Peter Ustinov
1) Animal farm
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
"Chaos ensues when animals take over the farm in this adaptation of George Orwell's classic novel, which features the magic of Hallmark Entertainment and Jim Henson's Creature Shop." --container.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
In this comedy, Peter Ustinov is the famous pirate's ghost that returns to our time. Blackbeard has been cursed by his last wife who was a notorious witch, so that he will never die. The only way to "break" the curse is to do (for once in his life) a good act. Is the famous pirate able to do something good?
4) Billy Budd
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
An innocent, naive British Naval seaman is accused and tried of murdering the sadistic master-at-arms.
6) Robin Hood
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Join Robin Hood, his trusted companion Little John, and his hilarious band of Merry Men as they outfox greedy Prince John to save the good people of Nottingham. Dashing from one daring deed to the next, Robin won't rest until he wins the hand of Maid Marian and restores King Richard to the throne.
7) The bachelor
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Faced with the choice of getting married within 24 hours or losing a $100 million inheritance, unrepentant bachelor Jimmie Shannon is suddenly desperate to get to the altar.
8) Quo vadis
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In Nero's Rome, Christianity and empire collide when a field general falls for a devout slave.
9) Luther
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Regional princes and the powerful Catholic Church wield a fast, firm and merciless grip over 16th-century Germany. But when Martin Luther issues a shocking challenge to their authority, the people declare him their new leader - and hero. Even when threatened with violent death, Luther refused to back down, sparking a bloody religious revolution that shakes the entire continent to its core.
11) The sundowners
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
A married couple in Australia find themselves at odds when the wife wants to settle down on a farm of their own, but the husband finds settling down more than his untethered spirit can bear.
12) Topkapi
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Sophisticated thieves attempt to steal a jewel-encrusted dagger from a museum with an impregnable security system.
13) Logan's run
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
In the year 2274, everyone lives a wonderful life until they're 30 years old--then they're executed.
14) Hot millions
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A dapper rogue uses a corporation's mainframe computer to issue checks to bogus companies, then proceeds to cash the checks.
15) Spartacus
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Kubrick tells the tale of Spartacus, the bold gladiator slave and Varinia, the woman who believed in his cause. Challenged by the power-hungry General Crassus, Spartacus is forced to face his convictions and the power of the Imperial Rome at its glorious height." --container.
16) Lorenzo's oil
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A boy develops a disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his father decides to learn about it and tackle the problem himself.
17) We're No Angels
Language
English
Formats
Description
Humphrey Bogart plays one of his rare comedy roles in this jaunty excursion about three convicts - Joseph (Bogart), Albert (Aldo Ray) and Jules (Peter Ustinov) - who are plotting their escape from Devil's Island. Fate intervenes when they hide out with kindly, but inept Felix (Leo G. Carroll) and his family. Felix manages a store for his arrogant cousin Andre (Basil Rathbone), who makes the fatal mistake of stealing Albert's pet, a poisonous snake....
18) Lady L
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A simple laundress in a Paris bordello, through a series of wildly unpredictable circumstances, ends up as the feared, revered, and bogus, Lady Lendale.
19) The comedians
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A sardonic white hotel owner watches Haiti sink into barbarism with growing fatalism. Complications include a friendship with a rebel leader, politically "charged" hotel guests, an affair with the wife of a European ambassador, and the manipulations of a conniving British arms dealer.