Alec McClure Movies
Sixty-five years after making his screen debut as a young stoker in co-directors Noël Coward and David Lean's World War II drama In Which We Serve, Richard Attenborough perfects the balance between epic story and intimate tale with this drama starring Shirley MacLaine and Neve Campbell as a mother and daughter who find a relic from the past sparking an incendiary series of events. The year is 1991, and as a small American town mourns the passing of beloved World War II veteran Chuck Harris, his wife Ethel (MacLaine) numbs herself with alcohol to the point where she completely neglects her grieving daughter Marie (Campbell). Later, after Marie receives a telephone call from a boy in Northern Ireland who claims to have recently discovered a ring belonging to Ethel, a mystery nearly five decades in the making comes slowly into focus as the story drifts back into Chuck's wartime past and the days when he and Ethel first formed their powerful bond. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, (more)
- 2000
In the future, all US Marshals are independent bounty hunters, including two-fisted Jake Randall (Jeffrey Meek). Those Marshals have been offered an enormous amount of money if they can track down and neutralize Lucy Chang (Jeanne Chinn), a martial arts expert formerly of the Hong Kong police, but now a hunted murderer. When he catches up with Lucy, Randall is told that she was framed by conspirators in cahoots with the evil Dr. Fong (Dennis Akayama), a marketer of illegal drugs who has created a virus to halt the aging process--and who is willing to sell his creation to the highest bidder, regardless of the virus' deadly side effects! Convinced that Lucy is telling the truth, Randall agrees to help her clear her name and thwart Dr. Fong, and as a result becomes a fugitive himself. Produced for the UPN network, the made-for-TV Code Name Phoenix premiered March 3, 2000. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
