Arthur Tovey films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 33 films on Boxlist

Known for North by Northwest, Some Like It Hot and Gone with the Wind.

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Starring Arthur Tovey

North by Northwest
1959 · Film
8.0/10 · TMDB
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
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Some Like It Hot
1959 · Film
8.2/10 · TMDB
Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise...
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Gone with the Wind
1940 · Film
8.0/10 · TMDB
The spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner is forced to use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty, following Maj. Gen. William Sherman's destructive "March to the Sea,” during the American Civil War.
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My Fair Lady
1964 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
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Young Frankenstein
1974 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of...
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a...
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The Sting
1973 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
Set in the 1930s this intricate caper deals with an ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con man who seek revenge on a vicious crime lord who murdered one of their gang.
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The Manchurian Candidate
1962 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the...
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Sweet Smell of Success
1957 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist...
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Rocky
1976 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
When world heavyweight boxing champion, Apollo Creed wants to give an unknown fighter a shot at the title as a publicity stunt, his handlers choose palooka Rocky Balboa, an uneducated collector for a Philadelphia loan shark. Rocky teams up...
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Witness for the Prosecution
1957 · Film
8.3/10 · TMDB
When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf. Sir Wilfrid, recovering from a near-fatal heart attack, is supposed to be on a diet of...
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The Killing
1956 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife...
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The Graduate
1967 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Benjamin, a recent college graduate very worried about his future, finds himself in a love triangle with an older woman and her daughter.
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Marty
1955 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood. Marty...
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Funny Girl
1968 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
The story of the life of comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, including her marriage to and eventual divorce from her second husband...
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
A widescreen, Technicolor remake by Hitchcock of his 1934 film of the same title. A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When the child is kidnapped to ensure their silence...
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Adam's Rib
1949 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
When a woman attempts to kill her uncaring husband, prosecutor Adam Bonner gets the case. Unfortunately for him his wife Amanda (who happens to be a lawyer too) decides to defend the woman in court. Amanda uses everything she can to win...
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The War of the Worlds
1953 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic...
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1953 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only...
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The Mummy
1932 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when an archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the archaeologists accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the...
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Pollyanna
1960 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.
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The Absent-Minded Professor
1961 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a hard surface. It allows for the invention of shoes that can allow jumps of amazing heights...
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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The Great Race
1965 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales...
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Around the World in Eighty Days
1956 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
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Batman
1966 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
The Dynamic Duo faces four super-villains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.
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Escape from the Planet of the Apes
1971 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.
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Pocketful of Miracles
1961 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a basket of apples, is as much a part of downtown New York as old Broadway itself. Bootlegger Dave the Dude is a sucker for her apples -- he thinks they bring him luck. But Dave and girlfriend...
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Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
1956 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Test space rockets exploding at liftoff and increased reporting of UFO sightings culminate in a direct attempt by alien survivors of a dead, extra-galactic civilization to invade Earth from impervious flying saucers, using ray-weapons of...
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The Nutty Professor
1996 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
Eddie Murphy stars as shy Dr. Sherman Klump, a kind, brilliant, 'calorifically challenged' genetic professor. When beautiful Carla Purty joins the university faculty, Sherman grows desperate to whittle his 400-pound frame down to size and...
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Pete's Dragon
1977 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Pete, a young orphan, runs away to a Maine fishing town with his best friend a lovable, sometimes invisible dragon named Elliott! When they are taken in by a kind lighthouse keeper, Nora, and her father, Elliott's prank playing lands them...
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The Robe
1953 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Marcellus is a tribune in the time of Christ. He is in charge of the group that is assigned to crucify Jesus. Drunk, he wins Jesus' homespun robe after the crucifixion. He is tormented by nightmares and delusions after the event. Hoping to...
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Who's That Girl
1987 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
An uptight New York tax lawyer gets his life turned upside down, all in a single day, when he's asked to escort a feisty and free-spirited female ex-convict whom asks him to help prove her innocence of her crime.
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