The best Cyril Cusack’s action movies

Cyril Cusack

Cyril Cusack

26/11/1910- 07/10/1993
We present our ranking of the best Cyril Cusack’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Cyril Cusack.

The Day of the Jackal

The Day of the Jackal
7.8/10
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.

Juggernaut

Juggernaut
6.6/10
A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he has planted aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise ship.

All the Way Boys

All the Way Boys
6.6/10
The "Trinity" crew makes another modern era film. Plata and Salud are pilots ditching aircraft for insurance money. They wind up crashing for real in the jungles of South America. The plot involves "Mr. Big", who is buying the diamonds from the miners for much too little, and has thugs who keep the price down. Of course, Plata and Salud side with the miners

The Italian Connection

The Italian Connection
7.1/10
When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York killers get to him to eliminate any chance of them finding out he's the wrong man.

Shake Hands with the Devil

Shake Hands with the Devil
7/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 24/06/1959
  • Character: Chris Noonan
In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization...under his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has "shaken hands with the devil" and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. Complications arise when Kerry falls for a beautiful English hostage, and the British offer a peace treaty that is not enough to satisfy Lenihan.

Gideon's Day

Gideon's Day
6.6/10
  • Genre: ActionCrimeDrama
  • Release: 25/03/1958
  • Character: Herbert 'Birdie' Sparrow
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of involvement in a payroll robbery and then helps break up a bank robbery.

Ill Met by Moonlight

Ill Met by Moonlight
6.5/10
Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.

Where the Spies Are

Where the Spies Are
5.6/10
A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is complicated by a sexy female double agent.

Fear in the City

Fear in the City
5.8/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 17/11/1976
  • Character: Giacomo Masoni
The film focuses on Murri; the token maverick cop. He is called in after a bunch of criminals pull off a successful prison break and spend the night picking off various informers and people they don't like. Murri investigates; hooking up with one of the criminal's nieces along the way. He uses his own methods; which mostly involve breaking all the rules, and thus comes under a lot of scrutiny from his superiors who don't take too kindly to the cop's way of working.

Floods of Fear

Floods of Fear
6.5/10
A man framed for murder escapes from prison during a flood and helps a young woman in distress.

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