Primarily known for her exceptional stage performances, Irene Worth (Harriett Elizabeth Abrams) left a trail of notable roles that set her aside as one of the leading stars in American and British theater. Before her 2001 retirement and eventual death the next year, she worked with notable companies, including the Old Vic, Royal Shakespeare Company, and Broadway. Away from the theater, Worth also made occasional film appearances, including her role in Orders to Kill (1958) which earned her the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress. In a career spanning over five decades, Irene Worth bagged three Tony Awards for her...
- 11/16/2023
- by Banks Onuoha
- TVovermind.com
Anthony Asquith’s unusual look at wartime espionage garnered good notices in 1958, perhaps from reviewers rebelling against the trend toward ruthless screen violence. Star Paul Massie is fine as an emotionally-stricken Allied assassin who balks at carrying out his mission; the acting support from Irene Worth and Leslie French is superb. Screenwriter Paul Dehn was an ace at sharp, no-nonsense thrillers, but this story is soft around the edges — it seems to be explaining non-chivalric warfare to your sweet old grandmother. Which reminds us, Lillian Gish has a small role, too.
Orders to Kill
Blu-ray
Powerhouse Indicator
1958 / B&w / 1:75 widescreen / 112 93 min. / Street Date September 20, 2022 / available from Amazon / 34.99
Starring: Eddie Albert, Paul Massie, Lillian Gish, James Robertson Justice, Leslie French, Irene Worth, John Crawford, Lionel Jeffries, Sandra Dorne, Lillabea (Lillie Bea) Gifford, Anne Blake, Sam Kydd, Ann Walford, Denyse Alexander, Ralph Nosseck.
Cinematography: Desmond Dickinson
Art Director: John Howell
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Orders to Kill
Blu-ray
Powerhouse Indicator
1958 / B&w / 1:75 widescreen / 112 93 min. / Street Date September 20, 2022 / available from Amazon / 34.99
Starring: Eddie Albert, Paul Massie, Lillian Gish, James Robertson Justice, Leslie French, Irene Worth, John Crawford, Lionel Jeffries, Sandra Dorne, Lillabea (Lillie Bea) Gifford, Anne Blake, Sam Kydd, Ann Walford, Denyse Alexander, Ralph Nosseck.
Cinematography: Desmond Dickinson
Art Director: John Howell
Film...
- 9/17/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
1.) A photo from the set of Shame helmer Steve McQueen's latest film, Twelve Years a Slave, reveals Beasts of the Southern Wild star Quvenzhane Wallis has joined the already-loaded cast. The film tells the true story of a New York citizen (Chiwetel Ejiofor), who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the mid-1800s. It also features the talents of Michael Fassbender, Paul Giamatti, Paul Dano and some guy named Brad Pitt, who is also producing through his Plan B banner. [Lester Zeigler, via Shadow and Act] 2.) The legal drama surrounding Raging Bull 2 seems to be resolved. MGM had previously filed a lawsuit against the makers of the low-budget sequel, which would be based on boxer Jake Lamotta's life both before and after the events in Martin Scorsese's 1980 classic. The studio has now dropped the case with the stipulation that the low-budget follow-up changes its name from Raging Bull 2 to The Bronx Bull...
- 8/2/2012
- by Kevin Blumeyer
- Rope of Silicon
Just like how the 2007 indie film "Hounddog" became synonymously known as "The Dakota Fanning Rape Movie," Lee Daniels' sensationalistic new crime drama "The Paperboy" will most certainly carry the stigma of being the flick where Nicole Kidman pees on Zac Efron.
Now Yahoo! Movies has a trailer for "The Paperboy," which caused quite a stir when it debuted at Cannes earlier this summer, and we can tell already it wasn't because this delivery boy was missing houses.
The story involves an intrepid reporter (Matthew McConaughey) and his younger brother (Zac Efron) digging a little too deep into the case of death row inmate Hillary (John Cusack), convicted of murdering a Florida sheriff.
While the footage immediately brings to mind classic southern crime movies like "In the Heat of the Night" and McConaughey's own "A Time to Kill," it also looks to have one of the wildest, most unbridled performances of Kidman's career,...
Now Yahoo! Movies has a trailer for "The Paperboy," which caused quite a stir when it debuted at Cannes earlier this summer, and we can tell already it wasn't because this delivery boy was missing houses.
The story involves an intrepid reporter (Matthew McConaughey) and his younger brother (Zac Efron) digging a little too deep into the case of death row inmate Hillary (John Cusack), convicted of murdering a Florida sheriff.
While the footage immediately brings to mind classic southern crime movies like "In the Heat of the Night" and McConaughey's own "A Time to Kill," it also looks to have one of the wildest, most unbridled performances of Kidman's career,...
- 8/1/2012
- by Max Evry
- NextMovie
Lee Daniels and Hugh Jackman seem determined to make a civil rights-era film. The duo wasn’t defeated when its first project, Selma, failed to coalesce into a feature film. Daniels and Jackman have changed focus on the tumultuous period to the king of the movement—Martin Luther King, Jr. The new film, Orders to Kill, “aims to tell an alternative version of the King shooting,” according to the Los Angeles Times. More specifically, the film follows Jackman, who plays William Pepper, an impassioned and controversial attorney whose argued for the legitimacy of the King shooting conspiracy....
- 8/1/2012
- Pastemagazine.com
Precious director Lee Daniels is teaming up with Hugh Jackman to develop a feature film adaptation of William F. Pepper's nonfiction novel centered on Martin Luther King Jr. called Orders to Kill. According to the L.A. Times, the story tells an alternative version of the King shooting.
The film will tell the story of William Pepper (Jackman), a controversial attorney and activist who for decades has argued that convicted killer James Earl Ray, who recanted his confession and died arguing his innocence, didn't shoot Mlk.
The picture will follow Pepper over the years as he wages a one-man campaign, interviewing witnesses and building support for his theory that other interests, including those from the U.S. government, were behind the 1968 Memphis killing. (In a nutshell, Pepper, who is still alive, argues that government interests wanted King dead because of his opposition to the Vietnam War.) It will be based on Pepper's own book,...
The film will tell the story of William Pepper (Jackman), a controversial attorney and activist who for decades has argued that convicted killer James Earl Ray, who recanted his confession and died arguing his innocence, didn't shoot Mlk.
The picture will follow Pepper over the years as he wages a one-man campaign, interviewing witnesses and building support for his theory that other interests, including those from the U.S. government, were behind the 1968 Memphis killing. (In a nutshell, Pepper, who is still alive, argues that government interests wanted King dead because of his opposition to the Vietnam War.) It will be based on Pepper's own book,...
- 8/1/2012
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
In the Style of JFK: The once and future Wolverine wants to play a real-life attorney who argued that convicted killer James Earl Ray didn't shoot Martin Luther King Jr. Hugh Jackman is attached to star in Orders to Kill, as is director Lee Daniels (Precious). The project is described as having “echoes” of Oliver Stone’s JFK in that an assassination and an alleged government conspiracy are linked. [Los Angeles Times] Nice Villain: Soft-spoken nice guy James Franco will take on his greatest challenge yet: playing an “evil meth magnate” opposite Jason Statham. In the action-thriller Homefront, Statham will portray a prototypical good guy, a former DEA agent in search of a new start with his family, only to discover that he’s moved them into a...
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- 8/1/2012
- by Peter Martin
- Movies.com
After failing to get his Martin Luther King/Civil Rights drama Selma off the ground a couple of years back, Lee Daniels is trying again to get another Mlk drama going. This time he is going to adapt Orders to Kill, a book which takes an alternate view on the assassination of King in a similar way to Oliver Stone’s infamous and controversial JFK.
Orders to Kill is set to feature Hugh Jackman in the role of William Pepper, an attorney who tried for years to bring a case to court that stated James Earl Ray was not the assassin who murdered Martin Luther King. His thesis was that the assassination was a conspiracy inside the Us government who were getting concerned over his protestations about the Vietnam War and saw to it that he was silenced.
The film, like JFK, will follow Pepper’s journey to bring his case to the public,...
Orders to Kill is set to feature Hugh Jackman in the role of William Pepper, an attorney who tried for years to bring a case to court that stated James Earl Ray was not the assassin who murdered Martin Luther King. His thesis was that the assassination was a conspiracy inside the Us government who were getting concerned over his protestations about the Vietnam War and saw to it that he was silenced.
The film, like JFK, will follow Pepper’s journey to bring his case to the public,...
- 8/1/2012
- by Will Chadwick
- We Got This Covered
This could turn out very, very badly.
Lee Daniels is not a subtle filmmaker. Oliver Stone isn’t, either, but his incisive and lacerating approach was a perfect filmmaking conduit for the story of JFK; the film it resulted in was, I’d argue, very stupid, but it’s also one of the most compelling to emerge in the ’90s. Has Mr. Precious made anything on that level? No, and this fact alone might raise some real concerns about what’s coming next.
24Frames report that Daniels and Hugh Jackman are collecting some pieces of their failed Martin Luther King Jr. biopic, Selma — and, from it, want to make a conspiracy theory drama. The film, titled Orders to Kill, will tell “an alternative version of the King shooting,” one in which the assassin is not James Earl Ray — i.e., the most commonly accepted perpetrator — but, among others, U.S.
Lee Daniels is not a subtle filmmaker. Oliver Stone isn’t, either, but his incisive and lacerating approach was a perfect filmmaking conduit for the story of JFK; the film it resulted in was, I’d argue, very stupid, but it’s also one of the most compelling to emerge in the ’90s. Has Mr. Precious made anything on that level? No, and this fact alone might raise some real concerns about what’s coming next.
24Frames report that Daniels and Hugh Jackman are collecting some pieces of their failed Martin Luther King Jr. biopic, Selma — and, from it, want to make a conspiracy theory drama. The film, titled Orders to Kill, will tell “an alternative version of the King shooting,” one in which the assassin is not James Earl Ray — i.e., the most commonly accepted perpetrator — but, among others, U.S.
- 8/1/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Conspiracy theory drama will tell the story of lawyer William Pepper's fight to prove that the civil rights activist was murdered by forces including the Us government
Lee Daniels is teaming up with Hugh Jackman for the conspiracy theory drama Orders to Kill, about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, according to the La Times.
With Daniels directing, Jackman will star as William Pepper, the lawyer who has argued for decades that, on 4 April 1968, the Us civil rights activist was murdered by unseen forces including the Us government. The man convicted of shooting King was James Earl Ray, an advocate of non-violent protest; Ray recanted his confession and died protesting his innocence.
The film, which will follow Pepper's long fight to bring his arguments to prominence, is adapted by screenwriter Hanna Weg from Pepper's 1995 book Orders to Kill: The Truth Behind the Murder of Martin Luther King. Following Ray's death,...
Lee Daniels is teaming up with Hugh Jackman for the conspiracy theory drama Orders to Kill, about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, according to the La Times.
With Daniels directing, Jackman will star as William Pepper, the lawyer who has argued for decades that, on 4 April 1968, the Us civil rights activist was murdered by unseen forces including the Us government. The man convicted of shooting King was James Earl Ray, an advocate of non-violent protest; Ray recanted his confession and died protesting his innocence.
The film, which will follow Pepper's long fight to bring his arguments to prominence, is adapted by screenwriter Hanna Weg from Pepper's 1995 book Orders to Kill: The Truth Behind the Murder of Martin Luther King. Following Ray's death,...
- 8/1/2012
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Hugh Jackman and Lee Daniels will team on Orders to Kill. The pair will collaborate on the adaptation of William F Pepper's non-fiction book about the death of Dr Martin Luther King Jr, reports the Los Angeles Times. Hanna Weg will adapt the book, which argues that the civil rights leader was not fatally shot by James Earl Ray, who was a scapegoat in a conspiracy surrounding the infamous killing. Jackman will play the (more)...
- 8/1/2012
- by By Hugh Armitage
- Digital Spy
After years attempting to work together on social unrest drama Selma, Hugh Jackman and Precious director Lee Daniels will finally be collaborating on Orders To Kill. The film will follow William Pepper (played by Jackman), a controversial lawyer who argues that James Earl Ray wasn’t responsible for shooting Martin Luther King, Jr. According to the La Times, Daniels’ film will be an unconventional examination of the case that tracks Pepper’s one-man campaign – no surprise when the script’s based on Pepper’s...
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- 8/1/2012
- by Josh Winning
- TotalFilm
Try as they might, so far, Lee Daniels and Hugh Jackman just haven’t been able to make a movie together. Over two years ago, the actor was lining up to Continue Reading...
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- 8/1/2012
- by Sunrider
- Filmofilia
Despite their civil rights flick "Selma" falling apart in development a few years ago, "Precious" director Lee Daniels and actor Hugh Jackman are trying again with similar subject matter.
The Los Angeles Times reports that they've turned their focus to "Orders to Kill", a project that Millennium Films will produce and finance.
Currently being shopped around to distributors, the story is an unconventional exploration of the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination. Jackman will play William Pepper, a controversial attorney and activist who for decades has argued that convicted killer James Earl Ray didn't shoot Mlk.
The action will follow his one-man campaign over the years that other interests, including the U.S. government, were behind the 1968 Memphis killing because of King's opposition to the Vietnam War.
Hanna Weg is adapting the script based on Pepper's own book while Daniels will direct.
The news comes the same day that it was...
The Los Angeles Times reports that they've turned their focus to "Orders to Kill", a project that Millennium Films will produce and finance.
Currently being shopped around to distributors, the story is an unconventional exploration of the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination. Jackman will play William Pepper, a controversial attorney and activist who for decades has argued that convicted killer James Earl Ray didn't shoot Mlk.
The action will follow his one-man campaign over the years that other interests, including the U.S. government, were behind the 1968 Memphis killing because of King's opposition to the Vietnam War.
Hanna Weg is adapting the script based on Pepper's own book while Daniels will direct.
The news comes the same day that it was...
- 8/1/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Though director Lee Daniels and Hugh Jackman were looking to team for the civil rights film Selma, the project fell apart a couple years ago. However, the duo haven't given up on setting a movie in that time period as the La Times has word that they two will team up for Orders to Kill, a very unique approach to chronicling the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. While everyone knows that James Earl Ray has been credited with the iconic civil rights leader's untimely death, attorney and activist William Pepper has said for decades that Ray recanted his confession and died arguing his innocence. More below! Jackman would play Pepper in a film that shows his efforts as "a one-man campaign, interviewing witnesses and building support for his theory that other interests, including those from the U.S. government, were behind the 1968 Memphis killing." Essentially, it's a film...
- 8/1/2012
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
It would seem that Hugh Jackman and director Lee Daniels really, really want to work together on something. For the longest time both were attached to the drama Selma, a civil rights story about how Martin Luther King Jr. and Lyndon Johnson and how the Alabama civil rights march led to the signing of the Civil Rights Act. Unfortunately it was a project killed by time, as both Jackman and Daniels ended up moving on to other projects such as The Wolverine and The Paper Boy, but now they are apparently ready to reteam, and, funny enough, it will be on another story about Mlk. This one, however, will be quite a lot different. The La Times has learned that the pair are now attached to make Orders to Kill, a film that tells an alternate tale about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. Described as an...
- 8/1/2012
- cinemablend.com
Try as they might, so far, Lee Daniels and Hugh Jackman just haven't been able to make a movie together. Over two years ago, the actor was lining up to play segregation enforcer Sheriff Jim Clark in the director's civil rights tale "Selma," which never was able to get in front of cameras. And then, earlier this year, Jackman was sought out for a role in Daniels' currently shooting "The Butler" but it never worked out due to "The Wolverine" schedule, which is also rolling in front of cameras at the moment. But by golly, they're hoping the third time's the charm. The La Times reports both are now attached to "Orders To Kill," a movie that will center on the conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Now before you think this is gonna be some kind of Oliver Stone, "JFK"-style kettle of ideas, guess again.
- 8/1/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Two years ago, Precious director Lee Daniels and Hugh Jackman were gearing up to make the civil rights film Selma. That came unraveled, but apparently the two remained pen pals as they're now planning to make Orders to Kill, an alternate take on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Jackman, who was set to play violent Alabama sheriff Jim Clark in Selma, will star as William Pepper, "a controversial attorney and activist who for decades has argued that convicted killer James Earl Ray, who recanted his confession and died arguing his innocence, didn't shoot Mlk," the L.A. Times writes. The plot will follow Pepper through the years, with a script based one of Pepper's books (there are two — An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King and Orders to Kill: The Truth Behind the Murder of Martin Luther King, the latter featuring a foreword...
- 8/1/2012
- by Zach Dionne
- Vulture
Though their last attempt to collaborate on a Civil Rights tale, Selma, collapsed due to schedules and financing, director Lee Daniels and star High Jackman aren’t ready to give up on the subject just yet. They’ve now turned their focus to Orders To Kill, which digs up a conspiracy theory about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.Daniels has contracted Hanna Weg to adapt William Pepper’s book of the same name, and Jackman will play Pepper. He’s a controversial lawyer and activist who has built a case for decades hinged around the idea that convicted killer James Earl Ray was not the person responsible for shooting the inspirational civil rights leader.Instead, Pepper argues that a combination of government interests had him taken out because of his opposition to the Vietnam War. Though Pepper has yet to win much public support, he has a strong...
- 8/1/2012
- EmpireOnline
This is interesting... So Lee Daniels apparently couldn't get his original Mlk project off the ground (titled Selma, which had David Oyelowo starring), and has switched gears, still staying on the Mlk course, but this time teaming with Hugh Jackman (who was also attached to Selma), to take on Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in a new film that will reportedly explore an "unconventional view of King's murder." To be titled Orders To Kill, the film will tell an alternative version of the Mlk shooting, according to the La Times, with Daniels directing of course, and Jackman starring. The film will tell the story of William Pepper (Jackman), a controversial...
- 8/1/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
• Hugh Jackman is attached to star in Orders to Kill for director Lee Daniels, playing real-life lawyer William Pepper, who has spent his life contending that Martin Luther King, Jr. was not assassinated by James Earl Ray, but by interests keen to silence his opposition to the Vietnam War. The film is based on Pepper’s book of the same name. The historic civil rights leader is a significant figure for both men: Daniels just cast True Blood’s Nelsan Ellis to play King in The Butler, his biopic about Eugene Allen, who worked in the White House for four decades.
- 8/1/2012
- by Adam B. Vary
- EW - Inside Movies
Director Lee Daniels and leading man Hugh Jackman are teaming for an adaptation of William F. Pepper's nonfiction book Orders to Kill , The La Times reports. Pepper, who was a personal friend of Martin Luther King, Jr., has spent years arguing that the confession of James Earl Ray was part of an elaborate conspiracy. He describes his book as follows: Here is the myth-shattering expose which reveals the truth behind the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr... Shocking and controversial revelations from James Earl Ray's attorney On April 4th, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stepped out onto the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, and into his killer's line of fire. One shot ended Dr. King's life and forever changed the course of American history --...
- 7/31/2012
- Comingsoon.net
Actor turned teacher, he quit the screen at the height of his fame
There are some actors who, having disappeared from the public gaze early in their careers, always prompt the question, "Whatever happened to ... ?" The answer, in the case of Paul Massie, who has died of lung cancer aged 78, is that, at the height of his fame on films and television, he gave it up at the age of 40 to teach drama at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
The son of a Baptist minister, Massie was born Arthur Massé in the city of St Catharines, in the Niagara region of Ontario. Although he was brought up in Canada, almost his entire 16-year acting career was in Britain. In fact, the only film he made in Canada was his first, Philip Leacock's High Tide at Noon (1957), a Rank Organisation melodrama shot in Nova Scotia. Although it was a bit part,...
There are some actors who, having disappeared from the public gaze early in their careers, always prompt the question, "Whatever happened to ... ?" The answer, in the case of Paul Massie, who has died of lung cancer aged 78, is that, at the height of his fame on films and television, he gave it up at the age of 40 to teach drama at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
The son of a Baptist minister, Massie was born Arthur Massé in the city of St Catharines, in the Niagara region of Ontario. Although he was brought up in Canada, almost his entire 16-year acting career was in Britain. In fact, the only film he made in Canada was his first, Philip Leacock's High Tide at Noon (1957), a Rank Organisation melodrama shot in Nova Scotia. Although it was a bit part,...
- 7/31/2011
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
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