Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)
Drama
At the end of a long and hot summer day, members of one family gather in a large house. Everyone has something painful and offensive to say, and their silence is even worse.
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards, Dean Stockwell
Director: Sidney Lumet
Watership Down (1978)
Adventure | Animation | Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
With this passion project, screenwriter-producer-director Martin Rosen brilliantly achieved what was thought difficult, if not impossible: a faithful big-screen adaptation of Richard Adams’s classic British dystopian novel about a community of rabbits seeking safety and happiness after their warren comes under terrible threat. With its naturalistic hand-drawn animation, dreamily expressionistic touches, gorgeously bucolic background design, and elegant voice work from such superb English actors as John Hurt, Ralph Richardson, Richard Briers, and Denholm Elliott, Watership Down is an emotionally arresting, dark-toned allegory about freedom amid political turmoil.
Starring: John Hurt, Richard Briers, Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliott, Roy Kinnear, Nigel Hawthorne
Director: Martin Rosen
The Fallen Idol (1948)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A butler working in a foreign embassy in London falls under suspicion when his wife accidentally falls to her death, the only witness being an impressionable young boy.
Starring: Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel, Denis O'Dea, Jack Hawkins, Bobby Henrey
Director: Carol Reed
Dragonslayer (1981)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy
A King has made a pact with a dragon where he sacrifices virgins to it, and the dragon leaves his kingdom alone. An old wizard, and his keen young apprentice volunteer to kill the dragon and attempt to save the next virgin in line, the Kings own daughter.
Starring: Peter MacNicol, Ralph Richardson, John Hallam, Peter Eyre, Albert Salmi, Sydney Bromley
Director: Matthew Robbins
The 300 Spartans (1962)
Adventure | Drama | History | War
Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of them his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army now thought to have numbered 250,000. The actual heroism of those who stood (and ultimately died) with Leonidas helped shape the course of Western Civilization, allowing the Greek city states time to organize an army which repelled the Persians. Set in 480 BC.
Starring: Richard Egan, Ralph Richardson, Diane Baker, David Farrar, Donald Houston, Robert Brown
Director: Rudolph Maté
O Lucky Man! (1973)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Music
This sprawling, surrealist musical serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in Europe. Many actors play multiple roles, giving the film a stagy tone.
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts, Arthur Lowe, Helen Mirren, Graham Crowden
Director: Lindsay Anderson
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
Adventure | Drama | Romance
A shipwreck strands the heir to an English title and his wife in the wilds of 19th Century Africa, where the wife gives birth to a son. When both parents are killed, a female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him. Twenty years later, an explorer, Capt. Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man, who thinks he is an ape. Evidence left by the deceased parents reveals that the wild man is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, whom Capt. D'Arnot attempts to return to civilization.
Starring: Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell, Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm, James Fox, Cheryl Campbell
Director: Hugh Hudson
The Four Feathers (1939)
Adventure | Drama | Romance | War
Amidst the British Empire's conquest of Africa, a young officer must fight to redeem himself after being accused of cowardice by fellow officers.
Starring: John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith, June Duprez, Allan Jeayes
Director: Zoltan Korda
Exodus (1960)
Action | Drama | History | War
The theme is the founding of the state of Israel. The action begins on a ship filled with Jewish immigrants bound for Israel who are being off loaded on Cyprus. An Intelligence officer succeeds in getting them back on board their ship only to have the harbor blocked by the British with whom they must negotiate. The second part of the film is about the situation in Israel as independence is declared and most of their neighbors attack them.
Starring: Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb
Director: Otto Preminger
Battle of Britain (1969)
Action | Drama | War
A powerful, colourful and star-studded re-creation of the epic 1940 battle that took place in the skies over England. Surprised and understaffed, the British forces used determination and guile to valiantly hold off the superior forces of the German Luftwaffe in the early days of World War II. If England had lost, the Germans may very well have won the war. The incredible cast includes Michael Caine, Robert Shaw, Curt Jurgens, and Laurence Olivier, in a no-expense-spared production featuring stunning airborne dog-fight sequences.
Starring: Harry Andrews, Trevor Howard, Michael Caine, Curd Jürgens, Ralph Richardson
Director: Guy Hamilton
