John Guillermin
Director, Actor
- I Was Monty's Double (1958)
- Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Clifton James, John Mills, Leslie Phillips…
- Absorbing war drama based on the true story of a man hired to imitate General Montgomery in order to hoodwink the Germans before the North Africa…
- Never Let Go (1960)
- Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Richard Todd, Peter Sellers, Adam Faith…
- Solid crime drama about a young salesman (Todd) who has his car inconveniently stolen – leaving him with a large debt – and then…
- Waltz of the Toreadors (1962)
- Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Peter Sellers, Dany Robin, Margaret Leighton…
- Bruising comedy with an elderly general struggling to come to terms with impending retirement and his ruinous personal life.
- Guns At Batasi (1964)
- Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Dame Flora Robson…
- Set during the last days of the British Empire in East Africa, an anachronistic martinet RSM is caught in a local coup d'etat, and must use his…
- Rapture (1965)
- Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Gozzi, Dean Stockwell…
- Drama based on the 1954 novel "Rapture in My Rags" about a lonely teenage girl living with her widower father, who develops an attraction to an…
- 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…
- Bridge at Remagen, The (1969)
- Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. George Segal, Robert Vaughn, Ben Gazzara…
- One of the tougher, smaller 60s Hollywood depictions of war in a period otherwise dominated by epic clunkers. In the later stages of WW2, George…
- Shaft in Africa (1973)
- Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Richard Roundtree
- Shaft goes international with Richard Roundtree returning as the detective forced into helping an African nation stop latter–day slave trading.
- Towering Inferno, The (1974)
- Dir. Irwin Allen, John Guillermin
Feat. Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Faye Dunaway…
- Sensational adventure epic that spawned numerous films about man's futility against Mother Nature. McQueen takes the hose ahead of a cream of famous…
- King Kong (1976)
- Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Jessica Lange, Jeff Bridges
- Much–maligned remake of the 1933 classic, is typical De Laurentis fantasy fare – high in concept, broad in character, cardboard in…
- Death on the Nile (1978)
- Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Peter Ustinov, Bette Davis, David Niven…
- An overlong yet none–the–less charming version of the Agatha Christie whodunnit. Peter Ustinov, as the definitive Hercule Poirot, holds…
- Sheena: Queen of the Jungle (1984)
- Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Tanya Roberts, Ted Wass, Donovan Scott
- 80's cult fantasy flop based on the comic book jungle girl heroine Sheena, a female version of Tarzan who was raised by a fictional African tribe.
- King Kong Lives (1986)
- Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Linda Hamilton, Brian Kerwin, John Ashton
- A truly blasphemous sequel to the already inessential 1976 remake, has the big ape somehow survive the fall from the World Trade Centre but needing a…