Camille, 1984

"The lady of the Camillias"

Summary:

Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Camille discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.

Marguerite Gautier, a beautiful Paris courtesan, who finds true love in Armand Duval, the headstrong son of a prominent French family. But their love is a scandal and has no future.


(TV Movie)

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Directed by:
Desmond Davis

Writing credits: (in alphabetical order)
Alexandre Dumas fils - novel La Dame aux camelias
Blanche Hanalis

Runtime: 100 min
Country: UK / USA
Language: English
Color: Color
Sound Mix: Mono

Also Known As (AKA): 
La Dama de las camelias – Venezuela
Die Dame mit den Kamelien  – West Germany
Kamelianainen - Finland

They call her The Lady of the Camellias.

She is Marguerite Gautier, beautiful, brazen and a courtesan of Paris.

He is Armand Duval, handsome, prominent and hopelessly headstrong.

Their love is a sensation, a scandal - and to some - a sin.

Their story is as old as time. And timeless as love itself.

Cast:

Greta Scacchi - Marguerite Gautier
Colin Firth - Armand Duval
John Gielgud - Duke de Charles
Billie Whitelaw - Prudence Duvorney
Patrick Ryecart - Gaston Daudet
Denholm Elliott -Count de Noilly
Ben Kingsley - Duval
Lila Kaye - Nanine
Rachel Kempson - Hortense
Ronald Pickup - Jean
Julie Dawn Cole -Julie
Natalie Ogle - Blanche
Nicholas Hawtrey - Servant
Richard Beale - Farmer
Cazz Scattergood - Mimi

Another Country, 1984

Summary:
Based on the award winning play by Julian Mitchell, the film explores the effect of Public School life in the 1930's on Guy Bennett (Rupert Everett) as his homosexuality and unwillingness to "play the game" turns him eastwards towards communist Russia. Loosely based on the life of Guy Burgess, a key figure in the Cambridge Spy Ring of the 1940's who eventually defected to Russia in 1951. The upper class establishment refused to believe he was a spy because he had been to public school.

(Movie)

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Directed by:
Marek Kanievska

His film portrayal of Judd, the prickly, driven communist schoolboy in an established private school, encapsulated everything about his acting style that was to come: compressed, full of understated force and density, and deeply touching in its pivotal scheme of transformation as the walled-in Judd responds to human sympathy.

The moment did not rely on words. Mr. Firth's deep, resonant voice never changed a key. His body barely moved. His face remained blank: it was all in the eyes.
[NY Times -1996]

Memorable Quotes from "Another Country":

Tommy Judd: All problems solved for life. No commies and no queers.
Fowler: I have half a mind to ask Barclay for permission to beat you!
Tommy Judd: Well, you've half a mind. We can all agree on that.

Guy Bennett: Fame or infamy, what does it matter? I shan't be forgotten.

Fowler: Are you trying to be clever or something?
Tommy Judd: I don't have to try, I am clever.

Writing credits (in alphabetical order):
Julian Mitchell (play)

Runtime: 90 min
Country: UK
Language: English
Color: Color
Sound Mix: Dolby
Certification: Sweden:11 / UK:15 / USA:PG / West Germany:12

MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested: some material may not suitable for children)

Also Known As (AKA): 
Another Country - La scelta - Italy
Another country - Histoire d'une trahison - France
Guy Bennett: Toista maata - Finland
História de Uma Traição - Portugal
Inny kraj - Poland
Landet uden nåde - Denmark
Memórias de um Espião - Brazil
Otro país - Spain
Vakoojan tarina - Finland

Cast:
Rupert Everett - Guy Bennett
Colin Firth - Tommy Judd
Michael Jenn -Barclay
Robert Addie - Delahay
Rupert Wainwright - Donald Devenish
Tristan Oliver - Fowler
Cary Elwes - James Harcourt
Frederick Alexander - Jim Menzies
Adrian Ross Magenty - Wharton
Geoffrey Bateman -Yevgeni
Philip Dupuy -Martineau
Guy Henry - Head Boy
Jeffrey Wickham - Arthur
John Line - Best Man
Gideon Boulting - Trafford

Crown Court, 1984

Summary:
Jo Kiernan, a gypsy, is accused of stealing a copper cylinder from Gordon Sibley's garden. Colin Firth is playing Constable Franklin

Crown Court" - courtroom drama series by Granada TV 1972-1984.
In 2 episodes: Citizens

Cast:
John Fortune
Jim Woodward
James Berwick
Dorothy Primrose
Colin Firth

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