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Sleuth Premiere

Date released

10 Apr 1973

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2292A

NoS ID

029882

Story no

1 / 1

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sleuth Premiere. DESCRIPTION: Charity premiere of the Fox-Rank Release film Sleuth, at the Odeon Theatre, Marble Arch, attended by Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon. SHOTLIST: GV...

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Dragonwyck (1946)

Director

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Producer

Ernst Lubitsch

Subject

American Studies; Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B)

The directorial debut of American director Joseph L Mankiewicz, the film is a melding of Gothic chills and baroque melodrama. A Connecticut farm girl (Gene Tierney) finds herself embroiled in a conspiracy of...

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Julius Caesar (1953 Film, Video)

Director

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Producer

John Houseman

Mankiewicz’s version of the tragedy that ‘some Americans regard as their own has stood the test of time’ (The Guardian 2019). With an impressive cast, including Louis Calhern as Caesar, Marlon Brando...

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New York Premiere - Cleopatra

Date released

17 Jun 1963

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1776

NoS ID

025141

Story no

6 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Cleopatra - New York Premiere. DESCRIPTION: The World Premiere of Cleopatra in New York. Cleopatra is the most talked about and the most expensive film ever made. Paul Anka, Richard...

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King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970)

Director

Joseph L Mankiewicz; Sidney Lumet

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 185 minutes), $349.00

This landmark documentary chronicles the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama, and culminating with his assassination in...

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Honey Pot, The (1967)

Director

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Subject

Drama; English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 126 minutes), £19.99

The Honey Pot is based on ‘Volpone’, the play by Ben Jonson. Rex Harrison stars as international playboy Cecil Fox, who decides to pretend he’s dying in order to find out what his three old flames will...

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Cleopatra (1963 Film)

Director

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Producer

Walter Wanger

Feature film which made its own myths as the love affair between Antony and Cleopatra was lived in real-life in the well-publicised Burton-Taylor romance. The hugely expensive sets, and Taylor’s protracted...

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (1939 Film)

aka: Huckleberry Finn

Director

Richard Thorpe (2)

Producer

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Feature film based on Mark Twain’s novel with Mickey Rooney as Huck. Douglas Lanier in Shakespeares After Shakespeare (entry 1120) notes that this is the only film version of Twain’s novel which includes...

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House of Strangers (1949 Film)

Director

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Producer

Sol C. Siegel

Feature film, based on the novel I’ll Never Go Home Any More by Jerome Weidman. A tyrannical Italian-American banker (Robinson) finds that his three sons turn against him when he is prosecuted by the state...

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Julius Caesar (1970 Film, Video)

Director

Stuart Burge

Producer

Peter Snell

A feature film which grew out of Stuart Burge’s experience in directing a BBC television version of the play in 1959, as well as a subsequent London stage production. The pedestrian production was...

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