Jean ClaudioFilmography

Magnum, P.I.: Italian Ice

Synopsis: Robin Masters dispatches Magnum (Tom Selleck) to Sicily to rescue the beauteous Katrina Tremaine (Ann Dusenberry) from the clutches of a nobleman with alleged mob ties. Once his job is done, Magnum returns to Hawaii and his current girlfriend Margo Perrina (Mimi Rogers). Unfortunately, Katrina has Read More

The New Avengers: The Lion and the Unicorn

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Jean Claudio, Maurice Marsac

Synopsis: Unicorn (Jean Claudio), a top enemy agent, is accidentally killed by his own comrades during a shootout. To fool the Other Side, the New Avengers arrange an elaborate hoax to make it appear as though Unicorn is still alive. Unfortunately, the villains have captured a foreign Prince in hopes of Read More

La Peau de torpedo

Actors: Stéphane Audran, Lilli Palmer, Klaus Kinski, Michel Constantin, Jean Claudio

Synopsis: A network of spies affects the lives of people in and out of the organization in this routine espionage drama. Dominique (Stephane Audran) is the neglected wife of a spy who tracks him down at a Paris antique shop. Finding him with a female spy, the enraged wife shoots both of them. Dominique Read More

Sabra

Actors: Akim Tamiroff, Assaf Dayan, Jean Claudio, Gila Almagor

Synopsis: This French/Italian coproduction was originally released as Sabra. In his final film, veteran barnstormer Akim Tamiroff apparently sees no reason to resort to subtlety. Tamiroff plays an Arab police inspector, in charge of a secretive Israeli spy (Assaf Dayan). In order to extract the desired Read More

Le Champignon

Actors: Mylène Demongeot, Jean-Claude Bouillon, Alida Valli, Philippe Monnet, Catherine Allegret

Synopsis: A young physician becomes lonely when his workaholic wife ignores him to concentrate on her professional career. He is befriended by an older female artist who is fond of hallucinogenic mushrooms. When his wife is late for their anniversary celebration, he drinks and takes mushrooms with the Read More

Le Fou

Actors: François Simon, Arnold Walter, Pierre Walker

Synopsis: George (Francois Simon) takes care of his invalid wife and holds down a full-time job. When an investment firm wipes out his life savings, the middle-aged George is soon forced into retirement for health reasons. George takes up a life of crime when the company turns his back on him and the money Read More

The Triple Cross

Actors: Christopher Plummer, Yul Brynner, Romy Schneider, Claudine Auger, Trevor Howard

Synopsis: Adapted from his autobiography The Eddie Chapman Story, this is the story of a British safecracker who was in prison when WWII broke out. When the Germans occupied the area, he offers to work for them if they will set him free and they do so, sending him as a spy to England. Once there, however Read More

Zeugin Aus Der Hoelle

Actors: Irene Papas, Heinz Drache, Daniel Gélin, Werner Peters, Jean Claudio

Synopsis: In this drama, a Yugoslavian journalist is hired by a German policeman to find the last surviving ex-inmate of a concentration camp. The cops want her because they believe she witnessed atrocities at the hands of the camp physician. The journalist finds her and the cops and prosecutors try to Read More

L'Espion Est A L'Affut

Actors: Jean Claudio

Contest Girl

Actors: Ian Hendry, Janette Scott, Ronald Fraser, Edmund Purdom, Jean Claudio

Synopsis: The Beauty Jungle can hardly be considered an expose of the beauty-contest business, since most of what happens in the film is what the average viewer has suspected all along. The lovely and graceful British leading lady Janette Scott stars as an ambitious typist who enters the "Miss Globe" Read More

Heat of Midnight

Synopsis: In this crime-drama, a tough-as-nails detective saves the life of a fellow who is marked for death after allegedly robbing the Mafia. Afterward, the gumshoe horns in on the lesbian love affair between his client's ex-wife and her beautiful roommate. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Darling

Actors: Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey, Roland Curram, José-Luis de Villalonga

Synopsis: Julie Christie won an Oscar for her portrayal of a bored, amoral fashion model in this cynical melodrama from director John Schlesinger. Following the break-up of a teenage marriage, Diana Scott (Christie) drifts into the world of modeling and acting, where she meets a television news reporter Read More

Espions A L'Affut

Actors: Robert Lombard, Jean Claudio

Il Magnifico Cornuto

Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Ugo Tognazzi, Bernard Blier, Philippe Nicaud, Michéle Girardon, Salvo Randone

Synopsis: This uninhibited Italian comedy was originally titled Il Magnifico Cornuto. Ugo Tognazzi plays a philandering businessman, inordinately proud of his hyperactive libido. Claudia Cardinale is his sexy wife, which makes one wonder why Tognazzi would ever want to stray. Be that as it may, Cardinale Read More

Il Ultimo Gladiatore

Actors: Marilù Tolo, Richard Harrison, Lydia Alfonsi, Lisa Gastoni, Jean Claudio, Philippe Hersent

Synopsis: A slave unites the people of Rome against their emperor, Messalina. The Italian film was dubbed into English. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Charge of the Black Lancers

Actors: Mel Ferrer, Yvonne Furneaux, Leticia Roman, Jean Claudio

Synopsis: Mel Ferrer buckles his swash for the Italian actioner Charge of the Black Lancers. Cast as a sword-wielding patriot, Ferrer challenges his enemies individually and collectively at every opportunity. Things become sticky when he is forced to contend with a traitorous sibling. Leading lady Yvonne Furneaux Read More

Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe

Actors: Paul Meurisse, Catherine Rouvel, Jean-Pierre Granval, Fernand Sardou

Synopsis: Jean Renoir never made any secret that Picnic on the Grass (Le Dejeuner sur L'Herbe) was inspired by the impressionist paintings of his father Auguste Renoir, and also of Edouard Monet. The near-surrealistic plotline concerns priggish US presidential candidate Paul Meurisse, who carries on a Read More

Dangerous Exile

Actors: Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Richard O'Sullivan, Martita Hunt

Synopsis: What if the Dauphin of France managed to escape the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution? That's the premise of the opulent British swashbuckler Dangerous Exile. Louis Jourdan stars as the Duc de Beauvais, who manages, at great personal sacrifice, to smuggle the son (Richard O'Sullivan) of Read More

Elena and Her Men

Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Jean Marais, Mel Ferrer, Pierre Bertin, Jean Richard, Magali Noël, Elina Labourdette

Synopsis: In the 1950s, French films were considered the ne plus ultra in naughtiness by certain impressionable filmgoers. It was to these movie fans that the American distributor of Jean Renoir's Elena et les Hommes (Elena and the Men) catered when it provocatively retitled the picture Paris Does 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

Les Disparus de Saint-Agil

Actors: Erich Von Stroheim, Armand Bernard, Robert Le Vigan, Michel Simon

Synopsis: Les Disparus de Saint-Agil (Missing from St. Agil) would be worth watching if only for the chop-licking performance by Erich von Stroheim. The story takes place at a typical French boys' school, where director Aime Clairond pursues the not-so-typical pastime of turning out counterfeit bank notes. Read More