The best Richard Todd’s 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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The Longest Day

The Longest Day
7.7/10
  • Genre: War
  • Release: 25/09/1962
  • Character: Maj. John Howard
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"

Stage Fright

Stage Fright
7/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 23/02/1950
  • Character: Jonathan Cooper
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.

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 Big Sleep

The Big Sleep
5.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 13/03/1978
  • Character: Commander Barker
Private eye Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster. This neo-noir remake of the iconic 1946 Bogart film transfers the setting of Raymond Chandler's novel from 1940s California to 1970s London.

Asylum

Asylum
6.5/10
A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum, and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patients, is in fact, the doctor that he would be replacing if hired.

House of the Long Shadows

House of the Long Shadows
6.2/10
An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet that he can write a classic novel like 'Wuthering Heights' in 24 hours. However, upon his arrival he discovers that the apparently empty manor has several rather odd inhabitants.

Danger Within

Danger Within
6.8/10
  • Genre: War
  • Release: 17/02/1959
  • Character: Lieutenant Colonel David Baird
Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst.

The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men

The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
6.5/10
Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace. On the way home his father is murdered by henchmen of Prince John. Robin takes up the life of an outlaw, gathering together his band of merry men with him in Sherwood Forest, to avenge his father's death and to help the people of the land that Prince John are over taxing.

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.

Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst

Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
6.8/10
  • Genre: War
  • Release: 01/04/1957
  • Character: Lieutenant-Commander John Simon Kerans
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge, Lietenant Commander Kerans was not however prepared for his crew and his ship to remain as a hostage for the Chinese to use as an international pawn.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

Death Drums Along the River

Death Drums Along the River
4.9/10
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Release: 20/12/1963
  • Character: Inspector Harry Sanders
A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river.

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.

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.

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