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  • All The King's Men
  • All The King's Men review by chungking from London,England
    Rated - 4.0 stars quality all round 11 December 2005
    ...ford was a character actor par excellence and appeared in over a hundred films. John Ireland was another character actor with a varied C.V. and appeared in, amongst others,...   Read customer review

John Ireland - filmography


  • Messenger Of Death on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Charles Bronson,  Trish Van Devere,  John Ireland
    Director: J. Lee Thompson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Religious fanaticism and corporate greed lace a tale of murder within a renegade Mormon sect. What the cops can't do to solve the crime, an intrepid reporter takes upon himself, with violent results. Charles Bronson and director J. Lee Thompson are teamed once again in this action/mystery set in ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 177 members
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  • The Incubus (1981)
    Starring: John Cassavetes,  John Ireland,  Kerrie Keane
    Director: John Hough
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
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    Based on the terrifying novel by Ray Russell, John Hough's powerful rendering of a small town gripped in a wave of evil and fear, from which none will survive. Only one man has the secret of this extra-terrestrial nightmare. He alone knows the INCUBUS - the evil, the destruction, the carnage that ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 68 members
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  • Salon Kitty - Blu-ray (1976)
    Starring: Helmut Berger,  Ingrid Thulin,  Teresa Ann Savoy
    Director: Tinto Brass
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    A power hungry SS-officer sets out to control the lives of those around him through blackmail, espionage, and the threat of death. His immediate goal is to master the underworld forces in charge of Salon Kitty, Berlin's SS den of pleasure. An earlier work from the co-director of CALIGULA.
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 60 members
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  • Salon Kitty on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Helmut Berger,  Ingrid Thulin,  Teresa Ann Savoy
    Director: Tinto Brass
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    This is Tinto Brass' own director's cut with many scenes previously cut now reinserted. Based on a true story, as war breaks out, SS officer Wallemberg replaces the girls in Kitty's high-class Berlin brothel with Nazi volunteers, including Margherita. He bugs all the rooms in order to blackmail ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 1,173 member
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  • The Swiss Conspiracy on DVD (1975)
    Starring: David Janssen,  Senta Berger,  John Ireland
    Director: Jack Arnold
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An all-action thriller, where the head of a Swiss bank hires an ex-U.S. agent to find out why five of his customers are being blackmailed. He tracks down the five victims and uncovers some particularly nasty secrets ...
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 22 members
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  • Farewell My Lovely on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Robert Mitchum,  Charlotte Rampling,  John Ireland
    Director: Dick Richards
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    This remake of the 1944 film, 'Murder, My Sweet,' also based on the Raymond Chandler novel, concerns private eye Philip Marlowe's attempts to locate Velma, a former dancer at a seedy nightclub and the girlfriend of Moose Malloy, a petty criminal just out of prison. Marlowe finds that he is forced ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 778 members
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  • The Mad Butcher on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Victor Buono,  Karin Field,  Brad Harris
    Director: Guido Zurli
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A butcher who kills his wife and turns her into sausages, finds himself having to kill the locals too when they begin to ask too many questions about his wife's disappearance.
    2 stars out of 5 36% from 78 members
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  • Dirty Heroes (1968)
    Starring: Frederick Stafford,  Daniela Bianchi,  John Ireland
    Director: Alberto De Martino
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Set near the end of World War II in the Netherlands, DIRTY HEROES concerns a group of ex-convicts recruited into the U.S. Army to recover Dutch jewels originally stolen by the Nazis as well as confiscated Allied plans. Ennio Morricone contributed the score music.
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 5 members
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  • Run Man Run (1968)
    Starring: Tomas Milian,  Donal O'Brien,  John Ireland
    Director: Sergio Sollima
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Cuchillo is a knife-throwing thief on the run from murderous bandits, sadistic American agents, his hot-blooded fiancée and a sheriff turned bounty hunter, all of whom are gunning for a hidden fortune in gold that could finance the Mexican Revolution.
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 16 members
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  • The Fall Of The Roman Empire (1964)
    Starring: Alec Guinness,  James Mason,  Stephen Boyd
    Director: Anthony Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Though Fall of the Roman Empire is now infamous as the epic which destroyed the cinematic empire of producer Samuel Bronston, the film is actually an above-average historical drama, attempting to make sense of the political intrigues which resulted in the dissolution of the Glory That Was Rome. The ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 623 members
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  • Wild In The Country on DVD (1961)
    Starring: Elvis Presley,  Hope Lange,  William Mims
    Director: Philip Dunne
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The King stars heads up the cast of three films in this collection.LOVE ME TENDER: Elvis Presley made the transition from vinyl to celluloid in this tragic Western. Because of his "tender" age, Texas farm hand Clint (Presley) was spared participation in the American Civil War. His older brother, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 250 members
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  • Return of a Stranger on DVD (1961)
    Starring: John Ireland,  Susan Stephen,  Cyril Shaps
    Director: Max Varnel
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The serene life of Pam and John Allen is rocked to its core when a mysterious man begins stalking their every move with late night phone calls, sudden appearances and sinister behaviour. It transpires that the man, Homer Trent, was a part of Pam’s early life when she was brought up at an orphanage ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 44% from 15 members
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  • Faces In The Dark on DVD (1960)
    Starring: John Gregson,  Mai Zetterling,  John Ireland
    Director: David Eady
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In his quest to find the perfect light-bulb, inventor Richard Hammond is blinded in a laboratory accident. Cared for by his business partner, wife and brother, he begins to have suspicions about their motives.
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 19 members
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  • Gunfight At The OK Corral on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Kirk Douglas,  Burt Lancaster,  Rhonda Fleming
    Director: John Sturges
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Of all the film versions of the famed 1881 gunfight, this one, starring Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday, probably has the highest testosterone quotient. Focusing on the friendship between the forthright, responsible sheriff and the risk-taking, consumptive gambler, it ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 656 members
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  • Vengeance Valley on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Burt Lancaster,  Robert Walker,  Sally Forrest
    Director: Richard Thorpe
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Three features. In 'Vengeance Valley' the foreman of the Strobie Ranch, Owen Daybright, has always taken the blame for any of his friend's mistakes, but now his patience has run out. Also features 'The Big Trees' and 'The Man From Utah'.
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 129 members
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  • All The King's Men on DVD (1949)
    Starring: Broderick Crawford,  John Ireland,  Joanne Dru
    Director: Robert Rossen
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men is a roman à clef inspired by the career of Louisiana governor Huey Long. Broderick Crawford won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Willie Stark, a backwoods Southern lawyer who wins the hearts of his ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 713 members
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  • Raw Deal on DVD (1948)
    Starring: Dennis O'Keefe,  Claire Trevor,  Marsha Hunt
    Director: Anthony Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    In this film noir classic, a revenge-seeking gangster (Dennis O'Keefe) is sent to prison after being framed for a crime he didn't commit. After seducing a beautiful young woman, he uses her to help him carry out his plot for vengeance, leading him to the crazy pyromaniac (Raymond Burr) who set him up.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 137 members
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  • Red River on DVD (1948)
    Starring: John Ireland,  Noah Beery Jr.,  John Wayne
    Director: Howard Hawks
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    RED RIVER, Howard Hawks's masterpiece, is one of the greatest Westerns ever filmed, a saga of obsession and rivalry between a man and his adoptive son amid an epic struggle for survival in the Old West. Tom Dunson (John Wayne) journeys west to Texas to build a cattle empire and adopts Matthew Garth,..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,397 members
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  • Railroaded (1947)
    Starring: John Ireland,  Sheila Ryan,  Hugh Beaumont
    Director: Anthony Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The cops are pitted against a hot-tempered, sadistic mobster who uses bullets drenched in perfume to kill his victims. Can the police save the gangster's girlfriend before she becomes the next dead body?
    2 stars out of 5 35% from 4 members
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  • My Darling Clementine (2 discs) (1946)
    Starring: Henry Fonda,  Alan Mowbray,  Victor Mature
    Director: John Ford
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    One of the greatest movie Westerns, John Ford's My Darling Clementine is hardly the most accurate film version of the Wyatt Earp legend, but it is still one of the most entertaining. Henry Fonda stars as former lawman Wyatt Earp, who, after cleaning up Dodge City, arrives in the outskirts of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 886 members
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John Ireland facts

5 most recent films

Messenger Of Death - 2.5 stars
The Incubus - 2.0 stars
Salon Kitty - Blu-ray - 2.0 stars
Salon Kitty - 2.5 stars
The Swiss Conspiracy - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

My Darling Clementine - 3.5 stars
Gunfight At The OK Corral - 3.5 stars
Red River - 3.5 stars
Raw Deal - 3.5 stars
Planet Of The Apes - The Television Series - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Railroaded - 2.0 stars
Return of a Stranger - 2.0 stars
Run Man Run - 2.5 stars
The Swiss Conspiracy - 2.5 stars
Faces In The Dark - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Dorothy Malone - 9 times - show films
Ray Milland - 8 times - show films
Beverly Garland - 7 times - show films
Hazel Court - 7 times - show films
John Lund - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Roger Corman - 7 times - show films
Anthony Mann - 6 times - show films
Tinto Brass - 3 times - show films
John Ford - 3 times - show films
Richard Thorpe - 2 times - show films