Movies starring Roger Lloyd-Pack
The Go-Between (1970)Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 |
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Summer 1900: Queen Victoria’s last and the summer Leo turns 13. He’s the guest of Marcus, a wealthy classmate, at a grand home in rural Norfolk. Leo is befriended by Marian, Marcus’s twenty-something sister, a beauty about to be engaged to Hugh, a viscount and good fellow. Marian buys Leo a forest-green suit, takes him on walks, and asks him to carry messages to and from their neighbor, Ted Burgess, a bit of a rake. Leo is soon dissembling, realizes he’s betraying Hugh, but continues as the go-between nonetheless, asking adults naive questions about the attractions of men and women. Can an affair between neighbors stay secret for long? And how does innocence end? |
Fright (1971)Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 |
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Young babysitter Amanda arrives at the Lloyd residence to spend the evening looking after their young son. Soon after the Lloyds leave, a series of frightening occurrences in the gloomy old house have Amanda’s nerves on edge. The real terror begins, however, when the child’s biological father appears after recently escaping from a nearby mental institution. Search keywords |
Vanity Fair (2004)Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 |
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The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess, armed with pluck, a keen wit, good looks, fluent French, and an eye for social advancement. Society tries its best to keep her from climbing. An episodic narrative follows her for 20 years, through marriage, Napoleonic wars, a child, loyalty to a school friend, the vicissitudes of the family whose daughters she instructed, and attention from a bored marquess who collected her father’s paintings. Honesty tempers her schemes. No aristocrat she, nor bourgeois, just spirited, intelligent, and irrepressible. Search keywords |
The Living and the Dead (1951)Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 |
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A descent in Hell is launched when “ex-lord Donald Brocklebank” notes that he must leave the Home Longleigh for London to find a way to pay for medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone her surprotégé, deranged son, adult, James, imagination himself responsible for the manor with her mother ill terminalement and barricades two of them in the home for a series of treatments of family never more thrown into a panic, by protecting her by accident from the arrival of male nurse Mary and from any external help. Une descente dans l’Enfer est déclenchée quand “Ex-seigneur Donald Brocklebank” constate qu’il doit quitter la Maison Longleigh pour Londres pour trouver une voie de payer pour les traitements médicaux pour sa femme Nancy. Seul, son fils surprotégé, délirant, adulte, James, imaginations lui-même responsables du manoir avec sa mère terminalement malade et des barricades deux d’entre eux dans la maison pour une série de traitements de famille jamais plus paniqués, en la protégeant par erreur de l’arrivée d’Infirmier Mary et de n’importe quelle aide extérieure. |
