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1. Sleuth (1972)
directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
featuring Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine
The mystery stage play by Anthony Shaffer was adapted by the author into this stylish film from director Joseph L. Manciewicz. Laurence Olivier stars ... More
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2. Voyage 'Round My Father (1984)
directed by Alvin Rakoff
featuring Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates
John Mortimer's autobiographical play Voyage 'Round My Father was given a class-A TV adaptation in 1984. Mortimer, best known for his Rumpole of the ... More
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3. Rebecca (1940)
directed by Alfred Hitchcock
featuring Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Nigel Bruce
Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier, the classic psychological thriller Rebecca was Alfred Hitchcock's first American film. Joan Fontaine plays ... More
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4. Spartacus (1960)
directed by Stanley Kubrick
featuring Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov
Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) is a rebellious slave purchased by Lentulus Batiatus (Peter Ustinov), owner of a school for gladiators. For the ... More
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5. Marathon Man (1976)
directed by John Schlesinger
featuring Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane, Marthe Keller
Doc Levy (Roy Scheider) is an American secret agent who has been running interference between the U.S. government and escaped Nazi war criminal Szell ... More
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6. Clash of the Titans (1981)
directed by Desmond Davis
featuring Laurence Olivier, Harry Hamlin, Claire Bloom, Judi Bowker, Maggie Smith
The eschewing of modern optical effects techniques in favor of the classic stop-motion animation work of special effects legend Ray Harryhausen was a ... More
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7. The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
directed by Laurence Olivier
featuring Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier, Sybil Thorndike, Richard Wattis, Jeremy Spenser
The title of the Anglo-American The Prince and the Showgirl could well have alluded to the genuine stations in life of stars Sir Laurence Olivier and ... More
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8. A Little Romance (1979)
directed by George Roy Hill
featuring Laurence Olivier, Arthur Hill, Sally Kellerman, Diane Lane, Thelonious Bernard
The disarming comedy A Little Romance features Diane Lane as a 13-year-old American, living in Paris with her businessman stepfather (Arthur Hill) ... More
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9. Wuthering Heights (1939)
directed by William Wyler
featuring Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Flora Robson, Geraldine Fitzgerald
William Wyler's Wuthering Heights is one of the earliest screen adaptations of the classic Emily Brontė novel. A traveler named Lockwood (Miles ... More
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10. That Hamilton Woman (1941)
directed by Alexander Korda
featuring Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Alan Mowbray, Sara Allgood, Gladys Cooper
Acting spouses Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh star in Alexander Korda's tragic tale of the adulterous love affair between Emma Lady Hamilton and ... More
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11. Dracula (1979)
directed by John Badham
featuring Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence, Kate Nelligan, Trevor Eve
In the late '70s, Frank Langella starred in the hit Broadway play Dracula, written by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston. Langella's charisma and ... More
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12. Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
directed by Otto Preminger
featuring Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea, Laurence Olivier, Noėl Coward, Martita Hunt
Based on the mystery novel by Marryam Modell (using the pseudonym Evelyn Piper), Bunny Lake Is Missing is a bizarre study in motherhood, kindness, ... More
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13. King Lear (1984)
directed by Michael Elliott
featuring Diana Rigg, Dorothy Tutin, Laurence Olivier, Anna Calder-Marshall
Shakespeare's tragedy, made for British television, is given a full-blooded rendition here with the great Laurence Olivier in the title role and a ... More
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14. Long Day's Journey into Night (1973)
directed by Michael Blakemore, Peter Wood
featuring Laurence Olivier, Constance Cummings, Denis Quilley, Ronald Pickup, Maureen Lipman
British actors perform Eugene O'Neill's family drama A Long Day's Journey Into Night in a made-for-television performance. This filmed play was ... More
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15. Khartoum (1966)
directed by Basil Dearden
featuring Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Richard Johnson, Ralph Richardson, Alexander Knox
After declaring a holy war to rid the Sudan of Anglo-Egyptian rule in the 1880s, the fanatical Sudanese leader Muhammad Ahmad (Laurence Olivier) ... More
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16. The 49th Parallel (1941)
directed by Michael Powell
featuring Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey, Laurence Olivier, Anton Walbrook, Glynis Johns
49th Parallel is a British wartime entreaty for Empire solidarity, concentrating on rousing the patriotic fervor of the citizens of Canada. A group ... More
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17. Othello (1965)
directed by Stuart Burge
featuring Laurence Olivier, Frank Finlay, Maggie Smith, Joyce Redman, Derek Jacobi
The 1965 Othello is literally a photographed stage play: a filmed record of the National Theatre Production of 1964, as staged by John Dexter and ... More
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18. Fire Over England (1937)
directed by Alexander Korda, William Howard
featuring Flora Robson, Raymond Massey, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh
The war between England and Spain in the late 16th century serves as backdrop for the fictional machinations of Fire Over England. Laurence Olivier ... More
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19. The Boys From Brazil (1978)
directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
featuring Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen
This film of Ira Levin's novel The Boys from Brazil wastes no time in establishing the fact that several seemingly unrelated men have been ... More
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20. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
directed by Herbert Ross
featuring Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall, Nicol Williamson, Laurence Olivier
Nicholas Meyer based his screenplay for the "retro" Sherlock Holmes adventure The Seven Percent Solution on his own best-selling novel. As any Baker ... More
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21. Merchant of Venice (1973)
directed by John Sichel, Jonathan Miller
featuring Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Anthony Nicholls, Jeremy Brett
Olivier stars in this production of the Shakespearean tragedy about greed and vengeance. ~ Rovi
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22. The Divorce of Lady X (1938)
directed by Tim Whelan, Sr.
featuring Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, Binnie Barnes, Ralph Richardson, Morton Selten
Filmed in lavish Technicolor and given Tiffany production values by producer Alexander Korda, the British comedy Divorce of Lady X is at base a ... More
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23. Pride and Prejudice (1940)
directed by Robert Z. Leonard
featuring Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver, Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Sullivan
Long before 19th-century novelist Jane Austen became a hot property in Hollywood, MGM produced this opulent and entertaining adaptation of one of ... More
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24. John Osborne and the Gift of Friendship (2006)
directed by Tony Palmer
featuring Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Nicol Williamson, Robert Stephens, Jill Bennett
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25. The Jigsaw Man (1984)
directed by Terence Young
featuring Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier, Susan George, Robert Powell, Charles Gray
This spy film purports to be inspired by the true story of Kim Philby (1912-1988), a British intelligence officer and Soviet spy during the 1940s and ... More
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