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A Flea in Her Ear (1968) Jacques Charon, Rex Harrison, Rosemary Harris, Louis Jourdan, Comedy
A Frenchwoman (Rosemary Harris), suspecting her lawyer husband (Rex Harrison) of having an affair, plots to catch him in the act. Read More »
Midnight Lace (1960) David Miller, Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In London, the American futile housewife Katherine “Kit” Preston has been married for three months with the American executive Anthony “Tony” Preston. Read More »
Escape (1948) Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Rex Harrison, Peggy Cummins, William Hartnell, Film-Noir, Thriller
A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl. Read More »
The Honey Pot (1967) Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward, Cliff Robertson, Comedy, Crime
As an elaborate joke, the wealthy Cecil Fox (Rex Harrison) hires actor William McFly (Cliff Robertson) to play his personal assistant Read More »
The Happy Thieves (1961) George Marshall, Rita Hayworth, Rex Harrison, Joseph Wiseman, Comedy, Drama, Crime
Gentleman thief Jim Bourne steals a Velázquez painting, “Venus With a Mirror,” from the Spanish castle of the Duchess Blanca. Read More »
Major Barbara (1941) Gabriel Pascal, Harold French, Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Comedy
A young and idealistic woman, who has adopted the Salvation Army and whose father is an armament industrialist, will save more souls directing her father’s business.
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King Richard and the Crusaders (1954) David Butler, Rex Harrison, Virginia Mayo, George Sanders, Adventure, History, Romance
In 1191, King Richard the Lionhearted, along with several other European monarchs, is in the Holy Land intent on retaking Jerusalem from the Saracens. There is much infighting and outright treachery in the European encampment encampment however. Two nobles in particular, Sir Giles Amaury and Conrad of Montferrat, want to eliminate the English king and attempt to have him assassinated. Severely wounded and on his death bed, Richard is brought back to health by a Saracen doctor recruited by one of his loyal knights, Sir Kenneth of the Leopard. The king recovers from his wounds but when he hears that Sir Lawrence wishes to marry Lady Edith Plantagenet, the knight is banished only to be taken in by the very doctor who treated the king and who has an altogether different identity.
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