John Justin
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Filmography
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Seagulls Over Sorrento
(1954)From filmmakers John and Roy Boulting comes this suspenseful tale of Royal Navy sailors risking their lives in a dangerous mission to engineer a top-secret torpedo.

The Sound Barrier
(1952)Directed by David Lean and written by Terence Rattigan, The Sound Barrier is about the men who challenged the speed of sound, told from the viewpoint of central character, Sir John Ridgefield (Ralph Richardson). The oil tycoon and aircraft constructor is determined to manufacture a supersonic jet that will travel faster than the speed of sound.

The Thief of Bagdad
(1940)A Persian King exiled from his kingdom by an evil trickster allies with a thief to take his powerful throne back and win back his true Princess.

Lisztomania
(1975)Ken Russell's erotic electrifying Rock-n-Roll movie about classicalcomposer Franz Liszt, portrayed as the world's first Rock idol. StarringRoger Daltrey, Ringo Starr, and Rick Wakeman.

Savage Messiah
(1972)A prim spinster meets a fiery young sculptor in the Paris library, and their lives change forever. Intense, tempestuous--and platonic--their relationship feeds their talent and creativity, their Savage Messiah. Director Ken Russell (Altered States, Women in Love) peels the façade from the obsessive, unconventional relationship that fosters one of the great artists of the early 20th century: Sophie Brzeska (Dorothy Tutin), who believes she will never find love, becomes the muse to Henri Gaudier (Scott Antony), the bad boy of the Paris art scene, a man twenty years her junior. They live together; he takes her name; and she inspires him to create brilliant works of art--until his heroic and needless death in World War I at the age of 24.

The Angel with the Trumpet
(1950)In the 19th century, a young Austrian woman marries into a wealthy family and witnesses the country change through the course of four decades.