Alvin Rakoff

Total Credits at Criticker: 17 (Director)
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A businessman blackmails his attractive young secretary into spending a weekend with him. Though he's a creep throughout, he gradually emerges as a sympathetic character. (imdb)
A pyromaniac, ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city. (imdb)
A cruise ship is run over by a Nazi Flying Dutchman (Flying Deutschland?). Several survivors are taken on board, including the captain, who begins to imagine himself its fuehrer.
A successful London ad-exec hires a beautiful Hungarian girl to pose for some modeling shots, little realising that she has overheard an assassination plot and is now being hunted by some dangerous killers. (imdb)
A man in 1960s London tries to make it big in television, but finds a lack of success and disillusionment.
Romeo & Juliet (1978) - TV Movie
Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil hands unclean... (imdb)
Three adventurers lead an expedition into darkest Africa in search of the treasure of King Solomon, and on the way encounter hostile natives, volcanoes, dinosaurs and a lost Phoenician city ruled by a beautiful queen. (imdb)
An ex-OSS operative returns to Czechoslovakia after the war, hopes to recover a fortune in jewels that he'd hidden at the behest of a German general.
A Harvard University student finds a strange letter that seems to be signed by George Washington. When trying to contact an expert (Prof. Chandler) to authenticate it, he is murdered but the letter disappears. Then Chandler, who does not know anything about the case, gets chased by the mafia and haunted by a TV reporter (Polly Bishop). (imdb)
Number 10 (1983) - TV Mini-Series
Chronicles the private lives of seven British prime ministers who lived in Number 10 Downing Street between the 1780s and the 1920s: William Pitt the Younger, the Duke of Wellington, Benjamin Disraeli, William Ewart Gladstone, David Lloyd-George, Herbert Henry Asquith and James Ramsay MacDonald. (imdb)
A Dance to the Music of Time (1997) - TV Mini-Series
Anthony Powell's 12 volume novel sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time" has been dramatised for television. (imdb)
Three unrelated horror shorts from 1975 UK horror anthology series "Classics Dark and Dangerous" edited together into one horror film anthology with three segments. Each story features a woman who willingly or unwillingly spreads evil. (imdb)
The Emperor Jones (1953) - TV Movie
Tells the tale of Brutus Jones, a resourceful, self-assured African American and a former Pullman porter, who kills another black man in a dice game, is jailed, and later escapes to a small, backward Caribbean island where he sets himself up as emperor.
Heart to Heart (1962) - TV Movie
A television interviewer is determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister.
A cab driver falls for French girl mixed up with white slave ring, eventually helps to liberate her.
The First Olympics: Athens 1896 (1984) - TV Mini-Series
It describes the founding of the modern Olympic Games and focuses on the creation of the American team and its tests to reach the Athens Olympics. (imdb)