John Franklyn

John Franklyn

Movies for John Franklyn...

Cry of the Innocent
Title: Cry of the Innocent
Character: Capo
Released: June 15, 1980
Type: Movie
An American insurance executive, who sees his wife and children die when a plane crashes into their vacation cottage on the Irish coast, uncovers a series of suspicious clues indicating that it was no accident after a pretty financial reporter who resembles his dead wife turns up.
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The Flame Is Love
Title: The Flame Is Love
Character: Verlaine
Released: October 15, 1979
Type: Movie
In this melodrama from Barbara Cartland's 1975 bestseller, a turn-of-the-century American heiress, while en route to her betrothal to an English duke, encounters love and intrigue in the arms of a French journalist.
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The Catholics
Title: The Catholics
Character: Brother Martin
Released: November 29, 1973
Type: Movie
Set in the near future. As a consequence of an ecumenical movement (Vatican Council IV), the Catholic Church has joined other religions and has eliminated much of the original dogma of Catholicism. A group of Irish monks rebel against this situation and react back to the past: they begin to say Mass in Latin and act according to traditional Catholic dogma. So, Rome decides to send a representative to investigate what is happening
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The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Title: The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Character: Graveyard Attendant
Released: May 18, 1971
Type: Movie
After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a score of Old-Testament atrocities on his enemies.
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Black Beauty
Title: Black Beauty
Character: Coalman
Released: April 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Anna Sewell's classic 1877 novel beautifully comes to life in this family drama set in England. Told from the point of view of Black Beauty himself, the story sheds light on the details surrounding the colt's birth and his perception of humans (he has various owners throughout his life). While some owners are compassionate -- none more than Joe Evans (Mark Lester), the boy who first owns the colt.
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And Soon the Darkness
Title: And Soon the Darkness
Character: Old Man
Released: September 10, 1970
Type: Movie
Two young English women go on a cycling tour of the French countryside. When one of them goes missing, the other begins to search for her. But who can she trust?
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A Walk with Love and Death
Title: A Walk with Love and Death
Character: Whoremaster
Released: October 5, 1969
Type: Movie
Attempting to evade the turmoil of France's Hundred Years' War, Parisian student Heron of Foix decides to journey to the sea. En route, he meets the pretty aristocrat Lady Claudia, and the couple begin a romance amid the intense conflict. As the struggle between peasants and noblemen rages on, Heron and Claudia take shelter at a monastery -- but even their newfound love can't completely keep the horrors of war at bay.
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Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
Title: Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
Character: Railway Guard
Released: July 13, 1967
Type: Movie
Phineas T. Barnum and friends finance the first flight to the moon but find the task a little above them. They attempt to blast their rocket into orbit from a massive gun barrel built into the side of a Welsh mountain, but money troubles, spies and saboteurs ensure that the plan is doomed before it starts...
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The Face of Fu Manchu
Title: The Face of Fu Manchu
Released: August 6, 1965
Type: Movie
Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility that fiendish Fu Manchu may not after all be dead, even though Smith witnessed his execution. A killer spray made from Tibetan berries seems to be involved and clues keep leading back to the Thames.
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Young Cassidy
Title: Young Cassidy
Character: Bankteller
Released: February 25, 1965
Type: Movie
In Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are restricted by the demands of looking after his family, journeys through the social injustices of Dublin life, involving himself with the rowdy tramway-men strike, dawdling with prostitute Daisy Battles (Julie Christie), and seeking a better life. He falls in love with bookshop assistant Nora (Dame Maggie Smith) who encourages him toward a life of writing. Finding success at the Abbey Theatre, his unorthodox views estrange him from family, friends, and his own past.