Jack Hawkins
Is eol do: Acting
Breithlá: 1910-09-14
Áit bhreithe: Wood Green, London, England, UK
Ar a dtugtar: John Edward Hawkins, John Edward "Jack" Hawkins
Lawrence of Arabia
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War....
Scaoileadh : 1962.12.11Coitianta : 38.263
Ben-Hur
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of...
Scaoileadh : 1959.11.18Coitianta : 64.977
The Bridge on the River Kwai
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...
Scaoileadh : 1957.10.11Coitianta : 21.731
Masquerade
The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.
Scaoileadh : 1965.04.13Coitianta : 7.16
Oh! What a Lovely War
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench...
Scaoileadh : 1969.03.10Coitianta : 4.946
Lord Jim
After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in...
Scaoileadh : 1965.02.15Coitianta : 12.262
The Fallen Idol
Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes...
Scaoileadh : 1948.09.30Coitianta : 5.835
Kidnapped
Scottish orphan David Balfour is betrayed by his wicked uncle Ebeneezer, who arranges for David to be kidnapped and sold into slavery so that he...
Scaoileadh : 1971.12.22Coitianta : 8.655
Waterloo
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the...
Scaoileadh : 1970.10.26Coitianta : 19.232
Theatre of Blood
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
Scaoileadh : 1973.03.16Coitianta : 13.358
Angels One Five
The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of...
Scaoileadh : 1952.03.19Coitianta : 2.732
Zulu
In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly...
Scaoileadh : 1964.01.22Coitianta : 24.356
Tales That Witness Madness
Dr. Tremayne is an enigmatic psychiatrist running an asylum that houses four very special cases. Visited by his colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains...
Scaoileadh : 1973.10.31Coitianta : 6.209
The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
An elderly right-wing politician is kidnapped, seemingly as part of a student prank. But his captors have a more alarming agenda.
Scaoileadh : 1965.11.10Coitianta : 0.447
Land of the Pharaohs
A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his...
Scaoileadh : 1955.07.24Coitianta : 6.161
The Black Rose
In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, Tristram, he falls in with the army of...
Scaoileadh : 1950.09.01Coitianta : 2.213
No Highway in the Sky
James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His...
Scaoileadh : 1951.06.28Coitianta : 11.312
Gideon's Day
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From...
Scaoileadh : 1958.03.25Coitianta : 3.756
Guns at Batasi
An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.
Scaoileadh : 1964.10.30Coitianta : 4.251
Nicholas and Alexandra
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
Scaoileadh : 1971.11.29Coitianta : 7.028
When Eight Bells Toll
In a vein similar to Bond movies, a British agent Philip Calvert is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that disappeared near the...
Scaoileadh : 1971.03.09Coitianta : 4.641
Monte Carlo or Bust!
Sequel to "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines". This time an international car rally from England to Monte Carlo provides the comedic...
Scaoileadh : 1969.04.28Coitianta : 5.569
The Small Back Room
At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Highly skilled but haunted bomb disposal...
Scaoileadh : 1949.02.21Coitianta : 6.99
The Cruel Sea
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training....
Scaoileadh : 1953.02.24Coitianta : 6.164
Shalako
Sean Connery is Shalako, a guide in the old West who has to rescue an aristocratic British hunting party from Indians and bandits.
Scaoileadh : 1968.09.26Coitianta : 12.879
Young Winston
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war...
Scaoileadh : 1972.07.20Coitianta : 7.644
The League of Gentlemen
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the...
Scaoileadh : 1960.04.15Coitianta : 6.416
Malta Story
Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese...
Scaoileadh : 1953.06.01Coitianta : 5.458
The Man in the Sky
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....
Scaoileadh : 1957.01.24Coitianta : 3.48
Mandy
London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up....
Scaoileadh : 1952.07.29Coitianta : 6.741
Lafayette
The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the American war of Independence.
Scaoileadh : 1962.02.16Coitianta : 2.537
The Long Arm
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The...
Scaoileadh : 1956.06.01Coitianta : 4.59
The Prisoner
A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his...
Scaoileadh : 1955.04.19Coitianta : 2.371
The Third Secret
A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter...
Scaoileadh : 1964.02.02Coitianta : 3.622
Rampage
In colonial Malaysia, British big game-hunter Otto Abbot and American trapper Harry Stanton clash over the ethics of catching versus killing animals...
Scaoileadh : 1963.10.09Coitianta : 4.459
Death at Broadcasting House
An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadcasting house fall under suspicion.
Scaoileadh : 1934.11.01Coitianta : 2.187
Sin
When Orestes returns to his Greek island homeland after several years in London to settle his late father's estate, he begins an affair with Elena,...
Scaoileadh : 1971.01.01Coitianta : 1.907
The Seekers
A western set in New Zealand during the 1820s following a group of British pioneers seeking a new life Down Under.
Scaoileadh : 1954.06.22Coitianta : 5.057
Great Catherine
When British Capt. Charles Edstaston arrives at the court of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg, Russia, he is stunned by the palace's disorderly...
Scaoileadh : 1968.11.29Coitianta : 2.265
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre is an orphan, sent to Lowood school, and eventually becomes a governess at Thornfield hall to a girl named Adele. While she is there, many...
Scaoileadh : 1970.12.01Coitianta : 6.15
The Two-Headed Spy
Wartime thriller with film noir elements based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland's autobiography "The London Cage". The plot has greatly...
Scaoileadh : 1958.11.17Coitianta : 2.879
Murder Will Out
Paul and Pamela Raymond become immersed in intrigue after receiving a costly jade. As they look for assistance in saving their skins, all their leads...
Scaoileadh : 1939.08.13Coitianta : 1.422
Fortune Is a Woman
An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband's art-forgery/arson scam.
Scaoileadh : 1957.03.13Coitianta : 2.251
State Secret
While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and...
Scaoileadh : 1950.09.11Coitianta : 3.39
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border.
Scaoileadh : 1966.05.20Coitianta : 3.395
The Elusive Pimpernel
A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.
Scaoileadh : 1950.11.07Coitianta : 2.866
Judith
A Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband.
Scaoileadh : 1966.01.20Coitianta : 3.478
I Lived with You
In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves...
Scaoileadh : 1933.06.13Coitianta : 1.054
The Lodger
An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.
Scaoileadh : 1932.09.08Coitianta : 1.283
The Planter's Wife
The wife of a rubber plantation owner must put her marriage problems on hold when her family is forced to defend themselves during a native uprising.
Scaoileadh : 1952.12.04Coitianta : 0.793
Twice Upon a Time
A pair of twin girls are separated when their parents divorce. They meet again by accident when they are both sent to the same Summer camp, and while...
Scaoileadh : 1953.07.06Coitianta : 0.701
The Adventures of Gerard
Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic...
Scaoileadh : 1970.07.03Coitianta : 1.425
Autumn Crocus
A teacher falls in love with the married owner of the guest house in which she is staying during a holiday to Austria.
Scaoileadh : 1934.02.01Coitianta : 0.919
Peg of Old Drury
a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces.
Scaoileadh : 1935.08.27Coitianta : 1.029
Five Finger Exercise
The arrival of a young tutor triggers emotional crises for a wealthy family.
Scaoileadh : 1962.04.19Coitianta : 1.338
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
A behind-the-scenes look at the building of the bridge in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and the preparations for its destruction.
Scaoileadh : 1958.01.01Coitianta : 1.078
Two Loves
American-born Anna Vorontosov teaches school in a remote, primitive section of northern New Zealand. Her experimental teaching methods have won her...
Scaoileadh : 1961.05.24Coitianta : 1.651
Home at Seven
Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder.
Scaoileadh : 1952.03.16Coitianta : 0.922
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose of revolting the Highland chieftains against the...
Scaoileadh : 1948.10.26Coitianta : 1.081
The Intruder
When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment....
Scaoileadh : 1953.10.18Coitianta : 5.16
The Frog
In this Edgar Wallace adaptation, Sergeant Elk (a lugubrious Gordon Harker) sets out to unmask the Frog, the evil mastermind heading up a mysterious...
Scaoileadh : 1937.03.23Coitianta : 0.92
Touch and Go
When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm that his new furniture designs are not in keeping with the firm's image he threatens to resign, and decides to...
Scaoileadh : 1955.10.02Coitianta : 0.664
Birds of Prey
At a reception given by Arthur Hilton at his Sussex home the conversation turns to the subject of danger, with Hilton recalling a case in which he...
Scaoileadh : 1930.11.18Coitianta : 0.698
Front Page Story
A workaholic newspaper editor lets his wife leave on the holiday without him just at that time some important news stories break, including a plane...
Scaoileadh : 1954.03.15Coitianta : 0.409
Fortune in Diamonds
As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where...
Scaoileadh : 1951.03.07Coitianta : 1.789
The Flying Squad
Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.
Scaoileadh : 1940.10.12Coitianta : 0.403
The Good Companions
Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
Scaoileadh : 1933.02.28Coitianta : 1.28
The Lost Chord
'Musician kills count in duel for wife, and later falls in love with daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)
Scaoileadh : 1933.04.07Coitianta : 1.144
A Shot in the Dark
The relatives of a millionaire - the victim of a mysterious murder - get together at his house to search for his will, which he recorded on a record....
Scaoileadh : 1933.11.03Coitianta : 0.494
The Jewel
A family heirloom is stolen and the family attempts to recover it.
Scaoileadh : 1933.10.01Coitianta : 0.109
The Open Door
Colonel Mortimer returns to his family after a long spell in India to find his young son in bed ill, and tormented by a wailing voice... but is it in...
Scaoileadh : 1966.02.19Coitianta : 0.405
The Next of Kin
Lots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the walls in various scenes to reinforce the plot of...
Scaoileadh : 1942.06.15Coitianta : 2.142
Lorna Doone
High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of...
Scaoileadh : 1934.12.09Coitianta : 1.94
Stalked
In what could easily pass as a Twilight Zone episode, this film shows what happens when a troubled carnival owner returns back to his childhood home...
Scaoileadh : 1968.04.02Coitianta : 0.378
Beauty and the Barge
A young girl is engaged to a man she doesn't love, and rather than marry him she decides to flee the situation altogether. She is helped by a crusty...
Scaoileadh : 1937.02.07Coitianta : 1.124
Who Goes Next?
During the First World War, a number of captured British officers attempt to escape a prisoner-of-war camp.
Scaoileadh : 1938.03.01Coitianta : 0.782
Twinky
A middle aged writer of pornographic novels meets and falls in love with a sixteen year old school girl. This alone is cause for concern but when the...
Scaoileadh : 1970.01.06Coitianta : 8.091
Escape to the Sun
Two young university students wish to escape the oppressive Soviet Union. But their plans are monitored by the KGB, who try to intimidate them. One...
Scaoileadh : 1972.10.31Coitianta : 0.885
The Father
Produced through a grant at the American Film Institute, an adaptation of the Chekhov short story set in contemporary New York.
Scaoileadh : 1969.04.16Coitianta : 0.38
A Royal Divorce
The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's rise to power and their eventual divorce.
Scaoileadh : 1938.09.21Coitianta : 1.178
The Last Lion
Terminally ill millionaire tries to kill a lion before he dies.
Scaoileadh : 1972.05.29Coitianta : 0.594
Pathway Into Light
A documentary short celebrating the life of Louis Braille, his invention of the writing system named after him, and the legacy he has left behind.
Scaoileadh : 1952.03.04Coitianta : 0.631