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Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) more movies like this

directed by David Lean
featuring Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, Claude Rains

This sweeping, highly literate historical epic covers the Allies' mideastern campaign during World War I as seen through the eyes of the enigmatic T. E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole, in the role that made him a star). After a prologue showing us Lawrence's ultimate fate, we flash back to Cairo in 1917. A bored general staffer, Lawrence talks his way ...

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Zulu

Zulu (1964) more movies like this

directed by Cy Raker Endfield
featuring Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Michael Caine

Filmed on a grand scale, Zulu is a rousing recreation of the January 22, 1879, siege of Rorke's Drift in Natal, Africa. An army of 4,000 Zulu warriors have already decimated a huge British garrison; now they are on their way to the much smaller Rorke's Drift. A Royal Engineers officer (Stanley Baker) is determined to stand his ground, despite ...

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Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur (1959) more movies like this

directed by William Wyler
featuring Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Hugh Griffith

This 1959 version of Lew Wallace's best-selling novel, which had already seen screen versions in 1907 and 1926, went on to win 11 Academy Awards. Adapted by Karl Tunberg and a raft of uncredited writers including Gore Vidal and Maxwell Anderson, the film once more recounts the tale of Jewish prince Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston), who lives in ...

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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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Nicholas and Alexandra

Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) more movies like this

directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
featuring Alan Dalton, Alexander Knox, Curd Jürgens, Michael Redgrave, Ralph Neville, Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Harry Andrews, Irene Worth, Jack Hawkins, Laurence Olivier

Nicholas and Alexandra covers the rise and fall of the last of the Russian Romanovs. We first meet Czar Nicholas (Michael Jayston) and his German bride Alexandra (Janet Suzman) at their 1894 wedding. Though Nicholas is devoted to Alexandra, the Russian populace is less politely inclined to having a "foreigner" as their Czarina. Alexandra gains ...

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Lord Jim

Lord Jim (1965) more movies like this

directed by Richard Brooks
featuring Peter O'Toole, James Mason, Curd Jürgens, Jack Hawkins, Eli Wallach, Daliah Lavi

Joseph Conrad's cerebral, philosophical novel Lord Jim is streamlined and simplified by producer/director/writer Richard Brooks for the action-and-adventure crowd. Peter O'Toole plays the first officer of a tramp steamer, who, during a hurricane, cravenly abandons ship, leaving the passengers to drown. Disgraced, O'Toole seeks out ways to redeem ...

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The Cruel Sea

The Cruel Sea (1953) more movies like this

directed by Alec McCowen, Charles Frend
featuring Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, John Stratton, Denholm Elliott, Stanley Baker

In this seagoing military drama set in World War II, Lt. Comdr. Ericson (Jack Hawkins) is made captain of a British corvette, a small escort vessel used to guide and protect convoys traveling through the Atlantic. Ericson had his confidence severely shaken during his last command, in which he lost his ship and most of its men following an attack ...

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Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre (1971) more movies like this

directed by Delbert Mann
featuring George C. Scott, Susannah York, Ian Bannen, Jack Hawkins, Nyree Dawn Porter

Charlotte Bronte's classic Victorian novel is once again put through the paces, this time by Delbert Mann, in this stodgy Masterpiece Theater style television adaptation. Susannah York is Jane Eyre, the orphan girl who secures a position as a governess to the ward of Edward Rochester (George C. Scott), lord of an English manor house called ...

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Land of the Pharaohs

Land of the Pharaohs (1955) more movies like this

directed by Howard Hawks
featuring Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Dewey Martin, Alexis Minotis, James Robertson Justice

"Nobody knew how a Pharaoh talked!" That's how producer/director Howard Hawks explained some of the sillier dialogue exchanges in the William Faulkner-Harry Kurnitz-Harold Jack Bloom script for Hawks' Land of the Pharaohs. Extravagantly produced with a cast of seeming millions (actually there were some 10,000 extras), the film speculates on the ...

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No Highway in the Sky

No Highway in the Sky (1951) more movies like this

directed by Henry Koster
featuring James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins, Ronald Squire

Henry Koster directs the 1951 aviation drama No Highway in the Sky, based on the novel by Nevil Shute. James Stewart stars as Theodore Honey, a widower and single parent to 11-year-old Elspeth (Janette Scott). He's also an absent-minded engineer who has formed a scientific theory about metal fatigue in a specific model of aircraft. He tries to ...

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The Black Rose (1950) more movies like this

directed by Henry Hathaway
featuring Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins, Michael Rennie

Partly conceived as a follow-up to Prince of Foxes, 20th Century-Fox's The Black Rose, reunites the earlier film's two stars, Tyrone Power and Orson Welles. Filmed on location in England and Morocco, the story concerns 13th-century Saxon nobleman Walter of Gurnie (Tyrone Power), who, after sparking an unsuccessful rebellion against the Norman ...

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The Malta Story (1953) more movies like this

directed by Brian Desmond Hurst
featuring Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Steel, Muriel Pavlow, Flora Robson, Renée Ashershon

The Malta Story stars Alec Guinness as WW II camera reconnaissance pilot Peter Ross. Crash-landing in Malta, Ross presents his photographs to the resident air officer (Jack Hawkins). The photos reveal that the Italians are planning a major invasion of the island. Low on fuel and men, the officer is all but helpless as the Italians mount their ...

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Waterloo (1970) more movies like this

directed by Sergei Bondarchuk
featuring Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins, Virginia McKenna

This lavishly costumed historical epic had an estimated $100 million price tag. Spectacularly photographed battle action contrasts with often plodding individual scenes that bog down the plot. Fearing his growing power, European monarchs force Napoleon Bonaparte (Rod Steiger) to abdicate as Emperor and retire to Elba, and the French are concerned ...

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The Prisoner (1955) more movies like this

directed by Peter Glenville
featuring Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Wilfred Lawson, Jeannette Sterke, Kenneth Griffith, Ronald Lewis

British theatrical director Peter Glenville made his film directorial debut with 1955's The Prisoner (Glenville had previous helmed the London stage production of this Bridget Boland play). The film is based on the real-life travails of Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty, who after suffering under Nazi persecution was imprisoned by the new Communist ...

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The Fallen Idol (1948) more movies like this

directed by Carol Reed
featuring Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Bobby Henrey, Sonia Dresdel, Denis O'Dea, Jack Hawkins

Adapted from the Graham Greene story The Basement Room, director Carol Reed's The Fallen Idol is told almost completely from a child's eye view-but it isn't a children's story. Young Bobby Henrey idolizes household butler Ralph Richardson. Therefore, when it seems as though Richardson might be implicated in a murder, Bobby does his best to throw ...

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Guns at Batasi (1964) more movies like this

directed by John Guillermin
featuring Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson, John Leyton, Mia Farrow

Richard Attenborough stars as a stalwart sergeant-major, stationed in British colony in Africa. When the colony declares its independence, Attenborough is assigned to keep the peace during the governmental transition. Trouble begins when an insurgent African officer (Errol John) attempts to overthrow the new, British-approved rulers. As the ...

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The Third Secret (1964) more movies like this

directed by Charles Crichton
featuring Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Diane Cilento, Pamela Franklin

TV commentator Stephen Boyd doesn't believe the official verdict of suicide in the death of a famed London psychiatrist. Boyd tries to get to the truth by studying a list of the shrink's patients. While interviewing three of these worthies (Jack Hawkins, Diane Cilento and Richard Attenborough), Boyd discover that each has a deep dark secret that ...

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The Third Key (1956) more movies like this

directed by Charles Frend
featuring Jack Hawkins, John Stratton, Dorothy Alison, Michael Brooke, Sam Kydd

Jack Hawkins is starred as a gruff, intensely dedicated Scotland Yard superintendent. Working as much by instinct as through scientific methods, Hawkins and rookie sergeant John Stratton tackle the case of a string of unsolved safecrackings, committed by the elusive Richard Leech. This Dragnet approach gives way to suspense as robbery leads to ...

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Young Winston (1972) more movies like this

directed by Richard Attenborough
featuring Michael Audreson, Robert Lankesheer, Simon Ward, Robert Shaw, Anne Bancroft, Jack Hawkins, John Mills, Ian Holm

This historical drama is an account of the early life of Winston Churchill (Simon Ward), including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament. Linda Rasmussen, All Movie Guide

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The Small Back Room (1949) more movies like this

directed by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
featuring David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins, Cyril Cusack, Michael Gough, Leslie Banks

Few British films were run on American TV in 1950s with such frequency as The Small Back Room (U.S. title: Hour of Glory). A typically multilayered effort from the Powell-Pressburger team, the film stars David Farrar as crippled munitions genius Sammy Rice. During WW II, Rice is constantly frustrated by the limits of his handicap and by the never ...

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Next of Kin (1942) more movies like this

directed by Thorold Dickinson
featuring Basil Sydney, Frederick Leister, Reginald Tate, Jack Hawkins, David Hutcheson

The phrase "Loose Lips Sink Ships" takes on a new and special meaning in the cautionary British war drama Next of Kin. In grade-school-primer fashion, the film shows how careless talk can have a devastating and tragic effect in times of war, sometimes boomeranging on the "talker" in the form of lost loved ones. Extra attention is paid the gossipy ...

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The Lodger (1932) more movies like this

directed by Maurice Elvey
featuring Ivor Novello, Elizabeth Allan, Jack Hawkins, A.W. Baskcomb, Barbara Everest, Shayle Gardner

In Belloc-Lowndes' original novel The Lodger, the reclusive young man suspected of being Jack the Ripper turns out to be exactly who he's assumed to be. When Alfred Hitchcock directed the 1926 film version of The Lodger, he was advised that the public would never accept the popular star Ivor Novello as a serial killer, thus the film was given a ...

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Fortune in Diamonds (1951) more movies like this

directed by David MacDonald
featuring Jack Hawkins, Peter Hammond, Dennis Price, Gregoire Aslan, Charles Paton

The Adventurers is set in South Africa at the end of the Boer war. Commando Pieter Brandt (Jack Hawkins) comes across the dead body of a diamond courier. Brandt buries both the courier and his valuable cache of diamonds then heads back to his regiment. After the cessation of hostilities, Brandt raises money for an expedition back into the ...

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Land of Fury (1954) more movies like this

directed by Ken Annakin
featuring Jack Hawkins, Glynis Johns, Noel Purcell

Land of Fury is an austere "western" set in New Zealand during the 1820s. The epic-proportioned storyline involves a group of British pioneers seeking a new life in Down Under. Sailor Jack Hawkins and his wife Glynis Johns are the central characters, struggling to impose their British sense of order upon their primitive surroundings. Hostilities ...

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Angels One Five (1952) more movies like this

directed by George More O'Ferrall
featuring Jack Hawkins, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Andrew Osborn, Cyril Raymond, Humphrey Lestocq

"Angels One Five" is the cognomen bestowed upon a group of WW II British fighter pilots. The squadron leader is Tiger Small (Jack Hawkins), who is taken out of commission after an accident. Despite the protests from his fellow flyboys, Tiger insists upon taking to the air again, thereby setting the stage for the film's exciting and inspirational ...

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