Paul Scofield
En ung advokat, Richard Goodwin, undersöker ett potentiellt fast game show. Charles Van Doren, en stor tid visar vinnare, är under Goodwins utredning.
Category: Biography, Drama, History
Stars: John Turturro,Rob Morrow,Ralph Fiennes,Paul Scofield
An idealistic young lawyer working for a Congressional subcommittee in the late 1950s discovers that TV quiz shows are being fixed. His investigation focuses on two contestants on the show "Twenty-One": Herbert Stempel, a brash working-class Jew from Queens, and Charles Van Doren, the patrician scion of one of America's leading literary families. Based on a true story.
Category: Biography, Drama, History
Stars: John Turturro,Rob Morrow,Ralph Fiennes,Paul Scofield
A small group of teen girls in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts caught in an innocent conjuring of love potions to catch young men are forced to tell lies that Satan had invaded them and forced them to participate in the rites and are then forced to name those involved. Thrown into the mix are greedy preachers and other major landowners trying to steal others' land and one young woman infatuated with a married man and determined to get rid of his innocent wife. Arthur Miller wrote the events and the subsequent trials where those who demanded their innocence were executed, those who would not name names were incarcerated and tortured, and those who admitted their guilt were immediately freed as a parable of the Congressional Communist witch hunts led by Senator Joe McCarthy in 1950's America.
Category: Drama, History
Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis,Winona Ryder,Paul Scofield,Joan Allen
The story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.
Category: Biography, Drama, History
Stars: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw