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A Boat Against the Current (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
“I say, you’re a very attractive woman!”—Ralph Richardson, star of Long Day’s Journey Into Night , after dancing with co-star Katharine Hepburn at the film’s wrap party, quoted in A. Scott Berg, Kate Remembered (2003) Richardson made his comment in 1962, but you can get an idea what he was talking about 20 years before, in this iconic image from...
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The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
UK Animated Feature Film Director: Martin Rosen Writers: Martin Rosen, Richard Adams Animation Director: Tony Guy Composer: Angela Morley Cast: John Hurt, Richard Briers, Michael Graham-Cox, John Bennett, Ralph Richardson, Simon Cadell, Harry Andrews, Hannah Gordon, Nigel Hawthorne After one of their number has a premonition of impending doom, a group of rabbits leave their warren and...
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Twitch (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
... array of talent. Rotating through the episodes are notables like Jim Broadbent, Hugh Laurie, Ralph Richardson, Tom Baker, Stephen Frye, Brian Blessed and Helen Mirren. Brit-philes will find even more. Add to that the enormous amount of supplemental material including new interviews, commentaries with all the principles etc. and this has to be one of the best sets of the year. 6 Discs...
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Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... The stellar early-70's British cast includes Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Patrick Magee, and Sir Ralph Richardson as the Crypt-Keeper. One of the movie's highlights involves twin walls of razor blades. 3. The Host (2006) Toxic waste creates a tentacled river beast in this monster movie par excellence. South Korea's all-time box office champ is a bloody riff on Godzilla with a dark...
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Time (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... musical version) and Michael Caine (with the Muppets) on the big screen, and by John Carradine, Ralph Richardson, Fredric March, George C. Scott and country star Hoyt Axton on the small. The story was worked into episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man (they called it A Bionic Christmas Carol) and Blackadder. Among the dozen or so animated adaptations are ones starring Mr. Magoo and...
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Daily Express (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
It is unsurprising that the author was transfixed with the place and its rich history: there are at least 52,000 graves with more than 167,000 people buried there. Of those there are an estimated 850 notable names. The actor Sir Ralph Richardson chose Highgate to be his last resting place as did comedian Max Wall, actress Sheila Gish, writers Christina Rossetti, George Eliot and Douglas...