Simon Langton

Simon Langton
Total Credits at Criticker: 13 (Director)
Titles you haven't rated - Director (13)
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen's classic novel about the prejudice that occurred between the 19th century classes and the pride which would keep lovers apart. (imdb)
+11
The Whistle Blower
A war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for the British intelligence service during the Cold War. He meets a web of deception and paranoia that seems impenetrable. (imdb)
+5
Smiley\
Smiley's People (1982) - TV Mini-Series
Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. (imdb)
Anna Karenina
Tragic Anna leaves her cold husband for dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia. (imdb)
+2
Casanova
Casanova (1987) - TV Movie
A very long, beginning-to-end life story of an eighteenth century womanizer that is arrested, not so much for his crimes, but because he is viewed as an undesirable by the husbands and families of the women he seduces. (imdb)
Forbidden Territory: Stanley\
At the time this made-for-TV historical drama first aired on ABC, critics praised the fact that it was more accurate than the 1939 Spencer Tracy vehicle Stanley and Livingstone; while this is generally true (unlike the earlier film, this one was lensed on location in England and Kenya), the pop-psychology sensibilities depicted in the TV movie smack more of the late 20th than the late 19th century. (allmovie.com)
+3
Laguna Heat
Harry Hamlin stars in this made-for-cable thriller as a private eye who returns to his boyhood home only to find himself on the trail of a serial killer. (allmovie.com)
Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd
Mrs. Holroyd is married to a loutish miner, who drinks, apparently patronizes prostitutes, and apparently brutalizes her. When a gentlemanly neighbor makes romantic advances to her, she wishes her husband dead. Sooner than she hoped, her wish comes true--when her husband dies in a mining accident.
Supernatural
Supernatural (1977) - TV Mini-Series
Chilling anthology series where membership to the secret society, The Club of the Damned, is granted through telling horror stories. (imdb)
Tales of the Unexpected
The Cinder Path
The Cinder Path (1994) - TV Mini-Series
Tale of a farmer's son who gets involved with two sisters, then goes to fight in the trenches in WW1. (imdb)
Nancherrow
Nancherrow (1999) - TV Mini-Series
Loveday Carey-Lewis is the new caretaker of the house Nancherrow. She also has to deal with love problems as she fights to keep the house. (imdb)
Rebecca
Rebecca (1979) - TV Mini-Series
A naive young woman marries a wealthy widower, but grows haunted by his late wife's legacy and the sinister housekeeper's obsession with the deceased Rebecca. (imdb)