Filmography Highlights
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Austin Powers In Goldmember
2002- Rated:
- 12
The Austin Powers trilogy eats itself, with a conveyor belt of old jokes climaxing in the unexpected revelation of Dr Evil and the International Man of Mystery's true relationship
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Borstal Boy
2000- Rated:
- TBC
Irish rebel Brendan Behan's autobiographical novel about life in a Borstal school is adapted by Peter Sheridan. Shawn Hatosy and Danny Dyer star
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Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
1999- Rated:
- 12
The second of Mike Myers' groovy espionage pastiches. Travelling back through time in search of his mojo, Mr Powers takes on Dr Evil, this time with the help of Heather Graham's Felicity Shagwell
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Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery
1997- Rated:
- 15
Shagadelic spy spoof starring Mike Myers and Elizabeth Hurley. It's often silly and sometimes annoyingly over the top, but mostly it's just fab, baby
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Wide Sargasso Sea
1993- Rated:
- 18
Sensuality is the key here. Sweat drips off the actors as tropical rain drops off the lush foliage. And that's how it should be. This is Jean Rhys's prequel to 'Jane Eyre', in which she explains why
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Return of the Musketeers, The
1989- Rated:
- PG
Lester returned to the swashbuckling saga that had given him two box-office hits in the Seventies for this comparatively patchy instalment based on Dumas's own sequel Twenty Years Later. D'Artagnan s
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Phantom Of Death
1988- Rated:
- 18
A virtuoso pianist succumbs to a terminal aging disease but not before he's gone on a bloody rampage. Michael York and Donald Pleasence star in this Italian thriller from the director of Cannibal Holocaust
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The Riddle Of The Sands
1979- Rated:
- U
Two British yachtsman uncover a secret German plot to invade the English east coast. First World War drama starring Michael York, Simon MacCorkindale and Jenny Agutter
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Last Remake of Beau Geste, The
1977- Rated:
- PG
Feldman's wacky directorial debut not only pays tribute to the cinematic ubiquity of this story, but also sends it up in sporadically amusing fashion. York plays Beau, who absconds with a family-heir
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Island of Dr Moreau, The
1977- Rated:
- 15
A remake of the 30s Island of Lost Souls, which was in itself an adaptation of H G Wells's Island of Dr Moreau. Lancaster is the archetypal misguided and mad scientist who has discovered how to evolv
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Logan's Run
1976- Rated:
- A
Dystopian science fiction released just before Star Wars gave the genre back to the kids. Michael York and Jenny Agutter star as the new Adam and Eve escaping a controlled society where anyone over the age of 30 is put to death
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Conduct Unbecoming
1975- Rated:
- PG
Tradition, honour and comradeship are at the core of this gripping and tense courtroom drama, set in a British colonial outpost in India at the end of the 19th century. Michael York stars as the youn
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Murder On The Orient Express
1974- Rated:
- PG
Albert Finney is Hercule Poirot in this highly entertaining whodunit. Played with a nod and a wink, the big-name cast includes John Gielgud, Sean Connery, and an Oscar-winning Ingrid Bergman
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Four Musketeers: The Revenge Of Milady, The
1974- Rated:
- TBC
The continuing adventures of newly-appointed musketeer D'Artagnan and his fellow blades, still tangling with Cardinal Richelieu, his one-eyed henchman Rochefort and the diabolical Milady
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Three Musketeers: The Queen's Diamonds, The
1973- Rated:
- U
Eager young blade D'Artagnan realises his dream of becoming one of King Louis XIII's musketeers after a chance meeting in 17th Century Paris. Director Richard Lester's classic historical action-adventure
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England Made Me
1973- Rated:
- AA
An underrated adaptation of Graham Greene's novel, starring York as the naive 1930s businessman who pays a visit to Germany on the way home from a business trip, and falls under the politically dubio
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Cabaret
1972- Rated:
- X
A sensitive young Englishman falls into the whirl of pre-War Berlin, and the arms of the equally dizzying Sally Bowles, in this dazzlingly choreographed story of love and Nazi stormtroopers
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Justine
1969- Rated:
- TBC
Trimming the four volumes of Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet into two-hour-film form proves impossible, even for a director of Cukor's talents. His task was complicated further in that he repla
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Alfred the Great
1969- Rated:
- TBC
A tiresome historical trawl, the biopic of the young leader of 9th-century England, played with some camp appeal by Hemmings. The battle scenes are terrific, and it might have worked to greater effec
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Romeo And Juliet
1968- Rated:
- PG
A boy, a girl, a whole heap of trouble. Franco Zeffirelli's take on the Bard's doomed romance starring Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey
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Accident
1967- Rated:
- PG
A bunch of English intellectuals crash and burn in Joseph Losey's caustic drama starring Dirk Bogarde and scripted by Harold Pinter
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