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Colin Blakely has 9 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1980s.
Papillon
1973
Crime · Drama

Evil Under the Sun
1982 · Movie · Actor
Top 17%Prime Video · Included

A Man for All Seasons
1966 · Movie · Actor
Top 21%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

The Pink Panther Strikes Again
1976 · Movie · Actor
Top 26%MGM+ · Included

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1970 · Movie · Actor
Top 32%Prime Video · Included

This Sporting Life
1963 · Movie · Actor
Top 39%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Dogs of War
1980 · Movie · Actor
Top 70%Prime Video · Included

Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American. But after the death of the Earl's remaining son, he decides to accept Cedric as his heir.
Dir. Jack Gold · With Rick Schroder, Alec Guinness, Eric Porter

An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangling of a notorious stage star.
Dir. Guy Hamilton · With Peter Ustinov, James Mason, Sylvia Miles

A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy declaring Henry Supreme Head of the Church in England.
Dir. Fred Zinnemann · With Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern

Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.
Dir. Blake Edwards · With Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Leonard Rossiter

When a bored Sherlock eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon following an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely, Geneviève Page

A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.
Dir. Karel Reisz · With Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts

In early 1960s Northern England, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.
Dir. Lindsay Anderson · With Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel
A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.
Dir. Sidney Lumet · With Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Joan Plowright

Mercenary soldiers Jamie and Drew are hired by a large corporation to liberate Zangaro, a small African nation, from an despot. Havoc ensues.
Dir. John Irvin · With Christopher Walken, Tom Berenger, Hugh Millais