Michael Caine
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Pub. Date
2018.
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xii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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The Hollywood legend shares the wisdom, stories, insight, and skills that life-- and over six decades as an actor-- has taught him. Coming from humble origins, he knows what success takes-- and now he wants to share everything he's learned. And he does it at his entertaining best.
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Pub. Date
2010
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xiv, 304 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Caine shares the spectacular story of his life, from his humble upbringing in London's poverty-stricken Elephant and Castle to his military service and lively adventures to legendary meetings with fellow stars and his glittering five-decade career.
4) Last Love
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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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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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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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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...
11) Dear Dictator
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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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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.
13) The Actors
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Two failed actors decide to try to con a local gangster by pretending to be the people to whom he owes money.
14) Zulu
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Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift.
15) Harry Brown
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An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.
16) The Italian Job
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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.
17) Alfie
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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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Pub. Date
2010
Description
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
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