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The Cat o'Nine Tails review by wikkidsmyle from Newmarket

Cool, But Bizarre! 19 March 2008
...aphic, yet beautifully-filmed murders. In this case, we get the blond/blue-eyed James Franciscus playing an Italian journalist and Karl Malden playing a blind ex-journalist, bo... Read customer review

The Valley Of Gwangi review by from ARMAGH

24 June 2004
...See James Franciscus without the orangutan make up. Wonder at the crappy special effects we used to find impressive. Cheer as annoying characters are eaten one at a time. Th... Read customer review

I Passed For White review by FrankIV from

Another Country 10 May 2011
...urid, scandal-sheet approach, some fairly static direction, variable acting and James Franciscus's dancing, is still well worth seeing as a reminder of how far we've come - or,... Read customer review

James Franciscus - filmography

Nightkill (1980)
Starring: James Franciscus, Robert Mitchum, Mike Connors
Director: Ted Post
Certificate:
'Charlie's Angels' star Jaclyn Smith takes the lead in this story of a simple love affair which becomes a deadly game of cat-and-mouse. Katherine Atwell (Smith) has come up with a foolproof plan: she will kill her rich husband, have her lover (James Franciscus) take his place, and no one will be ..read more »

42% from 147 members
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Killer Fish (1979)
Starring: Lee Majors, Margaux Hemmingway, Karen Black
Director: Antonio Margheriti
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Jewel thieves attempt to recover treasure from piranha infested waters. Mistrust and betrayals happen amongst the gang in the quest for gold.

47% from 30 members
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Good Guys Wear Black on DVD (1978)
Starring: James Franciscus, Dana Andrews, Larry Casey
Director: Ted Post
Certificate:
John T. Booker (Chuck Norris) leads a quiet life as a political science professor, but is haunted by his US Army past in Vietnam. Sent on a mission to rescue American POWs, Booker's squad had been almost entirely wiped out, the remaining six soldiers enduring three weeks in the jungle before making ..read more »

51% from 254 members

Jonathan Livingston Seagull on DVD (1973)
Starring: James Franciscus, Hal Holbrook, Kelly Harmon
Director: Hall Bartlett
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Tired of being one in a flock, Jonathan the seagull flies away from his friends to make it on his own in a mythical journey to self-realisation. Based on the best selling novel by Richard Bach with narration from Juliet Mills, James Franciscus and Hal Holbrook.

52% from 165 members

The Cat o'Nine Tails on DVD (1971)
Starring: James Franciscus, Rada Rassimov, Catherine Spaak
Director: Dario Argento
Certificate:
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Italian master of horror Dario Argento's second directorial effort (and the centerpiece of the 'animal trilogy' of giallos--or mystery/thrillers--which includes BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE and FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET) is a suspenseful murder mystery infused with the filmmaker's trademark ..read more »

60% from 826 members

The Cat O'Nine Tails - Blu-ray (1971)
Starring: James Franciscus, Rada Rassimov, Catherine Spaak
Director: Dario Argento
Certificate:
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Early Dario Argento thriller. Karl Malden plays a former newsman, Franco Arno, who has been blinded in an accident, but his thirst for solving puzzles has never been quelled. He overhears a blackmail plot and teams up with an investigative journalist to uncover the truth behind a sinister chain of ..read more »

62% from 105 members

Beneath The Planet Of The Apes on DVD (1970)
Starring: James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans
Director: Ted Post
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The bizarre world you met in 'Planet of the Apes' was only the beginning... What lies beneath may be the end!

61% from 1,467 member

The Valley Of Gwangi on DVD (1969)
Starring: James Franciscus, Gila Golan, Richard Carlson
Director: Jim O'Connolly
Certificate:
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A group of adventurers head to Mexico's Forbidden Valley and capture a prehistoric monster that they put in a circus show. The creature soon escapes and wreaks bloody revenge on its captors in this re-working of the King Kong style film - notable for the use of Ray Harryhausen's Dynamation stop-..read more »

62% from 664 members

Marooned on DVD (1969)
Starring: James Franciscus, Lee Grant, Gene Hackman
Director: John Sturges
Certificate:
John Sturges' tense drama is based on the novel by Martin Caidin and won an Academy Award for Special Visual Effects. Whilst on an extended space mission, three astronauts - crew commander Jim Pruett (Richard Crenna), scientist/astronaut Clayton Stone (James Franciscus) and pilot Buzz Lloyd (Gene ..read more »

51% from 272 members

The Outsider on DVD (1962)
Starring: Tony Curtis, James Franciscus, Gregory Walcott
Director: Delbert Mann
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A hero to everybody but himself Tony Curtis stars as a hero of Iwo Jima struggling with the pain of survival. A shy 17-year-old Pima Indian, Ira Hamilton Hayes, shocks his parents when he enlists in the army during World War II. While most of his white companions ignore him, Ira strikes up a ..read more »

63% from 3 members

I Passed For White on DVD (1960)
Starring: Lon Ballantyne, James Franciscus, Max Mellinger
Director: Fred M. Wilcox
Certificate:
Drama about a young girl who gets married in the 1960s, but neglects to tell her husband she is of biracial heritage. Bernice Lee (Sonya Wilde) is a light-skinned African American, but is dismissed as a liar by those she tells of her roots. After trying and failing to be herself, she moves away and ..read more »

50% from 22 members

James Franciscus facts

5 most recent films

Nightkill - 2.0 stars
Killer Fish - 2.5 stars
Good Guys Wear Black - 2.5 stars
Jonathan Livingston Seagull - 2.5 stars
The Cat o'Nine Tails - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Cat O'Nine Tails - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
The Valley Of Gwangi - 3.0 stars
Beneath The Planet Of The Apes - 3.0 stars
The Cat o'Nine Tails - 3.0 stars
Jonathan Livingston Seagull - 2.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Killer Fish - 2.5 stars
I Passed For White - 2.5 stars
The Outsider - 3.0 stars
Nightkill - 2.0 stars
Good Guys Wear Black - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Rada Rassimov - 3 times - show films
Pier Paolo Capponi - 3 times - show films
Horst Frank - 3 times - show films
Karl Malden - 3 times - show films
Catherine Spaak - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Dario Argento - 3 times - show films
Ted Post - 3 times - show films
Jim O'Connolly - 2 times - show films
Hall Bartlett - 1 times - show films
Fred M. Wilcox - 1 times - show films

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