The best Richard Todd’s drama movies

Richard Todd

Richard Todd

11/06/1919- 03/12/2009
We present our ranking of the best Richard Todd’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 Richard Todd.
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Operation Crossbow

Operation Crossbow
6.6/10
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.

The Dam Busters

The Dam Busters
7.4/10
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron 'The Dam Busters'.

The Boys

The Boys
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 31/08/1962
  • Character: Victor Webster
A night watchman at a garage is found murdered, and four teddy boys are put on trial for the crime. Witnesses and suspects give differing accounts of the lead-up to the crime, and the truth emerges.

The Sword and the Rose

The Sword and the Rose
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 23/07/1953
  • Character: Charles Brandon
Tells the story of Mary Tudor and her troubled path to true love. Henry VIII, for political reasons, determines to wed her to the King of France. She tries to flee to America with her love but is captured when she is "un-hatted" on board ship. In return for her consent to the marriage with France, Henry agrees to let her choose her second husband. When King Louis of France dies, Mary is kidnaped by the Duke of Buckingham. He tries to force her to marry him but she is rescued by her love in an exciting battle on the beach.

The Long and the Short and the Tall

The Long and the Short and the Tall
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 28/02/1961
  • Character: Sgt. 'Mitch' Mitchem
Based on a play by Willis Hall. A troop of British soldiers are out in the jungle to record jungle noises and troop noises in the jungle so that the recordings can be played back by other troops to divert the enemy to their whereabouts. As they progress to what they think is closer to the base camp they find themselves farther and farther from radio range until the only channel they can get clearly is that of a Japanese broadcast. They now realize they are probably only 10 to 15 miles from a Japanese camp! The tension is added to by rowdy and openly admitted "non-hero" Private Bamforth who has nothing good to say about anyone and especially Corporal Johnstone (who holds an equal dislike for Bamforth). When a Japanese soldier is taken as their prisoner, the true colours of each man comes to the surface

Home Before Midnight

Home Before Midnight
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/10/1979
  • Character: Geoffrey Steele
A successful rock lyricist becomes romantically involved with a girl he picks up hitchhiking only to learn that she is only fourteen. Her parents take action against him.

The Virgin Queen

The Virgin Queen
6.6/10
Sir Walter Raleigh overcomes court intrigue to win favor with the Queen in order to get financing for a proposed voyage to the New World.

Lightning Strikes Twice

Lightning Strikes Twice
6.5/10
Richard Trevelyan was convicted of murdering his wife, given an 11th-hour Death Row reprieve and freed under unusual circumstances after a retrial. But his past does not matter to Shelley Carnes, an actress visiting the Texas ranch land that Richard calls home; she has fallen in love with him. But after she marries him, Shelley is beset by doubts and fear.

Saint Joan

Saint Joan
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 08/05/1957
  • Character: Dunois, Bastard of Orleans
Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is appointed to head the French Army. After winning many battles she is not needed any longer and soon she is thought of as a witch.

D-Day the Sixth of June

D-Day the Sixth of June
5.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomanceWar
  • Release: 29/05/1956
  • Character: Lt. Col. John Wynter
En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances with the same woman.

Dorian Gray

Dorian Gray
5.8/10
London, England. Dorian Gray is a young man who somehow keeps his beauty eternally, while a mysterious portrait of himself gradually reveals his moral decay.

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/05/1965
  • Character: Darrell
Two British children travel to Italy in an attempt to break up their runaway mother's affair with an Italian concert pianist.

The Hasty Heart

The Hasty Heart
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomanceWar
  • Release: 13/09/1949
  • Character: Cpl. Lachlan 'Lachie' MacLachlan - the Scot
It's 1945, Burma, the day the war is over! For many this means they've survived and will be going home. But not for everyone. A Scottish soldier, Corporal Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan is the victim of a wound to the lower back on this day. He's moved to a M.A.S.H. unit and undergoes surgery. As time goes by he begins to recover and watches, in dismay as soldiers pack up and head for home. The doctors have told him he needs to remain "for observation".

Marie-Antoinette Queen of France

Marie-Antoinette Queen of France
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 27/04/1956
  • Character: Comte Axel von Fersen
While Louis XV is dying, the Dauphine of France, Marie-Antoinette, seduces a Swedish officer, Axel de Fersen, which pains her husband, the new King Louis XVI, who will know how to be generous when he learns of this deception.

For Them That Trespass

For Them That Trespass
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 21/04/1949
  • Character: Herbert Edward Logan
In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where he witnesses a murder. When an innocent man is arrested, the writer refuses to assist him as the knowledge that he has been "slumming" could destroy his career. The young man is sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls

Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
6.1/10
King Edward asks Sherlock Holmes to perform one more task before his retirement: to safeguard the Star of Africa on a trip to Cape Town. Soon the fabled jewel is stolen and several people end up being murdered.

A Man Called Peter

A Man Called Peter
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 31/03/1955
  • Character: The Rev. Peter Marshall
Based on the true story of a young Scottish lad, Peter Marshall, who dreams of only going to sea but finds out there is a different future for him when he receives a "calling" from God to be a minister. He leaves Scotland and goes to America where after a few small congregations he lands the position of pastor of the Church of the Presidents in Washington, D.C. and eventually he becomes Chaplain of the U.S. Senate.

The Hellions

The Hellions
5.9/10
Luke Billings (Lionel Jeffries) and his family have a problem with the new police sergeant Sam Hargis (Richard Todd) so they take over a small Transvaal town with the attention of drawing Hargis into a showdown. Hargis tries to get back up from the townsfolk who do not want to know, so is forced to lay low. As things get out of hand one of the Billings boys takes an interest in the storekeeper's wife, Priss Dobbs (Anne Aubrey). Having had enough her husband, Ernie (Jamie Uys) takes up the gun and heads down the main street alone. An act that prompts Hargis to join him. Slowly, the townsfolk turn up to back them up.

Bloodbath

Bloodbath
4.6/10
Chicken, a desperate hippie junkie living in a small Spanish village, is finding it difficult to separate fantasy and reality. This isn't helped by the villagers practising magic and child sacrifice, or his involvement with a group of boozy expatriates lost in their own dreams and regrets.

The Love-Ins

The Love-Ins
4.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/07/1967
  • Character: Dr. Jonathan Barnett
A college professor falls in with the counterculture crowd in San Francisco after resigning from his position in solidarity with two expelled hippie students.

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