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1960
The Bramble Bush Colour
Burton plays a New England doctor who returns to his home town and falls in love
with his dying friend’s wife. Adapted from a bestseller by Charles Mergendahl.
Corruption and adultery feature heavily.
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| Screenplay: Milton
Sperling, Philip Yordan |
| Producer: Milton
Sperling |
| Director: Daniel
Petrie |
| Running time:
93 minutes |
| Country: USA |
| Available
from Amazon.com |
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1960
Ice Palace Colour
The backdrop of this film is the development of Alaska from 1918 to statehood
in 1958 and the trials of Zeb Kennedy, played by Burton.
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| Screenplay: Harry
Kleiner |
| Producer: Henry
Blanke |
| Director: Vincent
Sherman |
| Running time:
160 minutes |
| Country: USA |
| Available
from Amazon.com |
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1962
The Longest Day B&W
A colossal war movie portraying the WW2 D-Day landings. Burton stars alongside
Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Kenneth Moore, Robert Mitchum, and Sean Connery. Burton
speaks the best line: ‘I don’t mind being one of the few; trouble is
we keep getting fewer.’
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| Screenplay: Cornelius
Ryan, Romain Gary |
| Producer: Darryl
F Zanuck |
| Director: Andrew
Marton, Ken Annakin, Bernhard Wick |
| Running time:
168 minutes |
| Country: USA |
| Available
from Amazon.com |
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1963
Cleopatra Colour
‘The motion picture the world has been waiting for!’, rang the publicity
machine for this epic, glorious, historical drama. Burton plays Mark Antony to
Elizabeth Taylor’s Cleopatra – filling their roles to the very brim.
To this day, taking inflation into account, this is the most expensive film ever
made: $40m at the time, approximately $250m in today’s money.
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| Screenplay: Joseph
l Mankieicz, Sidney Buchman, Ranald MacDougall |
| Producer: Walter
Wanger |
| Director: Joseph
L Mankiewicz |
| Running time:
248 minutes |
| Country: USA |
| Available
from Amazon.com |
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1963
The VIPs Colour
A slick production telling the tale of a flight delay at Heathrow. The film unfolds
around the ensuing repercussions for the uppity passengers. Burton plays Paul
Andros, married to Frances Andros who is played by Elizabeth Taylor. The cast
also includes Margaret Rutherford, Maggie Smith, Orson Welles and surprisingly,
David Frost.
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| Screenplay: Terrance
Rattigan |
| Producer: Anatole
de Grunwald |
| Director: Anthony
Asquith |
| Running time:
119 minutes |
| Country: UK |
| Available
from Amazon.com |
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1964
Becket Colour
Burton plays the title role alongside Peter O’Toole as King Henry II and
Sir John Gielgud as King Louis VII of France.
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| Screenplay: Edward
Anhalt |
| Producer: Hal
Wallis |
| Director: Peter
Glenville |
| Running time:
119 minutes |
| Country: |
| Available
from Amazon.com |
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1964
Night of the Iguana B&W
Based on the Tennessee Willams play, Burton stars as Reverend Laurence Shannon,
a defrocked cleric who is trying to find God again. With Deborah Kerr and Ava
Gardner also starring the tagline reads: ‘One man, three women, one night’.
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| Screenplay: Anthony
Veiller, John Huston |
| Producer: Ray
Stark |
| Director: John
Huston |
| Running time:
112 minutes |
| Country: USA |
| Available
from Amazon.com |
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1964
On the trail of the Iguana Colour
This short documentary made for the promotion of The Night of the Iguana
focuses mainly on John Huston and how he manages to realize his vision for a film.
Many of the actors from the film explain what it is like to be directed by Huston.
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| Screenplay: |
| Producer: |
| Director: Ross
Lowell |
| Running time:
14 minutes |
| Country: USA |
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1964
Hamlet B&W
Burton more than fills the title role in this filmed recording of two public performances
of the New York theatrical production.
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| Director: John
Gielgud |
| Producer: William
Sargent Jr, Alfred W Crown |
| Director: Bill
Colleran |
| Running time: 191
minutes |
| Country: USA |
| Available
from Amazon.com |
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1965
The Sanpiper Colour
A vintage Hollywood Burton-Taylor vehicle. It was filmed at the height of the
public’s mania over the couple. Burton plays an Episcopalian priest who runs
a school to which Taylor’s son is sent. There is a torrid affair, followed
by whistle blowing from a jealous colleague of Burton.
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| Screenplay: Dalton
Trumbo, Michael Wilson, Irene Kamp, Louis Kamp |
| Producer: Martin
Ransohoff |
| Director: Vincente
Minnelli |
| Running time:
112 minutes |
| Country: USA |
| Available
from Amazon.com |
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1965
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold B&W
Classed as the most authentic Cold War films, Burton exercises his acting talent
to full effect as Alec Leamas, a British spy sent to East Germany – supposedly
to defect. With bleak black and white photography and smart directing, this film
adaptation of John Le Carre’s novel, is one of the best of its kind.
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| Screenplay: Paul
Dehn, Guy Trosper |
| Producer: Martin
Ritt |
| Director: Martin
Ritt |
| Running time:
112 minutes |
| Country: UK |
| Available
from Amazon.com |
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1965
What's New, Pussycat? Colour
Woody Allen’s debut as a writer and performer includes Peter Sellers, Peter
O’Toole, Richard Burton, Romy Schneider and Ursula Andrews. While it is rumoured
that Allen is not particularly proud of the unchecked ad-libbing, the film is
hilarious and has a soundtrack written by Burt Baharrach.
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| Screenplay: Woody
Allen |
| Producer: |
| Director: Clive
Donner |
| Running time:
104 minutes |
| Country: USA |
| Available
from Amazon.com |
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1966
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? B&W
Paint-blistering performances by Burton and Taylor who, as fictional husband and
wife, brutally expose their decaying marriage. The two show no mercy in lacerating
each other with verbal volleys in front of their dinner guests – acted by
George Segal and Sandy Dennis. This is a five Oscar-winning exhausting feast and
feat for all involved.
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| Screenplay: Ernest
Lehman |
| Producer: Ernest
Lehman |
| Director: Mike
Nichols |
| Running time:
123 minutes |
| Country: USA |
| Available
from Amazon.com |
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1967
The Comedians Colour
Set in Haiti of ‘Papa Doc Duvalier’, Burton plays a hotel owner who
fatalistically witnesses Haiti slipping into barbarism. Elizabeth Taylor plays
wife to Peter Ustinov, a European ambassador. Burton’s character has to deal
with politically charged guests, a love affair with the ambassador’s wife
and manipulation by a British arms dealer. The cast also includes Alec Guinness
and Lillian Gish.
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| Screenplay: Graham
Green |
| Producer: Peter
Glenville |
| Director: Peter
Glenville |
| Running time:
167 minutes |
| Country: France,
USA |
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1967
Doctor Faustus Colour
Christopher Marlowe’s play, depicting a man who sold his soul to the devil,
was one of Burton’s favourites. He cast himself as Faust and Elizabeth Taylor
(his wife at the time) as Helen of Troy. Burton first put the play on at Oxford
and then utilized his box-office muscle to, finance, produce and co-direct this
screen version.
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| Screenplay: Nevill
Coghill |
| Producer: Richard
Burton |
| Director: Richard
Burton, Nevill Coghill |
| Running time:
167 minutes |
| Country: UK |
| Available
from Amazon.com |
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1967
The Taming of the Shrew Colour
‘In the war between the sexes, there always comes a time for unconditional
surrender,’ reads the tagline for this film of Shakespeare’s play. Acting
at the height of their love affair, Burton and Taylor lift the lead characters
from the page to the screen with tremendous, compelling vitality. Add the rich
photography, sets and costumes and you have pure visual indulgence.
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| Screenplay: Suso
Cecchi D’Amico, Paul Dehn, Franco Zeffirelli |
| Producer: Richard
Burton, Franco Zeffirelli |
| Director: Franco
Zeffirelli |
| Running time:
116 minutes |
| Country: USA,
Italy |
| Available
from Amazon.com |
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1968
Boom Colour
Burton and Taylor star in this adaptation of Tennesse William’s play The
Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore. Noël Coward plays Taylor’s
confident.
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| Screenplay: Tennessee
Williams |
| Producer: John
Heyman, Norman Priggen |
| Director: Joseph
Losey |
| Running time: |
| Country: UK,
USA |
| Available
from Amazon.com |
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1968
Candy Colour
A cast of big names who allegedly got paid $50,000 each for a week’s work
in this kookie satire. Charles Aznavour, Marlon Brando, James Coburn, John Huston,
Walter Matthau, Ringo Starr, John Astin and Anita Pallenberg join Burton.
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| Screenplay: Buck
Henry |
| Producer: Robert
Haggiag |
| Director: Christian
Marquand |
| Running time:
124 minutes |
| Country: France,
Italy, USA |
| Available
from Amazon.com |
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1969
Anne of the Thousand Days Colour
This historical drama focuses on Henry VIII’s obsession with siring a male
heir and the repercussions falling on those around him. Burton plays Henry as
a soulful yet determined monarch. Margaret Furse won an Oscar for the costumes
she designed in this film.
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| Screenplay: Bridget
Boland, John Hale, Richard Sokolove (adaptation) |
| Producer: Hal
Wallis |
| Director: Charles
Jarrott |
| Running time: |
| Country: |
| Available
from Amazon.com |
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1969
Staircase Colour
Burton and Rex Harrison parade as two ageing homosexual hairdressers that have
been living together for 20 years. The film reveals that their relationship does
not withstand the test of time or absence.
| Screenplay: Charles
Dyer |
| Producer: Stanley
Donen |
| Director: Stanley
Donen |
| Running time: |
| Country: UK |
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1969
Where Eagles Dare Colour
A WW2 espionage adventure staring Burton as Major John Smith who is tasked with
leading a crack commando force to rescue a key American General who was captured
by the Nazis. Then, a hugely profitable picture: now, a movie classic.
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| Screenplay: Alistar
MacLean |
| Producer: Elliot
Kaster |
| Director: Brian
G Houston |
| Running time:
148 minutes |
| Country: UK |
| Available
from Amazon.com |
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