Michael Caine
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Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Now in his 85th year, Hollywood legend Michael Caine shares wisdom and stories from his remarkable career in this "engrossing" memoir that "shines with positive energy" (Library Journal, starred review).
One of our best-loved actors, Michael Caine has starred in over 100 films in his six-decade career, spanning classic movies like Alfie, Zulu, and The Italian Job (the inspiration for the book title) to playing...
One of our best-loved actors, Michael Caine has starred in over 100 films in his six-decade career, spanning classic movies like Alfie, Zulu, and The Italian Job (the inspiration for the book title) to playing...
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Español
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Durante algo más de cinco décadas, ha sido espía, matón, mayordomo, oficial nazi, estafador, donjuán, peluquero y asesino, entre docenas de personajes que, con frecuencia, exigieron de él la máxima solvencia interpretativa. Pero Michael Caine no dejó de ser nunca Michael Caine para una audiencia rendida a sus encantos.
Su metro noventa, sus rizos rubios, su sonrisa socarrona y sus párpados pesados como leños encarnaron al tipo que muchos...
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English
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Charming, engaging, and surprisingly forthright, Michael Caine gives us his insider's view of Hollywood and the story of his brilliant second act… When he was in his late fifties, Michael Caine believed his glamorous, rags-to-riches Hollywood career had come to an end. The scripts being sent his way were worse and worse. When one script really disappointed, he called the producer to complain about the part. The producer said, "No, no, we don't want...
4) Last Love
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Language
English
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Matthew, a widowed American living in Paris, and Pauline, a free-spirited dance instructor, form an unlikely bond that provides what they each desperately need: someone to call family.
5) Flawless
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Language
English
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An executive at the London Diamond Corporation is frustrated after years of watching promotions go to only the men in the company. So with the help of a janitor, she tries to steal a hefty sum of diamonds.
6) Best Sellers
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Language
English
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In a last-ditch effort to save the boutique publishing house her father has left her, an ambitious young editor (Plaza) goes on a book tour with a bitter, booze-addled author (Caine) who put the publishing house on the map decades ago.
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English
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A Nazi Strike Force plots to kidnap Winston Churchill while he is resting in a desolate Norfolk village. Colonel Radl (Robert Duvall), Colonel Steiner (Michael Caine) and Liam Devlin (Donald Sutherland) are enlisted to carry out the operation, which if successful, would irrevocably alter the outcome of the war. Disguised as Polish airmen, these paratroopers descend upon England only to be interrupted by an unforeseeable incident which threatens to...
10) Dear Dictator
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English
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When political turmoil forces a British-Caribbean dictator to flee his island nation, he seeks refuge and hides with a rebellious teenage girl in suburban America.
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English
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A stylish political thriller where love and war collide. Set in early 1950s Vietnam, a young American becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle when he falls for the beautiful mistress of a British journalist. As a war is waged around them, these three only sink deeper into a world of drugs, passion and betrayal where nothing is as it seems! Based on the classic novel by Graham Greene.
12) The Actors
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Language
English
Description
Two failed actors decide to try to con a local gangster by pretending to be the people to whom he owes money.
13) Zulu
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Language
English
Description
Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift.
14) Harry Brown
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Language
English
Description
An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.
15) The Italian Job
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Language
English
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Charlie is out of jail and on the make with a plan for the heist of the century. Aided by top criminal mastermind Mr Bridger, Charlie sets off with a team of villains and to lift $4,000,000 from under the noses of the Turin Polizei.
16) Alfie
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Language
English
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Alfie is the ultimate Ladykiller. He is wonderfully successful with women. He also rarely gets emotionally involved with them. He has a series of reversals in which his health is threatened, he has a child who is adopted by another man, gets a married woman pregnant and must procure an abortion for her, and when he decides to settle down is rejected for a younger man.
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English
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Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle him out of East Germany.
18) Deadly game
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Series
DCI Harry Taylor volume 1
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
DCI Harry Taylor has no respect for red tape or political reputations - but he's great at catching criminals. And all his unorthodox skills will be needed as an extraordinary situation unfolds on his doorstep: a metal box of radioactive material is found at a dump in Stepney, East London, but before the police can arrive it is stolen in a violent raid. With security agencies across the world on red alert, it's Harry and his unconventional team from...
19) Last love
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
Matthew is a widowed, world-weary professor living alone in Paris. He sees no meaningful future for himself-until he meets Pauline, a free-spirited young dance instructor. From their first meeting, each provides what the other needs: someone to call family. Even as they both struggle to heal the wounds of their troubled pasts-including Matthew's attempts to reconnect with his estranged children-the bond they form leads them to rediscover the joy that...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Comedy filmed on the Riviera, it's the story of two con men who compete to see who can extract $50,000 from a woman first. The victim is a naive American heiress, and the competition between the two men, one a suave and sophisticated Englishman and the other a bumbling but appealing American, heats up!