The best Rupert Davies’s movies

Rupert Davies

Rupert Davies

22/05/1916- 22/11/1976
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 16/12/1965
  • Character: George Smiley
British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.

Waterloo

Waterloo
7.3/10
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.

Witchfinder General

Witchfinder General
6.7/10
England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness that allows unscrupulous men to profit by exploiting the absurd superstitions of the peasants; like Matthew Hopkins, a monster disguised as a man who wanders from town to town offering his services as a witch hunter.

Dracula Has Risen from the Grave

Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
6.5/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 07/11/1968
  • Character: Monsignor Ernst Mueller
In the shadow of Castle Dracula, the Prince of Darkness is revived by blood trickling from the head-wound of an unconscious priest attempting exorcism. And once more fear and terror strikes Transylvania as the undead Prince of Darkness stalks the village of Keineneburg to ensnare victims and satisfy his evil thirst.

The Oblong Box

The Oblong Box
6/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 11/06/1969
  • Character: Joshua Kemp
Aristocrat Julian Markham keeps his disfigured brother, Sir Edward, locked in a tower of his house. Occasionaly Sir Edward escapes and causes havoc around the town.

The Key

The Key
6.7/10
In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs. He's given a key by a fellow tugboat-man -- a key to an apartment and its pretty female resident. Should something happen to the friend, Ross can use the key.

The Criminal

The Criminal
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 13/09/1960
  • Character: Edwards
When a robbery at a racetrack goes wrong ex-con Johnny Bannion is caught and sent back to prison. He won't tell the rest of the gang where he has stashed the loot leading to violent consequences.

Frightmare

Frightmare
6.2/10
In 1957, Dorothy and Edmund Yates (Keith and Rupert Davies) were committed to an institution for the criminally insane, she for acts of murder and cannibalism and he for covering up her crimes. Fifteen years later, they are pronounced fit for society and released. However, in Dorothy's case the doctors may have jumped the gun a bit. Edmund and eldest daughter, Jackie (Deborah Fairfax), try to discover just how far Mother's bloodlust has taken her. Meanwhile, youngest daughter Debbie (Kim Butcher) begins to explore the crazy roots of her family tree as fully as possible.

Curse of the Crimson Altar

Curse of the Crimson Altar
5.5/10
  • Genre: HorrorMystery
  • Release: 01/12/1968
  • Character: The Vicar (uncredited)
When his brother disappears, Robert Manning pays a visit to the remote country house he was last heard from. While his host is outwardly welcoming - and his niece more demonstrably so - Manning detects a feeling of menace in the air with the legend of Lavinia Morley, Black Witch of Greymarsh, hanging over everything.

John Paul Jones

John Paul Jones
6.3/10
The bio-epic about the infamous John Paul Jones.

The Night Visitor

The Night Visitor
6.7/10
An insane Swedish farmer escapes from an asylum to get revenge on his sister, her husband and others.

The Brides of Fu Manchu

The Brides of Fu Manchu
5.4/10
This time Fu Manchu and his army of henchmen are kidnaping the daughters of prominent scientists and taking them to his remote island headquarters. Instead of asking for ransom, Fu demands that the fathers help him to build a death ray, which he intends to use to take over the world. But Fu's archenemy, Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard, is determined not to let that happen.

Zeppelin

Zeppelin
6.1/10
  • Genre: AdventureWar
  • Release: 22/04/1971
  • Character: Captain Whitney
The outbreak of World War I places Scots officer Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in an uncomfortable position. Although his allegiance is to Britain, his mother was from an aristocratic Bavarian family, and he spent his summers in Germany as a child. When Geoffrey is approached by a German spy who offers him a chance to defect, he reports the incident to his superiors, but instead of arresting the spy they suggest that he accept her offer--and become an Allied agent. In Germany, among old friends, Geoffrey discovers that loyalty is more complicated than he expected, especially when he finds himself aboard the maiden voyage of a powerful new prototype Zeppelin, headed for Scotland on a secret mission that could decide the outcome of the war.

Sapphire

Sapphire
7.2/10
Two Scotland Yard detectives (Nigel Patrick and Michael Craig) investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects -- including the girl's white boyfriend and his disapproving parents -- the investigators wade through a stubbornly entrenched sludge of racism and bigotry. Director Basil Dearden won a British Academy Award for his deft, sensitive hand at the helm.

Submarine X-1

Submarine X-1
5.3/10
  • Genre: War
  • Release: 23/06/1969
  • Character: Vice Admiral Redmayne (uncredited)
After losing a submarine and fifty crew in a battle with a German ship during WWII, a Royal Navy officer gets a second chance in a daring raid with midget subs.

Five Golden Dragons

Five Golden Dragons
4.8/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 03/08/1967
  • Character: Comm. Sanders
While travelling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell accidentally stumbles into the middle of criminal negotiations between a mean gang, the Five Golden Dragons and the local mobsters.

Target for Killing

Target for Killing
5.4/10
A secret agent is charged with preventing a crime syndicate's plot to assassinate a young heiress.

Sea Fury

Sea Fury
6/10
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Release: 26/08/1958
  • Character: Bosun
The captain of a tugboat harboured off a Spanish village is lured into a romantic involvement with a young girl at the behest of her father, in the hope of getting his hands on the vessel. Meanwhile, a handsome English sailor, signs on to the boat and before long he and the girl fall for one another. Meanwhile a sinking freighter carrying explosive cargo has to be salvaged....

The Traitor

The Traitor
5.7/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 01/03/1957
  • Character: Clinton
One time members of a resistance group come together every year to remember their dead leader, betrayed to and executed by the Nazis. When it seems that they might finally know the name of the traitor - and that he or she comes from within their own unit - their annual gathering becomes a deadly trial...

Breakout

Breakout
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/03/1959
  • Character: Morgan
A local government official leads a double life when organising a breakout from a prison.

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