Cast: Robert Shaw

Direction George Roy Hill

Cast Robert Redford · Paul Newman · Robert Shaw · Charles Durning

Synopsis The Sting (1973) follows two grifters, Johnny Hooker and Henry Gondorff, who team up to con a ruthless crime boss, Doyle Lonnegan, seeking revenge for the murder of a mutual friend. Set in 1930s Chicago, the duo devises an elaborate...

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Paul Scofield · Wendy Hiller · Leo McKern · Robert Shaw

Synopsis A Man for All Seasons (1966) tells the story of Sir Thomas More, a devout Catholic and respected statesman in 16th-century England. When King Henry VIII seeks to divorce his wife and break from the Catholic Church, More refuses to...

Direction Charles Crichton

Cast Alec Guinness · Stanley Holloway · Sid James · Alfie Bass

Synopsis Henry Holland (Alec Guinness) is a shy retiring man who dreams of being rich and living the good life. Faithfully, for 20 years, he has worked as a bank transfer agent for the delivery of gold bullion. One day he...

Direction Laurent Bouzereau

Cast Steven Spielberg · Joe Alves · Susan Backlinie · Peter Benchley

Synopsis Excellent and very detailed documentary on the making of a classic. Filled with appealing trivia, exhaustive interviews with cast and crew members, and never before seen footage.

Direction Steven Spielberg

Cast Roy Scheider · Robert Shaw · Richard Dreyfuss · Lorraine Gary

Synopsis In Jaws (1975), a small coastal town is terrorized by a massive great white shark attacking swimmers during the busy summer season. The local police chief, a marine biologist, and a seasoned shark hunter team up to hunt the predator....

Direction Joseph Sargent

Cast Walter Matthau · Robert Shaw · Martin Balsam · Hector Elizondo

Synopsis Four armed men hijack a New York City subway train and demand 1 million dollars - which must be delivered in 1 hour - for the train and the lives of the passengers held hostage. Lt. Zachary Garber of the...

Direction Richard Lester

Cast Sean Connery · Audrey Hepburn · Robert Shaw · Richard Harris

Synopsis Robin and Marian (1976) tells the poignant tale of an aging Robin Hood, returning to England after years of absence. Reunited with his beloved Marian, now a nun, he finds a world changed by time and politics. King Richard's death...

Direction Clive Donner

Cast Alan Bates · Donald Pleasence · Robert Shaw

Synopsis Aston (Robert Shaw), a quiet, reserved man, lives alone in a top-floor cluttered room of a small abandoned house in a poor London district. He befriends and takes in Mac Davies (Donald Pleasence), an old derelict who has been fired...

Direction Terence Young

Cast Sean Connery · Robert Shaw · Daniela Bianchi · Lotte Lenya

Synopsis In From Russia With Love (1963), British secret agent James Bond is sent to Istanbul to retrieve a coveted Soviet encryption device, the Lektor, offered by a defecting Russian clerk, Tatiana. Unbeknownst to Bond, the mission is a trap orchestrated...

Direction Alan Bridges

Cast Robert Shaw · Sarah Miles · Peter Egan · Elizabeth Sellars

Synopsis This is a thoughtful film that lays bare the iniquities of the so-called upper class and those who work for them; the haves and have-nots. Robert Shaw does a creditable job in his role as the obliging, correct chauffeur, Steven...

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Richard Todd · Michael Redgrave · Ursula Jeans · Basil Sydney

Synopsis The British are desperate to shorten the length of WW2 and propose a daring raid to smash Germany's industrial heart. At first the objective looks impossible until a British scientist invents an ingenious weapon capable of destroying the planned target.

Direction Guy Hamilton

Cast Harry Andrews · Michael Caine · Trevor Howard · Curd Jürgens

Synopsis There's something about this film that's so irresistible, despite its grandiose manipulation. Maybe because it recounts the greatest air battle in history, achieving the greatest aerial battle in film history. Maybe because it has such a terrific cast (Harry Andrews,...

Direction Ken Annakin

Cast Henry Fonda · Robert Ryan · Robert Shaw · Dana Andrews

Synopsis This World War II spectacular tells the story of the tank battles of December, 1944, in which the Nazi Panzer forces staged a massive last-ditch offensive on the Belgian front. An action-packed drama about the battle that brought World War...

Direction Georgia Manukas

Cast Richard Dreyfuss · Steven Spielberg · Sid Sheinberg · Alison Bailes

Synopsis Steven Spielberg takes us behind the cameras for the making of a classic movie. Jaws stunned the world when it hit the screens in 1975, breaking all existing box office records and grossing $470 million dollars worldwide. Terror gripped the...

Direction Gordon Hessler

Cast John Phillip Law · Caroline Munro · Tom Baker · Douglas Wilmer

Synopsis Sinbad and his crew intercept a homunculus carrying a golden tablet. Koura, the creator of the homunculus and practitioner of evil magic, wants the tablet back and pursues Sinbad. Meanwhile Sinbad meets the Vizier who has another part of the...

Direction Lance Comfort

Cast John Gregson · Robert Shaw · Alec Clunes · Alan Wheatley

Synopsis It's a race against time for the police when they have to find a kidnapped boy imprisoned with a time bomb, after his abductor dies without revealing the child's whereabouts.

Direction William Friedkin

Cast Robert Shaw · Patrick Magee · Dandy Nichols · Sydney Tafler

Synopsis Stanley is a british lodger who is visited by two unexpected guests, menacing and mysterious strangers, Goldberg and McCann. They offer to host Stanley's birthday party after Stanley's landlady tells them that it is Stanley's birthday, although it is really...

Direction John Frankenheimer

Cast Robert Shaw · Bruce Dern · Marthe Keller · Fritz Weaver

Synopsis An Isreali anti-terrorist agent must stop a disgruntled Vietnam vet cooperating in a plot to commit a terrorist plot at the Super Bowl.

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Sterling Hayden · Ben Gazzara · Steve Lawrence · Robert Shaw

Synopsis Industrial tycoon Daniel Grudge has never recovered from the loss of his 22-year-old son Marley, killed in action during Christmas Eve of 1944. The embittered Grudge has only scorn for any American involvement in international affairs. But then the Ghost...

Direction Gregory Ratoff

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Warner Baxter · Susan Hayward · Fay Wray

Synopsis Emilie has been hired to care for the four sons of wealthy Adam Stoddard and his wife, Molly. After Molly dies, Adam and the boys grow to depend on Emilie even more. At the same time, Emilie falls in love...