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  • The Cassandra Crossing
  • The Cassandra Crossing review by wikkidsmyle from Newmarket
    Rated - 2 stars All Star Cast Disaster Movie!! 5 March 2008
    ...mediocre back in 1976 and age has not improved it. That said, it's fun to watch Ava Gardner and Burt Lancaster ham it up for all its worth and the 'hero double act' of Sop...  
  • Mogambo
  • Mogambo review by Lighthouse from EAST SUSSEX
    Rated - 3 stars The scenery wins 30 December 2004
    ...eeling nowadays that the cast were going through the motions with this film but Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly look as lovely as their surroundings. Gable looks too old for t...  

Ava Gardner - filmography


  • Harem - The Loss Of Innocence on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Omar Sharif,  Ava Gardner,  Sarah Miles
    Director: William Hale
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A story of love, passion, intrigue and revolution set in the crumbling Ottoman empire in 1906. On route to Damascus, a naive American heiress is kidnapped and sold to the local Sultan's harem. As the days pass she becomes torn between a Turkish rebel, the Sultan and her English diplomat fiance.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 120 members
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  • Priest Of Love on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Ian McKellen,  Janet Suzman,  John Gielgud
    Director: Christopher Miles
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This biographical film provides insight into the life of renowned British author D.H. Lawrence (Ian McKellen), best known for his sexually explicit novel LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER. In addition to exploring Lawrence's youth, PRIEST OF LOVE examines important events in Lawrence's personal and ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 119 members
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  • Earthquake on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Charlton Heston,  Ava Gardner,  George Kennedy
    Director: Mark Robson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This essential 1970s disaster epic, with a script co-authored by Mario Puzo (THE GODFATHER), centers around a devastating earthquake in Los Angeles and the shocking aftermath it causes. The all-star cast is led by Charleton Heston as a construction engineer whose marital problems supply him with ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 711 members
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  • Bible, The - In The Beginning on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Stephen Boyd,  Ava Gardner,  Richard Harris
    Director: John Huston
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Focusing and dramatizing the first 22 chapters in The Book of Genesis, "The Bible in the Beginning...," exquisitely and diligently explores the origins of mankind. The stories of Adam and Eve, the story of Cain and Abel, Noah and the Ark, the Tower of Babel, Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham and Sarah, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 359 members
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  • 55 Days at Peking (1963)
    Starring: Charlton Heston,  Ava Gardner,  David Niven
    Director: Nicholas Ray
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The courage and leadership of U.S. Marine (Charlton Heston) and British Ambassador (David Niven) are the only hope against insurmountable odds, while a beautiful Russian Countess (Ava Gardner) must choose between freedom and commitment.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 43 members
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  • On The Beach on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Gregory Peck,  Ava Gardner,  Fred Astaire
    Director: Stanley Kramer
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    After the entire Northern Hemisphere is destroyed by a nuclear war, a group of survivors in Australia prepare for their own inevitable demise. As a deadly cloud of radiation creeps toward the continent, some survivors cling to hopes that life as they know it has continued somewhere, hopes that are ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 700 members
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  • Mogambo on DVD (1953)
    Starring: Clark Gable,  Ava Gardner,  Grace Kelly
    Director: John Ford
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Clark Gable reprises his role as veteran big-game trapper and guide Vic Marswell in John Ford's remake of RED DUST, the actor's 1932 hit. After a brief fling with Eloise Kelly (Ava Gardner), an adventurer temporarily stranded in Kenya, Vic is hired as a guide by British anthropologist Donald ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 197 members
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  • The Snows Of Kilimanjaro on DVD (1952)
    Starring: Gregory Peck,  Susan Hayward,  Ava Gardner
    Director: Henry King
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on the Ernest Hemingway novel of the same name, Peck plays the part of a wounded hunter who is accompanied by two women in the African wilds. Each of them tries to analyse his or her past life.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 168 members
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  • Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)
    Starring: James Mason,  Ava Gardner
    Director: Albert Lewin
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In this adaptation of the famous "Flying Dutchman" legend, James Mason plays a man condemned to travel the world until he finds a woman willing to die for his love. He certainly doesn't think he's discovered her in a beautiful nightclub singer (the stunning Ava Gardner) who juggles lines of suitors...read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 20 members
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  • Whistle Stop on DVD (1946)
    Starring: George Raft,  Ava Gardner,  Victor McLaglen
    Director: Leonide Moguy
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In this drama, Mary (Ava Gardner) returns to her small town after she becomes a success in the city. Meeting up with her old love, Kenny (George Raft), she discovers that he is still the unambitious, lazy man he was when she left, and she begins an affair with nightclub owner Lew Lentz (Tom Conway)...read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 17 members
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  • Ghosts On The Loose on DVD (1943)
    Starring: Bela Lugosi,  Ava Gardner,  Leo Gorcey
    Director: William Beaudine
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The Bowery Boys (the East Side Kids) end up in comedic horror when they try to renovate a crumbling house for Glimpy's newlywed sister and her husband. When the arrive at the address, they mistakenly start to work on the house next door - which is rumored to be haunted! Instead of ghosts, however, ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 37% from 45 members
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  • Killers (2 discs)
    Starring: Angie Dickinson,  Ava Gardner,  Burt Lancaster
    Director: Don Siegel,  Robert Siodmak
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The Killers (1946): Uses Ernest Hemingway's classic short story as a jumping-off point for an intense, hard-edged, and stylish tale of robbery, unrequited love, double-crosses, and brutal betrayal. The Killers (1964): Two hired killers muscle their way into a school for the blind and terrorize ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 701 members
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Ava Gardner facts

5 most recent films

Harem - The Loss Of Innocence - 2.5 stars
Priest Of Love - 2.5 stars
The Sentinel - 2.5 stars
The Cassandra Crossing - 3.0 stars
Earthquake - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Killers - 3.5 stars
The Night of the Iguana - 3.5 stars
On The Beach - 3.5 stars
Show Boat - 3.0 stars
Bible, The - In The Beginning - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Ernest Hemingway Collection - A Farewell To Arms/Hemingway's Adventures Of A Young Man/The Snows Of - 3 stars
Ghosts On The Loose - 2.0 stars
Whistle Stop - 2.5 stars
Bhowani Junction - 2.5 stars
55 Days at Peking - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Burt Lancaster - 4 times - show films
Richard Harris - 4 times - show films
Gregory Peck - 3 times - show films
Ingrid Thulin - 2 times - show films
Mel Ferrer - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

John Huston - 3 times - show films
Henry King - 3 times - show films
Robert Siodmak - 2 times - show films
George Pan Cosmatos - 2 times - show films
Arthur Pierson - 1 times - show films