Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Richard II (1978)- Dir. David Giles
Feat. Derek Jacobi, John Gielgud, Jon Finch… - Part of the BBC's excellent series of Shakespeare productions, filmed in a 'theatrical' TV environment utilising the best of English acting talent.
Romeo and Juliet (1978)- Dir. Alvin Rakoff
Feat. Patrick Ryecart, Rebecca Saire, Sir Michael Hordern… - Part of the BBC's excellent series of Shakespeare productions, filmed in a 'theatrical' TV environment utilising the best of English acting talent.
Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series) (1978-1992)
- Dir. Herbert Wise
Feat. Leo McKern, Peter Bowles, Patricia Hodge - The much–loved series in which Leo McKern portrayed the rumpled lawyer – created by playwright Sir John Mortimer – who attacks his…
Rutles, The (All You Need is Cash) (1978)- Dir. Gary Weis, Eric Idle
Feat. Michael Palin, John Belushi, Bianca Jagger… - The mock–Beatles twist and "rut" in a spot–on piss–take of the Fab Four, led by Monty Python’s Eric Idle and making a…
Same Time Next Year (1978)- Dir. Robert Mulligan
Feat. Alan Alda, Ellen Burstyn - Genteel yet immensely likeable two–hander based on Bernard Slade's Broadway play with Alda and Burstyn as an adulterous couple who share one…
Sandbaggers, The (TV Series) (1978)- Feat. Roy Marsden, Alan MacNaughtan
- The Sandbaggers is a nickname for the Special Section of the British SIS – a team of special agents deployed undercover in hostile situations…
Scared Straight! (1978)- Dir. Alan Shapiro
Feat. Peter Falk, Danny Glover - A famous, Oscar–winning documentary in which a group of 17 budding teenage crims are shown the harsh realities of prison life, chiefly being…
Second Awakening of Christina Klages, The (Das zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages) (1978)- Dir. Margarethe von Trotta
- A young woman robs a bank to pay for her daughter’s day–care. On the run, she is pursued by the police along with the cashier she has taken…
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)- Dir. Michael Schultz
Feat. The Bee Gees, Peter Frampton, Steve Martin… - A blushing musical turkey that contrives a potty narrative from Beatles’ songs interpreted by The Bee Gees and Peter Frampton, along with guest…
Shout, The (1978)- Dir. Jerzy Skolimowski
Feat. Alan Bates, John Hurt, Susannah York… - An intelligent, enigmatic chiller about an asylum inmate with mystical powers who upsets the lives of an avant garde music composer and his wife in…
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