Jack Cardiff Movies

Scottish highlander Jamie Durie falls into a life of piracy after joining the failed rebellion of Bonnie Prince Charlie against the British crown.

In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the...

Documentary about the making of the 1948 British film, including interviews with members of the production team.

Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The...

Film version of Shakespeare's comedy of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to win the attention of the one she loves.

A mad scientist crosses plants with people, and the results wind up in a sideshow.

How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the motion pictures in order to make them easier to...

A crew of land locked pirates, led by the aptly named Peg, go in search of buried treasure hidden by the treacherous Mudhook and his twin brother....

A dramatized retelling of Colin Clark's experience on the 1957 film The Prince and the Showgirl, based on the diary he kept throughout production as...

A portrait of the 30 year relationship between Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier. With comments by their friends and family.

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once young and handsome William Green. He changed his name to include his first...

A beautiful Gypsy girl falls in love with a horse trainer.

Young Tina lives with her mother and stepfather on a wildlife reserve in Kenya. While her stepfather believes this is a wonderful environment for her...

Nobleman Rainiero, Sidonia's duke son, comes back home with his friend Renzo. Soon after arrival, Renzo will get in a big trouble and he will be...

A man betrays his best friend, a member of a terrorist organisation, to the authorities and is then pursued by the other members of the organisation.

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Young Cassidy (1965), a film about Irish author Sean O'Casey.

A dying man in a roadside diner tells the other patrons about money he has hidden in four places. But instead of directions, he leaves them only...

While investigating a murder case, a detective stumbles upon a rare-stamp swindle involving the victim's twin sister.

The epic story of how the film The African Queen (1951), directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, was shot on real...

An Englishman and a cabby try to save an heiress from murder in Spain.