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North by Northwest (1959)
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Director Alfred Hitchcock
Writer Ernest Lehman
Cast Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
Plot A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.
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Lolita (1962)
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Director Stanley Kubrick
Writer Vladimir Nabokov, Stanley Kubrick, James B. Harris
Cast James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon
Plot A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old girl.
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
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Director Richard Fleischer
Writer Earl Felton, Jules Verne
Cast Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas
Plot A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.
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A Star Is Born (1954)
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Director George Cukor
Writer Moss Hart, Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell
Cast Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson
Plot In George Cukor's remake, fading matinee idol Norman Maine helps young singer and actress Esther Blodgett find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.
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Odd Man Out (1947)
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Director Carol Reed
Writer F.L. Green, R.C. Sherriff
Cast James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack
Plot A wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.
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Julius Caesar (1953)
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Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writer William Shakespeare, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast Louis Calhern, Marlon Brando, James Mason
Plot The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
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Director Henry Levin
Writer Walter Reisch, Charles Brackett, Jules Verne
Cast James Mason, Pat Boone, Arlene Dahl
Plot An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
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Salem's Lot (1979)
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Director Tobe Hooper
Writer Stephen King (novel), Paul Monash (screenplay)
Cast David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin
Plot A novelist and a young horror fan attempt to save a small New England town which has been invaded by vampires.
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Bigger Than Life (1956)
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Director Nicholas Ray
Writer Cyril Hume, Richard Maibaum, Burton Roueche
Cast James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau
Plot A seriously-ill schoolteacher becomes dependent on a "miracle" drug that begins to affect his sanity.
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5 Fingers (1952)
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Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writer Michael Wilson, L.C. Moyzisch, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie
Plot During WWII the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.
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The Blue Max (1966)
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Director John Guillermin
Writer Jack Hunter, Ben Barzman, Basilio Franchina
Cast George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress
Plot 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.
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Cross of Iron (1977)
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Director Sam Peckinpah
Writer Julius J. Epstein, Walter Kelley, James Hamilton
Cast James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason
Plot German commander Hauptmann Stransky places a squad in extreme danger after Sergeant Rolf Steiner refuses to lie for him.
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Heaven Can Wait (1978)
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Director Warren Beatty, Buck Henry
Writer Elaine May, Warren Beatty, Harry Segall
Cast Warren Beatty, James Mason, Julie Christie
Plot A Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally taken away from his body by an overanxious angel before he was meant to die, returns to life in the body of a recently murdered millionaire.
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The Reckless Moment (1949)
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Director Max Ophals
Writer Henry Garson, Robert Soderberg, Mel Dinelli
Cast James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks
Plot After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
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The Boys from Brazil (1978)
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Director Franklin J. Schaffner
Writer Ira Levin, Heywood Gould
Cast Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason
Plot A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
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Caught (1949)
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Director Max Ophals
Writer Arthur Laurents, Libbie Block
Cast James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Ryan
Plot An ambitious young LA department store model gets her wish of marrying a millionaire but she eventually discovers that rich life isn't always a happy one.
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Evil Under the Sun (1982)
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Director Guy Hamilton
Writer Agatha Christie, Anthony Shaffer, Barry Sandler
Cast Peter Ustinov, James Mason, Maggie Smith
Plot Agatha Christie's Belgian sleuth, Hercule Poirot, solves the murder of an actress at a Balkan resort.
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The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
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Director Henry Hathaway
Writer Nunnally Johnson, Desmond Young
Cast James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy
Plot The story of the final years of the respected World War II German general, Erwin Rommel.
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Georgy Girl (1966)
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Director Silvio Narizzano
Writer Margaret Forster, Peter Nichols
Cast James Mason, Alan Bates, Lynn Redgrave
Plot A young woman juggles an unwanted suitor's advances and her desire for an exciting life envying by her free-spirited roommate's social whirlwind.
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Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)
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Director Albert Lewin
Writer Albert Lewin, Omar Khayyam, George Barrington
Cast James Mason, Ava Gardner, Nigel Patrick
Plot A seductive woman falls in love with a mysterious ship's captain.
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The Desert Rats (1953)
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Director Robert Wise
Writer Richard Murphy
Cast Richard Burton, James Mason, Robert Newton
Plot 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.
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The Last of Sheila (1973)
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Director Herbert Ross
Writer Stephen Sondheim, Anthony Perkins
Cast Richard Benjamin, James Coburn, James Mason
Plot A year after Sheila is killed by a hit-and-run driver, her wealthy husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt mystery game. The game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.
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The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
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Director Richard Thorpe
Writer John L. Balderston, Noel Langley, Wells Root
Cast Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, James Mason
Plot An Englishman vacationing in a Ruritarian kingdom is recruited to impersonate his cousin, the soon-to-be-crowned king, after the monarch is drugged and kidnapped.
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Madame Bovary (1949)
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Director Vincente Minnelli
Writer Robert Ardrey, Gustave Flaubert
Cast Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin
Plot A provincial doctor's wife's romantic illusions about life and social status lead her to betray her naive husband, take on lovers, and run up ruinous debts.
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The Deadly Affair (1967)
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Director Sidney Lumet
Writer Paul Dehn, William Shakespeare, John le Carre
Cast James Mason, Maximilian Schell, Simone Signoret
Plot A British agent sets out to uncover the hidden facts behind a British government employee's suicide.
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Lord Jim (1965)
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Director Richard Brooks
Writer Joseph Conrad, Richard Brooks
Cast Peter O'Toole, James Mason, Curd Jargens
Plot After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself.
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The Tell-Tale Heart (1953)
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Director Ted Parmelee
Writer Edgar Allan Poe, Bill Scott, Fred Grable
Cast James Mason, Jack Mather
Plot A madman tells his tale of murder, and how a strange beating sound haunted him afterward.
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The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
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Director Jack Clayton
Writer Penelope Mortimer, Harold Pinter
Cast Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch, James Mason
Plot Beautiful mother of five Jo leaves the banality of her marriage to second husband Giles to wed her passionate screenwriter lover, Jake Armitage. As her suspicion of Jake's philandering grows, Jo's sanity spirals.
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Age of Consent (1969)
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Director Michael Powell
Writer Peter Yeldham, Norman Lindsay
Cast James Mason, Helen Mirren, Jack MacGowran
Plot A grizzled Australian painter decides to jolt his stale creativity by moving to a remote island on the Great Barrier Reef, where he takes on an alluring, uninhibited young woman as his muse.
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East Side, West Side (1949)
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Director Mervyn LeRoy
Writer Isobel Lennart, Marcia Davenport
Cast Barbara Stanwyck, James Mason, Van Heflin
Plot A vain businessman puts a strain on happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend.
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The Man Between (1953)
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Director Carol Reed
Writer Harry Kurnitz, Walter Ebert, Eric Linklater
Cast James Mason, Claire Bloom, Hildegard Knef
Plot In post-WW2 Berlin, when travel to the East was still possible, the sister of a British officer from West Berlin is abducted by Communist agents and taken into the Soviet sector where her eventual rescue is arranged by a German sm...
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The Seventh Veil (1945)
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Director Compton Bennett
Writer Muriel Box, Sydney Box
Cast James Mason, Ann Todd, Herbert Lom
Plot A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
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Murder by Decree (1979)
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Director Bob Clark
Writer Arthur Conan Doyle, John Hopkins, Elwyn Jones
Cast Christopher Plummer, James Mason, David Hemmings
Plot Sherlock Holmes investigates the murders commited by Jack the Ripper and discovers a conspiracy to protect the killer.
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Prince Valiant (1954)
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Director Henry Hathaway
Writer Dudley Nichols, Hal Foster
Cast James Mason, Janet Leigh, Robert Wagner
Plot A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.
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The Wicked Lady (1945)
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Director Leslie Arliss
Writer Magdalen King-Hall, Leslie Arliss, Gordon Glennon
Cast Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Patricia Roc
Plot A noblewoman begins to lead a dangerous double life in order to alleviate her boredom.
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Ivanhoe (1982)
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Director Douglas Camfield
Writer John Gay, Walter Scott
Cast James Mason, Anthony Andrews, Sam Neill
Plot Wilfred of Ivanhoe, a worthy and noble knight, the champion of justice, returns to England after the Holy Wars. He finds England under the reign of Prince John and his henchmen and finds himself being involved in the power struggl...
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Genghis Khan (1965)
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Director Henry Levin
Writer Clarke Reynolds, Beverley Cross, Berkely Mather
Cast Stephen Boyd, Omar Sharif, James Mason
Plot During the thirteenth century, the shy Mongol boy Temujin becomes the fearless leader Genghis Khan, who unites all Mongol tribes and conquers most of Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
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The Upturned Glass (1947)
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Director Lawrence Huntington
Writer John Monaghan, Pamela Mason
Cast James Mason, Rosamund John, Pamela Mason
Plot A British brain surgeon punishes the murderess of his lover.
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Cry Terror! (1958)
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Director Andrew L. Stone
Writer Andrew L. Stone
Cast James Mason, Rod Steiger, Inger Stevens
Plot Duped by former Army pal Paul Hoplin into building a time bomb, New York shop owner Jim Molner and his family become hostages of Hoplin who uses bomb threats to extort money from airlines.
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North Sea Hijack (1980)
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Director Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer Jack Davies
Cast Roger Moore, James Mason, Anthony Perkins
Plot When terrorists take over two oil rigs, and threaten to blow them up if their demands are not met, an eccentric anti-terrorism expert volunteers his unique commando unit to stop them.
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The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960)
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Director Ken Hughes
Writer Ken Hughes, Montgomery Hyde, John Furnell
Cast Peter Finch, Yvonne Mitchell, James Mason
Plot A chronicle of Oscar Wilde's libel suit against the Marquis of Queensberry and the tragic turn his life takes because of it.
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The Man in Grey (1943)
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Director Leslie Arliss
Writer Margaret Kennedy, Leslie Arliss, Doreen Montgomery
Cast Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Phyllis Calvert
Plot After a brutish, hedonistic Marquis marries a pretty young Clarissa to act as a 'brood sow,' he begins an affair with her friend who plots to take her place.
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The MacKintosh Man (1973)
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Director John Huston
Writer Walter Hill, Desmond Bagley, William Fairchild
Cast Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason
Plot A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor.
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Mandingo (1975)
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Director Richard Fleischer
Writer Kyle Onstott, Jack Kirkland, Norman Wexler
Cast James Mason, Susan George, Perry King
Plot An 1840s slaveowner trains one of his slaves to be a bare-knuckle fighter.
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The Story of Three Loves (1953)
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Director Vincente Minnelli, Gottfried Reinhardt
Writer John Collier, Jan Lustig, George Froeschel
Cast Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Leslie Caron
Plot An anthology film consisting of three very different stories about love set in Europe and told in flashback.
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Hollywood (1980)
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Cast James Mason, Colleen Moore, Byron Haskin
Plot The history of the American film industry in Hollywood during the Silent era.
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Mayerling (1968)
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Director Terence Young
Writer Terence Young, Denis Cannan, Claude Anet
Cast Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason
Plot Based on real life events that led to tragic deaths of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera.
