John Glenister

Nacimiento : 1932-10-12, London, England, UK

Películas

Misterioso
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On the death of her mother, a young woman in northern England learns that her father is actually her step-father. She embarks on a search for her birth father, finds him running a jazz club in London, and learns a lot of happy and sad things about her family that she didn't know before. The title of the film is the classic jazz piece, "Misterioso," by Thelonious Monk, which features prominently in it.
Tonight at 8.30
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Adaptation of Noel Coward's stage play sequence.
Sometime in August
Director
Neil's beach holiday with the Middleton family turns sour over his refusal to bathe. The situation is resolved by an old woman and a cat.
After the War
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The life and career of Michael Jordan contrasts with that of Joe Hirsch. One is born into a comfortable middle class family, the other a refugee. Their stories cross and parallel over 25-years from the end of the Second World War onwards, taking in British social change as they go.
Blunt
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Anthony Blunt is an eminent Cambridge-educated art historian who is also working as a spy for the Soviet Union. In love with double agent Guy Burgess, he helps Burgess get yet another treasonous British agent to safety in Moscow. When Burgess unexpectedly defects as well, the government becomes suspicious of Blunt, but investigators have trouble believing such a refined and aristocratic gentleman would ever betray his nation and his class.
On Your Way, Riley!
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Biopic of Arthur Lucan, who portrayed Old Mother Riley for over twenty years on stage and screen.
The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura
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A remote farmhouse on an isolated island. Strangers with English accents. Quarrels and a lonely child. The year is 1946. The man is George Orwell. The book he has come to write is Nineteen Eighty-four.
To the Camp and Back
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1983 play. A British woman falls for a German prisoner of war, despite the fact that her fiancée was killed by Germans during the Second World War.
The Nuclear Family
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1999: A perma-redundant father takes his family on a strange ‘working holiday’, scrubbing floors in an undersea missile base.
Pygmalion
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Adaptation of the play by Bernard Shaw.
Rumpole's Return
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A bored Rumpole, living in Florida retirement, uses an inquiry from Phyllida as a pretext to re-establish himself back in chambers.
A Photograph
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A man's life is turned upside down when he receives a mysterious photograph in the post.
Almost a Vision
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Champagne dialogue alleviates nervousness of sleeping together.
The House on Highbury Hill
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The path of righteousness is a stony one. And Lo! for Daniel it is stonier than most.
Miss Julie
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Adaptation of the play by Strindberg.
Billy's Last Stand
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Billy is his own boss. But Darkly has plans for him ...
Zigger Zagger
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Zigger Zagger is a 1967 play by Peter Terson which was the first work to be commissioned by the National Youth Theatre who revived it at Wilton's Music Hall in 2017 for its 50th anniversary. Described as a "football opera" in which the cast sing and chant like a Greek chorus, the play was an instant success. The production was directed by Michael Croft while the Musical Director was Colin Farrell. Adopted later by non-league giant killers, Altrincham FC.