Joseph Losey
Director, Actor
- Big Night, The (1951)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. John Jr. Barrymore, Preston Foster, Joan Lorring…
- Tense melodrama has Barrymore traumatised by watching his father submit to a beating at the hands of a petty gangster. Setting out to avenge his…
- Prowler, The (1951)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell…
- This underseen "perv noir" deliciously subverts archetypes by twisting its menacing male lead (a terrific Van Heflin) into a 'homme fatale', replete…
- Sleeping Tiger (1954)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde
- Suave street–crim Dirk Bogarde is sheltered by one of his victims, a psychiatrist who attempts to cure Bogarde's 'illness'. Shot with a baroque…
- Time Without Pity (1957)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Leo McKern, Ann Todd…
- Nervy noir has Michael Redgrave in top form as an alcoholic father racing against time to save his son from the gallows.
Somewhat dated thriller…
- Criminal, The (1960)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Sam Wanamaker, Gregoire Aslan
- Joseph–Losey–directed crime drama of a con sent to prison after a profitable robbery who is tortured by his fellow prisoners to leak…
- Eva (1962)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Sir Stanley Baker, Virna Lisi…
- Jeanne Moreau is that obscure object of desire which novelist Stanley Baker falls for, and is taken for a ride. Interesting, if lurid Losey melodrama…
- Servant, The (1963)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles
- First collaboration between playwright Harold Pinter and dir. Losey is an elegant diagram of English class cruelties, with man–servant Dirk…
- Damned, The (These Are The Damned) (1963)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Viveca Lindfors…
- Dir. Joseph Losey’s bleak but brilliant movie about a breed of radioactive children groomed to withstand a nuclear apocalypse is one of best…
- King and Country (1964)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern
- Earnest, expertly acted drama in which a detached army lawyer (Dirk Bogarde) attempts to defend a working–class deserter (Tom Courtenay) during…
- Modesty Blaise (1966)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Monica Vitti, Dirk Bogarde, Terence Stamp…
- Comic–strip style adventures of a sexy female spy, filmed at the height of the pop–art craze.