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Patrick Magee has 12 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1980s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including A Clockwork Orange.
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In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?
Dir. Stanley Kubrick · With Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Carl Duering

An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.
Dir. Stanley Kubrick · With Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee

An indolent aristocrat gets more than he bargained for when he hires a competent but silently devious manservant.
Dir. Joseph Losey · With Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles

When a tourist group become lost within ancient catacombs, they meet the sinister Crypt Keeper, who tells them each their fate. The enigmatic figure's macabre stories involve a wife dabbling in murder, a retired sanitation worker targeted by his suspicious neighbors, and an adulterer who may face a fitting demise if the yarns come true.
Dir. Freddie Francis · With Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Roy Dotrice

In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.
Dir. Cy Endfield · With Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson

Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the U.S. and starts phoning these agents who perform sabotage acts against military targets.
Dir. Don Siegel · With Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence
Townspeople of a small English village begin to die in a series of horrible accidents, and a Scotland Yard inspector arrives to investigate a mysterious local medium who records conversations with the dead.
Dir. Lucio Fulci · With Patrick Magee, Mimsy Farmer, David Warbeck
Esoterica collector Dr Maitland buys an unusual skull from his ordinary source; the artifact is what remains of the Marquis De Sade. Much too soon, Maitland discovers that the skull is turning him into a frenzied killer.
Dir. Freddie Francis · With Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Patrick Wymark

A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patients, is in fact, the doctor that he would be replacing if hired.
Dir. Roy Ward Baker · With Peter Cushing, Patrick Magee, Herbert Lom

Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War.
Dir. Ken Hughes · With Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley

A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land.
Dir. Roger Corman · With Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher
A scheming widow hatches a bold plan to acquire her late husband's inheritance, unaware that she is being targeted by an ax murderer who lurks in the family's estate.
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola · With William Campbell, Luana Anders, Bart Patton
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