Leo McKern — Actor (28)
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A Foreign Field (1993)
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Charles Sturridge actor: Alec Guinness / Leo McKern …
Nostalgic comic drama in which Cyril and Amos, two veterans of the Normandy landings, return to France to visit the grave of their wartime buddy. They encounter Waldo, an American on a similar mission, and the meeting sparks memories of an old girlfriend from the past. With the mysterious American lady Lisa in their wake, Cyril and Waldo decide to try and track her down.
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Assignment K (1968)
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Val Guest actor: Stephen Boyd / Camilla Sparv …
other title: Superspia K / Geheimauftrag K …
Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents kidnap his girlfriend to force him to reveal the identities of his fellow spies.
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Time Without Pity (1957)
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Joseph Losey actor: Michael Redgrave / Ann Todd …
other title: L'alibi dell'ultima ora / Tempo Impiedoso …
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”
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Mr. Topaze (1961)
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Peter Sellers actor: Peter Sellers / Nadia Gray …
other title: A Solidão da Riqueza / Todos somos sinvergüenzas …
Mr. Topaze is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing grade to a bad student, the grandson of a wealthy baroness. Castel Benac, a government official who runs a crooked financial business on the side, is persuaded by his mistress, Suzy, a musical comedy actress, to hire Mr. Topaze as the front man for his business. Gradually, Topaze becomes a rapacious financier who sacrifices his honesty for success and, in a final stroke of business bravado, fires Benac and acquires Suzy in the deal. An old friend and colleague, Tamise questions him and tells Topaze that what he now says and practices indicates there are no more honest men.
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The Mouse That Roared (1959)
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Jack Arnold actor: Peter Sellers / Jean Seberg …
other title: Il ruggito del topo / Musen der brølede …
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign aid. They send an invasion force (in chain mail, armed with bows and arrows) to New York and they arrive during a nuclear drill that has cleared the streets.
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The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
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Gene Wilder actor: Gene Wilder / Madeline Kahn …
other title: Il fratello più furbo di Sherlock Holmes / Sherlock Holmes' smarte bror …
After spending decades living in the shadow of his more famous and successful sibling, Consulting Detective Sigerson Holmes (Wilder) is called upon to help solve a crucial case that leads him on a hilarious trail of false identities, stolen documents, secret codes... and exposed backsides.
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The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
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Michael Anderson actor: Anthony Quinn / Oskar Werner …
other title: L'uomo venuto dal Kremlino / As Sandálias do Pescador …
Ukrainian bishop Kiril Lakota, a political prisoner in a Soviet gulag for twenty years, is unexpectedly released and sent to the Vatican, where, upon the sudden death of the Pope, leader of the Catholic Church, he must face a challenging destiny that will put the future of the entire world in his hands.
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The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1959)
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Richard Lester / Peter Sellers actor: Richard Lester / Peter Sellers …
other title: Le Courir Sauter & permanent Photo de film
A short film without any direct action designed more as an experiment, with disjointed comic scenes with no common thread.
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Alice in Wonderland (1966)
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Jonathan Miller actor: Anne-Marie Mallik / Freda Dowie …
other title: Alicia en el País de las Maravillas / Alicia en el país de las maravillas
Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller, then most widely known for his appearance in the long-running satirical revue Beyond the Fringe.
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King and Country (1964)
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Joseph Losey actor: Dirk Bogarde / Tom Courtenay …
other title: Per il re e per la patria / For konge og fædreland …
During World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to defend him at his court-martial, Captain Hargreaves, finds out there is more to the case than meets the eye.
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Children of the Damned (1964)
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Anton Leader actor: Ian Hendry / Alan Badel …
other title: La stirpe dei dannati / Die Kinder der Verdammten …
Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to each other.
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
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Val Guest actor: Janet Munro / Leo McKern …
other title: ...E la Terra prese fuoco / Der Tag, an dem die Erde Feuer fing …
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have caused the orbit of the Earth to alter, sending it hurtling towards the sun.
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Candleshoe (1977)
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Norman Tokar actor: David Niven / Helen Hayes …
other title: 古堡风云 / 小鬼头智斗大老千 …
When ex-con artist Harry claims that a secret treasure is hidden inside Candleshoe, an English estate, he creates an elaborate plan to find and steal the prize. By convincing a girl named Casey to impersonate the estate owner's long-lost granddaughter, Harry hopes to uncover the treasure's location. But when Casey has a change of heart, she must follow the clues and find the treasure, in order to save Candleshoe and stop Harry before it is too late.