The original British version of Escape to Athena ran 125 minutes; American prints were judiciously cut to 101 minutes,...
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1979
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The first horror film from notorious British director Pete Walker, this is a brutal but rather pedestrian pulp thriller about...
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1970
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As the Ottoman Empire collapses throughout Turkey in 1922, a number of adventurers from all over the world sign on to protect...
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1970
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92 minutes is way too much time for the familiar plot machinations of Touch of the Other. Kenneth Cope stars as a detective...
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1970
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1970
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In this British comedy, two fellows go on vacation to the Riviera and end up entangled with a ring of jewel thieves and in...
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Le Pirate
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1968
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In Guy Green's adaptation of John Fowles's acclaimed second novel, Michael Caine plays Nicholas Urfe, an English...
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Mell
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1968
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This story of love and espionage focuses on political turmoil as a small nation struggles to free itself from colonial rule,...
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1966
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The Arab-Israeli conflict provides the backdrop for this political drama that tells the story of an American gentile woman...
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1966
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Dr. Love (David Niven) is a suave British secret agent sent to Lebanon to investigate the murder of his colleague Parkington...
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1965
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Thunderball finds James Bond matching wits with the sinister espionage organization S.P.E.C.T.R.E, (which stands for Special...
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1965
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Disney produced this distilled Hitchcockian suspense yarn, diluted for the consumption of children. Hayley Mills stars as...
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1964
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In this crime drama a Yankee visiting England ends up arrested for murder. Not wanting to go to prison, he tries to convince...
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1964
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Released in the US as A Boy Ten Feet Tall, Sammy Going South is a rugged youngster's-eye-view adventure set in South Africa....
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Spyros Dracondopolous
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1963
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Stolen Hours is the overlong, overglamorized 1963 remake of the 1939 Bette Davis vehicle Dark Victory. Susan Hayward plays a...
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1963
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In this elaborately mounted seafaring adventure, Rolfe (Richard Widmark) is a Viking leader with the cunning and devious mind...
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1963
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"The Decapod" is the professional name of a wrestling champion who the Avengers suspect of being an assassin. When the...
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1962
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1961
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1961
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Vivien Leigh plays Karen Stone, a middle-aged actress whose career is in a tailspin. To assuage her hurt feelings, Karen goes...
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1961
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In this Edgar Wallace mystery, a burglar, arrested for possessing counterfeit money, is forced by the police to pose as a...
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1961
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Directed by American expatriate Joseph Losey, the British The Criminal is a gloom-wallow elevated by superb performances. Top...
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1960
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Produced and directed by Otto Preminger, Exodus is a 212-minute screen adaptation of the best-selling novel by Leon Uris. The...
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1960
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This routine crime drama with a dash of romance begins with a tense opening, a jewel theft is carried out almost without a...
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Juan Montoya
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1960
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Loosely based on a cult of assassins in early 19th-century India known as "thaga" (pronounced "tahg"), the villains in this...
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1960
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In this British comedy set in Saudi Arabia, a gentle British travel-agency clerk decides that it would be a smashing idea to...
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1960
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The tiny country of Bay Akim is in the thrall of a particularly vicious band of gunrunners. Teaming with secret agent Zena...
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1959
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1959
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1959
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In this comedy, a man chooses an unethical way to help keep a financially struggling boy's club from closing down, by...
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1959
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The British Ice Cold in Alex was released in the US as Desert Attack. John Mills stars as Captain Anson, a grumbling...
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1958
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London's colorful but rundown Soho district is the setting for this thinnish romantic comedy. John Gregson plays a Soho...
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1957
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Eschewing the Shakespearean original title (it's a quote from A Midsummer Night's Dream), the British Ill Met by Moonlight...
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1957
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Victor Mature stars in this European-based crime thriller. Mature is an FBI agent on the trail of a drug smuggling operation,...
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1957
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In this crime drama, Scotland Yard teams up with Interpol to find out who put stolen funds into a private bank account in...
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1957
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