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The Bishop's Wife

The Bishop's Wife (1947) more movies like this

directed by Henry Koster
featuring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley, Gladys Cooper, James Gleason

When Episcopalian bishop Henry Brougham (David Niven) prays for divine guidance in his efforts to raise the necessary funds for a new cathedral, his prayers are answered in the form of a handsome, personable guardian angel named Dudley (Cary Grant). Establishing himself as a Yuletide guest in the Brougham home, Dudley arouses the ire of Henry, who ...

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The Pink Panther

The Pink Panther (1964) more movies like this

directed by Blake Edwards
featuring David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine, Claudia Cardinale

In the first in a series of detective comedies from director Blake Edwards starring Peter Sellers as bumbling French Inspector Jacques Clouseau, the mishap-prone snoop is actually a supporting player. David Niven stars as Sir Charles Litton, a suave jewel thief known as "The Phantom." Vacationing in a deluxe Alpine resort, Litton's real purpose is ...

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The Guns of Navarone

The Guns of Navarone (1961) more movies like this

directed by J. Lee Thompson
featuring Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker, Anthony Quayle, James Darren

The guns of Navarone are huge Nazi cannons, installed on an Aegean island behind enemy lines. Anthony Quayle is the officer assigned by the British to lead a task force to put the guns out of commission. When Quayle is injured, the mission winds up in the relatively inexperienced hands of Gregory Peck. There's little love lost between Peck, ...

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Death on the Nile

Death on the Nile (1978) more movies like this

directed by John Guillermin
featuring Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, David Niven, Lois Chiles, Bette Davis, Angela Lansbury, Mia Farrow

Peter Ustinov began his long association with the Hercule Poirot character of murder mystery novelist Agatha Christie with this lavish but financially disappointing follow-up to the popular Murder on the Orient Express (1974). During a luxurious pleasure cruise down the Nile aboard a lavish vessel populated with wealthy passengers, widely despised ...

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Separate Tables

Separate Tables (1958) more movies like this

directed by Delbert Mann
featuring Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Wendy Hiller, Burt Lancaster

Based on Terence Rattigan's play, Separate Tables is about a number of characters and their adventures at a British seaside hotel. Among the guests are an alleged war hero (David Niven), a timid spinster (Deborah Kerr) and her domineering mother (Gladys Cooper), and a divorced couple (Burt Lancaster, Rita Hayworth) trying to re-ignite their ...

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Murder by Death

Murder by Death (1976) more movies like this

directed by Robert Moore
featuring Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith

As penned by Neil Simon, this satire of movie mysteries is set in motion when several prominent detectives are invited to the mansion of the reclusive Lionel Twain (Truman Capote). In Ten Little Indians fashion, the gathered sleuths are locked into the forbidding mansion, and subject to various death-dealing devices. While struggling for their ...

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Around the World in 80 Days

Around the World in 80 Days (1956) more movies like this

directed by Michael Anderson
featuring David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton, Shirley MacLaine, Charles Boyer

Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel Around the World in 80 Days, the second film to be lensed in the wide-screen Todd-AO production. Nearly as fascinating as the finished product are the many in-production anecdotes concerning Todd's efforts to pull the wool ...

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Candleshoe

Candleshoe (1977) more movies like this

directed by Norman Tokar
featuring David Niven, Helen Hayes, Jodie Foster, Leo McKern, Veronica Quilligan

Though she owns a large estate and is herself a noblewoman, Lady St. Edmund (Helen Hayes) is anything but rich. Indeed, if she cannot raise the money needed to pay taxes on the estate, she and the large crew of orphans she has taken in will be thrown out. Legend has it that one of her ancestors, a pirate, hid a substantial treasure in gold coins ...

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Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights (1939) more movies like this

directed by William Wyler
featuring Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Flora Robson, Geraldine Fitzgerald

William Wyler's Wuthering Heights is one of the earliest screen adaptations of the classic Emily Brontë novel. A traveler named Lockwood (Miles Mander) is caught in the snow and stays at the estate of Wuthering Heights, where the housekeeper, Ellen Dean (Flora Robson), sits down to tell him the story in flashback. In the early 19th century, the ...

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Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960) more movies like this

directed by Charles Walters
featuring Doris Day, David Niven, Janis Paige, Spring Byington, Richard Haydn

In this entertaining comedy by Charles Walters, everyone seems to get in on the act, even the dog and especially the four overactive kids in a wildly challenging family. David Niven co-stars with Doris Day as Lawrence and Kate Mackay, distinctive parents struggling with home, life, and family. Lawrence opts for leaving his job teaching at Columbia ...

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The Dawn Patrol (1938) more movies like this

directed by Edmund Goulding
featuring Errol Flynn, David Niven, Basil Rathbone, Donald Crisp, Melville Cooper

This 1938 remake of Howard Hawks' 1930 film The Dawn Patrol is faithful to the original's basic plotline. The story is set during World War I; the scene is the French headquarters of the British Royal Flying Corps, 59th division. The corps is suffering heavy losses, a fact that ace pilot Courtney (Errol Flynn) ascribes to the supposed ruthlessness ...

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A Matter of Life and Death (1946) more movies like this

directed by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
featuring David Niven, Kim Hunter, Marius Goring, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, Richard Attenborough

Also known as Stairway to Heaven, A Matter of Life and Death is the remarkable British fantasy film that became the surprise hit of 1946. David Niven stars as Peter Carter, a World War II RAF pilot who is forced to bail out of his crippled plane without a parachute. He wakes up to find he has landed on Earth utterly unharmed...which wasn't ...

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The Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) more movies like this

directed by Blake Edwards
featuring Peter Sellers, David Niven, Herbert Lom, Richard Mulligan, Joanna Lumley

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 find the stolen bauble. When he follows the trail of ...

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Dodsworth (1936) more movies like this

directed by William Wyler
featuring Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Mary Astor, David Niven

In this highly acclaimed adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' novel, Walter Huston plays Sam Dodsworth, a good-hearted, middle-aged man who runs an auto manufacturing firm. His wife Fran (Ruth Chatterton) is obsessed with the notion that she's growing old, and she eventually persuades Sam to sell his interest in the company and take her to Europe. He ...

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55 Days at Peking (1963) more movies like this

directed by Nicholas Ray
featuring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson, John Ireland

Samuel Bronston produced this extravagant blockbuster, shot in Super Technirama 70. Nominally directed by Nicholas Ray (who makes a brief appearance as the U.S. ambassador), Ray was taken off the film and replaced by the more pliable directorial touches of Andrew Marton. Charlton Heston stars as Maj. Matt Lewis, the leader of an army of ...

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The Sea Wolves (1981) more movies like this

directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
featuring Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven, Trevor Howard, Barbara Kellerman

Set in India during World War II, this fair action drama relies heavily on the good acting talent gathered to convey its slight, uninvolved story. Gregory Peck is Col. Lewis Pugh, backed up by Roger Moore as Capt. Gavin Stewart, David Niven as Col. Bill Grice, Patrick MacNee as Major Crossley, and several others -- all retired and past the age for ...

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The Toast of New Orleans (1950) more movies like this

directed by Norman Taurog
featuring Kathryn Grayson, Mario Lanza, David Niven, J. Carrol Naish, James Mitchell

So far as their fans were concerned, Mario Lanza and Kathryn Grayson could have stood up against a blank wall and sung uninterruptedly for 96 minutes in Toast of New Orleans. MGM, however, adhered to the policy that all movies must have plots. This one finds Lanza playing Pepe Abellard Duvalle, a shrimp fisherman from Louisiana's bayou country, ...

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Enchantment (1948) more movies like this

directed by Irving G. Reis
featuring David Niven, Teresa Wright, Evelyn Keyes, Farley Granger, Jayne Meadows

Most of the story in this five-hanky British melodrama takes place over a 50 year period within a single London home, 99 Wiltshire Place, the birth place of a noted general who has not been back since he was a young man and had a terrible wrenching fight with his sister over his love for their adopted sister. Just before he stormed out, he vowed ...

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The First of the Few (1942) more movies like this

directed by Leslie Howard
featuring Leslie Howard, David Niven, Rosamund John, Roland Culver, Anne Firth

Not a remake of the 1934 Katharine Hepburn film of the same name, Spitfire was originally released in Great Britain as The First of the Few. Director Leslie Howard stars in this dramatization of the life and work of R.J. Mitchell, inventor of the Spitfire fighter plane. The film suggests, accurately as it turns out, that Mitchell was aware of ...

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Happy Go Lovely (1951) more movies like this

directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
featuring David Niven, Vera-Ellen, Cesar Romero, Bobby Howes, Diane Hart

The Anglo-American musicomedy Happy Go Lovely is set in Edinburgh, Scotland, during a major film festival. The gathered throngs are aghast when unknown dancer Janet Jones (Vera-Ellen) steps daintily from a limousine owned by a Scottish millionaire. A few miles earlier, the girl had thumbed a ride from the limo driver, but the public doesn't know ...

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Rough Cut (1980) more movies like this

directed by Don Siegel
featuring Burt Reynolds, Lesley-Anne Down, David Niven, Patrick Magee, Joss Ackland

Notorious international jewel thief Jack Rhodes (Burt Reynolds) is out to steal $30 million in uncut diamonds in this visually opulent, uneven comedy. Chief Inspector Cyril Willis (David Niven) is Rhodes' nemesis. He wants to retire from Scotland Yard but would like to capture Rhodes as a final, dramatic cap to his career. In order to achieve his ...

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Casino Royale (1967) more movies like this

directed by John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Ken Hughes, Robert Parrish, Val Guest
featuring Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, David Niven, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, Joanna Pettet

Retired after years of international espionage, Agent 007 is lured back into action to battle the evil spy organization SMERSH in this notoriously incoherent parody of the James Bond films. David Niven portrays the aging Bond, who atypically rejects the advances of a variety of women, and agrees to battle SMERSH's hold on the lavish Casino Royale ...

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Le Cerveau (1969) more movies like this

directed by Gérard Oury
featuring Bourvil, David Niven, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eli Wallach

The Brain (Le Cerveau) is a tongue-in-cheek caper film with more twists and turns than a rural Oregon highway. David Niven plays The Brain, so named because it was he who mapped out the British Great Train Robbery (it says here). Now The Brain plans to lift a fortune in NATO money, which is being shipped by train from France to Belgium. ...

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Ask Any Girl (1959) more movies like this

directed by Charles Walters
featuring David Niven, Shirley MacLaine, Gig Young, Rod Taylor, Jim Backus

Viewers know they're in a 1959 comedy film early in the proceedings of Ask Any Girl, when secretary Shirley MacLaine is advised by her new supervisor Jim Backus to wear a sweater "a size too small." But she is a good girl: like Doris Day, she won't offer any carnal favors unless a wedding ring is part of the bargain. She targets irresponsible CEO ...

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The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) more movies like this

directed by George Cukor, John Cromwell, W.S. Van Dyke
featuring Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith, David Niven

Ronald Colman stars in David O. Selznick's classic production of Anthony Hope's swashbuckling adventure. The film takes place in a mythical Central European kingdom with Colman in a dual role as King Rudolf V and Rudolph Rassendyl, a visitor from England who's a distant cousin to the prince. Arriving in the city of Strelsau, the inhabitants are ...

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