Michael Caine
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Over the six decades of his remarkable career, film legend Michael Caine has starred in some of the biggest movies of all time--from Alfie to the Dark Knight trilogy, Hannah and Her Sisters to Zulu--and he's made success look easy. In reality it has been one huge learning curve, from his unlikely beginnings as the son of a London fish porter to pursuing his dream of being an actor, finding success and managing every twist, trick, and turn to stay...
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English
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Charming, engaging, and surprisingly forthright, Michael Caine gives us his insider's view of Hollywood and the story of his brilliant second act
When he was in his late fifties, Michael Caine believed his glamorous, rags-to-riches Hollywood career had come to an end. The scripts being sent his way were worse and worse. When one script really disappointed, he called the producer to complain about the part. The producer said, "No, no, we don't want...
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English
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Mr. Caine gives you a once-in-a-lifetime chance to rob him blind! The man who's hypnotized the camera lenses for a quarter of a century reveals the most closely guarded secrets on script preparation, working with the director, forming a character, voice, sound, and movement. Pearl by pearl he lays out the Caine wisdom on everything from set politics to set decorum, the film bureaucracy and more!
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English
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Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle him out of East Germany.
6) Last Love
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Language
English
Description
Matthew, a widowed American living in Paris, and Pauline, a free-spirited dance instructor, form an unlikely bond that provides what they each desperately need: someone to call family.
7) Flawless
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Language
English
Description
An executive at the London Diamond Corporation is frustrated after years of watching promotions go to only the men in the company. So with the help of a janitor, she tries to steal a hefty sum of diamonds.
9) Deathtrap
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Language
English
Description
Ira Levin's cat-and-mouse Broadway suspense smash about a playwright's deadly game of murder gets diabolically comic screen treatment.
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Language
English
Description
A Nazi Strike Force plots to kidnap Winston Churchill while he is resting in a desolate Norfolk village. Colonel Radl (Robert Duvall), Colonel Steiner (Michael Caine) and Liam Devlin (Donald Sutherland) are enlisted to carry out the operation, which if successful, would irrevocably alter the outcome of the war. Disguised as Polish airmen, these paratroopers descend upon England only to be interrupted by an unforeseeable incident which threatens to...
12) Dear Dictator
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Language
English
Description
When political turmoil forces a British-Caribbean dictator to flee his island nation, he seeks refuge and hides with a rebellious teenage girl in suburban America.
13) Zulu
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Language
English
Description
Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift.
14) Harry Brown
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Language
English
Description
An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Comedy filmed on the Riviera, it's the story of two con men who compete to see who can extract $50,000 from a woman first. The victim is a naive American heiress, and the competition between the two men, one a suave and sophisticated Englishman and the other a bumbling but appealing American, heats up!
17) Four kids and It
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Four kids on a vacation with their parents meet a magical creature on the beach with the power to grant wishes.
18) Best Sellers
Publisher
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In a last-ditch effort to save the boutique publishing house her father has left her, an ambitious young editor (Plaza) goes on a book tour with a bitter, booze-addled author (Caine) who put the publishing house on the map decades ago.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
©2003.
Language
English
Description
The widowed Ellen Brody now finds herself reliving the horrors of the past when a mammoth shark kills her son. Grief-stricken, she travels to the Bahamas to be with her other son, a marine biologist, and his family. There she meets and falls for a carefree airplane pilot. But just as she is putting her life back together, the nightmare of the past returns when her granddaughter is attacked by an all-too-familiar Great White. Determined to end the...