John Woodvine

Persuasion

Admin — Mon, 01 May 1995 00:00:00 +0000

This film adaptation of Jane Austen’s last novel follows Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, who is persuaded to break her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young sea captain of meager means. Years later, money troubles force Anne’s father to rent out the family estate to Admiral Croft, and Anne is again thrown into company with Frederick — who is now rich, successful and perhaps still in love with Anne.

Fatherland

Admin — Sat, 26 Nov 1994 00:00:00 +0000

Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany’s war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.

An American Werewolf in London

Admin — Fri, 21 Aug 1981 00:00:00 +0000

Two American tourists in England are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.

The Devils

Admin — Thu, 01 Jul 1971 00:00:00 +0000

A dramatised historical account of the rise and fall of Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century Roman Catholic priest accused of witchcraft following alleged demonic possessions of sexually repressed nuns.