5.4

Buster

1988, UK

• Actors: Phil Collins, Julie Walters, Larry Lamb, Stephanie Lawrence, Ellie Beaven, Michael Attwell, Ralph Brown, Christopher Ellison, Sheila Hancock, Martin Jarvis, Clive Wood, Anthony Quayle, Michael Byrne, Harold Innocent, Rupert Vansittart, John Benfield, John Barrard, Carole Collins, Amy Shindler, David Shindler, Tony Collins, Jonathan McKenna, Vincenzo Nicoli, Timothy Davies, Roger McKern, David Arlen, Frank Ellis, Bill Rourke, Ian Lowe, Christopher Gray
• Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
• Director(s): David Green
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Buster is a small time crook who pulls a big time job. When he finds that the police will not let the case drop, he goes into hiding and can't contact his wife and child. He arranges to meet them in Mexico where he thinks they can begin again, but finds that he must choose between his family and freedom.

  6.8

The Eagle Has Landed

1976, UK

• Actors: Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter, Donald Pleasence, Anthony Quayle, Jean Marsh, Sven-Bertil Taube, John Standing, Judy Geeson, Treat Williams, Larry Hagman, Alexei Jawdokimov, Richard Wren, Michael Byrne, Joachim Hansen, Denis Lill, Rick Parsé, Léonie Thelen, Keith Buckley, Terence Plummer, Tim Barlow, John Barrett, Kate Binchy, Maurice Roëves, David Gilliam, Jeff Conaway, Asa Teeter, Rob Reece, Jack McCulloch
• Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
• Director(s): John Sturges
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Oberst Steiner, a German parachute unit commander, is sent to England on a covert mission to kidnap Prime Minister Winston Churchill and bring him to Berlin. The seemingly impossible assignment becomes more and more feasible as the mission grows nearer with Steiner and his men arriving in England to a very real possibility of success.

  6.5

Mackenna's Gold

1969, USA

• Actors: Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas, Camilla Sparv, Keenan Wynn, Julie Newmar, Ted Cassidy, Lee J. Cobb, Raymond Massey, Burgess Meredith, Anthony Quayle, Edward G. Robinson, Eli Wallach, Eduardo Ciannelli, Dick Peabody, Rudy Diaz, Robert Phillips, Shelley Morrison, Robert Porter, David Garfield, Pepe Callahan, Madeleine Taylor Holmes, Duke Hobbie, Victor Jory, Trevor Bardette
• Genre: Romance, Western
• Director(s): J. Lee Thompson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The gangster Colorado kidnaps Marshal McKenna. He believes that McKenna has seen a map which leads to a rich vein of gold in the mountains and forces him to show him the way. But they're not the only ones who're after the gold; soon they meet a group of "honorable" citizens and the cavalry crosses their way too - and that is even before they enter Indian territory.

  6.6

Operation Crossbow

1965, UK

• Actors: Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Richard Johnson, Tom Courtenay, Jeremy Kemp, Anthony Quayle, Lilli Palmer, Paul Henreid, Helmut Dantine, Barbara Rütting, Richard Todd, Sylvia Syms, John Fraser, Maurice Denham, Patrick Wymark, Wolf Frees, Moray Watson, Richard Wattis, Allan Cuthbertson, Karel Stepanek, William Mervyn, Milo Sperber, George Mikell, Ferdy Mayne, Robert Brown, Gordon Jackson, John Le Mesurier, John Abineri
• Genre: Action, Drama, War
• Director(s): Michael Anderson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

This is the story of the methods used to defeat Hitler's V1 (doodlebug) and V2 (rocket) "revenge weapons" towards the end of the second world war. Even though the Nazis were in retreat these weapons could have turned their defeat into victory. The film includes references to Hannah Reich, who in real life was a test pilot and really did fly some of the first 'flying bombs'.

  8.5

Lawrence of Arabia

1962, UK

• Actors: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, José Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Wolfit, I.S. Johar, Gamil Ratib, Michel Ray, John Dimech, Zia Mohyeddin, Howard Marion-Crawford, Jack Gwillim, Hugh Miller, John Barry, Bruce Beeby, Fred Bennett, John Bennett, Steve Birtles, Robert Bolt, Peter Burton, J.R.M. Chapman, Tim Clutterbuck, Barbara Cole, John Crewdson, Basil Dignam
• Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, War
• Director(s): David Lean
• Available languages:
  • English English.

An inordinately complex man who has been labeled everything from hero, to charlatan, to sadist, Thomas Edward Lawrence blazed his way to glory in the Arabian desert, then sought anonymity as a common soldier under an assumed name. The story opens with the death of Lawrence in a motorcycle accident in London at the age of 47, then flashbacks to recount his adventures: as a young intelligence officer in Cairo in 1916, he is given leave to investigate the progress of the Arab revolt against the Turks in World War I. In the desert, he organizes a guerrilla army and--for two years--leads the Arabs in harassing the Turks with desert raids, train-wrecking and camel attacks. Eventually, he leads his army northward and helps a British General destroy the power of the Ottoman Empire.

  6.5

The Battle of the River Plate

1956, UK

• Actors: John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Ian Hunter, Jack Gwillim, Bernard Lee, Lionel Murton, Anthony Bushell, Peter Illing, Michael Goodliffe, Patrick Macnee, John Chandos, Douglas Wilmer, William Squire, Roger Delgado, Andrew Cruickshank, Christopher Lee, Edward Atienza, April Olrich, Peter Finch, María Mercedes, John Schlesinger, John Le Mesurier, David Farrar, John Merivale, Douglas Argent, Vincent Ball, Ken Barker, Michael Barnes, Raymond Barrie, Terence Bayler
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
• Director(s): Michael Powell
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Set during the early years of World War II, the War in the Atlantic. The Royal Navy was fighting a desperate battle to keep the convoy routes open to keep the British Isles supplied. One great danger was the surface raiders, huge cruisers called "pocket battleships" that slipped out of German waters just before war was declared. The "Bismarck", The "Scharnhorst", The "Gneissau" and The "Graf Spee" were supplied by tanker & could strike anywhere. This is the story of how 3 lightly armed cruisers with only 6 and 8 inch guns boldly took on a powerful pocket battleship armed with 11 inch guns. They should have been blown out of the water before they could fire a single shot but ...

  7.9

Hamlet

1948, UK

• Actors: Laurence Olivier, John Laurie, Esmond Knight, Anthony Quayle, Niall MacGinnis, Harcourt Williams, Patrick Troughton, Tony Tarver, Peter Cushing, Stanley Holloway, Russell Thorndike, Basil Sydney, Eileen Herlie, Norman Wooland, Felix Aylmer, Terence Morgan, Jean Simmons, Anthony Bushell, Patricia Davidson, Doreen Lawrence, Christopher Lee, Desmond Llewelyn, Victor Lucas, Patrick Macnee
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Laurence Olivier
• Available languages:
  • English English.

William Shakespeare's tale of tragedy of murder and revenge in the royal halls of medieval Denmark. Claudius, brother to the King, conniving with the Queen, poisons the monarch and seizes the throne, taking the widowed Gertrude for his bride. Hamlet, son of the murdered King, mournful of his father's death and mother's hasty marriage, is confronted by the ghost of the late King who reveals the manner of his murder. Seeking revenge, Hamlet recreates the monstrous deed in a play with the help of some traveling actors to torment the conscience of the evil Claudius. In a visit with his mother, Hamlet expresses his anger and disappointment concerning her swiftly untimed marriage. Thinking a concealed spy in his mother's chamber to be the lurking Claudius, he mistakenly kills the meddling counselor, Polonius, father of Ophelia and Laertes. Claudius, on the pretext that Hamlet will be endangered by his subjects for the murder of Polonius, sends the prince to England.