All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Richard Briers, ranked

The film follows the plot of the original play, and is the first adaptation to have the complete original text. Hamlet, son of the King of Denmark, is summoned home for his father’s funeral and his mother Gertrude’s wedding to his uncle Claudius. In a supernatural episode, he discovers that his uncle, who he hates anyway, murdered his father.

Bristol in 1787. Josiah Cole, a small dockside trader, is prepared to gamble everything to join the big players of the city. But he needs capital and a well-connected wife. Marriage to Frances Scott is a mutually convenient solution. Trading her social contacts for Josiah’s protection, Frances finds her life and fortune dependent on the respectable trade of sugar, rum, and slaves.

In Lapine language mythology, the world was created by the god Frith. All animals were grass eaters, living harmoniously. The rabbits multiplied, and their appetite led to a food shortage. Frith ordered the rabbit prince, El-Ahrairah, to control his people, but was scoffed at. In retaliation, Frith gave special gifts to every animal, making some into predators to hunt the rabbits.

Having just crushed an uprising by his half-brother, Don John, Don Pedro of Aragon and his noblemen visit their friend Leonato in Messina. Needing something to pass the time until the wedding, Don Pedro decides to arrange a similar fate for Beatrice and Benedick, whose animosity for each other is clear.

In 1904, in the nursery of the Darling household located in London, Wendy Darling tells stories of Peter Pan to her younger brothers John and Michael before their Aunt Millicent’s arrival. Jealous of Wendy’s presence, Tinker Bell tricks the Lost Boys into shooting Wendy with arrows as she is falling from the sky.

In 1904, in the nursery of the Darling household located in London, Wendy Darling tells stories of Peter Pan to her younger brothers John and Michael before their Aunt Millicent’s arrival. Jealous of Wendy’s presence, Tinker Bell tricks the Lost Boys into shooting Wendy with arrows as she is falling from the sky.

While visiting her friend Marjorie Attfield, Miss Marple learns that her son Bobby had recently found a body, identified as a Mr. Pritchard, on the cliff side. He’s received a letter asking him to appear at the enquiry but it seems to be a wild goose chase meant to keep him away from the real enquiry taking place elsewhere.

In 1794, Captain Walton leads a troubled expedition to reach the North Pole. Eventually, Victor and his friend Henry Clerval meet Shmael Augustus Waldman, a professor whose notes contain information on how to create life; Waldman warns Victor not to use them lest he create an abomination.

In 1794, Captain Walton leads a troubled expedition to reach the North Pole. Eventually, Victor and his friend Henry Clerval meet Shmael Augustus Waldman, a professor whose notes contain information on how to create life; Waldman warns Victor not to use them lest he create an abomination.