Kenneth Cope Movies

This dramatic love story takes place in a British prison. Rachel, a young dentist, decides to take a part-time job at a nearby prison after she and her husband are separated. There, she meets Philip, whose ten-year incarceration for killing his girlfriend is almost up. Rachel and Philip fall in love, which is a breach of Rachel's professional contract. Towler, fellow inmate and former drug dealer, finds out and blackmails Rachel into bringing contraband to prison. When Rachel learns that she is to bring a gun to Towler, she changes her mind, but as she tries to leave she finds herself a target in a shoot-out. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

In the second episode of the four-part story "Warrior's Gate," both the TARDIS and a slave ship captained by Rorvik (Clifford Rose) are trapped in the void between E-Space and N-Space. The Doctor (Tom Baker) soon realizes that the void is rapidly shrinking, imperiling the lives of all concerned. As for Rorvik, he seems interested only in "having his way" with the Doctor's companion Romana (Lalla Ward). Written by Steve Gallagher, "Warrior's Gate, Episode 2" first aired on January 10, 1981. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

In the conclusion of the four-part story "Warrior's Gate," the efforts by Rorvik (Clifford Rose) to save himself from the rapidly shrinking void between E-Space and N-Space result in the release of the Tharil slaves imprisoned on Rorvik's vessel. Joing the Tharils, Romana (Lalla Ward) prepares to embark upon a lengthy journey in E-Space, while the Doctor (Tom Baker) and Adric (Matthew Waterhouse are catapulted in an entirely different direction. Written by Steve Gallagher, "Warrior's Gate, Episode 4" first aired on January 24, 1981. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Created by Ronnie Taylor, the British sitcom A Sharp Intake of Breath was a Don Quixote for the 1970s. David Jason starred as Peter Barnes, a low-level working stiff who spent his life fighting a losing battle against bureaucratic red tape. Helping Peter cope as best she could was his long-suffering young wife Sheila, played by Jacqueline Clarke. Dependable comic actors Richard Wilson and Alun Armstrong appeared in all 22 half-hour episodes, always playing different characters in each installment. The sprightly animated "bridges" between scenes were provided by Mel Calman. Debuting with its pilot episode on July 25, 1977, A Sharp Intake of Breath was seen from February 20, 1978 to February 15, 1981, courtesy of ATV. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

As indicated by the title, the main setting for this British anthology series was a village hall somewhere in the farm region. The cast remained the same from week to week, but their characters changed and the stories themselves were set in different time periods. Among the prominent playwrights contributing their talents to this ambitious project were Kenneth Cope and Willis Hall. The first of the 14 hour-long episodes of Village Hall was broadcast on July 16, 1974. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Following his successful foray into swashbuckler comedy with The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers, director Richard Lester made what has proved to be one of the few quality films from the disaster craze that dominated filmmaking in the mid-'70s. Juggernaut is the pseudonym of a madman (Freddie Jones) who plants several steel drums aboard a luxury liner and calls the company's officials once the boat has put out to sea, demanding a large sum of money in exchange for instructions on how to defuse bombs inside the drums. Anthony Hopkins plays one of the company officials whose wife and children are aboard the ship, Omar Sharif is the ship's captain, Shirley Knight is a passenger who is also his mistress, and Richard Harris and David Hemmings are two members of the bomb disposal team, which is helicoptered onto the ship to defuse the explosives. As in many of Lester's best works, humor pops up in unexpected places; particularly memorable are Harris as the weary but wisecracking top dog among the explosives experts and Lester regular Roy Kinnear as a bumbling entertainment director desperately trying to distract the apprehensive passengers. ~ Tom Wiener, All Movie Guide

In this pre-Monty Python parody of private-eye movies by Graham Chapman and John Cleese, someone has stolen nerve gas that paralyzes victims from the waist down. Now the bumbling boys at Rentadick, Inc. must find them before it is too late. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

In this episode of the popular British comedy series, the characters must cope with the chaos caused when big business and the unions get together. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

This violent western finds a son leaving his father and family behind in the wake of the elder's violent guerilla warfare against society at large. David Galt (Vince Edwards) leaves his Confederate war-veteran father Josiah (Jack Palance) behind and settles in Texas. The son changes his name, living in relative solitude until his father's gang invades Texas six years later. Father and son battle it out in the inevitable showdown in this family feud. Neville Brand plays the Federal marshall. George Maharis and Christian Roberts play the sons of Parson Josiah Galt, the man driven insane by the death of his wife during the Civil War. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

A former World War II submarine captain and his friend turn to smuggling when a former crew member lays out a plan to retrieve some hidden diamonds. Geoffrey (Richard Johnson) and his sidekick David (Roy Dotrice) listen to Riker (Jeremy Kemp) as he tells of the hidden treasure near the Skeleton Coast of Africa. Julie (Honor Blackman) is the passenger whose late husband supposedly hid the diamonds. With a dim-witted German named Johann (Peter Vaughan) as their guide, the crew battle fierce storms and underwater danger as they make the treacherous trek to collect the missing diamonds in this action adventure. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

The famed British horror trio of Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and director Terence Fisher brought John Lymington's sci-fi novel Night of the Big Heat to the screen in this slow-moving shocker. The plot concerns a small British island where alien protoplasm creatures are attempting to raise the temperatures to match those of their home planet. The result is a winter heat-wave so intense that most of the island's residents go up in flames. Lee and Cushing are among the few survivors able to battle the malignant extraterrestrial scourge. Fisher proves once again that his deliberately paced directorial style is better suited to Gothic horror than to what should be fast-moving sci-fi. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide

The eponymous partners in this British melodrama are played by Anthony Dawson and Basil Henson. Zena Walker, the unhappy wife of Dawson, talks Henson into murdering her spouse and taking over the business. His next step is to kill his own wife, thus smoothing the path of his romance with Walker. Detective Kenneth Cope smells a rat, despite Walker's carefully laid scheme. Change Partners is a rare non-Edgar Wallace production from Merton Park Studios. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

This suspenseful crime drama features cameo appearances by some of Great Britain's more popular pop groups of the mid-1960s as it tells the tale of an ex-crook who finds success managing several of the groups. The trouble begins when a master jewel thief blackmails him into becoming a gem smuggler. Together, they set sail across the Channel to get a fortune in diamonds safely to Amsterdam. They are pursued by two determined detectives. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide