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Oliver Reed
Robert Oliver Reed (13 February 1938 – 2 May 1999) was an English actor known for his burly screen presence. Reed exemplified his real-life macho image in "tough-guy" roles. His films include The Trap, Oliver!, Women in Love, Hannibal Brooks, The Triple Echo, The Devils, The Three Musketeers, Tommy...
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Burnt Offerings
Burnt Offerings is a 1976 horror film based on the 1973 novel of the same name by Robert Marasco. It is about a family who moves into a haunted house that rejuvenates itself with each death that occurs inside of it. The film stars Karen Black,...
Condorman
Condorman is a 1981 Disney comedy/adventure film from starring Michael Crawford.
Inspired by Robert Sheckley's The Game of X, Condorman follows comic book illustrator Woodrow Wilkins' attempts to assist in the defection of a female Soviet KGB agent....
Hannibal Brooks
Hannibal Brooks is a 1969 film about a man, accompanied by an Asian elephant, trying to get to Switzerland from Germany in World War II.
A POW in World War II is put to work in a Munich zoo, looking after an Asian elephant.
The zoo is bombed by the...
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Lion of the Desert
Lion of the Desert is a 1981 Libyan historical action film starring Anthony Quinn as Libyan tribal leader Omar Mukhtar fighting the Italian army in the years leading up to World War II. It was directed by Moustapha Akkad and funded by Muammar al...
Oliver!
Oliver! is a 1968 musical film directed by Carol Reed. The film is based on the stage musical Oliver!, with book, music and lyrics written by Lionel Bart. The screenplay was written by Vernon Harris.
Both the film and play are based on the famous...
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Pirates of Blood River
Pirates of Blood River is a 1962 Hammer Film Productions pirate film starring Christopher Lee and Kerwin Matthews.
While in a penal colony, Huguenot Jonathan Standish (Kerwin Matthews) is captured by pirates led by Capt. LaRoche (Christopher Lee)...
Royal Flash
Royal Flash is a 1975 film based on George MacDonald Fraser's second Flashman novel, Royal Flash. It starred Malcolm McDowell as Flashman. Oliver Reed appeared in the role of Otto von Bismarck, Alan Bates as Rudi von Sternberg, and Florinda Bolkan...
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a 1988 film directed by Terry Gilliam, starring John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Jonathan Pryce, Oliver Reed, Uma Thurman, and Robin Williams.
The film begins in an unnamed and war-torn European city in...
The Brood
The Brood is a 1979 Canadian horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, starring Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar and Art Hindle. It was filmed in Toronto and Mississauga, Ontario. In 2004, one of its sequences was voted #78 among the "100...
The Devils
The Devils is a 1971 horror film directed by Ken Russell. It stars Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave. It is based partially on the 1952 book The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley, and partially on the 1960 play The Devils by John Whiting, also based...
Tommy
Tommy is a 1975 musical film, based on The Who's 1969 rock opera album musical Tommy. It was directed by Ken Russell and featured a star-studded cast, including the band members themselves (most notably, lead singer Roger Daltrey plays the title...
Women in Love
Women in Love is a 1969 British film directed by Ken Russell which tells the story of the relationships between men and women during the early part of the 20th century. It stars Alan Bates as Birkin, Oliver Reed as Gerald, Glenda Jackson as Gudrun...
Castaway
Castaway is a 1986 film starring Amanda Donohoe and Oliver Reed, and directed by Nicolas Roeg. It was adapted from the 1984 book of the same name by Lucy Irvine, telling of her experiences of staying for a year with writer Gerald Kingsland on the...
Sitting Target
Sitting Target is a 1972 British film directed by Douglas Hickox and shot in London. It is a violent crime thriller starring Oliver Reed as Harry Lomart, a convicted murderer, and Ian McShane as Birdy Williams, as two convicts planning a breakout....
The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers is a 1973 film based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. Directed by Richard Lester and written by George MacDonald Fraser (famous for his Flashman series of historical comic novels). It was originally proposed in the 1960s,...
The Four Musketeers
The Four Musketeers is the title of a 1974 Richard Lester film, which follows upon his film of the year before, The Three Musketeers, and covers the second half of Dumas' novel The Three Musketeers. Fifteen years later, the cast and crew returned to...
The Curse of the Werewolf
The Curse of the Werewolf is a 1961 British film based on the novel The Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endore. The film was made by the British film studio Hammer Film Productions and was shot at Bray Studios.
The story is set in 18th Century Spain. A...
Treasure Island
Treasure Island is a 1990 movie adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous 1883 novel Treasure Island. It was filmed in 1989 on location in Cornwall, England, and in Jamaica, and also at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, England. Jim Hawkins ...
I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname
I'll Never Forget What's'isname (DVD box title: I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname) is a 1967 British film directed and produced by Michael Winner. It stars Oliver Reed as disillusioned London advertising executive Andrew Quint, who revolts against...
The Scarlet Blade
The Scarlet Blade is a 1963 British adventure film directed by John Gilling for Hammer Film Productions.
It is a period drama set during the English Civil War. It stars Oliver Reed and Lionel Jeffries.
Ten Little Indians
Ten Little Indians (a.k.a. And Then There Were None) is a 1974 remake of Agatha Christie's classic novel. Two previous theatrical adaptations were released in 1945 and 1965, and a made-for-television version was broadcast in 1959. This was the...
The Return of the Musketeers
The Return of the Musketeers is a 1989 film adaptation loosely based on the novel Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is the third Musketeers movie directed by Richard Lester, following 1973's The Three Musketeers and 1974's The Four...
Paranoiac
Paranoiac is a 1963 suspense film from Hammer Films directed by Freddie Francis and starring Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Sheila Burrell, and Alexander Davion.
Simon Ashby (Reed) is trying to drive his sister, Eleanor (Scott) insane, so that he can...
The Assassination Bureau
The Assassination Bureau is a tongue-in-cheek film made in 1969 based on an unfinished novel, The Assassination Bureau, Ltd by Jack London. It stars Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, and Curt Jürgens.
Whereas London's original novel was set in...
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Prisoner of Honor
Prisoner of Honor is a 1991 television movie made by Warner Bros. Television and distributed by HBO about the French Dreyfus Affair. It was directed by Ken Russell and produced by Richard Dreyfuss and Judith James from a screenplay by Ron Hutchinson...
The Damned
The Damned is a British science fiction film drama starring Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field and Oliver Reed. It was a Hammer Film production directed by Joseph Losey and based on H.L. Lawrence's story The Children of Light.
Made in 1961, it was...
The Jokers
The Jokers is a 1967 comedy film written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and directed by Michael Winner. The film stars Michael Crawford and Oliver Reed as brothers who hatch a plot to steal the Crown Jewels.
Very much of its time - "Swinging...
The Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom of the Opera is a 1962 British film based on the novel by Gaston Leroux. The film was made by Hammer Film Productions.
The film opens in Victorian London on a December night in 1900.
The first night of the season at the London Opera...
Venom
Venom is a 1981 horror film about a kidnapping gone wrong, when a boy's deadly Black Mamba turns the tables and terrorizes the terrorists who have invaded the boy's townhouse. Directed by Piers Haggard, it stars Klaus Kinski, Oliver Reed, Nicol...
The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep (1978) was the second film version of Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel of the same name. It was directed by Michael Winner and stars Robert Mitchum as the detective Philip Marlowe. James Stewart appears as General Sternwood.
The action...
The System
The System is a 1964 British drama film directed by Michael Winner and starring Oliver Reed, Jane Merrow, Harry Andrews, David Hemmings, John Alderton and Guy Doleman. Julie Christie was originally intended to be in the film, but she had to withdraw...
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Pit and the Pendulum (released on DVD in the United States as The Inquisitor) is a 1991 horror film directed by Stuart Gordon and based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It received an R rating for violence, scenes of torture, and nudity....
Dirty Weekend
Dirty Weekend (Italian: Mordi e fuggi) is a 1973 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi.
The Hunting Party
The Hunting Party is a 1971 American western film directed by Don Medford and starring Oliver Reed, Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Simon Oakland and Ronald Howard.
Relations are strained between cattle baron Brandt Ruger (Gene Hackman) and his wife,...
Al-Mas' Ala Al-Kubra
al-Mas' Ala Al-Kubra (aka Clash of Loyalties and The Great Question) is the now infamous 1983 Iraqi movie, financed by Saddam Hussain, filmed in Iraq (mainly at the Baghdad Film Studios in Baghdad's Mansour neighbourhood and on location at the...
Lisztomania
Lisztomania is a 1975 film by Ken Russell, drawn from a biography of Franz Liszt.
Depicting the flamboyant Liszt as the first classical pop star, Lisztomania features contemporary rock star Roger Daltrey (of The Who) as Franz Liszt. The film was...
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Mahler
Mahler is a 1974 biographical film based on the life of composer Gustav Mahler. It was written and directed by Ken Russell for Goodtimes Enterprises, and starred Robert Powell as Gustav Mahler and Georgina Hale as Alma Mahler. The film was entered...
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Crossed Swords
Crossed Swords (UK title: The Prince and the Pauper) is a 1977 adventure film directed by Richard Fleischer, based on The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain. It stars Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, and Mark Lester.
