Movies starring Joss Ackland

The Three Musketeers (1973)

105 mins Action , Adventure , Comedy

As a child I use to love a cartoon series called "Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds" and up until recently it had been the only version of Alexandre Dumas p�re's classic novel I had watched. The simple reason is that whilst...

The Little Prince (1974)

88 mins Family, Fantasy, Musical

Those who have read some of my other reviews will know two things, I enjoy musicals and I don't read many books. As such when it comes to "The Little Prince" I've never read Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novel which it is...

Penny Gold (1974)

87 mins Drama, Thriller

Penny Gold (1974) James Booth is the Detective trying to get to the bottom of a brutal murder involving a twin connected to an extremely rare and valuable stamp...

Operation: Daybreak (1975)

118 mins Adventure , Drama, War

"Operation: Daybreak" looks like your typical war movie with it being based on a real mission and with it being made in the 70s it looks like one where the focus will be on delivering action. Yet "Operation: Daybreak" took me...

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975)

100 mins Adventure , Comedy, Family

My first memory of watching "One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing" was in the early 90s as a twenty something and I was bored out of my brains. Having not bothered to watch it again I decided to revisit this Disney family movie fr...

Lady Jane (1986)

142 mins Biography, Drama

Pomp and ceremony was what I remember from learning about the Tudors when I was at school and I even remember watching a Tudor drama when I was at school. I think that may explain why as a movie reviewer I have an aversion to...

White Mischief (1987)

107 mins Crime, Drama, Romance

There are a variety of startling things about "White Mischief", there is a brief but early appearance from Hugh Grant, there is the depiction of the swinging Happy Valley set in Kenya where bed hopping and drug taking was par...

Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)

114 mins Action , Comedy, Crime, Thriller

It's no surprise that after the success of "Lethal Weapon" that they would come up with a sequel, a notoriously dodgy thing to do with so many movies sinking thanks to a sequel which just retreads the same old ground covered ...

The Hunt for Red October (1990)

134 mins Action , Adventure , Thriller

"The Hunt for Red October" is one of my go to movies, one of those movies which I will put on whenever I have suffered a few disappointing movies and in need of some good entertainment. Yet whilst that means I have watched "T...

Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (1990)

100 mins Adventure , TV Movie, War

What this means is that suddenly we are watching Ian Fleming as if he was Bond, smartly dressed, dashing, a terrible flirt and so on. But we also get other nods to the Bond movies such as a secretary at Reuters not only telli...

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)

93 mins Adventure , Comedy, Family

I once tried to introduce a friend's son to the joys of "Bill & Ted" thinking as he enjoyed daft comedies he would enjoy it, yet to my shock he hated it and thought it was boring. At that point I could have done several thing...

The Mighty Ducks (1992)

100 mins Comedy, Drama, Sport

"The Mighty Ducks" or "Champions" as it is also known is a sports movie based around pee-wee hockey and aimed at younger audiences, but strip away the pee-wee hockey and it is a formula driven sports movie. You could even say...

Incident at Victoria Falls (1992)

188 mins Adventure , Crime, Drama, TV Movie

So in the early 90s Christopher Lee, having played Sherlock Holmes briefly many years earlier, made two Sherlock Holmes mini-series which means they each end up sometimes being shown as 180 minute movies. Now Christopher Lee'...

Once Upon a Crime... (1992)

94 mins Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Movie Review - Once Upon a Crime... (1992) John Candy, Jim Belushi, Cybill Shepherd, Sean Young, Richard Lewis, Ornella Muti, Giancarlo Giannini, George Hamilton...

Nowhere to Run (1993)

94 mins Action , Drama, Romance

I don't know what it is but there is something about "Nowhere to Run" which isn't half bad, well when you compare it to other Jean-Claude Van Damme movies. Yet when you break it down the storyline has been lifted from the wes...

Mother's Boys (1994)

96 mins Drama, Thriller

Whilst her mother fell foul to a psycho with a knife in a shower, Jamie Lee Curtis gets to play the psycho in "Mother's Boys" a 90s thriller about an estranged mother hell bent on not just getting her son's back but also her ...

D3: The Mighty Ducks (1996)

104 mins Comedy, Drama, Sport

It was sort of inevitable that having given us one sequel another would follow and so in 1996 "D3: The Mighty Ducks" was released. Continuing the story of the young Ducks who first time around won the pee-wee hockey champions...

Hidden in Silence (1996)

90 mins Drama, TV Movie

Hidden in Silence (1996) Kellie Martin stars as Fusia, a young woman who helps the Jewish family she works for when they are forced in to the Ghetto...

No Good Deed (2002)

103 mins Action , Crime, Drama

Not sure what the intention was when it came to "No Good Deed" but let me describe the characters; we have Stellan Skarsg�rd as Tyrone playing things sinister, then there is Doug Hutchison giving it bleached bond psycho with ...

Icon (2005)

166 mins Action , Thriller

I was unaware that "Icon" was made as a TV mini-series having just watched it packaged as a movie, a rather long one at that, but for something which was made for TV on a much lower budget than a normal movie it's not bad. I ...

* This is purely a list of reviews on The Movie Scene featuring the name Joss Ackland as one of the principle cast members.