In honour of the passing of Mr Hurt... the top ten times they tried to turn him into a star
1) Sinful Davy (1969) - perhaps the most obscure film John Huston directed
2) Mr Forbush and the Penguins (1972) - one of many unsuccessful (financially that is) films greelit by Bryan Forbes at EMI.
3) East of Elephant Rock (1977) - Hurt as a right on stud muffin in a British colony
4) Night Crossing (1981) - Hurt as an East German family man making a go over the wall
5) Champion (1984) - Hurt as a jockey with cancer.
6) Partners (1982) - Hurt in a high concept comedy - playing one of his many on screen gays opposite Ryan O'Neal
7) Little Malcolm (1974) - George Harrison's early involvement in film producing.
8) Love and Death on Long island (1997) - Hurt's career was always rescued by films like this... but even then he never even really became an art house name.
9) Nineteen Eighty Four (1984) - with this I thought he was going to become a star - he was so good - but it didn't last.
10) The Elephant Man (1980) - see above!
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