Search results for "Martin Benson"

A Shot in the Dark (1964) RT 93% / Audience 87%

DVD release: Aug 2001

A Shot in the Dark is the second and more successful film from the Pink Panther film series where both animated and real life sequences are mixed. A cult classic from Blake ... (more)

GENRES: Comedy • Crime

DIRECTION: Blake Edwards

CAST: Peter Sellers • Elke Sommer • George Sanders • Herbert Lom

Cleopatra (1963) RT 55% / Audience 70%

DVD release: Apr 2001

Winner of four Oscars, this epic saga of love, greed, and betrayal stars Elizabeth Taylor as the passionate and ambitious Egyptian queen, Cleopatra. Determined to hold on to ... (more)

GENRES: Drama • History • Romance

DIRECTION: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

CAST: Elizabeth Taylor • Richard Burton • Rex Harrison • Roddy McDowall

Gorgo (1961) RT Audience 38%

DVD release: Sep 2000

Never take a baby from his mother. You'll see why in this action-packed monster thriller as young Gorgo, a creature from the sea, is relocated to London from Ireland, with ... (more)

GENRES: Action • Horror • Science Fiction

DIRECTION: Eugène Lourié

CAST: Bill Travers • William Sylvester • Vincent Winter • Christopher Rhodes

Mohammad, Messenger of God (1976)

Handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the prophet Mohammed. (more)

GENRES: Action • Adventure • Drama • History

DIRECTION: Moustapha Akkad

CAST: Anthony Quinn • Irene Papas • Michael Ansara • Johnny Sekka

The King and I (1956) RT 96% / Audience 83%

Romantic Charming Classic Musical

DVD release: Apr 1999

Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a clash ... (more)

GENRES: Adventure • Drama • Romance

DIRECTION: Walter Lang

CAST: Deborah Kerr • Yul Brynner • Rita Moreno • Martin Benson

The Omen (1976) RT 86% / Audience 80%

Dark Disturbing Scary Suspenseful

DVD release: Sep 2001

Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son ... (more)

GENRES: Horror • Thriller

DIRECTION: Richard Donner

CAST: Gregory Peck • Lee Remick • David Warner • Billie Whitelaw

The Sea Wolves (1980) RT Audience 42%

DVD release: Nov 1999

This true story follows the exploits of a top secret British military mission to destroy Nazi radio ships in a neutral harbor during WWII. The daring plan is led by British ... (more)

GENRES: Action • Thriller • War

DIRECTION: Andrew McLaglen

CAST: Gregory Peck • Roger Moore • David Niven • Trevor Howard

The Strange World of Planet X (1958)

THE COSMIC MONSTER (USA title, should appear above but field is locked!!) In a small English village, Dr. Laird and his assistants Gil Graham and Michele Dupont are ... (more)

GENRES: Drama • Horror • Science Fiction

DIRECTION: Gilbert Gunn

CAST: Forrest Tucker • Gaby André • Martin Benson • Wyndham Goldie

Exodus (1960) RT 64% / Audience 71%

DVD release: Oct 2002

The theme is the founding of the state of Israel. The action begins on a ship filled with Jewish immigrants bound for Israel who are being off loaded on Cyprus. An ... (more)

GENRES: Action • Drama • History • War

DIRECTION: Otto Preminger

CAST: Paul Newman • Eva Marie Saint • Lee J. Cobb • Ralph Richardson

Oscar Wilde (1960) RT Audience 33%

A married playwright and poet must defend his reputation and deal with his attraction to men in a society where homosexuality is a criminal offense. (more)

GENRES: Drama

DIRECTION: Gregory Ratoff

CAST: Robert Morley • Ralph Richardson • Phyllis Calvert • John Neville

The Three Worlds of Gulliver (1960)

Doctor Gulliver is poor, so nothing - not even his charming fiancée Elisabeth - keeps him in the town he lives. He signs on to a ship to India, but in a storm he's washed off ... (more)

GENRES: Adventure • Comedy • Family • Fantasy • Music

DIRECTION: Jack Sher

CAST: Kerwin Mathews • June Thorburn • Jo Morrow • Lee Patterson

Passage Home (1955)

Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a passenger, resulting in ... (more)

GENRES: Drama

DIRECTION: Roy Ward Baker

CAST: Anthony Steel • Peter Finch • Diane Cilento • Cyril Cusack

Recoil (1953) RT Audience 36%

A jeweller is killed in a gang robbery leaving the daughter as the only witness. When the police can't build a case against him she decides to go undercover to infiltrate the ... (more)

GENRES: Crime • Drama

DIRECTION: John Gilling

CAST: Kieron Moore • Elizabeth Sellars • Edward Underdown • John Horsley

Mystery Junction (1951)

In this crime drama, an escaped convict is recaptured and charged with killing two people in a lonely waystation during a snowstorm. Fortunately, a novelist is around to prove ... (more)

GENRES: Crime • Drama

DIRECTION: Michael McCarthy

CAST: Sydney Tafler • Barbara Murray • Patricia Owens • Martin Benson

The Gambler and the Lady (1952) RT Audience 50%

DVD release: Dec 2006

A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls in love with a blue-blooded lady. But first he must mend his ways and then ... (more)

GENRES: Crime • Drama • Thriller

DIRECTION: Patrick Jenkins

CAST: Dane Clark • Kathleen Byron • Naomi Chance • Meredith Edwards

Assassin for Hire (1951)

Antonio Riccardi, a rare stamp dealer who is secretly a hired killer, pays for the violin lessons of his gifted brother Giuseppe. To meet the expenses of Giuseppe s concert ... (more)

GENRES: Crime • Mystery

DIRECTION: Michael McCarthy

CAST: Sydney Tafler • Ronald Howard • Katharine Blake • John Hewer

Soho Incident (1956)

A boxer is lured into a murder plot by a scheming woman. (more)

GENRES: Crime • Drama

DIRECTION: Vernon Sewell

CAST: Faith Domergue • Lee Patterson • Rona Anderson • Martin Benson

Tiffany Jones (1973)

Light-hearted and occasionally unclothed adaptation of a British comic strip in the over-the-top, on-beyond-Bond spy fantasy vein. Based on the Daily Mail comic strip. (more)

GENRES: Comedy

DIRECTION: Pete Walker

CAST: Eric Pohlmann • Damien Thomas • Anouska Hempel • Ray Brooks

Mozambique (1964)

An American pilot assists the Portuguese colonial police who are battling a gang of criminals involved in drug smuggling from Lisbon to Mozambique to Zanzibar. (more)

GENRES: Action • Crime • Drama

DIRECTION: Robert Lynn

CAST: Steve Cochran • Hildegard Knef • Paul Hubschmid • Vivi Bach

Istanbul (1957)

A suspected diamond smuggler returns to Istanbul and finds the lady love he thought was dead...or does he? (more)