
Michael Colgan
Sound · Dublin, Ireland
Michael Colgan is a highly prominent Irish theatre director and film/television producer, best known for his 33-year tenure as the Artistic Director of the famous Gate Theatre in Dublin, Ireland, from 1983 until 2017. Born in 1950, he is widely regarded as one of the most successful and influential Irish theatre producers of his generation.
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Movie10.0DocumentaryFollows the "Beckett on Film" project, which produced film adaptations of writer Samuel Beckett's nineteen stage plays. The documentary features excerpts from the "Beckett on Film" versions of "Not I", "Krapp's Last Tape", "Endgame", "What Where", and "Waiting for Godot".
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
2003 · 1 votes
Movie5.6ComedyCrimeDuring the run of a particularly awful interpretation of Richard III, the star, Anthony O'Malley, begins to frequent a rough pub to develop his character. He meets Barreller who he discovers owes someone he's never met a considerable sum of money. Seeing an opportunity to make some fast money, O'Malley convinces hapless extra, Tom, to meet Barreller as the debt collector.
The Actors
2003 · 39 votes
Movie6.2Science FictionHorrorA scientist takes the brain of dead man and revives it via electrodes as it lays suspended in a tank of liquid. Soon, the brain grows to possess enormous psychic powers and inflicts its personality upon the doctor who saved it, creating a "Jekyll and Hyde" paradigm.
Donovan's Brain
1953 · 42 votes
Movie5.0WesternVigilante Terror was one of the last of the "Wild Bill" Elliot westerns for Columbia. This time, Elliot comes to rescue an imperiled storekeeper. A band of masked vigilantes is laying waste to the countryside, and the storekeeper is blamed. Wild Bill saves the day by going undercover -- or under hood, as it were
Vigilante Terror
1953 · 1 votes
Movie5.6DramaWarIn the Korean war, the commander of an Air Rescue helicopter team must show a hot-shot former jet pilot how important helicopter rescue work is and turn him into a team player.
Battle Taxi
1955 · 9 votes