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  • Crossfire review by roncoach from
    Rated - 0.5 stars This is a really poor film 3 May 2011
    ...me). I was wrong. This movie fails on every level. The casting is hopeless : Robert Young is totally out of place as the detective, Robert Mitcham is wasted, Robert Ryan...   Read customer review

Robert Young - filmography


  • Blood Monkey (2007)
    Starring: F. Murray Abraham,  Matthew Ryan,  Sebastian Armesto
    Director: Robert Young
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In this gruesome thriller, six grad students, lured by a legendary professor (F. Murray Abraham) to the jungles of Africa to study apes, suddenly find themselves at the mercy of a horde of bloodthirsty chimps.
    1.5 stars out of 5 27% from 14 members
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  • Eichmann on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Thomas Kretschmann,  Troy Garity,  Franka Potente
    Director: Robert Young
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel as he accounts to Captain Avner Less, a young Israeli Police Officer, of his past as the architect of Hitler's plan for the final solution. Captured by intelligence operatives in Argentina, 15 years after World ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 758 members
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  • Captain Jack (1998)
    Starring: Bob Hoskins,  Sadie Frost,  Peter McDonald
    Director: Robert Young
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Bob Hoskins stars in this charming high seas adventure as Captain Jack, a tough, aging seaman whose travels are now restricted to ferrying tourists around Whitby Bay. Fed up with his now staid life, Jack to decides to retrace the steps of his hero, Captain Scorseby, who sailed from England to Jan ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 271 members
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  • Fierce Creatures on DVD (1997)
    Starring: John Cleese,  Jamie Lee Curtis,  Kevin Kline
    Director: Robert Young,  Fred Schepisi
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    This reunion of the cast of A FISH CALLED WANDA is not a sequel, but features the trademark humor of John Cleese, Kevin Kline, and Jamie Lee Curtis, including Kline's genius double performance as an aging media mogul and his buffoon of a son. A riotous and scatterbrained story of frantic English ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 4,586 members
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  • Hostage on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Sam Neill,  James Fox,  Talisa Soto
    Director: Robert Young
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    John Rennie, a special forces agent is sent to recover an abducted defence analyst from Argentina. Arranging the kidnapping of the chief suspect's children and executing the terrorists should have seen the job finished. But instead John has questions he would like the answers to and strangely his ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 317 members
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  • G.B.H. (4 discs) on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Robert Lindsay,  Michael Palin,  Julie Walters
    Director: Robert Young
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Alan Bleasdale's GBH is an epic, darkly humorous story of power, corruption and madness played out in the conflict between the enigmatic politician, Michael Murray (Robert Lindsay) and his nemesis, schoolteacher Jim Nelson (Michael Palin). Nelson accidentally defies a Murray-inspired 24-hour strike ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1,766 member
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  • Jeeves and Wooster - S01 E05 (1990)
    Starring: Hugh Laurie,  Stephen Fry
    Director: Robert Young
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Bertie is offended because Jeeves was dispatched to convince Anatole to return to Brinkley Court, so he continues to attempt to reunite Tuppy and Angela and bring Gussie and Madeline together; consequently, Gussie and Angela wind up engaged, and Madeline expects Bertie himself to marry her.
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  • Jeeves And Wooster - The Complete 1st Series (2 discs) on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Stephen Fry,  Hugh Laurie
    Director: Robert Young
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Features the entire first season of the beloved series based on P.G. Wodehouse's stories about a hapless aristocrat (Hugh Laurie) and his debonair butler (Stephen Fry), who bails him out of sticky situations. The collection contains Jeeves' Arrival, Hunger Strike, The Matchmaker, Golf Tournament, ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 2,060 members
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  • Jeeves and Wooster - S01 E01 (1990)
    Starring: Stephen Fry,  Hugh Laurie
    Director: Robert Young
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Bertram Wilberforce "Bertie" Wooster returns home with a hangover when a valet named Jeeves rings the doorbell. He fixes Bertie his special hangover cure, and when it proves effective Jeeves is immediately engaged. Bertie has lunch with his aunt Agatha - "the nephew crusher" - at which she ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 90% from 1 member
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  • Jeeves and Wooster - S01 E04 (1990)
    Starring: Stephen Fry,  Hugh Laurie
    Director: Robert Young
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Bertie tries to play Cupid without Jeeves' help. His friend Gussie is in love with Madeline, who happens to be staying at Bertie's Aunt Dahlia's house, so Bertie arranges for him to visit. Meanwhile, Aunt Dahlia is desperate to coax 500 pounds out of her husband for her failing magazine, and Tuppy'..read more »
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  • Jeeves and Wooster - S01 E02 (1990)
    Starring: Stephen Fry,  Hugh Laurie
    Director: Robert Young
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Bertie's current love interest sets him up by giving both him and his rival Barmy the same idea for a practical joke, then gives away the terrier belonging to his Aunt Agatha which he is dog-sitting. Then Bertie is told to break up his friend Tuppy's interest in an opera singer.
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  • Jeeves and Wooster - S01 E03 (1990)
    Starring: Stephen Fry,  Hugh Laurie
    Director: Robert Young
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    When Bertie is instructed by Aunt Agatha to break up his uncle's engagement to a young waitress, he arranges a luncheon for his uncle and the girl's aunt, a common, gaudy woman -- who turns out to be the uncle's long-lost barmaid love. To escape Aunt Agatha's wrath, Bertie and Jeeves travel to the ..read more »
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  • The World Is Full Of Married Men (1979)
    Starring: Anthony Franciosa,  Carroll Baker,  Gareth Hunt
    Director: Robert Young
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Based on Jackie Collins' popular novel. An intricate web of intrigue woven around the complex relationships of people in search of an excitement that can never quite be fulfilled. One character, David Cooper, finds his lifestyle leads him only to frustration, from which there is only one escape... ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 33% from 3 members
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  • Vampire Circus on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Adrienne Corri,  Thorley Walters,  Anthony Higgins
    Director: Robert Young
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Though not as widely known as Hammer's popular Dracula and Frankenstein series, this is one of the studio's more stylish and intelligent projects. The tale is set in 17th century Serbia in the tiny burg of Stettel, whose residents live in fear of an encroaching plague. The frightened villagers ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 391 members
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  • Sitting Pretty (1948)
    Starring: Robert Young,  Maureen O'Hara,  Clifton Webb
    Director: Walter Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 12 members
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  • Crossfire on DVD (1947)
    Starring: Robert Young,  Robert Ryan,  Robert Mitchum
    Director: Edward Dmytryk
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Years of police work have taught Detective Finlay that where there's crime, there's motive. But he finds no usual motive when investigating the beating death of a man. The man was killed because he was a Jew. "Hate," Finlay says, "is like a gun." Robert Young portrays Finlay, Robert Mitchum is a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 387 members
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  • Western Union (1941)
    Starring: Robert Young,  Randolph Scott,  Dean Jagger
    Director: Fritz Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    While Vance Shaw gives up outlawing to go to work for the telegraph company, his brother Jack Slade leads outlaws trying to prevent the company connecting the line between Omaha and Salt Lake City.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 162 members
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  • The Mortal Storm (1940)
    Starring: Margaret Sullavan,  James Stewart,  Robert Young
    Director: Frank Borzage
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The Roth family lead a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930's. When the Nazi's come to power, the family is divided and Martin Brietner, a family friend is caught up in the turmoil.
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 13 members
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  • The Worst Witch on DVD
    Starring: Diana Rigg,  Charlotte Rae,  Tim Curry
    Director: Robert Young
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Pupils turn into pigs, or disappear completely after swallowing the wrong potion. And it's usually down to one person, the worst witch at the school... Mildred Hubble. Not only is she forever falling off her broomstick, she also has terrible problems geting her spells and potions right. The ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 783 members
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Robert Young facts

5 most recent films

Blood Monkey - 1.5 stars
Eichmann - 3.0 stars
Infinite World Of H.G. Wells - 3.0 stars
Inspector Lynley - Series 1 And Pilot - 3.5 stars
Captain Jack - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Jeeves And Wooster - The Complete 1st Series - 4.0 stars
Bergerac - Season 5 - 3.5 stars
Bergerac - Season 3 - 3.5 stars
Robin Of Sherwood - Series 2 - Part 2 - 3.5 stars
G.B.H. - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Blood Monkey - 1.5 stars
The World Is Full Of Married Men - 1.5 stars
They Won't Believe Me - 2.0 stars
The Mortal Storm - 2.0 stars
Charlie Chan - The Warner Oland Collection - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Stephen Fry - 15 times - show films
Hugh Laurie - 13 times - show films
Madeleine Carroll - 3 times - show films
Eve Best - 3 times - show films
John Cleese - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 7 times - show films
Alfred Hitchcock - 3 times - show films
Wesley Ruggles - 1 times - show films
William A. Seiter - 1 times - show films
Ian Toynton - 1 times - show films