Shaun Sutton Movies
- 1982
Windsor is a peaceful town on the Thames where hardly a leaf falls to disturb the silence. And then England's most notorious mischief maker, Sir John Falstaff (Richard Griffiths), arrives from London with his hooligans -- Bardolph (Gordon Gostelow), Nym (Michael Robbins), and Pistol (Nigel Terry) -- to steal and make merry. After breaking into a lodge and killing a deer on private land, they arouse the wrath of the locals. But quick tongues and pleadings of innocence exonerate them and even earn Falstaff a meal at the home of George Page (Bryan Marshall), a Windsor gentleman. There, Falstaff converses with Mrs. Page (Prunella Scales) and her neighbor, Mrs. Ford (Judy Davis), both of whom rule the purse strings of their households. Falstaff then decides to woo both women and charm them free of their money. But after he writes them a love letter -- the same letter word-for-word except for the name of the addressee -- the two "merry wives" compare letters and decide to give Sir John his comeuppance. Meanwhile, Mr. Ford (Ben Kingsley) gets wind of Falstaff's designs on his wife and, riven with jealousy, plots to surprise Falstaff when he comes calling. Scenes ensue in which Mr. Ford bursts through his front door in an attempt to discover Falstaff. The tee-heeing wives couldn't be happier, for these occasions give them a chance to humiliate Falstaff -- once by having him hide in a laundry basket which is dumped in the muddy Thames and another time by dressing as "the fat woman of Brentford." A subplot follows three men as they woo Mrs. Page's lovely daughter, Anne (Miranda Foster). In the end, Falstaff acknowledges his bad behavior, Anne Page gets her man, and good feelings abound. ~ Mike Cummings, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ben Kingsley
- 1982
This adaptation of William Shakespeare's drama of an aging king and the deceit and treachery that envelops his family as they fight over his estate features Mike Kellen, David Groh, Kitty Winn and Darryl Hickman. The DVD version features bonus features accessible on computers with DVD drives -- a teacher's guide to King Lear, and a text for this edition of the play. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mike Kellin
- 1960
Long unseen but fondly remembered, the BBC drama series The Long Way Home was set during WWII. A group of British prisoners spent the bulk of the series' 30-minute episodes escaping from a German POW camp and returning to their own lines, little suspecting that their escape was carefully stage-managed by the enemy, and that there was a Nazi spy among them. The cast included Arthur Lowe, later the star of the rather more lighthearted wartime series Dad's Army. Subtitled The Escape the Germans Allowed, The Long Way Home originally aired in Britain in 1960. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1953
One of the BBC's earliest children's TV series, The Great Detective debuted on Saturday, July 4, 1953. In the first three episodes, the titular Great Detective (a Sherlock Holmes lampoon) was played by John Hewer. Then, suddenly and without explanation, Hewer was replaced by Graham Stark. Boasting a typically steller British supporting cast, The Great Detective ended its biweekly, six-episode run on September 26, 1953. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
