Jacques Tourneur

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Jacques Tourneur - what members say

Berlin Express review by from UK

DULL THRILLER, JUST AS WELL IT ISN'T ON DVD, EH? 8 February 2007
...This is a dull thriller from director Jacques Tourneur, although after a poor opening there IS a good bit about 10 minutes in! After that it's downhill to dullsville. Just as ... Read customer review

Canyon Passage review by A customer from London

Fine convincing western 20 June 2010
...Jacques Tourneur's striking Canyon Passage is less of a thematic western than a film of ideas. The story is from the same pen as Stagecoach, Ernest Haycox, and shares many of t... Read customer review

Night Of The Demon / Curse Of The Demon review by Sickbag from Reading

Beats the modern stuff 19 August 2010
...Drag me to hell going, 'this is so Night of the Demon and not nearly as good'. Jacques Tourneur (Always a good name to throw into conversation) has directed a wonderfully atmo... Read customer review

The Comedy Of Terrors on DVD (1964)
Starring: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre
Director: Jacques Tourneur
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An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced the pay one year's back-rent. But the only way he can make money is if more people start dying...

64% from 228 members

Night Of The Demon / Curse Of The Demon on DVD (1957)
Starring: Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis
Director: Jacques Tourneur
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Classic slice of 1950s psychological horror. Dana Andrews stars as American psychologist Dr John Holden, who arrives in London to attend a paranormal psychology symposium with the aim of exposing devil cult leader Julian Karswell (Niall MacGinnis) as a charlatan and a fraud. On his arrival, Holden ..read more »

78% from 727 members

Darn Good Westerns Box Set Vol.1 (3 discs) on DVD (1952)
Starring: Marie Windsor, Joel McRea, James Craig
Director: Sam Newfield, Ron Ormond, Jacques Tourneur
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Boxset includes: Stranger on Horseback: Judge Thorne (Joel McCrea) is a circuit judge who comes to a small western town which is under the feudal thumb of the Bannerman family. Four Fast Guns: After blasting the 'town-tamer' that was meant to travel to the town of Purgatory, gunfighter Tom Sabin (..read more »

35% from 2 members

Darn Good Westerns Box Set Vol.1 - Stran... on DVD (1952)
Starring: Joel McCrea, Miroslava, Kevin McCarthy
Director: Jacques Tourneur
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Stranger on Horseback: Judge Thorne (Joel McCrea) is a circuit judge who comes to a small western town which is under the feudal thumb of the Bannerman family

56% from 9 members

Berlin Express on DVD (1948)
Starring: Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin
Director: Jacques Tourneur
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A multinational group of train passengers become involved in a post-World War II Nazi assassination plot.

60% from 98 members

Out Of The Past on DVD (1947)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer
Director: Jacques Tourneur
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Curious tale of a private eye who is hired by a villain to find his homicidal girlfriend. But the story takes a twist when he tracks her down and promptly falls in love with her.

75% from 1,280 member

Canyon Passage on DVD (1946)
Starring: Dana Andrews, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward
Director: Jacques Tourneur
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Adventure awaits when a pack-mule express owner (Dana Andrews) escorts a young woman (Susan Hayward) home to a remote Oregon town.

64% from 62 members

Days of Glory on DVD (1944)
Starring: Tamara Toumanova, Gregory Peck, Alan Reed
Director: Jacques Tourneur
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Oscar winner Gregory Peck makes his Hollywood debut in this hard-hitting 1944 war film set on the brutal Eastern Front. As Soviet Russia reels under the Nazi onslaught, Vladimir (Gregory Peck), a young Red Army officer, stays behind enemy lines to organise local villagers into an effective ..read more »

46% from 9 members

Experiment Perilous on DVD (1944)
Starring: Hedy Lamarr, George Brent, Paul Lukas
Director: Jacques Tourneur
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It was one of the strangest days of his life... On a train to New York, Psychiatrist 'Hunt' Bailey (George Brent) becomes acquainted with an old lady called 'Cissie' Bederaux (Olive Blakeney). She tells him about her strange family, about her volatile brother Nick (Paul Lukas) and his beautiful but ..read more »

52% from 23 members

The Leopard Man (1943)
Starring: Dennis O'Keefe
Director: Jacques Tourneur
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A 'tame' black leopard escapes during a bungled publicity stunt. In the small New Mexico town deaths of young girls start to multiply and the escaped beast is blamed but something else much worse is stalking the townsfolk.

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I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Starring: James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway
Director: Jacques Tourneur
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Don't let the title fool you, this is a spectacular thriller about a nurse who travels to the West Indies to care for a plantation owner's wife. She soon learns the woman is under the spell of a local voodoo priest. Remarkable camerawork and lighting.

69% from 111 members
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Bonanza - Denver McKee on DVD
Starring: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker
Director: Jacques Tourneur, Richard Bartlett, Richard Ba
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In 'Denver Mckee', a former lawman makes an alliance with a gang of outlaws so that he can buy his daughter anything she wants but he is then sent to catch the same gang.

48% from 30 members

Night Of The Demon / Curse Of The Demon - 4.0 stars
Out Of The Past - 4.0 stars
I Walked with a Zombie - 3.5 stars
The Comedy Of Terrors - 3.0 stars
Canyon Passage - 3.0 stars

The Leopard Man - 3 stars
Darn Good Westerns Box Set Vol.1 - 2.0 stars
Days of Glory - 2.5 stars
Bonanza - Denver McKee - 2.5 stars
Experiment Perilous - 2.5 stars

Vincent Price - 2 times - show films
Dana Andrews - 2 times - show films
Miroslava - 2 times - show films
Kevin McCarthy - 2 times - show films
Paul Lukas - 1 times - show films

Richard Ba - 1 times - show films
Sam Newfield - 1 times - show films
Ron Ormond - 1 times - show films
Richard Bartlett - 1 times - show films