Movies by Donald Pleasence
![Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/Ben7ogJNNjWhzwVeo7LZYgiHPH.jpg)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
A small town band makes it big, but loses track of their roots, as they get caught up into the big-time machinations of the music biz. Now, they must thwart a plot to destroy their home town. Built around the music of The Beatles, this musical uses some big name groups like Peter Frampton and Aerosmith.
![The House of Usher](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/urcP9YKNYk8SLbXOVBvMwYTw4Hz.jpg)
The House of Usher
An updated version of the classic horror tale by Edgar Allen Poe. Ryan and his girlfriend Molly are going to visit Ryan's uncle, Roderick Usher, at his mansion. They find, however, that Roderick's brother Walter has gone insane, and Roderick himself isn't far behind. Can Ryan and Molly escape from the doomed mansion before the curse of Usher claims them as well?
![The Vulture Is a Patient Bird](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/nGxtjtAM8XRzxpV2h5YeIAlrZqC.jpg)
The Vulture Is a Patient Bird
A brilliant but sadistic safe-breaker; a beautiful seductress; an expert young hunter and an ace pilot with a shady past - this is the team that undercover operator Armo Shalik assembles to steal the priceless Borgia ring from millionaire Max Kahlenberg's closely guarded fortress in the remote and deadly African bush. But when Kahlenberg finds out they are coming, the gang's expedition turns into a strictly one-way safari - to slaughter.
![Hearts of the West](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/bOrOGtucFF39EAXXeM2kY5wGbTy.jpg)
Hearts of the West
Lewis Tater writes Wild West dime novels and dreams of actually becoming a cowboy. When he goes west to find his dream he finds himself in possession of the loot box of two crooks who tried to rob him.
![Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/jFN090M13cF2nnOq40F6fNz0HJN.jpg)
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
While on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the apparently natural death of a retired British major is actually the work of a murderer planning yet another killing.
![Treasure of the Amazon](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/7XVY1Ke4hRTBw9nc48MSUIKFKfu.jpg)
Treasure of the Amazon
An adventurer and his buddies race a former Nazi and others to diamonds in the South American jungle.
![Jaguar Lives!](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/ckdNCX3xNWrGWxzk44TdzFN58JB.jpg)
Jaguar Lives!
The world's newest kung fu legend, Joe Lewis, takes on evil gangsters and saves the world.
![The Passover Plot](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/iT7CdYetTJB0qIyJXMkenzPbZQe.jpg)
The Passover Plot
Yeshua of Nazareth carefully plans his own crucifixion — and subsequent resurrection — to strengthen his political position against the Roman occupation of Palestine.
![Arch of Triumph](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/zIG7nOntOA7yFVwzpmXM18fAvO2.jpg)
Arch of Triumph
Arch of Triumph is a 1985 British made-for-television film based on the novel Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque, which was previously adapted in 1948 for a film of the same name with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. Dr. Ravic (Anthony Hopkins) is an Austrian doctor who helps Jews escape from the Nazis. In 1939, he meets Joan Madou (Lesley-Anne Down), a woman he saves from suicide, and their relationship flourishes until he is arrested as a refugee without documentation and realizes he has some unfinished business with the Nazis. After...
![The Horsemasters](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/fAfvcRofybhxZN4Jm6FheIkzBFl.jpg)
The Horsemasters
American students are having a difficult time at a prestigious English riding school. Dinah Wilcox is overly cautious because of memories of an accident, but Danny Grant gives her confidence. The strict, but admired, instructor fears she must sell her favorite horse because of school tradition, but the students end up taking up a collection to buy it back for her.
![A Story of David](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/jB9MxwcIv4FM1uluUp0pZdwk4Jz.jpg)
A Story of David
Directed by Bob McNaught. King Saul of Israel is jealous of the fame and adoration of David, who long ago slew Goliath and brought victory to Saul's armies. Now Saul, egged on by his Edomite counselor Doeg, attempts to have David killed. Saul's son, and David's best friend, Jonathan, conspires to help David, who is reluctant to fight back against his own people the Israelites.
![Witness for the Prosecution](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/A5DSQ5ny6qhdkXZosBnu0FnJruh.jpg)
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...
![Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/wuu2eV3CgACXGgQ1aM199rROOny.jpg)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Musical version of the story in which Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
![House of the Damned](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/syRF15cBysh9BcIvhJVWvUVMROf.jpg)
House of the Damned
A young woman just released from a mental institution returns home to her mansion and faces a new set of horrors.
![The Defection of Simas Kudirka](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/iNdc6M7RxNpXeLVW6wqiplaRCO4.jpg)
The Defection of Simas Kudirka
Based on the true story of the attempted defection in 1970 by a Lithuanian seaman seeking political asylum in the United States. Kudirka was denied asylum and returned to the Soviets, charged with treason, and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. It was later discovered and verified that his mother had been born in Brooklyn and gone to Lithuania at a young age, which meant she was a U. S. citizen. As a result, Kudirka was declared a U. S. citizen and in 1974 released by the Soviets.
![The Caretaker](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/hCHKMYQjZxxLQTIB2Qe0yWeMWtI.jpg)
The Caretaker
Aston, a quiet, reserved man, lives alone in a top-floor cluttered room of a small abandoned house in a poor London district. He befriends and takes in Mac Davies, an old derelict who has been fired from a menial job in a café. In time Aston offers him a job as caretaker of the house. Aston's brother, Mick - a taunting, quasi-sadist - harasses the derelict when his brother is away, countermanding his orders...
![Where Is Parsifal?](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/k07QqLlVBCBO7ApeFRwwgflSxxZ.jpg)
Where Is Parsifal?
Tucked away in his castle, a hypochondriac inventor plays generous host to a revolving cast of wacky guests. But to pay off his mounting debts, he must sell either a powerful businessman or a rich gypsy on his latest creation: a laser skywriter.
![The Ambassador](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/2mcYdWE0bYIqDkEPdiO2ypfcQ3O.jpg)
The Ambassador
An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventional methods, but his efforts are hampered at every turn and his personal life threatened.
![Basements](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/d8HakXAXpFFQbD5BdNc7mdefYz9.jpg)
Basements
Basements is the title for the omnibus film that brings together two plays by Harold Pinter – The Dumb Waiter and The Room – each, once again, set in a single location.
![Gold of the Amazon Women](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/hKdGzjwqssFzMhF3dPpfKgF0uKC.jpg)
Gold of the Amazon Women
An adventurer searches for the fabled Golden Cities of El Dorado and allies himself with a tribe of Amazon women against a murderous villain who is also after the treasure.