Films with: Basehart, Richard

Being there

Circumstances propel a feeble-minded gardener, whose entire knowledge of life comes from watching television, into becoming adviser to the president of the United States and a powerful but dying tycoon.

DVD 3079

Bidone

An aging swindler, ringleader of a trio of petty thieves who impersonate priests to cheat peasants, finally realizes the futility of his life.

DVD 1280

Giotto and the pre-Renascence

Deals with the works of the artist Giotto, contrasting his innovations with the hieratic mood of his predecessors. Shows the major cycles of his frescoes, including those at the Upper and Lower Church of San Francesco, Assisi, the Scrovegni family Arena Chapel in Padua, and St. Croce in Florence.

DVD 2653

Moby Dick

Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life-- revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.

DVD 1502

Strada

Directed by Federico Fellini, the story of a fragile girl who falls in love with a brutal circus performer she was sold to by her mother.

DVD 3409

Twilight zone.

In I sing the body electric, a girl comes to understand that a grandmother can be a tender, thoughtful, caring, loving woman, even if she is a robot. In Long distance call, a young boy uses a toy telephone to talk with his dead grandmother. In Lonely, a murderer is sentenced to solitary confinement on a distant asteroid. In Probe 7, over and out, the lone survivors of two annihilated planets must begin new lives together on a new world.

DVD 1112