TV Guide: Claire Bloom

Listing: The Buccaneer

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:00:00 -0400

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Listing: The Haunting

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:30:00 -0400

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Listing: As the World Turns

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:00:00 -0400

Mon Oct 20 02:00 PM CBS

Listing: The Outrage

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:00:00 -0400

Mon Oct 13 04:00 AM TCM

Video: The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:07:50 -0400

A British agent infiltrates the enemy by allowing himself to be disgraced at home in The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1965) starring Richard Burton and Claire Bloom.

Video: Separate Tables

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:57:47 -0400

British filmmaker John Schlesinger directs Separate Tables, a made-for-cable TV version of the Terence Rattigan plays {+Table By the Window} and {+Table Number Seven}. This 50-minute adaptation features Julie Christie and Alan Bates, each in a dual role. Set in a sleepy British town, a group of residents hide out in a hotel during the off-season and try to forget their troubles. Things get upset when former model Ann Shankland (Julie Christie) comes to visit her alcoholic ex-husband John Malcolm (Alan Bates). He is a struggling writer secretly in love with the hotel's owner, Pat Cooper (Claire Bloom). Other residents of the hotel include the overbearing Mrs. Railton-Bell (Irene Worth), whose distrubed daughter Sibyl (Christie) is strangely attracted to Major Pollock (Bates), a man who claims to be a military officer. The feature-length version of Separate Tables was released theatrically in 1958, starring Burt Lancaster and Wendy Hiller. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide.

Video: Look Back In Anger

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:21:33 -0400

Archetypal British angry young man Jimmy Porter (Richard Burton) is a college-educated bloke who can't seem to get any better job than working in a candy store. Jimmy's relationship with his wife Alison (Mary Ure) alternates between hugs and kisses when he's feeling good and verbal abuse when he's down on himself, which is often. Alison's best friend Helena Charles (Claire Bloom) advises Alison to escape her injurious marriage. Left with no one for a punching bag, Jimmy romances Helena. Having suffered a miscarriage, Alison returns, and Helena walks out of Jimmy's life. In keeping with its depiction of the dead-end existence of most of England's working poor in the late 1950s, nothing is truly resolved in Look Back in Anger. Playwright John Osborne (at that time married to Mary Ure) uses Jimmy Porter as a spokesman for Osborne's own spleen-venting harangues against the British government and class system. Not only did Look Back in Anger spawn a new genre of British social-protest films, but it also inspired t

Video: Haunting, The

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:52:55 -0400

One of the most highly regarded haunted house films ever produced, Robert Wise's The Haunting (based on Shirley Jackson's novel {-The Haunting of Hill House}) weaves the dark tale of a questionably sane young woman and a sinister house which holds a terrifying past. Invited to join anthropologist Dr. Markway (Richard Johnson), ESP expert Theodora (Claire Bloom), and probable heir to the estate Luke Sanderson (Russ Tamblyn) in order to dispel the near mythical tales that surround the house, unstable Eleanor Vance (Julie Harris) agrees to spend a few nights in the house following the death of her mother. As they slowly begin to discover, the horrific and seemingly unbelievable tales may hold more truth than the skeptical guests might have previously expected. With a seemingly unstoppable supernatural force lurking in every shadow, the probability of anyone escaping the evil clutch of the cursed mansion seems increasingly remote. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide.

Video: Alexander The Great

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:37:42 -0400

Richard Burton, Frederic March and Claire Bloom star in this saga of the famous Greek who conquered the world before his death at the age of thirty-three.

Video: Alexander The Great

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:37:08 -0400

Richard Burton, Frederic March and Claire Bloom star in this saga of the famous Greek who conquered the world before his death at the age of thirty-three.

Video: Claire Bloom and Rod Steiger

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:57:13 -0400

Claire Bloom shot to fame as a beautiful but paralysed young girl in 'Limelight'. Her marriage to one of the greatest method actors of his generation lasted through a turbulent decade.

Video: World of Emily Dickinson

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:29:44 -0400

The acclaimed Claire Bloom portrays the reclusive Emily Dickinson in this touching and dramatic presentation of her 'letters to the world'.Includes: 'This is my letter to the World' 'I'll tell you how the Sun rose' 'Safe in their Alabaster Chambers' 'Surgeons must be very careful' 'Dear March-Come in' 'A Bird came down the Walk' 'A narrow Fellow in the Grass' 'Further in Summer than the Birds' 'There's a certain Slant of light' 'The Sky is low-the Clouds are mean' 'A Route of Evanescence' 'Faith is a fine invention' 'A word is dead' 'Presentiment-is that long Shadow-on the Lawn' 'To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee' 'Before I got my eye put out' 'I never saw a Moor-' 'I reckon-when I count at all-' 'Success is counted sweetest' 'I know some lonely Houses off the Road' 'We do not know the time we lose-' 'Heart! We will forget him!' 'I got so I could hear his name-' 'Wild Nights-Wild Nights!' 'Because I could not stop for Death-' 'My life closed twice before its close' 'I heard a Fly buzz-when I die

Video: World of Emily Dickinson

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:53:08 -0400