The Adventures of Gerard

1970

English

4.8

♡ 8

Jerzy Skolimowski Director

Jack Hawkins as Marshal Millefleurs

Eli Wallach as Napoleon Bonaparte

Paolo Stoppa as Santarem, Count of Morales

Claudia Cardinale as Teresa, Countess of Morales

Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic Wars. He thinks he's the best soldier and lover that ever lived and intends to prove it.

Death at a Broadcast

1934

English

5.8

♡ 5

Reginald Denham Director

Jack Hawkins as Herbert Evans

Austin Trevor as Leopold Dryden

Arthur Hambling as Man On BBC Reception Desk

Donald Wolfit as Sydney Parsons

An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadcasting house fall under suspicion.

Of Time and the City

2008

English

7.2

♡ 5

93%

Terence Davies Director

John Lennon as Self

George Harrison as Self

Jack Hawkins as Self

Terence Davies as Self - Narrator

British director Terence Davies reflects on his birthplace of Liverpool - his memories of growing up there and how it has changed in the years since - in the process meditating on the internal struggles and conflicts that have wracked him throughout his life and the history of England during the second half of the 20th century.

Decision Against Time

1957

English

6.7

♡ 2

Charles Crichton Director

Eddie Byrne as Ashmore

Donald Pleasence as Crabtree

Howard Marion-Crawford as Ingrams

Jack Hawkins as John Mitchell

The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the Conway Aero-Manufacturing Company of Wolverhampton, Mitchell is to take the company's new rocket-propulsion transport plane up for tests, fully loaded and carrying two important passengers - Ministry official Crabtree and buyer's representative Ashmore. Mitchell learns from his boss, Reg Conway, that if Ashmore does not recommend the plane, the company will be out of business and Mitchell out of a job, since the plane is not even insured as the firm's entire capital is tied up in the plane. Aloft, an engine catches fire and the passengers and other crew bail out, but Mitchell refuses to obey orders to jettison the plane in the Irish Sea.

The Bridge on the River Kwai

1957

English

8.1

♡ 102

96%

93%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

David Lean Director

Geoffrey Horne as Lieutenant Joyce

James Donald as Major Clipton

Jack Hawkins as Major Warden

William Holden as Shears

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.