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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,  Sydney Lassick,  Michael V. Gazzo
    Director: Lewis Teague
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Flushed down the toilet when still a baby, Ramon is the pet alligator who lives in the Chicago sewers, feasting on the corpses of hormone-injected laboratory animals, only to emerge years later as a 36 foot long killer. David Madison (Robert Forster) is the cop assigned to catch him. A sometimes ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 931 members
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  • Game Of Death on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Dean Jagger,  Bruce Lee,  Gig Young
    Director: Robert Clouse
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Bruce Lee died halfway through the making of this martial arts action movie which was completed using doubles and released six years later. It follows the story of a successful martial artist who refuses to join a crime syndicate and has a contract put on his head. The assassination attempt fails ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 2,924 members
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  • Vanishing Point on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Robert Donner,  Cleavon Little,  Barry Newman
    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 3,327 members
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  • The Kremlin Letter on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Lila Kedrova,  Orson Welles,  Dean Jagger
    Director: John Huston
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    John Huston directs this classic spy thriller starring Richard Boone, Orson Welles, Bibi Andersson and Max von Sydow. An undercover espionage agency recruits Charles Ron (Patrick O'Neal), a young intelligence officer with a photographic memory, to assist with a top-secret mission inside Russia. The ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 59 members
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  • Elmer Gantry on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Edward Andrews,  Burt Lancaster,  Dean Jagger
    Director: Richard Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster), a drunken, dishonest street preacher allegedly patterned on Billy Sunday, wrangles a job with the travelling tent ministry conducted by Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons). Thanks to Gantry's enthusiastic hellfire-and-brimstone sermons, Sister Sharon's operation ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 630 members
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  • King Creole on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Carolyn Jones,  Dolores Hart,  Paul Stewart
    Director: Michael Curtiz
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Elvis stars as Danny Fisher, a juvenile delinquent who works his way up from bus boy to nightclub singer, only to fall in with a bunch of gangsters and criminals. Danny wants to do things the honest way, but mobster Maxie Fields (Walter Matthau) is determined to get the young fellow playing on his ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 912 members
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  • The Nun's Story on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Dean Jagger,  Mildred Dunnock,  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 73% from 345 members
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  • Forty Guns on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Gene Barry,  Dean Jagger,  Barbara Stanwyck
    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 62% from 226 members
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  • White Christmas on DVD (1954)
    Starring: John Brascia,  Dean Jagger,  Vera Ellen
    Director: Michael Curtiz
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Two army buddies (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) team up after the war and become a successful song-and-dance act. While on a skiing holiday the pair stage a benefit to save an inn run by their old commander, who is beset by financial difficulties resulting from a lack of snow. The title song, `White ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 3,554 members
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  • White Christmas - Blu-ray (1954)
    Starring: John Brascia,  Dean Jagger,  Vera Ellen
    Director: Michael Curtiz
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Two army buddies (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) team up after the war and become a successful song-and-dance act. While on a skiing holiday the pair stage a benefit to save an inn run by their old commander, who is beset by financial difficulties resulting from a lack of snow. The title song, `White ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 163 members
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  • The Robe on DVD (1953)
    Starring: Torin Thatcher,  Ernest Thesiger,  Dean Jagger
    Director: Henry Koster
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Marcellus Gallio (Richard Burton) is a Roman centurion who wins the robe of the crucified Christ while gambling at the foot of the cross. At first insensitive to the beliefs of the new Christian church, Marcellus' possession of the robe soon begins to have a profound effect upon both him and his ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 685 members
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  • Rawhide on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Tyrone Power,  Susan Hayward,  Hugh Marlowe
    Director: Henry Hathaway
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    A stagecoach stop employee and a stranded woman traveler find themselves at the mercy of four desperate outlaws intent on robbing the next day's gold shipment.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 47 members
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  • Twelve O'Clock High on DVD (1949)
    Starring: Gary Merrill,  Hugh Marlowe,  Dean Jagger
    Director: Henry King
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Colonel Keith Davenport (Gary Merrill) is more of a friend than a commander to his men, a US bomber crew stationed in wartime Britain. After a series of dangerous missions, the pilots are living on their nerves and when Davenport is replaced by the callous General Savage (Gregory Peck), the latter'..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 935 members
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  • Western Union (1941)
    Starring: Dean Jagger,  Robert Young,  Randolph Scott
    Director: Fritz Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    When former outlaw Vance Shaw (Randolph Scott), ex-outlaw, is hired to protect a line from marauding Indians, he discovers that his outlaw brother Jack Slade (Barton McLane) is leading a band of criminals trying to prevent him from doing so. With two brothers locked in such a furious struggle, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 174 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 55% from 43 members
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  • White Zombie on DVD (1932)
    Starring: Bela Lugosi,  Dean Jagger,  Bela Lugosi
    Director: Victor Halperin
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    It is altogether typical of Bela Lugosi's lousy business judgement that he accepted one of his finest film roles for a mere $500 dollars. In the haunting low-budgeter White Zombie, Lugosi stars as Murder Legendre, a shadowy character who exercises supernatural powers over the natives in his Haitian ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 287 members
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  • The Anna Neagle Collection (6 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Janette Scott,  Dean Jagger,  John McCallum
    Director: Herbert Wilcox
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A collection of the British actress's films. In 'Derby Day' (1952), Neagle stars in a collection of comic andf dramatic stories based around the famous horse race at Epsom. In 'I Live In Grosvenor Square' (1945), a WWII romance set around the US troops base in London, Neagle plays Lady Patricia ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 65 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
Natalie Wood Collection - Cash McCall - 3.0 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

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

Most frequent co-stars

Bela Lugosi - 5 times - show films
Bela Lugosi - 4 times - show films
Gig Young - 3 times - show films
Hugh O'Brian - 3 times - show films
Bruce Lee - 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
Henry Hathaway - 2 times - show films