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  • The Cat o'Nine Tails
  • The Cat o'Nine Tails review by wikkidsmyle from Newmarket
    Rated - 4.0 stars 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
  • The Valley Of Gwangi review by from ARMAGH
    Rated - 3.0 stars 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
  • I Passed For White review by FrankIV from
    Rated - 4.0 stars 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: Certificate: 18
    '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 »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 147 members
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  • Good Guys Wear Black on DVD (1978)
    Starring: James Franciscus,  Dana Andrews,  Larry Casey
    Director: Ted Post
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 254 members
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  • Jonathan Livingston Seagull on DVD (1973)
    Starring: James Franciscus,  Hal Holbrook,  Kelly Harmon
    Director: Hall Bartlett
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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.
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 165 members
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  • The Cat o'Nine Tails on DVD (1971)
    Starring: James Franciscus,  Rada Rassimov,  Catherine Spaak
    Director: Dario Argento
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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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 »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 826 members
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  • The Cat O'Nine Tails - Blu-ray (1971)
    Starring: James Franciscus,  Rada Rassimov,  Catherine Spaak
    Director: Dario Argento
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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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 »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 105 members
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  • The Valley Of Gwangi on DVD (1969)
    Starring: James Franciscus,  Gila Golan,  Richard Carlson
    Director: Jim O'Connolly
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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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 »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 664 members
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  • Marooned on DVD (1969)
    Starring: James Franciscus,  Lee Grant,  Gene Hackman
    Director: John Sturges
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 272 members
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  • The Outsider on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Tony Curtis,  James Franciscus,  Gregory Walcott
    Director: Delbert Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 3 members
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  • I Passed For White on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Lon Ballantyne,  James Franciscus,  Max Mellinger
    Director: Fred M. Wilcox
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 22 members
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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