JAMES MASON'S BEST FILMS

A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.

An outcast, alcoholic Boston lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling.

A wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.

During WWII the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.

In George Cukor"s remake, fading matinee idol Norman Maine helps young singer and actress Esther Blodgett find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.

James Mason as a private detective, whose father is a Scotland Yard man, takes a case involving extortion and kidnapping. A young girl is kidnapped from a nursing home and he advises the girl"s father not to pay the ransom. After several near-misses on his life, he learns that the doctor in charge of the nursing home has been taken prisoner by the kidnappers. And then the wicket gets stiff or stuffy, or whatever wickets do.

A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old girl.

German commander Hauptmann Stransky places a squad in extreme danger after Sergeant Rolf Steiner refuses to lie for him.

A seriously-ill schoolteacher becomes dependent on a "miracle" drug that begins to affect his sanity.

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.

A year after Sheila is killed by a hit-and-run driver, her wealthy husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt mystery game. The game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.

A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.

Beautiful mother of five Jo leaves the banality of her marriage to second husband Giles to wed her passionate screenwriter lover, Jake Armitage. As her suspicion of Jake"s philandering grows, Jo"s sanity spirals.

A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four children"s lives in working-class Bolton.

Agatha Christie"s Belgian sleuth, Hercule Poirot, solves the murder of an actress at a Balkan resort.

A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.

After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter"s lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.

An Englishman vacationing in a Ruritarian kingdom is recruited to impersonate his cousin, the soon-to-be-crowned king, after the monarch is drugged and kidnapped.

A chronicle of Oscar Wilde"s libel suit against the Marquis of Queensberry and the tragic turn his life takes because of it.

An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer"s trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth"s center.

A seductive woman falls in love with a mysterious ship"s captain.

An ambitious young LA department store model gets her wish of marrying a millionaire but she eventually discovers that rich life isn"t always a happy one.

A provincial doctor"s wife"s romantic illusions about life and social status lead her to betray her naive husband, take on lovers, and run up ruinous debts.

In post-WW2 Berlin, when travel to the East was still possible, the sister of a British officer from West Berlin is abducted by Communist agents and taken into the Soviet sector where her eventual rescue is arranged by a German smuggler.

Film adaptation of Anton Chekhov"s story of life in rural Russia during the latter part of the 19th century.