Leo McKern Movies

  • 1983
    King Lear

    King Lear

    King Lear

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    An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.

    King Lear
  • 1996
    Circles of Deceit: Sleeping Dogs

    Circles of Deceit: Sleeping Dogs

    Circles of Deceit: Sleeping Dogs

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    MI5 operative Neil is asked to meet with retired KGB officer Alexander Petrov, who has approached MI5 claiming that he has highly classified...

    Circles of Deceit: Sleeping Dogs
  • 1978
    The Nativity

    The Nativity

    The Nativity

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    The story of the courtship of Joseph and Mary, and of the events leading up to the first Christmas.

    The Nativity
  • 1966
    The Death of Socrates

    The Death of Socrates

    The Death of Socrates

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    A modernized depiction. In his last few hours alive, Socrates discusses life, death, and the soul.

    The Death of Socrates
  • 1993
    A Foreign Field

    A Foreign Field

    A Foreign Field

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    Nostalgic comic drama in which Cyril and Amos, two veterans of the Normandy landings, return to France to visit the grave of their wartime buddy....

    A Foreign Field
  • 1985
    Monsignor Quixote

    Monsignor Quixote

    Monsignor Quixote

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    Sir Alec Guiness stars with Leo McKern in the story of a friendship between a Catholic priest and a Communist Mayor. Together they travel from their...

    Monsignor Quixote
  • 1994
    Good King Wenceslas

    Good King Wenceslas

    Good King Wenceslas

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    Based upon the true story that inpired the Christmas carol about a young king's care for his people.

    Good King Wenceslas
  • 1968
    Assignment K

    Assignment K

    Assignment K

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    Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents...

    Assignment K
  • 1973
    An Afternoon at the Festival

    An Afternoon at the Festival

    An Afternoon at the Festival

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    Ahead of a screening of his latest film a director converses with a prostitute, whilst his female star and estranged wife talks to a writer, his...

    An Afternoon at the Festival
  • 1984
    The Chain

    The Chain

    The Chain

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    Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.

    The Chain
  • 1981
    Country

    Country

    Country

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    In 1945, the Carlions assemble at an English country house for a family gathering. During the event, they must determine who is to take over the...

    Country
  • 1967
    Mafia No!

    Mafia No!

    Mafia No!

    01967HD

    A BAFTA award nominated documentary about Danilo Dolci's 1967 march across Sicily as an expression of his fight against poverty, corruption and...

    Mafia No!
  • 1964
    A Jolly Bad Fellow

    A Jolly Bad Fellow

    A Jolly Bad Fellow

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    An English professor decides that there are too many useless people in the world and invents a gas that will kill them off. But first they'll at...

    A Jolly Bad Fellow
  • 1974
    The Sun Is God

    The Sun Is God

    The Sun Is God

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    A dramatised documentary of the life and work of JMW Turner.

    The Sun Is God
  • 1959
    The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film

    The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film

    The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film

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    A short film without any direct action designed more as an experiment, with disjointed comic scenes with no common thread.

    The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
  • 1965
    The Drinking Party

    The Drinking Party

    The Drinking Party

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    An interpretation of Plato's Symposium as a picnic organised by a University don for his students. Each guest is asked to explain the nature of love...

    The Drinking Party
  • 1964
    The Life of Galileo

    The Life of Galileo

    The Life of Galileo

    01964HD

    BBC version of Brecht's epic account of Galileo's persecution for his 'heretical' idea that the earth moved around the sun.

    The Life of Galileo
  • 1955
    All for Mary

    All for Mary

    All for Mary

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    In a Swiss Alpine resort shortly after the War an army officer and upper-class Humpy Miller both set their sights on Mary, the landlord's daughter....

    All for Mary
  • 1958
    Chain of Events

    Chain of Events

    Chain of Events

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    When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences

    Chain of Events
  • 1961
    Danger! Men Working

    Danger! Men Working

    Danger! Men Working

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    In Ulster, Major Trumbull is put in charge of overseeing the completion of a hospital on time. As the pressure increases, he replaces well-liked...

    Danger! Men Working