Young Winston
After his directing debut, Oh! What a Lovely War (1969), Richard Attenborough turned his attention to Winston Churchill and a David Lean-style epic blending politics with military battles. We learn…
Hobson’s Choice
In the 1880s, the daughter (Brenda de Banzie) of a bootmaker decides the time has come to defy her father (Charles Laughton) and find a husband before it’s too late.…
Swiss Family Robinson
During the Napoleonic Wars, a ship carrying a Swiss family is attacked by pirates, which leaves them stranded on an uninhabited tropical island. Previously filmed in 1940, this early 19th…
Ice Cold in Alex
In 1941, a group of British soldiers and nurses try to cross a North African desert in an ambulance, welcoming a South African officer (Anthony Quayle) who may have ulterior…
Around the World in Eighty Days
In the late 1800s, London aristocrat Phileas Fogg (David Niven) makes a wager with fellow members at the Reform Club that he can travel around the world in as little…
Gandhi: The Smiling Revolution
Ben Kingsley. Photo: Columbia Richard Attenborough knows his epics and I bet he's watched Lawrence of Arabia (1962) more than once. In similar fashion, this film opens with Mahatma Gandhi's…