Donald Pleasence — Actor (101)

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Power Play (1978)
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Martyn Burke actor: 彼得·奥图尔 / 戴维·海明斯 …
other title: 权力游戏 / A State of Shock …
Power Play is a 1978 British-Canadian thriller film starring Peter O'Toole and David Hemmings, based on the non-fiction strategy book Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook by Edward N. Luttwak. A small group of military officers frustrated by the corruption of a fictional contemporary European government decide that they must overthrow the current administration. But the coup's leader worries that there is a spy in their group. A UK-Canada co-production filmed in Canada and West Germany, Power Play includes scenes shot at the University of Toronto's University College quadrangle and hallways. Portions were also filmed at Canadian Forces Base Borden, north of Toronto. The flag of the film's unnamed republic, "a generic country with no specific geography or culture" was green, yellow and black.

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Wake in Fright (1971)
Wake in Fright
★ 8.1 19 ratings
Ted Kotcheff / 特德·科特切夫 actor: 唐纳德·普利森斯 / Gary Bond …
other title: 内陆惊魂 / 假期惊魂 …
Awe-inspiring, brutal and stunning, Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundayabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But his one night stretches to five and he plunges headlong toward his own destruction. When the alcohol-induced mist lifts, the educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is a self-loathing man in a desolate wasteland, dirty red-eyed, sitting against a tree and looking at a rifle with one bullet left...

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The Great Escape (1963)
The Great Escape
★ 8.2 69 ratings
other title: 大逃亡 / 龙虎榜(港) …
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.

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汉娜的战争 (1988)
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米纳罕·戈兰 actor: 艾伦·伯斯汀 / 玛鲁施卡·迪特马斯 …
other title: Hanna's War / Innocent Heroes
During WW2 Hanna Szenes, a Hungarian Jew living in British Palestine, volunteers to go behind enemy lines to rescue Jews from deportation to death camps.

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Cul-de-sac (1966)
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★ 7.0 41 ratings
罗曼·波兰斯基 actor: 唐纳德·普利森斯 / 弗朗索瓦·朵列 …
other title: 荒岛惊魂 / 孤岛惊魂(港) …
On the run and in search of help, two wounded gangsters find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.

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Witness for the Prosecution (1982)
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★ 9.0 85 ratings
艾伦·吉布森 actor: 拉尔夫·理查德森 / 黛博拉·蔻儿 …
other title: 控方证人 / 控方证人1982版 …
Sir Wilfred Robarts, a famed barrister is released from the hospital, where he stayed for two months following his heart attack. Returning to the practise of his lawyer skills, he takes the case of Leonard Vole, an unemployed man who is accused of murdering an elderly lady friend of his, Mrs. Emily French. While Leonard Vole claims he's innocent, although all evidence points to him as the killer, his alibi witness, his cold German wife Christine, instead of entering the court as a witness for the defense, she becomes the witness for the prosecution and strongly claims her husband is guilty of the murder.