Charlton Heston
Actor
Films to Rent
- Greatest Show On Earth, The (1952)
- Dir. Cecil B. DeMille
Feat. James Stewart, Charlton Heston
- Roll up for an Oscar–winning spectacle from Hollywood's greatest showmeister. The big–top excitement features a tent–load of stars.
- Naked Jungle (1954)
- Dir. Byron Haskin
Feat. Charlton Heston, Eleanor Parker, Abraham Sofaer…
- Charlton Heston battles the Marabunta soldier ants that threaten to take over his South American jungle plantation. Eleanor Parker provides some…
- Ten Commandments, The (1956)
- Dir. Cecil B. DeMille
Feat. Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter…
- The director remakes his 1923 silent epic with improved results and Charlton Heston as Moses, who battles the odds to lead the Israelites to the…
- Big Country, The (1958)
- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston
- A big Western – where feuding families with rival patriarchs fight it out to the bitter end.
- Touch of Evil, A (1958)
- Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Zsa Zsa Gabor…
- Declaring its virtuosity right from the famous opening–shot, this late film–noir weaves a tale of murder and blackmail in a Mexican…
- Ben-Hur (1959)
- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd
- Spectacular production of the Jews plight against the Roman empire, complete with landmark chariot race, awesome sea battle and a cast of thousands…
- El Cid (1961)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Charlton Heston
- The tale of the 11th century warrior–king who drove the Moors from Spain. By dint of its fine acting and avoidance of the obvious, this epic…
- 55 Days at Peking (1963)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Charlton Heston, David Niven, Ava Gardner
- Set in the turmoil of 1900 China, during the Boxer Rebellion, this splashy Hollywood epic succeeds on the strength of its stylish visuals and…
- Greatest Story Ever Told, The (1965)
- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Max von Sydow, Dorothy McGuire, Robert Loggia…
- Not the greatest movie ever made, however one might get a kick out of spotting all the famous faces in this reverant, picturesque epic about the life…
- Agony and the Ecstasy, The (1965)
- Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento
- Hollywood portrait of Michelangelo's struggle to paint the Sistine Chapel under the patronage of belligerent Pope Julius II. Rex Harrison fares…
- Major Dundee (1965)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Dana (Jim) Hutton…
- Important homage–critique of the Western from dir. Peckinpah, with Heston playing a misanthropic prison warden who pursues a murderous Apache…
- War Lord, The (1965)
- Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Feat. Charlton Heston, Richard Boone, Rosemary Forsyth…
- Charlton Heston stars in this muscular historical adventure as an honoured knight who takes over a castle tower in the swampland of Normandy.…
- Khartoum (1966)
- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Charlton Heston…
- Lavishly mounted biopic of General Gordon's defeat by Arab tribesmen in 1833.
- Planet of the Apes (1968)
- Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Feat. Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall
- Classic sci–fi is a perfect blend of high entertainment and thought–provoking allegory.
Charlton Heston and his band of…
- Will Penny (1968)
- Dir. Tom Gries
Feat. Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence…
- An impressive, unromanticised view of an aging cowpuncher – played by Charlton Heston in possibly his finest dramatic performance – as he…
- Hawaiians, The (1970)
- Dir. Tom Gries
Feat. Charlton Heston, Tina Chen, Geraldine Chaplin…
- Brotherly relations are strained when the black sheep returns home, plantation building and pineapple stealing ensues.
Bloated sequel to HAWAII…
- Omega Man (1971)
- Dir. Boris Sagal
Feat. Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash
- Charlton Heston is the last man on earth in this passable screen version of Richard Matheson's classic novel 'I am Legend'.
- Call of the Wild (1972)
- Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Charlton Heston, Michele Mercier
- Fairly average version of Jack London's classic tale of Alaskan survivalism, with Heston traipsing the wilderness with his tough German Shepherd.…
- Soylent Green (1973)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young
- Charlton Heston reprises his brusque persona from PLANET OF THE APES for this post–nuke, sardine–jammed New York story of 2022.…
- Four Musketeers, The (1973)
- Dir. Richard Lester
Feat. Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain…
- Similarly irreverant follow–up to dir. Lester's THREE MUSKETEERS with the same cast continuing in the swashbuckling vein. Excellent cast with a…
- Airport 1975 (1974)
- Dir. Jack Smight
Feat. Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy…
- First sequel to the 'disaster' blockbuster of 1970, this places its star–cast in a disabled Boeing 747 with both pilots down and the chief…
- Earthquake (1975)
- Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, Lorne Greene…
- The earth moves for Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, Lorne Green, Richard Roundtree, Genevieve Bujold and the rest of LA in this 70s Disaster opus. Good…
- Battle of Midway (1976)
- Dir. John Smight
Feat. Henry Fonda, Charlton Heston
- A large–scale re–enactment of this decisive WWII naval battle. A huge all–star cast, scrap it out.
- Two Minute Warning (1976)
- Dir. Larry Peerce
Feat. Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Martin Balsam…
- Questionable Charlton Heston thriller set in a pro–football stadium, where a group of cops must take down a sniper in the crowd before he opens…
- Gray Lady Down (1978)
- Dir. David Greene
Feat. Charlton Heston, David Carradine, Ned Beatty
- Corny–but–entertaining disaster flick sees Charlton Heston play a nuclear submarine captain stuck with his crew on the precipice of an…
- Awakening, The (1980)
- Dir. Mike Newell
Feat. Charlton Heston, Susannah York
- Based on Bram Stoker's "The Jewel of Seven Stars", this large budget horror film fails to capitalise on a great cast and authentic Egyptian locations…
- Chiefs (TV Mini Series) (1983)
- Dir. Jerry London
Feat. Charlton Heston, Keith Carradine, Brad Davis…
- A well–regarded television series stretching across three generations of policemen in a small city in the American South, beset by changing…
- Saturday Night Live - 15th Anniversary Special (1992)
- Feat. Robin Williams, Steve Martin, Tom Hanks…
- Compilation of some of the best sketches from the first fifteen years of the US TV–show 'Saturday Night Live'. This programme was a training…
- Alaska (1996)
- Dir. Fraser Heston
Feat. Thora Birch, Vincent Kartheiser, Dirk Benedict…
- Chilly warm–fuzzies abound in this amenable children's adventure – a kind of CLIFFHANGER for kids! Bro and Sis set off in search of their…
- Hamlet (1997)
- Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Julie Christie, Jack Lemmon…
- A flash and vigorous reading of Shakespeare's tragedy of the melancholy Dane, hatched by Kenneth Branagh and a bevy of incongruous thesps.
An…
- Bowling For Columbine (2002)
- Dir. Michael Moore
Feat. Michael Moore, Charlton Heston
- Essential viewing from the dir. of ROGER AND ME, constructing another entertaining and devastating critique of the contradictions of the US of A,…