Movies with Niall MacGinnis
Movies found: 11, viewing from 1 to 11
Helen of Troy (1955)
Genres: Action, Adventure, Romance
Starring: Marc Lawrence, Harry Andrews, Stanley Baker, Niall MacGinnis, Eduardo Ciannelli, Cedric Hardwicke, Robert Douglas
Directors: Robert Wise
Country: USA, Italy
Year: 1956
Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal Greeks, he must flee...but fate and their mutual passions lead him to take Helen along. This gives the Greeks just the excuse they need for much-desired war.
Hamlet
Genres: Drama
Starring: Anthony Quayle, Jean Simmons, Laurence Olivier, Niall MacGinnis, Patrick Troughton, Norman Wooland, Basil Sydney
Directors: Laurence Olivier
Country: UK
Year: 1948
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
William Shakespeare's tale of tragedy of murder and revenge in the royal halls of medieval Denmark. Claudius, brother to the King, conniving with the Queen, poisons the monarch and seizes the throne, taking the widowed Gertrude for his bride. Hamlet, son of the murdered King, mournful of his father's death and mother's hasty marriage, is confronted by the ghost of the late King who reveals the manner of his murder. Seeking revenge, Hamlet recreates the monstrous deed in a play with the help of some traveling actors to torment the conscience of the evil Claudius. In a visit with his mother, Hamlet expresses his anger and disappointment concern...
A Man Could Get Killed
Genres: Comedy
Starring: James Garner, Martin Benson, Niall MacGinnis, Cecil Parker, Isabel Dean, Peter Illing, Roland Culver
Directors: Cliff Owen, Ronald Neame
Country: USA
Year: 1966
This late-'60s spy spoof also borrows a page from late-'50s Alfred Hitchcock, with its everyday man becoming embroiled in the violent and baffling world of international espionage. When American businessman William Beddoes (James Garner) is traveling in Lisbon, he's mistaken for an English spy who's thought to possess a cache of industrial diamonds. Soon he is pursued by Aurora-Celeste da Costa (Melina Mercouri), Steve-Antonio (Tony Franciosa), and a host of other colorful troublemakers, all chasing him for something he doesn't have. Note Bert Kaempfert's music, introducing "Strangers In The Night".
The Edge of the World
Genres: Romance, Drama, History
Starring: Niall MacGinnis, Finlay Currie, John Laurie, Grant Sutherland, Eric Berry, Belle Chrystall, Kitty Kirwan
Directors: Michael Powell
Country: UK
Year: 1937
Available Quality: iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
A trio wanders the cliffs of a Shetland island and encounters a gravestone at the edge of a precipice; it reads, "Peter Manson ... gone over." One man in the trio knows the story of the gravestone and tells it to the others... It is ten years earlier, and the way of life on the island is dying; steam trawlers from the mainland threaten its survival as a fishing port. Peter Manson, one of the community's leaders, resists evacuating to the mainland, though his son Robbie is about to leave the island himself. Meanwhile, Robbie's twin sister plans to marry his best friend, Andrew Gray. Andrew and Robbie argue over evacuation and decide to settle ...
Sinful Davey
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Adventure
Starring: John Hurt, Judith Furse, Robert Morley, Nigel Davenport, Fionnula Flanagan, Francis De Wolff, Allan Cuthbertson
Directors: John Huston
Country: UK
Year: 1969
Davey Haggart is quite certain of his paternity (even if nobody else is) and determined to emulate his father, a notorious rogue and highwayman. This includes breaking a man out of Stirling jail, holding up the stagecoach, and robbing the Duke of Argyll, among other feats. Unfortunately, he is handicapped by the fact that his childhood playmate Annie is equally determined to track him down and save his soul...
Night of the Demon (1957)
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Starring: Lloyd Lamble, Liam Redmond, Athene Seyler, Niall MacGinnis, Maurice Denham, Reginald Beckwith, Ewan Roberts
Directors: Jacques Tourneur
Country: UK
Year: 1957
Dr. John Holden ventures to London to attend a paranormal psychology symposium with the intention to expose devil cult leader, Julian Karswell. Holden is a skeptic and does not believe in Karswell's power. Nonetheless, he accepts an invitation to stay at Karswell's estate, along with Joanna Harrington, niece of Holden's confidant who was electrocuted in a bizarre automobile accident. Karswell secretly slips a parchment into Holden's papers that might possibly be a death curse. Recurring strange events finally strike fear into Holden, who believes that his only hope is to pass the parchment back to Karswell to break the demonic curse.
Becket
Genres: Drama, History, Biography
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Donald Wolfit, John Gielgud, Richard Burton, Percy Herbert, Niall MacGinnis, Paolo Stoppa
Directors: Peter Glenville
Country: USA, UK
Year: 1964
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
As the story opens, King Henry II, who ruled England from 1154 to 1189 has entered Canterbury Cathedral to do penance at the tomb of his former friend, Thomas Becket. Bare to the waist, the king kneels to receive a flogging from Saxon monks. He begins to reminisce, recalling at first the carefree, promiscuous adventures with Becket, then his favorite drinking and wenching companion. A violently emotional drama that probes the changing relationship between two young men - between two close friends bound together by similar pride of flesh and spirit who become deadly enemies as they pursue their separate destinies . . . that of king . . . and s...
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
Genres: Drama
Starring: Niall MacGinnis, Michael Gwynn, Bill Nagy, James Dyrenforth, Robert Arden, MacDonald Parke, Felix Aylmer
Directors: Cyril Frankel
Country: UK
Year: 1960
Jean Carter, nine-year-old daughter of the town's newly-appointed school principal, Peter Carter and his wife Sally, is playing in the woods with her 11-year-old friend Lucille, when Jean discovers she has lost her purse containing her "candy" money. Lucille tells her she knows where they can get sweets for nothing, and leads her to an imposing mansion, from which the owner, Clarence Olderberry, Sr., a tall, gaunt man of 70 has been watching the girls from a window. That night Jean, unable to sleep, tells her parents that Oldeberry made her and Lucille dance before him nude in exchange for some candy. Carter files a complaint, but the local p...
Knights of the Round Table
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Starring: Stanley Baker, Niall MacGinnis, Robert Taylor, Mel Ferrer, Ava Gardner, Anne Crawford, Felix Aylmer
Directors: Richard Thorpe
Country: USA
Year: 1953
King Arthur establishes the greatest reign England has ever seen, and along for the ride are his indispensable Knights of the Round Table, particularly Sir Lancelot. Then, Arthur finds himself a bride, the beautiful Guenivere. While she loves Arthur, she also loves Lancelot and though Lancelot repeatedly fights it, he loves her, too. Treachery is brewing as the evil Morgan le Fay and her knight Sir Modred work to trap them. So begins the decline and eventual fall of Arthur and Camelot.
Jason and the Argonauts
Genres: Action, Adventure, Family
Starring: Laurence Naismith, Gary Raymond, Jack Gwillim, Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Niall MacGinnis, Michael Gwynn
Directors: Don Chaffey
Country: USA, UK
Year: 1963
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
After a 20 year voyage, Jason (Armstrong) returns to the Kingdom of Thessaly to claim his throne. But it's not quite easy for this. In order to gain the throne, he must find the magical Golden Fleece, which has amazing healing powers. He selects a crew, which included Polydeuces (Crawford) and Hercules (Green). Jason also gains the help of the Queen of the Gods, Hera (Blackman). Jason and his crew must now reach the fleece and survive the likes of a 100 foot bronze giant, a huge venomous creature with head full of seven snakes, and a terrifying army of skeletons.
Anna Karenina
Genres: Romance, Drama
Starring: Sally Ann Howes, Ralph Richardson, Kieron Moore, Michael Gough, Niall MacGinnis, Mary Kerridge, Martita Hunt
Directors: Julien Duvivier
Country: UK
Year: 1948
Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a little spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it's love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet. Back in St. Petersburg they keep running into each other at parties. Since she has a husband and small son, they must be very discreet if they are going to see each other alone.