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1971
Raid on Rommel Colour
A WW2 drama in which Burton plays Captain Foster, who releases prisoners to attack
Trobruk. The film was originally meant for TV.
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| Screenplay: Richard
Bluel |
| Producer: Harry
Tatelman |
| Director: Henry
Hathaway |
| Running time:
93 minutes |
| Country: USA |
| Available
from Amazon.com |
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1971
Villain B&W
Burton side-steps the confines of roles that made him the world’s highest
paid movie star to play Vic Dakin, a homosexual East End thug who rules by fear,
yet is loved by his mother. The film is successfully black, violent and ugly.
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| Screenplay: Dick
Clement, Ian La Frenais, Al Lettieri |
| Producer: |
| Director: Michael
Tuchner |
| Running time:
93 minutes |
| Country: UK |
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1971
Under Milk Wood Colour
A screen version of Dylan Thomas’ celebrated radio play. Burton plays First
Voice – the narrator – with comfortable familiarity. He not only knew
Dylan well, but also had already performed the play on radio. In both versions
Burton’s voice, once again, raises the hairs on our necks. Outstanding work.
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| Screenplay: Andrew
Sinclair |
| Producer: Jules
Buck, Hugh French |
| Director: Andrew
Sinclair |
| Running time:
87 minutes |
| Country: UK |
| Available
from Amazon.co.uk |
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1972
The Assassination of Trotsky
Colour
Burton energetically portrays Trotsky in this historical drama about the assassination
of the Russian revolutionary. Shot on authentic locations, Alan Delon stars as
Frank Jacson, the assassin charged by Stalin to commit the fatal deed.
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| Screenplay: Nicholas
Mosley, Masolino D'Amico |
| Producer: Norman
Priggen, Joseph Losey |
| Director: Joseph
Losey |
| Running time:
102 minutes |
| Country: France,
Italy |
| Available
from Amazon.co.uk |
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1972
Bluebeard Colour
Burton plays Baron Kurt von Sepper, a WW1 pilot who is admired as a ladykiller
and literally is one.
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| Screenplay: Ennio
De Concini, Edward Dmytryk, Maria Pia Fuscc |
| Producer: Alexander
Salkind |
| Director: Edward
Dmytryk |
| Running time:
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| Country: France,
Italy, West Germany, Hungary |
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from Amazon.com |
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1972
Hammersmith is Out Colour
Burton plays a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor, whose
sanity is also questionable.
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| Screenplay: Standford
Whitmore |
| Producer: Alex
Lucas |
| Director: Peter
Ustinov |
| Running time:
114 minutes |
| Country: USA |
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1972
The Fifth Offensive Colour
As Marshall Tito, Burton portrays the breakthrough of a German encirclement. The
actor persuaded the producers to rewrite his role to mirror the first-hand account
of the battle by F W D Deakin in his book The Embattled Mountain. The film
was originally released under the title The Battle of Sutjeska.
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| Screenplay: Branimir
Scepanovic, Sergei Bondarchuk, Wolf Mankowitz |
| Producer: Nikola
Popovic |
| Director: Stipe
Delic |
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| Country: Yugoslavia |
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1973
Massacre in Rome
Colour
Based on a true story, Burton stars with Marcello Mastroianni as a priest who
tries to stop mass executions in retaliation for the death of German troops by
partisans.
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| Screenplay: George
Pan Cosmatos, Robert Katz |
| Producer: Carlo
Ponti |
| Director: George
Pan Cosmatos |
| Running time:
95 minutes |
| Country: Italy,
France |
| Available
from Amazon.co.uk |
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1974
The Klansman Colour
Burton plays Breck Stancill, a simple landowner to Lee Marvin as Sheriff Big Track
Bascomb, in this film about simmering racial tensions in a small southern town
between civil rights activists and active members of the Klu Klux Klan.
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| Screenplay: Millard
Kaufman, Samuel Fuller |
| Producer: William
Alexander |
| Director: Terence
Young |
| Running time:
107 minutes |
| Country: USA |
| Available
from Amazon.com |
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1974
The Voyage Colour
Based on Pirandello’s story of two lovers, unable to marry, who are destroyed
by fate. Burton plays Cesar opposite Sophia Loren as Adriana.
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| Screenplay: Diego
Fabbri, Massimo Franciosa, Luisa Montagnana |
| Producer: Carlo
Ponti |
| Director: Vittorio
De Sica |
| Running time:
101 minutes |
| Country: Italy |
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1975
Jackpot Colour
Only half of this film was made. Burton is cast as Reid Lawerence, an actor who
is paralysed by a falling lift.
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| Screenplay: Millard
Kaufman, Peter Draper |
| Producer: William
Alexander |
| Director: Terence
Young |
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1977
Exorcist II: The Heretic Colour
Much less a sequel than a rethinking of the original source material. The focus
here is on the quest of Father Lamont, played by Burton, to deal with the demon
still present in Linda Blair.
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| Screenplay: William
Goodhart |
| Producer: Richard
Lederer, John Boorman |
| Director: John
Boorman |
| Running time:
112 minutes |
| Country: USA |
| Available
from Amazon.com |
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1977
Equus Colour
Originally a play by Peter Shaffer, this is a powerful psychological drama about
a boy whose repressed emotions lead him to blind six horses. Burton takes the
role of Martin Dysart the psychologist. Martin’s long speeches suit Burton’s
strong narrative abilities.
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| Screenplay: Peter
Shaffer |
| Producer: Lester
Persky |
| Director: Sidney
Lumet |
| Running time:
132 minutes |
| Country: USA |
| Available
from Amazon.com |
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1978
Absolution Colour
Burton plays a priest in a Catholic boarding school for boys. His protégé
runs away with a hippie and commits murder. The boy’s confessions cause complete
consternation for Burton who is compelled to find the corpses.
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| Screenplay: Anthony
Schaffer |
| Producer: |
| Director: Anthony
Page |
| Running time:
91 minutes |
| Country: UK |
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1978
Sergeant Steiner Colour
As a sequel to Sam Pekinpah’s Cross of Iron, this wartime drama is
set in the period towards the end of WW2. Burton as Sergeant Steiner, attempts
to secure a ceasefire and surrender. The film was also released under the title
Breakthrough.
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| Screenplay: Peter
Berneis, Tony Williamson |
| Producer: Wolfgang
Hartwig |
| Director: Andrew
V McLaglen |
| Running time:
115 minutes |
| Country: Germany,
UK |
| Available
from Amazon.de |
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1978
The Medusa Touch Colour
Supported by an impressive cast of British actors – Michael Horden, Gordon
Jackson and Derek Jacobi – Burton plays a novelist driven to the brink by
his murderous mental powers in this supernatural thriller.
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| Screenplay: John
Briley, Jack Gold |
| Producer: |
| Director: Jack
Gold |
| Running time:
104 minutes |
| Country: France,
UK |
| Available
from Amazon.co.uk |
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1978
The Wild Geese Colour
A real Boys Own action adventure film which races along as a good action
film should. Burton plays mercenary leader Allen Faulkner, hired by a wealthy
and unscrupulous merchant banker to rescue an imprisoned African leader. Roger
Moore, Richard Harris, Hardy Kruger and Stewart Granger all look as if they are
enjoying their roles.
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| Screenplay: Reginald
Rose |
| Producer: Euan
Lloyd |
| Director: Andrew
V McLaglen |
| Running time:
128 minutes |
| Country: UK |
| Available
from Amazon.com |
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1979
Lovespell Colour
Burton is cast as the ageing King Mark of Cornwall in this film of Wagner’s
opera. Filmed in Ireland, it was also released under the title Tristan and
Iseult/Isolde.
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| Screenplay: Claire
Labine |
| Producer: Tom
Hayes, Claire Labine |
| Director: Tom
Donovan |
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