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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. Cleopatra (1963 Film)

    Director
    Joseph L Mankiewicz
    Producer
    Walter Wanger
    Subject
    Drama

    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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  4. Julius Caesar (1953) (1953 Film, Video)

    Director
    Joseph L Mankiewicz
    Producer
    John Houseman
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 116 minutes), £9.99

    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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (1939) (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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