Oliver ReedFilmography

Jeremiah

Actors: Patrick Dempsey

Synopsis: The eighth in a series of movies made-for-TV which recreate stories from the bible, this drama stars Patrick Dempsey as Jeremiah, a prophet who heard the call to preach against the moral and ethical corruption he saw occurring all around him in ancient Jerusalem. While Jerusalem in time fell to Read More

Marco Polo

Actors: Don Diamont, Oliver Reed, Jack Palance

Synopsis: In this globe-trotting adventure, Marco Polo (Don Diamont) plays the famous 13th Century explorer who sets out from Italy to find his missing father, and along the way finds danger, excitement, and amazing discoveries at every turn. The supporting cast includes Oliver Reed, Jack Palance, and Herbert Lom Read More

Parting Shots

Actors: Chris Rea, Felicity Kendal, John Cleese, Bob Hoskins, Ben Kingsley

Synopsis: Michael Winner directed this British comedy-thriller about the disappointing life of wedding photographer Harry Sterndale (singer-actor Chris Rea). Betrayed by his wife, Harry had his ideas stolen by his best friend Maurice Walpole (John Cleese), was fleeced by shady businessman Gerd Layton (Bob Hoskins Read More

Funny Bones

Actors: Oliver Platt, Lee Evans, Richard Griffiths, Leslie Caron, Jerry Lewis

Synopsis: Tommy Fawkes (Oliver Platt) is a struggling stand-up comedian who has tried for years to get out from under the shadow of his father, George Fawkes (Jerry Lewis), himself a famous humorist. Tommy finally scores a showcase spot at a major resort in Las Vegas, but when opening night rolls around Read More

Return to Lonesome Dove

Actors: Barbara Hershey, Jon Voight

Synopsis: The first of a number of sequels to the highly successful western mini-series Lonesome Dove featured few of the same actors as the original, nor was it based on a novel by Larry McMurtry. In this outing, onetime Texas Ranger Call (Jon Voight, replacing Tommy Lee Jones) heads a group of cowboys Read More

Severed Ties

Actors: Oliver Reed, Elke Sommer, Garrett Morris, Billy Morrissette, Johnny Legend

Synopsis: In this darkly funny horror movie, gore and severed limbs abound. It is the story of a young medical genius doing genetic research into regrowing organs. His work is based upon that of his father, a renowned geneticist who was murdered. Before he can continue, he needs a fresher supply of cadavers Read More

Hired to Kill

Synopsis: This action film stars Brian Thompson as Frank Ryan, a macho soldier of fortune whose latest mission calls for him to pose as a fashion designer in order to help guerrilla leader Rallis (Jose Ferrer) escape prison. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Pit and the Pendulum

Actors: Lance Henriksen, Rona de Ricci, Jonathan Fuller, Jeffrey Combs, Tom Towles

Synopsis: Only loosely based on Edgar Allen Poe's classic short story, this well-rendered and intelligent horror film was filmed on location in a spooky Italian castle and tells the convoluted story of a mad priest who devises exquisitely painful ways of getting his victims to confess to dabbling in Read More

Prisoner of Honor

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Oliver Reed, Peter Firth, Jeremy Kemp, Brian Blessed

Synopsis: Directed by Ken Russell, Prisoner of Honor is a made-for-cable retelling of the 1894 court-martial of French Army officer Alfred Dreyfus. The historical drama stars Richard Dreyfuss (no relation) as the head of counter-intelligence who uncovers several damning pieces of evidence. It turns out that Read More

A Ghost in Monte Carlo

Actors: Christopher Plummer

Synopsis: A Ghost in Monte Carlo is based on one of the millions of romance novels penned by Barbara Cartland. True to the Cartland canon, the story is set long ago (1875) and far away (The Riviera). Sarah Miles is top-billed as a pompadoured former madam, while Oliver Reed dispenses tons of Armor Star as a Read More

Panama Sugar

Actors: Scott Plank, Oliver Reed, Lucrezia Lante Della Rovere, Meme Perlini, Duilio del Prete

Synopsis: In a small remote Caribbean island, where life appears to be one vast party, "the general" (Oliver Reed), a sinister American, hooks up with a corrupt local (Vittorio Amandola) who wants to transform the island into a big-deal tourist's gambling joint. Fortunately for the happy-go-lucky islanders Read More

The Revenger

Synopsis: When a guy who's been sent up the river after being set-up gets released from prison, he returns home to find his wife has been abducted and is being held by a thug wanting big-time ransom money. Enough is enough for this fella, so he's out for some major revenge. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Actors: John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Jonathan Pryce, Uma Thurman, Oliver Reed, Charles McKeown, Sting, Robin Williams, Valentina Cortese

Synopsis: Director Terry Gilliam adroitly applies his Monty Python sensibilities upon the "career" of famed German prevaricator Baron von Munchausen. Played herein by John Neville, the baron is seen quelling a war that he himself started, flying into the stratosphere on the back of a cannonball, ballooning Read More

The Lady and the Highwayman

Actors: Hugh Grant, Oliver Reed, Emma Samms

Synopsis: Adaptation of Barbara Cartland's novel featuring a 17th century adventure romance between an aristocrat and an endangered noblewoman. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The House of Usher

Actors: Donald Pleasence, Oliver Reed, Romy Windsor

Synopsis: Without a doubt the weirdest adaptation of an Edgar Allan Poe tale in recent memory, this lurid production features a raging, leering Oliver Reed as Roderick Usher, who treats his nephew (Rufus Swart) and the man's bride-to-be (Romy Windsor) to some genuine family hospitality by raping her and 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

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

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

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

Gor

Actors: Urbano Barberini, Rebecca Ferratti, Paul L. Smith, Oliver Reed

Synopsis: In this sword and sorcery film, a wimpy college professor Tarl Cabot (Urbano Barberini) is mysteriously thrown into the world of Gor, where he must battle the evil Sarm (Oliver Reed) to save the innocent people of Gor. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Misfit Brigade

Actors: David Carradine, D.W. Moffett, Keith Szarabajka, Bruce Davison, Jay O. Sanders

Synopsis: A motley group of routine German prisoners (including David Patrick Kelly, Jay Sanders and Bruce Davison) are enlisted by a Nazi colonel (David Carradine). The government, desperate for fighting men, promises them freedom if they can destroy a targeted train on the Russian front. ~ John Bush, All Read More

Blind Justice

Actors: Christopher Cazenove, Edita Brychta, Patrick Shai

Synopsis: When an African country declares its independence, the results vary from thrilling to catastrophic, depending on what side of revolution one fought with. For Joseph Mahoney (Christopher Cazenove), the last colonial commissioner of the Kariba gorge, it's a combination of both. Suddenly he is faced Read More

Rage to Kill

Actors: James Ryan, Oliver Reed, Cameron Mitchell, Maxine John, Henry Cele

Synopsis: This wartime action/adventure movie is unusual in having Reagan's invasion of the Caribbean country of Grenada as its focal point. South African action star James Ryan plays Blaine Striker, a resourceful race-car driver who has come to the island nation to visit his medical student brother Ryan (Liam Cundill Read More

Captive Rage

Actors: Oliver Reed, Robert Vaughn, Claudia Udy, Lisa Rinna, Maureen Kedes

Synopsis: Edward Delacorte (Robert Vaughn) is the director of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency who incurs the wrath of the Paradorian dictator General Belmondo (Oliver Reed) when the general's drug-dealing son is arrested. The irate dictator orders a plane carrying students from Loyola Marymount to be Read More

Castaway

Actors: Oliver Reed, Amanda Donohoe, Georgina Hale, Frances Barber

Synopsis: Nicolas Roeg directed this dreamy erotic adventure film based on two Australian non-fiction best-sellers -- Lucy Irvine's Castaway and Gerald Kingsland's The Islander. Both best-sellers concern former clerk and waitress Lucy Irvine's response to an advertisement placed by writer Gerald Kingsland Read More

Dragonard

Actors: Oliver Reed, Eartha Kitt, Annabel Schofield, Claudia Udy, Patrick Warburton

Synopsis: A group of slaves rise up against their oppressive owners in this costume drama starring Eartha Kitt and Oliver Reed. Richard Abdee (Patrick Warburton) is exiled from Britain for treason and falls in love with Honore (Annabelle Schofield), the sister of the sadistic plantation owner Pierre Read More

Captive

Actors: Irina Brook, Oliver Reed, Corinne Dacla, Xavier DeLuc, Hiro Arai

Synopsis: Paul Mayersberg wrote and directed this sleek thriller about a bored rich girl, abducted by kidnappers, who begins to love her abductors. Beautiful Rowena Le Vay (Irina Brook) is the pampered daughter of a rich international tycoon, Gregory Le Vay (Oliver Reed), who, heartbroken at the death of Read More

Christopher Columbus

Actors: Gabriel Byrne, Faye Dunaway, Max von Sydow

Synopsis: Leading man Gabriel Byrne adds a "Harlequin Romance" dash to the two-part, six-hour TV movie Christopher Columbus. Seeking out a swifter route to the lucrative Indies, Genoa-born Columbus begs King John of Portugal (Max Von Sydow) to finance a westbound expedition. Failing this, he turns to Read More

Ransom

Synopsis: A killer dresses as an Indian and, with bow and arrow, starts de-populating the citizenry of an Arizona town in an outright ransom attempt (he's demanding $4 million). The town rich guy finds a hired gun to eliminate the assassin. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Black Arrow

Actors: Oliver Reed, Fernando Rey, Benedict Taylor, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: Produced for cable TV by The Disney Channel, The Black Arrow is based on the classic Robert Louis Stevenson adventure tale. Stephen Chase plays the title character, a dogooding swashbuckler who tries to avenge his father's murder during the War of the Roses. Though Chase carries the bulk of the Read More

The Sting II

Actors: Jackie Gleason, Mac Davis, Teri Garr, Karl Malden, Oliver Reed

Synopsis: Although penned by the same screenwriter, David S. Ward, this sequel to The Sting (1973) is tarnished by comparisons to its predecessor. Jackie Gleason fills the shoes of Paul Newman as Harry Gondorff and Mac Davis slips into the Robert Redford role of Johnny Hooker, two con men pals whose latest Read More

Two of a Kind

Actors: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Charles Durning, Beatrice Straight, Scatman Crothers

Synopsis: John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John attempt to rekindle the box office sparks of Grease with this screwball fantasy comedy. The tale begins during a golf match in heaven among four angels --Charlie (Charles Durning), Earl (Scatman Crothers), Gonzales (Castulo Guerra), and Ruth (Beatrice Read More

Fanny Hill

Actors: Lisa Raines, Shelley Winters, Oliver Reed

Synopsis: Fanny Hill (Lisa Raines) is a buxom country maiden who arrives in the big city and quickly begins an affair with the scion of a wealthy family in this softcore version of an old British tale. When the clan patriarch dies, Fanny is ready to marry her lover until she discovers he has been unfaithful Read More

Al Mas A La Al Kubra

Actors: Oliver Reed, James Bolam

Synopsis: This film on the 1920s liberation movement in Iraq, though needing work on dialogue and dramatic progression, is still a passable portrayal of the story of Dari Mahmud, one of the martyrs of the Iraqi uprising against British colonial rule. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide Read More

Venom

Actors: Klaus Kinski, Oliver Reed, Nicol Williamson, Sarah Miles, Sterling Hayden, Lance Holcomb

Synopsis: A big black mamba snake that has gotten loose in a townhouse slithers through a kidnapping plot in this film. Based on a novel by Alan Scholefield, Venom features a big name British cast that seems to be slumming in a B-movie project. Dr. Marion Stowe (Sarah Miles) is a toxicologist who has Read More

Spasms

Actors: Peter Fonda, Oliver Reed, Miguel Fernandes

Synopsis: William Fruet directed this odd Canadian horror film based on a novel by Michael Maryk and Brent Monahan. Wealthy Jason Kincaid (Oliver Reed) has a telepathic link to a mysterious snake god called N'Gana Sunbu. A strange cult sets the snake free after it grows to monstrous size, whereupon it Read More

Lion of the Desert

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger, John Gielgud, Irene Papas

Synopsis: Libyan leader Moummar Quaddafi financed this desert epic about a Libyan hero who helped his nation fend off an Italian invasion in 1929. Anthony Quinn stars as Omar Mukhtar, who organizes Libyan forces to hold off the encroaching Italian troops under General Rodolfo Graziana (Oliver Reed), who are Read More

Condorman

Actors: Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Barbara Carrera, James Hampton, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Synopsis: The creator of a comic-book series (Michael Crawford) is recruited by a friend in the CIA (James Hampton) to rescue a beautiful Soviet defector (Barbara Carrera). He agrees, as long as he is permitted to don the persona of his most famous character, Condorman. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype

Actors: Oliver Reed, Sunny Johnson, Maia Danziger, Mel Welles, Virgil Frye

Synopsis: This is a crazy horror-film spoof in which the enthusiastic leads provide laughs just by the strength of their characterizations alone -- and because they are obviously having fun. Oliver Reed is Dr. Heckyl whose lumpy face is so ugly it has kept women away in droves. He works at a podiatrist's Read More

Blue Blood

Synopsis: The untimely demise of an estate owner is planned by his butler who hopes to gain control of his properties. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Brood

Actors: Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle, Cindy Hinds, Henry Beckman

Synopsis: Canadian director David Cronenberg followed his graphic vampire variation Rabid with this multi-layered, speculative horror film which addresses the way the repressed demons of the psyche can force their way to the surface. Psychologist Dr. Raglan (Oliver Reed), director of the controversial Read More

The Big Sleep

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone, Candy Clark, Joan Collins

Synopsis: Robert Mitchum reprises his role as Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe from Farewell, My Lovely, in this misconceived remake of Howard Hawks's classic 1946 film -- transferring the setting from 1940s California to 1970s London. Marlowe is hired by a rich and dying General Sternwood (James Stewart) Read More

The Class of Miss MacMichael

Actors: Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Michael Murphy, Rosalind Cash, John Standing

Synopsis: Miss MacMichael (Glenda Jackson) is a dedicated teacher. She needs to be, because her students are delinquents who are barely one step away from prison. She has a boyfriend, Martin (Michael Murphy) who would love to take her away from the chaos and heartbreak of the classroom by marrying her, but Read More

That's Action!

Synopsis: James R. Silke narrates this 1977 compilation of mayhem in the movies. This Rhino Video release features behind-the-scenes looks at how the stunts are done, and clips from 29 classic films that show heroes riding horses, falling off buildings, blowing up tanks, bare-knuckle fighting, and dodging Read More

Tomorrow Never Comes

Actors: Oliver Reed, Susan George, Raymond Burr, John Ireland, Stephen McHattie

Synopsis: This police melodrama is set in a coastal resort where a young man becomes insanely jealous after learning that his girl has been with another. He takes her hostage in the town hotel and threatens to kill her. Now a hot-tempered police chief and his peace-loving lieutenant must somehow team-up to Read More

Maniac

Actors: Stuart Whitman

Synopsis: A maniacal Vietnam veteran begins killing people in an Arizona town, and then holds the entire city ransom unless a millionaire (Stuart Whitman) delivers with the money. The 1977 film is also known as Ransom. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Prince and the Pauper

Actors: Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Mark Lester, Ernest Borgnine, George C. Scott

Synopsis: A poor commoner and a young prince each find out how the other half lives in this adventure story based on the classic tale by Mark Twain. Tom Canty (Mark Lester) is a young man from a laboring family who bears a striking resemblance to Prince Edward (also played by Lester), the son of King Henry Read More

The Sell Out

Actors: Richard Widmark, Oliver Reed, Gayle Hunnicutt, Sam Wanamaker, Vladek Sheybal

Synopsis: In this action-packed spy drama, a retired CIA agent reluctantly returns to espionage at the request of his treacherous student, who messed up and went to the Soviet side. Now the agent wants out, causing both the US and the USSR to send out their best hit men to get him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday

Actors: Lee Marvin, Oliver Reed, Robert Culp, Elizabeth Ashley, Strother Martin

Synopsis: In this broad comedy-western set in 1908 Colorado, Lee Marvin and Oliver Reed team up as Sam Longwood and Joe Knox, two con-men who once worked as a team. They reunite in order to get revenge upon their third partner, Jack Colby (Robert Culp), who used the trio's ill-gotten gains to become a high Read More

Burnt Offerings

Actors: Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Burgess Meredith, Eileen Heckart, Lee Montgomery, Bette Davis

Synopsis: Dan Curtis, director of TV's Dark Shadows series, directed this eerie haunted-house thriller about a house which draws energy from its inhabitants and selects its own "keeper" from the family of Ben and Marian Rolf (Oliver Reed & Karen Black), who rent the strangely-affordable house one fateful Read More

Royal Flash

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Alan Bates, Florinda Bolkan, Oliver Reed, Britt Ekland

Synopsis: Novelist George MacDonald Fraser penned the script for this swashbuckling, picaresque adventure tale. The story is based on one of the books in his "Harry Flashman" series, loose sequels to "Tom Brown's Schooldays" that followed that story's central bully character through his checkered 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

Lisztomania

Actors: Roger Daltrey, Sara Kestelman, Paul Nicholas, Fiona Lewis, Veronica Quilligan

Synopsis: This audacious, vulgar, freewheeling fantasia on the life of pianist Franz Liszt ranks among director Ken Russell's most outrageous efforts. Roger Daltrey, lead singer for The Who, is awkward yet likeable as the flamboyant piano performer with a bevy of fetching mistresses and groupies, while Paul Nicholas Read More

Tommy

Actors: Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Roger Daltrey, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Jack Nicholson, Robert Powell

Synopsis: Tommy (Roger Daltrey) is a "deaf, dumb and blind kid" who retreats into himself after the death of his father. His mother, Nora (Ann-Margret), and stepfather Frank (Oliver Reed) take him to see a specialist (Jack Nicholson) but Tommy is apparently a hopeless case. That is, until Tommy discovers 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

Mahler

Actors: Elaine Delmar, Claire McLellan, Sarah McLellan, Gary Rich, Michael Southgate, Arnold Yarrow, Robert Powell, Georgina Hale, Richard Morant, Lee Montague, Rosalie Crutchley

Synopsis: Director Ken Russell made a number of biographical films of composers' lives including The Music Lovers, (about Tchaikovsky) and Lisztomania. Russell embellished the other films with certain characteristic flourishes, which include a focus on the composers' sexual obsessions, poetically telling Read More

Revolver

Actors: Oliver Reed, Agostina Belli, Fabio Testi

Synopsis: The luridly titled Italian/French/German thriller Blood in the Streets went into production under the more restrained cognomen The Revolver. Oliver Reed plays a prison official whose wife is kidnapped. The price for her return is the release of incarcerated criminal Fabio Testi. When it becomes Read More

Mordi E Fuggi

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Oliver Reed

Synopsis: In this Italian comedy/thriller, a group of politically motivated bank robbers led by Fabrizio (Oliver Reed) escape into the countryside with industrialist Giulio (Marcello Mastroianni) and a toothsome young woman (Carol Andre) as hostages. Holed up in a rural mansion, they indulge in Read More

Days of Fury

Blue Blood

Synopsis: A scheming servant intends to be the new owner of his employer's mansion, but a recent German staff recruit makes things difficult for him. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

One Russian Summer

Synopsis: Based on M. Lermontov's novel Vadim, this costume drama, set in Russia during the 1700s, chronicles the battle between a vengeful, anarchic peasant and the tyrannical landowner who killed his mother and father. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Triple Echo

Actors: Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Brian Deacon, Anthony May, Gavin Richards

Synopsis: Set in England during WWII, this drama, also known as Soldiers in Skirts, stars Glenda Jackson as Alice, a bitter woman whose husband is captured and held as a Japanese prisoner of war. When a wandering soldier, Barton (Brian Deacon), comes by her farm, she invites him in for tea. They fall in 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

Sitting Target

Actors: Oliver Reed, Jill St. John, Ian McShane, Edward Woodward, Frank Finlay

Synopsis: In between gigs writing two of the first films from director John Boorman and the sequel to The French Connection (1971), writer Alexander Jacobs adapted this bloody, violent drama from a pulp crime novel. Oliver Reed stars as Harry Lomart, a dangerous convict who's been planning a breakout with a Read More

Zero Population Growth

Synopsis: This provocative sci-fi outing is set in an over-populated, horribly polluted 21st century where child-bearing has become illegal. To help ease the tension and stress caused by not procreating, married couples use robot dolls to substitute for children. One couple decides to break the law and have Read More

Age of Pisces

The Hunting Party

Actors: Eugenio Escudero Garcia, Rafael Escudero Garcia, Emilio Rodriques Guiar, Christine Larroude, Stephanie Pieritz, Lilibeth Solison, Bud Strait, Marisa Tovar, Oliver Reed, Candice Bergen, Gene Hackman, Simon Oakland, Mitchell Ryan

Synopsis: This infamously violent British Western stars Gene Hackman as Brandt Ruger, a wealthy rancher who goes away on a hunting trip with a group of friends. While he's gone, a thug named Frank Calder (Oliver Reed) kidnaps Melissa (Candice Bergen), Brandt's wife, under the mistaken impression that she's Read More

The Devils

Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian, Gemma Jones

Synopsis: The Devils was the Ken Russell film version of the controversial play by John Whiting. The story, based on Aldous Huxley's The Devils of Loudun, concerns controversial 17th century French priest Urbain Grandier, whose radical political and religious notions and profligate sex life earn him many Read More

Take a Girl Like You

Actors: Noel Harrison, Oliver Reed, Hayley Mills, Sheila Hancock, John Bird

Synopsis: This 1970 British sex farce stars Hayley Mills as Jenny Bunn, a naïve young schoolteacher from the north of England who comes to swinging London to teach. She moves into a suburb and becomes friends with Anna (Geraldine Sherman). Anna is dating Patrick Standish (Oliver Reed), but when Anna Read More

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun

Actors: Samantha Eggar, Oliver Reed, Stéphane Audran, John McEnery, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: Dany (Samantha Eggar) is the ad agency secretary to Caldwell (Oliver Reed) in this psychological crime drama. She is asked to drive him to the airport and park the car in the lot after working at his home the night before. Getting in the wrong lane, she decides to use the car for a weekend getaway Read More

Hannibal Brooks

Actors: Oliver Reed, Michael J. Pollard, Karin Baal, Wolfgang Preiss, Helmut Lohner

Synopsis: Hannibal Brooks (Oliver Reed) is a British prisoner of war assigned to care for an elephant in a zoo in Munich. Along with an American (Michael J. Pollard) and an Austrian (Helmut Lohner), the trio escapes with the elephant and heads for the Swiss border. They use the elephant to tear down a Read More

The Assassination Bureau

Actors: Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Curd Jürgens, Philippe Noiret

Synopsis: The Assassination Bureau is loosely based on a turn-of-the-century yarn written by Jack London. Nellie Bly-style girl reporter Sonya Winter (Diana Rigg) tries to get the goods on shady businessman Ivan Dragomiloff (Oliver Reed). Ivan is in charge of a wide-reaching organization which, for a price Read More

Women in Love

Actors: Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, Jennie Linden, Eleanor Bron

Synopsis: Women in Love is set in 1920s England, where free-spirited artist Gudrun (Glenda Jackson) and her schoolteacher sister Ursula (Jennie Linden) make the acquaintance of lifelong friends Gerald (Oliver Reed) and Rupert (Alan Bates). The foursome attends a picnic in honor of a pair of newlyweds, who Read More

Oliver!

Actors: Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed, Harry Secombe, Hugh Griffith, Mark Lester, Jack Wild

Synopsis: Inspired by Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist, Lionel Bart's 1961 London and Broadway musical hit glossed over some of Dickens' more graphic passages but managed to retain a strong subtext to what was essentially light entertainment. For its first half-hour or so, Carol Reed's Oscar-winning 1968 Read More

Dante's Inferno

Synopsis: One of director Ken Russell's earliest films, Dante's Inferno is a made-for-TV biopic about the British poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Oliver Reed), who was a founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood during the late 1800s. The style was influenced by romanticism and Renaissance Read More

The Shuttered Room

Actors: Gig Young, Carol Lynley, Oliver Reed, Flora Robson, William Devlin

Synopsis: Another semi-successful attempt to adapt the works of American fantasist H.P. Lovecraft to the screen, this is loosely based on the short story The Shuttered Room (also an alternate release title for the film), a story which is purported to be more the work of "posthumous collaborator" August Read More

The Jokers

Actors: Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Harry Andrews, James Donald, Daniel Massey

Synopsis: Two brothers looking to avoid becoming pawns of the establishment come up with a better way of making a living -- through theft -- in this satiric comedy. David Tremayne (Oliver Reed) is a successful London architect, and his younger brother Michael (Michael Crawford) is weighing his options after Read More

I'll Never Forget What's 'is Name

Actors: Orson Welles, Oliver Reed, Carol White, Harry Andrews, Michael Hordern

Synopsis: The imprisoning aspects of Success are humorously analyzed in this British-made film. Oliver Reed plays a wealthy advertising man who feels he has sold his soul and wishes to return to his happier earlier existence as a poor but swinging Londoner. Reed is goaded on by his boss, Orson Welles, who Read More

The Girl Getters

Actors: Oliver Reed, Jane Merrow, Barbara Ferris, Julia Foster, Ann Lynn, David Hemmings

Synopsis: The System is a "Swinging London" comedy with an unsettling undercurrent of bitterness and cynicism. Oliver Reed plays a girlie-magazine photographer, the self-appointed leader of a group of handsome but unscrupulous bachelors who hang out in a British seaside resort. Their avowed goal is to Read More

The Party's Over

Actors: Oliver Reed, Clifford David, Ann Lynn, Katherine Woodville, Louise Sorel

Synopsis: An American looking for excitement overseas finds more than she can handle in this cautionary drama. Melina (Louise Sorel), a young American woman, disappears while traveling in Great Britain, and her father Ben (Eddie Albert) sends her fiancée Carson (Clifford David) to the U.K. in hopes of Read More

The Trap

Actors: Rita Tushingham, Oliver Reed, Rex Sevenoaks, Barbara Chilcott, Linda Goranson

Synopsis: Every ten years or so, the all-purpose title The Trap is applied to a film about psychological rather than physical entrapment. This 1966 British/Canadian coproduction stars Oliver Reed as a roughhewn fur trapper of the 1890s. He has missed the annual "wife auction" due to inclement weather, and Read More

Always on Sunday

Actors: James Lloyd, Annette Robertson, Bryan Pringle, Jacqueline Cooke, Roland MacLeod

The Brigand of Kandahar

Actors: Ronald Lewis, Oliver Reed, Duncan Lamont, Yvonne Romain, Katherine Woodville

Synopsis: This British adventure is set in mid-19th century India where a half-caste officer is court-martialed for cowardice. After he is drummed out, the embittered officer joins a wandering band of bandits and gets his revenge upon those who framed him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Paranoiac

Actors: Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Liliane Brousse, Alexander Davion, Maurice Denham, Sheila Burrell

Synopsis: A woman must contend with her family's madness as she finds her own sanity in doubt in this thriller from British horror masters Hammer Films. After the death of her parents, Eleanor Ashby (Janette Scott) would seem a safe bet to inherit their estate, but at the funeral, she's convinced that she Read More

The Crimson Blade

Actors: Lionel Jeffries, Oliver Reed, Jack Hedley, June Thorburn, Michael Ripper

Synopsis: Its the Cavaliers vs. the Copperheads in this costume drama set during the 17th-century British Civil War. Our sympathies are supposed to be with Oliver Cromwell's underground troops--and they are, since the arrogant Cromwell isn't around to comprise his followers' heroism. Lionel Jeffries, loyal Read More

Night Creatures

Actors: Peter Cushing, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Allen, Oliver Reed, Michael Ripper

Synopsis: In this engaging costume melodrama of skulduggery on the low seas set back in the 18th-century, the swamps of a small seaside town and the nocturnal activities of the towns' men provide the atmosphere and action. The Royal Crown suspects a bit of smuggling is going on in this locale, and they send Read More

These Are the Damned

Actors: MacDonald Carey, Shirley Ann Field, Viveca Lindfors, Alexander Knox, Oliver Reed

Synopsis: Joseph Losey directed this unusual science fiction effort, which has won a small but fervent cult following. Simon Wells (MacDonald Carey) is an American visiting England, where he meets a woman named Joan (Shirley Ann Field). Simon is immediately attracted to Joan, but there's a considerable 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 Rebel

Actors: Tony Hancock, George Sanders, Paul Massie, Margit Saad, Gregoire Aslan

Synopsis: Zany British comedian Tony Hancock was briefly a major draw in the 1960s, with several popular TV series, sellout personal appearances, and a string of theatrical films to his credit. In The Rebel (released in the US as Call Me Genius), Hancock plays a middle-class businessman who decides to chuck Read More

The Curse of the Werewolf

Actors: Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed, Yvonne Romain, Catherine Feller, Anthony Dawson

Synopsis: After injecting new life into classic movie monsters Dracula and Frankenstein, Hammer Studios apply their Gothic touch to another monster genre with this excellent, stylish piece -- probably the best of the old school (i.e. pre-Rick Baker) man-to-wolf transformation films in the mold of Read More

His and Hers

Actors: Terry-Thomas, Janette Scott, Nicole Maurey

Synopsis: This scattered, slightly anarchic and uneven comedy stars the inimitable Terry-Thomas as Reggie Blake, a writer whose books are created by the adventures he experiences, thanks to the brainstorms of his editor. His latest adventure finds him truly lost in the desert and adopted by a tribe of 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

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

Sword of Sherwood Forest

Actors: Richard Greene, Peter Cushing, Niall MacGinnis, Richard Pasco, Jack Gwillim

Synopsis: Having portrayed Robin Hood on TV for five years, Richard Greene reprises the role in Hammer Films' Sword of Sherwood Forest. This time, Robin does a little undercover work to determine the wicked machinations of the Sheriff of Nottingham (played by Hammer stalwart Peter Cushing). Our Hero and the Read More

The Angry Silence

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Michael Craig, Bernard Lee, Alfred Burke

Synopsis: Richard Attenborough stars in this British drama as Tom Curtis, an ordinary man with a job in a factory. A new employee, Travers (Alfred Burke), begins complaining about conditions at the plant and stirs up disharmony among his fellow workers. Tom thinks that there's something fishy about Travers Read More

The League of Gentlemen

Actors: Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes

Synopsis: An engrossing suspenser with dashes of comedy, League of Gentlemen is about a daring group of highly trained army men, turned bank robbers. When Hyde (Jack Hawkins) is drummed out of the army after years of devoted service, he decides to get back at society in general. One by one, he finds seven Read More

No Love for Johnnie

Actors: Peter Finch, Stanley Holloway, Mary Peach, Donald Pleasence, Billie Whitelaw, Rosalie Crutchley

Synopsis: Peter Finch plays Johnnie Byrne, a British member of parliament. When Johnnie loses out on an important cabinet post, he's hardly surprised; he's been a loser so long that it's par for the course. Treated shabbily by his communistic wife Rosalie Crutchley, Johnnie begins an affair with Read More

The Bulldog Breed

Actors: Norman Wisdom, Ian Hunter, David Lodge, Robert Urquhart, Edward Chapman

Synopsis: The weak story in The Bulldog Breed is an excuse to tie together a long series of funny episodes, slapstick incidents, and absurd situations. What does bring everything into a certain unity is the comic character type created by Norman Wisdom, an inept, likeable loser whose efforts to succeed Read More

The Square Peg

Actors: Norman Wisdom, Honor Blackman, Edward Chapman, Campbell Singer, Hattie Jacques

Synopsis: In this British comedy, set during WWII, a street laborer likes to harass the British soldiers and ends up drafted into becoming part of the British army labor regiment. Unfortunately, a mix-up occurs and he ends up being parachuted behind Nazi lines where he is mistaken for a Nazi officer. Read More

Hello London

Synopsis: Long, long, after her days of filmic glory in the 1930s and 1940s, skating star Sonja Henie made her last movie appearance in the British Hello, London. Henie plays herself, a rich-as-Croesus ice-show celebrity making a tour of Europe. Michael Wilding and Eunice Gayson contrive to keep Sonja in Read More