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  1. Royal Hunt of the Sun, The (1969 Video)

    Director
    Irving Lerner
    Producer
    Philip Yordan
    Subject
    Drama; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 88 minutes), £19.99

    Film version of the Peter Shaffer play recounting the Spanish conquest of Peru, when 167 conquistadors led by Pisarro killed 7000 of the Inca’s god-king Atahualpa’s army of 80,000 in a single battle. In...

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  2. Joe Macbeth (1955 Film)

    Director
    Ken Hughes
    Producer
    M.J. Frankovich
    Subject
    Drama

    Feature film presenting the Macbeth plot as a gangster film. Joe Macbeth is number two in the underworld to ‘kingpin’ Duca. Goaded by his wife Lily, who wants Joe to become ‘kingpin’, and...

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  3. Man from Laramie, The (1955 Film)

    Director
    Anthony Mann
    Producer
    William Goetz
    Subject
    Drama

    Feature Western film in which critics have seen the influence of the Gloucester sub-plot in King Lear. The patriach, Donald Crisp, is worried about his kingdom (cattle ranch) and, like Gloucester, he is...

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  4. House of Strangers (1949 Film)

    Director
    Joseph L Mankiewicz
    Producer
    Sol C. Siegel
    Subject
    Drama

    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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