Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Adventure | Comedy | Family | Romance
A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.
Starring: David Niven, Robert Newton, Shirley MacLaine, Cantinflas, John Gielgud, Finlay Currie
Director: Michael Anderson, John Farrow
No Deposit, No Return / Double Trouble (1976)
Comedy | Family
After finding out that their mother is going to be working through another school holiday, two children are shipped to spend the holiday with their Grandfather. On their way to their Grandfather, the children decide to fly to see their mother in Hong Kong instead but they need money for tickets. They accidentally run into two criminals at the airport and end up in a taxi with them. At the criminal's hideout, the children decide to send a ransom note to their Grandfather to fund their flight to Hong Kong and help the criminals pay a debt. Shenanigans ensue and like O. Henry's novel, of "The Ransom of Red Chief" the ransom decreases as time passes.
Starring: David Niven, Darren McGavin, Don Knotts, Herschel Bernardi, Barbara Feldon, John Williams
Director: Norman Tokar
Murder by Death (1976)
Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Five famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery.
Starring: Eileen Brennan, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, James Coco, Elsa Lanchester, David Niven
Director: Robert Moore
Vampira / Old Dracula (1974)
Comedy | Horror
A faulty blood transfusion turns Dracula's wife black.
Starring: David Niven, Peter Bayliss, Jennie Linden, Nicky Henson, Linda Hayden, Bernard Bresslaw
Director: Clive Donner
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
At Christmas, an angel named Dudley comes to Earth to help Bishop Henry Brougham, whose fundraising efforts to build a cathedral have estranged him from his wife and parishioners.
Starring: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley, James Gleason, Gladys Cooper
Director: Henry Koster
The Dawn Patrol (1938)
Drama | War
British flying aces in World War I contend with the harsh realities of war.
Starring: Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, David Niven, Donald Crisp, Melville Cooper, Barry Fitzgerald
Director: Edmund Goulding
The Other Love (1947)
Drama | Romance
Seriously ill, concert pianist Karen Duncan is admitted to a Swiss sanitorium. Despite being attracted to Dr Tony Stanton she ignores his warnings of possibly fatal consequences unless she rests completely. Rather, she opts for a livelier time in Monte Carlo with dashing Paul Clermont.
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, David Niven, Richard Conte, Gilbert Roland, Joan Lorring, Lenore Aubert
Director: André De Toth
55 Days at Peking (1963)
Action | Drama | History | War
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson, Harry Andrews, Leo Genn
Director: Nicholas Ray, Guy Green
Death on the Nile / Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile (1978)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot has a set of murder suspects on a boat in the Nile after a rich heiress is killed. Can he find the culprit before they reach port?
Starring: Peter Ustinov, David Niven, Bette Davis, Simon MacCorkindale, Lois Chiles, Mia Farrow
Director: John Guillermin
Escape to Athena (1979)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | War
On a Greek island during World War II, a diverse group of POWs come up with a plan to escape from their Nazi captors-and retrieve valuable stolen art at the same time. Although an unlikely ally comes to the aid of the prisoners, there is no guarantee that they will succeed in their missions. Will the schemers pull off the impossible.
Starring: Telly Savalas, David Niven, Elliott Gould, Roger Moore, Stefanie Powers, Claudia Cardinale
Director: George P. Cosmatos
Bonjour tristesse / Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
Drama
Cecile is a decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father Raymond. When Anne, Raymond's old love interest, comes to Raymond's villa, Cecile is afraid for her way of life.
Starring: Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Jean Seberg, Mylène Demongeot, Geoffrey Horne
Director: Otto Preminger
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
Action | Adventure | Romance | War
Major Vickers is an officer at the 27th Lancers in India 1856. When the regiment is on maneuver, the barracks are attacked by Surat Khan and his soldiers who massacre British women and children. This leaves an inextinguishable memory and Vickers promises to revenge the dead.
Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce, Donald Crisp, David Niven
Director: Michael Curtiz
Le cerveau / The Brain (1969)
Comedy | Crime
Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bourvil, David Niven, Eli Wallach, Silvia Monti, Jacques Balutin
Director: Gérard Oury
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Drama | Romance
The story of unfortunate lovers Heathcliff and Cathy who, despite a deep affection for one another, are forced by circumstance and prejudice to live their apart. Heathcliff and Cathy first meet as children when her father brings the abandoned boy to live with them. When the old man dies several years later Cathy's brother, now the master of the estate, turns Heathcliff out forcing him to live with the servants and working as a stable boy. The barrier of class comes between them and she eventually marries a rich neighbor, Mr. Edgar Linton, at which point Heathcliff disappears. He returns several years later, now a rich man but little can be done.
Starring: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Flora Robson, Donald Crisp, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Director: William Wyler
Separate Tables (1958)
Drama | Romance
It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life at the Beauregard is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock is not what he appears to be. The news is particularly shocking for her frail daughter, Sibyl, who is secretly in love with the Major.
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Rita Hayworth, David Niven, Wendy Hiller, Burt Lancaster
Director: Delbert Mann
Candleshoe (1977)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family
Small time crook Harry Bundage discovers that the old manor house where Lady St. Edmund resides, with three orphans and her butler Priory is the resting place for a hoard of treasure. Unfortunately, he doesn't know where it is. Bundage recruits urchin Casey Brown to dupe Lady St. Edmund into thinking that she is her long-lost granddaughter, so she can search for clues to the location of the treasure. Unbeknownst to Bundage AND her ladyship, Lady St. Edmund is flat broke, and Priory and the children help her ladyship try to keep her home and pride. Joined by Casey, they do all the chores and Priory acts as the butler, gardener, chauffeur and an old major all at the same time!
Starring: Jodie Foster, David Niven, Helen Hayes, Leo McKern, Veronica Quilligan
Director: Norman Tokar
Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
Comedy | Crime | Mystery
Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau's enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Surete's computer to select, instead, the world's WORST detective, NYPD Sgt. Clifton Sleigh. Sleigh obtusely bungles his way past assassins and corrupt officials as though he were Clouseau's American cousin.
Starring: David Niven, Robert Wagner, Herbert Lom
Director: Blake Edwards
Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
Comedy | Crime
The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspector Clouseau from France. His plane disappears en-route. This time, famous French TV reporter Marie Jouvet sets out to solve the mystery and starts to interview everybody connected to Clouseau. Each interviewee Dreyfus, Sir Charles & Lady Lytton (and ex-wife of Clouseau) & George Lytton, Hercule Lajoie (assistant in "A Shot In The Dark") and Cato tells of their run-ins with Clouseau. She is also kidnapped by mobster Bruno Langlois who doesn't want Clouseau found but she continues and finds Clouseau Sr, Clouseau's father. Is Clouseau alive or is he dead? Each interview has not-have-seen or famous clips from the previous movies (since Peter Sellers has sadly passed away) as Marie continues to get a honest view or impression of the great French detective…
Starring: Peter Sellers, David Niven, Herbert Lom, Richard Mulligan, Joanna Lumley
Director: Blake Edwards
The Pink Panther (1963)
Comedy | Crime
The bumbling Inspector Clouseau is on the tail of a famous jewel-thief whose eyes are set on stealing the famous "Pink Panther" gem worn by an Indian Princess.
Starring: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine, Claudia Cardinale, Brenda de Banzie
Director: Blake Edwards
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Action | Adventure | Drama | War
A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel.
Starring: David Niven, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker, Anthony Quayle, James Darren
Director: J. Lee Thompson
