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James Robertson Justice has 7 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1960s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Guns of Navarone.
1959
History · Drama
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
Dir. J. Lee Thompson · With Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn
Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.
Dir. George Pollock · With Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow
In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the great white whale. Ahab lost his leg to that creature and is desperate for revenge. As the crew soon learns, he will stop at nothing to gain satisfaction.
Dir. John Huston · With Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn
Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.
Dir. Raoul Walsh · With Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty
Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel countess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man haunted by his double, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil.
Dir. Federico Fellini, Roger Vadim, Louis Malle · With Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Jane Fonda
A hapless inventor finally finds success with a flying car, which a dictator from a foreign government sets out to take for himself.
Dir. Ken Hughes · With Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries
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 next life.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Dewey Martin
