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Samantha Eggar - what members say

The Light At The Edge Of The World review by TheThornyIssue from Liverpool

Little known but powerful 27 May 2008
...nown continental cast - save for the star names of Kirk Douglas, Yul Bryner and Samantha Eggar - it is understandable how this one fell under the radar (especially with occas... Read customer review

The Brood review by from UK

Interesting, disturbing and hokey in places. 17 September 2005
...ite restrained and Art Hindle as the leading man is solid and likeable. But its Samantha Eggar as the flipped out Nola who stays in the memory after the credits roll. Her cra... Read customer review

Samantha Eggar - filmography

The Magic Flute on DVD (1999)
Starring: Michael York, Earl Boen, Linda Gary
Director: Ron Myrick, Marlene Robinson May
Certificate:
A fearless prince saves a beautiful princess from peril in this action-packed animated adventure based on Mozart's classic The Magic Flute. Dashing Prince Tamino begins the adventure of a lifetime when he promises the Queen of the Night to rescue her kidnapped daughter, Princess Pamina, from King ..read more »

49% from 10 members

Hercules on DVD (1997)
Starring: James Woods, Danny De Vito, Tate Donovan
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
Certificate:
Disney's animation team dipped into the rich well of ancient mythology for this musical comedy. The son of Greek gods Zeus (voice of Rip Torn) and Hera (Samantha Eggar), Hercules (voice of Josh Keaton) is stolen as a boy by the minions of Hades (voice of James Woods), lord of the underworld. Forced ..read more »

68% from 10,746 members

A Ghost In Monte Carlo on DVD (1990)
Starring: Samantha Eggar, Oliver Reed, Sarah Miles
Director: John Hough
Certificate:
A British nobleman, a beautiful young woman, and a Rajah are only part of the cast of characters in Barbara Cartland's tale of romance, murder, and mystery. Featured actors include Lysette Anthony, Lewis Collins, Oliver Reed, Joanna Lumley, and Christopher Plummer.

51% from 102 members

Curtains on DVD (1983)
Starring: John Vernon, Samantha Eggar, Linda Thorson
Director: Jonathan Stryker
Certificate:
This derivative Canadian thriller plays like a distaff version of Samuel Fuller's cult classic SHOCK CORRIDOR fused rather crudely to a standard mad-slasher plot. The story takes place primarily at the country villa of a sleazy horror film director (scenery-chomping John Vernon), where auditions ..read more »

41% from 81 members

For the Term of His Natural Life (1982)
Starring: Diane Cilento, Robert Coleby, Jeremy Coote
Director: Rob Stewart
Certificate:
Television mini-series set in 1830's England, a young man from a good but troubled family is unjustly convicted of stealing a watch. Meanwhile, England, an impostor lays claim to his inheritance.

70% from 13 members
Currently unavailable

The Exterminator on DVD (1980)
Starring: Christopher George, Samantha Eggar, Robert Ginty
Director: James Glickenhaus
Certificate:
A desperate and angry man takes the law into his own hands in a personal vendetta against the criminal world of New York City. His actions cause him to be the target of not only the thugs he is after, but also of the police and the CIA.

54% from 367 members

The Exterminator - Blu-ray (1980)
Starring: Christopher George, Samantha Eggar, Robert Ginty
Director: James Glickenhaus
Certificate:
A desperate and angry man takes the law into his own hands in a personal vendetta against the criminal world of New York City. His actions cause him to be the target of not only the thugs he is after, but also of the police and the CIA.

57% from 58 members

The Brood (2 discs) on DVD (1979)
Starring: Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle
Director: David Cronenberg
Certificate:
After the painful breakup of her marriage, Nola Carveth seeks treatment at an experimental psychiatric clinic known as the Somafree Institute of Psychoplasmatics. While there, under the care of Dr. Raglan, the institute's founder, she is encouraged to work through her subconscious feelings of hurt ..read more »

59% from 2,029 members

All The Kind Strangers on DVD (1974)
Starring: Stacy Keach, Samantha Eggar, Robby Benson
Director: Burt Kennedy
Certificate:
This made-for-TV rural horror film from director Burt Kennedy benefits from a fine cast and a tense Clyde Ware screenplay. Samantha Eggar and Stacy Keach play motorists held prisoner by a family of seven sweet-faced young orphans and their savage guard dogs. The children only want a mother and ..read more »

37% from 35 members

Double Indemnity on DVD (1973)
Starring: Kathleen Cody, Richard Crenna, Lee J. Cobb
Director: Jack Smight
Certificate:
Richard Crenna plays the old Fred MacMurray role of Walter Neff, the slightly larcenous insurance salesman inveigled into an elaborate murder/fraud scheme by sexy Phyllis Dietrichson (Samantha Eggar, replacing the 1944 version's Barbara Stanwyck). The scheme almost goes off without a hitch, but ..read more »

61% from 18 members

The Light At The Edge Of The World (1971)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner, Samantha Eggar
Director: Kevin Billington
Certificate:
Three men guarding an isolated lighthouse located at the tip of South America on Cape Horn are attacked by a ship full of bloodthirsty pirates. The pirates, led by Captain Kongre, proceed to build a false lighthouse in order to lure unsuspecting vessels ashore, into their bloodthirsty grip. Based ..read more »

60% from 170 members
Not currently released

The Molly Maguires on DVD (1969)
Starring: Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Samantha Eggar
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
Certificate:
This grim historical drama from director Martin Ritt was loosely based on real-life events. Richard Harris stars as James McParlan, an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency in 1876. The Pinkertons have been hired by a major coal company to infiltrate and expose an underground terrorist ..read more »

62% from 317 members

Doctor Dolittle on DVD (1967)
Starring: Rex Harrison, Anthony Newley, Samantha Eggar
Director: Richard Fleischer
Certificate:
Rex Harrison, although not at all like the portly man described in Hugh Lofting's charming series of children's stories, is sheer perfection as the kindly animal doctor in Leslie Bricusse's musical fantasy Doctor Dolittle. Sadly, Harrison is the only thing nearing perfection in this overstuffed and ..read more »

68% from 859 members

Walk, Don't Run on DVD (1966)
Starring: Cary Grant, Samantha Eggar, Jim Hutton
Director: Charles Walters
Certificate:
When an English businessman (Cary Grant, in his final performance) arrives in Tokyo, the influx of tourists for the upcoming Olympic Games makes it impossible to find lodging. He is able to talk his way into sharing an apartment with a beautiful British woman (Samantha Eggar) and finds himself ..read more »

62% from 366 members

The Collector (1965)
Starring: Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar, Mona Washbourne
Director: William Wyler
Certificate:
A man kidnaps a woman and holds her hostage just for the pleasure of having her there.

65% from 34 members
Currently unavailable

Doctor In Distress on DVD (1963)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Samantha Eggar, James Robertson Justice
Director: Ralph Thomas
Certificate:
When the usually ranting and raving Sir Lancelot Spratt becomes gentle and considerate the hospital inhabitants become positively alarmed, until Dr Simon Sparrow diagnoses the trouble - love.

62% from 386 members

Doctor Crippen on DVD (1962)
Starring: Carol Browne, Samantha Eggar, Donald Pleasence
Director: Robert Lynn
Certificate:
The chilling true story of Doctor Hawley Harvey Crippen, the murderer whose crimes caused a sensation in Edwardian society and who went to the gallows still protesting his innocence.

60% from 126 members

Samantha Eggar facts

5 most recent films

The Magic Flute - 2.5 stars
Hercules - 3.5 stars
A Ghost In Monte Carlo - 2.5 stars
Curtains - 2.0 stars
For the Term of His Natural Life - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Hercules - 3.5 stars
Doctor Dolittle - 3.5 stars
Doctor In Distress - 3.0 stars
Walk, Don't Run - 3.0 stars
The Molly Maguires - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

All The Kind Strangers - 2.0 stars
The Magic Flute - 2.5 stars
Double Indemnity - 3.0 stars
The Collector - 3.5 stars
For the Term of His Natural Life - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Oliver Reed - 4 times - show films
Henry Beckman - 3 times - show films
Art Hindle - 3 times - show films
Nuala Fitzgerald - 3 times - show films
Steve James - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

David Cronenberg - 3 times - show films
James Glickenhaus - 2 times - show films
Martin Ritt - 1 times - show films
Rob Stewart - 1 times - show films
Jim Goddard - 1 times - show films