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  • Maverick
  • Maverick review by A customer from GLASGOW
    Rated - 5.0 stars Great Movie !!! 16 July 2005
    ...ing tend to do. Based on the 1950's television series by the same name in which James Garner had a starring role, Maverick is a uniquely clever and entertaining adventure c...   Read customer review
  • The Children's Hour
  • The Children's Hour review by A customer from Wales
    Rated - 5.0 stars The Children's Hour 22 December 2004
    ...ine's & Hepburns characters could have less angst, and I wondefully underplayed James Garner. All in all an excellent acted piece of gay film history ...   Read customer review
  • Support Your Local Sheriff
  • Support Your Local Sheriff review by A customer from Cardiff,Wales
    Rated - 5.0 stars Wonderful 25 September 2004
    ...This is a wonderful movie. Funny from start to finish.James Garner plays the cool sheriff and Jack Elam is just great as his deputy.It's not too violent and what there is i...   Read customer review

James Garner - filmography


  • Glory Road on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Joshua Lucas,  Tatyana M. Ali,  Jon Voight
    Director: James Garner
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    GLORY ROAD is about more than a college basketball team in the mid-1960s playing its way to the championship: it is the true story of a coach and his team taking a stand against discrimination in order to play their best game. As the new men's basketball coach at Texas Western, Don Haskins has one ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,641 members
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  • The Notebook (2004)
    Starring: Ryan Gosling,  Rachel McAdams,  James Garner
    Director: Nick Cassavetes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A sweeping love story told by a man reading from his faded notebook to a woman in a nursing home. The Notebook follows the lives of two North Carolina teens from very different worlds. Though her upbringing takes places in an antebellum mansion and he grew up in the kind of house where musicians ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 31,610 members
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  • The Notebook - Blu-ray (2004)
    Starring: Ryan Gosling,  Rachel McAdams,  James Garner
    Director: Nick Cassavetes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A sweeping love story told by a man reading from his faded notebook to a woman in a nursing home. The Notebook follows the lives of two North Carolina teens from very different worlds. Though her upbringing takes places in an antebellum mansion and he grew up in the kind of house where musicians ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 2,099 members
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  • Space Cowboys - Blu-ray (2000)
    Starring: Clint Eastwood,  James Garner,  Marcia Gay Harden
    Director: Clint Eastwood
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Clint Eastwood teams up with some old friends to make SPACE COWBOYS, a rollicking motion picture that wraps action, comedy, and science fiction into one neat package. Eastwood plays Frank Corvin, a former air force pilot who was shunned from flying into space in 1958 after NASA was created. Forty ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 1,661 member
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  • Space Cowboys - HD (2000)
    Starring: Clint Eastwood,  James Garner,  Marcia Gay Harden
    Director: Clint Eastwood
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Clint Eastwood teams up with some old friends to make SPACE COWBOYS, a rollicking motion picture that wraps action, comedy, and science fiction into one neat package. Eastwood plays Frank Corvin, a former air force pilot who was shunned from flying into space in 1958 after NASA was created. Forty ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 199 members
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  • Space Cowboys on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Clint Eastwood,  James Garner,  Marcia Gay Harden
    Director: Clint Eastwood
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Clint Eastwood teams up with some old friends to make SPACE COWBOYS, a rollicking motion picture that wraps action, comedy, and science fiction into one neat package. Eastwood plays Frank Corvin, a former air force pilot who was shunned from flying into space in 1958 after NASA was created. Forty ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 5,931 members
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  • Twilight on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  Susan Sarandon,  Gene Hackman
    Director: Robert Benton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Paul Newman plays Harry Ross, a burned-out private eye who's plunged into a murder mystery tied to a long-unsolved case of Hollywood dreams, schemes and cover-ups. Susan Sarandon and Gene Hackman are among the locals who inhabit a Tinseltown world of privilege and sleaze, sexuality and desperation, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 1,072 member
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  • Dead Silence (1997)
    Starring: Kim Coates,  Lolita Davidovich,  James Garner
    Director: Jr. Daniel Petrie
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    After a trio of escaped convicts take a group of deaf children and their teacher hostage, a grizzled FBI veteran struggles to wade through a morass of red tape and political corruption to free the captives. When a local policewoman offers her help, the agent finds himself mired even deeper in ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 11 members
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  • My Fellow Americans (1996)
    Starring: Jack Lemmon,  James Garner,  Dan Aykroyd
    Director: Peter Segal
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Kramer and Douglas, two former presidents from opposite ends of the political spectrum, having individually discovered a cover-up by the current president (Aykroyd), flee together when they are almost assassinated by the Secret Service.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 60 members
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  • Maverick on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Jodie Foster,  Mel Gibson,  James Garner
    Director: Richard Donner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    An updating of the classic Western TV series "Maverick," this comic oater finds our fast-talking, hard-gambling hero surviving many adventures while trying to come up with enough money to play in a high-stakes poker game. Penned by William Goldman with music by Randy Newman. Academy Award ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 8,659 members
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  • Fire In The Sky on DVD (1993)
    Starring: D.B. Sweeney,  Robert Patrick,  Craig Sheffer
    Director: Robert Lieberman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on fact, the movie follows a controversial UFO incident in the mountain region of North Eastern Arizona in 1975. A group of young loggers encounter an alien and then encounter hostile public reaction to their claims.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 1,286 member
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  • Sunset on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Bruce Willis,  James Garner,  Mariel Hemingway
    Director: Blake Edwards
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set in 1929 Hollywood, the story revolves around the legendary Tom Mix, who is making his first talkie western, an epic story about the life and times of Wyatt Earp, the famous lawman. When Earp, who is still alive, is hired as technical adviser on the movie, egos clash and the two become uneasy ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 286 members
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  • Victor/Victoria on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Julie Andrews,  Alex Karras,  Robert Preston
    Director: Blake Edwards
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Blake Edwards tones down the broadly farcical style that is his signature with this sly musical comedy starring Julie Andrews as British entertainer Victoria Grant. She and an older friend, gay impresario Toddy (Robert Preston), are close to starvation in 1930s Paris. Desperate for work, he changes ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,542 member
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  • The Rockford Files - Season 3 (6 discs) on DVD (1976)
    Starring: James Garner,  Noah Beery Jr.,  Joe Santos
    Director: Reza Badiyi
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In the spirit of James Garner's other famous small-screen character, Bret Maverick, Rockford is the kind of guy who'd rather avoid the fight and go fishing instead. An ex-con pardoned for an armed robbery he didn't commit, Jim usually finds that the cases he takes on turn out to be must more ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 67 members
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  • The Castaway Cowboy (1974)
    Starring: James Garner
    Director: Vincent McEveety
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A cowboy, castaway on an Hawaiian island is nursed back to health by a family with their own problems. He shows his gratitude the only way he knows.
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 47 members
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  • Support Your Local Gunfighter on DVD (1971)
    Starring: James Garner,  Chuck Connors,  Harry Morgan
    Director: Burt Kennedy
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Although SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL GUNFIGHTER features the same director and many of the same cast members as SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF, the film isn't a sequel to the later movie. Instead, it's another delightful collaboration between director Burt Kennedy and leading man James Garner. This time around ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 462 members
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  • Support Your Local Sheriff on DVD (1969)
    Starring: James Garner,  Walter Brennan,  Jack Elam
    Director: Burt Kennedy
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Director Burt Kennedy's Western is a bawdy, all-out parody that skewers every cliche the genre has to offer. There's Jason McCullough (James Garner), the sharpshooting stranger passing through town who becomes sheriff; the Danbys, a villainous gang who terrorises the entire community; Prudy Perkins ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 622 members
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  • Hour Of The Gun (1967)
    Starring: James Garner,  Jason Robards,  Robert Ryan
    Director: John Sturges
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Marshall Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton-gang in a fight. In revenge Clanton's thugs kill the marshall's brother. Thus, Wyatt Earp starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 144 members
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  • Duel At Diablo on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Sidney Poitier,  James Garner,  Richard Farnsworth
    Director: Ralph Nelson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on the novel APACHE RISING by Marvin Albert, this bold and inspired western meets every expectation of its genre. Director Ralph Nelson keeps the pace lively in this Cavalry verses the Indians narrative and puts both James Garner and Sidney Poitier to great use. Garner plays Jess Remsberg, a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 381 members
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  • The Making Of Grand Prix on DVD (1966)
    Starring: James Garner,  Eva Marie Saint
    Director: John Frankenheimers
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    A behind the scenes look at the making of John Frankenheimers 1966 classic Grand Prix. Filmed on location in Monaco, this DVD gives the viewer an inside look at the complexities of filming in the midst of one of racings biggest competitions
    1.5 stars out of 5 31% from 72 members
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  • Grand Prix (1966)
    Starring: James Garner,  Eva Marie Saint,  Yves Montand
    Director: John Frankenheimer
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    GRAND PRIX is John Frankenheimer's film about the nine-leg world championship of Formula 1 auto racing stars James Garner as driver Pete Aron. During the opening race in Monaco, a collision sends Pete's car flying into the Monte Carlo harbor, and British driver Scott Stoddard (Brian Bedford) into a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 442 members
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  • 36 Hours (1964)
    Starring: James Garner,  Eva Marie Saint,  Rod Taylor
    Director: George Seaton
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    On the eve of the D-Day invasion an American intelligence officer in Portugal is captured by the Nazis. They brainwash him into believing that it's six years later so he'll reveal information about the invasion.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 13 members
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  • The Great Escape on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Steve McQueen,  Charles Bronson,  James Garner
    Director: John Sturges
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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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 »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 25,537 members
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  • Move Over Darling on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Doris Day,  James Garner,  Polly Bergen
    Director: Michael Gordon
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Five years to the day after his wife Ellen disappeared in the sea after a plane crash, lawyer husband Nicholas has her declared legally dead, remarries and sets off to Monterey with new wife Bianca. The same morning, Ellen arrives home after being rescued by the Navy from a desert island and, upon ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 279 members
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  • The Thrill Of It All (1963)
    Starring: Doris Day,  James Garner,  Arlene Francis
    Director: Norman Jewison
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    At a dinner party, Beverly Boyer, wife of an obstetrician and mother of two, tells the manufacturer of Happy soap about her experiences with his product. Charmed by her spontaneous appearance he offers her a chance to tell her story in his commercials. After some hesitations, Beverley accepts and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 802 members
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  • The Children's Hour on DVD (1961)
    Starring: Audrey Hepburn,  Shirley MacLaine,  James Garner
    Director: William Wyler
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Based on the 1934 play by Lillian Hellman, The Children's Hour is set at an exclusive girl's school managed by best friends Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine. When student Karen Balkin is punished for one of her many misdeeds, the mean-spirited youngster rushes to her wealthy aunt Fay Bainter, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,349 member
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  • Sayonara (1957)
    Starring: Marlon Brando,  Patricia Owens,  Kent Smith
    Director: Joshua Logan
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Marlon Brando is an American serviceman on leave in Japan during the Korean War who discovers that his long-distance relationship with his fiancee has faltered. He soon finds that he has fallen in love with a Japanese entertainer (Miko Taka), despite the policies and standards set by the American ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 190 members
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  • My Name Is Bill W.
    Starring: James Woods,  JoBeth Williams,  James Garner
    Director: Daniel Petrie
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Based on the true story of Bill W. (James Woods), a successful stock broker whose life falls apart after the stock crash of the 20's and how he comes to grips with his alcoholism. Along with a fellow alcoholic (James Garner) he forms a support group that would eventually become Alcoholics Anonymous.
    5 stars out of 5 100% from 2 members
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James Garner facts

5 most recent films

Battle for Terra - 3.0 stars
Glory Road - 3.5 stars
The Notebook - 3.5 stars
The Notebook - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Notebook - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Great Escape - 4.0 stars
The Rockford Files - Season 3 - 4.0 stars
The Notebook - 3.5 stars
Grand Prix - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Up Periscope - 2.0 stars
Dead Silence - 2.5 stars
Americanization of Emily - 2.5 stars
Barbarians at the Gate - 2.5 stars
Natalie Wood Collection - Cash McCall - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

James Coburn - 6 times - show films
Joe Santos - 5 times - show films
Steve McQueen - 4 times - show films
Clint Eastwood - 4 times - show films
Donald Pleasence - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Richard T. Heffron - 14 times - show films
Stephen J. Cannell - 13 times - show films
William Wiard - 13 times - show films
Lou Antonio - 7 times - show films
Reza Badiyi - 7 times - show films