Herbert Lom
1) Hopscotch
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 163
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
When Miles Kendig is fired from his top CIA job, he decides to tell all by writing a book.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A young Hindu prince is rescued by his governess and a British captain moments before his father's palace is captured by rebels. The group must then travel through 300 miles of hostile Muslim territory in northwest India in their attempt to reach safety in Delhi.
4) Villa rides
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Set in the turbulence of early 20th century Mexico, this movie chronicles the fights and flights of one of Mexico's favorite folk heroes.
6) El Cid
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen version ; Two-disc deluxe edition.
Language
English
Description
Eleventh-century Spain is divided into Christian kingdoms and Moorish strongholds. The young Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, who has been dubbed El Cid by his followers, vows to see his country at peace, free from the invader. Showing clemency to some emirs, he faces treason charges at court. His accuser, Gomez, father of his fiancee, Chimene, dies in the resulting duel. Chimene's avowed vengeance plot fails and Rodrigo is given her hand. When King Ferdinand...
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A not-so-musically-inclined band of outlaws pose as a group of amateur musicians, while secretly plotting a major heist. But the sweet landlady, who rents them their "digs," proves to be too much for these cutthroats. They decide to get rid of her ... a task they find easier said than done.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Brides of Dracula: "Marianne is traveling to Eastern Europe from Paris for a teaching post. She gets stranded at an inn after her stagecoach mysteriously leaves her. She is persuaded to stay at Baroness Meinster's chateau. During her stay Marianne meets the Baroness's son who is chained to a wall. Feeling bad for the son, Marianne frees him, only to discover that he is a vampire. Luckily for her, Dr. Van Helsing is on his way to rescue Marianne and...
Author
Language
English
Description
Set on the North West Frontier of colonial India in 1905. A British Army Officer, Captain Scott (Kenneth More) is sent to rescue a five year old Indian Prince (Govind Raja Ross) and his American governess, Catherine Wyatt (Lauren Bacall) certain death at the hands of rebel tribesman.
10) Count Dracula
Author
Language
English
Description
A gothic masterpiece from writer/director Jess Franco starring Christopher Lee as the Count, Herbert Lom as Van Helsing and Klaus Kinski as Renfield.
18) Cuadecuc Vampir
Author
Language
English
Description
A major figure of Spanish cinema, Pere Portabella's contributions have included a variety of roles (such as co-producing Buñuel's Viridiana), but most importantly as the director of a number of groundbreaking films from the 1960s and 1970s. Filmed on the set of Franco's cult film Count Dracula starring Christopher Lee, Vampir-Cuadecuc mixes making-of footage with an investigation into the figure of the vampire. Both playful and deadly serious, with...
19) Mr. Topaze
Author
Language
English
Description
Honest French teacher Albert Topaze (Peter Sellers) is fired after refusing to alter the bad grades of a baroness' grandson. Sensing an opportunity, actress Suzy (Nadia Gray) convinces her lover, corrupt city council member Castel Benac (Herbert Lom), to hire Topaze as a managing director for one of his businesses to mitigate any suspicion. When Topaze learns he is being used, he decides to swindle his manipulators. Based on a Marcel Pagnol play,...
20) War and Peace
Author
Language
English
Description
War and Peace is a commendable attempt to boil down Tolstoy's long, difficult novel into 208 minutes' screen time. In recreating the the social and personal upheavals attending Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia, $6 million was shelled out by coproducers Carlo Ponti, Dino de Laurentiis and Paramount Pictures. Some of the panoramic battle sequences are so expertly handled by second-unit director Mario Soldati that they appear to be Technicolor-and-Vistavision...