Fierce Creatures (1997)

Max Schreck as Graf Orlok in "Nosferatu" (1922)

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Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror." This 1922 classic of cinema based on Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (but with names changed) directed by F.W. Murnau and starring Max Schrek in one of films most famous and frightening make-up jobs.

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: Jan 24, 1997

Running Time: 93 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

Country Of Origin: United Kingdom

starring: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, Ronnie Corbett, Carey Lowell, Robert Lindsay, Bille Brown, Derek Griffiths, Cynthia Cleese

director: Robert Young, Fred Schepisi

A small, idyllic English zoo is taken over by Octopus, a large multi-national corporation whose hard-nosed chief executive attempts to tame the zoo keepers and change the zoo. He sends his marketing genius son and a female customer relations executive to the zoo to try to find a way to make it more profitable. Gradually, however, they become charmed by the care and devotion of the animal keepers.

December 8, 2000

It's not a sequel. Got that? the cast of A Fish Called Wanda, the 1988 classic farce that starred Monty Python vets John Cleese and Michael Palin, and Americans Jamie Lee Curtis and Oscar-winner Kevin Kline, reunites to play different loonies this time. All well and good, except that the writing and directing aren't as deft, and the laughs are rooted more in slapstick and bodily functions than in character or emotion.

Cleese, who wrote the script with film critic Iain Johnstone, stars as Rollo…