SHADES OF GREENE was a wonderful little series based on short stories that Greene had written over the years. Each episode was just over an hour in length, and had such stars as John Guilgud, Leo McKern, Virginia McKenna, Paul Schofield, and Roy Kinnear in them. Many dealt with Greene's fascination with guilt and with Catholic faith and dogma. But he also looked at life, with a...
Oliver Reed and Michael Crawford play two brothers who are always trying to find some way to succeed with cleverness rather than simple drudgery. Crawford is constantly living in his brother's shadow as the one who gets caught. After Crawford is forced to resign from the army after an episode of unappreciated cleverness, the two decide their careers would go better if there was...
Former secret agent Robert Elliot (Coburn) will be promoted to government advisor. In order to make sure no-one will ever know about his dirty past, he has invented a very ingenious plan to get rid of his four helpers: he gets them all to unknowingly kill each other in the course of a single night.