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  • King Creole
  • King Creole review by festaman from Nottingham
    Rated - 5.0 stars An Abosulte Classic ! ! 20 September 2008
    ...nd the classic title track. Walter mattau as the baddie is superbly cast as is Dean Jagger as Elvis' father who is despairing at Elvis lack of enthusiasm to get an educat...   Read customer review
  • Twelve O'Clock High
  • Twelve O'Clock High review by from Andover, Hampshire England
    Rated - 5.0 stars High Flying Leadership 5 February 2007
    ...of history. Every character comes to life off the screen and although it was Dean Jagger who won the Oscar for best supporting actor the whole cast worked as a well oil...   Read customer review
  • X The Unknown
  • X The Unknown review by from London
    Rated - 3.0 stars Intelligent Sludge 24 September 2005
    ...ar of radiation in the mid-50s. Set in the Scottish highlands, Dr Adam Royston (Dean Jagger)fights to save the world from intelligent radioactive sludge emananing from the...   Read customer review

Dean Jagger - filmography


  • Alligator on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Robert Forster,  Robin Riker,  Michael V. Gazzo
    Director: Lewis Teague
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A vicious alligator named Ramon, who was flushed into the city sewer as a baby, survives to become a 32-foot-long menace who devours animals and people alike. Ramon's so huge because of the steady diet of dead pets - treated with growth hormones - that he's fed on for 12 years. Now the tremendous ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 886 members
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  • Game Of Death on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Bruce Lee,  Dean Jagger,  Colleen Camp
    Director: Robert Clouse
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In Bruce Lee last cinema appearance--he died during filming--the kung fu legend as Billy Lo, a famous martial artist who fakes his own death to take revenge on a mysterious syndicate that tries to kill him. The movie also features Sammo Hung, Chuck Norris, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 2,862 members
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  • Vanishing Point on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Barry Newman,  Dean Jagger,  Cleavon Little
    Director: Richard C. Sarafian
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Richard Sarafian directed this minimalist chase film, starring Barry Newman as ex-marine, ex-race car driver and cop named Kowalski. He drives into Denver to deliver a car and pick up another vehicle to drive to San Francisco. To make the fifteen-hour drive to San Francisco bearable he pops a load ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 3,122 members
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  • The Kremlin Letter on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Bibi Anderson,  Richard Boone,  Nigel Green
    Director: John Huston
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When American agents in Moscow try to recover a stolen letter implicating America in an anti-Red China plot, they discover a hornet's nest of treason, double agents, murder, and betrayal. Directed by Hollywood maverick John Huston (THE MALTESE FALCON), The Kremlin Letter is an interesting ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 46 members
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  • Elmer Gantry on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Burt Lancaster,  Jean Simmons,  Dean Jagger
    Director: Richard Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Elmer Gantry is a charming, fast-talking con, working the road as a traveling salesman in the 1920s. Burt Lancaster stars as the elusive Gantry in this charismatic adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's 1927 novel. When Gantry runs across a group of traveling evangelists, he charms their saintly leader, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 591 members
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  • King Creole on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Elvis Presley,  Dean Jagger,  Walter Matthau
    Director: Michael Curtiz
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Considered by many to be the best Elvis movie, KING CREOLE stars the young Mr. Presley as Danny Fisher, a singer with a knack for getting into trouble. After the cops nab him for stealing, Danny vows never to violate the law again. He manages to land a gig singing at a hip nightclub in the French ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 886 members
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  • The Nun's Story on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Audrey Hepburn,  Peter Finch,  Edith Evans
    Director: Fred Zinnemann
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Audrey Hepburn stars in The Nun's Story as Sister Luke, postulant of a Belgian order of nuns. Though frequently disillusioned in her efforts to spread good will -- at one point she is nearly killed by a mental patient (Colleen Dewhurst) -- Sister Luke perseveres. Sent as a nurse to the Belgian ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 296 members
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  • Forty Guns on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Barbara Stanwyck,  Barry Sullivan,  Dean Jagger
    Director: Samuel Fuller
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Cult hero Samuel Fuller wrote and directed this visually inventive western, which didn't fare well with American audiences but earned a potent reputation with European cineastes. Jessica Drummond (Barbara Stanwyck) is a despotic landowner who, with a posse of hired guns, has made herself the law of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 198 members
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  • White Christmas - Blu-ray (1954)
    Starring: Bing Crosby,  Danny Kaye,  Rosemary Clooney
    Director: Michael Curtiz
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Director Michael Curtiz (CASABLANCA, CAPTAIN BLOOD, MILDRED PIERCE) changes directions with this holiday classic. Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. The film includes a veritable treasury of Irving Berlin classics: "Sisters," "..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 129 members
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  • White Christmas on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Bing Crosby,  Danny Kaye,  Rosemary Clooney
    Director: Michael Curtiz
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Director Michael Curtiz (CASABLANCA, CAPTAIN BLOOD, MILDRED PIERCE) changes directions with this holiday classic. Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. The film includes a veritable treasury of Irving Berlin classics: "Sisters," "..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 3,407 members
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  • The Robe on DVD (1953)
    Starring: Jeff Morrow,  Jay Robinson,  Ernest Thesiger
    Director: Henry Koster
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    THE ROBE is one of the finest Biblical epics of all time, based on a best-selling novel by Lloyd C. Douglas. The film tells the story of a Roman, played by Richard Burton, who was in charge of the Crucifixion of Christ and who later is converted to Christianity. This was the first movie to be ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 648 members
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  • Twelve O'Clock High on DVD (1949)
    Starring: Gregory Peck,  Hugh Marlowe,  Gary Merrill
    Director: Henry King
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Dashing Gregory Peck stars as General Frank Savage, commander of the 8th Air Force during World War II. Loosely based on the true story of Major General Frank A. Armstrong, TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH begins with Savage appearing to be a fearless fighter with almost no compassion for his men. Told in ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 876 members
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  • King of the Zombies on DVD (1941)
    Starring: Bela Lugosi,  Bela Lugosi,  Dick Purcell
    Director: Victor Halperin,  Jean Yarbrough
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    During World War 2, a small plane off the south coast of America is low on fuel and blown off course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal, they crashland on an island. The passenger, his manservant and the pilot take refuge in a mansion owned by a doctor. The easily-spooked manservant soon ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 35 members
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  • Western Union (1941)
    Starring: Robert Young,  Randolph Scott,  Dean Jagger
    Director: Fritz Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    While Vance Shaw gives up outlawing to go to work for the telegraph company, his brother Jack Slade leads outlaws trying to prevent the company connecting the line between Omaha and Salt Lake City.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 163 members
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  • White Zombie on DVD (1932)
    Starring: Bela Lugosi,  Bela Lugosi,  Madge Bellamy
    Director: Victor Halperin
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    On a lonely road in the Haiti mountains a couple come upon a burial ceremony. Out of nowhere six human-like creatures appear ....Zombies!
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 269 members
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Dean Jagger facts

5 most recent films

Alligator - 3.0 stars
Game Of Death - 3.0 stars
Vanishing Point - 3.5 stars
The Kremlin Letter - 3.0 stars
Elmer Gantry - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

White Christmas - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
White Christmas - 3.5 stars
The Nun's Story - 3.5 stars
King Creole - 3.5 stars
Vanishing Point - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Revolt of the Zombies - 2.5 stars
King of the Zombies - 2.5 stars
The Kremlin Letter - 3.0 stars
Rawhide - 3.0 stars
Natalie Wood Collection - Cash McCall - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Bela Lugosi - 5 times - show films
Bela Lugosi - 4 times - show films
Bruce Lee - 3 times - show films
Colleen Camp - 3 times - show films
Gig Young - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Victor Halperin - 7 times - show films
Michael Curtiz - 4 times - show films
Robert Clouse - 3 times - show films
Jean Yarbrough - 2 times - show films
Lewis Teague - 1 times - show films