Tag: James Mason
Posted on April 28, 2013 |
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Just after the end of the American Civil War a terrifying "Sea Monster" is destroying shipping at will, and a military expedition is created to track and kill the beast before more lives are lost. Famed oceanographer Professor Arronax and his assistant Conseil are on board when they are attacked by the creature far out at sea, it races towards them with a howling shriek, glowing eyes, and "breath like a furnace," tearing open their warship and sending it to the bottom with almost all hands. Adrift on the open ocean Arronax, Conseil, and a lone sailor, Ned Land, discover the "monster" at rest, but instead of a living creature they find a fantastical vessel, the Nautilus, its dedicated crew, and its commander, the driven and enigmatic Captain Nemo… now their adventure REALLY begins!!!
Starring: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre, Robert J. Wilke, Ted de Corsia
Director: Richard Fleischer
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Posted on November 21, 2012 |
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North by Northwest (1959)
Action | Adventure | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
A suave, succesful New York advertising executive finds himself, through a case of mistaken identity, embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder that takes him across the country to prove his innocence to the police and get an evil crime syndicate, looking for a lost microfilm, off his tail. Filmed in VistaVision.
Starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jesse Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Martin Landau
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Posted on November 20, 2012 |
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The Blue Max (1966)
Action | Adventure | Drama | War
The tactics of a German fighter pilot offend his aristocratic comrades but win him his country's most honored medal, the Blue Max. The General finds him useful as a hero even though his wife also finds him useful as a love object. In the end the General arranges for him to test-fly an untried fighter.
Starring: George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress
Director: John Guillermin
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Posted on October 5, 2012 |
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
Starring: Pat Boone, James Mason, Arlene Dahl, Diane Baker
Director: Henry Levin
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Posted on July 7, 2012 |
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Odd Man Out (1947)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Romance | Thriller
A wounded IRA man faces betrayal on all sides when the British put a price on his head.
Starring: James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, Kathleen Ryan, F.J. McCormick
Director: Carol Reed
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Posted on January 27, 2012 |
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The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
Drama | History | War
After poisoning the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his mad son Commodus succumbs to dissipation and allows Rome to be ravaged by pestilence and the Barbarians.
Starring: Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, James Mason, Christopher Plummer
Director: Anthony Mann
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Posted on December 29, 2011 |
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Bigger Than Life (1956)
Drama
When a friendly, successful suburban teacher and father is prescribed cortisone for a painful, possibly fatal affliction, he grows dangerously addicted to the experimental drug, resulting in his transformation into a psychotic and ultimately violent household despot.
Starring: James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau
Director: Nicholas Ray
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Posted on October 1, 2011 |
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Cross of Iron (1977)
Action | Drama | War
In 1943, in the Russian front, the decorated leader Rolf Steiner is promoted to Sergeant after another successful mission. Meanwhile the upper-class and arrogant Prussian Captain Hauptmann Stransky is assigned as the new commander of his squad. After a bloody battle of Steiner's squad against the Russian troops led by the brave Lieutenant Meyer that dies in the combat, the coward Stransky claims that he led his squad against the Russian and requests to be awarded with the Iron of Cross to satisfy his personal ambition together with his aristocratic family. Stransky gives the names of Steiner and of the homosexual Lieutenant Triebig as witnesses of his accomplishment, but Steiner, who has problems with the chain of command in the army and with the arrogance of Stransky, refuses to participate in the fraud. When Colonel Brandt gives the order to leave the position in the front, Stransky does not retransmit the order to Steiner's squad, and they are left alone surrounded by the enemy and having to fight to survive.
Starring: James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner, Klaus Löwitsch, Vadim Glowna, Roger Fritz
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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Posted on August 12, 2011 |
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The Boys From Brazil (1978)
Drama | Horror | Thriller | Sci-Fi
A battle of wits between Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele and Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman in which Mengele plans to harvest hundreds of young men in an attempt to replicate Hitler's genetic structure.
Starring: Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
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