Eugene Deckers

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Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)

Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Walsh
CAST:  Gregory Peck  •  Virginia Mayo  •  Robert Beatty  •  James Robertson Justice

Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Walsh
CAST:  Gregory Peck  •  Virginia Mayo  •  Robert Beatty  •  James Robertson Justice

Madeleine (1950)

The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman.  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Lean
CAST:  Ann Todd  •  Norman Wooland  •  Ivan Desny  •  Leslie Banks

The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman.  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Lean
CAST:  Ann Todd  •  Norman Wooland  •  Ivan Desny  •  Leslie Banks

The Colditz Story (1955)

Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an "escape-proof" German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Guy Hamilton
CAST:  John Mills  •  Christopher Rhodes  •  Ian Carmichael  •  Eric Portman

Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an "escape-proof" German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Guy Hamilton
CAST:  John Mills  •  Christopher Rhodes  •  Ian Carmichael  •  Eric Portman

The Elusive Pimpernel (1950)

A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michael Powell  •  Emeric Pressburger
CAST:  David Niven  •  Margaret Leighton  •  Cyril Cusack  •  Jack Hawkins

A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michael Powell  •  Emeric Pressburger
CAST:  David Niven  •  Margaret Leighton  •  Cyril Cusack  •  Jack Hawkins

The Iron Petticoat (1956)

Captain Vinka Kovalenko defects from Russia, but not for political reasons. She defects because she feels discriminated against as a woman. Captain Chuck Lockwood gets the order to show her the bright side of capitalism, while she tries to convince him of the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ralph Thomas
CAST:  Bob Hope  •  Katharine Hepburn  •  Noelle Middleton  •  James Robertson Justice

Captain Vinka Kovalenko defects from Russia, but not for political reasons. She defects because she feels discriminated against as a woman. Captain Chuck Lockwood gets the order to show her the bright side of capitalism, while she tries to convince him of the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ralph Thomas
CAST:  Bob Hope  •  Katharine Hepburn  •  Noelle Middleton  •  James Robertson Justice

The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Charles Crichton
CAST:  Alec Guinness  •  Stanley Holloway  •  Sid James  •  Alfie Bass

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Charles Crichton
CAST:  Alec Guinness  •  Stanley Holloway  •  Sid James  •  Alfie Bass

The Longest Day (1962)

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ken Annakin  •  Bernhard Wicki  •  Andrew Marton
CAST:  John Wayne  •  Robert Mitchum  •  Henry Fonda  •  Sean Connery

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ken Annakin  •  Bernhard Wicki  •  Andrew Marton
CAST:  John Wayne  •  Robert Mitchum  •  Henry Fonda  •  Sean Connery

The Assassination Bureau (1969)

In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organization that kills for justice. When its motives are called into question, she commissions the assassination of its chairman. Knowing that his colleagues have recently ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Basil Dearden
CAST:  Oliver Reed  •  Diana Rigg  •  Telly Savalas  •  Curd Jürgens

In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organization that kills for justice. When its motives are called into question, she commissions the assassination of its chairman. Knowing that his colleagues have recently ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Basil Dearden
CAST:  Oliver Reed  •  Diana Rigg  •  Telly Savalas  •  Curd Jürgens

So Long at the Fair (1950)

Vicky Barton and her brother, Johnny, take a trip to the 1896 Paris Exhibition. They both sleep in seperate rooms in a hotel. When the sister gets up the next morning, she finds her brother and his room had disappeared and no one will even acknowledge that he was ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Terence Fisher  •  Antony Darnborough
CAST:  Jean Simmons  •  Dirk Bogarde  •  David Tomlinson  •  Marcel Poncin

Vicky Barton and her brother, Johnny, take a trip to the 1896 Paris Exhibition. They both sleep in seperate rooms in a hotel. When the sister gets up the next morning, she finds her brother and his room had disappeared and no one will even acknowledge that he was ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Terence Fisher  •  Antony Darnborough
CAST:  Jean Simmons  •  Dirk Bogarde  •  David Tomlinson  •  Marcel Poncin

North West Frontier (1959)

In the rebellious northern frontier province of colonial India, British Army Captain Scott, a young prince and the boy's governess escape by an obsolete train as they are relentlessly pursued by Muslim rebels intent on assassinating the prince.  (more)

DIRECTION:  J. Lee Thompson
CAST:  Kenneth More  •  Lauren Bacall  •  Herbert Lom  •  Wilfrid Hyde-White

In the rebellious northern frontier province of colonial India, British Army Captain Scott, a young prince and the boy's governess escape by an obsolete train as they are relentlessly pursued by Muslim rebels intent on assassinating the prince.  (more)

DIRECTION:  J. Lee Thompson
CAST:  Kenneth More  •  Lauren Bacall  •  Herbert Lom  •  Wilfrid Hyde-White

The Restaurant (1966)

A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jacques Besnard
CAST:  Louis de Funès  •  Bernard Blier  •  María Rosa Rodríguez  •  Venantino Venantini

A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jacques Besnard
CAST:  Louis de Funès  •  Bernard Blier  •  María Rosa Rodríguez  •  Venantino Venantini

Highly Dangerous (1950)

A US newsman and a British entomologist spy on germ-warfare research in a mythical country.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Ward Baker
CAST:  Margaret Lockwood  •  Dane Clark  •  Marius Goring  •  Naunton Wayne

A US newsman and a British entomologist spy on germ-warfare research in a mythical country.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Ward Baker
CAST:  Margaret Lockwood  •  Dane Clark  •  Marius Goring  •  Naunton Wayne

Golden Salamander (1950)

An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set things right.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ronald Neame
CAST:  Trevor Howard  •  Anouk Aimée  •  Herbert Lom  •  Walter Rilla

An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set things right.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ronald Neame
CAST:  Trevor Howard  •  Anouk Aimée  •  Herbert Lom  •  Walter Rilla

Dual Alibi (1947)

A French PR man and his girlfriend steal a lottery ticket from twin trapeze artists, prompting murder.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alfred Travers
CAST:  Herbert Lom  •  Phyllis Dixey  •  Terence de Marney  •  Ronald Frankau

A French PR man and his girlfriend steal a lottery ticket from twin trapeze artists, prompting murder.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alfred Travers
CAST:  Herbert Lom  •  Phyllis Dixey  •  Terence de Marney  •  Ronald Frankau

House of Secrets (1956)

Police in Paris recruit an English ship's officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joining them.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Guy Green
CAST:  Michael Craig  •  Anton Diffring  •  Gérard Oury  •  Brenda De Banzie

Police in Paris recruit an English ship's officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joining them.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Guy Green
CAST:  Michael Craig  •  Anton Diffring  •  Gérard Oury  •  Brenda De Banzie

Against the Wind (1948)

A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to rescue a prominent S.O.E. agent, who is being interrogated by the Germans for vital information.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Charles Crichton
CAST:  Robert Beatty  •  Simone Signoret  •  Jack Warner  •  Gordon Jackson

A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to rescue a prominent S.O.E. agent, who is being interrogated by the Germans for vital information.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Charles Crichton
CAST:  Robert Beatty  •  Simone Signoret  •  Jack Warner  •  Gordon Jackson

Women Without Men (1956)

In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Booth tries to quit her seamy job and become a model citizen. When her employer refuses to dissolve her contract, though, they quarrel and she accidentally hits him. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Elmo Williams
CAST:  Beverly Michaels  •  Joan Rice  •  Thora Hird  •  Avril Angers

In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Booth tries to quit her seamy job and become a model citizen. When her employer refuses to dissolve her contract, though, they quarrel and she accidentally hits him. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Elmo Williams
CAST:  Beverly Michaels  •  Joan Rice  •  Thora Hird  •  Avril Angers

Night Without Stars (1951)

A partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera. He meets and falls for the Widow of a French Resistance fighter but is horrified when he discovers she is involved with smugglers and murderers.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Anthony Pelissier
CAST:  David Farrar  •  Nadia Gray  •  Maurice Teynac  •  Gilles Quéant

A partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera. He meets and falls for the Widow of a French Resistance fighter but is horrified when he discovers she is involved with smugglers and murderers.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Anthony Pelissier
CAST:  David Farrar  •  Nadia Gray  •  Maurice Teynac  •  Gilles Quéant

The Last Safari (1967)

A hunter stalks a killer elephant.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Henry Hathaway
CAST:  Kaz Garas  •  Stewart Granger  •  Gabriella Licudi  •  Johnny Sekka

A hunter stalks a killer elephant.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Henry Hathaway
CAST:  Kaz Garas  •  Stewart Granger  •  Gabriella Licudi  •  Johnny Sekka

Seven Thunders (1957)

Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hugo Fregonese
CAST:  Stephen Boyd  •  James Robertson Justice  •  Tony Wright  •  Anna Gaylor

Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hugo Fregonese
CAST:  Stephen Boyd  •  James Robertson Justice  •  Tony Wright  •  Anna Gaylor
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