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Director Richard Lester strikes the perfect balance between slapstick and swashbuckling swordplay in this whimsical adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's grand adventure. Michael York, all innocence and wide-eyed chivalry as young D'Artagnan, makes quite an impression on his first day in Paris: he challenges all three of the legendary Musketeers to a duel, then joins them in arms against the cardinal's ...

Manufacturer: Fox Lorber
Starring: Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Michael York, Frank Finlay
Directed By: Richard Lester

Cy Endfield co-wrote the epic prequel Zulu Dawn 15 years after his enormously popular Zulu. Set in 1879, this film depicts the catastrophic Battle of Isandhlwana, which remains the worst defeat of the British army by natives, with the British contingent outnumbered 16-to-1 by the Zulu tribesmen. The film's opinion of events is made immediately clear in its title sequence: ebullient ...

Starring: Burt Lancaster, Simon Ward, Denholm Elliott, Peter Vaughan, James Faulkner
Directed By: Douglas Hickox

Manufacturer: RCA Columbia Pictures Home Video
Starring: Simon Ward, Robert Shaw, Anne Bancroft, Jack Hawkins, Ian Holm
Directed By: Richard Attenborough

Manufacturer: Good Times Home Video
Starring: David Macniven, Duncan Fraser, David MacKay, Dave 'Squatch' Ward, Michael Berry
Directed By: Brad Turner, Christopher Leitch, George Bloomfield, James A. Contner, Jeff Woolnough

Supergirl qualifies as one of the most bizarre comic book adaptations ever to hit the silver screen. Bereft of logic or sensible plotting, but featuring a strong cast and slick special effects, the film follows Superman's cousin Kara (played by Helen Slater in her film debut) as she leaves Krypton to venture to Earth to retrieve the "Omegahedron," a life-force globe vital to her people's ...

Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Starring: Helen Slater, Faye Dunaway, Peter O'Toole, Mia Farrow, Brenda Vaccaro
Directed By: Jeannot Szwarc

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Alec Guinness, Simon Ward, Adolfo Celi, Diane Cilento, Gabriele Ferzetti
Directed By: Ennio De Concini

Peter Kosminsky's 1992 adaptation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights goes to the extreme of casting Sinéad O'Connor in a brief bit as Brontë herself, but the film still doesn't approach the accomplishment of William Wyler's classic 1939 production (with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon) or subsequent versions by Luis Buñuel and Robert Fuest. That doesn't make it unwatchable, however: ...

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes, Janet McTeer, Sophie Ward, Simon Shepherd
Directed By: Peter Kosminsky

What it lacks in grandeur, this 1978 TV version of The Four Feathers makes up for in fidelity to A.E.W. Mason's classic novel. By cannibalizing the superior 1939 production for epic shots and sequences, this modest adaptation draws attention to its meager production values, relying heavily on casting and chemistry to compensate. That it succeeds, more or less, in capturing the essence of ...

Manufacturer: Bfs Entertainment
Starring: Beau Bridges, Robert Powell, Simon Ward, Jane Seymour, Harry Andrews
Directed By: Don Sharp

Cy Endfield co-wrote the epic prequel Zulu Dawn 15 years after his enormously popular Zulu. Set in 1879, this film depicts the catastrophic Battle of Isandhlwana, which remains the worst defeat of the British army by natives, with the British contingent outnumbered 16-to-1 by the Zulu tribesmen. The film's opinion of events is made immediately clear in its title sequence: ebullient ...

Manufacturer: Video Treasures
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Simon Ward, Denholm Elliott, Peter Vaughan, James Faulkner
Directed By: Douglas Hickox

After the release of Withnail & I, British writer-director Bruce Robinson continued his satirical assault on British culture with this fiendishly funny rant, the title of which can be taken figuratively and literally as an object lesson in the art of consumer manipulation. Nobody dupes consumers better than Dennis Bagley (Richard E. Grant); his genius in crafting seductive ad ...

Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Starring: Richard E. Grant, Rachel Ward, Richard Wilson, Jacqueline Tong, John Shrapnel
Directed By: Bruce Robinson