The incompetent Richard II is deposed by Henry Bolingbroke and undergoes a crisis of identity once he is no longer king.
An enormously enjoyable comedy spun from a real-life story told to Alan Bennett by the actress Coral Browne, who had met the traitor Guy Burgess in Moscow on a cultural exchange visit in 1958. Out of this story, Bennett fashioned a screenplay which reflected on patriotism and treachery, drawing many parallels between Hamlet, which the Old Vic was performing on the trip, and Bur...
兵工厂职员横尸铁轨,头部碎裂,身上有两张戏票,一本银行支票,一些零钱和一小捆政府的机密文件——布鲁斯·帕廷顿计划。
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那意大利典狱长是个搞旅馆业出身的上校,他让那些准将囚犯们受到了宾至如归的高级待遇,以致囚犯们决定等到该典狱长晋升准将后才越狱。
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