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  • Waterloo
  • Waterloo review by A customer from GLASGOW
    Rated - 4 stars TOP MOVIE !!! 28 January 2006
    ...rmy to join up with the British as the only hope to stop the French juggernaut. Jack Hawkins and Michael Wilding portray key military commanders Picton and Ponosby, respect...  
  • Ben Hur
  • Ben Hur review by A customer from Leicester, England
    Rated - 5 stars BEN HUR 25 July 2004
    ...ok great and are highlights in movie history. Stephen Boyd as Messala is great, Jack Hawkins as Quintus Arrius and Hugh Griffith as a sheik are good too....  
  • Zulu
  • Zulu review by from Plymouth, England
    Rated - 5 stars They don't make 'em like this anymore! 21 May 2004
    ...e greatness from Michael Caine and sterling performances from Stanley Baker and Jack Hawkins mean that this is not going to be bettered for some time. A mention must go to...  

Jack Hawkins - filmography


  • Kidnapped (1971)
    Starring: Michael Caine,  Trevor Howard,  Jack Hawkins
    Director: Delbert Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause. This period drama is set during the Jacobite rebellion in Scotland. A young man David Balfour arrives to claim his inheritance but his wicked uncle attempts to kill him and then ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 169 members
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  • Jane Eyre on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Ian Bannen,  Jack Hawkins,  Susannah York
    Director: Delbert Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In Charlotte Bronte's classic Victorian tale of Jane Eyre (Susannah York), an orphan girl secures the position of governess to the ward of Edward Rochester (George C. Scott), Lord of the English manor house Thornfield, whose halls hide a dark and sinister secret. Jane and the moody and tyrannical ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 44% from 46 members
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  • Shalako on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Brigitte Bardot,  Stephen Boyd
    Director: Edward Dmytryk
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In late-19th-century New Mexico, a hunting party of decadent European aristocrats wanders onto the reservation of some angry Apaches, and it's up to the mysterious wanderer, Shalako (Sean Connery), to save them from getting slaughtered. The group includes Honor Blackman (Pussy Galore in GOLDFINGER) ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 277 members
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  • Lord Jim on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Peter O'Toole,  James Mason,  Eli Wallach
    Director: Richard Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This faithful adaptation of Joseph Conrad's 1900 novel tells the story of a romantic young Englishman, Jim (Peter O'Toole), who takes to the sea on a merchant vessel in his quest for adventure. Imagining himself to be a great man with a bright future, Jim instead deserts at the first true test of ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 215 members
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  • Zulu on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Stanley Baker,  Jack Hawkins,  Ulla Jacobsson
    Director: Cyril Endfield
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Narrated by Richard Burton and starring an outstanding Michael Caine in his first starring role, ZULU is a tense and dramatic war film about the Battle of Rorke's Drift in 1879--which was part of the Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa--where approximately 150 British soldiers held off 4,000 Zulu ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 11,256 members
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  • Lawrence Of Arabia on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Peter O'Toole,  Omar Sharif,  Anthony Quinn
    Director: David Lean
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    David Lean's masterpiece--perhaps the greatest of screen epics--stars Peter O'Toole in one of the most electrifying debuts in film history. The film is less an ordinary adventure than an experience that leaves an overwhelming sense of the struggle between two powerful forces: the Arabian deserts, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 19,286 members
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  • The League Of Gentlemen (1960)
    Starring: Jack Hawkins,  Nigel Patrick,  Richard Attenborough
    Director: Basil Dearden
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This British crime story has a delightfully dangerous premise: An ex-army colonel angered at being let after 25 years of service to his country, decides to fight back and put together what could be considered a nice severance package for himself. Armed with information he learned on the job, he ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 1,308 member
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  • Ben Hur on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Charlton Heston,  Jack Hawkins,  Stephen Boyd
    Director: William Wyler
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Anno Domini: the seventh year of Augustus Caesar's reign. In the Roman province of Judea, Jews return to the city of their birth for the census. A bright star in the night over Bethlehem marks the birth of Jesus Christ. Years later, Roman commander Messala (Stephen Boyd), who was brought up in ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 7,284 members
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  • Gideon's Day (1958)
    Starring: Jack Hawkins,  Dianne Foster,  Cyril Cusack
    Director: John Ford
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Jack Hawkins stars as Chief Inspector George Gideon of Scotland Yard in this classic British crime thriller directed by Hollywood legend John Ford. Inspector Gideon is a dedicated family man - but it's hard to meet the demands of your family and tackle the relentless wave of crime sweeping ..read more »
    Rate this: 1.5 stars out of 5 10% from 2 members
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  • Man In The Sky (1957)
    Starring: Jack Hawkins,  Elizabeth Sellars,  Jeremy Bodkin
    Director: Charles Crichton
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When an engine catches fire on the experimental rocket-propulsion plane that he is flying, test pilot John Mitchell (Jack Hawkins) defies an order to jettison the vehicle into the sea.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
    Due for release on 22nd February 2010
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  • The Long Arm on DVD (1956)
    Starring: Jack Hawkins,  John Stratton,  Dorothy Alison
    Director: Charles Frend
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A well-made police thriller which follows a Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent as he finds links between a recent robbery from a safe in a London office building and other similar crimes over the past two years. In every instance the make of the safe was the same.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 165 members
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  • Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
    Starring: Jack Hawkins,  Joan Collins,  Dewey Martin
    Director: Howard Hawks
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 9 members
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  • The Prisoner on DVD (1955)
    Starring: Alec Guinness,  Jack Hawkins
    Director: Peter Glenville
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In a nameless totalitarian nation teeming with social unrest, a clergyman (Alec Guiness) is jailed on a trumped-up charge of treason. A government worker (Jack Hawkins) interrogates the inmate, eventually, goading the priest into admitting several crimes. After his confessions are made public, the ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 105 members
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  • Touch And Go on DVD (1955)
    Starring: Jack Hawkins,  Margaret Johnston,  Roland Culver
    Director: Michael Truman
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The story finds Jim Fletcher (Jack Hawkins:The Long Arm, The Cruel Sea) planning to emigrate to Australia after a row with his employer (James Hayter). As one might expect, the decision to move lock,stock and barrel to another continent is not without pitfalls. Jim's wife (Margaret Johnston: Night ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 43% from 6 members
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  • Lola / The Witness on DVD (1953)
    Starring: Charles Bronson,  Susan George,  Honor Blackman
    Director: Richard Donner
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Features two movies on one DVD. In LOLA, a middle-aged writer falls in love with a 16-year old English nymphet. Boasting a strong performance from Charles Bronson as the writer. In THE WITNESS, a young boy who has witnessed the crime for which his father is being wrongly accused attempts to free ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 40% from 66 members
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Jack Hawkins facts

5 most recent films

Young Winston - 3.5 stars
Nicholas And Alexandra - 3.0 stars
When Eight Bells Toll - 3.0 stars
Hannie Caulder - 3.0 stars
Kidnapped - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Zulu - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Mandy - 4.0 stars
Lawrence Of Arabia - 3.5 stars
Zulu - 3.5 stars
The Cruel Sea - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Man In The Sky - 3 stars
Gideon's Day - 1.5 stars
Operation Opium - 2.0 stars
Touch And Go - 2.0 stars
Jane Eyre - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Alec Guinness - 5 times - show films
Flora Robson - 4 times - show films
Stanley Baker - 3 times - show films
John Stratton - 3 times - show films
Michael Caine - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Delbert Mann - 2 times - show films
Charles Frend - 2 times - show films
Brian Desmond Hurst - 2 times - show films
David Lean - 2 times - show films
Cyril Endfield - 2 times - show films