first time for $32 via Scare Flair Records. Composed by Mike Moran, the score has been remastered for vinyl from the original master tapes.

The album is pressed on 140-gram "The Most Fabulous Object in the World" blue & red with black & white splatter colored vinyl, limited to 333. It's housed in a gatefold jacket featuring cover art by director Terry Gilliam and interior art by Brad Mrock alongside an 11x11 insert with liner notes by Moran.

richard III, laurence olivier 1955

Anna Karenina (1948)

Sir John Gielgud as Sherlock Holmes, Orson Welles as Prof. Moriarty, and Sir Ralph Richardson as Watson for the BBC’s “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” (1954-1955)

Tales From the Crypt (1972) - Vampir Filmprogramm