Movies starring Ralph Richardson

The Four Feathers (1939)

129 mins     Action , Drama, Romance, War      

One of my usual gripes about modern cinema is that even when they have a good storyline they end us wasting it in favour of over the top action followed by more over the top action. Yet go back to a time, the 1930's, when tec...

The Day Will Dawn (1942)

99 mins     Drama, War      

If Hollywood want movies to remake they should take a look at the war movies of the 1940's as these are the ones which whilst having a good storyline suffer from now being dated. Take "The Day Will Dawn", watching it is obvio...

The Fallen Idol (1948)

95 mins     Drama, Mystery, Thriller      

Here is the truth, "The Fallen Idol" starts slowly in fact so slow that for a while I tried to work out why in heck this movie is rated so highly by many. Thankfully as I browsed opinions someone mentioned it starts slow but ...

The Holly and the Ivy (1952)

80 mins     Drama      

Movie Review - The Holly and the Ivy (1952) the Rev. Martin Gregory (Ralph Richardson) is happy to see his children and relatives when they come home for Christmas only to learn some hard truths about his family and how they ...

The 300 Spartans (1962)

114 mins     Adventure , Drama      

I wasn't that impressed by the more recent "300" as it came across as all look with little substance but because of that movie I am not that impressed with "The 300 Spartans" the 1962 movie based on the same story of Leonidas...

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

197 mins     Drama, Romance, War      

For those who like to think of cinema as an art form then David Lean's "Doctor Zhivago" should be a crowd pleaser, a piece which should be looked upon, sucked in and discussed till the light fades. From the snow covered lands...

Battle of Britain (1969)

132 mins     War      

"Battle of Britain" is a war movie but not a war movie in the traditional entertainment sense but one which endeavours to accurately portray a crucial period of time. Now on one hand it makes it quite special because so few w...

Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)

144 mins     Comedy, Musical, War      

That is a short description of "Oh! What a Lovely War" because it is impossible to write a synopsis for it due to its episodic nature where various aspects of the war are dramatised usually with a bit of a musical, music hall...

David Copperfield (1969)

120 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

Movie Review - David Copperfield (1969) Robin Phillips leads an impressive cast in this 1969 made for TV adaptation of Charles Dickens classic...

Tales from the Crypt (1972)

92 mins     Horror      

Tales from the Crypt: a group of tourists get lost in a series of tunnels and end up stuck in a crypt where the crypt keeper tells them a series of stories...

Watership Down (1978)

101 mins     Adventure , Animation, Drama      

"Watership Down" is the sort of movie which isn't my thing but I can appreciate it as something special. I think my problem with "Watership Down" is that I watched it as a young child and whilst we are talking an animation wi...

Time Bandits (1981)

116 mins     Adventure , Comedy      

For those who have never experienced a Terry Gilliam movie it is just that an experience of quirkiness, of strange and dam right weird. As such it has to be said that a Gilliam movie can be great for some and just wrong for o...

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)

143 mins     Adventure , Drama, Romance      

Despite having been born long after Johnny Weissmuller hung up his loin cloth as Tarzan it was always Weissmuller's Tarzan which I remember, a jungle action figure who battled baddies and wrestled animals. As such when I firs...