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The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) more movies like this

directed by David Lean
featuring William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, Geoffrey Horne, James Donald

The Bridge on the River Kwai opens in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1943, where a battle of wills rages between camp commander Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) and newly arrived British colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness). Saito insists that Nicholson order his men to build a bridge over the river Kwai, which will be used to transport ...

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The Great Escape

The Great Escape (1963) more movies like this

directed by John Sturges
featuring Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, James Coburn

The Great Escape is based on the true story of a group of Allied prisoners of war who managed to escape from an allegedly impenetrable Nazi prison camp during World War II. At the beginning of the film, the Nazis gather all their most devious and troublesome POWs and place them at a new prison camp, which was designed to be impervious to escapes. ...

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The Vikings

The Vikings (1958) more movies like this

directed by Richard Fleischer
featuring Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Janet Leigh, Alexander Knox, James Donald

Inspired by the novel The Viking by Edison Marshall, The Vikings was lensed on location in Norway under extremely adverse weather conditions. Adding to the difficulty was the fact that star Kirk Douglas and director Richard Fleischer never quite found a common ground, and for years thereafter would hold each other responsible for the film's ...

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Lust for Life

Lust for Life (1956) more movies like this

directed by Vincente Minnelli
featuring Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald, Pamela Brown, Everett Sloane

This filmed biography of Vincent Van Gogh was adapted by Norman Corwin from the best-selling novel by Irving Stone, which was in turn inspired by the written correspondence between Van Gogh and his brother Theo. Kirk Douglas plays the tormented genius, whose obsessive devotion to his art engulfs, consumes, and finally destroys him. James Donald ...

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Beau Brummell

Beau Brummell (1954) more movies like this

directed by Curtis Bernhardt
featuring Stewart Granger, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Ustinov, Robert Morley, James Donald

As an actor, British film star Stewart Granger was very handsome, but this is all that is required of him in Beau Brummell. Granger plays the famed 18th-century dandy and social arbiter who rises from poverty to become the adviser and severest critic of the Prince of Wales (marvelously portrayed as a self-involved neurotic by Peter Ustinov). ...

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Quatermass and the Pit

Quatermass and the Pit (1967) more movies like this

directed by Roy Ward Baker, Rudolph Cartier
featuring James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley, Julian Glover, Maurice Good

Nigel Kneale's Quatermass TV series spawned a brief film series produced over an eleven-year period; 1967's Quatermass and the Pit, released in the US as Five Million Years to Earth, was the third and (until 1979's Quatermass Conclusion) last. As in previous chapters in the Kneale saga, the film begins with a baffling scientific discovery. This ...

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The Third Man on the Mountain

The Third Man on the Mountain (1959) more movies like this

directed by Ken Annakin
featuring Michael Rennie, Janet Munro, James Donald, Herbert Lom

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 was killed attempting a similar climb only ...

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The Way Ahead

The Way Ahead (1944) more movies like this

directed by Carol Reed
featuring David Niven, Raymond Huntley, William Hartnell, Stanley Holloway, James Donald

The Immortal Battalion has a bit of a convoluted history. It started life as a training film, The New Lot, which ran 44 minutes. When Winston Churchill approached David Niven about creating a film that would do for the British Army what In Which We Serve had done for the Royal Navy, he contacted Carol Reed and suggested expanding The New Lot. The ...

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The Pickwick Papers

The Pickwick Papers (1952) more movies like this

directed by Noel Langley
featuring James Hayter, James Donald, Alexander Gauge, Nigel Patrick, Kathleen Harrison, Lionel Murton, Joyce Grenfell

John Hayter is Samuel Pickwick is this delightful filmization of Dickens' seriocomic novel. Mr. Pickwick is chairman of the Pickwick club, a scholarly league operating in mid-19th century London. The club's avowed purpose is to scrupulously study everyday life in England-not to improve or remonstrate, but simply examine, as a scientist would ...

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The Gift Horse (1952) more movies like this

directed by Compton Bennett
featuring Trevor Howard, Richard Attenborough, Sonny Tufts, James Donald, Joan Rice

Also known as Glory at Sea, a World War II British commander and his crew wage a fierce sea battle against the Germans in spite of their inferior vessel. Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide

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The Gay Lady (1949) more movies like this

directed by Brian Desmond Hurst
featuring Jean Kent, James Donald, Hugh Sinclair, Andrew Crawford, Bill Owen

The Gay Lady is better known by its British title, Trottie True. Jean Kent stars as Trottie, a turn-of-the-century British music-hall performer who works her way up the ladder from chorus girl to headliner. As her fame increases, Trottie has no time for true love, preferring instead the attentions of men of nobility and wealth who can advance her ...

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Brandy for the Parson

Brandy for the Parson (1952) more movies like this

directed by John Eldridge
featuring James Donald, Kenneth More, Jean Lodge, Frederick Piper, Charles Hawtrey

Brandy for the Parson is a wafer-thin comedy with plenty of maritime humor. James Donald and Jean Lodge play a young couple on a yachting vacation. They agree to share a ride with a few seemingly benign fellow landlubbers. What they don't know (but we do) is that their "harmless" yacht-mates are actually running a slick brandy-smuggling operation. ...

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