Today March 14, the great actor Michael Caine turns 91. Practically retired from professional life, the British performer began working in the late 1950s alongside the best directors. From John Huston a Don Siegelgoing by Vittorio De Sicauntil the current Christopher Nolan, Caine has been iconically current while still representing the figure of the British 'gentleman'. Always elegant, at the end of last year he announced his retirement for health reasons, but we cannot miss the anniversary of his birth, without failing to remember that some of his best films are available on the Filmin platform:
'The footprint'
Surely, we are facing the best movie by Michael Caine, who shares the lead role in this intriguing story with Laurence Olivier. Nominated for 4 Oscars, she had the bad luck to coincide in the year with The Godfather. Even so, perhaps it can also be considered one of those great stories of british cinema.
Andrew Wyke (Olivier) is a prestigious intrigue novel writer, passionate about riddles and ingenuity. Hobby that has led him to convert his mansion into a museum, where the most extravagant mechanisms and showcases coexist. One afternoon, she invites Milo Tinfdle (Caine, his wife's lover and owner of a beauty salon franchise. He will propose an ingenious plan in which both could greatly benefit.
'The man who could reign'
In addition to being one of the best performers of modern cinema, Caine has similarly been characterized by surrounding himself and co-starring in stories alongside other legendary actors. In this case and under the direction of John Huston, we talk about Sean Connery y Christopher Plummer.
Adapting the novel of the same name by Rudyard Kipling, The Man Who Would Be King tells us the journey of two adventurers who travel to India in 1880. There, they survive thanks to the smuggling of weapons and other merchandise. One day, they decide to make their fortune within the kingdom of Kafiristan, after a very hard trip through the Himalayasthey reach their goal to make use of their combat experience and save its inhabitants from assailants.
'Hannah and her sisters'
He assumed the first Oscar in the career by Michael Caine and at the same time, the first and only collaboration with Woody Allen.
In Hannah and her sistersthe British actor plays Elliot, the protagonist's husband who, overnight, he falls in love with one of his wife's sisters. Which are very different from each other, but they all have something in common: they go to Hannah when they need money or advice.
'Youth'
From the hand of Paolo Sorrentino, Youth It is one of the last great works in which Caine has participated. With Harvey Keitel and Rachel Weisz as his castmate, it is a play about old age, friendship and the passage of time.
Here, our birthday boy plays a great conductor who spends his vacation in a hotel in the alps with his daughter and his best friend, a film director who is having trouble finishing his latest work. Ballinger is retired but an emissary of Queen Elizabeth He wants to convince him to give a concert in honor of Prince Philip's birthday.
‘Zulu’
One of the great British films about British colonialism, where Cy Endfield He found his best version as a director.
Contextualized in South Africa in the 19th century, one hundred British soldiers await the attack of 4,000 Zulu warriors. They have orders to hold their ground and, despite the enemy's overwhelming numerical superiority, they have no doubts about fighting to the end. In the film, Michael Caine plays one of these soldiers, along with Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson y James Booth.
'Dressed to kill'
It was Brian De Palma's only collaboration with Caine, where in a thriller style, they managed to film one of the best films about serial killers of the 80s. Rounding out the cast are Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, Dennis Franz and David Marguiles.
History presents us with Kate Miller (Dickinson), a troubled woman who goes to the office of psychiatrist Robert Elliot (Caine) to receive professional advice. Later she will have a chance and exciting encounter in a taxi with a stranger, whom she had already met elsewhere. The danger will be more present than ever.