Richard Burton Movies

Prince of Players

68/100

A tragic and sentimental story that depicts the early career of the 19th century American actor, Edwin Booth with some mention of the events leading to the assassination of President ... See full summary »

Hamlet

75/100

The highly successful 1964 Richard Burton Broadway production of "Hamlet", deliberately staged in the style of a "dress rehearsal", but performed in front of a live audience.

Hammersmith Is Out

60/100

The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The patient (Burton) offers the innocent orderly (... See full summary »

A Midsummer Night's Dream

73/100

The first puppet kinescope in the world. It is based on the famous poetic comedy by William Shakespeare. Three worlds meet in this story: the noble world of three Athens couples, a common ... See full summary »

Brief Encounter

52/100

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

Divorce His - Divorce Hers

57/100

The story of the breakup of an 18-year marriage, as seen from the points of view of both the husband and the wife.

Ice Palace

62/100

After WW1, Zeb and Thor start a cannery business in Alaska but eventually they drift apart with Zeb becoming unscrupulous and Thor becoming involved in Alaskan politics.

The Gathering Storm

80/100

The story of British prime minister Winston Churchill, focusing on his place in British life just prior to World War II.

Lovespell

54/100

The classic Arthurian tale of tragic love. In medieval times, Lord of Cornwall decides to marry an Irish princess Isolde. However, his most loyal knight Tristan becomes bewitched by her beauty and they fall hopelessly in love.

Green Grow the Rushes

61/100

A group of enterprising smugglers make use of an ancient charter to smuggle brandy into the southern coast of England. When their ship is seized it looks like they are in trouble until the ... See full summary »

Woman of Dolwyn

72/100

A peaceful North Wales village is about to disappear once and for all under the waters of a dam that is about to be built by a powerful water company commanded by a city businessman, at one... See full summary »

The Bramble Bush

57/100

A handsome and successful young doctor returns to his home town in New England to see his dying friend for one last time...

The Tempest

75/100

Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, who lives in exile on a remote island as a sorcerer, uses his powers to shipwreck his usurper brother on the island.

Under Milk Wood

72/100

A poet's tale of a day in the lives of the villagers of a Welsh fishing town of Llareggub.

I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind

87/100

Jackpot

68/100

The Fifth Column

74/100

Hemingway's only play concerns a search for fifth-columnists during the Spanish Civil War.

The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe

86/100

Lerner and Loewe: Broadway's Last Romantics

84/100

Profile of the Broadway team Alan Jay Lerner and Fritz Loewe, whose credits included the hit shows "Brigadoon", "Paint Your Wagon," "Gigi," "Camelot," and "My Fair Lady." Their story is ... See full summary »

Bob Hope's Comedy Salute to the Soaps