Peter Medak's 1972 film version of Peter Barnes' play The Ruling Class — an almost unclassifiable movie in terms of genre — is one of his truly great films. O'Toole plays Jack Gurney — the ...

Practically an unknown -- and unseen -- movie for anyone under 45, "The Ruling Class" bounds back on DVD, almost 30 years after initial release, with a physical energy and verbal verve that belies ...

During a career that spanned nearly six decades, O'Toole also received Oscar noms for his turns in Becket (1964), The Lion in Winter (1968), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969), The Ruling Class (1972), The ...

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of an oddball film called The Ruling Class. Peter O’Toole stars in this colorful feature which smashes any genre label. Upon its release in the U.S. in ...

He'll be remembered forever for "Lawrence of Arabia," but O'Toole was also better as a singing headmaster in "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" than you might think ...

Peter Barnes, the British playwright, screenwriter and director best known for his 1968 play "The Ruling Class," a satirical attack on the church and British aristocracy that he later adapted for ...

O'Toole puts this skill to good use in films like Lawrence Of Arabia, The Stunt Man, My Favorite Year, and 1972's The Ruling Class, ... Adapted by Peter Barnes from his play, ...

In The Ruling Class, the 14th Earl of Gurney is a paranoid-schizophrenic who, believing he is Christ, spends teatime lounging on a cross and odd hours delivering unwelcome lectures about social ...

Then came director Peter Medak’s gallows comedy “The Ruling Class” (1972) with O’Toole completely unhinged and enormous fun to watch as a delusional aristocrat who alternately believes ...

In Brief: Last week marked the one-year anniversary of the death of my illustrious predecessor and Asheville Film Society founder, the late, great Ken Hanke. In an admittedly humble attempt to ...