Movies by Richard Vernon

A Month in the Country

A Month in the Country

A destitute WWI veteran is hired to help carry out restoration work on a medieval mural in a rural Yorkshire church. While living in the quiet village, he forms a close friendship with an archaeologist and begins to come to terms with his trauma.

Experiment IV

Experiment IV

A top secret government project seeks to harness sound as the ultimate weapon. But the power they unleash proves to be far beyond their control.

The Box

The Box

Several individuals have been packed in a box; they disagree regarding what should be done.

Witness for the Prosecution

Witness for the Prosecution

Sir Wilfred Robarts, a famed barrister is released from the hospital, where he stayed for two months following his heart attack. Returning to the practise of his lawyer skills, he takes the case of Leonard Vole, an unemployed man who is accused of murdering an elderly lady friend of his, Mrs. Emily French. While Leonard Vole claims he's innocent, although all evidence points to him as the killer, his alibi witness, his cold German wife Christine, instead of entering the court as a witness for the defense, she becomes the witness for the pros...

Tosca

Tosca

Live Metropolitan Opera performance March, 1985.

One Brief Summer

One Brief Summer

The story deals with the situation of a mature man, his mistress, his daughter and a young girl who comes into their lives.

Reach for Glory

Reach for Glory

During World War II, teenage boys in a small English town are consumed with jingoism and brutal war games, hoping dearly that the war won't end before they can fight in it.

The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner

The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner

On August the 15th, 1945, after the official surrender of the Empire of Japan, Admiral Matome Ugaki led the last Special Attack Force pilots across the Pacific, to crash into American ships. Thirty-five years later, the men who serviced the aeroplanes are still meeting up for their annual dinner. Now settled into civilian jobs - dentist, baker, taxi-driver, insurance salesman - and with children and grandchildren, they bemoan the decay of traditional Japanese values. Hard liquor is imbibed, toasts raised to the memory of the heroic dead, and...