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  • The King And I
  • The King And I review by from CHESHIRE
    Rated - 5.0 stars KING AND I 22 December 2004
    ...but this is is the best way to watch it. Nobody can play the King of Siam like Yul Brynner! My wife and I had the pleasure of seeing Brynner play the part at the Paladium...   Read customer review
  • The Magnificent Seven
  • The Magnificent Seven review by from London
    Rated - 4.0 stars the japanese version's better.. 20 September 2004
    ...extras are good too, they tell you tales of how Steve McQueen was obsessed that Yul Brynner was the star of the film and how the Mexicans weren't allowed to get dirty for ...   Read customer review
  • Futureworld
  • Futureworld review by from Manchester, UK
    Rated - 2.0 stars Laughably bad... 28 March 2004
    ...ect it looked pretty bad when it came out in 1976. It?s billed as ?starring? Yul Brynner (as ?the Gunslinger?). In fact he appears for about a minute in a laughably bad...   Read customer review

Yul Brynner - filmography


  • Futureworld on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Peter Fonda,  Blythe Danner,  Yul Brynner
    Director: Richard T. Heffron
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    It’s been several years since the Westworld amusement park massacre, when a group of robotic cowboys got their wires crossed and decided to start slaughtering tourists. The Delos Corporation have since learnt from their mistakes and decided to open up a brand new amusement park. Futureworld is ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 1,188 member
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  • Night Flight from Moscow (1972)
    Starring: Yul Brynner,  Henry Fonda,  Dirk Bogarde
    Director: Henri Verneuil
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The tension-filled days of Cold War espionage and international intrigue return to life in this edge-of-the-seat political thriller. Yul Brynner plays a Soviet spy who defects to the West and brings along with him a list of several high-ranking Western officials who are in fact Soviet double agents...read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 12 members
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  • Adios, Sabata on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Yul Brynner,  Lee Van Cleef,  Ignazio Spalla
    Director: Gianfranco Parolini
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Yul Brynner plays the mysterious, gun-slinging anti-hero Sabata in 1971's ADIOS SABATA. Robberies, Mexican revolutionaries, tyranny, double-crossing, and Sabata's brand of Robin Hood-esque justice all come into play in this fun, stylish spaghetti Western from director Gianfranco Parolini.
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 110 members
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  • The Battle Of The Neretva on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Yul Brynner,  Orson Wells,  Hardy Kruger
    Director: Veljko Bulajic
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In 1943, Hitler orders the final destruction of the Yugoslav Partisans. The Partisans and thousands of refugees begin a trek northward to the Bosnian Mountains; their goal is to cross the treacherous Neretva gorge over the one remaining bridge in order to get to safety. Their trip is fraught with ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 66 members
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  • The Magic Christian on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Richard Attenborough,  Peter Sellers,  Laurence Harvey
    Director: Joseph McGrath
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    This zany British comedy finds a homeless hobo (Ringo Starr) being adopted by the world's richest man, Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers). Setting sail on the luxury liner The Magic Christian, Sir Grand tests the limit of human avarice. With money to motivate the greedy, Laurence Harvey combines his ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 436 members
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  • Operation Opium (1966)
    Starring: Yul Brynner,  Angie Dickinson,  Trevor Howard
    Director: Terence Young
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A motorcycle gang descend upon a small town and cause total chaos by torturing the townsfolk, raping the women and vandalising property. Only one person can stop the carnage, a disillusioned war hero and relentless one-man killing machine...
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 11 members
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  • Cast A Giant Shadow on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Kirk Douglas,  John Wayne,  Frank Sinatra
    Director: Melville Shavelson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In this story of Israel's difficult struggle for statehood, Kirk Douglas plays the role of colonel David Marcus, an American military officer who defied orders and led a faction of the Israeli Army in defense of its newly formed borders.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 375 members
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  • Triple Cross (1966)
    Starring: Christopher Plummer,  Yul Brynner,  Romy Schneider
    Director: Terence Young
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    A British safecracker called Eddie Chapman works for whoever pays his wages. Faced with helping the Germans and facing a term in an English jail he opts to become a double agent....
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 255 members
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  • Morituri on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Marlon Brando,  Yul Brynner,  Trevor Howard
    Director: Bernhard Wicki
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A British secret agent is sent to sabotage a German freight ship and deliver the cargo of rubber into Allied hands. The German captain in charge of the ship has been ordered to ensure that it reaches it's destination safely...
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 188 members
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  • Invitation To A Gunfighter on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Yul Brynner,  Janice Rule,  George Segal
    Director: Richard Wilson
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Returning home from the Civil War, Matt Weaver is shocked to discover that his house has been sold by Sam Brewster, the town boss. In order to prevent Weaver causing any problems, Brewster hires a gunfighter to deal with the situation...
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 134 members
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  • Kings of the Sun on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Yul Brynner,  George Chakiris,  Shirley Anne Field
    Director: J Lee Thompson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In this historical adventure saga, Balam (George Chakiris) is the son of the ruler of the Mayan people; when his father is killed in battle, Balam succeeds his father as King and leads his followers out of Mexico to a coastal region. The Mayan's new home, however, is already the province of a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 64 members
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  • The Magnificent Seven on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Yul Brynner,  Steve McQueen,  Robert Vaughn
    Director: John Sturges
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    John Sturges's remake of Akira Kurosawa's classic THE SEVEN SAMURAI has become an influential film in its own right. A small farming Mexican village that makes involuntary donations of its harvest to a gang of bandits led by Calvera (Eli Wallach) decides to hire a group of professional gunmen, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 10,215 members
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  • The Magnificent Seven - Blu-ray (1960)
    Starring: Yul Brynner,  Steve McQueen,  Robert Vaughn
    Director: John Sturges
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    John Sturges's remake of Akira Kurosawa's classic THE SEVEN SAMURAI has become an influential film in its own right. A small farming Mexican village that makes involuntary donations of its harvest to a gang of bandits led by Calvera (Eli Wallach) decides to hire a group of professional gunmen, ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 43 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 259 members
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  • The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
    Starring: Yul Brynner,  Maria Schell,  Claire Bloom
    Director: Richard Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Dostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov is given a Hollywood screen treatment by producer Pandro S. Berman and director Richard Brooks. Yul Brynner plays Dmitri Karamazov, a callous Russian officer who cuckolds his domineering father (Lee J. Cobb) with the old man's mistress Grushenka (Maria ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 1 member
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  • Anastasia on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Ingrid Bergman,  Yul Brynner,  Helen Hayes
    Director: Anatole Litvak
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    An opportunistic Russian businessman tries to pass a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia. But she is so convincing in her performance that even the biggest skeptics believe her
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 338 members
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  • The Ten Commandments on DVD (1956)
    Starring: Anne Baxter,  Edward G. Robinson,  Yul Brynner
    Director: Cecil B. DeMille
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The story relates the life of Moses, from the time he was discovered in the bullrushes as an infant by the pharoah's daughter, to his long, hard ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,348 members
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  • The King And I on DVD (1956)
    Starring: Yul Brynner,  Deborah Kerr,  Rita Moreno
    Director: Walter Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Rogers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical, adapted from Margaret Landon's fact-based novel and the 1946 film ANNA AND THE KING OF SIAM, makes a spectacularly successful move to the silver screen in the Yul Brynner tour de force THE KING AND I. Brynner, reprising the role he'd polished to perfection ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 6,163 members
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  • Yul Brynner - Than Man Who Was King on DVD
    Starring: Yul Brynner
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    No other actor had his looks, his range of talents, his energy, and his capacity to draw others into the spell of his charm. A true sophisticate of deliberately mysterious origins, Yul Brynner was at home in a wide variety of languages and social environments. At an early age he found his perfect ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 17 members
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Yul Brynner facts

5 most recent films

Futureworld - 2.5 stars
Westworld - 3.5 stars
Night Flight from Moscow - 2.5 stars
The Light At The Edge Of The World - 3.0 stars
Catlow - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Magnificent Seven - 3.5 stars
Westworld - 3.5 stars
The Ten Commandments - 3.5 stars
The King And I - 3.5 stars
Anastasia - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Film Noir Collection: Port Of New York - 1.0 stars
Catlow - 2.0 stars
Operation Opium - 2.0 stars
The Buccaneer - 2.5 stars
The Brothers Karamazov - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Charles Bronson - 6 times - show films
Brad Dexter - 6 times - show films
Jorge Martinez De Hoyos - 5 times - show films
Horst Buchholz - 5 times - show films
James Coburn - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

John Sturges - 5 times - show films
Terence Young - 3 times - show films
Walter Lang - 3 times - show films
Joseph McGrath - 2 times - show films
Michael Crichton - 2 times - show films