23 thoughts on “Stewart Granger Movies”

1. Stewart Granger finally makes it to UMR’s extensive index page. A British favorite of my dads going way back. A fan of swashbucklers he would often mention Scaramouche, The Prisoner of Zenda etc

   I’ve seen 15 of the 27 films on the chart, probably more back in my youth watching TV with my parents. My favorites include – The Wild Geese, The Last Hunt, Caesar and Cleopatra, North to Alaska, King Solomon’s Mines, The Prisoner of Zenda and Scaramouche.

   I’m surprised Bob didn’t mention Stewart Granger’s real name – James Stewart – in the biographies I’ve read his friends and colleagues would refer to him as Jimmy.

   Looking at the charts – King Solomon’s Mines was a huge hit for ‘Jimmy’ and also tops the UMR chart. Scaramouche tops the critics chart and features one of the longest sword fights on film.

   Good stuff Bruce. Vote Up!

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   1. Hey Steve….thanks for the feedback on our Stewart Granger page. Tally count…Dan the man with 25, Flora in second with 16, you in third with 15 and me seating at a low total of 4. My four seen are all on your favorites list…I would say North To Alaska and Scaramouche would be my favorite as well. Good trivia on his name being James Stewart…I had not noticed that while putting this page together. Good stuff as always.

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2. I have seen 16 Stewart Granger movies.

   The HIGHEST ranked movie I have seen is Salome.

   The highest ranked movie I have NOT seen is King Solomon’s Mines.

   The LOWEST ranked movie I have seen is The Light Touch.

   Favourite Stewart Granger Movies;

   Salome
   Scaramouche
   Caesar and Cleopatra
   The Prisoner of Zenda
   The Wild North
   Young Bess
   All the Brothers Were Valiant
   The Little Hut

   Other Stewart Granger Movies I Have Seen:

   Bhowani Junction
   Moonfleet
   Green Fire
   Beau Brummell
   Captain Boycott
   Gun Glory
   Soldiers Three
   The Light Touch

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   1. Hey Flora. So I was thinking….I have not done a “good” classic star lately…Flora is probably waiting for it….lol. So I finally decided to release the information we had on Mr. Granger. It is far from complete….but 27 movies is a good sample of his movies. Tally count: Dan with 25, you with 16 and me at a hide my face 4 movies seen. Scaramouche is the only one of your favorites that I have seen. And I have not seen a single on of your “others”. Somewhat surprised you have not seen North To Alaska…that is a fun movie to watch. Good stuff as always.

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3. I have seen 25 of the 27 titles listed. The highest ranked I have not seen is So This is London.

   Stewart Granger fell off the Oracle list from the last countdown, which was Wikipedia stats, so he has no excuse. These are the actors on the 2020 list he appeared with.

   1 CHRISTOPHER LEE Saraband (1948)
   54 ROGER MOORE Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
   54 ROGER MOORE The Wild Geese (1978)
   55 JOHN MILLS Waterloo Road (1945)
   93 PETER USTINOV Beau Brummell (1954)
   98 DAVID NIVEN Soldiers Three (1951)
   98 DAVID NIVEN The Little Hut (1957)
   107 MICKEY ROONEY The Secret Invasion (1964)
   108 JAMES MASON Fanny by Gaslight (1944)
   108 JAMES MASON Secret Mission (1942)
   108 JAMES MASON The Man in Grey (1943)
   108 JAMES MASON The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
   117 RICHARD HARRIS The Wild Geese (1978)
   128 ROBERT MORLEY Beau Brummell (1954)
   128 ROBERT MORLEY The Trygon Factor (1966)
   182 FRANK FINLAY The Wild Geese (1978)
   190 HERBERT LOM Secret Mission (1942)
   201 KLAUS KINSKI Target for Killing (1966)
   205 MICHAEL GOUGH Blanche Fury (1948)
   205 MICHAEL GOUGH Saraband (1948)
   207 JEFF COREY The Wild Geese (1978)
   262 KEENAN WYNN All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953)
   265 HENRY SILVA The Secret Invasion (1964)
   284 WALTER GOTELL Secret Mission (1942)
   294 RICHARD BURTON The Wild Geese (1978)
   313 AVA GARDNER Bhowani Junction (1956)
   313 AVA GARDNER The Little Hut (1957)
   344 JOHN WAYNE North to Alaska (1960)
   398 MEL FERRER Scaramouche (1952)
   431 ANOUK AIMEE Sodom and Gomorrah (1962)
   467 JOHN WOOD Salome (1953)
   496 VIVECA LINDFORS Moonfleet (1955)
   514 ADOLFO CELI Target for Killing (1966)
   534 CURT JURGENS Target for Killing (1966)
   547 ALLAN CUTHBERTSON THE TRYGON FACTOR (1966)
   562 WILFRID HYDE-WHITE Adam and Evelyne (1949)
   564 CYRIL CUSACK Soldiers Three (1951)
   565 MICHAEL MEDWIN Woman Hater (1948)
   567 MAURICE DENHAM Blanche Fury (1948)
   567 MAURICE DENHAM Captain Boycott (1947)
   612 DESMOND LLEWELYN Adam and Evelyne (1949)
   628 GEORGE SANDERS Moonfleet (1955)
   628 GEORGE SANDERS SO THIS IS LONDON (1939)
   628 GEORGE SANDERS The Light Touch (1952)
   628 GEORGE SANDERS The Whole Truth (1958)
   643 JAMES WHITMORE All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953)
   660 LEE MARVIN Gun Fury (1953)
   703 ROLAND CULVER Secret Mission (1942)
   707 RAF VALLONE The Secret Invasion (1964)
   713 MARNE MAITLAND Bhowani Junction (1956)
   716 KENNETH GRIFFITH THE WILD GEESE (1978)
   727 ROBERT RYAN The Crooked Road (1965)
   749 KATHLEEN FREEMAN North to Alaska (1960)
   749 KATHLEEN FREEMAN The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
   779 ELIZABETH TAYLOR Beau Brummell (1954)
   780 JOHN DEHNER Scaramouche (1952)
   797 ANTHONY QUAYLE Saraband (1948)
   807 PERCY HERBERT The Wild Geese (1978)
   828 JACK ELAM Moonfleet (1955)
   842 MARIANNE STONE Adam and Evelyne (1949)
   846 HARDY KRUGER The Wild Geese (1978)
   860 MIKE MAZURKI The Light Touch (1952)
   862 JACK WATSON THE WILD GEESE (1978)
   882 ANTON DIFFRING Convoy (1940)
   895 JOHN CRAWFORD Salome (1953)
   895 JOHN CRAWFORD Scaramouche (1952)
   907 WALTER PIDGEON Soldiers Three (1951)
   934 RICHARD ANDERSON Scaramouche (1952)
   957 BERNARD LEE The Secret Partner (1961)

   Stewart appeared with only 11 Oscar winners.

   CHARLES LAUGHTON Salome (1953)
   CHARLES LAUGHTON Young Bess (1953)
   DAVID NIVEN Soldiers Three (1951)
   DAVID NIVEN The Little Hut (1957)
   DONNA REED The Whole Truth (1958)
   ELIZABETH TAYLOR Beau Brummell (1954)
   GEORGE SANDERS Moonfleet (1955)
   GEORGE SANDERS SO THIS IS LONDON (1939)
   GEORGE SANDERS The Light Touch (1952)
   GEORGE SANDERS The Whole Truth (1958)
   GRACE KELLY Green Fire (1954)
   JOHN MILLS Waterloo Road (1945)
   JOHN WAYNE North to Alaska (1960)
   PETER USTINOV Beau Brummell (1954)
   ROBERT DONAT Captain Boycott (1947)
   VIVIEN LEIGH Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)

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   1. Hey Dan
      1. As always thanks for putting together these Granger movie trivia lists.
      2. Tally count: Dan 25, Flora 16 and me with a low total of 4.
      3. I am thinking I need to see more of his movies…because I really liked 2 of the ones I have seen….North To Alaska and Scaramouche.
      4. I could not believe how good Scaramouche was….probably the greatest sword fight scenes of all-time!
      5. Looks like George Sanders and James Mason are tied for the title of most frequent Oracle co-stars…with 4 movies.
      6. His three movies with Mason in the 1940s are some of the ones I regret the most for not having on the page….but I have looked for years….but have nothing for USA box office.
      7. Wow only 11 Oscar winning co-stars….that is one of the lowest totals for a star that made movies for so many years.
      Great stuff as always.

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4. Thank you for finally doing a page on the legendary Stewart Granger. He had it all, a beautiful Shakespearan voice (he had done theatre in England), an athletic physique, charm, charisma, and a macho demeanor. He became famous a romantic leading man in the 1940s with most of the most beautiful English actresses, was brought to Hollywood as a swashbuckler in the 1950s, starred in European Biblical and German western films in the 1960s and 1970s, and television in the 1980s.
   His memorable films include Caesar and Cleopatra, King Solomon’s Mines, Scaramouche, The Prisoner of Zenda, Footsteps in the Fog, Harry Back and Tiger, and Sodom and Gomorrah, among many others. He was the only British actor to star in several memorable westerns: North to Alaska, Gun Glory, and the Last Hunt, a film ahead of its time focusing on the genocide of Native Americans and the buffalo.
   The love of his life was Jean Simmons and the biggest mistake both made in their lives was to separate due their constant film location travel. She fell into alcoholism and he into an unhappy man. He wrote an enriching autobiography that covered his life until the early 1960s, and sadly did not write or publish the second autobiography.
   Stewart Granger was bigger-than-life like Errol Flynn, he had wit, panache, a huge film star, and was loved by millions around the world for decades. He was irreplaceable.

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   1. Hey Frank. Great comment on Stewart Granger. I wish I could have found any box office information on his early star making British films….missing those movies is why it took so long to get this page published. The same thing can be said for his European Biblical and German western films. Good point about a British actor finding success in westerns. Usually British roles in westerns are in comic nature only. I like the comparison to Errol Flynn….I am glad he had a long lasting life. And finally…..before doing this page I was not really aware that he and Jennifer Jones were married….that is now a trivia tidbit that will stay in my head forever! Good stuff!

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5. At last! I have for years now been nudging The Work Horse for a Stewart Granger page and despaired at times so much that I had to resist writing to him [if I may borrow from Matthew 27: 46 of The Bible] “My god! my god! why has thou forsaken me?”

   As it is, its arrival now couldn’t be more-timely as I am currently doing on Stew one of my private exercises and until this new page arrived the project threatened to be half-baked.

   As Bruce says at the height of his powers Stewart cut a great romantic [often swashbuckling] figure on screen and seems to have been a great romantic in real-life too: Steve Lensman has told how hilariously Stew romanced co-star Deborah Kerr – actually in the branches of a tree of all places! – when they were making 1950s King Solomon’s Mines together.

   He was married to the lovely Jean Simmons for a while and when she was making Desiree and Guys and Dolls with Brando in 1954/55 Stewart and the screen’s Top Mumbler became friends though that didn’t stop Granger complaining that his Mumbling Pal was offered all the best DRAMATIC roles in the 1950s whilst he Stew was starved of such material!

   Indeed Stew blamed the decline of his career on his perception of the poor choice of roles offered. That is not an uncommon: Deanna Durbin when her popularity started to fade protested “I’m the highest paid star with the worst material!” Steven Seagal went after The Big Guys though blaming his decline on the FBI for wrongly linking him to underworld figures

   Certainly a close study of Bruce’s stats table above will illustrate that Stew’s Hollywood box-office heyday was in fact confined largely to the 1950s in films like Scaramouche/The Prisoner of Zenda/King Solomon’s Mines/ Salome and two with his lifelong friend Ava Gardner.

   Stew’s last 2 ‘respectable’ box office performers were in 1962: Swordsman of Siena and Sodom and Gomorrah; while the final one of his 6 movies overall to crash the Cogerson magical 100 million barrier in adjusted domestic dollars was 1960’s North to Alaska in which he played The Duke’s goldmining partner George Pratt.

   Pratt is mentioned along with the Duke’s Big Sam McCord in the hit theme song from the movie sung by Johnny Norton. When I joined the Royal Air Force in 1961 it was still doing the rounds in all the juke boxes.

   I last saw Stewart in reruns from the 1970-71 period of 24 episodes of the TV western series The Virginian in which Stew plays the big rancher for whom The Man in Black, The Virginian, works as ranch foreman. It could indeed therefore be that it was a sense of local patriotism rather than my sending the begging bowl to him that has finally prompted The Work Horse to give us a new page on Stew. Whatever! – this very welcome profile of Grangers is “Voted Up!”

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   1. Hey Bob
      1. I have been sitting on about 25 Granger movies for awhile.
      2. I kept hoping that I would unlock some of the British movies that made him famous….but at this point I am thinking it might be a long time coming for that to happen.
      3. His 1950s were very impressive…..not up to Brando and Holden regards but pretty impressive. The only one of his movies from the decade to not make the page was Harry Black and the Tiger.
      4. His contract with MGM gave him his peak movie star days in Hollywood….I will have to add in a worldwide table…as I have most of his 1950s worldwide numbers.
      5. I am sure ever star goes through the process of understanding when a career stalls….thought getting older never seems to have anything to do with it…lol.
      6. I have not seen him in The Virginian….despite leaving in Virginia…that show never played in my marker when looking at syndication.
      Good stuff as always.

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      1. HI BRUCE: Thanks for the feedback.

         The Harry Black film was called simply “Harry Black” on initial release with “and the Tiger” added-in later. Information about global and US box office has always been non-existent for some reason to the best of my own knowledge.

         However the publication Kinematograph Weekly said that it was massive at the British box office and the movie attracted 451,824 admissions in France.

         Certainly Stew’s worldwide grosses would be interesting to see especially as a compact set on the one page.

         ADDITIONAL TRIVIA: We never knew The Virginian’s real name in the TV series and whilst the other characters woudl refer to him out of his hearing as simply “The Virginian” nobody ever addressed him directly by any name at all!

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         1. Hey Bob. Thanks for the information on Harry Black. Hmmm…never seen the or even heard of the Kinematograph Weekly….I will have to check that out. I have added in a MGM 1950s Worldwide Gross table…it has 15 of his movies with adjusted gross. As always good stuff.

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            1. BRUCE

               Thanks for the feedback, and the WW table is most welcome as an exercise on global box office is my next project and YOU are my only source for stats in that matter.

               Don’t get too swollen-headed about this though as every other site with which I am familiar is absolutely hopeless for meaningful box office information.

               Anyway keep safe

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