The story in this two-part TV biopic was probably "untold" mainly because it was untrue. According to the revisionist script...
|
|
1985
|
|
|
1983
|
John Mackenzie's masterfully directed British crime drama features a star-making performance by Bob Hoskins as Harold Shand,...
|
|
1980
|
|
|
1976
|
|
|
1976
|
|
Father Mittner
|
1974
|
The 1972 British farce Percy was about the world's first penis transplant; Percy's Progress constitutes the sequel, with...
|
|
1974
|
Like many of Agatha Christie's mysteries, Murder on the Orient Express is predicated on an actual event, in this case the...
|
|
1974
|
|
|
1974
|
Jon Finch stars as Jerry Cornelius, swinging London's leading scientific genius, in this screen adaptation of the acclaimed...
|
|
1973
|
A dirty joke that became a "clean" TV movie, Coffee, Tea or Me stars Karen Valentine, cast to type as a perky stewardess. In...
|
|
1973
|
The autobiography of Henri Charriere, one of the few people to successfully escape from the notorious French penal colony of...
|
|
1973
|
Astronaut Neil Stryker (Glenn Corbett) returns from space, only to find himself held incommunicado by government security...
|
|
1973
|
This gory low-budget British outing involves a team of archaeologists landing on fog-shrouded Snape Island -- recently the...
|
|
1972
|
The swan song for director Seth Holt (who died shortly before filming was completed), this stylish Hammer production...
|
Berigan
|
1971
|
Based on a best-selling novel by John Christopher, this combination horror-movie, cautionary tale warns against the dangers...
|
|
1970
|
Vince Carden (Telly Savalas) is the violent Apache-hating landowner obsessed with driving the Indians from the region in this...
|
|
1969
|
The Assassination Bureau is loosely based on a turn-of-the-century yarn written by Jack London. Nellie Bly-style girl...
|
|
1969
|
In this suspenseful crime drama, a lawyer begins investigating the theft of some priceless Macedonian national treasures...
|
|
1968
|
Originally written as the second episode of The Prisoner, "Checkmate" was then slated to be shown as episode #11. Instead, it...
|
|
1967
|
|
|
|
1967
|
An expert in ancient hieroglyphics unexpectedly finds himself involved in a web of international intrigue in this chic,...
|
|
1966
|
Adapted from the Robert Bloch short story "The Skull of the Marquis de Sade," this inventive gothic chiller from Amicus stars...
|
|
1965
|
This British programmer was filmed on the cheap in Yugoslavia, with an American star, Robert Ryan, to secure U.S. playdates....
|
|
1965
|
Landing on an island surrounded by a sea of acid, the TARDIS is captured by Arbitan (George Coulouris), the Keeper of the...
|
Arbitan
|
1964
|
In this drama of romantic intrigue and infidelity, Sam and Christine Bonner (Arthur Hill and Jane Fonda) are a married couple...
|
|
1963
|
Squire Trevenyan (Peter Cushing), magistrate of an 18th century coastal village where a little smuggling has always gone on...
|
|
1963
|
In this children's film, an enterprising gang of kids create a homemade zoo because they cannot have pets in their...
|
|
1962
|
One major film star referred to director Nicholas Ray as a "loser," because of Ray's alleged willingness to let his more...
|
|
1961
|
This is an unimpressive spy-comedy from director Stanley Donen who inserts his specialty, a small song-and-dance number, into...
|
|
1960
|
Lilli Palmer stars as a nun in a World War 2-era Italian convent. At the risk of her own life and those of her cloistered...
|
|
1960
|
|
|
|
1960
|
In this comedy set in Spain, Paco (Maurice Reyna) is a young boy with a part-time job as a messenger at a local bank. Paco's...
|
Bank manager
|
1960
|
The off-spring of the legendary British bandit dons his father's tights to help save his countrymen from the tyrannical rule...
|
|
1959
|
A father discovers that being a good role model for your son isn't always easy -- especially when you're a criminal -- in...
|
Bennie
|
1958
|
In this WW II adventure, five brave Allies endeavor to escape from an Italian POW camp in North Africa. They succeed, but...
|
|
1958
|
In this sad drama, a boozy reporter must cope with a series of personal disasters begin with the death of his wife in a car...
|
|
1958
|
W. Lee Wilder, the somewhat less prestigious producer-director brother of Billy Wilder, went to Holland to film his 1958 opus...
|
Col. Benedict
|
1958
|
The still-controversial L'Affair Dreyfuss of the late 19th century is the focal point of I Accuse! Jose Ferrer (who also...
|
|
1958
|
The British Seven Thunders was released in the US as Beasts of Marseilles. Set in 1943, the film stars Stephen Boyd and...
|
|
1957
|
Dr. James Moran (George Coulouris) is a scientist whose goals are beyond the pale of established medical science. While on an...
|
Dr. James Moran
|
1957
|
In this horror movie, a scientist resuscitates the head of 16th-century seer Nostradamus by transplanting it onto the body...
|
Karl Brussard
|
1957
|
Tarzan and the Lost Safari is the first MGM-released Tarzan picture since 1942, and the first of the series to be lensed in...
|
|
1957
|
The third of the droll British "Doctor" series, Doctor at Large once more stars Dirk Bogarde as young Dr. Simon Sparrow. Back...
|
|
1957
|
Ian Carmichael plays the "white sheep" in a family of successful thieves. Everyone in the clan has made a healthy career out...
|
|
1956
|
The Boulting Brothers enjoyed one of their biggest box-office successes of the 1950s with the wry service comedy Private's...
|
|
1956
|
This second entry in the British "Doctor" series once more stars Dirk Bogarde as young medico Simon Sparrow. Securing his...
|
|
1955
|
In this detective drama, a biographer researches the death of a heroic pilot who died during a failed test and ends up in...
|
|
1955
|
Less than a month after the release of 20th Century-Fox's The Racers, Lippert Productions picked up the American distribution...
|
Dallapiccola
|
1955
|
In this thriller, shot on location in Rhodesia, an American insurance investigator looks into the strange death of a diamond...
|
Captain Malburn
|
1954
|
Lantern-jawed British comedian Frankie Howerd, best known to American TV fans as the star of the raucous historical satire...
|
Edward Schroeder
|
1954
|
The first of the popular British "Doctor" comedy series, Doctor in the House stars Dirk Bogarde as callow young medical...
|
|
1953
|
Heart of the Matter is a faithful if somewhat austere adaptation of the same-named novel by Graham Greene. Set in Sierra...
|
|
1953
|
|
|
|
1953
|
British private detective Richard Todd is sent to Venice, there to locate and a reward a wartime partisan. Once he arrives,...
|
Spadoni
|
1952
|
Partially filmed on location in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Outcast of the Islands is a reasonably faithful adaptation of...
|
|
1952
|
Don't be misled by the title, and by the presence of Glynis Johns in the cast. The "Venus" in Appointment with Venus is a...
|
Capt. Weiss
|
1951
|
Kill or be Killed is a leisurely crime caper, largely filmed in Mexico. Playing a sympathetic role for a change,...
|
Victor Sloma
|
1950
|
|
|
Maj. Jack Drumman
|
1948
|
An older soldier enters West Point but remains haunted by nagging guilt. It all began in Tunisia during a tremendous battle....
|
Lew Proctor
|
1948
|
|
|
Charles Vernay
|
1948
|
|
|
1948
|
|
|
Krivoc
|
1947
|
|
|
Pharaoh Coffin
|
1946
|
In this film noir with romantic overtones, con man and cardsharp Nick Blake (John Garfield) returns home after serving in...
|
Doc Ganson
|
1946
|
The novel The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill had been filmed in 1928 as The Perfect Crime and again in 1934 as The Crime...
|
Supt. Buckley
|
1946
|
Columbia's Mr. District Attorney was the second attempt to launch a film series based on the popular radio series of the same...
|
James Randolph
|
1946
|
One of the most successful filmed biographies of the 1940s, A Song to Remember alleges to be the true story of Polish...
|
Louis Pleyel
|
1945
|
|
Capt. Currie
|
1945
|
Vicki Baum, the author of the novel Grand Hotel, also wrote this similarly structured tale about a group of disparate...
|
|
1945
|
Deanna Durbin offered her fans a change of pace in this mystery story seasoned with elements of comedy and music. Nikki...
|
Mr. Saunders
|
1945
|
From a novel of the same name by "Elizabeth", the film begins in 1914, with Bette Davis cast as vain, flighty society woman...
|
Dr. Byles
|
1944
|
The Master Race argues persuasively that, although it appeared that the Nazis would lose WW2, it was foolish to assume that...
|
Col. Von Beck
|
1944
|
In this remake of Outward Bound, which updated the story to include topical refences to the war still raging in Europe, Henry...
|
|
1944
|
Cary Grant delivered Oscar-calibre performances all his life, but only when he played against type in None But the Lonely...
|
|
1944
|
Written by Dudley Nichols and directed by French expatriate director Jean Renoir, This Land is Mine is one of those...
|
|
1943
|
Jean-Pierre Aumont (billed simply as Pierre Aumont) makes his American film debut in Assignment in Brittany. Set during WW2,...
|
|
1943
|
Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls is a romantic drama set against the turbulent tapestry of the...
|
|
1943
|
An expansion of, and improvement upon, Lillian Hellman's stage play of the same name, Watch on the Rhine stars Paul Lukas,...
|
Teck Debrancovis
|
1943
|
Orson Welles first feature film -- which he directed, produced, and co-wrote, as well as playing the title role -- proved to...
|
Walter Parks Thatcher
|
1941
|
An incredibly long but never dull adaptation of the Rachel Field best-seller, All This and Heaven Too was based on a...
|
|
1940
|
Columbia's The Lady in Question is a remake of the French Gribouille, a Raimu vehicle from 1939. Brian Aherne plays Andre...
|
Defense Attorney
|
1940
|
|
|
|
1933
|