The Name of the Rose (1986)
Jean-Jacques Annaud's 1986 Eco adaptation. Sean Connery as Franciscan monk investigating monastery murders.
Michael Lonsdale played Hugo Drax in Moonraker and the monk in Of Gods and Men, which won him a César, and the two roles could not be further apart. He worked with Truffaut, Buñuel and Orson Welles, and was fluent in French and English, having been raised partly in England and Morocco.
Christian SlaterJean-Jacques Annaud's 1986 Eco adaptation. Sean Connery as Franciscan monk investigating monastery murders.
Lois Chiles1979 Lewis Gilbert Bond film with Moore in space. Drax's orbital station, space-shuttle laser battle, post-Star Wars opportunism.
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