4 Movies Starring James Robertson Justice

Doctor at Sea

Doctor at Sea

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1956-02-23

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

93 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (550 Reviews)

Director:

Ralph Thomas

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Richard Gordon (by)

Richard Gordon (adapted for the screen by)

Nicholas Phipps (screenplay)

Jack Davies (screenplay)

Fullplot:

With a view to escaping both boredom as a junior G.P. and unwanted womanly advances, young doctor Simon Sparrow becomes a medical officer on "the Lotus", an all-male cargo ship. As soon as he sets foot on board, Simon encounters various eccentric characters (including quick-tempered, authoritarian, whisky- addicted captain Hogg)and gets involved in many an embarrassing situation (including seasickness). In Rio he gets to know Hèlène Colbert , a sexy young French singer and falls under her spell. When woman hater Hogg is forced to take on two female characters, Muriel Mallet, the daughter of the shipping company and her friend ... Hèlène on his freighter, Simon is delighted!

Moby Dick

Moby Dick

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1956-06-27

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

116 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (12515 Reviews)

Director:

John Huston

Cast:

Writer:

Herman Melville (novel)

Ray Bradbury (screenplay)

John Huston (screenplay)

Fullplot:

This classic story by Herman Melville revolves around Captain Ahab and his obsession with a huge whale, Moby Dick. The whale caused the loss of Ahab's leg years before, leaving Ahab to stomp the boards of his ship on a peg leg. Ahab is so crazed by his desire to kill the whale, that he is prepared to sacrifice everything, including his life, the lives of his crew members, and even his ship to find and destroy his nemesis, Moby Dick.

Doctor at Large

Doctor at Large

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1957-04-05

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

98 min

IMDB Ratings:

(530 Reviews)

Director:

Ralph Thomas

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Richard Gordon (novel)

Nicholas Phipps (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Dr. Sparrow graduates and sets out into the world. Hilarious internships with a miserly doctor and his young wife, a country doctor paid in kind not cash, and a quack specializing in rich neurotic women. He applies for a surgery position at a hospital, insults the senior surgeon, then rescues one of the hospital's governors and finally gets his place on the staff.

Orders to Kill

Orders to Kill

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1958-07-25

Languages:

English, French, German

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

93 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (183 Reviews)

Director:

Anthony Asquith

Genres:

DramaWar

Cast:

Writer:

Paul Dehn

Donald Downes (novel)

George St. George

Fullplot:

American agent faces an engrossing moral dilemma when he is parachuted into France to eliminate a suspected traitor in the French Resistance.

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