Herbert LomFilmography

Son of the Pink Panther

Actors: Roberto Benigni, Herbert Lom, Claudia Cardinale, Debrah Farentino, Jennifer Edwards

Synopsis: After the death of Peter Sellers in 1980, writer/director Blake Edwards assembled a new "Pink Panther" film from outtakes of Sellers as Inspector Clouseau from previous movies in the series (the result was called The Trail of the Pink Panther) and later made two attempts to revive the series with Read More

The Pope Must Diet

Actors: Robbie Coltrane, Beverly D'Angelo, Herbert Lom, Paul Bartel, Salvatore Cascio

Synopsis: A priest discovers that being the leader of the Catholic Church can be hazardous to your health in this satiric comedy. Cardinal Rocco (Alex Rocco) and Monsignor Vitchie (Paul Bartel) are two high-ranking Vatican officials who have been using the church's business dealings to launder funds for Read More

La Setta

Synopsis: This stylishly photographed horror movie centers upon a beautiful, good-hearted schoolteacher whose life becomes a living hell after she is chosen to bear the son of Satan. Her horrible ordeal begins when an ancient enigmatic traveller places an ancient, supposedly extinct, insect up her nose. It Read More

The Masque of the Red Death

Synopsis: A contemporary version of the masterpiece by Edgar Allan Poe follows a photographer (Michelle McBride) as she spies on a soap-opera star at a party in Bavaria. She must solve the crimes when several guests are murdered by someone in a skull mask and red coat. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Ten Little Indians

Actors: Donald Pleasence, Frank Stallone, Sarah Maur-Thorp, Herbert Lom, Brenda Vaccaro

Synopsis: Ten Little Indians, the classic mystery by Agatha Christie, is again adapted, with enjoyable results. The setting of the now familiar mystery is moved to Africa, where the ten guests of a mysterious host are killed one by one as they travel on safari. None of the guests, played with great fun by a Read More

River of Death

Actors: Michael Dudikoff, Robert Vaughn, Donald Pleasence, Herbert Lom, L.Q. Jones

Synopsis: This jungle adventure features an extremely complicated plot that involves a megalomaniacal Nazi doctor who continues to perform inhuman experiments in the Amazon jungle and helms the Lost City of the Nazis, a mecca for war criminals and new followers. He is pursued by three vengeful people: a Read More

Master of Dragonard Hill

Actors: Oliver Reed, Eartha Kitt, Herbert Lom, Kimber Sissons, Claudia Udy

Synopsis: In this swashbuckler a despotic colonial governor has made it legal to punish people with the terrifying and excruciatingly painful split-tongue whip, called the Dragonard. Fortunately, a handsome hero appears and stops him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Skeleton Coast

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Robert Vaughn, Oliver Reed, Daniel Greene, Nancy Mulford

Synopsis: This action-adventure film is based on a novel by Edgar Wallace. In the story, Colonel Smith (Ernest Borgnine) is an aging military man whose son is a CIA agent. His son has been captured by a bevy of iron-curtain bad-guys involved in a civil war in the African country of Angola, and Col. Smith is Read More

Whoops Apocalypse

Actors: Loretta Swit, Peter Cook, Rik Mayall, Ian Richardson

Synopsis: Tipping the scales on the Monty Python-esque side of broad comedy, this outrageous and classically British farce is a series of episodes involving the U.S., a small Caribbean nation, the British government, and the military. The American president is a former clown who dies after asking someone to Read More

Going Bananas

Synopsis: When a disgruntled chimp escapes from his circus master, he leads a number of people on a wild and crazy chase across Africa. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Scoop

My African Adventure

Actors: Dom DeLuise, Jimmie "J.J." Walker, David Mendenhall, Deep Roy, Warren Berlinger

Synopsis: For all we know, there may be even more unknown and unseen Dom DeLuise films lurking around out there. Until we did the research, we didn't know My African Adventure existed. Based loosely on a comic novel by Tamar Burstein, the film concerns the son of an American ambassador who meets a steady Read More

King Solomon's Mines

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom, John Rhys-Davies, Ken Gampu

Synopsis: The action in this routine adventure film would be modeled on the enormously successful Indiana Jones but it is too much, too fast, too deja vu. It all starts when Jessie Huston (Sharon Stone, before stardom) talks adventurer Allen Quatermain (Richard Chamberlain) into helping her find her father Read More

Lace

Actors: Bess Armstrong, Brooke Adams, Arielle Dombasle, Phoebe Cates, Anthony Higgins, Angela Lansbury

Synopsis: A notorious, internationally known sex symbol (Phoebe Cates) attempts to track down her birth mother in this glitzy, deliciously trashy melodrama. The mother could be one of three women, all of whom have vowed to never reveal the secret truth behind the child's illegitimate birth. Based on the Read More

Memed, My Hawk

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Herbert Lom, Simon Dutton, Denis Quilley, Michael Elphick

Synopsis: This disappointing, pretentious farce by writer and director Peter Ustinov, who also stars as the incompetent but powerful Abki Aga, is based on a novel by Yashar Kemal about Memed (Simon Dutton) a man who escapes into the Turkish hills with the woman he loves (Leonie Mellinger), a woman already Read More

Curse of the Pink Panther

Actors: Ted Wass, David Niven, Robert Wagner, Herbert Lom, Joanna Lumley, Capucine

Synopsis: Curse of the Pink Panther was released just after Trail of the Pink Panther with a script that has someone looking for the inept Inspector Clousseau and the fabulous stolen Pink Panther diamond at the same time. In Curse, Clifton Sleigh (Ted Wass) is a New York retread of the bumbling Inspector Read More

The Dead Zone

Actors: Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: Christopher Walken plays a schoolteacher, Johnny Smith, who awakens from a five-year coma. He discovers that he has acquired the ability to foretell a person's future simply by touching his or her hand. After seeing several examples, Smith's doctor (Herbert Lom) becomes convinced that Smith can Read More

The Trail of the Pink Panther

Actors: Peter Sellers, David Niven, Herbert Lom, Richard Mulligan, Joanna Lumley

Synopsis: Two years after the death of Peter Sellers, Blake Edwards tried to exhume his corpse in this pastiche of clips and out-takes from the old Pink Panther films. The plot concerns the legendary "Pink Panther" diamond which is once more stolen. Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) is again enlisted to Read More

Peter and Paul

Actors: Robert Foxworth, Anthony Hopkins

Synopsis: This 1981 motion picture follows in the footsteps of the first Christians, led by Peter and Paul, during three decades of evangelizing in the Mediterranean region. The 195-minute version of the original TV miniseries begins in Jerusalem four years after the death of Jesus Christ when Stephen, a Read More

The Man with Bogart's Face

Actors: Robert Sacchi, Franco Nero, Michelle Phillips, Olivia Hussey, Herbert Lom

Synopsis: In The Man With Bogart's Face, an affectionate send-up of the Bogart detective films of the 1940s, Robert Sacchi plays a man who idolizes Humphrey Bogart so much he has his features altered to look exactly like his idol. He then opens up a detective agency under the name Sam Marlowe (an amalgam of Read More

Hopscotch

Actors: Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Ned Beatty, Sam Waterston, Herbert Lom

Synopsis: Walter Matthau plays a CIA agent who's been confined by office politics to a desk job. The disgruntled Matthau quits the service and heads to Europe, where he links up with former lover (an fellow ex-agent) Glenda Jackson. All goes smoothly until Matthau acts on the advice of yet another retired Read More

The Lady Vanishes

Actors: Elliott Gould, Cybill Shepherd, Angela Lansbury, Herbert Lom, Ian Carmichael

Synopsis: Screenwriter George Axelrod turns Alfred Hitchcock's classic comedy-thriller into a capering screwball comedy showcase for Cybill Shepherd and Elliot Gould in this style-less remake of The Lady Vanishes. On an express train traveling through pre-World War II Germany, Amanda Kelly (Cybill Shepherd) Read More

The Revenge of the Pink Panther

Actors: Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Dyan Cannon, Robert Webber, Burt Kwouk

Synopsis: In Revenge of the Pink Panther, for the final time, the bumbling but impeturbable Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) maddens his long-suffering boss Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), sharpens his wits and martial skills with his manservant Cato (Burt Kwouk) and foils the bad guys without ever having a clue Read More

Charleston

Actors: Bud Spencer, Herbert Lom, James Coco

Synopsis: In this poorly dubbed English-language Italian film, shot in England, Charleston (Bud Spencer) is a gangster who is trying to arrange a transaction which will result in the transfer of ownership of a huge yacht. It means a lot to him, because his freedom is at stake. It means a lot to the Texan (James Coco Read More

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

Actors: Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Colin Blakely, Leonard Rossiter, Lesley-Anne Down

Synopsis: Most Inspector Clouseau fans regard The Pink Panther Strikes Again as the best of the clumsy Parisian detective's "comeback" films of the 1970s. Driven insane by the stupidities of Clouseau (Peter Sellers), ex-inspector Dreyfuss (Herbert Lom) transforms into a master criminal. Kidnapping the Read More

And Then There Were None

Actors: Oliver Reed, Elke Sommer, Richard Attenborough, Gert Fröbe, Stéphane Audran

Synopsis: An Italian-French-Spanish version of the much-filmed Agatha Christie story, this film is strangely set in Iran, not Great Britain. Ten guests are invited to a remote desert inn and informed that the mysterious host has described in a nursery rhyme how they will all die during the gathering. One by Read More

The Return of the Pink Panther

Actors: Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell, Herbert Lom, Peter Arne

Synopsis: After several years at loggerheads with one another, director Blake Edwards and star Peter Sellers reteamed for the slapstick fiesta The Return of the Pink Panther. It looks as though wizard cat-burglar Sir Charles Litton, played by David Niven in the original 1964 Pink Panther but here essayed by Christopher Plummer Read More

Toute une Vie

Actors: Marthe Keller, Charles Denner, André Dussollier, Charles Gerard

Synopsis: Claude Lelouch's romantic drama Toute une Vie chronicles three different love affairs over three generations during the 20th century. Marthe Keller and Charles Denner portray different members of the families in each of the generations. The stories involve a cameraman's son who suffers and Read More

And Now the Screaming Starts!

Actors: Geoffrey Crutchley, Peter Cushing, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee

Synopsis: This creepy, atmospheric horror film from England's Amicus Productions dispenses with much of the tongue-in-cheek presentation of their popular '70s horror anthologies (such as Asylum and Dr. Terror's House of Horrors) in favor of a more adult-oriented approach. The story begins in the 18th 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

Asylum

Actors: Peter Cushing, Britt Ekland, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee, Robert Powell

Synopsis: Four short stories by master of macabre Robert Bloch are related by the inmates of a mental institution. In the first story, Richard Todd murders his wife and cuts her body into little pieces -- but that doesn't stop her from seeking revenge. In the second, Peter Cushing orders crooked tailor Barry Morse Read More

Murders in the Rue Morgue

Actors: Christine Kaufmann, Herbert Lom

Synopsis: The fourth film to explore Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale, this clever adaptation takes some rather broad liberties with the source material. A flamboyant Jason Robards plays Cesar Charron, owner of a Grand Guignol theatre in 19th-century Paris, who is launching a stage adaptation of "Murders in Read More

Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Actors: Helmut Berger, Richard Todd, Herbert Lom, Marie Liljedahl, Margaret Lee

Synopsis: The classic story of evil by Oscar Wilde is a plodding, campy, trashy production that gives the viewer moments of unintentional laughter. Dorian Gray (Helmut Berger) is the vain young Englishman who sells his soul to the devil to remain eternally youthful in appearance. His portrait is being Read More

99 Women

Actors: Maria Schell, Mercedes McCambridge, Luciana Paluzzi, Herbert Lom, Maria Rohm

Synopsis: Jesus Franco's campy women's prison film, though both stereotypical and rare to find in its original version, is worthwhile for genre devotees primarily due to an outstanding cast. Mercedes McCambridge is unintentionally hilarious as sadistic lesbian warden Thelma Diaz, spitting tacky dialogue Read More

Mister Jerico

Actors: Marty Allen, Herbert Lom, Patrick Macnee

Synopsis: Made for TV, Mister Jerico stars Patrick Macnee as smooth con artist Dudley Jerico. Marty Allen, the brillo-haired member of the Allen and Rossi comedy team, is good for a few laughs as Jerico's sidekick. The pair are in Malta to pull off a spectacular scam. Millionaire Herbert Lom is covetous of Read More

Journey to the Far Side of the Sun

Actors: Roy Thinnes, Patrick Wymark, Ian Hendry, Lynn Loring, Loni von Friedl

Synopsis: A previously unknown planet is discovered within our solar system, orbiting on the far side of the sun exactly opposite the position of the Earth, and at precisely the same speed. The European space agency Eurosec, headed by Jason Webb (Patrick Wymark), whose solar probe made the discovery 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

Mark of the Devil

Actors: Herbert Lom, Olivera Vuco, Udo Kier, Reggie Nalder, Inge Schoener

Synopsis: Released as Mark of the Devil to U.S. theaters (accompanied by complimentary barf-bags for squeamish patrons with urpy tendencies), this gory torture-fest was produced in Germany under the title of Hexen bis aufs Blut Gequält (Witches Tortured Till They Bleed). The story is comprised of equal Read More

Assignment to Kill

Actors: Patrick O'Neal, Joan Hackett, John Gielgud, Herbert Lom, Eric Portman

Synopsis: Insurance investigator Richard Cutting (Patrick O'Neal) is summoned to look into the sinking of some ships owned by wealthy shipping-magnate Curt Valayan (John Gielgud). Traveling to Switzerland, he interviews the owner and finds that his henchmen Matt (Herbert Lom) and the Big Man (Leon Greene) 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

Villa Rides

Actors: Yul Brynner, Robert Mitchum, Maria Grazia Buccella, Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Robert Viharo

Synopsis: Yul Brynner stars as the legendary Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa in this 1968 epic that was originally written by Sam Peckinpah, who hoped to direct it. But studio bosses instead hired Buzz Kulik and cut the script. Villa is commanded by General Huerta (Herbert Lom) and assisted by the Read More

The Karate Killers

Synopsis: The Man from UNCLE comes to the big screen in this spy thriller comprised of episodes from the popular television series. The story centers around the attempts of evil THRUSH operatives who endeavor to abduct a professor who has developed a formula for turning salt water into gold. ~ Sandra Read More

Gambit

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Herbert Lom, Roger C. Carmel, Arnold Moss

Synopsis: Ideal and reality clash in this humorous tale of the heist that could have been. As scheming career cat burglar Harry Dean (Michael Cane) prepares to steal a priceless statue from the world's richest man, he seeks out the assistance of Eurasian showgirl Suzy Chang Shirley Maclaine). Though the Read More

Die Nibelungen, Teil 2: Kriemhilds Rache

Actors: Karin Dor, Herbert Lom, Maria Marlow, Rolf Henniger, Siegfried Wischnewski

Synopsis: Siegfried's wife Kriemhild (Maria Marlow) seeks vengeance after she learns of her husband' death. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Die Nibelungen, Teil 1: Siegfried

Actors: Uwe Beyer, Rolf Henniger, Siegfried Wischnewski, Maria Marlow

Synopsis: Director Harald Reinl takes this epic sword-and-sorcery fantasy from the 12th-century Teutonic legend and from the 1924 Fritz Lang silent classic. Siegfried (Uwe Beyer) is a heroic warrior who bathes in dragon's blood to become nearly invincible. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

Our Man in Marrakesh

Actors: Tony Randall, Senta Berger, Terry-Thomas, Herbert Lom, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Klaus Kinski

Synopsis: Films like Bang, Bang, You're Dead helped kill the movie career of Tony Randall in the mid-1960s. Randall plays an innocent oil company representative who gets tied up with a gang of crooks in Morocco. The head criminals, played by Herbert Lom and Klaus Kinski, plunge Randall into the middle of a Read More

Onkel Toms Hütte

Actors: John Kitzmiller, O.W. Fischer, Eleonora Rossi-Drago, Gertraud Mittermayr, Mylène Demongeot

Synopsis: Set in Kentucky during the slavery days of the Old South, this adaptation of the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe tells of the workings of the underground railroad, a secretive system formed by whites and blacks which allowed slaves to escape into the northern states. This drama, directed in Read More

Return from the Ashes

Actors: Maximilian Schell, Samantha Eggar, Ingrid Thulin, Herbert Lom, Talitha Pol

Synopsis: Ingrid Thulin plays a Polish inmate of the Dachau concentration camp who is liberated at the end of the war. Presumed dead, Ingrid returns to visit her husband (Maximillian Schell) She finds that his grief was fleeting at best; his new mistress is his "deceased" wife's daughter (Samantha Eggar) Read More

A Shot in the Dark

Actors: Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, Herbert Lom, George Sanders, Graham Stark, Tracy Reed

Synopsis: A murder has been committed at the palatial Parisian residence of Benjamin Ballon (George Sanders). All the evidence points to sexy, wide-eyed housemaid Maria Gambrelli (Elke Sommer). Police inspector Dreyfuss (Herbert Lom) is prepared to make an arrest -- and then the gloriously, monumentally Read More

The Horse Without a Head

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Paris, Disney's Horse Without a Head stars Jean-Pierre Aumont as police-inspector Sinet. The inspector's well-ordered existence is turned upside down by a group of youngsters who insist upon racing their headless toy horse up and down the streets of Paris. Villainous Herbert Lom Read More

The Phantom of the Opera

Actors: Herbert Lom, Heather Sears, Thorley Walters, Michael Gough, Edward de Souza

Synopsis: This Gothic melodrama from Hammer Studios is in color, but the plot is basically the same as the two previous efforts. Instead of Paris, the action takes place at the Royal Opera House in London. The Phantom (Herbert Lom) is a facially disfigured musician/composer who had his opera stolen by a Read More

Der Schatz im Silbersee

Actors: Pierre Brice, Götz George, Lex Barker, Herbert Lom, Karin Dor, Eddie Arent

Synopsis: Although filmed by a joint German-Yugoslav crew, this European western is set in the Southern United States and involves an oddly-named hero, Old Shatterhand (Lex Barker of Tarzan fame). O.S. has a sidekick, Winnetou, an Apache chief played by a rather understated Pierre Brice. The fuel behind the Read More

Tiara Tahiti

Actors: James Mason, John Mills, Claude Dauphin, Herbert Lom, Rosenda Monteros

Synopsis: In his first effort at directing a feature-length film, William (Ted) Kotcheff, best-known for movies like The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, does an excellent job in making this drama effective. He is helped in no small part by James Mason as Brett Aimsley, a sophisticated, at-ease former Read More

El Cid

Actors: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Gary Raymond, Ralph Truman, John Fraser

Synopsis: When French playwright Pierre Corneille wrote El Cid, a fanciful version of the life of 11th-century Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, aka "El Cid", an attempt was made to honor the "classic unities" and to compress the whole story into a single day! Be assured that the 1961 film version of El Read More

The Frightened City

Actors: Herbert Lom, John Gregson, Sean Connery, Alfred Marks, Yvonne Romain

Synopsis: Sean Connery plays one of his early roughneck types in the British gangster picture Frightened City. The story takes place in a rundown section of London, where the citizens are held in the grip of extortionists. After several months of gang warfare, the six major "protection" rings agree to bury Read More

Mysterious Island

Actors: Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill, Herbert Lom

Synopsis: Filmed at least nine times over the last nine decades, Jules Verne's Mysterious Island received its most popular picturization in the hands of producer Charles Schneer, director Cy Endfield and special-effects maestro Ray Harryhausen. During the Civil War, several P.O.W.s led by Gary Merrill Read More

I Like Money

Actors: Peter Sellers, Nadia Gray, Herbert Lom, Leo McKern, Martita Hunt

Synopsis: Mr. Topaze was based on a play by Marcel Pagnol, previously filmed twice before with John Barrymore and Fernandel. Peter Sellers stars as a French college professor, known far and wide for his integrity. He refuses to improve a grade on the paper of one student, whose influential father sees to it Read More

Spartacus

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov

Synopsis: Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) is a rebellious slave purchased by Lentulus Batiatus (Peter Ustinov), owner of a school for gladiators. For the entertainment of corrupt Roman senator Marcus Licinius Crassus (Laurence Olivier), Batiatus' gladiators are to stage a fight to the death. On the night before Read More

I Aim at the Stars

Actors: Curd Jürgens, Victoria Shaw, Herbert Lom, Gia Scala, James Daly

Synopsis: The career of rocket scientist Wernher von Braun (Curt Jurgens) is the focus of this film. Supposedly bullied by the Nazis into working for the Third Reich, the end of the war leaves the rocket man with a decision to take his talents to either Russia or the United States. He chooses the U. S., but Read More

The Third Man on the Mountain

Actors: Michael Rennie, Janet Munro, James Donald, Herbert Lom

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Switzerland, Walt Disney's Third Man on the Mountain was based on Banner in the Sky, a book by James Ramsey Ullman. James MacArthur plays a Swiss youth who vows to be the first to scale a formidable Matterhorn-like mountain called the Citadel. The fact that MacArthur's father Read More

Disneyland: Perilous Assignment

Actors: Gaston Rebufatt, Michael Rennie, James MacArthur, Janet Munro, James Donald

Synopsis: Promoted as an in-depth study of the art of mountain climbing, this episode of Walt Disney Presents is actually an extended advertisement for the upcoming Disney theatrical feature Third Man on the Mountain. Although the stars of that film (including James MacArthur and Michael Rennie), the real Read More

Northwest Frontier

Actors: Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom, I.S. Johar

Synopsis: Northwest Frontier was the original British title for Flame Over India. When the Moslems attack a British fortress in colonial India, it is imperative that the local Maharaja's son be taken to safety. The man for the job is commander Kenneth More, who uses a rusty old train for that purpose. Among Read More

The Big Fisherman

Actors: Howard Keel, Susan Kohner, John Saxon, Martha Hyer, Herbert Lom

Synopsis: The lush romanticism of director Frank Borzage (Seventh Heaven, Street Angel) is subsumed by the plodding reverence of producer Rowland V. Lee's screenplay (co-written with Howard Estabrook), based on the best-selling novel by Lloyd C. Douglas. Howard Keel stars as a stalwart Simon-Peter, the Read More

I Accuse!

Actors: José Ferrer, Anton Walbrook, Viveca Lindfors, Leo Genn, Emlyn Williams

Synopsis: The still-controversial L'Affair Dreyfuss of the late 19th century is the focal point of I Accuse! Jose Ferrer (who also directed) stars as French Army captain Alfred Dreyfus, who is chosen as the fall guy for a major military scandal for no other discernable reason than his Jewishness. Wrongly Read More

Intent to Kill

Actors: Richard Todd, Betsy Drake, Herbert Lom, Warren Stevens

Synopsis: British melodrama maven Jimmy Sangster adapted his screenplay for Intent to Kill from a novel by Michael Bryan. Richard Todd plays a Montreal doctor who is in love with his pretty American assistant Betsy Drake. Todd is saddled with a viper-tongued wife (Catherine Boyle), who wants him to leave Read More

The Roots of Heaven

Actors: Errol Flynn, Juliette Greco, Trevor Howard, Eddie Albert, Orson Welles

Synopsis: Romain Gary's best-selling novel The Roots of Heaven was adapted to film in Cinemascope and DeLuxe Color by producer Darryl F. Zanuck. Though billed third, Trevor Howard plays the central character, an idealist who has gone into Africa in hopes of saving the elephants from extinction. At first Read More

No Trees in the Street

Actors: Sylvia Syms, Herbert Lom, Ronald Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joan Miller

Synopsis: In direct contrast to his later lush-budgeted international epics, director J. Lee Thompson turns his lenses towards the London slums in the sincere but saccharine No Trees in the Street. Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn't Read More

Chase a Crooked Shadow

Actors: Richard Todd, Anne Baxter, Herbert Lom, Alexander Knox, Faith Brook

Synopsis: Why has total stranger Richard Todd shown up at the villa of wealthy Anne Baxter? Why does he claim to be her long-lost brother? Is Todd planning to finagle Baxter out of her inheritance? Is someone going to end up seriously dead? The answers to these questions can be found in Chase a Crooked Read More

Room 43

Actors: Eddie Constantine, Diana Dors, Odile Versois, Herbert Lom, Brenda de Banzie

Synopsis: Before Eddie Constantine became a French pop icon as the slapdash "Lemmy Caution," he played Johnny, a straightforward London taxi driver. When his new taxi is smashed and he needs a big loan, he agrees to a five-minute marriage to Malou, a naive French girl, so she can become a British citizen. Read More

Fire Down Below

Actors: Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon, Herbert Lom, Bernard Lee, Bonar Colleano

Synopsis: Jack Lemmon and Robert Mitchum star as Tony and Felix, co-owners of a tramp-steamer service in the West Indies. Threatening their friendship is itinerant trollop Irena (Rita Hayworth). Tony seethes with jealousy as Irena gravitates towards Felix, leading to a heated confrontation. Felix retaliates Read More

Hell Drivers

Actors: Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan, William Hartnell, Jill Ireland

Synopsis: In this efficient British crime drama, Tom Yately (Stanley Baker) is an ex-con looking for honest work. He thinks he's found it when he takes a job as a truck driver, but he soon discovers that the trucking firm he's signed on with is not playing by the rules. Red (Patrick McGoohan), the company's Read More

Action of the Tiger

Actors: Van Johnson, Martine Carol, Herbert Lom, Jose Nieto, Sean Connery

Synopsis: In one of her few English-speaking appearances, French leading lady Martine Carol plays Tracy, the daughter of a political prisoner. Tracy hires soldier-of-fortune Carson (Van Johnson) to smuggle her into Albania by way of Greece. Once behind the Iron Curtain, Tracy and Carson enlist the aid of a Read More

Star of India

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Herbert Lom, Yvonne Sanson, John Slater

Synopsis: The roguish smile of Cornel Wilde and the impressive cleavage of Jean Wallace (Mrs. Cornel Wilde) are the principal attractions of the costume swashbuckler Star of India. Wilde plays a 17th-century French nobleman who embarks upon a search for a valuable emerald which has been stolen from a Dutch Read More

War and Peace

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Vittorio Gassman, Anita Ekberg

Synopsis: War and Peace is a commendable attempt to boil down Tolstoy's long, difficult novel into 208 minutes' screen time. In recreating the the social and personal upheavals attending Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia, $6 million was shelled out by coproducers Carlo Ponti, Dino de Laurentiis and Read More

The Ladykillers

Actors: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Katie Johnson, Danny Green

Synopsis: Music professor Alec Guinness rents a London flat from sweet old lady Katie Johnson. He tells her that, from time to time, several other musicians will visit in order to rehearse. In truth, Guinness can't play a note, nor can his visitors: he's a criminal mastermind, holding court over a gang of Read More

Twist of Fate

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Jacques Bergerac, Margaret Rawlings

Synopsis: Ginger Rogers and her then-husband Jacques Bergerac costar in this British melodrama, released in the U.K. as The Beautiful Stranger. Impoverished showgirl "Johnny" Victor (Ginger Rogers) moves into the villa owned by her British millionaire sweetheart Louis Galt (Stanley Baker), who has promised Read More

The Love Lottery

Actors: David Niven, Peggy Cummins, Anne Vernon, Herbert Lom, Charles Victor

Synopsis: David Niven returns to his native England to star in the frothy comedy The Love Lottery. Niven plays a Hollywood movie star who is the "prize" in a lottery dreamed up by his press agent. The lucky lady who "wins" Niven will be able to spend a week in his company. Sensing the silliness of the whole Read More

Shoot First

Actors: Joel McCrea, Evelyn Keyes, Herbert Lom, Roland Culver, Marius Goring

Synopsis: Scripted by Eric Ambler from a novel by Geoffrey Household, the British Rough Shoot top-bills Hollywood stars Joel McCrea and Evelyn Keyes. McCrea plays Taine, an American colonel stationed in England. When he spots what appears to be a prowler, Taine tries to scare the fellow away with a round of Read More

The Paris Express

Actors: Claude Rains, Märta Torén, Michael Nightingale, Marius Goring, Anouk Aimée, Herbert Lom, Gibb McLaughlin

Synopsis: A Georges Simenon novel was the source for the Anglo-American The Man Who Watched Trains Go By. Claude Rains stars as Kees Popinga, chief clerk for a Dutch trading company. Scrupulously honest, Popinga goes off the deep end when he discovers that his employer has been cooking the books to support Read More

Project M7

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, James Donald, Robert Beatty, Herbert Lom, Muriel Pavlow

Synopsis: Project M7 is the American title for the British The Net. Based on a novel by John Pudney, the film is set in an aviation research station. At the moment, the researchers are working on a revolutionary new aircraft, and competition to be first with the results is fierce. There's little love lost Read More

School for Brides

Actors: Herbert Lom, Hugh McDermott, Brenda Bruce, Humphrey Lestocq, Ingeborg Wells

Synopsis: Herbert Lom deservedly receives star billing in the British farce School for Brides. Lom plays Ford, the crafty butler of businessman Dick Lawson (Hugh McDermott). When Lawson makes a trip to Paris, Ford pulls strings to place both his master and his master's wife (Brenda Bruce) in compromising Read More

Whispering Smith vs. Scotland Yard

Actors: Richard Carlson, Greta Gynt, Herbert Lom, Rona Anderson, Alan Wheatley

Synopsis: Released in Britain as Whispering Smith Hits London, this economically produced whodunit stars Richard Carlson as famed pulp-novel amateur sleuth Whispering Smith. While vacationing in London, Smith becomes intrigued by a suicide case. He suspects that there's more to this than meets the eye, and Read More

Mr. Denning Drives North

Actors: John Mills, Phyllis Calvert, Eileen Moore, Sam Wanamaker, Herbert Lom

Synopsis: Mr. Denning (John Mills) is bedeviled by a blackmailer with whom his daughter Liz (Eileen Moore) has fallen in love. In a sudden fit of rage, Denning murders the scoundrel. Panicking, he drives northward with the corpse in the back seat, dumps the body in a lonely rural area, and carefully Read More

Hell Is Sold Out

Synopsis: In this farce, an enigmatic writer begins using the pen-name Lom, a popular writer believed dead. The dead writer "returns" to peruse his newest book, which he didn't write. He soon meets the woman who is using his name and after several engaging misdirections, the two fall in love and marry. Read More

The Black Rose

Actors: Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins, Michael Rennie

Synopsis: Partly conceived as a follow-up to Prince of Foxes, 20th Century-Fox's The Black Rose, reunites the earlier film's two stars, Tyrone Power and Orson Welles. Filmed on location in England and Morocco, the story concerns 13th-century Saxon nobleman Walter of Gurnie (Tyrone Power), who, after Read More

The Golden Salamander

Actors: Trevor Howard, Herbert Lom, Miles Malleson, Walter Rilia

Synopsis: In this adventure, an archaeologist is working at a Tunisian dig and having a passionate affair with a local girl when he finds himself entangled with a murderous band of arms smugglers. The story is based on one of Victor Canning's novels. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Night and the City

Actors: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe, Francis L. Sullivan

Synopsis: Jules Dassin's Night and the City opens with cheap grifter Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) running for his life through the streets of London. Harry wants to be big-time, and he does not care how he raises cash for his schemes. Like a junkie, he uses and steals from his girlfriend Mary (Gene Tierney Read More

Cage of Gold

Actors: Jean Simmons, David Farrar, James Donald, Maria Mauban, Madeleine Le Beau

Synopsis: Cage of Gold was a rare non-comic effort from Britain's Ealing Studios. Jean Simmons stars as Judith, who awakens the morning after her wedding to discover that her new husband has deserted her. Later on, she is told that her husband is dead. After a period of mourning, Judith remarries--only to Read More

Snowbound

Actors: Robert Newton, Dennis Price, Herbert Lom, Marcel Dalio, Stanley Holloway

Synopsis: A frequent visitor to the Late Late Show, the Anglo-American Snowbound is set in the frozen Alps. Robert Newton and Dennis Price head an expedition in search of a fortune of gold, stashed away by the Nazis in the last days of the war. Snowed into an old cabin, the men quickly get on one another's Read More

The Great Manhunt

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Glynis Johns, Olga Lowe, Jack Hawkins

Synopsis: It isn't surprising that The Great Manhunt invokes fond memories of Alfred Hitchcock; the film was scripted by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, the two former Hitchcock collaborators responsible for the screenplay of The Master's The Lady Vanishes (38). Gilliat also directed this fast-paced Read More

The Brass Monkey

Synopsis: Radio personality Levis manages to stop a Buddhist art connoisseur from collecting a rare artifact in this comic thriller. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Portrait from Life

Actors: Mai Zetterling, Guy Rolfe, Patrick Holt, Herbert Lom, Robert Beatty

Synopsis: Portrait from Life is an over-orchestrated "guilty pleasure" from the glory days of British romance pictures. A German professor sees a portrait in an art gallery which looks exactly like his daughter, who is assumed to have died in the war. The girl (Mai Zetterling) has been living as an amnesiac Read More

Good Time Girl

Actors: Jean Kent, Dennis Price, Herbert Lom, Bonar Colleano, Peter Glenville, Flora Robson, Griffith Jones

Synopsis: Good Time Girl, directed by David MacDonald and based on a story by Arthur La Bern (It Always Rains On Sunday) starts off unpromisingly, as juvenile justice official Flora Robson tries to keep a would-be female felon on the straight-and-narrow, telling the cautionary tale of Gwen Rawlings (Jean Read More

Dual Alibi

Actors: Terence de Marney, Phyllis Dixey, Ronald Frankau, Abraham Sofaer

Synopsis: Herbert Lom essays a dual role as a team of trapeze artists. When a circus colleague finds himself in possession of a winning lottery ticket, the twins conspire to kill the man and claim the fortune for themselves. One twin makes certain to establish an alibi for the other, so that no one will Read More

Night Boat to Dublin

Actors: Robert Newton, Raymond Lovell, Guy Middleton, Herbert Lom

Synopsis: If nothing else, the British melodrama Night Boat to Dublin had topicality going for it. As Captain David Grant, Robert Newton heads the cast of this spy-hunt caper. The plot concerns the efforts to rescue a Swedish scientist from the clutches of Nazi ringleader Keitel (Herbert Lom) and his Read More

Appointment with Crime

Actors: William Hartnell, Raymond Lovell, Robert Beatty, Herbert Lom, Joyce Howard

Synopsis: Leo Martin (William Hartnell) is a low-level member of a smash-and-grab gang run by shady dance-club owner Loman (Raymond Lovell), who is cajoled into a risky job on a major jewelry store. When the robbery goes wrong, and Martin is caught (and his wrists broken), the hood keeps silent and does his Read More

The Seventh Veil

Actors: James Mason, Ann Todd, Herbert Lom, Albert Lieven, Hugh McDermott

Synopsis: Ann Todd stars as an amnesiac mental patient, Francesca Cunningham, who hopes that psychiatrist Dr. Larsen (Herbert Lom) will help her lift the veils of her memory. In a series of flashbacks counterpointed by a lush piano concerto background score, Francesca discovers that she has been a victim of Read More

Hotel Reserve

Actors: James Mason, Lucie Mannheim, Raymond Lovell, Julien Mitchell

Synopsis: Based on the Eric Ambler novel entitled "Epitaph for a Spy," this is the story of a medical student on the Riviera during the Summer before WWII begins. A refugee from Austria, he has been photographing wildlife. When the film he develops contains secret installations, he must prove that he is not Read More

The Dark Tower

Actors: Ben Lyon, Anne Crawford, David Farrar, Herbert Lom, Frederick Burtwell

Synopsis: Beneath the gay billows of the big-top seethes a veritable stewpot of illicit romance, false friends, rivalry and murder in this crime drama that contains the feature film debut of distinguished character actor Herbert Lom who plays a recently hired hypnotist who falls in love with a female Read More

At Dawn We Die

Actors: John Clements, Godfrey Tearle, Hugh Sinclair, Greta Gynt, Judy Kelly

Synopsis: Tomorrow we Live is the more upbeat American title of the British war drama At Dawn we Die. When his village is overtaken by Nazis, Frenchman Jean Baptiste (John Clements) tries to go to England. Armed with secret information about a German submarine base, Jean hopes to avenge his countrymen. Read More

The Young Mr. Pitt

Actors: Robert Donat, Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert, John Mills, Raymond Lovell, Max Adrian

Synopsis: Released worldwide by 20th Century Fox, Carol Reed's The Young Mr. Pitt is a static but sincere filmed biography of 19th century British prime minister William Pitt Jr., here played by Robert Donat. Appointed to his office at the tender age of 24, Mr. Pitt spends most of his time in Parliament Read More

Secret Mission

Actors: Hugh Williams, Carla Lehmann, James Mason, Roland Culver, Michael Wilding, Sr.

Synopsis: In this WW II actioner, two British Intelligence agents and a French agent follow their leader into Nazi-occupied France to see how strong the invaders really are; unfortunately, the only way to get that information is to break into the German headquarters. They do so by pretending to be champagne Read More

Mein Kampf - My Crimes

Synopsis: This historical documentary makes use of both archive footage and dramatic re-enactments to show the rise to power of Adolf Hitler. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Inquest

Synopsis: In this courtroom drama, a remake of a 1931 film, a woman is suspected of killing her husband after a revolver is found in her attic. A coroner is determined to prove that she did it, but thanks to the assistance of a quick-witted lawyer she is eventually found innocent. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More