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J. Lee Thompson
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J. Lee Thompson - what members say
review by KATHERINEofARROGANCEe from HARROW
26 May 2004
J. Lee Thompson - filmography
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Messenger Of Death
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Daniel Benzali, Trish Van Devere, Charles Bronson
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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Charles Bronson stars as journalist Garret Smith who is assigned to cover the brutal killing of a Mormon man's three wives and their children. Amid the secrecy of the cult, Smith sets out to reveal the truth and soon discovers a story of bitter feuds, greed and corruption. Once he knows who it is ..read more »
 
54%
from 191 members
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Murphy's Law
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Charles Bronson, Carrie Snodgress, Chris Stanley
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Certificate:
Charles Bronson plays a tough cop who gets framed for his ex-wife's murder by a psychotic woman that he jailed years ago. Of course he sets out to prove his innocence, leaving a trail of destruction wherever he goes.
62%
from 467 members
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King Solomon's Mines
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Herbert Lom, Sharon Stone, John Rhys-Davies
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Certificate: 
Allan Quartermain (Richard Chamberlain) is hired by a girl (Sharon Stone) to find her kidnapped father in the African jungle. They have many Indiana Jones-style adventures before they free her father and escape being boiled alive. Two earlier versions of the film were made in 1937 and 1950.
55%
from 739 members
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10 To Midnight
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Gene Davis, Geoffrey Lewis, Charles Bronson
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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Charles Bronson at 63 or so, continues his vigilante persona in this run-of-the-mill crime drama about a Richard Speck-style killer who knifes young nurses to death. There is no doubt that the film exploits both the heinous, 1966 Speck murder of eight nurses in Chicago and an audience's willingness ..read more »
59%
from 579 members
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The Evil That Men Do
(1983)
Starring: Charles Bronson, Jose Ferrer, Joseph Maher
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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Retired assassin Holland (Charles Bronson) is persuaded to do one last job when a journalist friend is tortured to death by Moloch, a sadistic employee of the Guatemalan Government. The dead man's widow, Rhiana (Theresa Saldana), and daughter pose as Holland's family to provide him with cover as he ..read more »
57%
from 216 members
Not available for rental
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Happy Birthday To Me
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Glenn Ford, Melissa Sue Anderson, Frances Hyland
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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Slick 1980s slasher horror film starring Melissa Sue Anderson as Virginia, a pretty young student at the exclusive Crawford Academy, whose disturbing past holds the key to a set of gruelling, grisly murders that take place just before her 18th birthday. The denouément takes place at a macabre ..read more »
52%
from 515 members
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Cabo Blanco / U.S. Marshall
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Camilla Sparv, Gilbert R, Fernando Rey
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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Tony Curtis presents this Charles Bronson double bill. In 'Cabo Blanco', it is 1949, and ex-pat American Gifford Hoyt (Bronson) is trying to put the worries of the world behind him in the peaceful fishing village of Cabo Blanco. However, his tranquil existence is shattered by the arrival of a ship ..read more »
47%
from 100 members
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White Buffalo
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Will Sampson, Slim Pickens, John Carradine
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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Troubled by a recurring dream about a white buffalo, Wild Bill Hickok (Charles Bronson) travels West with hopes of tracking down the mythical beast. When he meets Crazy Horse (Will Sampson), a Native American chief whose daughter has been killed by the rampaging animal, the two decide to pool their ..read more »
56%
from 278 members
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MacKenna's Gold
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Lee J. Cobb, Edward G. Robinson, Raymond Massey
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Certificate:
Arizona sheriff Sam MacKenna (Gregory Peck) thinks his luck is in when he is given a map to a mythical 'Valley of Gold'. But the news of the map travels fast, and soon everyone wants a piece of the action, including the brutal bandit Colorado (Omar Sharif). Colorado captures MacKenna and forces him ..read more »
63%
from 459 members
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What A Way To Go
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Gene Kelly, Robert Mitchum, Wally Vernon
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Certificate: 
Classic black comedy which opens with Louisa Foster (Shirley MacLaine) donating a multimillion dollar cheque to the IRS. The tax department thinks she's crazy and sends her to a psychiatrist. She then discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died ..read more »
61%
from 239 members
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Taras Bulba
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Brad Dexter, Sam Wanamaker, Guy Rolfe
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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A "Romeo and Juliet" story that takes place in 18th c. Ukraine. Taras (Yul Brenner) has settled into comfortable farm life after years of adventures and swashbuckling with his cossack companions. Though not wealthy, he is able to send his son Andrei (Tony Curtis) away to a Polish school. At this ..read more »
70%
from 195 members
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The Guns Of Navarone
(1961)
Starring: Bryan Forbes, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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The guns of Navarone are huge Nazi cannons, installed on an Aegean island behind enemy lines. Anthony Quayle is the officer assigned by the British to lead a task force to put the guns out of commission. When Quayle is injured, the mission winds up in the relatively inexperienced hands of Gregory ..read more »
70%
from 5,438 members
Currently unavailable
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Tiger Bay
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Megs Jenkins, Anthony Dawson, John Mills
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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Polish seaman Korchinsky (Horst Buchholz) shoots his girlfriend dead in a fit of jealous rage. The murder is witnessed by 12-year-old Gillie (Hayley Mills), who steals the gun in order in order to impress her friends. The police begin investigating the case, asking Gillie a series of questions, but ..read more »
72%
from 169 members
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Northwest Frontier
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Kenneth More, Ian Hunter, Kenneth More
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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In 1905 India, British army officer Captain Scott (Kenneth More) is charged with protecting the six-year-old Hindu prince from would-be Muslim assassins. Along with the prince's governess (Lauren Bacall), a cynical reporter, an arms merchant and a pair of upper class Brits, Scott attempts to sneak ..read more »
71%
from 426 members
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Ice Cold In Alex
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: John Mills, Diane Clare, Harry Andrews
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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John Mills stars in this war story set after the fall of Tobruk in World War II. Two English army officers (John Mills and Harry Andrews) and two young nurses (Sylvia Syms and Diane Clare) are driving an ambulance through occupied North Africa to Alexandria. Along the way they pick up a South ..read more »
75%
from 4,966 members
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Ice Cold In Alex - Blu-ray
(1958)
Starring: John Mills, Diane Clare, Harry Andrews
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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John Mills stars in this war story set after the fall of Tobruk in World War II. Two English army officers (John Mills and Harry Andrews) and two young nurses (Sylvia Syms and Diane Clare) are driving an ambulance through occupied North Africa to Alexandria. Along the way they pick up a South ..read more »
80%
from 256 members
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Woman In A Dressing Gown
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Max Butterfield, Carole Lesley, Yvonne Mitchell
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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Anthony Quayle and Sylvia Syms star in this 1950s British drama about marital strife. Fed up with his wife Amy (Yvonne Mitchell)'s frumpy appearance and bad housekeeping skills, long-married Jim Preston (Quayle) begins an affair with co-worker Georgie (Sylvia Syms), who threatens to break it off ..read more »
72%
from 147 members
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The London Collection
(5 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Anthony Newley, Robert Step, Earl Cameron
Director: Basil Dearden, Ken Hughes
Certificate: 
This collection brings together six films, all produced in and showing various locations in post-war London and covering a range of themes from blackmail in a bombed out slum in the East End to dockside smuggling and robbery. In 'Pool of London' (1951) a group of sailors, including Dan MacDonald (..read more »
61%
from 49 members
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J. Lee Thompson facts
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J. Lee Thompson, aided by the menacing, brooding Bernard Herrmann score.
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