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  • Touch Of Evil
  • Touch Of Evil review by from North Tyneside
    Rated - 5 stars Orson Welles does film noir 7 January 2004
    ... Marlene Dietrich, Josephy Cotton and Zsa Zsa Gabor filling out minor roles and Akim Tamiroff and Welles himself try to out-do each other in the grotesquery stakes, in a pai...  

Akim Tamiroff - filmography


  • Lord Jim on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Peter O'Toole,  James Mason,  Eli Wallach
    Director: Richard Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This faithful adaptation of Joseph Conrad's 1900 novel tells the story of a romantic young Englishman, Jim (Peter O'Toole), who takes to the sea on a merchant vessel in his quest for adventure. Imagining himself to be a great man with a bright future, Jim instead deserts at the first true test of ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 215 members
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  • Topkapi on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Melina Mercouri,  Maximilian Schell,  Peter Ustinov
    Director: Jules Dassin
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Five years after directing the heist classic RIFIFI, Jules Dassin returns to robbery with TOPKAPI. Again there is a long and daring break-in, as his heroes attempt to steal the priceless Emerald Dagger from the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul, but in contrast to the bleak RIFIFI, the mood in ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 356 members
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  • Touch Of Evil on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Charlton Heston,  Janet Leigh,  Orson Welles
    Director: Orson Welles
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Welles plays the racist Captain Hank Quinlan, a grotesque, troubled, and powerful figure who runs his small U.S. border town according to his own version of the law. Quinlan's brutishness and vulgarity contrast starkly with the idealism and playboy good looks of Charlton Heston as Mike Vargas, a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 5,077 members
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  • Yangtse Incident on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Richard Todd,  William Hartnell,  Akim Tamiroff
    Director: Michael Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    HMS Amethyst is on a peaceful mission up the Yangtse delivering supplies when she is attacked by communist shore batteries and twenty-two British sailors are killed and the ship's bridge destroyed. The only way out for the survivors is to run a one hundred and forty mile gauntlet of hostility.
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 75% from 45 members
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  • Mr. Arkadin on DVD (1955)
    Starring: Robert Arden,  Paola Mori,  Michael Redgrave
    Director: Orson Welles
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A dying man's final words send two people to Gregory Arkadin (Orson Welles), a mysterious and much-feared billionaire who lives on a Xanadu-like castle. In Welles's noirish MR. ARKADIN, Robert Arden stars as Guy Van Stratten, an adventurer and fortune hunter who is interested in Arkadin's money--..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 517 members
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  • They Who Dare on DVD (1953)
    Starring: Dirk Bogarde,  Denholm Elliott,  Akim Tamiroff
    Director: Lewis Milestone
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A British WWII feature in which a group of soldiers take on a daring mission in the Aegean. Directed by ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT's Lewis Milestone, it stars Dirk Bogarde and Denholm Elliott as British soldiers sent on a grim mission on the island of Rhodes.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 485 members
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  • Can't Help Singing on DVD (1944)
    Starring: Deanna Durbin,  Robert Paige,  Akim Tamiroff
    Director: Frank Ryan
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The only Deanna Durbin film made in colour, Can't Help Singing was a spectacular musical triumph nominated for two Academy Awards and a real favourite with her fans. Featuring four great songs from Deanna Durbin - "Can't Help Singing", "Any Moment Now", "More and More" and "Cal-i-for-ni-ay" , Can't ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 130 members
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  • Desire on DVD (1936)
    Starring: Alan Mowbray,  John Halliday,  Zeffie Tilbury
    Director: Frank Borzage
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Classic romantic drama starring Marlene Dietrich as Madeleine de Beaupre (Dietrich), a crafty and calculating jewel thief. After smuggling some valuable pearls away from a Parisian jeweller, Madeleine attempts to leave the country, framing psychiatrist Dr. Pauquet (Alan Mowbray) in the process. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 21 members
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Akim Tamiroff facts

5 most recent films

After The Fox - 3.0 stars
Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N. - 2.5 stars
Lord Jim - 3.0 stars
Alphaville - 3.0 stars
Topkapi - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Touch Of Evil - 3.5 stars
The Great McGinty - 3.5 stars
Alphaville - 3.0 stars
Anastasia - 3.0 stars
Topkapi - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N. - 2.5 stars
Donald Sinden Icon Collection - You Know What Sailors Are - 3.0 stars
Desire - 3.5 stars
Yangtse Incident - 4.0 stars
For Whom The Bell Tolls - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Katina Paxinou - 2 times - show films
Gary Cooper - 2 times - show films
Ingrid Bergman - 2 times - show films
Marlene Dietrich - 2 times - show films
Orson Welles - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Orson Welles - 2 times - show films
Vittorio De Sica - 1 times - show films
Frank Ryan - 1 times - show films
Jim Goddard - 1 times - show films
Jules Dassin - 1 times - show films