#Spottiswoode

[thefollyflaneuse]

Spottiswoode, near Lauder, Borders

Spottiswoode House, was described in 1846 as a ‘stately and elegant edifice in the old English style of architecture’. The estate had been ‘possessed, time out of mind, by the Spotiswoodes’ and was the childhood home of Alicia Anne Spottiswoode. It became her retreat in widowhood and the place where she was remembered for having ‘a weakness for erecting curious stone archways and other little…

[weirdlookindog]

The Avenging Conscience: or 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' (1914)

AKA The Telltale Heart

[80shorrorfilmedits]

Terror Train (1980) | dir. Roger Spottiswoode

[spockvarietyhour]

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) directed by Roger Spottiswoode

[ceteradesunt]

Terror Train (1980) dir. Roger Spottiswoode

[omercifulheaves]

Terror Train (1980)

[last-of-the-independents]

ANDY ROBINSON as Harvey in Shoot to Kill (1988)

Director Roger Spottiswoode

[lobbycards]

Tomorrow Never Dies, Italian lobby card (fotobusta), 1997

[moviesandfood]

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot

[thecheshirepath]

Terror Train (1980) 🚂🎭❄️🔪💀🪓🩸

[sesiondemadrugada]

The Best of Times (Roger Spottiswoode, 1986).

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[filmjunky-99]

h a p p y b i r t h d a y

Richard Gere

31 August 1949

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[pic: gere as the choreographer, and the band played on, 1993]

[sasa-chan]

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

Starring:

Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher, Joe Don Baker, Judi Dench

Directed By:

Roger Spottiswoode

Genre:

Action

Rating:

PG-13

Run Time:

1 Hour 59 Minutes

Release Date:

9 December 1997 (London, premiere)

12 December 1997 (United Kingdom)

19 December 1997 (United States)

Synopsis:

Media mogul Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce) wants his news empire to reach every country on the globe, but the Chinese government will not allow him to broadcast there. Carver doesn't take no for an answer and plans to use his media empire to fuel flames of war between the Western world and China. Thankfully, James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) is on to the insane news tycoon and travels to China to stop him with the help of Chinese secret agent Wai Lin (Michelle Yeoh).

[haverwood]

Ripley Under Ground Roger Spottiswoode Germany/France/UK/Isle of Man, 2005 ★★ It's fine, I guess, maybe. Ridiculously convenient, as these stories go, but it's nothing too outrageous.

I do believe that moving the story into a more modern setting hurts its credibility a bit (autopsies were better at the time than in the 70s) but whatever, it's harmless entertainment (with some jarring editing to boot).