Alistair MacLean at the movies
The work of Alistair MacLean adapted to feature films.
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- DirectorDon SharpStarsDonald SutherlandVanessa RedgraveRichard WidmarkOn the remote Norwegian Bear Island, used as a submarine base by the Germans during World War II, U.N. scientist Larsen sends a distress signal using an emergency N.A.T.O. frequency, and is received by scientific vessel Morning Rose.Researcher Frank Lansing (Donald Sutherland) has joined a United Nations expedition to study global warming on a remote North Atlantic island deemed off limits by NATO. The scientists end up at the frozen, isolated research station, but when a series of mysterious accidents and murders take place, a whole lot of darker motives become apparent.
- DirectorGuy HamiltonStarsHarrison FordRobert ShawEdward FoxDuring World War II, several oddly assorted military experts are teamed in a mission to raid and destroy a bridge vital to enemy strategy.Force 10 From Navarone is based on a book by mega-popular adventure novelist Alistair MacLean, and a sequel to one of his best-loved novels, The Guns Of Navarone. A critically and financially successful movie. Screenwriter Carl Foreman from the previous movie returns to help develop the script, and the director this time aboard is Guy Hamilton, who had previously directed James Bond movies like Goldfinger. Plus there is a lot of star power in the cast - Robert Shaw, Edward Fox, Franco Nero, Carl Weathers, and two stars from the previous year's enormously popular James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me - Richard "Jaws" Kiel, and Barbara Bach.
- DirectorAshley LazarusFreddie FrancisStarsRichard HarrisAnn TurkelGordon JacksonOn a cargo ship converted into a cruise-liner, First Officer John Carter foils the plan of international hijackers to use his vessel as bait for a passing U.S. Treasury ship carrying gold bullion.
- DirectorGeoffrey ReeveStarsDavid BirneyCharlotte RamplingMichael LonsdaleAmerican Neil Bowman is traveling through France when he meets British photographer Lila. They are hired by French land owner Duc de Croyter to escort a Hungarian scientist to New York. But they soon realize that the job is not a cushy number, and have to deal with a gang of kidnappers who will stop at nothing to get their hands on the scientist.
- DirectorTom GriesStarsCharles BronsonBen JohnsonRichard CrennaJohn Deakin is being transported, as a prisoner, on a train with supplies and medicine to Fort Humboldt, Nevada.The year is 1870, and a diphtheria outbreak has struck Fort Humboldt, California. A train has been dispatched for the purpose of bringing reinforcements and medicine. Among those on the train are the Governor of Nevada (Richard Crenna, First Blood), a sheriff (Ben Johnson, The Last Picture Show), a wanted criminal (Charles Bronson, Mr. Majestyk), the governor's niece (Jill Ireland, The Mechanic), a doctor (David Huddleston, The Big Lebowski) and many others. Before long, it becomes clear that something fishy is going on: bodies start piling up at an alarming rate. Clearly, there's a killer onboard the train—but who is it, and what are they hoping to accomplish?
- DirectorMichael TuchnerStarsBarry NewmanSuzy KendallJohn VernonA man is in radio contact with his family when their airplane is shot down. He wants those responsible and becomes a criminal to get a job as deep sea diver with those salvaging the plane's cargo.
- DirectorEtienne PérierStarsAnthony HopkinsJack HawkinsRobert MorleyIn a vein similar to the James Bond movies, British Agent Philip Calvert (Sir Anthony Hopkins) is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that disappeared near the coast of Scotland.British agent Philip Calvert is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that disappeared near the coast of Scotland.
- DirectorGeoffrey ReeveStarsSven-Bertil TaubeBarbara ParkinsAlexander KnoxFollowing a triple professional hit a U.S. agent arrives in Amsterdam to investigate a heroin smuggling ring. He finds a city rife with drugs and a police force unable or unwilling to do much about it. With his incognito female fellow agent the American is soon stirring things up.
- DirectorBrian G. HuttonStarsRichard BurtonClint EastwoodMary UreAllied agents stage a daring raid on a castle where the Nazis are holding American brigadier general George Carnaby prisoner, but that's not all that's really going on.Allied agents stage a daring raid on a castle where the Nazis are holding an American General prisoner.
- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsRock HudsonErnest BorgninePatrick McGoohanUSN nuclear sub USS Tigerfish must rush to the North Pole to rescue the staff of Drift Ice Station Zebra weather station.
- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsGeorge MaharisRichard BasehartAnne FrancisA germ that could destroy life on Earth is stolen from a biological warfare lab and the thief threatens to release it into the open, prompting a security officer to act.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsDavid NivenGregory PeckAnthony QuinnA team of Allied saboteurs is assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
- DirectorPhil KarlsonRichard WidmarkStarsRichard WidmarkSonja ZiemannCharles RegnierDuring the 1956 Hungarian uprising, an American mercenary is hired to smuggle a Hungarian resistance leader out of Soviet-occupied Budapest.