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Alvin Rakoff

Alvin Rakoff

Alvin Rakoff (born February 18, 1927) is a Canadian television, stage, and film director[1] who has spent the bulk of his career in England and directed more than 100 television plays, as well as a dozen feature films and numerous stage productions.

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Movies Made By Alvin Rakoff (31)

A Haunting Harmony (1993)

A young member of a choir becomes friends with a ghost in a school of English cathedral. ...

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Gas and Candles (1991)

Black comedy play about two pensioners struggling to manage on an old-age pension and living in a high-rise block of flats. ...

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The Best of Friends (1991)

Adapted from their letters and journals, this is a portrayal of the unique 25-year friendship shared by Dame Laurentia McLachlan (Benedictine nun), Sir Sydney Cockerell (museum curator), and George Bernard Shaw (playwright/critic). ...

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Paradise Postponed (1986)

A clergyman noted for his support of left-wing causes, leaves his considerable estate to a Conservative member of parliament. Adaptation of the novel by John Mortimer. ...

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A Voyage Round My Father (1984)

A successful lawyer struck with blindness in middle age continues his battles in the courtroom with the assistance of his family. As his son deals with bitter memories of their relationship, he also seeks his father's respect and love and in the process le ...

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A Talent for Murder (1983)

A famed mystery writer and her doctor ex-lover solve her daughter-in-law's murder. ...

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Fireworks for Elspeth (1983)

Will they starve her? Shave her head? Force her to wear a hair shirt? Elspeth's friends and family react with horror, grief and even derision to her desire to become a nun. She experiences her parents' hurt, her fiancee's feeling of betrayal, her friends' ...

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Mr. Halpern and Mr. Johnson (1983)

Towards the end of their lives, two men from very different worlds discover that one of them was in love with the other one's wife for more than thirty years. ...

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The Breadwinner (1982)

Charles Battle has been 'hammered' in the London Stock Exchange, to the point where he may be bankrupted. ...

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The Quiet Days of Mrs. Stafford (1981)

Mr and Mrs Stafford decide to run an "open" marriage, which, of course, relies on complete honesty. ...

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Dirty Tricks (1981)

A Harvard University student finds a strange letter that seems to be signed by George Washington. When trying to contact an expert (Prof. Chandler) to authenticate it, he is murdered but the letter disappears. Then Chandler, who does not know anything abou ...

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Death Ship (1980)

Survivors of a tragic shipping collision are rescued by a mysterious black ship which appears out of the fog. Little do they realise that the ship is actually a Nazi torture ship which has sailed the seas for years, luring unsuspecting sailors aboard and k ...

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City on Fire (1979)

An ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city. ...

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King Solomon's Treasure (1979)

Three adventurers lead an expedition into darkest Africa in search of the treasure of King Solomon, and on the way encounter hostile natives, volcanoes, dinosaurs and a lost Phoenician city ruled by a beautiful queen. ...

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Romeo and Juliet (1978)

Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life wh ...

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The Kitchen (1977)

Alvin Rakoff's adaptation of Arnold Wesker's The Kitchen for Play of the Week. The Kitchen, first preformed in 1957, was Wesker's first work and his most performed play. The Kitchen has been produced in sixty cities including Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Paris - ...

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Three Dangerous Ladies (1977)

Three unrelated horror shorts from 1975 UK horror anthology series "Classics Dark and Dangerous" edited together into one horror film anthology with three segments. Each story features a woman who willingly or unwillingly spreads evil. ...

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The Dame of Sark (1976)

1976 play. During the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands, Dame Sybil Hathaway comes up against her invading masters. ...

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Mrs. Amworth (1975)

A vampire terrorizes a quiet English town. ...

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The Adventures Of Don Quixote (1973)

A self-proclaimed "knight" and his hapless squire travel the Spanish countryside, attacking "giants" that are really windmills in his attempt to win the love of the fair Dulcinea. ...

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Say Hello to Yesterday (1971)

Approaching middle-age and stuck in an unfulfilled marriage, a suburban British housewife allows herself a sexual fling with a brash young hunk she meets on a commuter train. ...

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Hoffman (1970)

A businessman blackmails his young secretary into spending a weekend with him. ...

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Crossplot (1969)

A successful London ad-exec hires a beautiful Hungarian girl to pose for some modeling shots, little realising that she has overheard an assassination plot and is now being hunted by some dangerous killers. ...

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Call Me Daddy (1967)

A lonely middle-aged businessman blackmails a typist into spending the weekend at his large house in the country. She expects the worst, but he concentrates on something she doesn't expect - making her fall in love with him. ...

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The Comedy Man (1964)

A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognition. He eventually gives it all up to return to stage work and keep his pride. ...

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Heart to Heart (1962)

A television interviewer is determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister. ...

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On Friday at Eleven (1961)

An enigmatic woman recruits a gang of specialised criminals to rob a US Army payroll armoured truck bound for Marseilles. However, things don't go exactly as planned. ...

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The Ransom of Red Chief (1959)

Based upon a famous O. Henry short story, two crooks think they have an opportunity to make a quick buck by kidnapping a rich man's son. Ironically, the hostage takers become the hostages as they pay through the nose becoming the butts of the kid's stunts. ...

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The Treasure of San Teresa (1959)

After World War II, an ex-spy returns to Germany to search for a cache of jewels he hid in a Czechoslovakian convent. ...

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Passport to Shame (1958)

British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade. ...

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The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1958)

When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny. ...

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Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery (1998)

Oscar-winning actor Sean Connery is profiled in this segment of "Intimate Portrait. ...

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