Directed by:
Michael Lindsay-HoggScreenplay:
Robert EndersCinematography:
Douglas SlocombeComposer:
John CameronCast:
Glenda Jackson, Sandy Dennis, Geraldine Page, Edith Evans, Anne Jackson, Melina Mercouri, Anne Meara, Susan Penhaligon, Eli Wallach, Rip Torn, Jerry Stiller (more)Plots(1)
In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way of getting what she wants. (official distributor synopsis)
Cast
Glenda Jackson
UK
Best movies:
This Sporting Life (1963)
Marat/Sade (1967)
The Incredible Sarah (1976)
Sandy Dennis
USA
Best movies:
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
The Indian Runner (1991)
Geraldine Page
USA
Best movies:
The Blue and the Gray (1982) (series)
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
The Day of the Locust (1975)
Edith Evans
UK
Best movies:
Anne Jackson
USA
Best movies:
The Shining (1980)
The Angel Levine (1970)
Dirty Dingus Magee (1970)
Melina Mercouri
Greece
Best movies:
He Who Must Die (1957)
The Victors (1963)
10:30 P.M. Summer (1966)
Anne Meara
USA
Best movies:
Awakenings (1990)
Fame (1980)
The Boys from Brazil (1978)
Susan Penhaligon
Philippines
Best movies:
Miracles Still Happen: The Story of Juliane Koepcke (1974)
Soldier of Orange (1977)
The Masks of Death (1984) (TV movie)
Eli Wallach
USA
Best movies:
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992) (TV movie)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Rip Torn
USA
Best movies:
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980) (TV movie)
Men in Black (1997)
Hercules (1997)
Jerry Stiller
USA
Best movies:
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Subway Stories: Tales from the Underground (1997) (TV movie)
Hairspray (1988)
Shane Rimmer
Canada
Best movies:
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
Batman Begins (2005)
Gandhi (1982)
James Berwick
UK
Best movies:
Fear Is the Key (1972)
A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966)
Valentino (1977)
Christopher Muncke
USA
Best movies:
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Birth of the Beatles (1979)
Around the World in 80 Days (1989) (TV movie)
Peter Bromilow
UK
Best movies:
Wild at Heart (1990)
War and Remembrance (1988) (series)
The Railway Children (1970)
Howard K. Smith
USA
Best movies:
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
V (1983) (TV movie)
Mike Douglas
USA
Best movies:
Cinderella (1950)
The Last Valley (1971)
Gator (1976)
Harry Ditson
Best movies:
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
The Legend of 1900 (1998)