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Deborah Kerr has 15 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1960s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Innocents.
The Bad and the Beautiful
1952
Drama · Romance
In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.
Dir. Jack Clayton · With Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins
A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They work to establish a school and a hospital, but slowly their focus shifts. Sister Ruth falls for a government worker, Mr. Dean, and begins to question her vow of celibacy. As Sister Ruth obsesses over Mr. Dean, Sister Clodagh becomes immersed in her own memories of love.
Dir. Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell · With Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar
as Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon
Max · Included+3
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.
Dir. Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell · With Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook
In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.
Dir. Fred Zinnemann · With Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr
A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?
Dir. Leo McCarey · With Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning
Widowed Welsh mother Anna Leonowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a clash of personalities as she works to teach the royal family about the English language, customs and etiquette, and rushes to prepare a party for a group of European diplomats who must change their opinions about the King.
Dir. Walter Lang · With Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Rita Moreno
A Roman Catholic nun and a hard-bitten US Marine are stranded together on a Japanese-occupied island in the South Pacific during World War II. Under constant threat of discovery by a ruthless enemy, they hide in a cave and forage for food together. Their forced companionship and the struggle for survival forge a powerful emotional bond between them.
Dir. John Huston · With Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum
A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.
Dir. John Huston · With Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
Dir. Mervyn LeRoy · With Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn
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 both have sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz · With Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud
The lives of a disparate group of unfulfilled people converge at a small, seaside English hotel.
Dir. Delbert Mann · With Deborah Kerr, Rita Hayworth, David Niven
Fortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing husband lost in the wilds of 1900s Africa while being pursued by hostile tribes and a rival German explorer.
Dir. Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton · With Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, Richard Carlson
Victor and Hillary are down on their luck to the point that they allow tourists to take guided tours of their castle. But Charles Delacro, a millionaire oil tycoon, visits, and takes a liking to more than the house. Soon, Hattie Durant gets involved and they have a good old fashioned love triangle.
Dir. Stanley Donen · With Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum
A spoiled teenager spends the summer at the French Riviera with her rich, widower, playboy father, but when his old flame resurfaces, she resolves to keep her frivolous lifestyle at all costs.
Dir. Otto Preminger · With Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Jean Seberg
as Agent Mimi / Lady Fiona McTarry
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.
Dir. Robert Parrish, Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath · With David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress
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