Most Popular Donald Pleasence Trailers
Total trailers found: 198
11 March 1988
Police Comissioner Datti is investigating the murder of a female doctor whose murderer seems to be a thirty-fivish year old man.
05 November 1988
Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis.
24 October 1978
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
07 February 1958
British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of Lucie Manette, but Lucie marries Charles Darnay.
13 April 1979
An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to grips with her sexuality and emotions.
11 April 1981
A vampire attacks a horror author on the street and then invites him to a nearby club as a gesture of gratitude, which turns out to be a meeting place for assorted creatures of the night.
26 October 1984
A non-stop roller coaster ride through the scariest moments of the greatest terror films of all time.
17 May 1974
A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he can't even count on the people he thought were on his side to help him, so he decides to track down the kidnappers himself.
08 August 1975
U.S geologist discovers something about Oil that proves VERY threatening to the Turkish and Arab business people.
30 October 1981
After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr.
19 December 1967
Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the property looking for trespassers or, worse, squatters.
15 November 1960
A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. One of their number is so incensed by this that he lets the maimed and jealous companion of a female colleague draw him into what, technically, could be a treasonable act.
09 April 1965
From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling.
03 July 1963
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war.
13 October 1972
There's something pretty grisly going on under London in the Tube tunnels between Holborn and Russell Square.
31 October 1973
Dr. Tremayne is an enigmatic psychiatrist running an asylum that houses four very special cases. Visited by his colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains his amazing and controversial theories as to why each of the four patients went mad.
24 August 1977
Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots.
13 July 1972
Adapted from the BBC2 serial The Six Wives of Henry VIII. 1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken a turn for the worse and he is forced to look back over his life and the many loves which had brought him his three children, only one of which was the desired male heir to secure the Tudor dynasty.
10 April 1960
Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted man.
13 June 1967
A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war.
17 December 1957
A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as ''
24 January 1957
The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself.
06 March 1979
An adventurer searches for the fabled Golden Cities of El Dorado and allies himself with a tribe of Amazon women against a murderous villain who is also after the treasure.
01 February 1978
A Montreal police inspector cracks a murder case with clues from the victim's diary.
22 December 1989
It is 1942 and the conflict between the U.S. and Germany is getting heated, U.S. Intelligence soon discovers that the Natzis are planning to capture Winston Churchill.
01 March 1961
Taking its title from Harold Macmillan's widely-reported Cape Town speech about the process of decolonisation in Africa, The Wind of Change showed the other side of the coin: the impact of colonial immigration at 'home'.
06 June 1989
A female rock band acquires an infamous composition by Niccolò Paganini that was used in satanic rituals.
15 September 1959
A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
07 February 1993
Sicilian-born Maddalena has moved to a Devonshire village in England to escape volatile sexual tempers.
12 October 1969
An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the traditional beliefs of others.
01 September 1989
A young woman goes to teach at the Ravenscroft Institute, a spooky old girls' school overrun by ants and staffed by some unusual types.
04 March 1992
Vietnam, 1954. An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, between the French army and the Vietminh.
01 January 1960
Augie comes out of prison and finds his old vice racket has been taken over by the sinister Gollar, so he dreams up a new scam.
23 May 1981
In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison where brutal prisoners roam free.
24 July 1978
A small town band makes it big, but loses track of their roots, as they get caught up into the big-time machinations of the music biz.
29 October 1976
Yeshua of Nazareth carefully plans his own crucifixion — and subsequent resurrection — to strengthen his political position against the Roman occupation of Palestine.
25 September 1993
In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. However, he is soon drawn into amorous and political intrigues.
10 June 1958
A British officer falls in love with his Japanese instructor at a military language school. They start a romance, but she is regarded as the enemy and is not accepted by his countrymen.
23 October 1987
A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister in an abandoned church, but when they open it, they inadvertently unleash a strange liquid and an evil force on all of humanity.
31 October 1975
A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If.
09 October 1985
In 15th century England, a civil war called Wars of the Roses is being fought between two rival houses who want the throne.
15 September 1961
Ernie's Uncle Gabriel has just died but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral family home with the rest of his rather eccentric relatives.
07 May 1994
As border wars break out in Camelot, the young princess Guinevere is taken to live in safety with the High Priestess L'Fei.
09 August 1955
A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her.
18 November 1976
Monroe Stahr, a successful movie producer, pursues a beautiful and elusive young woman — all the while working himself to death.
08 January 1969
Mr. Freedom, a bellowing good-ol'-boy superhero decked out in copious football padding, jets to France to cut off a Commie invasion from Switzerland.
07 October 1977
When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.
08 October 1975
Lewis Tater writes Wild West dime novels and dreams of actually becoming a cowboy. When he goes west to find his dream he finds himself in possession of the loot box of two crooks who tried to rob him.
17 June 1966
On the run and in search of help, two wounded gangsters find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.
05 August 2003
Using original interviews with director John Carpenter, stars Jamie Lee Curtis and P.J. Soles, and crew members, 'Halloween': A Cut Above the Rest unveils the production of the horror classic and how the ingenuity of Carpenter and his team, coupled with the shoestring budget of $325,000, drove the filmmakers to create one of the most influential horror films of all time.
30 April 1958
A young boy goes to desperate lengths to save the family dog when his father agrees sell it to the local butcher.
28 April 1988
Lewis Collins is back to leading mercenaries on the move in Southeast Asia. This time the cast is unusually good including Lee Van Cleef, Brett Halsey (Cop Game), Romano Puppo (Robowar), Mike Monty (Raiders of Atlantis), Bobby Rhodes (The Great Alligator), etc.
07 March 1973
Musical version of the story in which Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
14 April 1988
Hanna's War is the true story of Hanna Senesh, a Hungarian-Jewish WW2 resistance fighter, who would become Israel's "Joan of Arc".
01 December 1960
Famed concert pianist Stephen Orlac survives a plane crash, but his hands are permanently destroyed. Helpful surgeon Volcheff grafts a pair of new hands on the hapless Orlac.
09 April 1956
During the British retreat through Libya, a British officer takes shelter with a group of Arab Bedouin.
01 September 1972
Washed-up agent John Craig is given the task of proving his worth by tracking down a Russian scientist on the run.
19 December 1984
A 1985 British made-for-television film based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, which was previously adapted in 1948 for a film of the same name with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer.
21 October 1988
Michael returns to Haddonfield for Jamie Lloyd – the orphaned daughter of Laurie Strode – and her babysitter Rachel.
25 October 2010
This feature-length documentary takes a look at one of the most successful film franchises of all time as it goes behind the scenes of John Carpenter’s Halloween, the frightfest that redefined the horror genre in the late 1970s.