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Titanic review by from MIDDLESBROUGH ENGLAND

A CLASSIC MOVIE WITH CLASSY ACTORS 9 September 2006
... JUST TRY TO NAME ONE BIG SCREEN ACTOR FROM OUR TIME WHO CAN SPEAK AND ACT LIKE Clifton Webb ?! ... Read customer review

The Man Who Never Was review by WiseOldBob from York

I dreamed a dead man won a fight, I dreamed the man was I! 13 February 2009
...ome when the central heatings broken down or your girlfriend's turned in early. Clifton Webb is just fantastic as intelligence office Ewan Montagu with some fantaqstic chin... Read customer review

The Razor's Edge review by roncoach from

WONDERFUL FILM !! 5 November 2011
...uthor of the original novel). 3. A charming role ideally deigned for the unique Clifton Webb. 4. A stunning Oscar-winning performance from Anne Baxter; and 5. I come back a... Read customer review

Clifton Webb - filmography

Satan Never Sleeps (1962)
Starring: William Holden, Clifton Webb, France Nuyen
Director: Leo McCarey
Certificate:
The last film by Leo McCarey (AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER) picks up on earlier religious themes in the director's work. It follows Father O'Banion (William Holden, THE WILD BUNCH) to a mission in 1949 China, where he is to take over the position of the elderly Father Bovard (Clifton Webb, CHEAPER BY THE ..read more »

13% from 3 members
Currently unavailable

The Man Who Never Was on DVD (1956)
Starring: Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng
Director: Ronald Neame
Certificate:
This true story of ingenious deception is a riveting tale of wartime espionage. Fascinating account of a daring intelligence operation designed to mislead the Nazis prior to the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily.

71% from 175 members

The Man Who Never Was - Blu-ray (1956)
Starring: Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng
Director: Ronald Neame
Certificate:
Clifton Webb, Robert Flemyng and Gloria Grahame star in this classic drama set during the Second World War, adapted from the book by Ewen Montagu which is based on real events. In order to deceive the Germans into thinking that the Allied forces are preparing to invade Greece, and not Sicily as ..read more »

67% from 26 members

Three Coins In The Fountain on DVD (1955)
Starring: Louis Jourdan, Maggie McNamara, Dorothy McGuire
Director: Jean Negulesco
Certificate:
Three American women in Rome fall for the myth that if you throw a coin into the Fountain of Trevi your wishes will be granted. Naturally, they all wish to be swept off their feet by Italian men, and the film chronicles their rocky road to romance. This was the first Cinemascope picture ever made ..read more »

62% from 490 members

Titanic on DVD (1953)
Starring: Thelma Ritter, Robert Wagner, Barbara Stanwyck
Director: Jean Negulesco
Certificate:
The telling of the fateful maiden voyage of the 'unsinkable' liner, the Titanic. Based on the actual events but using fictional characters to create high drama, excitement and pathos.

62% from 193 members

Titanic - Blu-ray (1953)
Starring: Thelma Ritter, Robert Wagner, Barbara Stanwyck
Director: Jean Negulesco
Certificate:
The telling of the fateful maiden voyage of the 'unsinkable' liner, the Titanic. Based on the actual events but using fictional characters to create high drama, excitement and pathos.

68% from 6 members
Not available for rental

Cheaper By The Dozen on DVD (1950)
Starring: Sara Allgood, Betty Lynn, Mildred Natwick
Director: Walter Lang
Certificate:
Classic comedy based on the autobiographical novel by Frank Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. Clifton Webb stars as Frank Bunker Gilbreth, a turn-of-the-century efficiency expert who tries to apply his exacting work standards to raising his children - all 12 of them.

65% from 162 members

Sitting Pretty (1948)
Starring: Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara, Clifton Webb
Director: Walter Lang
Certificate:
Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously ..read more »

66% from 13 members
Currently unavailable

The Ghost And Mrs Muir on DVD (1947)
Starring: Anna Lee, Preston Foster, Clifton Webb
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, William A. Wellman, John Ford
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Like its TV-sitcom counterpart of the 1960s, the original film version of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir was based on the novel by R.A. Dick. Gene Tierney plays turn-of-the-century widow Lucy Muir, who escapes her impossible in-laws by moving into an old house on the English seacoast. Despite the warnings ..read more »

73% from 1,184 member

The Razor's Edge on DVD (1946)
Starring: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne
Director: Edmund Goulding
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Narrated by on-screen observer Maugham (Herbert Marshall), this intriguing tale centers on a soul-searching World War I veteran (Tyrone Power) who finds he can not settle back into the world of the upper class. Shunning his planned marriage and career, he travels abroad to seek the meaning of life ..read more »

64% from 267 members

Leave Her to Heaven on DVD (1946)
Starring: Preston Foster, Vincent Price, George Sanders
Director: William A. Wellman, John Ford, Otto Preminger
Certificate:
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Classic melodrama starring Gene Tierney and Cornel Wilde. Tierney plays Ellen, a jealous woman engaged to a politician. Uninhibited by this commitment, she lures the handsome Richard into marriage after knowing him just a few days. But Richard soon learns from her sister and mother that Ellen's ..read more »

67% from 526 members

The Dark Corner on DVD (1946)
Starring: William Bendix, Mark Stevens, Clifton Webb
Director: Henry Hathaway
Certificate:
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Classic film-noir starring Mark Stevens as Private investigator Bradford Galt, who has moved to New York from San Fransisco after serving a jail term on account of his lawyer partner, Tony Jardine (Kurt Krueger). When he finds someone is tailing - and possibly trying to kill him, Galt believes ..read more »

64% from 187 members

Laura (1944)
Starring: Preston Foster, Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews
Director: William A. Wellman, Otto Preminger, John Ford
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Nominated for five Academy Awards, this stylish mystery thriller twists and turns with new suspects, new evidence and unexpected revelations. A wealthy, acid-tongued journalist (Clifford Webb) becomes entranced with a beautiful young career woman named Laura (Gene Tierney). But entrancement leads ..read more »

72% from 871 members
Currently unavailable

Thunder Birds on DVD (1942)
Starring: Gene Tierney, Preston Foster, Clifton Webb
Director: William A. Wellman, John Ford, Otto Preminger
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This drama from 1942 was directed by Oscar-winner William A. Wellman, and features stunning aerial photography, that was highly advanced for the time. John Sutton stars as Peter Stackhouse, a British aviophobe who is nonetheless determined to become a pilot. Stackhouse's resolution comes from his ..read more »

53% from 66 members

Tobacco Road on DVD (1941)
Starring: Charley Grapewin, Preston Foster, Clifton Webb
Director: William A. Wellman, John Ford, Otto Preminger
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Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of hillbilly stereotypes live in a rural backwater where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming; subplots involve the affairs and marriages of son ..read more »

58% from 103 members

Gene Tierney Collection
Starring: Preston Foster, George Sanders, Jeanne Crain
Director: William A. Wellman, John Ford, William A. Well
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Five films from the 1940s featuring actress Gene Tierney. William A Wellman directs the WWII aviation drama 'Thunder Birds' (1942). John Sutton stars as Peter Stackhouse, a British aviophobe who is nonetheless determined to become a pilot. Stackhouse's resolution comes from his desire to serve his ..read more »

70% from 429 members
Currently unavailable

Clifton Webb facts

5 most recent films

Satan Never Sleeps - 0.5 stars
The Man Who Never Was - 3.5 stars
The Man Who Never Was - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Three Coins In The Fountain - 3.0 stars
Titanic - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Ghost And Mrs Muir - 3.5 stars
Laura - 3.5 stars
The Man Who Never Was - 3.5 stars
Gene Tierney Collection - 3.5 stars
Leave Her to Heaven - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Satan Never Sleeps - 0.5 stars
Sitting Pretty - 3.0 stars
The Man Who Never Was - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Titanic - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Thunder Birds - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Gene Tierney - 8 times - show films
Jeanne Crain - 8 times - show films
Preston Foster - 7 times - show films
George Sanders - 7 times - show films
Rex Harrison - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

John Ford - 7 times - show films
William A. Wellman - 7 times - show films
Otto Preminger - 7 times - show films
Jean Negulesco - 3 times - show films
Henry Hathaway - 2 times - show films

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