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  • The Manchurian Candidate
  • The Manchurian Candidate review by from Bromsgrove, England
    Rated - 4.0 stars A Memorable and Important Thriller 2 April 2004
    ...Top 100 Movies of All Time' lists. Frank Sinatra is decent as always, but it's Laurence Harvey as the brainwashed sleeper agent who is the highlight of the movie. It feat...   Read customer review
  • Darling
  • Darling review by A customer from Staffordshire, England
    Rated - 4.0 stars Charming But Brain Dead 23 February 2010
    ...ether, but when he shows that he is serious Diana turns her attention to Miles (Laurence Harvey) who has connections in the media. Perhaps more by luck than judgement Diana m...   Read customer review
  • Three Men in a Boat
  • Three Men in a Boat review by A customer from UK
    Rated - 2.0 stars Customer Review 23 June 2008
    ...ssic book was maybe always a flawed one. Add a little miscasting - (I felt that Laurence Harvey was horribly miscast as George), add script elements that really jar with the t...   Read customer review

Laurence Harvey - filmography


  • The Magic Christian on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Yul Brynner,  Wilfrid Hyde White,  Peter Sellers
    Director: Joseph McGrath
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    This zany British comedy finds a homeless hobo (Ringo Starr) being adopted by the world's richest man, Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers). Setting sail on the luxury liner The Magic Christian, Sir Grand tests the limit of human avarice. With money to motivate the greedy, Laurence Harvey combines his ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 487 members
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  • A Dandy In Aspic on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Laurence Harvey,  Per Oscarsso,  Harry Andrews
    Director: Anthony Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Thriller directed by Anthony Mann. Laurence Harvey stars as Eberlin, a Russian spy and double-agent, homesick and pining for the Russian steppes. It is in this risky mood that Eberlin falls in love with the emaciated Caroline (Mia Farrow). Complications arise when he is directed to kill a Russian ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 133 members
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  • The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966)
    Starring: Laurence Harvey,  Daliah Lavi,  Lionel Jeffries
    Director: Daniel Petrie
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A veterinarian is hired by the British government to implant a recording device into a bulldog, which will then be given to the Russians as a gift. When the dog gets sick, the vet must fly to Russia to treat it before the Russians find out the animal is "bugged."
    1.5 stars out of 5 26% from 10 members
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  • Life At The Top on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Frances Cosslett,  Margaret Johnston,  George A. Cooper
    Director: Ted Kotcheff
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Sequel to 'Room at the Top' (1959), following a northern man who heads to London in search of a change in fortune. Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey) thinks he has it made. He has married his boss's daughter, Susan (Jean Simmons), and looks forward to a settled life of advancement within the company and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 48 members
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  • Darling on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Laurence Harvey,  Pat Phoenix,  Tom Bell
    Director: Bryan Forbes,  John Schlesinger
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Diana Scott (Julie Christie in an Oscar winning performance) is an ambitious model determined to make it to the top. Using her sexuality, she manipulates powerful men, but in so doing becomes a prisoner of the jet-setting lifestyle she once yearned for. Dirk Bogarde co-stars as Diana's long-..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 2,385 members
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  • Walk On The Wild Side (1962)
    Starring: Laurence Harvey,  Jane Fonda,  Anne Baxter
    Director: Edward Dmytryk
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This moody and controversial drama takes place in Depression-era New Orleans. Dove (Laurence Harvey) has traveled by bus from Texas to find his wayward lover Hallie (Capucine). He meets young Kitty Twist (Jane Fonda) as the two get off in the crescent city. Teresina (Anne Baxter) gives him a job at ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 15 members
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  • The Long And The Short And The Tall on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Laurence Harvey,  Richard Todd,  Richard Harris
    Director: Leslie Norman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Seven British soldiers are trapped behind Japanese lines during World War II. During the long days and dangerous Malayan jungle nights, tempers are short and the tension is high. A vivid and stark portrayal of a British patrol unit from the director of Dunkirk and producer Michael Balcon.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 277 members
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  • The Alamo on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Laurence Harvey,  Richard Boone,  Patrick Wayne
    Director: John Wayne
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    John Wayne directs and stars in this epic, Oscar-nominated treatment of events at the Alamo in 1836. A group of 187 Americans, led by Colonels William Travis (Laurence Harvey), Davey Crockett (Wayne) and Jim Bowie (Richard Widmark) battle to hold off Santa Anna's army of 7,000. Wayne's friend and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 2,044 members
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  • Room At The Top (1959)
    Starring: Laurence Harvey,  Simone Signoret,  Heather Sears
    Director: Jack Clayton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Ruthless young working-class Englishman Laurence Harvey takes a job in a North Country village controlled by millionaire Donald Wolfit. Harvey resents Wolfit's class consciousness and vows to rise to the top by wooing the millionaire's daughter, Heather Sears. Meanwhile he has an affair with ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,084 member
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  • Expresso Bongo on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Yolande Donlan,  Laurence Harvey,  Cliff Richard
    Director: Val Guest
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    An average young man (played by the 19-year-old Cliff Richard) with little chance in the music business is propelled into major stardom by a Soho agent (Laurence Harvey) in this satirical comedy musical. The film is based on a play which was a caustic look at the showbiz world, and a skit on the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 332 members
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  • The Silent Enemy on DVD (1958)
    Starring: David Lodge,  Laurence Harvey,  Dawn Addams
    Director: William Fairchild
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    It is World War Two, and newly appointed bomb disposal lieutanant Lionel 'Buster' Crabb (Laurence Harvey) joins the British naval fleet at Gibraltar just as two battleships are destroyed by enemy frogmen off Alexandria. Crabb sets about forming an Underwater Working Party to battle the mini ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 157 members
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  • I Am A Camera on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Ron Randell,  Anton Diffring,  Laurence Harvey
    Director: Henry Cornelius
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Berlin, the 1930s. A young English writer (Laurence Harvey) arrives in the city and takes to sharing a flat with vivacious nightclub singer Sally Bowles (Julie Harris). Together they experience the mad swirl of bohemian life and dream of the successes that will be theirs in the future, but as the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 157 members
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  • Three Men in a Boat on DVD (1956)
    Starring: Jimmy Edwards,  Laurence Harvey,  David Tomlinson
    Director: Ken Annakin
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Laurence Harvey, David Tomlinson and Jimmy Edwards star in Ken Annakin's adaptation of the Jerome K. Jerome novel. Three Englishmen decide it would be fun to go on a boating holiday along the Thames for a fortnight. However, these gents' boating skills are notable only for their absence, which ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 376 members
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  • The Good Die Young on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Gloria Grahame,  Laurence Harvey,  Margaret Leighton
    Director: Lewis Gilbert
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A story which delves behind the scenes of an armed robbery to find out the motivations of each of the four participants: American ex-GI Joe (Richard Basehart) wants to bring his British wife to the US, proffesional boxer Mike (Stanley Baker) is unable to work when his hand is broken, American ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 177 members
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  • Scarlet Thread on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Kathleen Byron,  Laurence Harvey,  Sydney Tafler
    Director: Lewis Gilbert
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    1950s British crime drama directed by Lewis Gilbert. Petty criminal Freddie (Laurence Harvey) teams up with mob boss Marcon (Sydney Tafler) to pull off a jewellery heist but their attempt does not go to plan and the situation gets quickly out of hand. Harry Fowler, Kathleen Byron and Dora Bryan co-star.
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 13 members
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  • Wall of Death on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Maxwell Reed,  Laurence Harvey,  Susan Shaw
    Director: Lewis Gilbert
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Lewis Gilbert directs this 1950s British romantic drama about a love triangle between three carnival performers. Both racing driver Eddie 'Racer' Peskett (Maxwell Reed) and boxer Mag Maguire (Laurence Harvey) vie for the attentions of the beautiful Lillian (Susan Shaw) who is stuck on both men. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 18 members
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  • Cairo Road (1950)
    Starring: Laurence Harvey,  Eric Portman,  Maria Mauban
    Director: David MacDonald
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A police chief (Eric Portman) stationed in Egypt sets out to crack down on drug traffickers along the frontiers. With his assistant (Laurence Harvey), he attempts to block the smugglers' passage along the notorious Cairo Road route into the country.
    2 stars out of 5 35% from 6 members
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  • Landfall on DVD (1949)
    Starring: Denis O'Dea,  Laurence Harvey,  Maurice Denham
    Director: Ken Annakin
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Ken Annakin directs this World War Two drama based on a novel by Nevil Shute. Michael Denison stars as Rick, a young RAF pilot patrolling the English Channel for U-Boats. When he sinks what he believes to be a German submarine, it later turns out to be British and he is charged with neglect. In ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 85 members
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Laurence Harvey facts

5 most recent films

The Magic Christian - 3.0 stars
A Dandy In Aspic - 3.0 stars
The Spy with a Cold Nose - 1.5 stars
Life At The Top - 3.5 stars
Darling - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Silent Enemy - 3.5 stars
Landfall - 3.5 stars
The Manchurian Candidate - 3.5 stars
The Alamo - 3.5 stars
Room At The Top - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Spy with a Cold Nose - 1.5 stars
Cairo Road - 2.0 stars
Walk On The Wild Side - 2.0 stars
Scarlet Thread - 2.5 stars
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Jack Palance - 6 times - show films
Gene Evans - 6 times - show films
Natalie Wood - 6 times - show films
Paul Newman - 6 times - show films
Ann Blyth - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Victor Saville - 6 times - show films
Michael Curtiz - 6 times - show films
Ken Annakin - 3 times - show films
Ken Annakin - 3 times - show films
Lewis Gilbert - 3 times - show films