Christopher LeeFilmography

The Wicker Tree

Actors: Brittania Nicol, Henry Garrett, Graham McTavish, Christopher Lee, Honeysuckle Weeks

Synopsis: Director Robin Hardy revisits his 1974 cult classic The Wicker Man with this related horror film concerning a cowboy (Henry Garrett) and a gospel singer (Brittania Nicol) who stop in Ireland on a missionary excursion only to come in contact with an aristocrat (Graham McTavish) whose nefarious Read More

The Color of Magic

Actors: David Jason, Sean Astin, Tim Curry, David Bradley, James Cosmo

Synopsis: David Jason, Tim Curry, Nigel Planer, and Sean Astin star in writer/director Vadim Jean's imaginative adaptation of The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic -- the first two books in author Terry Pratchett's popular Discworld series of fantasy adventure novels. Naïve tourist Twoflower (Astin Read More

Glorious 39

Actors: Jenny Agutter, Romola Garai, Bill Nighy, Julie Christie, Corin Redgrave, Hugh Bonneville, Christopher Lee

Synopsis: A woman makes a surprising discovery with dangerous consequences in this period suspense thriller, set in 1939. Anne Keyes (Romola Garai) is an attractive young woman who is enjoying modest success as a film actress; she's also the adopted daughter of Alexander Keyes (Bill Nighy), a career Read More

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Actors: Matt Lanter, Ashley Eckstein, James Arnold Taylor

Synopsis: George Lucas continues his most popular franchise's legacy with Star Wars: The Clone Wars, a computer-animated 3-D film that takes place between Star Wars: Episode II and III. The first-ever animated feature from Lucasfilm Animation, this action-packed space adventure follows the heroic Jedi Read More

Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Film

Actors: Turhan Bey, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, Stephen Gong, James Hong

Synopsis: Filmmaker Arthur Dong's documentary Hollywood Chinese pays homage to the first century of the American film industry, as specifically colored and influenced by the Chinese immigrants to whom Hollywood owes an inestimable debt. Dong touches on everyone from actress Anna May Wong, of Limehouse Blues Read More

Fanex Files: Hammer Films

Actors: Christopher Lee, Veronica Carlson, Ingrid Pitt, James Bernard, Val Guest

Synopsis: In the 1950s and '60s, American film studios became enamored with flying saucers, extraterrestrials, and atomic mutants, making Hammer Films the last refuge for movie fans with more macabre tastes. Their lavish and lurid chillers appeared at precisely the right time, effectively filling the gap Read More

The Golden Compass

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Dakota Blue Richards, Daniel Craig, Sam Elliott, Eva Green

Synopsis: A young girl embarks on a perilous journey to rescue her best friend and fight the forces of darkness in director Chris Weitz's adaptation of the first installment of author Philip Pullman's best-selling fantasy trilogy. Screen newcomer Dakota Blue Richards stars as young heroine Lyra Belacqua, Casino Royale Read More

Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs

Synopsis: Modern science provides us with a fascinating glimpse into the ancient world as researchers and archeologists explore the mysteries of the Egyptian mummies. By reconstructing DNA gathered from the pharaohs, contemporary scientists may be able to learn more about human genetics and develop Read More

Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

Actors: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman

Synopsis: Tim Burton returns to the dark but fanciful animated style of The Nightmare Before Christmas with this stop-motion black comedy. Victor (voice of Johnny Depp) lives in a small European village in the 19th century, where he is pledged to marry Victoria (voice of Emily Watson), a partnership Read More

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Actors: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly, Helena Bonham Carter, Noah Taylor

Synopsis: Director Tim Burton brings his unique vision and sensibility to Roald Dahl's classic children's story in this lavish screen interpretation. Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp) is the secretive and wildly imaginative man behind the world's most celebrated candy company, and while the Wonka factory is Read More

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Ian McDiarmid, Jimmy Smits, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Ewan McGregor

Synopsis: George Lucas draws the Star Wars film series to a close with this dark sci-fi adventure which sets the stage for the events of the first film and brings the saga full circle. After a fierce battle in which Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) and Anakin (Hayden Christensen) join Republic forces to help free Read More

Greyfriars Bobby

Actors: James Cosmo, Oliver Golding, Gina McKee, Sean Pertwee, Chris Lee, Greg Wise, Thomas Lockyer

Pope John Paul II

Actors: Jon Voight, Cary Elwes, Ben Gazzara, Christopher Lee, Vittoria Belvedere

Synopsis: One of several dramatized tributes to the late pontiff to be telecast in 2005, the two-part CBS biopic Pope John Paul II is a remake of a popular Italian miniseries, and was filmed on location in Italy and Poland. The film begins with the attempted assassination of the pope on May 13, 1981 Read More

The Crimson Rivers II: The Angels of the Apocalypse

Actors: Jean Reno, Benoît Magimel, Camille Natta, Christopher Lee, Augustin Legrand

Synopsis: French filmmaker Olivier Dahan directs the crime thriller sequel The Crimson Rivers II: The Angels of the Apocalypse, with a script by Luc Besson inspired by the novel Les Rivières Pourpres by Jean-Christophe Grange. Jean Reno returns as veteran police detective Pierre Niemans. He is sent to the Read More

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Actors: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett

Synopsis: The second film in Peter Jackson's series of screen adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's internationally popular Lord of The Rings trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers literally begins where The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ended, with the Fellowship splitting into three Read More

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Christopher Lee, Samuel L. Jackson

Synopsis: The second prequel to the original Star Wars trilogy takes place ten years after the events depicted in Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace. Now 20, young Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) is an apprentice to respected Jedi knight Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor). Unusually powerful in Read More

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Actors: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Ian Holm, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Bean

Synopsis: New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson fulfills his lifelong dream of transforming author J.R.R. Tolkien's best-selling fantasy epic into a three-part motion picture that begins with this holiday 2001 release. Elijah Wood stars as Frodo Baggins, a Hobbit resident of the medieval "Middle-earth" who Read More

Gormenghast

Actors: Christopher Lee, Neve McIntosh, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers

Synopsis: The Groan family has led the people for years from their castle, Gormenghast. Although a new heir, Titus Groan, has just come into the world, a scheming kitchen boy, Steerpike, begins an elaborate attempt to take control. Surprisingly Steerpike faces his stiffest competition from the usually Read More

In the Beginning

Actors: Martin Landau, Jacqueline Bisset, Eddie Cibrian, Frederick Weller

Synopsis: A kind of "best-of" account of the books of Genesis and Exodus, this two-part NBC miniseries aired in November 2000. Part One, set in the desert, covers the stories of Abraham (Martin Landau), Sarah (Jacqueline Bisset), Isaac (Sean Pertwee), Rebeccah (Diana Rigg), Esau (Andrew Grainger), and Jacob Read More

The Mummy

Actors: Christopher Lee

Synopsis: Not to be confused with the 1999 action-horror blockbuster The Mummy starring Brendan Fraser, this film of the same title is a 2000 documentary hosted by fright legend Christopher Lee. Exploring the history of mummies in movies, the program features an assortment of classic clips from films Read More

Sleepy Hollow

Actors: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Casper Van Dien

Synopsis: Washington Irving's tale of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman gets a few new twists in a screen adaptation directed by Tim Burton. In this version, Ichabod (Johnny Depp) is a New York City detective whose unorthodox techniques and penchant for gadgets make him unpopular with is colleagues. Read More

A Century of Science Fiction: Weird Science

A Century of Science Fiction: Time Travelers

A Century of Science Fiction: Space Travelers

A Century of Science Fiction: Heroes of Sci-Fi

A Century of Science Fiction: Future Worlds

A Century of Science Fiction: Aliens

A Century of Science Fiction: Sexy Sci-Fi

A Century of Science Fiction: Robots

A Century of Science Fiction: Titans of Sci-Fi

A Century of Science Fiction: Weird Worlds

Tale of the Mummy

Actors: Jason Scott Lee, Louise Lombard, Christopher Lee

Synopsis: Best known for his Highlander series, Russell Mulcahy pays homage to the Hammer films of the 1960s with this all-star recreation of the Mummy story. Centuries ago, a sadistic prince named Talos was buried and his tomb was infinitely cursed so that no man would ever again suffer from his evil ways. Read More

Jinnah

Actors: Christopher Lee, James Fox, Maria Aitken, Shashi Kapoor, Richard Lintern

Synopsis: Those familiar with Pakistan's history will be most likely to appreciate this elaborate tribute to Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the man who created the Muslim nation in the wake of Great Britain's relinquishment of control over India. The story begins on a fantastical note, as an ailing Jinnah (Christopher Lee Read More

Wyrd Sisters [Animated TV Series]

Actors: Jane Horrocks, Christopher Lee, Annette Crosbie, June Whitfield, Jimmy Hibbert

Synopsis: Based on the Discworld novels by Terry Pritchett, the British animated series Wyrd Sisters was set on a faraway planet, supported in space by four elephants standing on a turtle. The titular "sisters" were three witches -- Margrat Garlick, Nanny Ogg, and Granny Weatherwax -- who dwelt in the Read More

Ivanhoe

Actors: Steven Waddington, Victoria Smurfit

Synopsis: A century after the Normans conquer England, evil Prince John (Ralph Brown) seizes control of the realm in the absence of the rightful ruler, his brother Richard the Lion-Hearted (Rory Edwards), who has been crusading in the Holy Land. John means to replace Richard as king. John, a Norman, governs Read More

100 Years of Horror: Ghosts and Phantoms

Synopsis: Spirits of the dead have long haunted people's imaginations, and never more morbidly than in Hollywood horror movies. Part of the 13-episode 100 Years of Horror series directed by Ted Newsom and hosted by horror movie star Christopher Lee, 100 Years of Horror: Ghosts and Phantoms reviews many of Read More

100 Years of Horror: Dracula and the Vampires

Synopsis: Part of the 13-part 100 Years of Horror series directed by Ted Newsom and hosted by horror movie star Christopher Lee, 100 Years of Horror: Dracula and the Vampires delves into the pervasive influence in Hollywood of the historically based character Dracula. Brought to literary life in the 1897 Read More

100 Years of Horror: Double Demons

Synopsis: Part of the 13-part 100 Years of Horror series directed by Ted Newsom and hosted by horror movie star Christopher Lee, 100 Years of Horror: Double Demons looks at the way Hollywood has portrayed bizarre transformative and psychological tales featured in movies such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Read More

100 Years of Horror: Mad Scientists and Mad Monsters

Synopsis: From the 13-part 100 Years of Horror series directed by Ted Newsom and hosted by horror movie star Christopher Lee, this second tape, 100 Years of Horror: Mad Scientists and Mad Monsters, examines the villainous "Mad Scientist," who has been a stock character of the horror genre from the earliest Read More

100 Years of Horror: Witches and Demons

Synopsis: The Devil has been appearing in movies since the first version of Faust was filmed in 1900. Part of the 13-episode 100 Years of Horror series directed by Ted Newsom and hosted by horror movie star Christopher Lee, 100 Years of Horror: Witches & Demons examines the spell that the subject of the Read More

100 Years of Horror: Alien and Sorcerers

Synopsis: Part of the 13-part 100 Years of Horror series directed by Ted Newsom and hosted by horror movie star Christopher Lee, 100 Years of Horror -- Aliens & Sorcerers looks at horror movies that include sorcery and magic, and at those that cross into the realm of science fiction. This installment of the Read More

The Stupids

Actors: Tom Arnold, Jessica Lundy, Bug Hall, Alex McKenna, Mark Metcalf

Synopsis: This film is based on The Stupids series of children's books by Harry Allard and James Marshall, which are about a family that takes things very, very literally. In this film, the Stupids attempt to discover what happens to the garbage that disappears from their lawn every week (they think it has Read More

100 Years of Horror

Synopsis: Condensed from the 13-episode series directed by Ted Newsom and hosted by horror movie star Christopher Lee, 100 Years of Horror, the two-hour version, is a celebratory overview of the Hollywood horror genre, rich with film clips from horror movies throughout most of the 20th century. Stars Read More

Strictly Supernatural: Astrology

Synopsis: Christopher Lee narrates this series installment that evaluates the ancient belief that the positions of the stars effect daily events on Earth. This video combines stunning visuals with original music, dramatic reenactments, and insights from leading practitioners, scholars, and scientists in the Read More

Strictly Supernatural: Seance

Synopsis: This video is part of a fascinating series on investigations of the supernatural world. This episode focuses on the seance. The word conjures up images of people huddled around a crystal ball in a darkened room. In the film, the viewer goes to an actual seance, which is perhaps quite different Read More

100 Years of Horror: Frankenstein

Synopsis: Part of the 13-part 100 Years of Horror series directed by Ted Newsom and hosted by horror movie star Christopher Lee, 100 Years of Horror -- Frankenstein looks at how Mary Shelley's 19th century novel Frankenstein almost single-handedly established a new genre: horror. Since Hollywood produced Read More

100 Years of Horror: The Gruesome Twosome

Synopsis: For many classic horror movie fans, Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff are inseparable from the iconic characters they portrayed. Part of the 13-episode 100 Years of Horror series directed by Ted Newsom and hosted by horror movie star Christopher Lee, 100 Years of Horror: The Gruesome Twosome Read More

Moses

Actors: Ben Kingsley

Synopsis: The life of the reluctant Old Testament prophet is told in this made-for-television biblical drama. When the Pharaoh Ramses calls for the death of all Hebrew children, a mother puts her son Moses in a basket and sends him down the Nile to save his life. The baby is found by a princess and raised Read More

A Century of Science Fiction

Synopsis: A Century Of Science Fiction pays tribute to the history of SF on screen, from the silent epics of Georges Melies to the latest high-tech space epics such as Independence Day. Narrated by Christopher Lee. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

100 Years of Horror: The Walking Dead

Synopsis: "Can a Pharaoh's evil prophecy reach out across 4,000 years to enslave...to kill...to menace YOU?" Part of the 13-episode 100 Years of Horror series directed by Ted Newsom and hosted by horror movie star Christopher Lee, 100 Years of Horror: The Walking Dead unravels the history of mummies Read More

100 Years of Horror: Madmen and Gory Gimmicks

Synopsis: The old newspaper dictum "If it bleeds, it leads" could also apply to the marketing of modern horror movies. Part of the 13-episode 100 Years of Horror series directed by Ted Newsom and hosted by horror movie star Christopher Lee, 100 Years of Horror: Madmen & Gory Gimmicks reviews how Hollywood Read More

100 Years of Horror: Giants and Dinosaurs

Synopsis: Part of the 13-episode 100 Years of Horror series directed by Ted Newsom and hosted by horror movie star Christopher Lee, 100 Years of Horror: Giants and Dinosaurs takes a loving look at movie monsters. Films starring monsters in the form of dinosaurs have been thrilling audiences since the 1925 Read More

100 Years of Horror: Mutants and Freaks

Synopsis: In the 19th century, malformed or deformed people were the object of morbid curiosity in traveling sideshows and circuses. In the 20th century they became fodder for Hollywood horror movies. Part of the 13-episode 100 Years of Horror series directed by Ted Newsom and hosted by horror movie star Christopher Lee Read More

100 Years of Horror: Scream Queens and Girl Ghouls

Synopsis: What's a ghoul to do? Part of the 13-episode 100 Years of Horror series directed by Ted Newsom and hosted by horror movie star Christopher Lee, 100 Years of Horror: Scream Queens & Girl Ghouls takes a look at the tremendous appeal and genre influence of damsels in horrific distress. Included are Fay Wray Read More

A Feast at Midnight

Actors: Christopher Lee, Robert Hardy, Freddie Findlay, Aled Roberts, Andrew Lusher

Synopsis: This British comedy is set within the confines of the snooty Dryden Park boarding school in rural England. The story centers on a lonely 10-year old boy, Magnus, whose parents are staying in Paris and cannot even be bothered to take him to the school themselves; instead, he arrives by cab. Once at Read More

Police Academy: Mission to Moscow

Actors: George Gaynes, Michael Winslow, David Graf, Leslie Easterbrook, Christopher Lee, G.W. Bailey, Ron Perlman

Synopsis: In a major stumbling block toward better international relations, America's most laughable police officers are sent to Russia to fight crime in this comedy. In Moscow, master criminal Konali (Ron Perlman) has marketed a new computer game that has an unusual hidden feature -- it allows him to bring Read More

Funny Man

Actors: Tim James, Christopher Lee, Benny Young, Ingrid Lacey, Pauline Chan

Synopsis: This British horror-comedy is set in haunted house and features a series of assorted nuts getting butchered by a hellish clown. Lucky Max, a record producer has just won a decrepit old mansion from the enigmatic Callum Chance in a poker game. To celebrate, Max invites his family and hitchhikers to Read More

Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror

Synopsis: The studio that made such blood-curdling chillers as The Horror of Dracula and The Curse of Frankenstein receives a lovingly crafted tribute in this retrospective documentary hosted by Hammer superstars Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. Through all of the ups and downs, Hammer Studios found Read More

Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler

Synopsis: Christopher Lee narrates this unique behind-the-scenes look at Errol Flynn, one of Hollywood's all-time greatest sex symbols. Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler features revealing stories from his ex-wives, former lovers, his children, and his close friends. Spanning the career and Read More

Detonator

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Christopher Lee, Alexandra Paul, Patrick Stewart

Synopsis: "They're the toughest anti-terrorist strike force in the world. But they've never faced an enemy like this." The "they" mentioned in the ad copy for Death Train are headed by Pierce Brosnan. The enemy is rogue Russian general Christopher Lee, who has stolen two nuclear bombs, intending to hold the Read More

Cybereden

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Kate Vernon, Christopher Lee, Carroll Baker

Synopsis: The very young computer whizzes in this big-big budget Italian movie are beginning to lose their focus on their assignment: to create a computer-generated Eden. In order to inspire them, an innocent gardener (rock-star and comedian Adriano Celentano) is brought in. For a while, this works, as they Read More

Innocent Blood

Actors: Anne Parillaud, Robert Loggia, Anthony LaPaglia, David Proval, Don Rickles, Don Rickels

Synopsis: An uneven but entertaining blend of graphic horror and black comedy from John Landis, very much in the mode of the director's successful An American Werewolf in London. French actress Anne Parillaud -- star of Luc Besson's acclaimed thriller La Femme Nikita -- plays Marie, a lithe and lovely Read More

Journey of Honor

Actors: Sho Kosugi, David Essex, Kane Kosugi, Christopher Lee, Toshiro Mifune, Norman Lloyd

Synopsis: Sho Kosugi stars (as well as produced) this picturesque and exciting swashbuckler, directed by Gordon Hessler. Kosugi plays Mayeda, a 17th-century Japanese samurai whose clan, headed by Lord Ieyasu (Toshiro Mifune), is waging a bloody battle with a rival clan. The rival clan has the advantage of Read More

Fear in the Dark

Synopsis: This documentary offers an in-depth look at the history and allure of horror movies. Plenty of clips are included as are fascinating interviews with such contemporary masters as Clive Barker, John Carpenter, Wes Craven and William Friedkin. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Double Vision

Actors: Kim Cattrall

Synopsis: When Caroline (Kim Cattrall) begins to have nightmares and visions of her twin sister Lisa's watery demise, she rushes to London to try to reach her sister before it is too late. As she searches for her sister, Caroline begins to discover that her twin's life is more dangerous and desultory than Read More

Sherlock Holmes and the Incident at Victoria Falls

Synopsis: In this mystery, an aging Sherlock Holmes allows King Edward to persuade him to bring a precious diamond back from South Africa. Along the way, Holmes meets Teddy Roosevelt and finds himself involved in intrigue and adventure. The story was originally a four-hour TV mini-series and was heavily Read More

Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls

Actors: Christopher Lee, Patrick Macnee, Jenny Seagrove, Claude Akins, Richard Todd

Synopsis: Four countries--Great Britain, Belgium, Italy and Luxembourg--were in on the financing of 1991's Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls. At first glance, Christopher Lee seems too old to play Conan Doyle's master detective, but the script allows for this by having the story takes place on the Read More

Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady

Actors: Christopher Lee, Patrick Macnee, Morgan Fairchild, John Bennett, Engelbert Humperdinck

Synopsis: In this mystery, Holmes and Watson travel to lovely old Vienna to investigate a murder and find themselves embroiled in a tangled web of terrorism, and romance. Originally the film was a three hour television miniseries. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Actors: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover, Robert Prosky, Robert Picardo

Synopsis: Where the original Gremlins was a horror film spiked with comedy, Gremlins 2: The New Batch is essentially a black comedy, with a couple of horrifying touches. As the film starts, the fantastical trinket shop in Chinatown, which sold the Mogwai in the first film, is demolished by a crazed Read More

Honeymoon Academy

Actors: Robert Hays, Kim Cattrall, Leigh Taylor-Young, Charles Rocket, Lance Kinsey, Christopher Lee

Synopsis: In this spoof of spy films, a secret agent (Kim Cattrall) marries a civilian (Robert Hays) who is oblivious to his new wife's career, until the couple takes a honeymoon in Madrid, where danger and espionage await them at every turn. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Horror & Sci-Fi Trailers, Vol. 4: Hammer Horror

Synopsis: A 6 volume series of theatrical trailers for horror and sci-fi films with Volume 4 featuring Hammer Horror classics such as the entire "Frankenstein" series and the 4 "Mummy" movies. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

L'Avaro

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Laura Antonelli, Lucia Bosé, Miguel Bose, Christopher Lee

Synopsis: Since Moliere's plays are national classics of France, an air of reverence surrounds them. However, they are for the most part comedies based on older commedia del'arte storylines and acting conventions (which most closely resemble the broad humor of the American vaudeville or the British Read More

The Rainbow Thief

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Christopher Lee, Berta D. Dominguez, Jane Chaplin

Synopsis: An eccentric prince decides one day to give up all his wealth and position and live his own life. His idea of living his own life, though, is to take up residence in the city's sewers. His dutiful servant, who happens to be a thief, accompanies him. Appeals to his rich uncle to do something about Read More

Curse III: Blood Sacrifice

Synopsis: While in Africa, a pregnant American (Jenilee Harrison) is cursed by a village witch doctor (Dumi Shongwe) after interrupting a tribal ceremony. Soon after, she is visited by a sea-demon who terrorizes her friends. The film, which shares little with the others in the series, was originally titled Read More

Treasure Island

Actors: Nicholas Amer, Christian Bale, Julian Glover, Christopher Lee, Oliver Reed, Clive Wood, Charlton Heston, Richard Johnson

Synopsis: This full-blooded TV adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island was written, produced and directed by Frasier Heston. His father, Charlton Heston plays Long John Silver. Eschewing the cuteness of Wallace Beery and the unadulterated ham of Robert Newton, Heston plays the character as Read More

The Return of the Musketeers

Actors: Michael York, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay, C. Thomas Howell, Richard Chamberlain, Kim Cattrall

Synopsis: Richard Lester returned to his double-barreled successes of the 1970s, The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers, with Return of the Musketeers, a film that was inexplicably shelved for several years, making its belated premiere on cable television. Based on Alexandre Dumas's novel Twenty Years Read More

Murder Story

Actors: Christopher Lee, Bruce Boa

Synopsis: Christopher Lee is the big-name attraction in Murder Story, but the film's actual leading character is played by Bruce Boa. A would-be mystery writer, Boa becomes involved in a genuine murder case. He inveigles his idol, prominent novelist Lee, to help solve the killing. No surprises here, but the Read More

Around the World in 80 Days

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Eric Idle, Peter Ustinov, Julia Nickson

Synopsis: Pierce Brosnan stars as adventurer Phineas Fogg in this adaptation of Jules Verne's classic story, in which to win a wager he must travel around the globe in 80 days or less. However, Fogg has been blamed for the theft of a large amount of money, and a detective (Peter Ustinov) is hot on his trail Read More

Mio in the Land of Faraway

Actors: Nicholas Pickard, Christian Bale, Christopher Lee, Timothy Bottoms, Susannah York

Synopsis: Based on an Astrid Lindgren novel, this fantasy focuses on a Swedish teen drawn into a magical world to battle an evil knight. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Girl

Actors: Franco Nero, Bernice Stegers, Clare Powney, Frank Brennan, Mark Robinson

Synopsis: The Girl is 14-year-old Swedish schoolgirl Pat Carlsson (Clare Powney). Though very young, she is also very wise in the ways of the world, thus she has no qualms about offering her sexual services, for a price, to middle-aged attorney John Berg (Franco Nero). Like Humbert Humbert, Berg cannot Read More

Jocks

Actors: Scott Strader, Perry Lang, Mariska Hargitay, Richard Roundtree, R.G. Armstrong, Stoney Jackson

Synopsis: Richard Roundtree stars as tennis-coach Chip Williams in this uneven adolescent comedy. Coach Williams must whip his players into shape for the big tournament in Las Vegas. The Kid (Scott Strader) and his cohorts run wild in Vegas on and off the court as the coach tries to keep the star players Read More

Dark Mission

The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes

Synopsis: One of the most memorable characters in the history of literature is that of Sherlock Holmes. The sleuth made famous by the pen of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is so real that many people do not know that he is a character of fiction. The adventures of Sherlock Holmes and his loyal assistant Dr. Watson Read More

Shaka Zulu

Synopsis: Originally aired as a British mini-series, Shaka Zulu follows the rise of Shaka (Henry Cele) to the king of the Zulus during the early 19th century when the British were beginning to gain control of Africa. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf

Actors: Christopher Lee, Annie McEnroe, Reb Brown, Marsha Hunt, Sybil Danning

Synopsis: The brother of a slain werewolf newscaster joins the battle against a lycanthropic femme fatale in this sequel to 1981's horror/humor update. Shortly after the events of the original The Howling, Ben White (Reb Brown) attends the funeral of his sister, journalist Karen White (played here by Hana Read More

Mask of Murder

The Far Pavilions

Synopsis: The lavishly produced three-part telemovie The Far Pavilions was adapted from the best-selling novel by M.M. Kaye. Set in colonial India during the second Afghan war, the film concerns the exploits of Ashton Pelham-Martyn (Ben Cross), a British officer. Born and raised in India, Pelham-Martyn Read More

The Rosebud Beach Hotel

Actors: Colleen Camp, Peter Scolari, Christopher Lee, Fran Drescher, Monique Gabrielle

Synopsis: In a thinly-plotted story about redeeming a failing hotel by turning it into an optional brothel (depending on the guest), Peter Scolari stars as Elliot, the young man who has to succeed at this hotel business in order to garner the favor of Clifford, his prospective father-in-law (Christopher Read More

Faerie Tale Theatre: Boy Who Left Home to Find out About the Shivers

Synopsis: Peter MacNicol stars in this fairy tale as Martin, a boy who has never been afraid. Determined to test his record of fearlessness, he sets off on a journey on which he meets a mysterious king (Christopher Lee) who has a haunted castle for rent. He makes a deal with Martin that if he can survive Read More

The Return of Captain Invincible

Actors: Alan Arkin, Christopher Lee, Kate Fitzpatrick, Bill Hunter, Graham Kennedy

Synopsis: This patchy, uneven combination of fantasy and musical comedy is hilarious in parts and embarrassing in others, though the premise has great potential in itself -- a screwball Captain Invincible is out to save the world from his nemesis, Mr. Midnight, the white supremacist. Captain Invincible (Alan Arkin Read More

Massarati and the Brain

Actors: Daniel Pilon, Peter Billingsley, Markie Post, Ann Turkel

Synopsis: Massarati (Daniel Pilon) is a fabulously wealthy adventurer-for-hire who uses a wide array of electronic gadgets to carry out his various missions. "The Brain," aka Christopher (Peter Billingsley), is Massarati's 12-year-old nephew, and the creator of most of Unk's gadgetry. Together with such Read More

The Last Unicorn

Actors: Alan Arkin, Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Tammy Grimes, Robert Klein

Synopsis: Only one of the mythological creatures escapes the evil King Haggard's (voice by Christopher Lee) plan to eliminate all unicorns from the land in Rankin-Bass's (Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer) sophisticated production of The Last Unicorn. In hopes of rescuing her exiled breed Read More

House of the Long Shadows

Actors: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Desi Arnaz, Jr., John Carradine

Synopsis: In this umpteenth remake of the George M. Cohan-Earl Derr Biggers play Seven Keys to Baldpate, Desi Arnaz Jr. plays Kenneth Magee, the young writer who bets that he can bat out a mystery play in one evening. Magee squirrels himself away in a forbidding old mansion where, unbeknownst to him, a Read More

Safari 3000

Actors: David Carradine, Stockard Channing, Christopher Lee, Hamilton Camp, Ian Yule

Synopsis: In this often comical adventure, a retired stunt man goes to Africa to participate in a transcontinental road rally in hopes of winning a fabulous prize. Also involved is a photo-journalist for Playboy Magazine who has been assigned to accompany him. It is a dangerous 3,000 kilometer car race and Read More

Charles and Diana: A Royal Love Story

Actors: Caroline Bliss, David Robb

Synopsis: Most of you know what this is about. For the benefit of the two of you who've never read a tabloid, Prince Charles of England married Lady Diana Spencer in a pomp-and-circumstance wedding telecast all over the world in 1981. David Robb plays Bonnie Prince Charlie, while Caroline Bliss portrays Read More

The Salamander

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Martin Balsam, Sybil Danning

Synopsis: Dante Matucci (Franco Nero), a counter-intelligence officer, uncovers a fascist plot to overthrow the Italian government, and as he begins to investigate, he has an ally in Bruno Manzini (Anthony Quinn), a man dedicated to hunting down war criminals. Bruno and other operatives, including the Read More

Evil Stalks This House

Synopsis: Jack Palance both hosts and stars in this "possession" thriller. The story, concerning an old dark house and a family curse, is nothing special. What is of interest is the origin of Evil Stalks This House. Though currently available to television as a two-hour TV movie, the film was initially Read More

An Eye for an Eye

Actors: Chuck Norris, Christopher Lee, Richard Roundtree, Matt Clark, Mako

Synopsis: The frequently used title An Eye for an Eye was applied to a Chuck Norris martial-arts festival in 1981. Norris plays Sean Kane, a San Francisco cop whose partner is murdered by an Oriental drug ring. Told to keep his distance by his superiors, Kane quits the force and sets out to exact vengeance. Read More

Desperate Moves

Actors: Steve Tracy, Dana Handler, Eddie Deezen, Isabel Sanford, Paul Benedict

Synopsis: This strange movie is about a roller skating fanatic who leaves home, goes to San Francisco to pursue his passion, and then comes up against a troublesome relationship. Andy Steigler (Steve Tracy) gets a low-level job at a large roller rink to be close to his sport. He makes friends with some Read More

The Boy Who Left Home to Find out About the Shivers

Synopsis: Narrated by Vincent Price, this story is about a boy who goes to a Transylvanian Castle to learn about fear. This program is not intended for young children. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Goliath Awaits

Synopsis: Though it strains credibility to the breaking point, the made-for-TV Goliath Awaits proved a ratings success when it was first syndicated via "Operation Prime Time" on November 16, 1981. Mark Harmon plays oceanographer Peter Cabot, who intends to salvage valuable treasures from the ocean liner Read More

Once Upon a Spy

Synopsis: In this espionage drama, a computer whiz conned into assisting a tricky spy, finds himself face-to-face with the world's most deadly criminal. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Lethal Games

Synopsis: A spy convinces a computer genius to work for him, placing the genius in position to confront the most dangerous criminal in the world. (AKA Once Upon A Spy) ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Serial

Actors: Martin Mull, Tuesday Weld, Sally Kellerman

Synopsis: There are no cliff-hanging moments in Serial, but there's plenty of laughs in this trenchant comedy comment on 1970s lifestyles. Martin Mull plays the father of a Marin County family that succumbs to every silly fad coming down the pike. Mull tries to distance himself from his family's idiocies Read More

Bear Island

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Barbara Parkins

Synopsis: Up on Bear Island -- somewhere off the northeast American coast -- a U.S. meteorological team discovers German submarines stashed with gold. Though the plot is difficult to follow, it does involve murder and a certain amount of intrigue, though many have felt that this movie version of the Read More

Nutcracker Fantasy

Actors: Michael Lee, Melissa Gilbert, Lurene Tuttle, Christopher Lee, Jo Ann Worley

Synopsis: Set to Tchaikovsky's score, this Japanese animated effort chronicles the adventures of a young girl dreaming of a magical land of anthropomorphic mice that are under the spell of a wicked two-headed mouse. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Passage

Actors: Anthony Quinn, James Mason, Malcolm McDowell, Patricia Neal, Kay Lenz

Synopsis: Director J. Lee Thompson directed this World War II adventure drama from a script by author Bruce Nicolaysen who adapted the screenplay from his novel The Perilous Passage. Anthony Quinn stars as a brave Basque mountaineer who is hired by the American military to guide Professor Bergsson (James Read More

Jaguar Lives!

Actors: Joe Lewis, Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence, Barbara Bach, Capucine

Synopsis: Karate champion Joe Lewis stars as a special agent on a worldwide mission to put the skids on a drug cartel. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1941

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Toshiro Mifune, Christopher Lee, Nancy Allen

Synopsis: It's December of 1941, and the people of California are in varying states of unease, ranging from a sincere desire to defend the country to virtual blind panic in the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Thus begin several story threads that comprise the "plot" of this strange period Read More

Captain America

Synopsis: Television film featuring the Marvel Comics hero doing battle with a mad industrialist who wields a neutron bomb. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide Read More

Captain America II: Death Too Soon

Synopsis: This second made-for-TV movie features the Marvel Comic-book hero who must keep the villains from succeeding in accelerating the ages of government officials. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Arabian Adventure

Actors: Christopher Lee, Milo O'Shea, Oliver Tobias, Emma Samms, Puncet Sira

Synopsis: A valiant prince battles an evil sorcerer to rescue his true love in this colorful fantasy, which features high adventure and plenty of special effects. The hero must overcome a number of dangers, along the way receiving help from a beautiful street urchin and a magical rose. ~ Judd Blaise, All Read More

Alien Encounter

Synopsis: In this sci-fi tale, an investigator searches for a mysterious man in black. He believes the man is somehow connected to a strange floating silver ball -- supposedly sent to Earth by aliens as part of a probe. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More

Circle of Iron

Actors: David Carradine, Jeff Cooper, Roddy McDowall, Eli Wallach, Erica Creer

Synopsis: This symbol-laden drama explores the inner mythology of martial arts practice and is based on a Bruce Lee story idea. The original screenplay was written by Bruce Lee, with help from actor James Coburn and screenwriter Stirling Silliphant. Lee was to take on the four-in-one role of guide in his Read More

Saturday Night Live: Christopher Lee

Actors: Christopher Lee, Meat Loaf

Synopsis: This 1978 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Christopher Lee and features musical guest Meat Loaf. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Night of the Askari

Synopsis: South Africa provides the setting for this dark tale of racial unrest and turmoil. The story centers upon a policeman out to exact revenge for the man who killed and raped his fiancee. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Caravans

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Michael Sarrazin, Jennifer O'Neill, Christopher Lee, Joseph Cotten

Synopsis: This big-budget adaptation of James Michener's best-selling novel stars Michael Sarrazin as Mark Miller, a low-level American diplomat given a dangerous assignment. Ellen Jasper (Jennifer O'Neill) is the daughter of a prominent U.S. politician who has married Nazrullah (Behrooz Vosoughi), an Read More

Return From Witch Mountain

Actors: Bette Davis, Christopher Lee, Kim Richards, Ike Eisenmann, Jack Soo

Synopsis: The Fury meets The Misadventures of Merlin Jones in this comic-book sequel to Disney's Escape to Witch Mountain. Reprising their roles as the psychic siblings from another world are Kim Richards as Tia and Ike Eisenmann as Tony. Their Uncle Bene (Denver Pyle) gives the kids a treat by letting them Read More

Harold Robbins' The Pirate

Actors: Anne Archer, Olivia Hussey, Franco Nero

Synopsis: This four-hour TV movie is one more of novelist Harold Robbins' "guess who everyone is supposed to really be?" wallowfests (with nary a Jolly Roger in sight). The "pirate" is Baydr (Franco Nero), an anti-Semitic Lebanese oil sheik, who, unbeknownst to himself, is actually an Israel-born Jew Read More

Starship Invasion

Actors: Robert Vaughn, Christopher Lee, Daniel Pilon, Tiiu Leek, Helen Shaver

Synopsis: Featuring wonderfully lousy special effects (especially in lieu of Star Wars which had come out earlier that year), this sci-fi adventure chronicles the struggle of a flock of friendly space aliens to protect the Earth from an onslaught of wicked aliens. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Airport '77

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Brenda Vaccaro, Joseph Cotten, Olivia de Havilland

Synopsis: Stretching the Airport concept as far as it will go, this third film in the series sticks a jet full of old actors 50 feet underwater in the Bermuda Triangle. Oxygen (and credibility) grows short, and Jimmy Stewart plays an art collector targeted for a heist. Jack Lemmon is the unfortunate pilot Read More

Meat Cleaver Massacre

Actors: Christopher Lee, Larry Justin, J. Arthur Craig, James Habif, Robert Clark, Doug Senior

Synopsis: Examine the title, and you know what you're in for. A vengeful ghost, sore at Tinseltown, descends upon various nasty agents and arrogant movie stars. Top-billed Christopher Lee tries his best to maintain his dignity in a brief appearance.. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide Read More

The End of the World

Synopsis: Dr. Andrew Boran (Kirk Scott) is picking up strange signals from outer space that seem to predict natural disasters. When he and his wife (Sue Lyon) decide to investigate, they find themselves held captive in a convent that's been infiltrated by aliens with plans to destroy the world. As alien Read More

Dracula Père et Fils

Actors: Christopher Lee, Bernard Menez, Marie-Helene Breillat, Raymond Bussières, Catherine Breillat, Anna Gael

Synopsis: Christopher Lee dons the Count's legendary cape once again for this satirical French-made entry in the vampire genre (titled Dracula and Son for American release). It seems Dracula's son (Bernard Ménez) is a bit reluctant to carry on the family's blood-drinking tradition on account of severe Read More

Space: 1999 - Earthbound

Der Flüsternde Tod

Actors: Christopher Lee, James Faulkner, Trevor Howard, Horst Frank, Sybil Danning

Synopsis: An albino terrorist stalks Africa in this violent action film from the director of the similar Slavers. Terrick (James Faulkner), a former cop, tries to bring the albino to justice, but not before he scalps and rapes pretty Sally (Sybil Danning), the daughter of an evil plantation owner (Trevor Howard Read More

The Keeper

Actors: Christopher Lee, Sally Gray, Ian Tracey

Synopsis: This macabre horror satire from Canada features an arch performance from Christopher Lee as the sinister overseer of the Underwood Asylum, whose charges come from extremely wealthy families. When relatives of these patients begin to turn up dead in alarming numbers -- with their incarcerated Read More

To the Devil, a Daughter

Actors: Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Honor Blackman, Denholm Elliott, Michael Goodliffe

Synopsis: Christopher Lee stars in this weak occult melodrama as Father Michael Rayner, an excommunicated priest who decides to save the world from its decadence by teaming up with Satan. Richard Widmark is on hand as John Verney, out to stop Rayner's satanic rituals and helped along on the path of goodness Read More

The Four Musketeers

Actors: Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Michael York, Frank Finlay

Synopsis: This comic interpretation of Alexandre Dumas's classic adventure saga picks up where 1974's The Three Musketeers left off, as D'Artagnan (Michael York), Athos (Oliver Reed), Aramis (Richard Chamberlain), and Porthos (Frank Finlay) scuttle the plans of Lady de Winter (Faye Dunaway) to remove Queen Read More

Killer Force

Actors: Telly Savalas, Peter Fonda, Hugh O'Brian, Christopher Lee, O.J. Simpson

Synopsis: Peter Fonda stars as a diamond mine security officer who fakes a robbery in order to gain the respect of the group of mercenaries he needs to help him pull off the biggest heist in history. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Diagnosis: Murder

Synopsis: When a well-known psychiatrist reports that his wife has disappeared, the police discover an anonymous note stating that he has killed her. Under suspicion now of having murdered his wife and done away with the body, he becomes entangled in a suspenseful mystery as he tries to clear his name. One Read More

Le Boucher, La Star et l'Orpheline

Actors: Gerard Croce, Christopher Lee, Micheline Presle, Elisabeth Mortensen, Michel Simon, Valerie Kling

Synopsis: The Grand Magic Circus, which performed on streets and in theaters in the 1970s, here takes to film. The story told concerns a butcher who has ambitions to tell a high-minded tale as a filmmaker, and will resort to any means whether fair or foul, to accomplish his goal. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Read More

The Man with the Golden Gun

Actors: Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams, Herve Villechaize

Synopsis: The Man With the Golden Gun, Roger Moore's second outing as James Bond (Live and Let Die was the first), whisks our hero off to Hong Kong, Macau, Thailand, and then the South China Sea in search of a solar energy weapon. His opponent is Scaramanga (Christopher Lee), who rules the roost on a Read More

The Wicker Man

Actors: Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt, Christopher Lee

Synopsis: A righteous police officer investigating the disappearance of a young girl comes into conflict with the unusual residents of a secluded Scottish isle in this unsettling, intelligent chiller. Brought to the island of Summerisle by an anonymous letter, Edward Woodward's constable is surprised to Read More

Count Dracula and His Vampire Bride

Actors: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Michael Coles, William Franklyn, Freddie Jones

Synopsis: The final installment in Hammer Studios' Dracula series is also the least interesting of the lot. A fairly direct follow-up to Dracula A.D. 1972, this sequel finds the Count (Christopher Lee) developing a potent strain of bubonic plague which he and his devil-worshipping disciples plan to release Read More

The Three Musketeers

Actors: Oliver Reed, Charlton Heston, Raquel Welch, Faye Dunaway, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Finlay, Michael York

Synopsis: Richard Lester's adaptation of The Three Musketeers was only the latest of many when released in 1974, but it arrived with a spirit all its own, one influenced as much by Lester's '60s work as the Alexandre Dumas classic. Even so, it followed the plot of Dumas' novel fairly closely, its liberties Read More

Raw Meat

Synopsis: Gary Sherman's Death Line is one of those little-seen, long-forgotten 1970s horror films that's still championed by its core of fans. When the film was shown as part of a horror series at Lincoln Center in 2002, director Guillermo Del Toro (The Devil's Backbone) pronounced it one of his all-time Read More

Dark Places

Actors: Carleton Hobbs, Jennifer Thanisch

Synopsis: This tepid supernatural melodrama involves the former director of a mental hospital (Robert Hardy) who inherits the estate of one of his patients -- a house which was once the site of multiple murders. He also stands to inherit a substantial sum of gold... if only he can locate the treasure, which Read More

The Devil's Undead

Synopsis: More widely seen in Britain as Nothing but the Night, this atmospheric chiller -- based on the novel Children of the Night by John Blackburn -- stars the ubiquitous Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing as a Scotland Yard inspector and a forensics expert sent to investigate a series of Read More

Horror Express

Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Telly Savalas

Synopsis: This horror science-fiction thriller, a cult favorite, takes place in 1907. Professor Caxton (Christopher Lee), a fossil-hunter has discovered some sort of pre-human creature frozen in ancient Manchurian ice. He is traveling to London with his find on the Trans-Siberian Railway and is horrified to Read More

Poor Devil

Synopsis: In this comedy, a burned out bookkeeper thinks about selling his soul to Satan. His thoughts invoke the presence of a bungling messenger from the devil himself. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Creeping Flesh

Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee

Synopsis: Peter Cushing delivers one of his finest hand-wringing performances as Emmanuel Hildern, a Victorian man of science who relates a mad tale of horror to his half-brother and professional rival James (Christopher Lee). His tale begins with the discovery of the weird skeletal remains of a large Read More

Dracula A.D. 1972

Actors: Stoneground

Synopsis: Hammer Studios attempted to inject new blood into their Dracula series by setting their next installment in ultra-mod '70s London, where the Count is revived after 100 years by a gang of devil-worshipping swingers led by the not-so-cleverly-named Johnny Alucard (Christopher Neame), and later Read More

Vengeance of Virgo

Strictly Supernatural: Tarot

Synopsis: This video is part of a series that investigates the supernatural and esoteric knowledge. This episode is an exploration of the cards of divination known as the Tarot. Originating in the 14th century as playing cards, the tarot deck evolved into a complex system of divination. The practitioner Read More

In Search of Dracula

Actors: Christopher Lee

Synopsis: Based on the book by Raymond McNally and Radu Florescu, this documentary mixes historical research, literary scholarship, film clips, and folklore with dramatic re-creations of scenes from Bram Stoker's famous novel Dracula. Christopher Lee, star of innumerable horror films for England's venerable Read More

Hannie Caulder

Actors: Raquel Welch, Robert Culp, Ernest Borgnine, Strother Martin, Jack Elam

Synopsis: It's hard to discern the filmmakers' true point of view on Hannie Caulder. On one hand, you've got the heavily somber story of Raquel Welch's efforts to exact vengeance on the men who raped her and killed her husband. On the other hand, you've got the leisurely-paced, lightly amusing sequences in Read More

The House That Dripped Blood

Actors: John Bennett, Peter Cushing, Denholm Elliott, Christopher Lee, Jon Pertwee

Synopsis: This anthology picture about a bad-luck mansion is a thriller with four episodes--all framed by a police investigation. A review of the files of the local policeman (John Bennett) shows that everyone who has owned the mansion has died in a horrible fashion. In the first episode, "Method for Read More

I, Monster

Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Mike Raven, Kenneth J. Warren

Synopsis: In this fairly interesting variant on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from Britain's Amicus Studios, Christopher Lee stars as Marlowe, a stuffy doctor who develops a formula to release inhibitions. When he takes it, Marlowe turns into the evil and repulsive Mr. Blake. The twist is that Blake gets uglier Read More

The Bloody Judge

Actors: Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Maria Schell, Maria Rohm, Margaret Lee

Synopsis: This erotic horror film from cult director Jesus Franco is based on the witch-hunting exploits of Lord Chief Justice Jeffreys (Christopher Lee), a real historical figure who died in prison in 1702 at the age of 54. In 1685 England, young Alicia Gray is burnt for witchcraft. Alicia's sister Mary (Maria Rohm Read More

Julius Caesar

Actors: Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, Jr., John Gielgud, Richard Johnson, Robert Vaughn

Synopsis: Except for the omission of several passages in the original play, this 1970 adaptation of Julius Caesar faithfully retells Shakespeare's account of events surrounding the assassination of Caesar in 44 B.C. The film begins when Caesar John Gielgud is at the height of his power after conquering Read More

Scream and Scream Again

Actors: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Judy Huxtable, Alfred Marks

Synopsis: Strange and terrible things are afoot and the police are helpless to stop them in this taut, complicated thriller. First a heart attack victim goes to the hospital and awakens to find limbs missing, and later, the body of a rape victim is found with two strange puncture wounds upon her wrist. Read More

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

Actors: Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely, Irene Handl, Geneviève Page, Stanley Holloway, Christopher Lee, Tamara Toumanova

Synopsis: In Billy Wilder's cinematic homage to the spirit of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British stage luminary Robert Stephens plays Holmes, while Colin Blakely is his friend and chronicler Dr. Watson. This self-described "hitherto suppressed and thoroughly fascinating" tale concerns Holmes' search for Read More

The Scars of Dracula

Actors: Christopher Lee, Dennis Waterman, Jenny Hanley, Christopher Matthews, Patrick Troughton

Synopsis: One of a handful of Hammer "Dracula" films starring Christopher Lee, The Scars of Dracula begins as Count Dracula (Lee) rises from the grave once again. Buckets of blood and vats of violence will delight fans of horror. A young man and his girlfriend find themselves in Dracula's castle where Read More

Taste the Blood of Dracula

Actors: Christopher Lee, Geoffrey Keen, Gwen Watford, Linda Hayden, Peter Sallis

Synopsis: One of the more accomplished entries in Hammer's Dracula series (which would soon lapse into creative anemia during the 1970s), this fourth installment finds Christopher Lee in top form as the Count, who returns to menacing life after three middle-aged swingers decide to dabble in black magic to Read More

One More Time

Actors: Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Esther Anderson, Maggie Wright, Leslie Sands

Synopsis: Rat-pack pals Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford reprise their roles of Charlie Salt and Chris Pepper, respectively, in this film that marks the directorial debut of comedian/writer Jerry Lewis. Lawford also plays Lord Sydney Pepper, the twin brother of Charlie who is a murder victim. Salt and Read More

El Conde Dracula

Actors: Christopher Lee, Klaus Kinski, Soledad Miranda, Maria Rohm, Herbert Lom

Synopsis: This doggedly faithful adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel about a vampiric nobleman was helmed by cult director Jesus Franco. Despite its textual loyalty and atmospheric photography by Manuel Merino, the film -- a co-production from Spain, Italy, Germany, and Liechtenstein -- is plodding and dull. Read More

Avengers: The Interrogators

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Linda Thorson, Christopher Lee, David Sumner, Philip Bond

Synopsis: The title refers to a special course for secret agents, designed to determine how much brutal interrogation the candidates are able to withstand. Tara King is summoned to undergo the course, willing if not eager to subject herself to its exacting rigors. What Tara doesn't know is that every agent Read More

The Magic Christian

Actors: Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Isabel Jeans, Christopher Lee, Caroline Blakiston, Raquel Welch

Synopsis: This zany British comedy finds a homeless hobo (Ringo Starr) being adopted by the world's richest man, Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers). Setting sail on the luxury liner The Magic Christian, Sir Grand tests the limit of human avarice. With money to motivate the greedy, Laurence Harvey combines his Read More

The Oblong Box

Actors: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Alister Williamson, Hilary Dwyer, Peter Arne, Harry Baird

Synopsis: When Sir Edward Markham (Alastair Williamson) is horribly disfigured by African natives, he is kept chained and out of sight by his brother Julian (Vincent Price). When Sir Edward escapes, he goes on a killing spree in a desperate attempt to get even with the society that has made him a monstrous Read More

The Devil Rides Out

Actors: Christopher Lee, Charles Gray, Nike Arrighi, Leon Greene, Patrick Mower

Synopsis: Adapted by Richard Matheson from a novel by Dennis Wheatley, The Devil Rides Out admirably adopts a restrained approach to its horrific material. Christopher Lee plays a French nobleman, Duc De Richeleau, who is worried sick over the bizarre behavior of his friend Simon (Patrick Mower). Richeleau Read More

The Crimson Cult

Actors: Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee, Mark Eden, Barbara Steele, Michael Gough

Synopsis: In this spooky thriller, an evil sorcerer invites an innocent young man and his girl friend to his dark and scary mansion. The two have no idea that the black magician is planning to sacrifice the young man to atone for the evil misdeeds of his ancestors who 200 years ago burned the wizard's Read More

The Vengeance of Fu Manchu

Actors: Peter Carsten, Tony Ferrer, Wolfgang Kieling, Christopher Lee

Synopsis: Fu Manchu (Christopher Lee) is the internationally known criminal mastermind back for another round of evil deeds. The objects of his malevolence are the police chiefs of the world, in particular the head of Scotland Yard. With the help of his equally evil daughter Lin Tang (Tsai Chin), Fu Manchu Read More

Eve

Synopsis: In this jungle adventure, a downed Yankee flier must make his way alone through the dense Amazon jungle. At one point, he finds himself surrounded by unfriendly natives. He is just about to lose his life when a beautiful white woman, who is revered by the natives as a goddess, swoops down from the Read More

The Castle of Fu Manchu

Actors: Christopher Lee, Werner Abrolat

Synopsis: This extremely low-budget adventure was director Jesus Franco's second Fu Manchu film for British producer Harry Alan Towers. Christopher Lee returns as the Asian madman, who has developed a way to turn the oceans into ice as part of his plan to rule the world. Kidnapping famed Prof. Herakles (Gustavo Re Read More

The Blood of Fu Manchu

Actors: Richard Greene, Christopher Lee

Synopsis: The first of several collaborations between cult director Jesus Franco and British producer Harry Alan Towers, this horror-tinged adventure is full of jungle action, creative murders, and violent sexual sadism. Christopher Lee portrays the mysterious Asian madman Fu Manchu, plotting world Read More

Dracula Has Risen from the Grave

Actors: Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies, Veronica Carlson, Barbara Ewing, Barry Andrews

Synopsis: When a young girl is found hanging in the local church with fang marks in her neck, the townsfolk immediately suspect Dracula (Christopher Lee) is behind the evil deed. Although he has supposedly been dead for quite some time, the vile vampire is the prime suspect. The Monsignor (Rupert Davies) is Read More

Theatre of Death

Synopsis: Parisian murders centered around a theater seem to have a vampiric theme as police try to figure out who is behind them. Christopher Lee stars in this horror-mystery as the director of the playhouse--and the prime suspect. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Castle of the Walking Dead

Actors: Lex Barker

Synopsis: Just the thing for spooky Halloween-night viewing, this good-looking German film from director Harald Reinl tells the story of the horrible Count Regula (Christopher Lee), who murdered a dozen virgins and drained their blood. For these heinous crimes, he was sentenced to be drawn and quartered. Read More

Five Golden Dragons

Actors: Robert Cummings

Synopsis: While traveling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell (Robert Cummings) accidentally stumbles into the middle of criminal negotiations between a mean gang, the Five Golden Dragons, and the local mobsters. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Circus of Fear

Actors: Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Anthony Newlands, Heinz Drache, Klaus Kinski

Synopsis: Based on an Edgar Wallace murder mystery this chiller centers on a Scotland Yard investigation of a series of puzzling deaths plaguing a traveling circus and the hunt for loot stolen from an armored car robbery. Suspects include the mask-wearing and disfigured lion tamer, a vengeful ringmaster, an Read More

Island of the Burning Doomed

Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee

Synopsis: The famed British horror trio of Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and director Terence Fisher brought John Lymington's sci-fi novel Night of the Big Heat to the screen in this slow-moving shocker. The plot concerns a small British island where alien protoplasm creatures are attempting to raise the Read More

Avengers: Never, Never Say Die

Synopsis: Horror-film icon Christopher Lee guest stars in this Philip Levene-scripted Avengers episode. When British scientist Professor Stone (Lee), supposedly killed in an auto accident, suddenly shows up alive and healthy, Steed and Emma want to know why. Their curiosity is peaked when Stone subsequently Read More

Rasputin, the Mad Monk

Actors: Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Richard Pasco, Francis Matthews, Suzanne Farmer

Synopsis: The life story of the legendary Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin gets the highly fictionalized Hammer Films treatment with this liberal mix of horror and history that presents the mysterious sage as a demonic, otherworldly creature. Christopher Lee stars as the titular monk, who gains entrée to the Read More

Dracula: Prince of Darkness

Actors: Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Andrew Keir, Francis Matthews, Suzanne Farmer

Synopsis: Christopher Lee dons the evil Count's cloak once again after an 8-year hiatus for this first "authentic" sequel to Hammer Studios' Horror of Dracula (the literal 1960 follow-up Brides of Dracula did not feature Lee). The story begins when two stuffy vacationing couples make an ill-fated stopover Read More

The Brides of Fu Manchu

Actors: Christopher Lee, Marie Versini, Tsai Chin

Synopsis: The nefarious Fu Manchu strikes again in this crime drama. This time the megalomaniacal Manchu plots to earn the money he needs to build a world-dominating ray gun by abducting the daughters of 12 important world leaders. His dastardly daughter assists. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Skull

Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Jill Bennett, Patrick Wymark

Synopsis: Adapted from the Robert Bloch short story "The Skull of the Marquis de Sade," this inventive gothic chiller from Amicus stars Peter Cushing as Professor Maitland, a collector obsessed with obtaining artifacts reputed to have occult powers -- including the title object, believed to be from the Read More

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Roy Castle, Donald Sutherland, Neil McCallum

Synopsis: Not to be confused with David Hewitt's abominable Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors (AKA The Blood Suckers), this clever horror omnibus is one of the better early anthologies from Amicus Productions, thanks to Freddie Francis' stylish direction and a tongue-in-cheek approach from writer Milton Subotsky Read More

She

Actors: Ursula Andress, Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, John Richardson, Christopher Lee, Rosenda Monteros

Synopsis: Hammer Films co-produced this lavishly mounted adventure, the fourth adaptation of the novel by H. Rider Haggard. In Jerusalem, Leo Vincey (John Richardson) meets with a slave girl, Ustane (Rosenda Monteros), who has been charged with bringing him to an immortal queen, Ayesha (Ursula Andress). Read More

The Face of Fu Manchu

Actors: Christopher Lee, Nigel Green, Howard Marion-Crawford, Tsai Chin

Synopsis: In this drama, the devilish Chinese villain has concocted a deadly gas. He tries it out in a small English town and is delighted to discover that it is terribly effective. He then travels to the Thames with his daughter. There he has an explosive encounter with the hero who stops the evil plot. Read More

Il Castello dei Morti Vivi

Synopsis: A traveling circus visits the Gothic abode of the evil Count Drago (Christopher Lee), whose pastimes include experimenting on various animals with his potions and formulas. Naturally, he's no longer content to stop there, and the visitors become unwilling participants in the next horrific Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Sign of Satan

Actors: Christopher Lee, Gia Scala, Gilbert Green, Adam Roarke, Myron Healey

Synopsis: Christopher Lee is sublimely typecast as Karl Jorla, a European horror film star who has arrived in Hollywood to make his first American picture. But Jorla has no intention of drawing attention to himself; he not only keeps his production schedule secret, but he also refuses to let anyone know Read More

The Devil-Ship Pirates

Actors: Christopher Lee, Andrew Keir, John Cairney, Duncan Lamont, Michael Ripper

Synopsis: Upon their defeat by Francis Drake, a ship's crew which served in the Spanish Armada anchors near a small coastal village in England to make repairs on their vessel. While there, the cuthroat Captain Robeles (Christopher Lee) leads his men to take control of the town in an opportunistic move Read More

The Gorgon

Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Richard Pasco, Barbara Shelley, Michael Goodliffe

Synopsis: A small German town falls prey to an unseen monster that turns its victims into lifeless statues in this mid-'60s outing from Hammer Studios. When the girlfriend of bohemian artist Bruno Heitz (Jeremy Longhurst) becomes the latest townsperson to turn up dead, her corpse transformed to stone, Bruno Read More

The Whip and the Body

Actors: Christopher Lee, Daliah Lavi, Jacques Herlin, Tony Kendall, Harriet Medin, Luciano Pigozzi, Haniet White

Synopsis: Marred by controversy at the time of its release, this horror fantasy from Italy's legendary horror director Mario Bava centers on the twisted desires of a nobleman's son (Christopher Lee). Lee is ostracized by his father for his dalliances with a servant girl (who later commits suicide), but is Read More

The Virgin of Nuremberg

Actors: Christopher Lee, Georges Riviere, Rossana Podestà

Synopsis: Christopher Lee plays the horribly scarred chauffeur Erich in this Italian horror feature first released in 1963. He is the keeper of a German castle where visitors are tortured at will by a mysterious madman. Rossana Podesta and Georges Riviere also appear in this routine feature alternately Read More

Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace

Actors: Christopher Lee

Synopsis: Holmes and Watson are again after Moriarty but this time Scotland Yard for some reason does not even suspect that he's the one who wants to get the necklace stolen from Cleopatra's tomb. Doesn't really hold together like most of the Holmes/Watson movies and is a rather odd interpretation of Sir Read More

Terror in the Crypt

Synopsis: Christopher Lee heads the cast of the obscure Italian-Spanish scare opera Terror in the Crypt. The setting is an old house (Surprise number one). The house is festooned with secret passages and forbidden rooms (Surprise number two). And some of the residents are practioners of witchcraft (Life's Read More

The Pirates of Blood River

Actors: Kerwin Mathews, Glenn Corbett, Christopher Lee, Marla Landi, Oliver Reed

Synopsis: In this high-seas adventure, a wicked one-eyed, one-armed pirate forces a young man, who was wrongfully imprisoned, to take him and his band to his Caribbean island home where the pirate believes great treasure is buried. Once there, the pirate begins fighting for control of the island and begins Read More

The Longest Day

Actors: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Rod Steiger, Richard Todd

Synopsis: The Longest Day is a mammoth, all-star re-creation of the D-Day invasion, personally orchestrated by Darryl F. Zanuck. Whenever possible, the original locations were utilized, and an all-star international cast impersonates the people involved, from high-ranking officials to ordinary GIs. Each Read More

The Devil's Agent

Synopsis: The Devil's Agent is Peter Van Eyck in this economical espionager. A Viennese wine merchant, Van Eyck becomes the unwilling dupe for the Russians. In retaliation, he offers to become a double agent for the United States. The better-than-average cast includes Macdonald Carey, Christopher Lee Read More

Hercules in the Haunted World

Actors: Reg Park

Synopsis: Horrormeister Mario Bava helmed this entry in the series, in which Hercules (Reg Park) must journey to the bowels of Hell to recover a magical plant that is the only hope of a dying princess. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Terror of the Tongs

Actors: Geoffrey Toone, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Monlaur, Marne Maitland, Brian Worth

Synopsis: Terror of the Tongs is a gory, garishly colored melodrama written by Jimmy Sangster in the tradition of the Fu Manchu films. The villain is "Fu" himself, Christopher Lee, here eminently hissable as the leader of a vicious Chinese Tong operating in 1910 Hong Kong. Proper London merchant Geoffrey Toone Read More

One Step Beyond: The Sorceror

Synopsis: On special assignment during WW1, German officer Wilhelm Reitlinger (played by horror-movie icon Christopher Lee) makes the acquaintance of an oddball farmer named Klaus Karnak (Martin Balsam). Claiming to have the power of teleportation, Karnak agrees to "will" Reitlinger's soul to his home town Read More

Scream of Fear

Actors: Susan Strasberg, Ronald Lewis, Ann Todd, Christopher Lee, Leonard Sachs, John Serret

Synopsis: The British writer/director team of Jimmy Sangster and Seth Holt was never satisfied unless it scared the bejeepers out of its audience. Scream of Fear stars Susan Strasberg as the crippled daughter of Ann Todd, whom she meets for the first time during a vacation on the Riviera. There's something Read More

Das Raetsel der roten Orchidee

Actors: Fritz Rasp, Wolfgang Buttner

Synopsis: Even while a series of British second features based on the works of Edgar Wallace was flourishing in the 1960s, Germany was grinding out its own Wallace series. Secret of the Red Orchid top-bills British actor Christopher Lee in a story of a joint effort between the FBI and Scotland Yard. The Read More

Hot Money Girl - The Treasure of Santeresa

Synopsis: In this drama, an American agent for the OSS after the war, hides a large treasure in Czechoslovakia for a Nazi general. The general commits suicide before getting the jewels. The general's top aide then convinces the American to help him get them back. They enlist the aide of the general's Read More

Das Geheimnis der gelben Narzissen

Actors: Christopher Lee, Marius Goring, Penelope Horner, Ingrid van Bergen, William Lucas

Synopsis: In this detective film, a Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer." The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daffodils. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Horror Hotel

Actors: Christopher Lee, Venetia Stevenson

Synopsis: George Baxt scripted this extraordinarily good chiller from a story by Milton Subotsky, who also co-produced. A college student (Venetia Stevenson) with an interest in witchcraft goes to the Massachusetts town of Whitewood. It's a foggy, spooky town which gets even scarier when Stevenson discovers Read More

Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll

Actors: Paul Massie, Dawn Addams, Christopher Lee, David Kossoff, Francis de Wolff

Synopsis: This is the film version of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in which Hyde is the handsome, clean-shaven one. Though top-billed Christopher Lee, portraying a caddish playboy, was the beneficiary of all the ad publicity, it is Paul Massie who plays Dr. Jekyll Read More

Les Mains D'Orlac

Actors: Mel Ferrer, Dany Carrel, Lucille Saint-Simon, Christopher Lee

Synopsis: The oft-filmed Maurice Renard novel Hands of Orlac was given another cinematic go-round in this Franco-British production. Famed concert pianist Stephen Orlac (Mel Ferrer) survives a plane crash, but his hands are permanently destroyed. Helpful surgeon Volcheff (Donald Wolfit) grafts a pair of new Read More

Beat Girl

Actors: David Farrar, Noëlle Adam, Christopher Lee, Gillian Hills, Adam Faith

Synopsis: A rebellious teenager runs away from home and joins the SoHo beatniks when her widowed father remarries a much younger woman. But beatnik life isn't all it seems and she ends up hanging out as a stripper in a sleazy club, hoping to learn about her mom. There the creepy club owner attempts to Read More

Tempi Duri per i Vampiri

Synopsis: In this horror movie, the unwitting guests at a charming ancestral estate soon find themselves the main entree for the bloodsucking young proprietor's dinner. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Actors: Peter Cushing, Andre Morell, Christopher Lee, Marla Landi, Miles Malleson, David Oxley

Synopsis: In the 17th century, the arrogant, cruel Hugo Baskerville (David Oxley) brutalizes a servant and prepares to turn the man's daughter over to his equally depraved companions, but she escapes. When he catches up with the girl in a ruined abbey, he kills her and then is attacked and killed himself by Read More

The Man Who Could Cheat Death

Actors: Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee, Arnold Marle, Delphi Lawrence

Synopsis: After emerging as a potent force in the genre with Horror of Dracula, Hammer Films added their handsome Gothic touch to this lesser-known remake of the 1944 suspenser The Man in Half Moon Street (itself adapted from a play by Barre Lyndon). Anton Diffring stars as a century-old artist who Read More

Corridors of Blood

Actors: Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee

Synopsis: This enjoyably twisted British thriller was shot back-to-back with the equally warped Haunted Strangler and is one of the first films of any genre to address the subject of drug addiction. It stars Boris Karloff as Dr. Thomas Bolton, a London surgeon who believes he has developed a safe and Read More

The Mummy

Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux, Eddie Byrne, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: While on a dig in Egypt, British archaeologist John Banning (Peter Cushing) desecrates the tomb of Princess Ananka, awakening her mummified lover (Christopher Lee). With revenge on his mind, the mummy follows Banning and the rest of his group back to England, but becomes quite taken with Banning's Read More

The Treasure of San Teresa

Actors: Eddie Constantine, Dawn Addams

Synopsis: The British-German Treasure of San Teresa is known by a variety of titles, including Hot Money Girl, Long Distance and Rhapsody in Blie. Perennial action hero Eddie Constantine plays an ex-OSS operative who returns to Czechoslovakia after the war. The mercenary Constantine hopes to recover a Read More

Too Hot to Handle

Actors: Jayne Mansfield, Leo Genn, Carl Boehm, Danik Patisson, Christopher Lee

Synopsis: With dialogue ranging from flat to offensive and acting in the same range, this low-brow erotic crime drama by director Terence Young stars Jayne Mansfield as Midnight Franklin, a star stripper in a Soho club that is in serious rivalry with another strip joint. A reporter gets involved in the Read More

The Horror of Dracula

Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Melissa Stribling, Michael Gough, Carol Marsh

Synopsis: This Hammer Studios classic is far closer to the letter (and spirit) of the Bram Stoker novel than the Bela Lugosi version of Dracula. The premise finds the infamous count journeying from his native Transylvania to England, where he takes a headfirst plunge into the London nightlife, and begins to Read More

Missiles from Hell

Actors: Michael Rennie, Patricia Medina, Milly Vitale, David Knight, Esmond Knight

Synopsis: Unseen Heroes, along with Missiles from Hell, represented the US titles of the British The Battle of the V1. Set in wartime Poland, the film involves the secret Nazi missile installation at Peenemunde. British guerilla fighter Michael Rennie leads a group of Polish partisans on a mission to Read More

A Tale of Two Cities

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Cecil Parker, Marie Versini, Stephen Murray, Athene Seyler

Synopsis: Screenwriter T.E.B. Clarke, the writer of such fifties British comedies as The Lavender Hill Mob and Passport to Pimlico, dips his pen into a more stately inkwell in this stilted adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel A Tale of Two Cities. Dirk Bogarde takes the lead role of worn-down Read More

The Truth About Women

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Julie Harris, Diane Cilento, Mai Zetterling, Eva Gabor

Synopsis: In comfortable dotage, baronet Humphery Tavistock (Laurence Harvey) recalls a lifetime of romantic entanglements to his wide-eyed son-in-law. Tavistock has come to the conclusion that women are a riddle wrapped in a mystery surrounded by an enigma, and his reminiscences bear this out. Among the Read More

The Accursed

Actors: Anton Diffring, Christopher Lee, Karel Stepanek, Donald Wolfit

Synopsis: A fine cast highlights this entertaining British mystery derived from The Unholy Night (1929). The plot concerns a reunion of World War II spies at the home of distinguished Col. Price (Donald Wolfit). The veterans are murdered one by one by a traitorous former Nazi in their midst. Anton Diffring Read More

Bitter Victory

Actors: Richard Burton, Curd Jürgens, Ruth Roman, Raymond Pellegrin, Anthony Bushell

Synopsis: In Nicholas Ray's WWII drama, two British officers, Captain Leith (Richard Burton) and Major Brand (German character actor Curd Jürgens, who would later play Bond foe Karl Stromberg in The Spy Who Loved Me), a South African, are being considered to lead a daring raid to steal crucial documents Read More

She Played With Fire

Actors: Jack Hawkins, Arlene Dahl, Dennis Price, Violet Farebrother, Ian Hunter

Synopsis: Oliver Branwell (Jack Hawkins) is an honest, decent man, dedicated to his job as an insurance claims assessor -- until he makes a business call, to assess the damage from a fire, on Tracey Moreton (Dennis Price) and meets Morton's wife Sarah (Arlene Dahl), with whom Oliver had been involved Read More

The Curse of Frankenstein

Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart, Valerie Gaunt

Synopsis: Curse of Frankenstein was the "breakthrough" picture for the fabled Hammer Studios. Told in flashback, the story centers around Baron Victor Frankenstein (Peter Cushing), a dangerously arrogant scientist who takes it upon himself to play God. Using portions of dead bodies, Victor fashions a Read More

Ill Met by Moonlight

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Marius Goring, David Oxley, Cyril Cusack, Laurence Payne

Synopsis: Eschewing the Shakespearean original title (it's a quote from A Midsummer Night's Dream), the British Ill Met by Moonlight was released stateside as Night Ambush. This superb Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger concoction is set during World War II on the island of Crete. Dirk Bogarde and David Oxley Read More

Port Afrique

Actors: Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Philip Carey, Dennis Price, Eugene Deckers, James Hayter

Synopsis: Adapted from a novel by Bernard Victor Dyer, Port Afrique offers an unusual screen romantic team in the form of two-fisted Phil Carey and ethereally beautiful Pier Angeli. Carey plays Rip Reardon, a WW2 veteran who returns to his "second home" in Morocco for a reunion with his wife. Upon arrival Read More

Beyond Mombasa

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Donna Reed, Leo Genn, Ron Randell, Christopher Lee

Synopsis: Hot on the heels of Safari came another Columbia-released, African-filmed adventure, Beyond Mombassa. Matt Campbell (Cornel Wilde) arrives in Kenya on a double quest. He hopes to locate a valuable uranium mine, and also to learn the "whos, whats and whys" of his brother's murder. Joing Campbell's Read More

Pursuit of the Graf Spee

Actors: John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Peter Finch, Ian Hunter, Jack Gwillim, Bernard Lee

Synopsis: Widely regarded as one of the best and most intelligent British war dramas of the 1950s, The Battle of River Plate is the story of Britain's first significant naval victory in WW2. John Gregson heads the cast as Captain Bell, skipper of the Exeter, one of several vessels engaged in pursuit of the Read More

Moby Dick

Actors: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, Harry Andrews, Orson Welles, Seamus Kelly

Synopsis: Previous film versions of Moby Dick insisted upon including such imbecilities as romantic subplots and happy endings. John Huston's 1956 Moby Dick remains admirably faithful to its source. "Call me Ishmael" declares itinerant whaler Richard Basehart as the opening credits fade. Though slightly Read More

Alias John Preston

Synopsis: When John Preston (Christopher Lee) comes out of nowhere to settle in Deanbridge, he rises quickly in the town's small circle of leaders and meets Sally, the daughter of a leading family. He asks her to marry him, but then he begins to have repeating nightmares about a passionate blonde Read More

A Private's Progress

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Terry-Thomas, Ian Carmichael, Peter Jones

Synopsis: The Boulting Brothers enjoyed one of their biggest box-office successes of the 1950s with the wry service comedy Private's Progress. Though billed fourth, Ian Carmichael plays the central character, feckless British soldier Stanley Windrush. Interrupting his college education to serve his country Read More

The Pendulum

Synopsis: This video is comprised of two episodes from the suspenseful anthology series, Pendulum. The first "The Price of Vanity," centers on an avaricious art dealer who is delighted when he stumbles across what seems to be a masterpiece. In "Death on the Boards," a ballerina vents her frustration about Read More

The Cockleshell Heroes

Actors: José Ferrer, Trevor Howard, Victor Maddern, Anthony Newley, David Lodge, William Fitzgerald

Synopsis: Jose Ferrer was both star and director of the British WW2 drama Cockleshell Heroes. Ferrer is cast as Major Stringer, the officer in charge of a delicate naval operation. Stringer and seven volunteers are expected to paddle four canoes into Nazi-held waters, plant limpet mines on enemy boats, and Read More

The Final Column

Synopsis: This crime drama is made up of two different tales of murder gone awry. In the first episode, an angry man plans a murder/suicide to protect his daughter from an extortionist. In the other story, a vengeful doctor hypnotizes his wife's unsuspecting lover and suggests that he break into her room Read More

The Warriors

Actors: Errol Flynn, Joanne Dru, Peter Finch, Yvonne Furneaux, Patrick Holt

Synopsis: The Dark Avenger was the European-release title of the Errol Flynn swashbuckler The Warriors; 20th Century-Fox handled European distribution, while Allied Artists released the film stateside. Lensed on location in Hertfordshire, England, the film stars Flynn as Edward, the "Black Prince" of Read More

That Lady

Actors: Gilbert Roland, Paul Scofield, Françoise Rosay, Dennis Price

Synopsis: Based on a true event from 16th century Spain, this costume drama follows the tragic life of Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Eboli, (Olivia de Havilland) who is secretly loved by her good friend the King. Unfortunately for the monarch, she marries one of his ministers and bears his son. Her husband Read More

Storm Over the Nile

Actors: Anthony Steel, Laurence Harvey, Mary Ure, Ronald Lewis, Ian Carmichael, James Robertson Justice

Synopsis: This fourth film version of A.E.W. Mason's adventure yarn The Four Feathers relies heavily on stock footage from the more famous 1939 adaptation (both were produced by Alexander Korda and codirected by Korda's brother Zoltan). Anthony Steel stars as 19th cntury British officer Harry Faversham, who Read More

Police Dog

Synopsis: In this police drama, a cop finds his recently killed partner replaced by an Alsatian police dog. While he adjusts, the one who killed his partner plans to crack a safe. After he breaks in, he is accosted by the cop and his dog. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Crossroads

Destination Milan

Synopsis: This anthology is comprised of three stories. In the first a naive American tycoon boards the famous Orient Express and finds himself victimized by con-artists until a helpful train guard comes to aid him. The second tale centers on an impoverished Irishman's daughter who wants to marry the son of Read More

The Death of Michael Turbin

Synopsis: This video features two stories in one. The first story chronicles the escape of a man living in an Eastern block country who was slated for execution. The second story centers on an Irish immigrant who left his native Erin after a love affair goes sour. Once in the New World, he becomes morally Read More

Innocents in Paris

Actors: Alastair Sim, Ronald Shiner, Margaret Rutherford, Claire Bloom, Claude Dauphin

Synopsis: Innocents in Paris is a series of anecdotes bundled together by geography. First we see the efforts by British diplomat Alastair Sim to loosen up Soviet-agent Peter Illing long enough to forge an economic plan between Russia and England. Then we watch as dotty artist Margaret Rutherford purchases Read More

Babes in Bagdad

Actors: Paulette Goddard, Gypsy Rose Lee, Richard Ney, John Boles, Thomas Gallagher

Synopsis: Though she was pushing 50 at the time, Paulette Goddard still looked quite fetching in harem duds in the independently produced comedy Babes in Bagdad. On the other hand, Goddard's leading man, 57-year-old John Boles, not only looked his age but acted it. Even the youngest of the three leads, Gypsy Rose Lee Read More

Valley of Eagles

Synopsis: Valley of Eagles is set in northern Scandinavia, on the border between Sweden and Lapland. John McCallum stars as Swedish scientist Nils Ahlen, whose research data has been swiped by his assistant Nystrom (Anthony Dawson). Making things worse is the fact that Nystrom was aided in his perfidy by Read More

Moulin Rouge

Actors: José Ferrer, Colette Marchand, Suzanne Flon, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Katherine Kath, Christopher Lee

Synopsis: Moulin Rouge is the story of 19th century French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, portrayed by José Ferrer. The film records his frustration over his physical handicap (the growth in his legs was stunted by a childhood accident), his efforts to "lose" himself in Paris' bawdy Montmartre district Read More

The Crimson Pirate

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Eva Bartok, Nick Cravat, Torin Thatcher, James Hayter

Synopsis: Half affectionate parody and half enthusiastic tribute to the swashbuckling pirate epics of the 1930's and 40's, The Crimson Pirate stars Burt Lancaster as Captain Vallo, the smiling leader of a pack of unscrupulous pirates. While on the high seas, Vallo and his men spy a well-stocked merchant Read More

Paul Temple Returns

Synopsis: In this murder mystery, an aspiring novelist and amateur detective begins looking into the case of a famous unsolved murder and eventually ends up in a mansion filled with serpents. He then enlists the aid of his wife, solves the murder, and gets kudos for his newest book. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Mr. Potts Goes to Moscow

Actors: George Cole, Oscar Homolka, Nadia Gray, Frederick [Fritz] Valk, Geoffrey Sumner

Synopsis: Top Secret gets under way when George (George Cole), a janitor in a research plant, accidentally comes into possession of the plans for a revolutionary atomic weapon. As George embarks on his annual vacation, the research security team embarks on a nationwide search for the hapless broom-pusher. Read More

Captain Horatio Hornblower

Actors: Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty, Terence Morgan, Denis O'Dea, James Robertson Justice, Moultrie Kelsall

Synopsis: Gregory Peck stars as the title character in this swashbuckling saga of the high seas based on C.S. Forester's novel. In 1807, Hornblower is given a special assignment by the British Navy: he is to deliver a supply of weapons to El Supremo (Alec Mango), a Latin American rebel leading an uprising Read More

Valley of the Eagles

Actors: Jack Warner, Nadia Gray, John McCallum, Anthony Dawson, Mary Laura Wood

Synopsis: In this action-adventure film, a Swedish professor searches for his treacherous wife and his assistant after they steal his research and head for the frozen wastes of Lapland. The scientist is accompanied by a police inspector. During their journey, they are attacked by wolves. Fortunately native Read More

They Were Not Divided

Actors: Edward Underdown, Ralph Clanton, Helen Cherry, Michael Brennan

Synopsis: This wartime drama recounts the training process of the British Tank Corps. The story concentrates on two recruits: Englishman Philip (Edward Underdown) and American David (Ralph Clanton). After a grueling training period and a long, frustratingly uneventful encampment on British soil, Philip and Read More

Prelude to Fame

Actors: Guy Rolfe, Kathleen Byron, Kathleen Ryan, Henry Oscar

Synopsis: Guy Rolfe is top-billed in the British Prelude to Fame, but the critics' attention was directed at young newcomer Jeremy Spencer. This is the story of a poverty-stricken boy named Guido (Spencer) who turns out to be a musical prodigy. Prodded into fame by a wealthy, childless patroness of the arts Read More

The Gay Lady

Actors: Jean Kent, James Donald, Hugh Sinclair, Andrew Crawford, Bill Owen

Synopsis: The Gay Lady is better known by its British title, Trottie True. Jean Kent stars as Trottie, a turn-of-the-century British music-hall performer who works her way up the ladder from chorus girl to headliner. As her fame increases, Trottie has no time for true love, preferring instead the attentions Read More

My Brother's Keeper

Actors: Jack Warner, Jane Hylton, George Cole, Bill Owen, David Tomlinson

Synopsis: Anticipating The Defiant Ones by nearly ten years, the British My Brother's Keeper concentrates on the exploits of two handcuffed-together escaped convicts. The protagonists are career criminal George Martin (Jack Warner) and terrified "first timer" Willie Stannard (George Cole). The film is one Read More

Saraband for Dead Lovers

Actors: Stewart Granger, Joan Greenwood, Flora Robson, Françoise Rosay, Anthony Quayle, Frederick [Fritz] Valk

Synopsis: This lush 18th century period romance, based on historical fact, was the first color film from Britain's famed Ealing Studios, but it proved to be such a box office disappointment that Ealing never attempted such a lavish costume drama again. Sophie Dorothea (Joan Greenwood) is a young woman Read More

Penny and the Pownall Case

One Night with You

Actors: Nino Martini, Patricia Roc, Bonar Colleano, Hugh Wakefield

Synopsis: In this musical, a renowned tenor meets a lovely woman at a British railway station. When the woman's dog gets in a fight, he saves it. Unfortunately this causes them to miss their train. Later, the tenor discovers that his suitcases by been stolen. The thief, a tramp, is then mistaken for the Read More

A Song for Tomorrow

Actors: Evelyn Maccabe

Synopsis: Future Hammer horror director Terence Fisher filmed this lackluster wartime romance. Derek Wardwell (Shaun Noble) is struck with amnesia, and the last thing he remembers is the beautiful voice of opera singer Helen Maxwell (Evelyn Maccabe). When he regains consciousness, Wardwell thinks he's in Read More

Corridor of Mirrors

Actors: Eric Portman, Edana Romney, Barbara Mullen, Hugh Sinclair, Hugh Latimer

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Chris Massie, Corridor of Mirrors is a British attempt to match the poetry and lyricism of the French cinema of the late 1940s. Eric Portman plays a contemporary artist who tends to live in the past. He surrounds himself with Renaissance artwork, obsessed with the notion that Read More

Scott of the Antarctic

Actors: John Mills, Diana Churchill, Harold Warrender, Derek Bond, Reginald Beckwith, Anne Firth, James Robertson Justice

Synopsis: John Mills stars as Commander Scott, the leader of the ill-fated and famed 1911 expedition to be the first to discover the South Pole. The British were up against the Norwegians in the Arctic quest for fame and honor which was won by Norway. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Hamlet

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Eileen Herlie, Basil Sydney, Jean Simmons, Norman Wooland, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: Although criticized by Shakespeare devotees upon its release because of director, producer, and star Laurence Olivier's decision to excise large portions of the text, his cinematic version of Hamlet is widely considered the best out of several dozens (and counting). Hamlet (Olivier) is a medieval Read More