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This film was a touchstone of the late 1960s, when it was seen as an antiwar allegory for a world in which madness seemed to reign. Of course, that would probably be true whenever this movie was shown, wouldn't it? Directed by Philippe de Broca and set during World War I, King of Hearts stars Alan Bates as a Scottish soldier separated from his unit in France. He wanders into a small French ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Jacques Balutin, Alan Bates, Jackie Blanchot, Robert Blome, Pierre Brasseur

Disney's 1999 TV production of the classic 1977 musical Annie is remarkable for its casting of stage actors rather than ratings trump cards. Tony winners Audra McDonald (Grace), Alan Cumming (Rooster), and Kristin Chenoweth (Lily) join four-time nominee Victor Garber (Daddy Warbucks) and Les Misérables veteran Alicia Morton (Annie) to tell the tale of the Depression-era orphan who ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Starring: Kathy Bates, Victor Garber, Alan Cumming, Audra McDonald, Kristin Chenoweth
Directed By: Rob Marshall

A gambling ship owner plans to scam a virtuous young woman, only to fall in love with her and go legit.

Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Starring: Cary Grant, Laraine Day, Charles Bickford, Gladys Cooper, Alan Carney
Directed By: H.C. Potter

Franco Zeffirelli's stripped-down, two-hour version of Shakespeare's play stars Mel Gibson as a rather robust version of the ambivalent Danish prince. Gibson is much better in the part than many critics have admitted, his powers of clarity doing much to make this particular Hamlet more accessible than several other filmed versions. The supporting cast is outstanding, including Glenn Close ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates, Paul Scofield, Ian Holm
Directed By: Franco Zeffirelli

After a mysterious serial killer named Mr. Frost (Jeff Goldblum) confesses to the murder of two dozen people in England, he is shuttled around psychiatric hospitals throughout Europe as topnotch shrinks attempt to penetrate his psyche and discover why there are no known records of his existence. During this two-year period he refuses to speak to anyone until he arrives at a French facility, where ...

Manufacturer: Sony/Columbia-Tristar
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Kathy Baker, Alan Bates, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Daniel Gélin
Directed By: Philippe Setbon

Manufacturer: CBS/Fox Video
Starring: Alan Bates, Coral Browne
Directed By: John Schlesinger

Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Starring: Faye Dunaway, Alan Bates, John Gielgud, Denholm Elliott, Prunella Scales
Directed By: Michael Winner

Bette Midler plays a Janis Joplin-like singer overwhelmed by stardom and its excesses. Mark Rydell (On Golden Pond) directs what is a kind of hybrid showcase for Midler's concert talents and a standard pop biopic, with the usual rhythms of desire, success, betrayal, failure, and such. Alan Bates is the best thing about the movie as the Rose's ruthless manager, and Harry Dean Stanton and ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Bette Midler, Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton, Barry Primus
Directed By: Mark Rydell

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Julie Andrews, Alan Bates, Max von Sydow, Rupert Everett, Margaret Courtenay
Directed By: Andrei Konchalovsky

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Pat O'Brien, Akim Tamiroff, Alan Mowbray
Directed By: Frank Borzage