James Mason Archives – Page 2 of 3

The Blue Max

A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.

PG

6.8

1966 Action 156 min Play

6.1

The Deadly Affair

Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case. So Dobbs hires a retiring inspector, Mendel, to quietly make inquiries. Dobbs isn't at all sure as there are a number of anomalies that simply can't be explained away. Dobbs is also having trouble at home with his ...

NR

6.1

1966 Crime 115 min Play

6.6

Lord Jim

After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman (Peter O'Toole) lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Based on Joseph Conrad's novel written in 1900.

NR

6.6

1965 Adventure 154 min Play

7

The Pumpkin Eater

Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatible, they are slowly torn apart.

NR

7

1964 Drama 118 min Play

4.3

Hero’s Island

A family shipwrecked on an island must deal with escaped convicts and pirates.

NR

4.3

1962 Action 94 min Play

7.4

Lolita

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.

NR

7.4

1962 Crime 154 min Play

6.6

The Trials of Oscar Wilde

The flamboyant Victorian wit (Peter Finch) sues the Marquess of Queensberry for a sodomy slur, but it boomerangs.

NR

6.6

1960 Drama 130 min Play

5.7

A Touch of Larceny

After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that will get him enough money to support Virginia in the lifestyle she is accustomed to. Easton's plan is to disappear for a time making it seem that he has defected to the Soviets taking important Naval secrets from his job at the Admiralty and to return and sue the newspapers for slander. Not everything goes as planned for Commander Easton.

NR

5.7

1960 Comedy 93 min Play

8

North by Northwest

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

NR

8

1959 Mystery 136 min Play

7

Journey to the Center of the Earth

An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.

G

7

1959 Adventure 132 min Play

6.7

The Decks Ran Red

A band of dishonest seamen plans a murderous mutiny aboard the S.S. Berwind.

NR

6.7

1958 Adventure 84 min Play

5.7

Cry Terror!

A mad bomber holds an innocent family hostage.

NR

5.7

1958 Crime 96 min Play

8.5

Forever, Darling

Susan and Lorenzo have been married for over five years and they are starting to drift apart. So into her life comes an angel, which only Susan can see, to tell her that there will be trouble ahead if they do not work out their problems. Lorenzo is developing insecticide #383 at Finlay Vega Chemical Co. and plans to test it on a camping trip that he takes with Susan, but the trip becomes a an obstacle course for him.

NR

8.5

1956 Comedy 91 min Play

7.3

Bigger Than Life

A seriously ill schoolteacher becomes dependent on a "miracle" drug that begins to affect his sanity.

NR

7.3

1956 Drama 95 min Play

5.8

Prince Valiant

A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur"s Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.

NR

5.8

1954 Adventure 100 min Play

7.2

A Star Is Born

A movie star helps a young singer/actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

NR

7.2

1954 Drama 176 min Play

7

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.

G

7

1954 Adventure 127 min Play

7.2

The Tell-Tale Heart

One of the most discussed and imaginative cartoons of any era. It tells the famous Edgar Allan Poe story of the deranged boarder who had to kill his landlord, not for greed, but because he possessed an "evil eye." The killer is never seen but his presence is felt by the use light-and-shadow to give the impression of impending disaster.

NR

7.2

1953 Animation 8 min Play

7

The Man Between

A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc.

NR

7

1953 Thriller 100 min Play

6.2

The Desert Rats

Richard Burton plays a Scottish Army officer put in charge of a disparate band of ANZAC troops on the perimeter of Tobruk with the German Army doing their best to dislodge them

NR

6.2

1953 Action 88 min Play

7

Julius Caesar

The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic.

NR

7

1953 Drama 120 min Play

5.8

Lady Possessed

A pianist takes his ailing wife out of a London hospital at the same time that another female patient there has suffered a miscarriage. Afterwards, the second woman feels empty and withdrawn, and, thinking that getting her away from London will help, her husband takes her to live at a country estate, which turns out to be the former residence of the pianist who left after his wife died. The woman begins to get visions of the wife and her final days; is she becoming possessed by the dead ...

NR

5.8

1952 Mystery 87 min Play

7.5

5 Fingers

During WWII the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.

NR

7.5

1952 Drama 108 min Play

6.5

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

Albert Lewin's interpretation of the legend of the Flying Dutchman. In a little spanish seaport named Esperanza, during the 30s, appears Hendrick van der Zee, the mysterious captain of a yacht (he is the only one aboard). Pandora is a beautiful woman (who men kill and die for). She's never really fallen in love with any man, but she feels very attracted by Hendrick... We are soon taught that Hendrick is the Flying Dutchman, this sailor of the 17th century that has been cursed by God to ...

NR

6.5

1951 Drama 122 min Play