Otto Diamant

Dance of the Vampires (1967)

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A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roman Polanski
CAST:  Jack MacGowran  •  Roman Polanski  •  Alfie Bass  •  Jessie Robins

A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roman Polanski
CAST:  Jack MacGowran  •  Roman Polanski  •  Alfie Bass  •  Jessie Robins

Dance of the Seven Veils (1970)

Russell's composer biopics were usually labours of love. This was the opposite: he regarded Strauss's music as "bombastic, sham and hollow", and despised the composer for claiming to be apolitical while cosying up to the Nazi regime. The film depicts Strauss in a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ken Russell
CAST:  Christopher Gable  •  Judith Paris  •  Kenneth Colley  •  James Mellor

Russell's composer biopics were usually labours of love. This was the opposite: he regarded Strauss's music as "bombastic, sham and hollow", and despised the composer for claiming to be apolitical while cosying up to the Nazi regime. The film depicts Strauss in a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ken Russell
CAST:  Christopher Gable  •  Judith Paris  •  Kenneth Colley  •  James Mellor

All the Right Noises (1971)

A married man with two small children begins an affair with a beautiful young actress which quickly blossoms into a full blown romance, until she tells him that she is only 15 years old…  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gerry O'Hara
CAST:  Tom Bell  •  Olivia Hussey  •  Judy Carne  •  John Standing

A married man with two small children begins an affair with a beautiful young actress which quickly blossoms into a full blown romance, until she tells him that she is only 15 years old…  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gerry O'Hara
CAST:  Tom Bell  •  Olivia Hussey  •  Judy Carne  •  John Standing

Count Five and Die (1957)

Dutch patriots, a U.S. officer and a British spy fool the Nazis with a fake Soho film company.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victor Vicas
CAST:  Jeffrey Hunter  •  Annemarie Düringer  •  Nigel Patrick  •  David Kossoff

Dutch patriots, a U.S. officer and a British spy fool the Nazis with a fake Soho film company.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victor Vicas
CAST:  Jeffrey Hunter  •  Annemarie Düringer  •  Nigel Patrick  •  David Kossoff

Savage Messiah (1972)

In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska. Though the couple is 20 years apart in age, Gaudier finds that his untamed work is complemented by the older woman's cultural ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ken Russell
CAST:  Helen Mirren  •  Dorothy Tutin  •  Scott Antony  •  Lindsay Kemp

In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska. Though the couple is 20 years apart in age, Gaudier finds that his untamed work is complemented by the older woman's cultural ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ken Russell
CAST:  Helen Mirren  •  Dorothy Tutin  •  Scott Antony  •  Lindsay Kemp

Lisztomania (1975)

Roger Daltrey of The Who stars as 19th century genius pianist Franz Liszt in this brash, loud and free-wheeling rock 'n' roll fantasia centered around an imagined rivalry between Liszt and composer Richard Wagner-- painted here as a vampiric harbinger of doom and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ken Russell
CAST:  Roger Daltrey  •  Sara Kestelman  •  Paul Nicholas  •  Ringo Starr

Roger Daltrey of The Who stars as 19th century genius pianist Franz Liszt in this brash, loud and free-wheeling rock 'n' roll fantasia centered around an imagined rivalry between Liszt and composer Richard Wagner-- painted here as a vampiric harbinger of doom and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ken Russell
CAST:  Roger Daltrey  •  Sara Kestelman  •  Paul Nicholas  •  Ringo Starr

Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

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In a small Jewish community in a pre-Revolutionary Russian village, a poor milkman, determined to find good husbands for his five daughters, consults the traditional matchmaker – and also has words with God.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Norman Jewison
CAST:  Norma Crane  •  Leonard Frey  •  Molly Picon  •  Topol

In a small Jewish community in a pre-Revolutionary Russian village, a poor milkman, determined to find good husbands for his five daughters, consults the traditional matchmaker – and also has words with God.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Norman Jewison
CAST:  Norma Crane  •  Leonard Frey  •  Molly Picon  •  Topol

Unfair Exchanges (1985)

Julie Walters stars as a single mother seemingly haunted by a sinister telephone system that seems to have become an evil intelligence in its own right.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gavin Millar
CAST:  Julie Walters  •  Ken Campbell  •  David Rappaport  •  Robert Kingswell

Julie Walters stars as a single mother seemingly haunted by a sinister telephone system that seems to have become an evil intelligence in its own right.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gavin Millar
CAST:  Julie Walters  •  Ken Campbell  •  David Rappaport  •  Robert Kingswell