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Donald Pleasence has 32 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1990s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Great Escape.
1976
Horror · Thriller
Halloween
1978 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%AMC+ · Included
The Great Escape
1963 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Prime Video · Included
Escape from New York
1981 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%Prime Video · Included
Prince of Darkness
1987 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%Prime Video · Included
Halloween II
1981 · Movie · Actor
Top 14%Peacock · Included
Cul-de-sac
1966 · Movie · Actor
Top 25%Prime Video · Included
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
Dir. John Carpenter · With Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Kyes
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.
Dir. John Sturges · With Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough
After a tied 1st place in a local stunt race, two drivers start a contest to decide who of them will own the prize, a dune buggy. But when a mobster destroys the car, they are determined to get it back.
Dir. Marcello Fondato · With Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, John Sharp
In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison where brutal prisoners roam free. After the US president crash-lands inside, war hero Snake Plissken has 24 hours to bring him back.
Dir. John Carpenter · With Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine
A priest discovers an ancient canister containing a strange liquid in an abandoned church. When a group of graduate students and scientists are tasked with studying it, they unknowingly unleash an evil force waiting to destroy all of humanity.
Dir. John Carpenter · With Donald Pleasence, Lisa Blount, Victor Wong
A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
Dir. Dario Argento · With Jennifer Connelly, Daria Nicolodi, Fiore Argento
After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for Myers' attempt on her life. The institution proves to be particularly suited to serial killers, however, as Myers cuts, stabs and slashes his way through hospital staff to reach his favorite victim.
Dir. Rick Rosenthal · With Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Charles Cyphers
A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
Dir. Anatole Litvak · With Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay
On the run and in search of help, two wounded gangsters find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.
Dir. Roman Polanski · With Lionel Stander, Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac
A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
Dir. Ted Kotcheff · With Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty
In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.
Dir. Richard Fleischer · With Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien
A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to face with his archenemy Blofeld.
Dir. Lewis Gilbert · With Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama
Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.
Dir. David Greene · With Richard Chamberlain, Trevor Howard, Louis Jourdan
Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the U.S. and starts phoning these agents who perform sabotage acts against military targets.
Dir. Don Siegel · With Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence
Ten years after his original massacre, the invalid Michael Myers awakens on Halloween Eve and returns to Haddonfield to kill his seven-year-old niece.
Dir. Dwight H. Little · With Donald Pleasence, Ellie Cornell, Danielle Harris
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
Dir. Michael Anderson · With Edmond O'Brien, Jan Sterling, Michael Redgrave
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.
Dir. John Sturges · With Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall
People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.
Dir. George Lucas · With Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley
After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie more with them than with the US government. Together, they must try to reach the cavalry's main base camp. As they travel onward, Honus is torn between his growing affection for Cresta.
Dir. Ralph Nelson · With Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasence
Four customers purchase, or take, items from Temptations Limited, an antiques shop whose motto is “Offers You Cannot Resist.” A nasty fate awaits all of them; particularly those who cheat the shop's Proprietor.
Dir. Kevin Connor · With Peter Cushing, David Warner, Donald Pleasence
Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the property looking for trespassers or, worse, squatters. He finds that his cabin in the high mountains has been appropriated by a woman whose guide to Oregon has deserted her and her son. Too ashamed to kick mother and child out just as the bitter winter of the mountains sets in, he agrees to share the cabin until the spring thaw. But it isn't just the snow that slowly thaws; the lonely man and woman soon forget their mutual hostility and start developing a deep love for one another.
Dir. Tom Gries · With Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence
When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.
Dir. Carl Reiner · With John Denver, George Burns, Teri Garr
At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors of war soon become too much to bear, and as his friends die or become gravely wounded, Paul questions the sanity of fighting over a few hundreds yards of war-torn countryside.
Dir. Delbert Mann · With Richard Thomas, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence
Tia and Tony are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of Deranian's megalomaniacal boss, evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt, who wants to exploit them. Jason, a cynical widower, helps Tia and Tony escape to witch mountain, while at the same time Tia and Tony help Jason escape the pain of the loss of his wife.
Dir. John Hough · With Eddie Albert, Ray Milland, Donald Pleasence
Princess Yum Yum falls in love with Tack and saves him from being executed. Later, when the protective orbs of the palace get stolen, Tack and Yum Yum set out to find them and save the kingdom.
Dir. Richard Williams · With Vincent Price, Matthew Broderick, Jennifer Beals
A vampire attacks a horror author on the street and then invites him to a nearby club as a gesture of gratitude, which turns out to be a meeting place for assorted creatures of the night. The vampire then regales him with three stories, each interspersed with musical performances at the club.
Dir. Roy Ward Baker · With Vincent Price, John Carradine, Donald Pleasence
A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.
Dir. Jack Sholder · With Jack Palance, Donald Pleasence, Martin Landau
When a government official disappears in the London tunnels, after several reports of missing people in the same location, Scotland Yard start to take the matter seriously, along with a couple who stumble into a victim by accident.
Dir. Gary Sherman · With Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington, David Ladd
In 1913, charming, seductive, and sinister Count Dracula travels to England seeking an immortal bride.
Dir. John Badham · With Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence
Monroe Stahr, a successful movie producer, pursues a beautiful and elusive young woman — all the while working himself to death.
Dir. Elia Kazan · With Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum
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