Alexander Knox — Actor (35)
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Alias John Preston (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Alias John Preston
director: David MacDonald actor: Betta St. John / Alexander Knox …
A mysterious young man settles in a rural English town and immediately starts making a good impression. Before long he has insinuated himself into local life, is married and is serving on the board of the local hospital. Everything seems to be going well for him until a newly appointed consultant psychiatrist shows up and starts asking some probing questions.
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Operation Amsterdam (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Operation Amsterdam
director: Michael McCarthy actor: Peter Finch / Eva Bartok …
other title: Amsterdam operazione diamanti / Operação Amsterdão …
When Germany invades Holland in 1940, a British intelligence officer and two Dutch diamond merchants go to Amsterdam to persuade the Dutch diamond merchants to evacuate their diamond supplies to England.
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Man in the Middle (1964) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Man in the Middle
director: Guy Hamilton actor: Robert Mitchum / France Nuyen …
other title: Tra due fuochi / Plädoyer für einen Mörder …
In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. Stalwart American Lt. Colonel Barney Adams (Mitchum) is dispatched to defend him in the ensuing court martial. But when Lt. Adams starts encountering roadblocks in his search for evidence, and his key witnesses start disappearing one after another, he soon realizes he's merely a pawn in a mysterious conspiracy that could extend to the highest levels of military power.
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Intent to Kill (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Intent to Kill
director: Jack Cardiff actor: Richard Todd / Betsy Drake …
other title: Decisione di uccidere
While resisting pressure from his upper-class wife to take a higher-paying job in London, a Montreal physician prepares to carry out brain surgery on a Latin American president. They don't suspect that a trio of assassins is also waiting, for their chance to carry out a political assassination on the operating table.
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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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Puppet on a Chain (1970) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Puppet on a Chain
director: Geoffrey Reeve / Don Sharp actor: Sven-Bertil Taube / Barbara Parkins …
other title: Sezione narcotici / Dødens dukker …
Following a triple professional hit a U.S. agent, Paul Sherman, arrives in Amsterdam to investigate a heroin smuggling ring. He finds a city rife with drugs and a police force unable or unwilling to do much about it. With his incognito female fellow agent, Maggie, the American is soon stirring things up.
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Crack in the World (1965) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Crack in the World
director: Andrew Marton actor: Dana Andrews / Janette Scott …
other title: Esperimento IS: Il mondo si frantuma / Uma Fenda no Mundo …
Dr. Steven Sorenson plans to tap the geothermal energy of the Earth's interior by means of a thermonuclear device detonated deep within the Earth. This experiment causes a crack to form and grow within the Earth's crust, which threatens to split the earth in two if it is not stopped in time.
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The 25th Hour (1967) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
La Vingt-cinquième Heure
director: Henri Verneuil actor: Anthony Quinn / Virna Lisi …
other title: La 25ª ora / Femogtyvende time …
A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events. It includes Hungary's government in collaboration with the Nazis, the encroachment of Romania by Stalin's troopers, and other happenings.
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Paula (1952) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Paula
director: Rudolph Maté actor: Loretta Young / Kent Smith …
other title: El secreto de Paula
A woman, distraught because of her recent miscarriage, accidentally injures a child in a hit-and-run accident, but she keeps the incident a secret. Overcome with guilt and remorse, she seeks out the child in the hospital and attempts to help him regain his speech, even though, if successful, it might mean he will implicate her for the crime.
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Wilson (1944) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Wilson
director: Henry King actor: Alexander Knox / Geraldine Fitzgerald …
The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the United States. During his terms in office, Wilson must deal with the death of his first wife, the onslaught of German hostilities leading to American involvement in the Great War, and his own country's reticence to join the League of Nations. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2006.
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Villa Rides (1968) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Villa Rides
director: Buzz Kulik actor: Yul Brynner / Robert Mitchum …
other title: Viva! Viva Villa! / Pancho Villa rider ud …
Pulled into the Mexican Revolution by his own greed, Texas gunrunner and pilot Lee Arnold joins bandit-turned-patriot Pancho Villa and his band of dedicated men in a march across Mexico battling the Colorados and stealing women's hearts as they go. But each has a nemesis among his friends: Arnold is tormented by Fierro, Villa's right-hand-man; and Villa must face possible betrayal by his own president's naiveté
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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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Man in the Saddle (1951) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Man in the Saddle
director: André de Toth actor: Randolph Scott / Joan Leslie …
other title: Il cavaliere del deserto / Terra do Inferno …
A small rancher is being harassed by his mighty and powerful neighbor. When the neighbor even hires gunmen to intimidate him he has to defend himself and his property by means of violence.