Philip Saville — Director (9)
Hamlet at Elsinore (1964) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban
Hamlet at Elsinore
director: Philip Saville actor: Christopher Plummer / Robert Shaw
other title: 埃尔西诺的哈姆雷特
The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle. Hamlet feigns madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks revenge. His uncle, fearing for his life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet. An historic BBC production taped on location in and around Kronborg castle in Elsinore (Denmark), in which the play is set.
Shuttlecock (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Shuttlecock
director: Philip Saville
Sam likes his children to be grown-up chaps. So nine-year-old Harry is at a disadvantage in the battle of wits that develops...
O Fat White Woman (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
O Fat White Woman
director: Philip Saville actor: Maureen Pryor / Peter Jeffrey
The wife of a public school head becomes gradually aware that her husband has been physically abusing his pupils. Written by the master of late-middle-age morality plays, William Trevor.
Oedipus the King (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Oedipus the King
director: Philip Saville actor: Christopher Plummer / Lilli Palmer
other title: König Oedipus / Edipo rey
This classic Greek tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father and ends up paying a terrible price for invoking the wrath of the Gods.
Stop the World: I Want to Get Off (1966) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Stop the World: I Want to Get Off
director: Philip Saville actor: Tony Tanner / Millicent Martin
The Anthony Newley/Leslie Bricusse London and Broadway musical hit Stop the World, I Want to Get Off is given literal treatment in this filmization. Newley stars as Littlechap, whose allegorical rise to success is countered by the instability of his private life. Like the play, the film is staged impressionistically, with Newley decked out in mime makeup and periodically stopping the action to address the audience, and with all the women in his life -- German, American and "Typically English" -- played by a single actress (Millicent Martin, taking over from the stage version's Anna Quayle). In Wizard of Oz fashion, the play itself is lensed in color, while the brief prologue, showing the actors preparing for their performance, is in black-and-white. The production includes such standards (and perennial audition pieces) as What Kind of Fool Am I? and Gonna Build a Mountain.
Shadey (1985) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Shadey
director: Philip Saville actor: Antony Sher / Billie Whitelaw
A young man discovers that not only does he have the ability to read minds, but that if he holds a camera next to his head he can transmit the thoughts he sees onto film.
The Fruit Machine (1988) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Fruit Machine
director: Philip Saville actor: Emile Charles / Tony Forsyth
other title: Wonderland / The Fruit Machine – Rendezvous mit einem Killer
Eddie and Michael are two 16-year-old gay friends from Liverpool. Berated by his father for his camp behavior, Eddie runs away from his Liverpool home and joins Michael, a streetwise hustler, who is also on the run.
Discovering Hamlet (2011) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Discovering Hamlet
Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare's great tragedy to life. Christopher Plummer, David Tennant, John Nettles, John Simm, Sir Trevor Nunn, Franco Zeffirelli, Philip Saville, and others explore the enduring appeal of the Prince of Denmark more than 400 years after his stage debut.