Cast: James Robertson Justice

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring James Robertson Justice. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Guns of Navarone

1961 · Movie · 158 min. · United Kingdom

Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast Gregory Peck · David Niven · Richard Harris · Anthony Quinn

Synopsis During WWII, British Intelligence in the Middle East sends six men to the Aegean island of Navarone to destroy guns manned by the Germans. Consistently interesting war epic based on the Alistair MacLean novel, with a vivid cast.

7.4

25K votes

7.4

25K votes

Moby Dick

1956 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Huston

Cast Gregory Peck · Richard Basehart · Leo Genn · James Robertson Justice

Synopsis The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.

7.3

9K votes

7.3

9K votes

Captain Horatio Hornblower

1951 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Gregory Peck · Virginia Mayo · Robert Beatty · James Robertson Justice

Synopsis This swashbuckling high-seas drama, set in the early 1800s, finds its hero caught up in the shifting political tensions between Spain and England and in his own growing relationship with Lady Barbara Wellesley.

7.2

3K votes

7.2

3K votes

Pool of London

1951 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Bonar Colleano · Earl Cameron · Susan Shaw · Renée Asherson

Synopsis Two sailors, on shore leave, are caught up in a diamond smuggling racket. More complications ensue for black sailor Johnny who finds love and heartache in London docklands.

7.1

31 votes

7.1

31 votes

Anne of the Indies

1951 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast Jean Peters · Louis Jourdan · Debra Paget · Herbert Marshall

Synopsis The film begins with the sea battle where Anne's (Jean Peters) pirate ship attacks a trade ship that was on its way to Europe from the South America. As a result a treasure of great value is captured along with...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Land of the Pharaohs

1955 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Jack Hawkins · Joan Collins · Dewey Martin · Alex Minotis

Synopsis In ancient Egypt the Pharaoh Khufu (Jack Hawkins) is obsessed with acquiring gold and plans to take it all with him into the "second life". To this end he enlists the aid of Vashtar (James Robertson Justice), an architect whose...

6.9

3K votes

6.9

3K votes

Seven Thunders

1957 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Hugo Fregonese

Cast Stephen Boyd · James Robertson Justice · Tony Wright · Anna Gaylor

Synopsis Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France.

6.8

57 votes

6.8

57 votes

Tight Little Island

1949 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alexander Mackendrick

Cast Basil Radford · Catherine Lacey · Bruce Seton · Joan Greenwood

Synopsis A ship loaded with whisky is wrecked on a Scottish island. The locals attempt to conceal the haul from the Customs and Excise man.

6.7

924 votes

6.7

924 votes

Les Miserables

1952 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Michael Rennie · Debra Paget · Robert Newton · Edmund Gwenn

Synopsis After stealing a loaf a bread to feed a starving family, Jean Valjean is sentenced to ten years as a galley slave. There he meets Javert, an obsessive policeman who was himself born to convict parents. After his release, Valjean...

6.7

94 votes

6.7

94 votes

Scott of the Antarctic

1948 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Frend

Cast John Mills · Diana Churchill · Harold Warrender · Anne Firth

Synopsis Captain Scott is given the men, but not the funds, to go on a second expedition to the Antarctic. As his wife works on a bust of him, she tells him that she's "not the least jealous" that he's going...

6.5

141 votes

6.5

141 votes

Murder She Said

1961 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction George Pollock

Cast Margaret Rutherford · Arthur Kennedy · Muriel Pavlow · James Robertson Justice

Synopsis Miss Marple witnesses a man strangling a woman through the window of a passing train. However, when police cannot turn up any evidence of the homicide, they dismiss the amateur sleuth as a dotty old woman. She enlists the help...

6.4

538 votes

6.4

538 votes

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

1968 · Movie · 142 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ken Hughes

Cast Dick Van Dyke · Sally Ann Howes · Anna Quayle · Lionel Jeffries

Synopsis In the early 20th century England, eccentric Caractacus Potts works as an inventor, a job which barely supports himself, his equally eccentric father, and his two adolescent children, Jeremy and Jemima. But they're all happy. When the children beg their...

6.3

5K votes

6.3

5K votes

The Black Rose

1950 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Tyrone Power · Orson Welles · Cécile Aubry · Jack Hawkins

Synopsis Tyrone Power stars as a 13th-century English nobleman who is forced to leave England with his partner (Jack Hawkins) after leading a revolt against King Edward (Michael Reenie). As they travel through the Far East, they are picked up by...

6.1

656 votes

6.1

656 votes

Very Important Person

1961 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ken Annakin

Cast James Robertson Justice · Leslie Phillips · Stanley Baxter · Eric Sykes

Synopsis A somewhat happy-go-lucky bunch of Brits in a German POW camp find their new acerbic fellow prisoner is a key officer who must be got out at all cost.

6.1

24 votes

6.1

24 votes

Spirits of the Dead

1968 · Movie · 121 min. · France

Direction Federico Fellini · Louis Malle · Roger Vadim

Cast Jane Fonda · Alain Delon · Brigitte Bardot · Terence Stamp

Synopsis Histoires extraordinaires (1968) dubbed Spirits of the Dead for English and Tre Passi Nel Delirio for Italian, is an "omnibus" film comprising three segments. The French title Histoires extraordinaires (translated to English as Extraordinary Stories) is from the first collection...

6.0

1K votes

6.0

1K votes

Storm Over the Nile

1955 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Zoltan Korda · Terence Young

Cast Laurence Harvey · Anthony Steel · James Robertson Justice · Mary Ure

Synopsis Korda directs The Four Feathers again, not so much a remake as a re-mount: with the same director, same script and much of the same footage. Charisma-free Anthony Steel is the man given the white feather treatment for cowardice, Laurence...

6.0

245 votes

6.0

245 votes

Direction Ken Annakin

Cast Richard Todd · Joan Rice · Peter Finch · James Hayter

Synopsis Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace. On the way home his father is murdered by hench men of Prince John. Robin takes up the life of an...

5.9

50 votes

5.9

50 votes

David and Bathsheba

1951 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Gregory Peck · Susan Hayward · Raymond Massey · Kieron Moore

Synopsis Though David has all the wealth, power, wives & children inherent for the King of Israel he does not have what he craves most: the true love of a woman who loves him as a man instead of as King....

5.9

403 votes

5.9

403 votes

Campbell's Kingdom

1957 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ralph Thomas

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Stanley Baker · Michael Craig · Barbara Murray

Synopsis Adapted from the novel of the same name by Hammond Innes. Bruce Campbell (Dirk Bogarde) inherits "Campbell's Kingdom" in the Canadian Rockies on the death of his grandfather. He has been diagnosed with an unspecified terminal illness and decides to...

5.9

96 votes

5.9

96 votes

Above Us the Waves

1955 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ralph Thomas

Cast John Mills · John Gregson · Donald Sinden · James Robertson Justice

Synopsis The greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. Being anchored in a Norwegian fjord, it is impossible to attack it with any chance of success. But the navy trains a special commando to attack it, using...

5.7

116 votes

5.7

116 votes