Zulu (1964)
Drama | History | War
Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift.
Starring: Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Michael Caine, Nigel Green
Director: Cy Endfield
The Black Rose (1950)
Adventure | History | Romance | War
A disinherited 13th Century Saxon nobleman leaves Norman England with an archer friend to seek his fortune in the Far East.
Starring: Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Cécile Aubry, Jack Hawkins, Michael Rennie, Finlay Currie
Director: Henry Hathaway
Young Winston (1972)
Biography | Drama | War
Complex family relationships, as well as a combat experience, form the personality of the future world-known politician.
Starring: Robert Shaw, Anne Bancroft, Simon Ward, Jack Hawkins, Ian Holm, Anthony Hopkins
Director: Richard Attenborough
The Third Secret (1964)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
The first secret is what we don't tell people, the second secret is what we don't tell ourselves, and the third secret is the truth. The death of a psychologist is investigated by his teenage daughter and a former patient.
Starring: Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Diane Cilento, Pamela Franklin, Alan Webb
Director: Charles Crichton
Writers Retreat (2015)
Crime | Horror | Thriller
At a writers' retreat on an isolated island, novelist Zandra joins a group of strangers confronting their darkest secrets. But when a member of the party mysteriously disappears, they realize there's something else on the island.
Starring: Camilla Beeput, Christopher Fairbank, Alix Wilton Regan, Poppy Drayton, Brad Moore, Jack Hawkins, Amy Booth-Steel, Christopher Leveaux, Helen Ryan, Rupert Young
Director: Diego Rocha
The Fallen Idol (1948)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A butler working in a foreign embassy in London falls under suspicion when his wife accidentally falls to her death, the only witness being an impressionable young boy.
Starring: Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel, Denis O'Dea, Jack Hawkins, Bobby Henrey
Director: Carol Reed
No Highway in the Sky / No Highway (1951)
Drama | Thriller
Jimmy Stewart stars as an aeronautical engineer who predicts that a new type of airplane will fail catastrophically after a certain amount of time in the air, and then finds himself on board one of the doomed planes while headed to a crash site.
Starring: James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins, Janette Scott, Elizabeth Allan
Director: Henry Koster
Lord Jim (1965)
Adventure | Drama
James Burke, after distinguishing himself as a midshipman in the British merchant marine, rapidly rises to the rank of executive officer, second in command of a ship. A broken foot necessitates that he be put ashore to heal. After his recovery, the very proud Jim – his pride rooted in his competence, which had made him a highly respected and admired naval officer – signs on as the executive officer of the Patna, a rusty tub manned by a third-rate crew overseen by a barbarous captain, that is transporting a group of Moslem pilgrims to Mecca. During a severe storm that causes the unseaworthy ship to founder, Jim abandons ship with the rest of the white crew without even lowering the other lifeboat for the passengers.
Starring: Peter O'Toole, James Mason, Curd Jürgens, Eli Wallach, Jack Hawkins, Daliah Lavi
Director: Richard Brooks
Waterloo (1970)
Action | Drama | History | War
The allies enter Paris and Napoleon (in Fontainbleau) is obliged to abdicate. After heartfelt farewells to his army he is led off to exile on Elba. But after only a few months he manages to elude his captors and return to power at the Tuileries. France once again has to prepare itself to confront the allied armies. And it is Waterloo which is finally chosen as the site of the final battle.
Starring: Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins, Virginia McKenna, Dan O'Herlihy
Director: Sergey Bondarchuk
Guns at Batasi (1964)
Drama
Regimental Sergeant-Major Lauderdale is a spit-and-polish, by-the-book disciplinarian, who seems like a 19th Century anachronism in a sleepy peacetime African outpost of the modern British Commonwealth. He is ridiculed behind his back by his subordinate NCO's and must play host to a liberal female MP making a tour of the base. However, when an ambitious African officer, who happens to be a protege of the MP's, initiates a coup d'etat against Captain Abraham, the lawful African commandant, the resourceful RSM uses all his military training to arm his men despite being under house arrest and rescue the wounded commandant from a certain firing squad. When Lt. Boniface, the leader of the mutiny surrounds the sergeants mess with two Bofors guns, it looks like Lauderdale will have to surrender unless he again disobeys orders and takes the initiative.
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson, John Leyton, Mia Farrow, Cecil Parker
Director: John Guillermin
The League of Gentlemen (1960)
Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, Richard Attenborough
Director: Basil Dearden
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | War
The dramatic portrait of the famed British officer's journey to the Middle East, Lawrence of Arabia is one of the most critically acclaimed and beloved films of all time. Assigned to Arabia during World War I, Lawrence courageously unites the warring Arab factions into a strong guerrilla front and leads them to brilliant victories in treacherous desert battlefields, where they eventually defeat the ruling Turkish Empire.
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, José Ferrer
Director: David Lean
Tales That Witness Madness (1973)
Comedy | Horror | Mystery
At a private clinic devoted to the study of mental illness, Dr. Tremayne invites his friend and associate Nicholas to hear of his breakthrough theory developed from the study of four patients, each of whom was involved in a murder. Tremayne introduces the patients to Nicholas individually and shares their stories.
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Kim Novak, Georgia Brown
Director: Freddie Francis
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Adventure | Drama | War
A group of British POWs is forced to build a bridge in Burma for the Japanese. Led by Colonel Nicholson, they not only build the bridge but organise the whole building program and are proud of the final result. However, unbeknownst to the POWs, a British commando team has been given a mission to destroy it.
Starring: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, Geoffrey Horne
Director: David Lean
