Richard Burton

Breakthrough

Admin — Thu, 01 Mar 1979 00:00:00 +0000

Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner’s platoon fails in its mission by coming up against a Russian tank. Steiner then takes a furlough to Paris just as the Allies launch their invasion of Normandy.

The Wild Geese

Admin — Wed, 05 Jul 1978 00:00:00 +0000

A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.

The Medusa Touch

Admin — Thu, 13 Apr 1978 00:00:00 +0000

“I have a gift for disaster,” says John Morlar (Richard Burton). Morlar is cursed with a unique telekinesis power that only seems to cause disaster.

Equus

Admin — Sun, 16 Oct 1977 00:00:00 +0000

A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy’s demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.

Exorcist II: The Heretic

Admin — Fri, 17 Jun 1977 00:00:00 +0000

Bizarre nightmares plague Regan MacNeil four years after her possession and exorcism. Has the demon returned? And if so, can the combined faith and knowledge of a Vatican investigator and a hypnotic research specialist free her from its grasp?

Brief Encounter

Admin — Tue, 12 Nov 1974 00:00:00 +0000

Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railroad station and find themselves in a brief but intense affair.

The Klansman

Admin — Fri, 25 Oct 1974 00:00:00 +0000

A small southern town has just been rocked by a tragedy: a young woman has been violently raped. The white town fathers immediately declare that the attacker had to be black, and place the blame on Garth, a young black man. Assuming that the men in white sheets aren’t intent on holding a fair and impartial trial, Garth takes to the woods as the Klansmen lynching party hunts him down.

The Battle of Sutjeska

Admin — Tue, 31 Jul 1973 00:00:00 +0000

Tells the story of the Battle of Sutjeska which occurred in Nazi-occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1943.

The Assassination of Trotsky

Admin — Thu, 20 Apr 1972 00:00:00 +0000

After having been forced to leave the Soviet Union 1929 Trotsky has ended up in Mexico 1940. He is still busy with the politics. Stalin has sent out an assassin, Frank Jacson. Jacson befriends a young communist and gets an invitation to Trotsky’s house.

Raid on Rommel

Admin — Fri, 12 Feb 1971 00:00:00 +0000

Captain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand- picked commandos, but a mixup leaves him with a medical unit led by a Quaker conscientious objector. Despite all odds they succeed with their mission. On the way they pick up and drug the mistress of an Italian general, blow up the entire fuel supply for the Afrika Korps, and swap philatelic gossip with Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.