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Films directed by J. Lee Thompson
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The list Films directed by J. Lee Thompson includes
The Guns of Navarone, Mackenna's Gold, What a Way to Go!, Cape Fear and 10 to Midnight.
The list consists of 48 members.
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The Guns of Navarone
1961 Anglo-American epic adventure war film by J. Lee Thompson
Overview: The Guns of Navarone is a 1961 action adventure war film directed by J. Lee Thompson from a screenplay by Carl Foreman, based on Alistair MacLean's 1957 novel of the same name. Foreman also produced the ...
Release date: 27 April 1961Genre: Action, Drama, War, AdventureDirector: J. Lee ThompsonProducer: Leon Becker, Cecil F. FordWriter: Alistair MacLean, Carl ForemanA team of Allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range ...
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Mackenna's Gold
1969 film directed by J. Lee Thompson
Overview: Mackenna's Gold is a 1969 American Western film directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring an ensemble cast featuring Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas, Ted Cassidy, Camilla Sparv and Julie Newmar in ...
Release date: 18 March 1969Genre: Romance, WesternDirector: J. Lee ThompsonProducer: Carl Foreman, Dimitri TiomkinWriter: Heck Allen, Carl ForemanA bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep ... 0
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What a Way to Go!
1964 film by J. Lee Thompson
Overview: What a Way to Go! is a 1964 American black comedy film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Gene Kelly, Bob Cummings and Dick Van Dyke.
Release date: 12 May 1964Genre: Comedy, Romance, MusicalDirector: J. Lee ThompsonProducer: Arthur P. JacobsWriter: Gwen Davis, Betty ComdenA four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich ... 0
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Taras Bulba
1962 film by J. Lee Thompson
Overview: Taras Bulba is a 1962 American historical adventure drama film based on Nikolai Gogol's novel Taras Bulba, starring Tony Curtis and Yul Brynner. The film was directed by J. Lee Thompson.Release date: 21 November 1962Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War, HistoryDirector: J. Lee ThompsonProducer: Tony Curtis, Harold HechtWriter: Waldo Salt, Karl TunbergIn the 16th-century Ukraine, the Polish overlords and Ukrainian cossacks fight for control of the land but frequent Turkish invasions force them to unite ... 0
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Cape Fear
1962 film
Overview: Cape Fear is a 1962 American psychological thriller directed by J. Lee Thompson, from a screenplay by James R. Webb, adapting the 1957 novel The Executioners by John D. MacDonald. It stars Gregory Peck ...
Release date: 12 April 1962Genre: Crime, Drama, ThrillerDirector: J. Lee ThompsonProducer: Sy BartlettWriter: John D. MacDonald, James R. WebbA lawyer's family is stalked by a man he once helped put in jail. 0
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10 to Midnight
1983 film
Overview: 10 to Midnight is a 1983 American neo noir-thriller-horror film directed by J. Lee Thompson from a screenplay originally written by William Roberts. The film stars Charles Bronson in the lead role with ...
Release date: 11 March 1983Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, CrimeDirector: J. Lee ThompsonProducer: Yoram Globus, Menahem GolanWriter: William Roberts, J. Lee ThompsonAn LAPD detective and his rookie partner are on the trail of a psychopathic young man who is murdering young women. 0
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The White Buffalo
1977 film by J. Lee Thompson
Overview: The White Buffalo is a 1977 fantasy Western film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Charles Bronson, Kim Novak, Jack Warden, Slim Pickens and Will Sampson.Release date: 12 May 1977Genre: Western, DramaDirector: J. Lee ThompsonProducer: Dino De Laurentiis, Pancho KohnerWriter: Richard SaleIn this strange western version of JAWS, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream... 0
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The Greek Tycoon
1978 film by J. Lee Thompson
Overview: The Greek Tycoon is a 1978 American biographical romantic drama film, of the roman à clef type, directed by J. Lee Thompson. The screenplay by Morton S. Fine is based on a story by Fine, Nico Mastorakis ...
Release date: 12 May 1978Genre: DramaDirector: J. Lee ThompsonProducer: Mort Abrahams, Iris KeitelWriter: Nico Mastorakis, Win WellsA fictionalized account of the Greek shipping magnate, Onassis, and his meeting and subsequent marriage to the widow of assassinated U.S. president, J ... 0
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Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
1989 film by J. Lee Thompson
Overview: Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects is a 1989 American action thriller film starring Charles Bronson and directed by J. Lee Thompson. As Thompson's final film, it was the last project he and Bronson did together—a ...Release date: 3 February 1989Genre: Drama, Thriller, ActionDirector: J. Lee ThompsonProducer: Richard Driscoll, Yoram GlobusWriter: Harold NebenzalA Tokyo businessman (Hiroshi Hada), transferred to L.A, molests a teenage girl (Amy Hathaway) on a train... 0
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Kings of the Sun
1963 film by J. Lee Thompson
Overview: Kings of the Sun is a 1963 DeLuxe Color film directed by J. Lee Thompson for Mirisch Productions set in Mesoamerica at the time of the conquest of Chichen Itza by Hunac Ceel. Location scenes were filmed ...Release date: 18 December 1963Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, ThrillerDirector: J. Lee ThompsonProducer: Lewis J. RachmilWriter: Elliott Arnold, James R. Webb 0
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King Solomon's Mines
1985 film by J. Lee Thompson
Overview: King Solomon's Mines is a 1985 action adventure film, and a film adaptation of the 1885 novel of the same name by H. Rider Haggard. It stars Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom, and John Rh ...
Release date: 22 November 1985Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Action, RomanceDirector: J. Lee ThompsonProducer: Yoram Globus, Menahem GolanWriter: H. Rider Haggard, Gene QuintanoFortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing father lost in the wilds of 1900s Africa while being pursued ... 0
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Happy Birthday to Me
1981 slasher film by J. Lee Thompson
Overview: Happy Birthday to Me is a 1981 slasher film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Melissa Sue Anderson and Glenn Ford. Its plot revolves around six brutal murders occurring around a popular high school ...Release date: 15 May 1981Genre: Horror, Mystery, ThrillerDirector: J. Lee ThompsonCast: Melissa Sue Anderson, Glenn Ford, Lawrence Dane, Sharon Acker, Frances Hyland, Tracey E. BregmanProducer: John Dunning, Stewart HardingWriter: John C.W. Saxton, Peter JobinVirginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday... 0
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Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
1987 film by J. Lee Thompson
Overview: Death Wish 4: The Crackdown is a 1987 American vigilante action-thriller film, and the fourth installment in the Death Wish film series. The film was directed by J. Lee Thompson, and features Charles ...
Release date: 6 November 1987Genre: Action, Thriller, Crime, DramaDirector: J. Lee ThompsonProducer: Yoram Globus, Menahem GolanWriter: Brian Garfield, Gail Morgan HickmanArchitect/vigilante Paul Kersey takes on the members of a vicious Los Angeles drug cartel to stop the flow of drugs after his girlfriend's daughter dies ... 0
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Brotherly Love
1970 British film
Overview: Country Dance (U.S. title: Brotherly Love ) is a 1970 British drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Peter O'Toole, Susannah York and Michael Craig. It is based on the novel Household Ghosts ...Release date: 22 April 1970Genre: DramaDirector: J. Lee ThompsonProducer: James Kennaway, Robert Emmett GinnaIn an upper-class British household, a crazy alcoholic, has an incestuous relationship with his sister, who is also capable of being fairly spirited herself ... 0
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Young and Willing
1954 film by J. Lee Thompson
Overview: The Weak and the Wicked (called Young and Willing in the United States) is a 1954 British drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson based on the autobiographical novel Who Lie in Gaol by his wife, Joan Henry ...
Release date: 2 February 1954Genre: DramaDirector: J. Lee ThompsonProducer: Victor SkutezkyWriter: Joan Henry, J. Lee ThompsonFrank "women in prison" story that sympathetically tracks several inmates through their imprisonment and subsequent return to society. Some are ... 0
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Tiger Bay
1959 British film
Overview: Tiger Bay is a 1959 British crime drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson. It stars John Mills as a police superintendent investigating a murder; his real-life daughter Hayley Mills, in her first major ...Release date: 1 March 1959Genre: Drama, Thriller, CrimeDirector: J. Lee ThompsonProducer: Noël Calef, John Hawkesworth12 year old Gillie witnesses a Polish Sailor killing his girlfriend and manages to get hold of the gun... 0
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The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
1975 American psychological horror film by J. Lee Thompson
Overview: The Reincarnation of Peter Proud is a 1975 American psychological horror film directed by J. Lee Thompson, and starring Michael Sarrazin, Margot Kidder, and Jennifer O'Neill. It follows a university p ...Release date: 25 April 1975Genre: Mystery, HorrorDirector: J. Lee ThompsonProducer: Charles A. Pratt, Frank P. RosenbergWriter: Max EhrlichWhen college professor Peter Proud begins to experience flashbacks from a previous incarnation, he is... 0
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The Passage
1979 British film
Overview: The Passage is a 1979 British action-war film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Anthony Quinn, James Mason, Malcolm McDowell and Patricia Neal. The film is based upon the 1976 novel Perilous Passage ...Release date: 9 March 1979Genre: Drama, War, ActionDirector: J. Lee ThompsonProducer: Maurice Binder, John DalyWriter: Bruce Nicolaysen, Stephen OliverDuring World War II, a Basque shepherd is approached by the underground, who wants him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees while being ... 0
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The Evil That Men Do
1984 film by J. Lee Thompson
Overview: The Evil That Men Do is a 1984 American action thriller film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Charles Bronson, Theresa Saldana, Joseph Maher and José Ferrer. The film is adapted by R. Lance Hill ...
Release date: 15 March 1984Genre: Action, Drama, ThrillerDirector: J. Lee ThompsonProducer: Lance Hool, Jill IrelandWriter: David Lee Henry, John CrowtherA professional killer comes out of retirement to investigate and avenge the brutal murder of an old friend. 0
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The Ambassador
1984 American thriller film directed by J. Lee Thompson
Overview: The Ambassador is a 1984 American political thriller film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Robert Mitchum, Ellen Burstyn, Rock Hudson and Allan Younger. It was the last theatrical release starring ...Release date: 23 May 1984Genre: Drama, WarDirector: J. Lee ThompsonProducer: Ronald M. Cohen, Max Jack 0
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