Alvin Rakoff

Alvin Rakoff

출생 : 1927-02-18, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Alvin Rakoff is a Canadian television, stage, and film director, 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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Alvin Rakoff

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Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
Self
Oscar-winning actor Sean Connery is profiled in this segment of "Intimate Portrait." Includes film clips, never-before-seen photos and interviews with
A Haunting Harmony
Director
A young member of a choir becomes friends with a ghost in a school of English cathedral.
Gas and Candles
Director
Black comedy play about two pensioners struggling to manage on an old-age pension and living in a high-rise block of flats.
The Best of Friends
Director
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).
Paradise Postponed
Director
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.
A Voyage Round My Father
Director
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 learns to love in return.
A Talent for Murder
Director
A famed mystery writer and her doctor ex-lover solve her daughter-in-law's murder.
Mr. Halpern and Mr. Johnson
Director
Towards the end of their lives, two old friends discover that one of them was in love with the other one's wife for more than thirty years.
Dirty Tricks
Director
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 about the case, gets chased by the mafia and haunted by a TV reporter (Polly Bishop).
데드 쉽
Director
승객을 싣고 대서양을 횡단하던 유람선이 갑자기 나타난 정체모를 괴선과 충돌한다. 표류하던 몇몇 선원과 승객은 그 괴선을 발견하고는 하는 수 없이 승선한다. 그 배에는 아무도 없었으며, 2차대선 때의 독일 나치 군함으로 추정된다. 스피커에서는 독일 군가가 흐르며 배는 혼자 움직인다. 그런데 그 배에 함께 탔던 선장이 정신 분열을 일으키며 자신이 독인군 지휘관으로 착각을 한다. 그리고 점차 몇몇 사람들이 원인 모를 현상들, 혹은 정신이 이상한 선장에 의해 죽음을 당한다. 급기야 살아남은 사람들은 바다로 뛰어내려 탈출을 시도한다. 구명 보트로 표류하던 이들은 곧 구조 헬기에 의해 발견된다. 하지만 정체 모를 그 유령선은 어디론가 항해를 계속하는데...
City on Fire
Director
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.
King Solomon's Treasure
Producer
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.
King Solomon's Treasure
Director
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.
Romeo & Juliet
Director
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 whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows doth with their death bury their parents' strife.
Three Dangerous Ladies
Director
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.
The Dame of Sark
Director
1976 play. During the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands, Dame Sybil Hathaway comes up against her invading masters.
Mrs. Amworth
Director
A vampire terrorizes a quiet English town.
The Adventures Of Don Quixote
Director
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.
Say Hello to Yesterday
Writer
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.
Say Hello to Yesterday
Director
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.
Hoffman
Director
A businessman blackmails his young secretary into spending a weekend with him.
Crossplot
Director
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.
The Comedy Man
Director
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.
Heart to Heart
Producer
A television interviewer is determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister.
Heart to Heart
Director
A television interviewer is determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister.
On Friday at Eleven
Director
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.
The Ransom of Red Chief
Director
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.
The Treasure of San Teresa
Director
After World War II, an ex-spy returns to Germany to search for a cache of jewels he hid in a Czechoslovakian convent.
Passport to Shame
Director
British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade.