Alistair Maclean
A list of all the movies , TV movies and TV series inspired by the books of Alistair MacLean.
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- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsDavid NivenGregory PeckAnthony QuinnA team of Allied saboteurs is assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
- DirectorPhil KarlsonRichard WidmarkStarsRichard WidmarkSonja ZiemannCharles RegnierDuring the 1956 Hungarian uprising, an American mercenary is hired to smuggle a Hungarian resistance leader out of Soviet-occupied Budapest.
- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsGeorge MaharisRichard BasehartAnne FrancisA germ that could destroy life on Earth is stolen from a biological warfare lab and the thief threatens to release it into the open, prompting a security officer to act.
- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsRock HudsonErnest BorgninePatrick McGoohanUSN nuclear sub USS Tigerfish must rush to the North Pole to rescue the staff of Drift Ice Station Zebra weather station.
- DirectorBrian G. HuttonStarsRichard BurtonClint EastwoodMary UreAllied agents stage a daring raid on a castle where the Nazis are holding American brigadier general George Carnaby prisoner, but that's not all that's really going on.
- DirectorGeoffrey ReeveStarsSven-Bertil TaubeBarbara ParkinsAlexander KnoxFollowing a triple professional hit a U.S. agent arrives in Amsterdam to investigate a heroin smuggling ring. He finds a city rife with drugs and a police force unable or unwilling to do much about it. With his incognito female fellow agent the American is soon stirring things up.
- DirectorEtienne PérierStarsAnthony HopkinsJack HawkinsRobert MorleyIn a vein similar to the James Bond movies, British Agent Philip Calvert (Sir Anthony Hopkins) is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that disappeared near the coast of Scotland.
- DirectorMichael TuchnerStarsBarry NewmanSuzy KendallJohn VernonA man is in radio contact with his family when their airplane is shot down. He wants those responsible and becomes a criminal to get a job as deep sea diver with those salvaging the plane's cargo.
- DirectorGeoffrey ReeveStarsDavid BirneyCharlotte RamplingMichael LonsdaleAmerican Neil Bowman is traveling through France when he meets British photographer Lila. They are hired by French land owner Duc de Croyter to escort a Hungarian scientist to New York. But they soon realize that the job is not a cushy number, and have to deal with a gang of kidnappers who will stop at nothing to get their hands on the scientist.
- DirectorTom GriesStarsCharles BronsonBen JohnsonRichard CrennaJohn Deakin is being transported, as a prisoner, on a train with supplies and medicine to Fort Humboldt, Nevada.
- DirectorAshley LazarusFreddie FrancisStarsRichard HarrisAnn TurkelGordon JacksonOn a cargo ship converted into a cruise-liner, First Officer John Carter foils the plan of international hijackers to use his vessel as bait for a passing U.S. Treasury ship carrying gold bullion.
- DirectorGuy HamiltonStarsHarrison FordRobert ShawEdward FoxDuring World War II, several oddly assorted military experts are teamed in a mission to raid and destroy a bridge vital to enemy strategy.
- DirectorDon SharpStarsDonald SutherlandVanessa RedgraveRichard WidmarkOn the remote Norwegian Bear Island, used as a submarine base by the Germans during World War II, U.N. scientist Larsen sends a distress signal using an emergency N.A.T.O. frequency, and is received by scientific vessel Morning Rose.
- DirectorClaudio GuzmánStarsPeter FondaMaud AdamsBilly Dee WilliamsCriminal takes hostages on the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
- DirectorSteve CarverStarsMichael DudikoffDonald PleasenceRobert VaughnIn 1965 a guide in the Amazon leads people to a lost city in search of a mad Nazi doctor.
- DirectorDavid JacksonStarsPierce BrosnanPatrick StewartAlexandra PaulA train with hostages is stolen in Bremen, Germany. It's heading south through Europe with a nuclear bomb. A UN crime-fighting task force is in charge of stopping it in cooperation with local military and police.
- DirectorGeoffrey ReeveStarsLinda HamiltonSimon MacCorkindaleUwe OchsenknechtToo many things have been going wrong in too many Formula One races. Johnny Harlow, world champion driver and apparent cause of the latest accident, decides the time has come to sort things out. And what he finds has nothing to do with cars.
- DirectorDavid JacksonStarsPierce BrosnanAlexandra PaulWilliam DevaneRembrandt's Night Watch returns to Amsterdam fake. UN agents Mike and Sabrina investigate there and in Hong Kong - stumbling on N.Korean special bombs aimed at the West's communication.
- StarsJeremy SistoJamie Thomas KingEmilie de RavinAlistair Maclean's highly charged novel is brought to life for a contemporary audience in this tense, international thriller.