Joseph Losey

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Big Night, The (1951): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. John Jr. Barrymore, Preston Foster, Joan Lorring…; Tense melodrama has Barrymore traumatised by watching his father submit to a beating at the hands of a petty gangster. Setting out to avenge his…
Prowler, The (1951): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell…; This underseen "perv noir" deliciously subverts archetypes by twisting its menacing male lead (a terrific Van Heflin) into a 'homme fatale', replete…
Sleeping Tiger (1954): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde; Suave street–crim Dirk Bogarde is sheltered by one of his victims, a psychiatrist who attempts to cure Bogarde's 'illness'. Shot with a baroque…
Time Without Pity (1957): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Leo McKern, Ann Todd…; Nervy noir has Michael Redgrave in top form as an alcoholic father racing against time to save his son from the gallows. Somewhat dated thriller…
Criminal, The (1960): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Sam Wanamaker, Gregoire Aslan; Joseph–Losey–directed crime drama of a con sent to prison after a profitable robbery who is tortured by his fellow prisoners to leak…
Eva (1962): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Sir Stanley Baker, Virna Lisi…; Jeanne Moreau is that obscure object of desire which novelist Stanley Baker falls for, and is taken for a ride. Interesting, if lurid Losey melodrama…
Servant, The (1963): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles; First collaboration between playwright Harold Pinter and dir. Losey is an elegant diagram of English class cruelties, with man–servant Dirk…
Damned, The (These Are The Damned) (1963): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Viveca Lindfors…; Dir. Joseph Losey’s bleak but brilliant movie about a breed of radioactive children groomed to withstand a nuclear apocalypse is one of best…
King and Country (1964): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern; Earnest, expertly acted drama in which a detached army lawyer (Dirk Bogarde) attempts to defend a working–class deserter (Tom Courtenay) during…
Modesty Blaise (1966): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Monica Vitti, Dirk Bogarde, Terence Stamp…; Comic–strip style adventures of a sexy female spy, filmed at the height of the pop–art craze.
Accident (1967): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Vivien Merchant, Michael York; The second classic Joseph Losey / Harold Pinter collaboration takes place in a deceptively placid Oxford University setting, that conceals…
Secret Ceremony (1968): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow, Robert Mitchum…; Farrow resembles Taylor's dead daughter, Taylor resembles Farrow's dead mother, and their meeting has strange results. Originally an excellent…
Boom! (1968): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Sir Noel Coward…; Thud: Only film buffs who admire Losey's very original directorial style are likely to appreciate fuzzy adaptation of Tennessee Williams' The Milk…
Figures in a Landscape (1970): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Robert Shaw, Malcolm McDowell; A unique ‘chase’ thriller from dir. Losey, taking place in an enigmatic near future – with Malcolm Macdowell and Robert Shaw fleeing a menacing…
Go-Between, The (1971): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Julie Christie, Alan Bates; A young boy acts as a secret messenger for class–divided lovers Julie Christie and Alan Bates during a hot Norfolk summer in Edwardian England.…
A Doll's House (1973): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Jane Fonda; Jane Fonda plays the liberated 19th Century woman of Ibsen's play.
Romantic Englishwoman, The (1975): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Glenda Jackson, Michael Caine; The marriage of Glenda Jackson and Michael Caine becomes threatened by the presence of another man. Low–key cocktail of satire, intrigue and…
American Film Theatre - Galileo (1975): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Topol, John Gielgud, Patrick Magee…; A generally satisfactory version of Bertolt Brecht's stageplay concerning the ethical dilemmas of the scientist Galileo, who among other things…
Mr. Klein (1976): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau; A dark, dread–inducing moral tale, with Delon fleecing vulnerable Jews under German–occupied–France, only to be mistaken by…
Don Giovanni (1979): Dir. Joseph Losey; Possibly the most celebrated filmed version of Mozart's greatest opera, about a notorious womaniser who teeters on the edge of a hellish fate.…
Steaming (1985): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, Brenda Bruce…; A low–rent London bathhouse is the setting for six women’s weekly get–togethers, in this adaptation of Neil Dunn’s stageplay. Often…

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