James Mason

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Secret Mission (1942): Dir. Harold French
Feat. Michael Wilding, James Mason, Hugh Williams; Wartime propaganda piece focused around four Brit intelligence officers on a mission in France to gauge the force of the German defences while being…
Thunder Rock (1942): Dir. Roy Boulting
Feat. Michael Redgrave, James Mason, Barbara Mullen…; Wonderfully cerebral first film from the great Boulting Brothers in which a disillusioned newspaperman living in self imposed exile in a Michigan…
Man in Grey, The (1943): Dir. Leslie Arliss
Feat. James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Phyllis Calvert…; Stagy melodrama told largely in flashback centers on the story of two women one rich, one poor and the man with whom a love triangle develops with…
Place of One's Own, A (1945): Dir. Bernard Knowles
Feat. James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Price…; Elegant Victorian ghost story has an elderly couple James Mason and Margaret Lockwood buy a house possessed by a spirit who begins to fascinate their…
Seventh Veil, The (1945): Dir. Compton Bennett
Feat. James Mason, Ann Todd; Renowned film serves up psychiatry in bite sized chunks as a concert pianist is cured of her complexes by a shrink intent on fixing her up with the…
Odd Man Out (1947): Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. James Mason, Robert Newton; James Mason, in one of his best roles, plays a wounded IRA–gunman hunted by police through a nightmare city–scape that clearly…
Caught (1949): Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Robert Ryan, Barbara Bel Geddes, James Mason; Noir–melodrama hybrid has half–mad millionaire Robert Ryan (a role based on Howard Hughes), wrapping Barbara Bel Geddes in the coils of a…
Reckless Moment, The (1949): Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks…; Masterful suspenser in which concerned parent Joan Bennett covers up an apparent murder in order to protect her vulnerable daughter and…
Desert Fox, The (1951): Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. James Mason, Jessica Tandy, Sir Cedric Hardwicke…; James Mason gives a definitive performance as Nazi General Rommel (which he repeated for THE DESERT RATS), whose troubles proved overwhelming despite…
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951): Dir. Albert Lewin
Feat. Ava Gardner, James Mason, Nigel Patrick…; Ava Gardner stars as the ravishing siren of a small Spanish town who has never fallen for anyone until the arrival of the mysterious James Mason, the…
Prisoner of Zenda, The (1952): Dir. Richard Thorpe
Feat. Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, James Mason…; Second version of Anthony Hope's archetypal swashbuckler, sees King of Ruritania Stewart Granger deposed by his half–brother and…
Five Fingers (5 Fingers) (1952): Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie…; Witty espionage thriller set during the Second World War with Mason as a status–hungry valet who hawks important documents to the Germans in…
Julius Caesar (1953): Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud…; Marlon Brando, James Mason and John Gielgud star in this beautifully staged Hollywood adaptation. Passionate drama of power, conspiracy and murder in…
Story of Three Loves, The (1953): Dir. Vincente Minnelli, Gottfried Reinhardt
Feat. Pier Angeli, Ethel Barrymore, Leslie Caron…; Romantic anthology film telling three separate stories in flashbacks experienced by three characters on board the same ocean liner. "The Jealous…
A Star Is Born (1954): Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Judy Garland, James Mason; All–time great musical melodrama, with actress Judy Garland's star eclipsing hubby James Mason's.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954): Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas…; Kirk Douglas and Peter Lorre are shipwreck survivors aboard the Nautilus under the strange command of Captain Nemo (James Mason). From Jules Verne's…
Prince Valiant (1954): Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. James Mason, Janet Leigh, Robert Wagner…; Star studded tale of a young Viking prince striving to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.
Forever Darling (1956): Dir. Alexander Hall
Feat. Lucille Ball, James Mason, Desi Arnaz; The unique talents of Lucille Ball is the strongest aspect of this 'dysfunctional marriage' comedy, starring James Mason as her Guardian Angel. Ball…
Bigger Than Life (1956): Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau; Enormously potent, landmark melodrama is also a career high for James Mason: he plays a suburban family man struck down with a rare heart disease,…
Cry Terror! (1958): Dir. Andrew L. Stone
Feat. James Mason, Inger Stevens, Rod Steiger…; Crime thriller with Rod Steiger as a mad extortionist who forces a New York shop owner (James Mason) to collect a ransom after threatening to blow up…
North by Northwest (1959): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason…; Cary Grant becomes a victim of mistaken identity and is chased across America by enemy agents, in one stylish set piece after another. One of Hitch's…
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1959): Dir. Henry Levin
Feat. James Mason, Pat Boone; James Mason and Pat Boone head an intrepid earth–burrowing expedition in good, old fashioned adventure based on Jules Verne's novel.
Lolita (1962): Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. James Mason, Peter Sellers, Shelley Winters…; A middle–aged man falls in love with a 14–year–old girl, so marries her mother to be near her. Fascinating black comedy of sexual…
Fall of the Roman Empire (1964): Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Alec Guinness, Sophia Loren, James Mason…; Monumental event is given a proportionate treatment with sets reputed to be the largest ever built and a literate script to boot.
Pumpkin Eater, The (1964): Dir. Jack Clayton
Feat. Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch, James Mason…; Anne Bancroft is riveting as a woman of the verge of a nervous breakdown in this penetrating and vastly under–rated British melodrama. As…
Lord Jim (1965): Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Peter O'Toole, James Mason, Jack Hawkins…
Georgy Girl (1966): Dir. Silvio Narizzano
Feat. Lynn Redgrave, Alan Bates, Charlotte Rampling…; Quaint comedy in which 'ugly duckling' Lynn Redgrave strives for happiness alongside her flamboyant friends. Its casual depiction of abortion made…
Blue Max, The (1966): Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. George Peppard, Anton Diffring, James Mason…; Impressively staged, this WW1 actioner concerns the career of ace German combat pilot Bruno Stachel (Peppard). Although the human drama is fairly…
Mayerling (1968): Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason…; Austrian Crown–Prince Omar Sharif neglects the business of running the 19th Century Hapsburg empire, to have a secretive and ill–fated…
Age of Consent (1968): Dir. Michael Powell
Feat. James Mason, Helen Mirren; Dir. Michael Powell's (PEEPING TOM) last feature, based on Aussie artist Norman Lindsay (who also inspired SIRENS). Here, a cranky James Mason goes…

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