Christopher Lee

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Bitter Victory (1957): Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Richard Burton, Curt Jurgens, Ruth Roman…; Superior war drama is set around a WW2 mission by British commandos in North Africa, trying to retrieve vital papers from a German HQ before…
Curse of Frankenstein, The (1957): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee; The first true Hammer gothic horror and number one in the Frankenstein series bringing together the fantastic talents of Cushing (as the Baron) and…
Horror of Dracula (1958): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing; Quintessential Hammer horror is the first of six films with the peerless pairing of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing as the razor–fanged Count…
Tale of Two Cities, A (1958): Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence…; An intrepid Dirk Bogarde negotiates the rough and tumble of the French Revolution, in this, the version most faithful to the Charles Dickens novel.…
Corridors of Blood (Doctor from Seven Dials, The) (1958): Dir. Robert Day
Feat. Boris Karloff, Betta St. John, Finlay Currie…; A gruesome enactment of medical experimentation in pre–Victorian London, with Karloff donning apron and scalpel to try and discover an…
Mummy, The (1959): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee; Peter Cushing confronts Christopher Lee in bandages in this stylish early Hammer.
Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1959): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Andre Morell…; Quite possibly the best Sherlock Holmes adaptation, with Cushing in the lead, investigating the horrors of the Baskerville killings. The 'Hammer'…
Horror Hotel (The City of the Dead) (1960): Dir. John Moxey
Feat. Christopher Lee; A search party ventures to Salem county after an occult student disappears under mysteriously witchy circumstances. Eerie photography.
Beat Girl (1960): Dir. Edmond T. Greville
Feat. Gillian Hills, Adam Faith, Christopher Lee…; Providing a rare peek into the British 'beat scene', this groovy juvenile delinquency drama proves there was teenage wildlife before the Beatles, and…
Scream of Fear (Taste of Fear) (1961): Dir. Seth Holt
Feat. Susan Strasberg, Ann Todd, Ronald Lewis…; Christopher Lee's favourite Hammer film in exercise in sustained tension with Susan Strasberg as a paralysed young woman haunted by visions of her…
Devilship Pirates (1964): Dir. Don Sharp
Feat. Christopher Lee, John Cairney, Ernest Clark…; Taking a non–horror tack, this Hammer offering concerns a Spanish galleon, 'Diablo' (captained by Christopher Lee)which comes ashore in…
Gorgon, The (1964): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Richard Pasco…; A small village falls prey to an unseen monster. Citizens are found turned to stone after every full moon. The town Doctor (Peter Cushing) concludes…
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1965): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Christopher Lee; Christopher Lee returns from the grave to intimidate a group of tourists in this belated sequel to HORROR OF DRACULA. Misses Peter Cushing, and the…
Face of Fu Manchu (1965): Dir. Don Sharp
Feat. Christopher Lee, Nigel Green, James Robertson-Justice; Revival of Sax Rohmer's 1920s suspense tales based around arch–villain Fu Manchu's attempts to take over the West. This first outing with…
Amicus Collection (Asylum, The Beast Must Die, And Now the Screaming Starts, The House that Dripped Blood, City of the Dead, Dr. Terrors House of Horrors) (1965-1974): Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing; A collection of low–budget horror films from Amicus Studios. CITY OF THE DEAD (a.k.a. HORROR HOTEL): A student is sent by her professor to…
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965): Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Bernard Lee…; The first omnibus horror from low–budget outfit Amicus, in which the mysterious Dr. Schreck (Cushing) foretells the awful future fates of five…
Brides of Fu Manchu (1966): Dir. Don Sharp
Feat. Christopher Lee, Douglas Wilmer, Rupert Davies; First sequel to the brilliant revival of Sax Rohmer's 1920s serial in FACE OF FU MANCHU, again with Lee cooking up a dastardly plot – here to…
Theatre of Death / Rasputin - The Mad Monk (1966-1973): Dir. Samuel Gallu, Don Sharp
Feat. Christopher Lee; A 'Midnight Movie' double–feature of two low–budget British horrors starring Christopher Lee. THEATRE OF DEATH (1973) – A tale…
Castle of the Walking Dead (The Torture Chamber Of Dr. Sadism) (1967): Dir. Harald Reinl
Feat. Christopher Lee, Lex Barker, Karin Dor; The blood runs thick for its vintage in this variation on Poe's Pit and the Pendulum in which a Count is drawn and quartered for killing twelve…
Night of the Big Heat (1967): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing; An extreme heatwave blankets an English winter, the cause of which is neither natural nor human. Eerie and stylish sci–fi with Christopher Lee…
Circus of Fear (1967): Dir. John Llewellyn Moxey
Feat. Christopher Lee, Klaus Kinski, Suzy Kendall; Not so much a horror film as a murder–mystery about a super–criminal who hides out in a circus. With various red herrings in the plot, a…
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968): Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Christopher Lee; Christopher Lee returns in fangs for a third Hammer bite at the vampire story.
Devil Rides Out, The (1968): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Christopher Lee; Devilishly straight–faced Hammer with Christopher Lee orchestrating a scheme to save the life (and soul) of his long–time confidant from…
Blood of Fu Manchu, The (Kiss and Kill) (1968): Dir. Jess Franco
Feat. Christopher Lee, Tsai Chin, Shirley Eaton…; Fourth in Christopher Lee's FU MANCHU series with the calculating Oriental maniac here holed up in the South American jungle spreading world chaos…
Scream and Scream Again (1969): Dir. Gordon Hessler
Feat. Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee; Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee all turn in for this Hammer mad–doctor–creates–super–being yarn.
Magic Christian, The (1969): Dir. Joseph McGrath
Feat. Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Richard Attenborough…; From Terry Southern's novel, a wildly loopy satire about an eccentric multi–millionaire (Peter Sellers) who adopts a destitute son (Ringo…
Castle of Fu Manchu, The (1969): Dir. Jess Franco
Feat. Christopher Lee, Tsai Chin; The final bungled entry in the FU MANCHU series, with Christopher Lee on the same quest for world domination as ever, this time conducted from his…
Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970): Dir. Peter Sasdy
Feat. Christopher Lee; Fourth Hammer installment of the black–caped Christopher Lee, this time meeting with a genuinely imaginative end.
House That Dripped Blood, The (1970): Dir. Peter Duffell
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Denholm Elliott…; Juicy if variable four–part portmanteau film written by PSYCHO scribe, Robert Bloch, and adorned by the Cushing/Lee double–act as well as…
Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The (1970): Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely, Genevieve Page…; Late period Billy Wilder (THE APARTMENT) applies his ironic sensibility, with less acid than usual, to the mind of Conan Doyle's detecting hero and…
Bloody Judge, The (Trono di fuoco, Il) (1970): Dir. Jess Franco
Feat. Christopher Lee, Maria Schell, Leo Genn…; More lavish than the usual fare of horror dir. Franco, here telling the tale of a corrupt witchfinder (Lee) in 16th century England, based around the…
Scars of Dracula (1970): Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Christopher Lee, Dennis Waterman, Patrick Troughton; In search of his missing brother a man discovers the deadly lair of Count Dracula.
Hannie Caulder (1971): Dir. Burt Kennedy
Feat. Raquel Welch, Robert Culp, Christopher Lee…; Raquel Welch dons poncho and six–shooters in this violent quasi–spoof Western, playing the victim of a gang rape who, with the help of a…
Horror Express (1972): Dir. Gene Martin
Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing; Inspired gothic yarn with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing travelling on the Trans–Siberian express with what could be the missing link.
Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972): Dir. Alan Gibson
Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing; Christopher Lee's Count incongruously schmoozes with the youth of the 1970s in his never–ending search for the red stuff. Peter Cushing turns…
Death Line (Raw Meat) (1972): Dir. Gary Sherman
Feat. Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington; A cannibal zombie stalks the local stations of the London Underground picking off unlucky passengers for nourishment in this British 70's horror gem,…
Wicker Man, The (1973): Dir. Robin Hardy
Feat. Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland…; Policeman Edward Woodward investigates the death of a child on a remote isle where he discovers a sinister pagan cult. An engrossing journey into the…
Four Musketeers, The (1973): Dir. Richard Lester
Feat. Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain…; Similarly irreverant follow–up to dir. Lester's THREE MUSKETEERS with the same cast continuing in the swashbuckling vein. Excellent cast with a…
Nothing But the Night (The Resurrection Syndicate) (1973): Dir. Peter Sasdy
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Diana Dors…; Lee and Cushing are sent by Scotland Yard to investigate a fatal bus crash and how it relates to the going–ons at a creepy orphanage.…
Satanic Rites of Dracula, The (1973): Dir. Alan Gibson
Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Joanna Lumley…; When a group of Scotland Police Investigators think they have uncovered a case of vampirism, they call in Van Helsing to put a stop to Count…
Man with the Golden Gun, The (1974): Dir. Guy Hamilton
Feat. Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland; Moore's second film as Bond finds him in Southeast Asia battling for possession of a deadly weapon. There's a price on his head and the world's…
To the Devil...a Daughter (1976): Dir. Peter Sykes
Feat. Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Nastassja Kinski; A kinky occult thriller, produced in Hammer's twilight years, in which Kinski is prepared as a Satanic vessel.
Killer Force (1976): Dir. Val Guest
Feat. Telly Savalas, Peter Fonda, Hugh O'Brian…; Routine heist film made palpable by its oddball casting, with Savalas hot on the heels of Fonda and his crack team of thieves as they plot an…
Airport '77 (1977): Dir. Jerry Jameson
Feat. Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, James Stewart…; This third installment in the Airport franchise has a jetliner plunging into the mid–Atlantic's Bermuda Triangle where a fresh celebrity…
Return From Witch Mountain (1978): Dir. John Hough
Feat. Bette Davis, Christopher Lee; Above–average sequel to ESCAPE FROM WITCH MOUNTAIN reprises the story of two runaway orphans with supernatural powers, adding the star presence…
Circle Of Iron (The Silent Flute) (1978): Dir. Richard Moore
Feat. David Carradine, Christopher Lee, Roddy McDowall; Bizarre 80s fantasy tells the story of a young fighter who seeks a spiritual identity through martial arts, and goes on a quest to find the legendary…
Arabian Adventure (1979): Dir. Kevin Conner
Feat. Christopher Lee, Milo O'Shea, Mickey Rooney…; Sumptuous Arabic fantasy set around a treasure hunt for the mystical Rose of Elil. Good f/x and a great British cast make for smooth entertainment.
Jaguar Lives! (1979): Dir. Ernest Pintoff
Feat. Joe Lewis, Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence…; A Spanish–American actioner featuring "three Bond villains" and "one Bond beauty" in the cast but who, in true exploitation fashion, barely…
An Eye for an Eye (1981): Dir. Steve Carver
Feat. Chuck Norris, Christopher Lee, Richard Roundtree…; Chuck Norris plays a disgraced police officer who goes it alone to kick Chinese drug–trafficking butt in this violent actioner from the Cannon…
Last Unicorn, The (1982): Dir. Arthur Rankin Jnr, Jules Bass
Feat. Alan Arkin, Christopher Lee, Mia Farrow…; Underrated (and under–known) animated gem, concerns the quest of the world’s last unicorn to find the rest of the unicorn herd. Strongly…
Return of Captain Invincible, The (1983): Dir. Phillipe Mora
Feat. Alan Arkin, Christopher Lee, Bill Hunter…; Campy superhero comedy starring Captain Invincible – a chunky ex superhero who now prefers chopping back the lagers to fighting crime in white…
Far Pavilions, The (TV Mini-series) (1984): Dir. Peter Duffell
Feat. Ben Cross, Amy Irving, Christopher Lee…; Lavish period drama based on the epic book by novelist M.M. Kaye, centered around the romance between a young English officer and a beautiful Indian…
Howling II, The (Your Sister Is A Werewolf) (1985): Dir. Phillipe Mora
Feat. Christopher Lee, Annie McEnroe, Sybil Danning; A young girl whose sister was murdered by werewolves helps an investigator track down a gang of the beasts. This film has the dubious honour of being…
Death Train (1993): Dir. David Jackson
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Patrick Stewart, Alexandra Paul…; Originally made for TV, this action flick based on the Alistair MacLean novel pitches Brosnan's hero against Christopher Lee's evil Russian general,…
Feast at Midnight, A (1996): Dir. Justin Hardy
Feat. Freddie Fidnlay, Aled Roberts, Christopher Lee; A ten–year–old with a knack for cookery cheers up his miserable life at a boarding school by founding a club dedicated to midnight feasts…
Ivanhoe (1997): Dir. Stuart Orme
Feat. Steven Waddington, Victoria Smurfit, Ciaran Hinds…; Sir Walter Scott's classic adventure of the Crusades gets a fair rollicking in this BBC adaptation. Returning from the wars in Palestine, Ivanhoe…
Odyssey, The (1997): Dir. Andrei Konchalovsky
Feat. Armand Assante, Greta Scacchi, Isabella Rossellini…; Homer's epic gets the televisual treatment as Odysseus makes his long journey home – through many an exotic location – while his wife…
Gormenghast (TV Mini-series) (2000): Dir. Andy Wilson
Feat. Christopher Lee, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Ian Richardson…; Immaculately designed – if somewhat overstated – BBC rendition of Mervyn Peake's cult novel set in an immense castle where the…
Christopher Lee's Ghost Stories for Christmas (2000): Dir. Eleanor Yule
Feat. Christopher Lee; Christopher Lee gloomily narrates three ghost stories while sitting around a candle lit room in this folksy adaptation of three M.R. James tales.
Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (2001): Dir. Peter Jackson
Feat. Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler…; Monumental fantasy–epic and filmmaking accomplishment for local–boy–made–good Peter Jackson, transmutes the first part of J R…
Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended Edition) (2001): Dir. Peter Jackson
Feat. Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler…; Monumental fantasy–epic and filmmaking accomplishment for local–boy–made–good Peter Jackson, transmutes the first part of J R…
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002): Dir. George Lucas
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen…; The attack of the most successful–ever movie franchise continues, with Lucas’ space–opera following further galactic struggles, in…
Crimson Rivers 2 - Angels of the Apocalypse (2004): Dir. Olivier Dahan
Feat. Jean Reno, Benoit Magimel, Christopher Lee; Barely coherent, but mostly fun sequel to the serial–killer hunt of CRIMSON RIVERS, has detective Reno return to track a case of religious…
Triage (2009): Dir. Danis Tanovic
Feat. Colin Farrell, Paz Vega, Christopher Lee…; An absorbing Colin Farrell performance carries this pensive, unexpectedly subdued drama from the director of NO MAN'S LAND. Farrell plays a battered…
Boogie Woogie (2009): Dir. Duncan Ward
Feat. Danny Huston, Gillian Anderson, Alan Cumming…; Broad satire of the modern art scene with Danny Huston as a supercilious art dealer scheming to get his hands on a rare Mondrian. Hugely…
Glorious 39 (2009): Dir. Stephen Poliakoff
Feat. Romola Garai, Bill Nighy, David Tennant…; Trademark Stephen Poliakoff visuals and upper crust intrigue characterise this pre–WWII mystery, starring Romola Garai as the adoptive daughter…
Alice in Wonderland (2010): Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter…; Dir. Tim Burton goes down the rabbit hole in this feverish retelling of Lewis Carroll's classic tale told with his customary visual brio. Bonham…
Burke and Hare (2010): Dir. John Landis
Feat. Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Tom Wilkinson…; An oddball comedic take on the infamous grave robbing duo, with Serkis and Pegg supported by a terrific ensemble of British comedic thesps. While…
Resident, The (2011): Dir. Antti Jokinen
Feat. Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Lee Pace…; Entirely watchable chiller has Hilary Swank suspecting she may not be alone in her new apartment. Produced by the revived "Hammer" label, Christopher…
Season of the Witch (2011): Dir. Dominic Sena
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Claire Foy…; Sword–and–sorcery tosh with Cage as an honorable knight charged with transporting a witch who may be the cause of the bubonic plague.
Hugo (2011): Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Asa Butterfield, Chloe Grace Moretz, Ben Kingsley…; A state–of–the–art fantasy and homage to the origins of film and one of its earlier innovators, George Méliès (Kingsley), whose…
Dark Shadows (2012): Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter…; Tim Burton directs Johnny Depp (for the eight time) in the cult role of Barnabas Collins, a 200–year–old vampire who reawakens in the…
Night Train to Lisbon (2013): Dir. Bille August
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Mélanie Laurent, Jack Huston…; Jeremy Irons goes walkabout as a professor seeking an escape from his buttoned–down academic life, embarking on a train journey to Lisbon after…

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