The best Alec Clunes’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Alec Clunes’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Alec Clunes.
Quentin Durward
6.3/10
During the 15th century reign of France's King Louis XI, a young Scottish man is sent by his English Lord to woo a French lady on his behalf. The plan goes awry when the young man falls in love with her. Based on the classic novel by Sir Walter Scott.
Sailors Three
5.4/10
Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their warship, HMS Ferocious. However, they soon realise that the vessel they have boarded is not the Ferocious but a German battleship.
Convoy
6/10
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
7/10
During the Allied Bombing offensive of World War II the public was often informed that "A raid took place last night over ..., One (or often more) of Our Aircraft Is Missing". Behind these sombre words hid tales of death, destruction and derring-do. This is the story of one such bomber crew who were shot down and the brave Dutch patriots who helped them home.
The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird
7.2/10
A chimney sweep and his beloved shepherdess are aided by Wonderbird in their escape from a ruthless dictator
Let George Do It!
6.4/10
Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in trying to defeat Nazi agents.
Saloon Bar
6.9/10
A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.
Tomorrow at Ten
6.8/10
A British policeman (John Gregson) tries to find a rich man's (Alec Clunes) son before a kidnapper's (Robert Shaw) time bomb blows.
Tiger in the Smoke
6.2/10
Having been sent a picture of her husband, a war hero killed in France, Meg Elgin is led to believe he is still alive and arranges a meeting at a London railway station. When she arrives there with the police accompanying her, she catches sight of a man in the distance wearing an old coat of her husband's. When he is pursued and captured, he turns out to be Duds Morrison a former soldier and out-of-work actor recently let out of prison. He refuses to tell them anything, and having nothing they can charge him with, the police release him. His interest aroused by the pictures sent to Meg, her new fiancé Geoffrey Leavitt follows Morrison and tries to demand an answer from him about his sudden appearance masquerading as Meg’s dead husband.
Hamlet at Elsinore
7.9/10
Christopher Plummer is joined by an all-star cast including Michael Caine, Robert Shaw, Roy Kinnear and Donald Sutherland in this historic production of Hamlet filmed on location at Elsinore, Denmark, the actual location where the play is set.
Now You're Talking
5.7/10
Commissioned by the Ministry of Information and specifically target working class audiences; ‘Now you’re talking’ follows a plant worker, who lets slip vital information about some overnight research on a captured enemy aircraft. This inevitably leads to this most important of secrets falling into the lap of the enemy.
The Forth Road Bridge
6.1/10
The Forth Road Bridge is a 1965 British documentary film directed by Gordon Lang about the construction of the Forth Road Bridge, from the initial survey to the official opening. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
