Evolution's Achilles' Heels

2014

English

4.8

creation

Documentary

evolution

Rob Carter Director

John Hartnett as Self

Matti Leisola as Self

James Mason as Self

David Catchpoole as Self

15 Ph.D. scientists expose devastating weaknesses in modern evolutionary theory. Subject areas covered include the fields of genetics, radiometric dating, natural selection, the geologic column, the fossil record, the origin of life, cosmology, and ethics. 3D animations and dramatic footage help to show how the theory's supposed strengths are, in fact, its fatal flaws-Evolution's Achilles' Heels. - Written by Carter, Robert (XXII)

One Way Street

1950

English

6.5

♡ 3

25%

Hugo Fregonese Director

Kenneth Tobey as Cop at Second Accident

James Mason as Dr. Frank Matson

James Best as Driver

Dan Duryea as John Wheeler

After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.

The Man in Grey

1943

English

6.5

♡ 2

62%

marriage of convenience

Leslie Arliss Director

Phyllis Calvert as Clarissa Richmond / Clarissa Rohan

Diana King as Jane Seymour

James Mason as Lord Rohan

Stewart Granger as Swinton Rokeby / Peter Rokeby

After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with her husband.

The Water Babies

1978

English

6.1

♡ 5

70%

Lionel Jeffries Director

David Jason as Cyril the Walrus

James Mason as Mr. Grimes / Voice of Killer Shark

Bernard Cribbins as Mr. Masterman / Voice of Eel

Una Stubbs as (voice)

Grimes, an amoral chimney sweep, occasionally likes to steal valuables from his clients. One day, on the verge of being caught, he frames his young apprentice, Tom, for the crime. Tom runs away and jumps into a river where, instead of drowning, he finds himself transformed into a mystical aquatic creature. Swimming and breathing effortlessly, he discovers a colorful underwater world replete with creatures both cruel and kind.

Kidnap Syndicate

6.5

Fernando Di Leo Director

Vittorio Caprioli as Commissar Magrini

Rolando De Santis as Cop

James Mason as Filippini

Pietro Ceccarelli as Hood

After his son is kidnapped, a millionaire industrialist seeks revenge, in spite of the potential danger that his rash actions will bring about for his child and another kidnapped boy, the son of a poor mechanic.

Far into the Night

1943

English

6.6

♡ 5

Basil Dearden Director

Ralph Michael as Dunkirk Survivor

Mervyn Johns as Sam

James Mason as Ted Robbins

Alfie Bass as (uncredited)

Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz and fire bombings of WWII.

Lolita

1962

English

7.5

♡ 60

89%

Stanley Kubrick Director

Peter Cushing as Dr. Frankenstein

Lois Maxwell as Nurse Mary Lore

Cec Linder as Physician

James Mason as Prof. Humbert Humbert

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

Salem's Lot

1979

English

6.8

♡ 35

90%

Tobe Hooper Director

Marie Windsor as Eva Miller 2 episodes, 1979

Lew Ayres as Jason Burke 2 episodes, 1979

James Mason as Richard K. Straker 2 episodes, 1979

Bonnie Bedelia as Susan Norton 2 episodes, 1979

Ben Mears has returned to his hometown to write a book about the supposedly haunted Marsten House. When people around the Marsten House start dying mysteriously, Mears discovers that the owner of the mansion is actually a vampire who is turning them into an army of undead slaves.

Spring and Port Wine

1970

English

7.0

♡ 4

Action

based on play or musical

Peter Hammond Director

Hannah Gordon as Florence Crompton

Christopher Timothy as Joe

Arthur Lowe as Mr. Aspinall

James Mason as Rafe Crompton

A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives in working class Bolton, England.

Murder by Decree

1979

English

6.8

♡ 26

81%

Bob Clark Director

James Mason as Dr. John H. Watson

Ann Mitchell as Jane

Susan Clark as Mary Kelly

Donald Sutherland as Robert Lees

Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper, who is killing prostitutes in London's East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using information provided by a renowned psychic, Robert Lees, Holmes finds that the murders may have their roots in a Royal indiscretion and that a cover-up is being managed by politicians at the highest level, all of whom happen to be Masons.

Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!

1971

English

4.7

♡ 2

Romain Gary Director

James Mason as Alan Hamilton

Jean Seberg as Emily Hamilton

Curd Jürgens as Grueningen

Daniel Emilfork as Mejid

Interpol investigates the freelance killings of drug and porn peddlers.

Bigger Than Life

1956

English

7.4

♡ 14

91%

83%

abraham's sacrifice of isaac

Nicholas Ray Director

Hal Taggart as Churchgoer

Robert F. Simon as Dr. Norton

James Mason as Ed Avery

Barbara Rush as Lou Avery

A friendly, successful suburban teacher and father grows dangerously addicted to cortisone, resulting in his transformation into a household despot.

The Destructors

1974

English

5.9

♡ 11

47%

Robert Parrish Director

James Mason as Jacques Brizard

Michael Caine as John Deray

Vernon Dobtcheff as Lazar

Anthony Quinn as Steve Ventura

An important drug lord settled in Marseille is suspected of having ordered the killing of an American agent, but it is impossible to impute him due to his political influences, so the dead agent's boss decides to hire the services of a hitman to kill him.

The Last of Sheila

1973

English

7.2

♡ 16

90%

Herbert Ross Director

Ian McShane as Anthony

James Coburn as Clinton

Joan Hackett as Lee

James Mason as Philip

A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multimillionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game — but the game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.

The Prisoner of Zenda

1952

English

6.9

♡ 6

62%

Adventure

based on novel or book

Richard Thorpe Director

Thomas Browne Henry as Detchard

Forbes Murray as Dignitary

Peter Brocco as Johann

James Mason as Rupert of Hentzau

A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bride, the beautiful Princess Flavia.

A Dangerous Summer

1982

English

3.5

♡ 6

Drama

Thriller

Quentin Masters Director

Ray Barrett as F.C.O. Webster

James Mason as George Engels

Tom Skerritt as Howard Anderson

Norman Kaye as Percy Farley

Building is Howard's passion, and he is so absorbed in his plans to build an elaborate resort in the Blue Mountains of Australia that he ignores certain obvious signals that his business partner is not entirely on the up-and-up. After a brush fire destroys the resort, an insurance investigator comes nosing around, whom Howard's partner deals with in a drastic manner. By the time Lloyds of London's senior investigator George Engels (James Mason in one of his last roles) arrives on the scene, Howard (Tom Skerritt) is anxious to set things to rights.