3 Movies Starring John Fraser

Waltz of the Toreadors

Waltz of the Toreadors

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1962-09-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

5.8 (508 Reviews)

Director:

John Guillermin

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Jean Anouilh (play)

Lucienne Hill (English translation)

Wolf Mankowitz

Fullplot:

This is the end of a glorious military career: General Leo Fitzjohn retires to his Sussex manor where he will write his memoirs. Unfortunately, his private life is a disaster: a confirmed womanizer, Leo has infuriated his wife Emily, now a shrewish and hypochondriac woman, all the more bitter as she still loves him. The General has two plain-looking daughters he dislikes and an attractive French mistress, Ghislaine, with whom he has had a platonic affair for seventeen years. When Ghislaine resurfaces, determined to complete her love with him and to get rid of Emily, Leo is at a loss what to do...

Repulsion

Repulsion

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1965-10-03

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (31952 Reviews)

Director:

Roman Polanski

Cast:

Writer:

Roman Polanski (original screenplay)

Gèrard Brach (original screenplay)

David Stone (adaptation)

Fullplot:

In London, Belgian immigrant Carol Ledoux shares an apartment with her older sister Helen, and works as a manicurist at a beauty salon. Helen uses the word "sensitive" to describe Carol's overall demeanor, which is almost like she walks around in a daze, rarely speaking up about anything. When she does speak up, it generally is about something against one of those few issues on which she obsesses, such as Helen's boyfriend Michael's invasion of her space at the apartment. That specific issue may be more about men in general than just Michael's actions, as witnessed by Carol being agitated by hearing Helen and Michael's lovemaking, and she not being able to rebuff the advances effectively of a male suitor, Colin, who is infatuated with her. One of those other obsessive issues is noticing cracks and always wanting to fix them. While Helen and Michael leave on a vacation to Pisa, Italy, Carol chooses largely to lock herself in the apartment, ditching work. There, she is almost hypnotized by her solitude, which leads to her mental state deteriorating as those obsessions come to the fore. She quickly descends into madness, which ultimately also affects those that are trying to get in touch with her.

Isadora

Isadora

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1969-06-20

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, France

Runtime:

131 min

Rated:

M

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (1466 Reviews)

Director:

Karel Reisz

Cast:

Writer:

Melvyn Bragg (adaptation)

Melvyn Bragg (screenplay)

Margaret Drabble (additional dialogue)

Isadora Duncan (book)

Clive Exton (screenplay)

Sewell Stokes (book)

Fullplot:

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.

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