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  • Rebecca
  • Rebecca review by Foamasi from Plymouth
    Rated - 4.0 stars Our greatest liiving actor aside, this is Sanders' baby! 27 June 2008
    ...e is everything but although Fontaine and Olivier are fine it is the inimitable George Sanders who steals the show as a perfectly-observed Favell. Reading the book, he was th...   Read customer review
  • All About Eve
  • All About Eve review by from Sheffield, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars They don't make 'em like this anymore. 26 February 2004
    ...s nominated for 8 more. You can see why. There are some wonderful performances: George Sanders is scathing as critic Addison de Witt and Bette Davis is wonderful as ageing th...   Read customer review

George Sanders - filmography


  • Endless Night on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Hayley Mills,  Hywel Bennett,  Britt Ekland
    Director: Sidney Gilliat
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A sinister and enthralling mystery thriller adapted from the novel by crime and suspense writer Agatha Christie. Starring Hayley Mills (The Parent Trap) as an affluent heiress who marries a mysterious and charming chauffeur (Hywel Bennett-Percy). Soon after moving into their dream house strange ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 242 members
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  • The Kremlin Letter on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Bibi Anderson,  Richard Boone,  Nigel Green
    Director: John Huston
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When American agents in Moscow try to recover a stolen letter implicating America in an anti-Red China plot, they discover a hornet's nest of treason, double agents, murder, and betrayal. Directed by Hollywood maverick John Huston (THE MALTESE FALCON), The Kremlin Letter is an interesting ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 46 members
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  • Good Times on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Sonny Bono,  Cher,  George Sanders
    Director: William Friedkin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Versatile variety-hour marrieds Sonny and Cher, as themselves, contemplate the jump from pop superstardom to the silver screen after a big-shot producer makes them an offer they can't refuse. Actually, Sonny can refuse, as he quickly imagines the various possibilities of a Hollywood career, all of ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 44% from 51 members
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  • The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
    Starring: George Segal,  Alec Guinness,  Max Von Sydow
    Director: Michael Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    George Segal, Alec Guinness and Max von Sydow square off against each other in this espionage thriller, adapted by Harold Pinter, from the novel by Adam Hall. Ace spy Quiller is lured away from holiday to replace a British agent who died while essaying a most challenging assignment: infiltrating ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 551 members
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  • A Shot in the Dark on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Peter Sellers,  Elke Sommer,  George Sanders
    Director: Blake Edwards
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    The French have a word for a man like Clouseau (Peter Sellers): Idiot! Across Paris, baffled citizens want to know if the Inspector is in hot pursuit of a criminal, or just in love with one! Mistakenly assigned to a high-prestige case in which a millionaire's chauffeur has been murdered. Clouseau ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 5,442 members
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  • The Last Voyage (1960)
    Starring: Robert Stack,  Dorothy Malone,  George Sanders
    Director: Andrew L. Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The S. S. Claridon is scheduled for her five last voyages after thirty-eight years of service. After an explosion in the boiler room, Captain Robert Adams is reluctant to evacuate the steamship. While the crew fights to hold a bulkhead between the flooded boiler room and the engine room and avoid ..read more »
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  • Cone Of Silence on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Michael Craig,  Bernard Lee,  Peter Cushing
    Director: Charles Frend
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Veteran pilot George Gort (Bernard Lee) faces a Court of Inquiry as the result of the crash of a Phoenix jet airliner He is severely cross-examined by Sir Arnold Hobbes Q.C. (Gorge Sanders) and found guilty of a pilot error. The pressure mounts on Gort when Captain Judd (Peter Cushing) accuses him ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 127 members
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  • Solomon And Sheba on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Yul Brynner,  Gina Lollobrigida,  George Sanders
    Director: King Vidor
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Yul Brynner stars as the legendary figure of the Bible in King Vidor's only contribution to this popular 1950s genre. When aged King David (Finlay Currie) has a vision from God telling him that Solomon should succeed him as ruler of the Israelites, David heeds His word. This angers his martial ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 265 members
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  • Moonfleet (1955)
    Starring: Stewart Granger,  Stewart Granger,  Joan Greenwood
    Director: Fritz Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Director Fritz Lang was attracted to the British period piece Moonfleet because of the relatively unregenerate nature of its greedy hero Stewart Granger. Young Jon Whitely, who is in the legal custody of Granger, learns that he is to inherit a valuable diamond. Hoping to get his own hands on the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 18 members
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  • Journey To Italy on DVD (1953)
    Starring: Ingrid Bergman,  George Sanders,  Leslie Daniels
    Director: Roberto Rossellini
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    George Sanders and Ingrid Bergman play Alexander and Katherine Joyce, a bored married couple in Naples, waiting around for an inherited house to be sold. With time on their hands the cracks begin to show in their marriage. Rejecting Hollywood norms, Rossellini uses periods of pure cinematography, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,003 member
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  • Ivanhoe (1952)
    Starring: Robert Taylor,  Elizabeth Taylor,  Joan Fontaine
    Director: Richard Thorpe
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In the centre of this Walter Scott classic fiction inspired film the chivalrousness and the daring stand. Ivanhoe, the disowned knight join to the bravehearted and high-minded Robin Hood, the valiant of Forest Sherwood. They want King Richard to rule the kingdom instead of evil Prince John.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 38 members
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  • All About Eve - Blu-ray (1950)
    Starring: Anne Baxter,  George Sanders,  Celeste Holm
    Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Given that she throws tantrums, gets intoxicated, and pushes people away when she needs them the most, it's a wonder New York theater star Margo Channing has any true friends. But when Eve, Margo's young and innocent-seeming protegee, schemes to gain both the affection of Margo's friends and a ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 83% from 13 members
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  • All About Eve on DVD (1950)
    Starring: Anne Baxter,  George Sanders,  Celeste Holm
    Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Given that she throws tantrums, gets intoxicated, and pushes people away when she needs them the most, it's a wonder New York theater star Margo Channing has any true friends. But when Eve, Margo's young and innocent-seeming protegee, schemes to gain both the affection of Margo's friends and a ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 10,069 members
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  • The Fan on DVD (1949)
    Starring: Richard Greene,  Madeleine Carroll,  Jeanne Crain
    Director: Otto Preminger
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Otto Preminger directed 1949 adaptation of the classic Oscar Wilde 4 act comedy 'Lady Windermere's Fan' starring Jeanne Craine, Madeleine Carroll and George Sanders. The witty dialogue flows as misunderstanding follows misunderstanding in the tangled lives of an aristocratic couple leading finally ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 61 members
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  • Lured on DVD (1947)
    Starring: George Sanders,  Boris Karloff,  Lucille Ball
    Director: Douglas Sirk
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A serial killer in London is murdering young women whom he meets through the personal columns of newspapers; he announces each of his murders to the police by sending them a cryptic poem. After a dancer disappears, the police enlist an American friend of hers, Sandra Carpenter, to answer ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 131 members
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  • A Scandal In Paris on DVD (1946)
    Starring: George Sanders,  Carole Landis,  George Sanders
    Director: Douglas Sirk
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Elegant French criminal, François Eugène Vidocq (George Sanders) takes his name from a tombstone and pursues a career of stealing rich women’s hearts...and their jewellery! We follow the career of Vidocq in this delightful light-hearted drama from his birth in a French jail in 1775 to his ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 14 members
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  • The Strange Woman (1946)
    Starring: Hedy Lamarr,  George Sanders,  Louis Hayward
    Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
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    Hedy Lamarr is very alluring in this sordid romantic saga based on the book by Ben Ames Williams. She plays Jenny, a lusty sociopath in the wilds of 18th Century Bangor, Maine, who uses her beauty to snare a local, rich, middle-aged businessman (Gene Lockhart). She then seduces his weak-willed son (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 16 members
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  • Summer Storm on DVD (1944)
    Starring: Linda Darnell,  George Sanders,  Edward Everett Horton
    Director: Douglas Sirk
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren (Linda Darnell), who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge (George Sanders), a decadent aristocrat (Edward Everett Horton) and an estate superintendent (Hugo Haas), with surprising results. Fine direction by master auteur ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 16 members
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  • This Land Of Mine on DVD (1943)
    Starring: Charles Laughton,  Maureen O'Hara,  George Sanders
    Director: Jean Renoir
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Albert Lory is a teacher at a school in German-occupied France. He is a coward, but he is drawn into the actions of the resistance. Arrested by the Germans because of a murder, the German officers promise him freedom, if he is willing to collaborate with them against France.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 143 members
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  • A Date With The Falcon on DVD (1942)
    Starring: George Sanders,  Wendy Barrie,  James Gleason
    Director: Irving Reis
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    It’s not easy being the Falcon’s fiancée, as Helen Reed (Wendy Barrie) quickly discovers. Every girl in town seems to be wildly in love with him and now some exotic foreign beauty from the Falcon’s past has ensnared him in another dangerous mystery – just on the eve of their wedding. A scientist ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 7 members
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  • The Falcon Takes Over on DVD (1942)
    Starring: George Sanders,  Lynn Bari,  James Gleason
    Director: Irving Reis
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The Falcon (George Sanders) finds himself embroiled in a murder when ex-jailbird Moose Malloy (Ward Bond) storms into a nightclub looking for his former showgirl girlfriend, Velma. When the manager refuses to tell Moose where she lives, Moose kills him. The police swarm the nightclub and begin to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 33 members
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  • The Falcon's Brother on DVD (1942)
    Starring: George Sanders,  Tom Conway,  Jane Randolph
    Director: Stanley Logan
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Gay Lawrence, amateur detective known as The Falcon, learns that his brother Tom has been reported murdered on a ship arriving from South America. Gay pursues the murderers, despite the fact that he knows his brother is still alive. When he is disabled, his brother Tom takes over the case, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 31 members
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  • Black Swan (1942)
    Starring: Tyrone Power,  Maureen O'Hara,  George Sanders
    Director: Henry King
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    After receiving the governorship of Jamaica, former pirate Henry Morgan--now Sir Henry Morgan--dispatches his able first mate, James Waring, to dispense of his former henchman, the red-headed villain Captain Billy Leech (George Sanders) and his fighting ship, the Black Swan. In the process, Waring, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 190 members
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  • Sundown on DVD (1941)
    Starring: Gene Tierney,  Bruce Cabot,  George Sanders
    Director: Henry Hathaway
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    British army major Coombes (George Sanders) cannot abide the local Arab population, and he has even less time for district commissioner Crawford (Bruce Cabot), who has befriended the natives. Crawford is particularly fond of the beautiful Zia (Gene Tierney), whom Coombes suspects of being a Nazi ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 11 members
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  • The Gay Falcon on DVD (1941)
    Starring: George Sanders,  Wendy Barrie,  Allen Jenkins
    Director: Irving Reis
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Gay Lawrence, known as "The Falcon," is a renowned sleuth and womanizer. He has just promised his fiancée, Elinor, that he will give up these pursuits when a pretty woman, Helen, arrives and asks for his help. Happily forgetting his vow, The Falcon agrees to take on the case. With his associate, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 5 members
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  • Saint in Palm Springs on DVD (1941)
    Starring: George Sanders,  Wendy Barrie,  Paul Guilfoyle
    Director: Jack Hively
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Simon Templar (George Sanders) is hired to protect Peter Johnson (Edmund Elton), the owner of a valuable stamp collection, after two attempts are made on his life. But as Johnson prepares to visit Palm Springs and hand over the stamps to his daughter Elna (Wendy Barrie), he is shot in the back ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 13 members
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  • Man Hunt on DVD (1941)
    Starring: Walter Pidgeon,  Joan Bennett,  George Sanders
    Director: Fritz Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Director Fritz Lang's political thriller follows a British hunter's attempts to outrun Nazi agents after he targets Adolf Hitler. While on holiday in Bavaria, willdlife hunter Alan Thorndike (Walter Pidgeon) stumbles upon the Fuhrer's country retreat, eventually spotting Hitler in the gardens. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 79 members
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  • Rebecca on DVD (1940)
    Starring: Laurence Olivier,  Joan Fontaine,  George Sanders
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A string of classic suspense films produced in England had earned Alfred Hitchcock a reputation in the United States, and his first American production, REBECCA, cemented his fame. Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier, REBECCA was conceived to rival producer David O. Selznick's previous epic, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 8,973 members
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  • The Saint's Double Trouble on DVD (1940)
    Starring: George Sanders,  Helene Whitney,  Jonathan Hale
    Director: Jack Hively
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    George Sanders stars in one his most famous roles as the Leslie Chateris creation, The Saint. When a person resembling The Saint, who is still believed to be in Egypt, suddenly turns up in Philadelphia with a haul of smuggled diamonds, the real Saint struggles to prove his innocence to the police s ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 23 members
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  • Mr Moto's Last Warning on DVD (1939)
    Starring: Peter Lorre,  Ricardo Cortez,  John Carradine
    Director: Norman Foster
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    A Japanese man claiming to be Mr Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egypt. The real Mr Moto is already in Port Said, investigating a conspiracy against the British and French governments. The dead man was his colleague, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 84 members
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  • The Saint In London on DVD (1939)
    Starring: George Sanders,  Sally Gray,  David Burns
    Director: John Paddy Carstairs
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The Saint, newly back in London, is tipped by a friend in the Secret Service to a mystery involving one Bruno Lang, seemingly a Society card-sharp, but really involved in a plot to print and pass a million pounds worth of foreign currency
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 8 members
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George Sanders facts

5 most recent films

Endless Night - 3.0 stars
The Kremlin Letter - 3.0 stars
The Body Stealers - 2.0 stars
Good Times - 2.5 stars
The Quiller Memorandum - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

All About Eve - 4.0 stars
Rebecca - 3.5 stars
The Ghost And Mrs Muir - Gene Tierney Collection - 3.5 stars
Laura - Gene Tierney Collection - 3.5 stars
Picture of Dorian Gray - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Action In Arabia - 3 stars
The Last Voyage - 3 stars
Samson and Delilah - 1.5 stars
Sundown - 2.0 stars
A Scandal In Paris - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Jeanne Crain - 8 times - show films
Gene Tierney - 8 times - show films
Rex Harrison - 7 times - show films
Preston Foster - 7 times - show films
Clifton Webb - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Otto Preminger - 8 times - show films
John Ford - 7 times - show films
William A. Wellman - 7 times - show films
Robert Day - 3 times - show films
Douglas Sirk - 3 times - show films