Robert Barr Movies
- 1990
Sweet Revenge is a made-for-television comedy about a female lawyer (Carrie Fisher) who is ordered to pay alimony to her ex-husband. She hires an actress (Rosanna Arquette) to marry him, in hopes that she will be able to stop paying alimony. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi
- Starring:
- Rosanna Arquette, Carrie Fisher, (more)
Following the disastrous Pirates (1986), director Roman Polanski got back on creative track with this finely-wrought thriller that, while failing to impress at the box office, was nevertheless his most critically well-received film of the decade. Harrison Ford stars as Richard Walker, an American doctor who has come to Paris, where he's scheduled to deliver a paper to a medical conference. Richard has brought along his wife Sondra (Betty Buckley), because Paris was the site of their honeymoon 20 years earlier. Sondra picks up the wrong suitcase at the airport, which leads to her kidnapping and an ever-more complicated quest that takes Richard into the seedy and dangerous underworld of European drug smuggling and terrorist arms sales. Along the way, he is rebuffed by skeptical officials at the American Embassy and meets Michelle (Emmanuelle Seigner), a sexy courier who agrees to help him in exchange for the money she's owed for trafficking in narcotics. Playing cleverly on American fears about Europe's Byzantine politics and "decadent" society, Frantic received, from many observers, perhaps the greatest compliment possible for a thriller, comparison to the work of Alfred Hitchcock. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
- Starring:
- Harrison Ford, Emmanuelle Seigner, (more)
- 1959
The BBC drama series Spycatcher (aka Spy-Catcher) was based on the actual exploits of Lt. Col. Oreste Pinto, a Dutch intelligence agent who worked for England during WWII. Each episode found Pinto (played by Bernard Archard) interrogating a self-proclaimed Allied serviceman or political refugee. Using all the verbal and psychological tricks at his command, Pinto endeavored to find out if the interviewee was actually a Nazi spy -- which often as not proved to be the case. Nineteen half-hour episodes were telecast over a two-year period, beginning September 3, 1959. This Spycatcher should not be confused with the much-later BBC radio serial of the same name. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1956
Not much is known about the British TV adventure series Secret Mission. The program aired in 1956 over a seven-week period courtesy of Associated Rediffusion, with each episode lasting 25 minutes. Set during WWII, the series dealt with a group of attractive female secret agents who spied against the Germans on behalf of the British. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1956
Jack Hawkins is starred as a gruff, intensely dedicated Scotland Yard superintendent. Working as much by instinct as through scientific methods, Hawkins and rookie sergeant John Stratton tackle the case of a string of unsolved safecrackings, committed by the elusive Richard Leech. This Dragnet approach gives way to suspense as robbery leads to murder. A neat surprise twist caps this finely honed example of British moviemaking know-how. The Long Arm was released in the U.S. as The Third Key. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jack Hawkins, John Stratton, (more)
- 1952
The Oracle stars Robert Beatty as a weary British reporter sent on assignment to Ireland. While in a remote village, Beatty hears a man's voice emanating from a deep well. The voice turns out to be a modern-day oracle, gifted with the ability to foresee the future. Needless to say, the once-sleepy village becomes a hub of activity for fortune seekers, speculators and all-around gawkers. A lesser comedy of the Ealing school (though not from the Ealing studios), The Oracle was released to the US as The Horse's Mouth (not to be confused with the 1959 Alec Guinness vehicle of the same name). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Robert Beatty, Mervyn Johns, (more)
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