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Alvin Rakoff is a Canadian television, stage, and film director, who has spent the bulk of his career in England and directed more than 100 television plays, as well as a dozen feature films and numerous stage productions.
Total trailers found: 32
02 November 1977
Alvin Rakoff's adaptation of Arnold Wesker's The Kitchen for Play of the Week. The Kitchen, first preformed in 1957, was Wesker's first work and his most performed play.
11 July 1979
An ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.
16 July 1970
A businessman blackmails his young secretary into spending a weekend with him.
06 March 1981
A Harvard University student finds a strange letter that seems to be signed by George Washington. When trying to contact an expert (Prof.
02 October 1983
Will they starve her? Shave her head? Force her to wear a hair shirt? Elspeth's friends and family react with horror, grief and even derision to her desire to become a nun.
07 January 1973
A self-proclaimed "knight" and his hapless squire travel the Spanish countryside, attacking "giants" that are really windmills in his attempt to win the love of the fair Dulcinea.
05 June 1977
Three unrelated horror shorts from 1975 UK horror anthology series "Classics Dark and Dangerous" edited together into one horror film anthology with three segments.
21 July 1959
After World War II, an ex-spy returns to Germany to search for a cache of jewels he hid in a Czechoslovakian convent.
14 January 1971
Approaching middle-age and stuck in an unfulfilled marriage, a suburban British housewife allows herself a sexual fling with a brash young hunk she meets on a commuter train.
16 August 1959
Based upon a famous O. Henry short story, two crooks think they have an opportunity to make a quick buck by kidnapping a rich man's son.
30 December 1993
A young member of a choir becomes friends with a ghost in a school of English cathedral.
19 April 1984
A successful lawyer struck with blindness in middle age continues his battles in the courtroom with the assistance of his family.
02 December 1958
British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade.
29 December 1976
1976 play. During the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands, Dame Sybil Hathaway comes up against her invading masters.
03 September 1964
A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognition.
07 March 1980
Survivors of a tragic shipping collision are rescued by a mysterious black ship which appears out of the fog.
01 August 1991
Black comedy play about two pensioners struggling to manage on an old-age pension and living in a high-rise block of flats.
16 February 1961
An enigmatic woman recruits a gang of specialised criminals to rob a US Army payroll armoured truck bound for Marseilles.
01 January 1991
Adapted from their letters and journals, this is a portrayal of the unique 25-year friendship shared by Dame Laurentia McLachlan (Benedictine nun), Sir Sydney Cockerell (museum curator), and George Bernard Shaw (playwright/critic).
06 December 1962
A television interviewer is determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister.
10 October 1958
When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.
17 July 1982
Charles Battle has been 'hammered' in the London Stock Exchange, to the point where he may be bankrupted.
15 June 1986
A clergyman noted for his support of left-wing causes, leaves his considerable estate to a Conservative member of parliament.
08 April 1967
A lonely middle-aged businessman blackmails a typist into spending the weekend at his large house in the country.
12 August 1981
Mr and Mrs Stafford decide to run an "open" marriage, which, of course, relies on complete honesty.
25 November 1969
A successful London ad-exec hires a beautiful Hungarian girl to pose for some modeling shots, little realising that she has overheard an assassination plot and is now being hunted by some dangerous killers.
02 October 1998
Oscar-winning actor Sean Connery is profiled in this segment of "Intimate Portrait." Includes film ch
03 December 1978
Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
23 August 1983
Towards the end of their lives, two men from very different worlds discover that one of them was in love with the other one's wife for more than thirty years.
31 May 1979
Three adventurers lead an expedition into darkest Africa in search of the treasure of King Solomon, and on the way encounter hostile natives, volcanoes, dinosaurs and a lost Phoenician city ruled by a beautiful queen.
19 December 1983
A famed mystery writer and her doctor ex-lover solve her daughter-in-law's murder.
