61Ted Wass, David Niven, Robert WagnerWhen legendary Inspector Clouseau (Roger Moore) goes missing, New York police officer Clifton Sleigh (Ted Wass) is enlisted to find him. But Sleigh turns out to be the only detective in the world more incompetent than Clouseau himself. Traveling to France, Sleigh bumbles his way into and out of trouble, while encountering a number of characters from Clouseau's past, including the charismatic jewel thief Charles Litton (David Niven) and his womanizing nephew, George (Robert Wagner).
62David Niven, Anna Karina, Chaim TopolBefore Winter Comes is a 1969 British film directed by J. Lee Thompson from a screenplay by Andrew Sinclair.
63David Niven, Jack Hawkins, John LaurieBonnie Prince Charlie is a 1948 British historical film depicting the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion and the role of Bonnie Prince Charlie within it. Filmed in Technicolor, it starred David Niven, Jack Hawkins and Margaret Leighton.
64The Captive City
David Niven, Martin Balsam, Ben GazzaraThe Captive City is a 1962 Italian English-language war film directed by Joseph Anthony and starring David Niven, Lea Massari and Ben Gazzara. It is based on the 1955 novel The Captive City by John Appleby.
65David Niven, Joan Caulfield, James Robertson JusticeThe Lady Says No is a 1952 American film directed by Frank Ross with sequences filmed at Fort Ord, Pebble Beach and Carmel, California.
66David Niven, John Le Mesurier, Françoise DorléacWhere the Spies Are is a 1965 MGM British comedy adventure film directed by Val Guest and featuring David Niven as Dr Jason Love, Françoise Dorléac, John Le Mesurier, Cyril Cusack and Richard Marner. It was based on the James Leasor book Passport to Oblivion. MGM intended to make a Jason Love series but the idea was shelved.
67John Cleese, David Niven, Robert VaughnThe Statue is a 1971 British film comedy starring David Niven, Robert Vaughn and Italian beauty Virna Lisi in the key roles. Monty Python's John Cleese and Graham Chapman appear an early roles as the Niven character's psychiatrist and a newsreader respectively. Niven plays a nobel-prize winning professor who suspects his wife, played by Lisi, of infidelity when she makes and unveils an 18-foot statue of him with private parts recognisably not his own. Critical and audience reception of the film was poor, though Niven was praised for Niven's efforts to sustain the film as the main character.
68Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett HortonMillionaire Michael Brandon (Gary Cooper) becomes smitten with French mademoiselle Nicole de Loiselle (Claudette Colbert) while vacationing on the Riviera. Michael asks her father, the titled but destitute Marquis de Loiselle (Edward Everett Horton), for his daughter's hand, but Nicole balks when she learns that the mercurial millionaire has already been married and divorced seven times. With the help of her platonic friend, Albert (David Niven), Nicole endeavors to change Michael's ways.
69Pierce Brosnan, Sean Connery, Woody AllenBonds Are Forever is 1983 documentary film written and directed by Ray Reese.
70David Niven, Gene Reynolds, nm0871546Thank You, Jeeves! is a comedy film starring Arthur Treacher and David Niven. Although the film bears the same title as one of P.G. Wodehouse's novels, and the two leading characters are Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, the screenplay, by Stephen Gross and Joseph Hoffman, bears no similarity to any Wodehouse novel. In a letter to his friend Guy Bolton, written many years later, Wodehouse wrote: "They didn't use a word of my story, substituting another written by some studio hack." The film was re-edited for television in 1955, and broadcast in the series TV Hour of the Stars, under the title Thank You, Mr Jeeves.
71Annabella, David Niven, Paul LukasLovely young Frenchwoman Ranie Racine (Annabella) leads a privileged existence in Paris with her adored banker father (Stewart Rome). But when her dad is murdered and the police declare it a suicide, Ranie auctions the family heirlooms, gets a job selling jewelry and travels incognito to Monaco to hunt down the killer. When she encounters charming government man Paul de Brack (David Niven), it's love at first sight -- until she suspects him of having a hand in her father's murder.
72Meena Kumari, Guru Dutt, RehmanBhootnath (Guru Dutt) arrives from the countryside to seek his fortune in Calcutta, where he gets a job as a servant in the mansion of a large family. The youngest son is a wastrel who spends all his time drinking and sleeping with prostitutes, which breaks the heart of his faithful wife, Chhoti Bahu (Meena Kumari). Bhootnath becomes infatuated with his lonely mistress and befriends her, but is saddened when he witnesses the increasingly desperate measures she takes to woo back her husband.
73Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Dorothy McGuireRoger Slade (Lloyd Nolan), his wife Leah (Dorothy McGuire) and their teenage daughter, Susan (Connie Stevens), return to California after 10 years abroad. On the journey home, Susan has an affair with an older man (Grant Williams) and becomes pregnant. The father of Susan's child dies in an accident, driving Susan to suicidal hysteria. To save her family, Leah pretends the baby is hers, but Susan has trouble maintaining the lie as two men compete for her attention.
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