Biography: Oscar Homolka |
Beetle-browed, heavily-accented Viennese character actor Oscar Homolka graduated from the Royal Dramatic Academy in Vienna before going on to work on the Austrian and German stage, which led him to appear in many German silent and sound films. After... more
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Cast: George Peppard
Tags: Spy Film Action Adventure Thriller
Length: 107min
Set in England, The Executioner stars American actor George Peppard as John Shay, a British spy. Shay is convinced that there's a double agent at large, and he's further convinced that it's his former colleague Adam Booth (Keith Michell). Having set...
Tags: Thriller Unglamorized Spy Film Political Thriller Spy Film
Length: 102min
Funeral in Berlin was the second of three films based on the Harry Palmer novels by Len Deighton. As he did in The Ipcress File, Michael Caine stars as Palmer, Deighton's bespectacled, somewhat disreputable British secret agent. In the manner of...
Cast: Karl Malden Ed Begley, Sr. Ken Russell
Tags: Unglamorized Spy Film Spy Film
Length: 111min
Harry Palmer (Michael Caine), the reluctant secret agent from The Ipcress File (1965) and Funeral in Berlin (1966) -- both (like the source for this movie) based on novels by Len Deighton -- is back again in Ken Russell's Billion Dollar Brain. Having...
Cast: Sidney Poitier Richard Widmark
Tags: Costume Adventure Adventure
Length: 125min
In this elaborately mounted seafaring adventure, Rolfe (Richard Widmark) is a Viking leader with the cunning and devious mind of a pirate. Rolfe tells others sailors of "The Mother of Voices," a mammoth bell made of gold and as tall as three men, but...
Cast: Bernard Herrmann
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama
Length: 103min
In this romantic drama based on a novel by Betty Smith, Carl Brown (Richard Chamberlain) is a student in law school who wants to marry his sweetheart, Annie McGairy (Yvette Mimieux). However, Carl and Annie's parents knew each other when they grew up...
Mr. Potts Goes to Moscow (1952)
Cast: Oscar Homolka
Tags: Comedy Action Satire Spy Film
Length: 93min
Top Secret gets under way when George (George Cole), a janitor in a research plant, accidentally comes into possession of the plans for a revolutionary atomic weapon. As George embarks on his annual vacation, the research security team embarks on a...
Cast: Ronald Reagan
Tags: War Drama POW Drama Drama War
Length: 80min
The horrors suffered by American prisoners of war at the hands of the North Koreans during the Korean war provide the basis of this drama. Allegedly based on the true stories of those who survived the tortures, it centers on an intelligence officer...
Cast: Alida Valli Cedric Hardwicke Claude Rains Glenn Ford
Tags: Adventure Drama Melodrama Adventure Drama
Length: 98min
Glenn Ford stars as American pilot Martin Ordway, who joins an expedition to scale a treacherous Swiss mountain peak. Each of the climbers has a special reason to reach the top. Dissolute French author Paul DeLambre (Claude Rains) is searching for a...
Tags: Costume Horror Gothic Film Horror
Length: 89min
In this 1961 William Castle film based on Ray Russell's novel -Sardonicus, Guy Rolfe stars as the wicked Sardonicus, a wealthy count who wears a mask because his face is frozen in a horrifying death grimace. Ronald Lewis stars as Sir Richard, a...
Cast: Sophia Loren Michael Caine William Holden Carol Reed Trevor Howard
Tags: Romance Drama War Romance War Drama
Length: 134min
The Key was adapted by Carl Foreman from Stella, a novel by Jan De Hartog. The time is WW2: The place, Plymouth England. Canadian tug captain David Ross (William Holden) and his British counterpart Chris Ford (Trevor Howard) pay a visit to Ford's lady...
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