Jack Hawkins — Actor (20)
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The Intruder (1953) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Intruder
director: Guy Hamilton actor: Jack Hawkins / George Cole …
When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment. When the thief escapes, Merton tries to contact former members of the regiment, in order to find out what set the thief on the road to crime.
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The Two-Headed Spy (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Two-Headed Spy
director: André de Toth actor: Jack Hawkins / Gia Scala …
other title: I due volti del Generale Ombra / Chef de réseau …
Wartime thriller with film noir elements based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland's autobiography "The London Cage". The plot has greatly exaggerated the actual events of A.P. Scotland's experiences, including the addition of a fictional love interest.
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Kidnapped (1971) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Kidnapped
director: Delbert Mann actor: Michael Caine / Lawrence Douglas …
other title: Il ribelle di Scozia / Klanernes kamp …
Scottish orphan David Balfour is betrayed by his wicked uncle Ebeneezer, who arranges for David to be kidnapped and sold into slavery so that he cannot claim his inheritance. The boy is rescued and befriended by Alan Breck, a Scottish rebel fighting on behalf of his country's independence from the British.
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The Long Arm (1956) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Long Arm
director: Charles Frend actor: Jack Hawkins / John Stratton …
other title: La lunga mano / The Third Key …
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.
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The Third Secret (1964) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Third Secret
director: Charles Crichton actor: Stephen Boyd / Jack Hawkins …
other title: Il terzo segreto / El tercer secreto …
A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter refuses to believe it was suicide as this would go against all of the principles her father stood for, therefore she is convinced it was murder. She enlists the help of a former patient to try to get to the truth. However, the truth turns out to be both surprising and disturbing.
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Waterloo (1970) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Waterloo
director: Sergey Bondarchuk actor: Rod Steiger / Christopher Plummer …
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.
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Gideon's Day (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Gideon's Day
director: John Ford actor: Jack Hawkins / Anna Lee …
other title: 24 ore a Scotland Yard / Chefinspektor Gideon …
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of involvement in a payroll robbery and then helps break up a bank robbery.
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State Secret (1950) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
State Secret
director: Sidney Gilliat actor: Douglas Fairbanks Jr. / Glynis Johns …
other title: Segreto di stato / Staatsgeheimnis …
While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demonstrate his life-saving surgery. Unwittingly caught in the middle of a dangerous and corrupt series of political events, Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit. Fleeing, he seeks help from an English-speaking actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two attempt to escape across the treacherous mountains of Vosnia.
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Shalako (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Shalako
director: Edward Dmytryk actor: Sean Connery / Brigitte Bardot …
other title: Un uomo chiamato Shalako / Man nennt mich Shalako
While guiding a hunting party of clueless European aristocrats, cowboy Bosky Fulton leads them into hostile Apache territory. Becoming separated from the group, Countess Irina Lazaar experiences the first run-in with an Apache, which results in the tracker Shalako coming to her rescue. Despite Shalako's warning to leave the area immediately, the pampered foreigners fail to take him seriously, leaving them in grave danger.
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Monte Carlo or Bust! (1969) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Monte Carlo or Bust!
director: Ken Annakin actor: Bourvil / Lando Buzzanca …
other title: Quei temerari sulle loro pazze, scatenate, scalcinate carriole / Friske fyre i skæppeskønne skrammelkasser …
Sequel to "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines". This time an international car rally from England to Monte Carlo provides the comedic farce.
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The Black Rose (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Black Rose
director: Henry Hathaway actor: Tyrone Power / Orson Welles …
other title: La rosa nera / Die schwarze Rose …
In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, Tristram, he falls in with the army of the fierce but avuncular General Bayan, and journeys all the way to China, where both men become involved in intrigues in the court of Kublai Khan.
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When Eight Bells Toll (1971) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
When Eight Bells Toll
director: Étienne Périer actor: Anthony Hopkins / Robert Morley …
other title: Spillet er ude / Quando Oito Sinos Tocam …
Phillip Calvert is a British Treasury secret service agent assigned to stop the ruthless pirating of millions in gold bullion off the western coast of the Scottish highlands. His search takes him to the small port town of Torbay on the Isle of Torbay where numerous fishing boats, yachts and people have been mysteriously disappearing. A trail of deceit and subterfuge leads him to Cypriot tycoon and shipping magnate Sir Anthony Skouras and his beautiful wife, Charlotte aboard their luxury yacht anchored off the coast, who may hold the answers to the truth.
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The Cruel Sea (1953) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Skybridge WikiData
The Cruel Sea
director: Charles Frend actor: Jack Hawkins / Donald Sinden …
other title: Mare crudele / Der große Atlantik …
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while seldom able to strike back. Traumatic events afloat and ashore create a warm bond between the skipper and his first officer.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData Skybridge
The Bridge on the River Kwai
director: David Lean actor: William Holden / Alec Guinness …
other title: Il ponte sul fiume Kwai / Broen over floden Kwai …
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.