Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
Aug 9, 2000Medium/Kidnap Thriller
Standout thriller with Kim Stanley as a medium who fakes a child kidnapping with husband Richard Attelborough to prove her powers
Richard Attenborough
Doctor Dolittle (1967)
Dec 16, 2001Doctor That Can Speak to Animals/Musical
This gets the nonsensical absurdity of the original Doctor Dolittle stories far more than the Eddie Murphy version. On the other hand, this was the era of Mary Poppins and everything is played as a lumbering musical
10 Rillington Place (1971)
Nov 17, 2010True-Life Serial Killer
One of the best true crime films, a chillingly good account of British serial killer Reginald Christie with an excellent Richard Attenborough in the role
And Then There Were None (1974)
Jul 29, 2002Agatha Christie Murder Mystery
Made in the aftermath of the 1974 Murder on the Orient Express, a star-studded Agatha Christie adaptation about a guests at a remote hotel being bumped off by someone among their number
Jurassic Park (1993)
May 9, 2001Genetically-Engineered Dinosaurs Amok
An enormous and influential hit for Steven Spielberg who took new emergent CGI technologies and wowed audiences with dinosaurs brought to life in dazzlingly realistic detail It doesn't hurt that he delivers a relentlessly suspenseful film too
Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
Dec 4, 2003Santa in Court
A John Hughes written remake of the classic Christmas film where a man (Richard Attenborough) claiming to be Santa ends up tried in court.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Aug 14, 2001Genetically Engineered Dinosaurs Amok
The first sequel to the massive success of Jurassic Park where Steven Spielberg returns to direct. Alas with a script that seems a mishmash of loose ends, this only weakly rehashes the original and emerges as the weakest of the sequels to date
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story (2001)
Feb 12, 2005Revisionist Fairytale
TV mini-series co-produced between Hallmark Entertainment and The Jim Henson Company that offers an intriguing deconstruction of the fairytale although eventually proves to be a modernised replaying that reverses the sympathies