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  • It's A Wonderful Life
  • It's A Wonderful Life review by from LYNTON
    Rated - 5 stars 28 June 2004
    ...Classic performance from James Stewart. A great film for the whole family with a big feel good factor. We all certainly enjoyed it. ...  
  • Vertigo
  • Vertigo review by A customer from Essex, England
    Rated - 5 stars VINTAGE HITCHCOCK 17 May 2004
    ... time, Hitchcock's masterpiece sends your head into a spin time and time again. James Stewart is on blistering form, a long time collaborator of Hitchcock's - still amazing ...  
  • Mr Smith Goes To Washington
  • Mr Smith Goes To Washington review by from london.
    Rated - 5 stars brilliant! 25 October 2004
    ...f. Well, what can I say. Truly brilliant on so many levels. I never tire of James Stewart; he is iconic of brilliance of cinema, everything there is to love about film c...  

James Stewart - filmography


  • Memories Of Hollywood (1990)
    Starring: Gene Autry,  John Wayne,  Shirley Temple
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    Clips from fifty famous films from Hollywood's golden age set to music of master film composers such as Elmer Bernstein, Henry Mancini, Glenn Miller, Miklos Rozsa, John Morris and more.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 42% from 8 members
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  • The Big Sleep on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Robert Mitchum,  Harry Andrews,  Richard Todd
    Director: Michael Winner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A faithful remake of the 1946 original in which private eye Philip Marlowe finds himself involved in murder, blackmail and violence when hired to protect a General's young daughter.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 675 members
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  • The Shootist on DVD (1976)
    Starring: John Wayne,  Lauren Bacall,  Ron Howard
    Director: Don Siegel
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    John Wayne, in his last film appearance, stars as famed gunfighter J.J. Brooks. After learning from Dr. Hostetler (James Stewart) that he's dying of stomach cancer and has no more than two months to live, he moves into a boarding house in Carson City run by Bond Rogers (Lauren Bacall) and her son, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 1,628 member
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  • CBS Salutes Lucy - The First 25 Years (1976)
    Starring: Lucille Ball,  Jack Benny,  Milton Berle
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    The Funniest Woman on Television, Lucille Ball, first received her due at this 1976 celebration of her first 25 years on television. CBS TV wanted to show their appreciation for the legendary comedienne, so this tribute was organized featuring cast members and other favorites of early television, ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 35% from 4 members
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  • The American West Of John Ford on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Tony Curtis,  Henry Fonda,  John Wayne
    Director: John Ford
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A documentary which focuses on the director John Ford and his interest in the western film. Featuring insights from the actors who so often starred in his westerns; James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda. Introduced by Tony Curtis and featuring the original theatrical trailer for the film Vertigo.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 88 members
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  • Bandolero! on DVD (1968)
    Starring: James Stewart,  Dean Martin,  Raquel Welch
    Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    After being sentenced to death for their participation in a bank robbery, a pair of outlaw brothers take a beautiful woman hostage and flee across the Mexican desert. Naturally, she falls for one of them, even though her husband was killed in the bank robbery. Though the plot stretches credulity, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 235 members
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  • Shenandoah on DVD (1965)
    Starring: James Stewart,  Rosemary Forsyth,  Doug McClure
    Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A principled Virginia farmer tries to keep his family safe from the tumult of the Civil War by withdrawing into pacifism and isolation. Though strongly opposed to slavery, his reluctance to fight keeps him from joining forces with Union soldiers. But when his youngest son is kidnapped by the Union ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 674 members
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  • Vertigo on DVD (1958)
    Starring: James Stewart,  Kim Novak,  Barbara Bel Geddes
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    DVD special features: The Birds: All About The Birds - Making Of, Tippi Hedren's Screen Test, Universal News Reel Stories x 2, Storyboard Sequence: Deleted Scene (Script Pages), Alternative Ending (Sketches & Storyboards), Production Photographs. Family Plot: Plotting Family Plot - Making Of, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 18,436 members
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  • Night Passage on DVD (1957)
    Starring: James Stewart,  Audie Murphy,  Reiko Dan
    Director: James Neilson
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Jimmy Stewart stars in this western as Grant McLaine, a travelling musician with a past who makes his living entertaining construction camps on the frontier. Unable to get steady work after helping his brother Lee (Murphy), known as The Utica Kid, escape the law, Grant is finally given another ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 232 members
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  • The Man Who Knew Too Much on DVD (1955)
    Starring: James Stewart,  Doris Day,  Brenda De Banzie
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH is Hitchcock's remake of his own 1934 film of the same title. While vacationing in French Morocco, an American family becomes accidentally involved in a series of international incidents after the father overhears an assassination plot. Compared with its 1934 predecessor, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 3,822 members
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  • The Man From Laramie on DVD (1955)
    Starring: James Stewart,  Arthur Kennedy,  Donald Crisp
    Director: Anthony Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A man is obsessed with finding the men responsible for seeling the guns to the Apaches that killed his brother. He finds himself travelling to a small town in Colorado and becomes embroiled within a fued of two warring ranchers -- the more evil of which maybe responsible for the gunrunning.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 962 members
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  • The Far Country on DVD (1955)
    Starring: James Stewart
    Director: Anthony Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    One of the best Mann/Stewart Westerns of the '50s with a refreshing Yukon setting. Stewart drives cattle north on an arduous trek to Alaska. When he reaches his destination, his pay-off for his trouble is double-cross and violence.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 264 members
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  • Rear Window on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Grace Kelly,  Wendell Corey,  Thelma Ritter
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The weather is getting hotter, and photographer L.B. Jefferies (James Stewart) is stuck in his apartment with a broken leg and nothing to do--that is, nothing to do but spy on his neighbours through their open windows across the way in the apartment complex. There's an attractive and scantily clad ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 77% from 21,211 members
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  • Thunder Bay on DVD (1953)
    Starring: James Stewart,  Joanne Dru,  Gilbert Roland
    Director: Anthony Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In 1946, ex-Navy engineer Steve Martin comes to a Louisiana town with a dream: to build a safe platform for offshore oil drilling. Having finessed financing from a big oil company, formerly penniless Steve and his partner Johnny are in business... and getting interested in shrimp-boat captain ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 14 members
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  • Bend Of The River on DVD (1952)
    Starring: James Stewart,  Arthur Kennedy,  Julie Adams
    Director: Anthony Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The second of the terrific Stewart/Mann westerns is characteristic of their pairings: adult themes played out against prairie vistas in which betrayal and violence can erupt at any time. Formerly a vicious Missouri raider, Stewart now leads a wagon train through Indian raids and hijackings to the ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 616 members
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  • Winchester 73 on DVD (1950)
    Starring: James Stewart,  Shelley Winters,  Dan Duryea
    Director: Anthony Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 913 members
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  • Harvey on DVD (1950)
    Starring: James Stewart,  Josephine Hull,  Victoria Horne
    Director: Henry Koster
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Elwood P. Dowd (Jimmy Stewart) is a good-natured, slightly sloshed man whose faithful companion Harvey is a 6-foot-3-inch rabbit that only he can see. When his sister Veta (Josephine Hull) tries to have him committed, she's taken in instead--and it's up to Elwood and Harvey to straighten out the ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 6,523 members
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  • Broken Arrow on DVD (1950)
    Starring: James Stewart,  Jeff Chandler,  Debra Paget
    Director: Delmer Daves
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    By 1870 there has been ten years of a cruel war between settlers and Cochise's Apache Indians. Tom Jeffords, an ex-soldier, saves the life of a young Apache boy and starts to reassess his opinions of the Indians. As an ambassador of goodwill, he enters Cochise's stronghold, but is peace achievable?
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 393 members
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  • Rope on DVD (1948)
    Starring: James Stewart,  John Dall,  Farley Granger
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on the famous Leopold and Loeb murder case (from which two other films, COMPULSION and SWOON, were also derived), ROPE both challenges and terrifies the audience. Alfred Hitchcock disdained the whodunit crime story, which he felt lacked emotional force, and ROPE shows the director's ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 5,028 members
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  • Magic Town on DVD (1947)
    Starring: James Stewart,  Jane Wyman,  Ann Doran
    Director: William A. Wellman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Jimmy Stewart plays Lawrence Smith in this Capraesque tale in which an ambitious pollster finds a small town whose citizens' opinions accurately reflect those of America at large. On discovering this oddity in the darling town of Grandview, Smith plots to exploit this "mathematical miracle." Posing ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 158 members
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  • It's A Wonderful Life on DVD (1946)
    Starring: James Stewart,  Donna Reed,  Lionel Barrymore
    Director: Frank Capra
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The legendary James Stewart (HARVEY, VERTIGO) stars as George Bailey. George is a noble man who has spent much of his life on a crusade to stop shady local businessman Henry Potter (Lionel Barrymore - TREASURE ISLAND, DUEL IN THE SUN) from taking over the picturesque town of Bedford Falls. However, ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 78% from 36,799 members
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  • Pot O' Gold on DVD (1941)
    Starring: James Stewart,  Paulette Goddard,  Horace Heidt
    Director: George Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    It's rare to see a musical comedy which allows an actor of Jimmy Stewart's calibre to exploit his charismatic screen persona, but POT O' GOLD fits this bill. Stewart plays Jimmy Haskell, the owner of a struggling music store whose financial predicament forces him to go into business with his uncle ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 141 members
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  • Made For Each Other on DVD (1939)
    Starring: Carole Lombard,  James Stewart,  Charles Coburn
    Director: John Cromwell
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Jimmy Stewart and Carole Lombard star as newlyweds in this delightful romantic dramedy. Stewart plays Johnny Mason, an amiable New York City lawyer who has put his career in jeopardy by refusing the hand of his employer's daughter. His beloved wife, Jane (comically portrayed by Lombard), is ..read more »
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  • The Big Sleep to Watch Now (1978)
    Starring: Robert Mitchum,  Harry Andrews,  Richard Todd
    Director: Michael Winner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 99 minutes
    A faithful remake of the 1946 original in which private eye Philip Marlowe finds himself involved in murder, blackmail and violence when hired to protect a General's young daughter.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 40% from 2 members
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  • The Shootist to Watch Now (1976)
    Starring: John Wayne,  Lauren Bacall,  Ron Howard
    Director: Don Siegel
    Certificate: Certificate: PG (TBC)
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    Run time: 100 minutes
    About ten minutes into The Shootist, Doctor Hostetler (James Stewart) tells aging western gunfighter John Bernard Books (John Wayne) "You have a cancer." Knowing that his death will be painful and lingering, Books is determined to be shot in the line of "duty". In his remaining two months, Books ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 76% from 13 members
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  • Pot O' Gold to Watch Now (1941)
    Starring: James Stewart,  Paulette Goddard,  Horace Heidt
    Director: George Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: U (TBC)
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    Run time: 86 minutes
    It's rare to see a musical comedy which allows an actor of Jimmy Stewart's calibre to exploit his charismatic screen persona, but POT O' GOLD fits this bill. Stewart plays Jimmy Haskell, the owner of a struggling music store whose financial predicament forces him to go into business with his uncle ..read more »
    Rate this: 4.5 stars out of 5 85% from 4 members
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  • Made for Each Other to Watch Now (1939)
    Starring: Carole Lombard,  James Stewart,  Charles Coburn
    Director: John Cromwell
    Certificate: Certificate: U (TBC)
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    Run time: 93 minutes
    Jimmy Stewart and Carole Lombard star as newlyweds in this delightful romantic dramedy. Stewart plays Johnny Mason, an amiable New York City lawyer who has put his career in jeopardy by refusing the hand of his employer's daughter. His beloved wife, Jane (comically portrayed by Lombard), is ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 6 members
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James Stewart facts

5 most recent films

Memories Of Hollywood - 2.5 stars
The Big Sleep - 2.5 stars
The Shootist - 3.5 stars
CBS Salutes Lucy - The First 25 Years - 2.0 stars
The American West Of John Ford - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Shop Around the Corner - 4.0 stars
It's A Wonderful Life - 4.0 stars
Rear Window - 4.0 stars
The Philadelphia Story - 4.0 stars
The Glenn Miller Story - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

CBS Salutes Lucy - The First 25 Years - 2.0 stars
Love Scenes - The Romance Classics Collection - 2.0 stars
On Our Merry Way - 2.5 stars
Memories Of Hollywood - 2.5 stars
Thunder Bay - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

John Wayne - 8 times - show films
Ward Bond - 4 times - show films
Richard Boone - 4 times - show films
Henry Fonda - 4 times - show films
Dean Martin - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Anthony Mann - 7 times - show films
George Marshall - 5 times - show films
John Ford - 5 times - show films
Alfred Hitchcock - 4 times - show films
Frank Capra - 4 times - show films