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  • Giant
  • Giant review by A customer from Reading
    Rated - 2.0 stars dated melodrama 6 August 2004
    ...oor and not helped by an unsympathetic character which remains one dimensional. Rock Hudson shows greater range than his Doris Day movies but still seems lost, only Liz Ta...   Read customer review
  • Embryo
  • Embryo review by from Cardiff, Wales
    Rated - 3.0 stars This could happen in the near future....... (Yeah right) 12 April 2005
    ...t and indecipherable scientific babble, lies a decent piece of cinematic trash. Rock Hudson stars has Dr Paul Holliston, a scientist who devises a method of growing foetus...   Read customer review
  • Seconds
  • Seconds review by A customer from UK
    Rated - 5.0 stars A cult classic 5 July 2006
    ...rsonal identity. A box office flop, it's a lost / little known classic in which Rock Hudson gives a career-best performance. ...   Read customer review

Rock Hudson - filmography


  • Seminole on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Russell Johnson,  Anthony Quinn,  James Best
    Director: Budd Boetticher
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    1950s western starring Rock Hudson. It's 1835, and at Fort King, Florida Lt Caldwell (Rock Hudson) is under arrest for killing a sentry. At the court-marshall, the events leading up to the arrest are told in flashbacks. Unease between the Army and the local Indians is heightened by the Indian-..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 41 members
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  • The Mirror Crack'd on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Elizabeth Taylor,  Angela Lansbury,  Tony Curtis
    Director: Guy Hamilton
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Excitement runs high when the feuding film stars Marina Rudd (Elizabeth Taylor) and Lola Brewster (Kim Novak) arrive in the sleepy English village of St Mary Mead, ready to begin work on a movie about Elizabeth I and Lady Jane Grey. But the experience quickly turns sour when an innocent bystander ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 310 members
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  • Martian Chronicles (2 discs) on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Rock Hudson,  Gayle Hunnicutt
    Director: Michael Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Rock Hudson stars in this made-for-TV science fiction mini-series about the early colonisation of Mars by settlers from Earth, based on Ray Bradbury's vision of the future in 'The Silver Locusts'. With two previous missions having failed to successfuly colonise the red planet, Colonel John Wilder (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 327 members
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  • Embryo on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Vincent Baggetta,  Rock Hudson,  Barbara Carrera
    Director: Ralph Nelson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    1970s sci-fi horror starring Rock Hudson. In three days a scientist (Hudson) grows a fully developed woman by injecting a special growth hormone into an embryo that he took from a female suicide victim. The woman (Barbara Carrera) falls madly for her creator but the experiment inevitably goes wrong ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 109 members
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  • Darling Lili on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Rock Hudson,  Julie Andrews
    Director: Blake Edwards
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Musical set in World War II starring Julie Andrews as Lili Smith, a famous femme fatale music-hall singer with a dark secret: she is also working as a German spy. Things are further complicated for Lili when she is ordered to seduce the dashing Major William Larrabee (Rock Hudson), and finds ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 133 members
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  • Ice Station Zebra on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Jim Brown,  Patrick McGoohan,  Rock Hudson
    Director: John Sturges
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Cold War thriller with Rock Hudson as a submarine commander leading the race to capture a fallen Russian satellite near the North Pole. Patrick McGoohan plays a British agent on the trail of a Russian spy.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 944 members
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  • Seconds (1966)
    Starring: Rock Hudson,  Salome Jens
    Director: John Frankenheimer
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    John Frankenheimer's chilling vision of middle-aged malaise concerns 50ish banker, Arthur Hamilton (John Randolph). Bored with his wife and comfortably retired life, Arthur happens to run into Charlie Evans (Murray Hamilton), an old friend he believed to be dead. He gives Arthur a tip on a secret ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 81 members
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  • Man's Favourite Sport on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Roscoe Karns,  Paula Prentiss,  John McGiver
    Director: Howard Hawks
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Roger Willoughby (Rock Hudson) is a super salesman of sporting goods who sells fishing equipment but knows nothing about the sport. Roger's boss Cadwalader (John McGiver) gets an idea from publicity director Abigail (Paula Prentiss) to enter him in a fishing contest, and the inept angler has a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 217 members
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  • The Comancheros on DVD (1961)
    Starring: John Wayne,  Stuart Whitman,  Lee Marvin
    Director: Michael Curtiz,  Andrew V. McLaglen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In this explosive and absorbing wild west adventure, John Wayne stars as Captain Cutter, a fearless Texas Ranger determined to crush a violent gang of gunrunners. Through unforeseen circumstances, he inlists two unlikely partners to accomplish his mission.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 907 members
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  • The Last Sunset on DVD (1961)
    Starring: Rock Hudson,  Kirk Douglas,  Dorothy Malone
    Director: Robert Aldrich
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Hollywood legends Rock Hudson and Kirk Douglas star on opposite sides of the law in this dramatic tale of justice and forbidden love. Sheriff Dana Stribling (Hudson) hunts down Brendan O'Malley (Douglas), a hot-headed but affable rogue charged with murder. O'Malley takes refuge in Mexico at the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 23 members
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  • The Undefeated on DVD (1961)
    Starring: John Wayne,  Stuart Whitman,  Lee Marvin
    Director: Michael Curtiz,  Andrew V. McLaglen
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In the tumultuous aftermath of the Civil War, Union Cavalry officer John Henry Thomas (Wayne) takes his heroic men west while Southerner James Langdon (Hudson) takes his soldiers to Mexico. When their paths cross, they forge an uneasy friendship that is quickyly tested as they get caught between ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 623 members
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  • Come September (1961)
    Starring: Walter Slezak,  Rock Hudson,  Sandra Dee
    Director: Robert Mulligan
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Rock Hudson stars in this frothy romantic comedy as filthy-rich American Robert Talbot. Talbot owns an Italian villa, where he traditionally stays only one month out of the year (September), but when Talbot suddenly decides to show up in July, Talbot's major overseer Maurice (Walter Slezak) is ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 309 members
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  • Lover Come Back (1961)
    Starring: Doris Day,  Rock Hudson,  Tony Randall
    Director: Delbert Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Account executive Hudson uses unethical means fo securing accounts while Day lures clients with her charm and knowledge. But when he steals a client out from under her nose, revenge propels her to infiltrate his secret VIP campaign in order to persuade the mystery product's scientist to switch to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 939 members
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  • Pillow Talk - Blu-ray (1959)
    Starring: Thelma Ritter,  Nick Adams,  Rock Hudson
    Director: Michael Gordon
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Jan Morrow (Doris Day) is a level-headed interior designer who shares a phone line with resident swinging bachelor Brad Allen (Rock Hudson). He annoys her by hogging the line with calls to his numerous girlfriends, whilst she irritates him by her refusal to accept his sweet-talking charms. Brad ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 18 members
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  • Pillow Talk (1959)
    Starring: Doris Day,  Rock Hudson,  Tony Randall
    Director: Michael Gordon
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The uninhibited story of a carefree bachelor and a carefree career girl and the hilarious things that happen when they tangle. Rock Hudson is Brad Allen a songwriter and notorious playboy. Doris Day is Jan Morrow, a "pert" interior decorator. Together they share a party line over which they develop ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 2,029 members
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  • Battle Hymn on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Don Defore,  Rock Hudson,  Martha Hyer
    Director: Douglas Sirk
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Biographical war drama starring Rock Hudson as US Air Force pilot Colonel Dean Hess. As a training officer in the Korean War, Hess gets the chance to atone for his unintentional bombing of a German orphanage during World War II. While fighting the enemy he attempts to save orphaned refugees by ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 14 members
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  • A Farewell To Arms on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Vittorio De Sica,  Oscar Homolka,  Elaine Stritch
    Director: Charles Vidor
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A big budget remake of the 1932 original based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. Rock Hudson stars as the American ambulance driver who falls in love with his nurse (Jennifer Jones) after being wounded in World War One, and deserts his post in order to be with her.
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 197 members
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  • Giant on DVD (1956)
    Starring: Elizabeth Taylor,  James Dean,  Carroll Baker
    Director: George Stevens
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    An epic saga begins when Texas cattle baron Bick Benedict (Rock Hudson) takes a non-Texan wife, Leslie (Elizabeth Taylor). The story then traces two generations of his family, alongside the life of disreputable ranch-hand Jett Rink (James Dean), who strikes it rich on an oil well and falls in love ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 2,667 members
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  • Never Say Goodbye (1955)
    Starring: Rock Hudson
    Director: Jerry Hopper
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In present-day U.S., Dr. Michael Parker, a prominent surgeon, unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife whom he thought was dead.
    1 star out of 5 15% from 4 members
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  • Taza, Son of Cochise on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Rock Hudson,  Jeff Chandler,  Barbara Rush
    Director: Douglas Sirk
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Three years after the end of the Apache wars, peacemaking chief Cochise dies. His elder son Taza shares his ideas, but brother Naiche yearns for war - and for Taza's betrothed, Oona. Naiche loses no time in starting trouble which, thanks to a bigoted cavalry officer, ends with the proud Chiricahua ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 16 members
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  • Gun Fury on DVD (1953)
    Starring: Philip Carey,  Neville Brand,  Roberta Haynes
    Director: Raoul Walsh
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Civil War veteran Ben Warren (Rock Hudson) decides that he has had enough of all the violence around him, so he plans to live out the rest of his life in peace in the New West with his fiancee (Donna Reed). Unfortunately, his new-found pacifism is put to the test when his bride-to-be is kidnapped ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 53 members
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  • Sea Devils on DVD (1952)
    Starring: Maxwell Reed,  Yvonne De Carlo,  Rock Hudson
    Director: Raoul Walsh
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Classic swashbuckling adventure starring Rock Hudson. With the threat of Napoleonic invasion hanging heavy over Britain, the mysterious Drouette (Yvonne DeCarlo) meets Gilliat (Hudson): a Guernsey smuggler who directs her to the chief of customs. He agrees to help her to get back to France to help ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 48 members
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  • Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952)
    Starring: Piper Laurie,  Rock Hudson,  Charles Coburn
    Director: Douglas Sirk
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A rare comedy from Sirk, but still dealing with family issues and status. Samuel Futon (Charles Coburn) decides to leave his millions to the family of a lost love. However, he tests their worthiness by taking a room in the family home, working for the family business and secretly donating a large ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 112 members
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  • Bend Of The River on DVD (1952)
    Starring: James Stewart,  Rock Hudson,  Julie Adams
    Director: Anthony Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Classic western starring James Stewart. Glyn McLyntock (Stewart) is a man with a past. As he attempts to help a group of Missouri settlers cross the Oregon Trail to the Columbia River Basin, he is double-crossed by Emerson Cole (Arthur Kennedy), the man he thought of as a friend. However, he finds ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 771 members
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  • Tomahawk (1951)
    Starring: Van Heflin,  Van Heflin,  Alex Nicol
    Director: George Sherman
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In 1866 the U.S. Government and the leaders of the Sioux Nations met to negotiate a passage through Indian territory, when gold is discovered in the mountains of Montana. Unable to reach an agreement, the U.S. Cavalry defy the peace treaty and build a fort to protect their new road. Van Heflin ..read more »
    1 star out of 5 20% from 1 member
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  • Douglas Sirk Collection on DVD
    Starring: Rock Hudson,  Sandra Dee,  Jane Wyman
    Director: Douglas Sirk
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Douglas Sirk's body of work collected for posterity. The man is a Hollywood icon to actors and producers that have followed in his footsteps. His influence is still felt in the work of Todd Haynes, Rainer Fassbinder, John Walters, Martin Scorsese and others.
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 1,002 member
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Rock Hudson facts

5 most recent films

The Ambassador - 3 stars
Seminole - 3.0 stars
The Mirror Crack'd - 3.0 stars
Martian Chronicles - 3.5 stars
Embryo - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Seconds - 3.5 stars
Douglas Sirk Collection - 3.5 stars
Pillow Talk - 3.5 stars
Lover Come Back - 3.5 stars
The Comancheros - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Ambassador - 3 stars
Never Say Goodbye - 1.0 stars
Tomahawk - 1.0 stars
Taza, Son of Cochise - 2.5 stars
Sea Devils - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Elizabeth Taylor - 6 times - show films
Tony Randall - 4 times - show films
Lee Marvin - 4 times - show films
James Dean - 4 times - show films
Doris Day - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Douglas Sirk - 6 times - show films
George Stevens - 5 times - show films
Daniel Petrie - 4 times - show films
John Astin - 4 times - show films
Barry Shear - 4 times - show films