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Quatermass and the Pit review by from Wolverhampton, England

About Time This Was Released Here! 26 September 2004
...is superb as Professor Quatermass, Julian Glover in good form as Colonel Breen, James Donald as Professor Shelley. I've had this on DVD since 1999 when I picked it up in... Read customer review

James Donald - filmography

The Big Sleep on DVD (1977)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone
Director: Michael Winner
Certificate:
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A faithful remake of the 1946 original in which private eye Philip Marlowe finds himself involved in murder, blackmail and violence when hired to protect a General's young daughter.

51% from 784 members

Quatermass And The Pit - Blu-ray (1967)
Starring: James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Certificate:
Hobbs End, Knightsbridge, London. Whilst working on a new subway tunnel for the London Underground a group of construction workers uncover a strangely shaped skull amongst the rubble. Nearby is another discovery: a large, mysterious and impenetrable metal object. Initially mistaken for an ..read more »

75% from 235 members

Quatermass and the Pit on DVD (1967)
Starring: James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Certificate:
An ancient Martian spaceship is unearthed in London, and proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around.

70% from 2,687 members

The Great Escape on DVD (1963)
Starring: Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Garner
Director: John Sturges
Certificate:
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Arguably the best World War II adventure film ever made, John Sturges's dramatisation of the true story of a group of British, American, and Canadian POWs who executed a massive escape from Stalag Luft III in Upper Silesia in March 1944, stars Steve McQueen as the rebellious Virgil Hilts. The ..read more »

76% from 25,537 members

The Vikings on DVD (1958)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine
Director: Richard Fleischer
Certificate:
Inspired by the novel The Viking by Edison Marshall, The Vikings was lensed on location in Norway under extremely adverse weather conditions. Adding to the difficulty was the fact that star Kirk Douglas and director Richard Fleischer never quite found a common ground, and for years thereafter would ..read more »

70% from 1,828 member

The Bridge On The River Kwai - Blu-ray (1957)
Starring: Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins
Director: David Lean
Certificate:
One of the all-time great war films, THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI is yet another classic from the marvelous David Lean (LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, DR. ZHIVAGO). The film is an outstanding, psychologically complex adaptation of Pierre Boulle's 1952 novel, a classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to ..read more »

80% from 462 members

The Bridge on the River Kwai on DVD (1957)
Starring: Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins
Director: David Lean
Certificate:
The Bridge on the River Kwai opens in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1943, where a battle of wills rages between camp commander Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) and newly arrived British colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness). Saito insists that Nicholson order his men to build a bridge over ..read more »

71% from 16,690 members

Lust For Life on DVD (1956)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, James Donald, Anthony Quinn
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Certificate:
This filmed biography of Vincent Van Gogh was adapted by Norman Corwin from the best-selling novel by Irving Stone, which was in turn inspired by the written correspondence between Van Gogh and his brother Theo. Kirk Douglas plays the tormented genius, whose obsessive devotion to his art engulfs, ..read more »

68% from 399 members

Gift Horse on DVD (1952)
Starring: Trevor Howard, Richard Attenborough, James Donald
Director: Compton Bennett
Certificate:
Trevor Howard and Richard Attenborough star in this famous story of a Royal Navy destroyer and her officers and crew during the early years of the Second World War. H.M.S. Ballantrae is an ex-U.S. Navy destroyer - one of fifty lent by the Americans in 1940 to a desperate Royal Navy fighting to keep ..read more »

70% from 121 members

Brandy For The Parson on DVD (1951)
Starring: Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth More, Kenneth More
Director: John Eldridge
Certificate:
Bill Harper (James Donald) and Petronilla Brand (Jean Lodge), a young couple on a yachting holiday together, become involved with Tony Rackham (Kenneth More), who is smuggling brandy from France to a respectable London wine merchants. Through various mishaps, Bill and Petronilla find themselves ..read more »

55% from 112 members

Trottie True on DVD (1949)
Starring: Jean Kent, James Donald, Hugh Sinclair
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
Certificate:
British screen legend Jean Kent stars in this exuberant comedy-drama about a showgirl who marries a lord. After making her name in the music halls, Trottie True (Kent) is recruited to join the legendary Gaiety theatre in London. As a ‘Gaiety Girl’, she attracts the attention of some very well-bred ..read more »

53% from 13 members

James Donald facts

5 most recent films

The Big Sleep - 2.5 stars
Quatermass And The Pit - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Quatermass and the Pit - 3.5 stars
The Great Escape - 4.0 stars
The Vikings - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Bridge On The River Kwai - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Great Escape - 4.0 stars
Quatermass And The Pit - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Bridge on the River Kwai - 3.5 stars
The Vikings - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Trottie True - 2.5 stars
The Big Sleep - 2.5 stars
Brandy For The Parson - 3.0 stars
Lust For Life - 3.5 stars
Quatermass and the Pit - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Richard Attenborough - 5 times - show films
James Coburn - 4 times - show films
Nigel Stock - 4 times - show films
John Leyton - 4 times - show films
Donald Pleasence - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

David Lean - 4 times - show films
John Sturges - 4 times - show films
Roy Ward Baker - 2 times - show films
Michael Winner - 2 times - show films
John Eldridge - 1 times - show films