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  • Whirlpool
  • Whirlpool review by from London
    Rated - 3.0 stars Glossy Noir 7 May 2005
    ...r shoplifting but let off due to the intervention of quack hypnotist/astrologer Jose Ferrer. This leads to Tierney becoming the suspect in an intricate howdunit murder mys...   Read customer review
  • Cyrano De Bergerac
  • Cyrano De Bergerac review by Ankiara from London
    Rated - 4.0 stars it's worth seeing it 5 November 2004
    ...Jose Ferrer won an Oscar for this and it was one of the first movies in verse.The version of the story of Cyrano and his hughe nose, in love with the beautiful Roxanne may...   Read customer review

Jose Ferrer - filmography


  • Hired To Kill on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Brian Thompson,  Oliver Reed,  George Kennedy
    Director: Nico Mastorakis,  Peter Rader
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A soldier of fortune must free a jailed rebel leader from a third world island fortress. When he learns he will be travelling incognito as a fashion designer with a bevy of beautiful models, he's less than thrilled - especially upon hearing he's got just a couple of weeks to turn the women into a ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 94 members
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  • Hitler's SS on DVD (1985)
    Starring: David Warner,  Bill Nighy,  Jose Ferrer
    Director: Jim Goddard,  Jim Goddard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Brother against brother in this gripping saga of the rise and fall of the Third Reich, portraying the rise of the Nazi regime through the experience of two ordinary brothers who find themselves on opposite sides during the second world war. Helmut the brilliant but opportunistic student, and Karl, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 143 members
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  • Dune on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Francesca Annis,  Francesca Annis,  Kyle MacLachlan
    Director: David Lynch
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    David Lynch wades through dark waters in his adaptation of Frank Herbert's cult science fiction novel. In condensing Herbert's rambling and complex book by eliminating characters and compacting events, Lynch succeeds in rendering the story incomprehensible to those unfamiliar with the novel and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 11,041 members
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  • The Evil That Men Do (1983)
    Starring: Charles Bronson,  Jose Ferrer,  Theresa Saldana
    Director: J. Lee Thompson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Holland (Charles Bronson) is a successful assassin who has retired and is living in the Cayman Islands when he hears that a friend has been killed by a notorious South American political torturer, Dr. Clement Molloch (Joseph Maher). In order to avenge his friend's death he comes out of retirement ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 208 members
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  • A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Mia Farrow,  Jose Ferrer
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This wonderful, frothy treat from Woody Allen follows three couples frolicking in the countryside at the turn of the century. At a beautiful farmhouse in upstate New York, wealthy Andrew (Allen) passes his summer days tinkering as a hack inventor and attempting to make love with his frigid wife, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 2,200 members
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  • Battle Creek Brawl on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Jackie Chan,  Jose Ferrer,  Kristine De Bell
    Director: Robert Clouse
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set in the wild days of the roaring 1920s, BATTLE CREEK BRAWL tells the story of a courageous martial arts expert (Jackie Chan) who almost single-handedly takes on the mob. Machine guns are of no avail against his lightning-quick hands and feet. The film, directed by Robert Clouse (ENTER THE DRAGON)..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 703 members
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  • The Amazing Captain Nemo (1978)
    Starring: Jose Ferrer,  José Ferrer,  Burgess Meredith
    Director: Alex March
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Typical 1970's lightweight pseudo-science-fictional fare, this movie was the pilot for a very brief action series. Modern-day US Navy scientists discover the legendary Nemo (an apparently underemployed Jose Ferrer) in suspended animation aboard his Nautilus at the bottom of the ocean. He is revived ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 5 members
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  • The Swarm on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Michael Caine,  Olivia De Havilland,  Richard Chamberlain
    Director: Irwin Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A star-studded scare film, THE SWARM features 22 million African killer bees crossing the border into the United States. As the city of Houston becomes abuzz with fear, the bees spread havoc, death, but no honey, upon a cast that features Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Richard ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 627 members
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  • e'Lollipop on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Jose Ferrer,  Karen Valentine,  Ken Gampu
    Director: Andre Pieterse,  Ashley Lazurus
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    e'Lollipop is the extraordinary tale of two inseparable South African children - Tsepo (Muntu Ndebele) and his orphaned friend Jannie (Norman Knox). They meet when Jannie's parents die tragically in a car crash in the Lesotho mountains. Jannie is sent to a missionary station in Tsepo's village ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 21 members
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  • The Big Bus on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Joseph Bologna,  Stockard Channing,  John Beck
    Director: James Frawley
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A star-studded cast headlines this outlandish spoof on disaster films in which a gigantic nuclear powered bus--containing a swimming pool, a bowling alley, and a piano bar--and goes out of control and nearly crashes while making a coast-to-coast journey. With a cannibalistic driver (Joseph Bologna) ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 411 members
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  • The Greatest Story Ever Told on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Charlton Heston,  Pat Boone,  John Wayne
    Director: George Stevens
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    George Stevens presents his monumental adaptation of the story of Jesus Christ starring Max von Sydow. The film concentrates on the most familiar episodes of the biblical story, including the birth of Christ in Bethlehem, Herod's (Jose Ferrer) decree of the execution of all male children in Judea, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 669 members
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  • Ship Of Fools on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Vivien Leigh,  Simone Signoret,  Jose Ferrer
    Director: Stanley Kramer
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Vivien Leigh and Simone Signoret headline a stellar cast in the acclaimed drama about German exileswho are not allowed to anchor at American ports. In the high class section are several well-to-do people, while below deck are a horde of sugar field workers returning to Spain after a season of work ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 148 members
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  • Lawrence Of Arabia on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Peter O'Toole,  Omar Sharif,  Anthony Quinn
    Director: David Lean
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    This sweeping, highly literate historical epic covers the Allies' mideastern campaign during World War I as seen through the eyes of the enigmatic T. E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole, in the role that made him a star). After a prologue showing us Lawrence's ultimate fate, we flash back to Cairo in 1917. ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 74% from 22,082 members
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  • Return to Payton Place (1961)
    Starring: Carol Lynley,  Eleanor Parker,  Mary Astor
    Director: Jose Ferrer
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    This sequel to the 1957 film "Peyton Place" once again focuses on the residents of the small New England town. Although everything seems picture-perfect, there are actually still many troubles brewing within the village -- some of them exacerbated by Allison MacKenzie's new novel, which reveals ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 4 members
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  • Cockleshell Heroes on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Trevor Howard,  Jose Ferrer,  Dora Bryan
    Director: Jose Ferrer
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Inspired by a true story, the film follows a group of ten 'canoe-commandos' who are taken, by sub-marine, close to the French coast. They must make a highly dangerous journey through 70 miles of enemy waters to destroy giant German battleships.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 1,231 member
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  • The Caine Mutiny on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Humphrey Bogart,  Van Johnson,  Jose Ferrer
    Director: Edward Dmytryk
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Robert Francis is at the center of the story as Willis Keith, a newly minted ensign assigned to the U.S.S. Caine. Keith has an uneasy relationship with his skipper, Lt. Comdr. DeVries (Tom Tully), partly through his own ineptitude and as a result of his disapproval of the slovenly way DeVries seems ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 794 members
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  • The Caine Mutiny - Blu-ray (1954)
    Starring: Humphrey Bogart,  Van Johnson,  Jose Ferrer
    Director: Edward Dmytryk
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In director Edward Dmytryk's classic seafaring drama, privileged mama's boy Ensign Keith (Robert Francis) gets assigned to the Caine, a rusty old minesweeper with a haggard, undisciplined crew during the latter days of WWII. Soon the paranoid, strawberry-loving Captain Queeg (Humprey Bogart) takes ..read more »
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  • Miss Sadie Thompson on DVD (1953)
    Starring: Rita Hayworth,  Jose Ferrer,  Charles Bronson
    Director: Curtis Bernhardt
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Life is dull for a squad of Marines stationed on a sleepy South Pacific island, but their routine is turned upside-down with the arrival of Sadie Thompson (Rita Hayworth), a fun-loving gal who is stuck in Hawaii for a week as she waits for the ship that will take her to her new job as a nightclub ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 146 members
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  • Moulin Rouge on DVD (1952)
    Starring: Jose Ferrer,  Zsa Zsa Gabor,  Katherine Kath
    Director: John Huston
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Moulin Rouge is the story of 19th century French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, portrayed by José Ferrer. The film records his frustration over his physical handicap (the growth in his legs was stunted by a childhood accident), his efforts to lose himself in Paris' bawdy Montmartre district, and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 673 members
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  • Cyrano De Bergerac on DVD (1950)
    Starring: Jose Ferrer,  Mala Powers,  William Prince
    Director: Michael Gordon
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Jose Ferrer stars as the poetry-spouting soldier with the oversized nose in this faithful adaptation of Edmond Rostand's romantic tragedy. Using the handsome but inarticulate Christian as a conduit for his feelings, the ugly but eloquent Cyrano pours his heart out to the lovely Roxanne. And she, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,201 member
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  • Crisis (1950)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  José Ferrer,  Jose Ferrer
    Director: Richard Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Dr Ferguson is a brain surgeon, on vacation with his wife in a small Spanish-speaking country. This is actually a dictatorship ruled by tyrant Raoul Farrago. As they leave the country, Dr and Madam are arrested and lead to Farrago. He has a tumor that has to be removed quickly. Ferguson's duty is ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 3 members
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  • Whirlpool on DVD (1949)
    Starring: Gene Tierney,  Jose Ferrer,  Richard Conte
    Director: Otto Preminger
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In this intriguing 1950 film noir, Gene Tierney plays Ann Sutton, the wife of a successful psychoanalyst, who is arrested for shoplifting. Scandal is averted due to the intervention of hypnotist David Korvo (Jose Ferrer) but he manipulates Ann as he knows she really is a shoplifter. This ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 439 members
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  • Joan of Arc (1948)
    Starring: Ingrid Bergman,  Jose Ferrer,  Francis L. Sullivan
    Director: Victor Fleming
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Academy Award-winner Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca) is spellbinding as the 15th century French peasant girl who rouses a nation and inspires the world with her faith and bravery. Fiercely believing that she is directed by God, Joan triumphantly leads an army into battle against the British, who are ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1 member
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Jose Ferrer facts

5 most recent films

Hired To Kill - 2.0 stars
Hitler's SS - 2.5 stars
Seduced - 1.5 stars
Dune - 3.0 stars
To Be Or Not To Be - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Lawrence Of Arabia - 4.0 stars
Columbo - Series 3 - 3.5 stars
The Caine Mutiny - 3.5 stars
Cockleshell Heroes - 3.5 stars
Tales Of The Unexpected - Complete First Series - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Caine Mutiny - Blu-ray - 3 stars
Seduced - 1.5 stars
Producers' Showcase Festival Of Music - Vol. 2 - 1.5 stars
The Amazing Captain Nemo - 2.0 stars
Return to Payton Place - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Donald Pleasence - 7 times - show films
Peter Falk - 5 times - show films
Jackie Cooper - 5 times - show films
Vera Miles - 5 times - show films
Robert Culp - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Richa - 5 times - show films
Boris Sagal - 5 times - show films
Leo Penn - 5 times - show films
Jeannot Szwarc - 5 times - show films
David Lynch - 4 times - show films