40 years ago:
The Wicked Lady (UK)
Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation, she gets bored and turns to highway robbery for thrills. While on the road she meets a famous highwayman, and t...
1983-04-21
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/110683
#TheWickedLady #FayeDunaway #AlanBates #JohnGielgud #MGM #ClassicMovies

🪷 #JohnGielgud born 14 April 1904. Arrested in a public lavatory for cottaging. Tabloid headlines! Judge said go to a psychiatrist. Instead, he went out on stage that night. Audience gave him a standing ovation. A true Saint of #Antinous. Full tribute: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/04/sir-john-gielgud-saint-of-antinous.html 🪷

55 years ago:
The Charge of the Light Brigade (UK)
A chronicle of events that led to the British involvement in the Crimean War against Russia and which led to the siege of Sevastopol and the fierce Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854 which climaxed with the heroic, but near-disastrous calvary charge made by the British Light Brigade against a R...
1968-04-10
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/42193
#TheChargeoftheLightBrigade #TonyRichardson #TrevorHoward #VanessaRedgrave #JohnGielgud

58 years ago:
Chimes at Midnight (ES,CH)
Original title: Campanadas a medianoche
The culmination of Orson Welles’s lifelong obsession with Shakespeare’s robustly funny and ultimately tragic antihero, Sir John Falstaff; the often soused friend of King Henry IV’s wayward son Prince Hal. Integrating elements from both Henry IV plays as well as Richard II, Henry V, and The Merry Wiv...
1965-03-16
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/986
#ChimesatMidnight #OrsonWelles #JohnGielgud #JeanneMoreau #Film

59 years ago:
Becket (GB,US)
King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another pious cleric loyal to Rome and the Church, he will appoint his old drinking and wenching buddy, Thomas Becket, technically a deacon of the church, to the...
1964-03-11
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/15421
#Becket #PeterGlenville #RichardBurton #PeterOToole #JohnGielgud #AnneVCoates #Paramount #Movies

Nice #SouthBankShow offering a deep historical perspective on the great #Hamlet productions.

#DerekJacobi #JohnGielgud #MarkRylance #JohnBarrymore #Shakespeare

https://youtu.be/a_mTMMCtjwA