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review by A customer from GLASGOW
TOP MOVIE !!! 28 January 2006
review by A customer from Leicester, England
BEN HUR 25 July 2004
review by from Plymouth, England
They don't make 'em like this anymore! 21 May 2004
Jack Hawkins - filmography
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The Ruling Class
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Alastair Sim, Peter O'Toole, Harry Andrews
Director: Peter Medak
Certificate: 
Controversial black comedy following the eccentric life and times of the 14th Earl of Gurney (Peter O'Toole), an aristocrat who veers between thinking he is Jesus Christ and Jack the Ripper. His family attempt to engineer a new heir to the family fortune, but the Earl has no intentions of going ..read more »
 
57%
from 579 members
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Young Winston
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Patrick Magee, Jack Hawkins, John Mills
Director: Richard Attenborough
Certificate: 
Richard Attenborough directs this biopic telling the story of Winston Churchill's early years. Covering the young Churchill's childhood, his time as a war correspondent in India, and his military experience in the Boer War, the film culminates with the future Prime Minister's first speech in the ..read more »
70%
from 372 members
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When Eight Bells Toll
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Anthony Hopkins, Corin Redgrave
Director: Etienne Perier
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Anthony Hopkins stars in this high seas drama, as the Naval Secret agent on a mission to stop the hijacking of gold bullion in the Irish Sea and encountering the wrath of a small Hebridian port where boats and people have often disappeared.
64%
from 578 members
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Kidnapped
(1971)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Trevor Howard, Gordon Jackson
Director: Delbert Mann
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Delbert Mann's adaptation of the R.L. Stevenson novel, set during the 18th century, sticks close to the text. David Balfour (Lawrence Douglas) is a recently orphaned young man from a tiny Highland village and the true heir to the title of Master of the Shaws. His uncle Ebenezer (Donald Pleasance) ..read more »
56%
from 202 members
Not available for rental
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Hannie Caulder
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Strother Martin, Richard Johnson
Director: Burt Kennedy
Certificate: 
60's sex symbol Raquel Welch stars as the gun-slinging, vengeful Hannie Caulder. Whilst fleeing the scene of a botched bank robbery, the Clements brothers (Ernest Borgnine, Jack Elam & Strother Martin) come across an isolated homestead. Whilst trying to steal new horses, the trigger-happy youngest ..read more »
58%
from 249 members
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Nicholas And Alexandra
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Janet Suzman, Maurice Denham
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
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Russian Tsar Nicholas II (Michael Jayston) and his German wife Alexandra (Janet Suzman) are driven apart as personal and social circumstances conspire against them. Their only son is born a haemophiliac, and Alexandra becomes obsessed with faith healer Rasputin (Tom Baker). Meanwhile, World War One ..read more »
65%
from 597 members
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Jane Eyre
(1970)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Ian Bannen, George C. Scott
Director: Delbert Mann
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An adaption of the classic tale of Jane Eyre an orphan, sent to the cruel school institution of Lowood. She is later made a governess to a girl named Adele at Thornfield Hall. Oblivious of her lowly-rank; she makes the best of her situation. But Thornfield is home to many secrets and despite ..read more »
48%
from 69 members
Currently unavailable
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Waterloo
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Virginia McKenna, Ian Ogilvy
Director: Sergei Bondarchuk
Certificate: 
After his abdication Napoleon Bonaparte (Rod Steiger) is exiled to the island of Elba. However, he escapes to be reunited with his generals and troops, and mounts a last desperate bid for power at the what is now known as the Battle of Waterloo. He has, however, reckoned without the British forces ..read more »
68%
from 1,776 member
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Shalako
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Brigitte Bardot, Eric Sykes
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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A romantic western based on the novel by Louis l'Amour, which casts Connery and Bardot opposite one another. Bardot plays a European aristocrat on a hunting trip in 1880's New Mexico who falls for Cowboy, Connery.
57%
from 346 members
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Operation Opium
(1966)
Starring: Yul Brynner, Jack Hawkins, Trevor Howard
Director: Terence Young
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Made-for-TV thriller, based on the story by Ian Fleming, about narcotics agents trying to trace heroin shipments in Europe. After a UN agent is murdered trying to trace opium routes in Iran, two of his compatriots take over the case, coming up with an ingenious plan to inject a radioactive isotope ..read more »
42%
from 13 members
Currently unavailable
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Lord Jim
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Peter O'Toole, Daliah Lavi
Director: Richard Brooks
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Peter O'Toole plays a merchant seaman in this adaption of Joseph Conrad's novel. A moment of cowardice, when O'Toole abandons his ship in a storm, leads him to spend his later years trying to redeem himself. His redemption comes when he heads for South Asia where he becomes the hero of a tribe of ..read more »
60%
from 314 members
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Zulu - Blu-ray
(1964)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Stanley Baker, Michael Caine
Director: Cyril Endfield
Certificate:
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Michael Caine stars in this epic story of the battle of Rorke's Drift, on January 22nd 1879, where 1,200 British troops found themselves completely outnumbered by irate Zulu warriors in Natal, South Africa. Having already destroyed a very large British garrison, 4,000 Zulu warriors are now on their ..read more »
81%
from 1,794 member
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Zulu
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Stanley Baker, Michael Caine
Director: Cyril Endfield
Certificate:
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Filmed on a grand scale, Zulu is a rousing recreation of the January 22, 1879, siege of Rorke's Drift in Natal, Africa. An army of 4,000 Zulu warriors have already decimated a huge British garrison; now they are on their way to the much smaller Rorke's Drift. A Royal Engineers officer (Stanley ..read more »
75%
from 14,859 members
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The Third Secret
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Judi Dench, Diane Cilento
Director: Charles Crichton
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Charles Crichton directs this 1960s mystery drama starring Stephen Boyd as a reporter investigating the death of a renowned psychiatrist. Dr. Leo Whitset (Peter Copley)'s death is classed as suicide but his teenage daughter, Catherine (Pamela Franklin), and one of his patients, Alex Steadman (Boyd),..read more »
58%
from 44 members
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Lawrence Of Arabia - Blu-ray
(1962)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Anthony Quinn, Donald Wolfit
Director: David Lean
Certificate: 
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David Lean's lush, Oscar-winning biopic stars Peter O'Toole as T.E. Lawrence, the Oxford-educated British army officer who aided the Arabs in their revolt against the Turks. Teaming up with Sherif Ali (Omar Sharif), Lawrence crosses a desert (considered uncrossable) in order to join two separate ..read more »
87%
from 266 members
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The League Of Gentlemen
(1960)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Bryan Forbes, Robert Coote
Director: Basil Dearden
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British comedy-thriller in the Ealing mode. After 25 years of army service, Colonel Hyde's (Jack Hawkins) unblemished career ends abrubtly when he is retired. However, before leaving he steals some information, and, once outside, puts together a top team of ex-army gents (all experts in their own ..read more »
56%
from 1,364 member
Currently unavailable
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Ben-Hur - Blu-ray
(1959)
Starring: Martha Scott, Andre Morell, Jack Hawkins
Director: William Wyler
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Ben Hur (Charlton Heston) is a Jewish prince who falls out with his close Roman friend (Stephen Boyd) when he refuses to promote Roman rule over his people - his mother and sister are imprisoned and he is enslaved. Hur plans and achieves revenge, but finds true peace when he joins the new following ..read more »
79%
from 365 members
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Ben Hur
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Martha Scott, Andre Morell, Jack Hawkins
Director: William Wyler
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This 1959 version of Lew Wallace's best-selling novel, which had already seen screen versions in 1907 and 1926, went on to win 11 Academy Awards. Adapted by Karl Tunberg and a raft of uncredited writers including Gore Vidal and Maxwell Anderson, the film once more recounts the tale of Jewish prince ..read more »
71%
from 8,533 members
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Gideon's Day
(1958)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, James Hayter, Dianne Foster
Director: John Ford
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Classic British crime thriller starring Jack Hawkins as Inspector George Gideon of Scotland Yard. Dedicated family man and all-round straight arrow, Gideon is used to being in the front line in the wave of crime and corruption sweeping the nation's capital but even for him, today is a bad day. It ..read more »
42%
from 10 members
Currently unavailable
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Man In The Sky
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Jeremy Bodkin, John Stratton
Director: Charles Crichton
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Charles Crichton directs this Ealing Studios thriller starring Jack Hawkins. When one of the engines on the experimental rocket-propulsion plane he is flying catches fire, test pilot John Mitchell (Hawkins) refuses to obey orders to jettison the aircraft into the Irish Sea.
68%
from 101 members
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Geoffrey Horne, Jack Hawkins, James Donald
Director: David Lean
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The Bridge on the River Kwai opens in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1943, where a battle of wills rages between camp commander Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) and newly arrived British colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness). Saito insists that Nicholson order his men to build a bridge over ..read more »
71%
from 17,109 members
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The Long Arm
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Maureen Delany, Jack Hawkins, Meredith Edwards
Director: Charles Frend
Certificate:
Superior police procedural drama, with a strong cast, from 1956 that portrays solid and patient police work without any of the psychological undertones more prevalent in the 'noir' thrillers of the same period. This film follows a team of British coppers, led by Supt. Tom Halliday (Jack Hawkins), ..read more »
73%
from 296 members
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The Prisoner
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Alec Guinness
Director: Peter Glenville
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Modern classic based on a true story. Alec Guinness stars as a Cardinal prisoner ordered to issue a false statement which will effectively end Catholicism in his country. Jack Hawkins is the interrogator who almost convinces The Cardinal that his statement will have a beneficial effect.
59%
from 185 members
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Land of the Pharaohs
(1955)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Dewey Martin
Director: Howard Hawks
Certificate: 
Epic film about an Egyptian pharaoh and the construction of his pyramid over a span of 30 years. However, the pharaoh's sexy, conniving wife has plans of her own - namely stealing her husband's wealth and power.
56%
from 25 members
Currently unavailable
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Touch And Go
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Margaret Johnston, Jack Hawkins, June Thorburn
Director: Michael Truman
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Lesser-known Ealing comedy starring Jack Hawkins as Jim Fletcher, a man who makes a sudden decision to emigrate to Australia after an altercation with his boss (James Hayter). However, the decision to move lock, stock and barrel to another continent is not without pitfalls: Jim's wife Helen (..read more »
61%
from 71 members
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The Seekers
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Glynis Johns, Noel Purcell
Director: Ken Annakin
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Famous for being the first ever colour film to be made in New Zealand, this Rank 1954 feature is overflowing with beautiful scenery, colour and set pieces. It is 1821 and adventuring seafarer Philip Wayne (Jack Hawkins) and Paddy Clarke (Noel Purcell) have set ashore to explore the Bay of Plenty. ..read more »
48%
from 23 members
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The Cruel Sea - Blu-ray
(1953)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Meredith Edwards, Denholm Elliott
Director: Charles Frend
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World War Two drama, based on the best-selling book by Nicholas Monsarrat, starring Jack Hawkins. Lt. Commander Ericson (Hawkins) has already lost one ship to an enemy attack when he is given command of the frigate Saltash Castle. A subsequent confrontation in the North Atlantic tests Ericson's ..read more »
76%
from 144 members
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The Cruel Sea
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Meredith Edwards, Denholm Elliott
Director: Charles Frend
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World War Two drama, based on the best-selling book by Nicholas Monsarrat, starring Jack Hawkins. Lt. Commander Ericson (Hawkins) has already lost one ship to an enemy attack when he is given command of the frigate Saltash Castle. A subsequent confrontation in the North Atlantic tests Ericson's ..read more »
72%
from 3,587 members
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The Malta Story
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson, Ralph
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
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Wartime drama starring Alec Guiness as Peter Ross, an RAF reconnaisance photographer assigned to trace and destroy an Italian convoy threatening to invade Malta. As the Luftwaffe threatens, Ross's romance with a local girl hangs in the balance.
66%
from 921 members
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Mandy
(1952)
Starring: Godfrey Tearle, Jack Hawkins, Terence Morgan
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
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The life of a deaf girl, from the moment her parents realise that she has no hearing, through her struggle to express herself and learn how to lip-read. Her mother and father argue over the best way to deal with her condition, leading to a scandalous marriage breakdown.
78%
from 261 members
Currently unavailable
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Angels One Five
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Dulcie Gray, Michael Denison
Director: George More O'Ferrall
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This semi-documentary, which made stars of Jack Hawkins and John Gregson, is a look at life in an RAF fighter station during the Battle of Britain. Set in the Summer of 1940, a squadron of Hurricanes are followed as they take on the massive wave of Luftwaffe fighters and bombers that are intent on ..read more »
72%
from 499 members
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No Highway in the Sky
(1951)
Starring: James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns
Director: Henry Koster
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Theodore Honey is an aeronautical engineer being sent to Labrador from London to examine the wreckage of a new passenger plane designed by his company. His theory is that the planes are susceptible to metal fatigue after a specific amount of time in the air. The absent minded Honey boards the ..read more »
59%
from 13 members
Currently unavailable
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The Small Back Room
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins, Sid James
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressbu
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One of the lesser-known Powell and Pressburger collaborations. During the Second World War, scientist Sammy Rice (David Farrar) works at a British research unit set up to solve the enemy's methods of attack. Embittered after losing a foot in a bomb blast, Sammy is increasingly seeking solace in ..read more »
68%
from 652 members
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I Lived With You
on DVD
(1937)
Starring: Eliot Makeham, Beryl Harrison, Jack Hawkins
Director: Maurice Elvey
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1930s British romantic comedy starring Ivor Novello as a Russian prince who has been exiled from his home country. Young Londoner Ada Wallis (Ida Lupino) takes the now homeless Prince Felix Lenieff (Novello) to live at her house but he soon causes trouble with her middle class family.
38%
from 10 members
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Four Just Men - Complete
Starring: Frank Thornton, Jack Hawkins, Honor Blackman
Director: Basil Dearden
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Every episode from the 1950s drama starring Jack Hawkins, Richard Conte, Vittorio de Sica and Dan Dailey as a group of men who accept responsibility for protecting the world from severe threats. The episodes are: 'The Battle of the Bridge', 'The Prime Minister', 'The Village of Shame', 'The Judge', ..read more »
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