TV Guide: Donald Pleasence

Listing: The Great Escape

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:45:00 +0000

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Video: Great Escape, The -- (Movie Clip) Civilians

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:08:27 +0000

MacDonald and Bartlett, (Gordon Jackson and Richard Attenborough) Hendley and Blythe (James Garner and Donald Pleasence) and Ashley-Pitt (David McCallum) make like civilians in The Great Escape, 1963.

Video: Deathline (a.k.a. Raw Meat) -- (Movie Clip) History

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:53:47 +0000

Richardson (Clive Swift) is pleased to fill in Calhoun (Donald Pleasence) and Rogers (Norman Rossington) on the history of the Russell Square tube station in Deathline (a.k.a. Raw Meat), 1973.

Video: Breed Apart, A

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:39:42 +0000

Surly conservationist Rutger Hauer makes it his life's mission to protect the eggs of the endangered bald eagle. Collector Donald Pleasence wants to appropriate a few of these eggs without invoke Hauer's terrible wrath. Pleasence hires mountain climber Powers Boothe to pose as a magazine photographer, the better to win Hauer's confidence and expedite the egg-poaching. But Boothe is soon converted to Hauer's cause, and with the help of storekeeper Kathleen Turner the two men thwart Pleasence's anti-eco deviltry. While the acting and plotline of A Breed Apart are unremarkable at best, the film is redeemed by the breathtaking location photography of Geoffrey Stephenson. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.

Video: Jesus Of Nazareth

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:14:36 +0000

Because director Franco Zeffirelli noted publicly that he intended to depict Jesus Christ as a human being rather than a religious icon, his expensive made-for-TV miniseries Jesus of Nazareth fell victim to protestors long before its April 3, 1977, debut. Despite the pullout of several sponsors, Jesus of Nazareth was aired as scheduled, sweeping the ratings in the process. In avoiding the usual overproduced Hollywood approach to the Gospels, Zeffirelli offers one of the most sensitive and reverent portrayals of Jesus ever seen on film. In the title role, Robert Powell heads a huge international cast, which includes Olivia Hussey as Mary, Peter Ustinov as Herod the Great, Christopher Plummer as Herod Antipas, Michael York as John the Baptist, James Farentino as Simon Peter, Donald Pleasence as Melchior, James Earl Jones as Balthazar, Ian McShane as Judas, Anne Bancroft as Mary Magdalene, Rod Steiger as Pontius Pilate, James Mason as Joseph of Arimathea, Anthony Quinn as Caiaphas, Laurence Olivier as Nicodemus,

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