List of the best Peter Van Eyck movies: The Snorkel(1958), Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard(1964), The Rest Is Silence(1959), Strange Confession(1944), High Season for Spies(1966), Tarzan's Hidden Jungle(1955), The Wages of Fear(1953), The Spy Who Came in From the Cold(1966), Run for the Sun(1956), Jump Into Hell(1955), Five Graves to Cairo(1943), Shalako(1968) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1958
92 Minutes
Paul Decker
husband wife police detective stepdaughter guardian murderer tense suspenseful italy house crime scene murder obsession marital problems investigation crime rivalry discovery pursuit 1950s
Although the police have termed her mother's death a suicide, a teenage girl believes her step-father murdered her.
Sci-Fi
West Germany
1964
90 Minutes
Major Bill Tern
Peter Van Eyck Klaus Kinski Sabine Bethmann
The spirit of the evil Dr. Mabuse takes over the body of a famous professor. The professor/Dr. Mabuse then begins a new crime wave that terrorizes the city.
Crime, Drama
West Germany
1959
106 Minutes
Paul Claudius
Hardy Kruger Peter Van Eyck Ingrid Andree Adelheid Seeck Rudolf Forster Boy Gobert Rainer Penkert Heinz Drache Charles Régnier Siegfried Schürenberg Richard Allan
professor mother uncle industrialist father bleak tense brooding germany factory murder family suspicion postwar germany remarriage investigation quest revenge 1950s
An interpretation of Hamlet finds the heir Claudius Steel Works struggling with his mother's to uncle Van Eyk in a sterile industrial post-WW2 West Germany.
Drama
USA
1944
95 Minutes
Hafner
In World War 2 an escaped murderer who takes the identity of a dead soldier becomes a hero fighting in Africa, but his past catches him up.
Crime, Comedy, Action, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Spain|Portugal|West Germany
1966
89 Minutes
Kramer , Jack Haskins
Antonio Vilar Letícia Román Peter Van Eyck Américo Coimbra Mikaela Artur Semedo Klausjürgen Wussow Corny Collins Ricardo Rubinstein José Cardoso Ricardo Valle
professor inventor kidnapper gangster agent secret agent engaging gripping suspenseful thrilling intense lisbon, portugal kidnapping secret secret formula fighting dangerous mission adventure rivalry pursuit
A scientist discovers the formula of a particular resistant steel, and a spy ring from an enemy power sets after him to obtain it.
Adventure
1955
73 Minutes
Dr. Celliers
The ape man (Gordon Scott) stampedes two poachers posing as cameramen with a U.N. doctor (Peter Van Eyck).
Mystery & Thriller
1953
156 Minutes
Bimba
Yves Montand Charles Vanel Peter Van Eyck Vera Clouzot Folco Lulli William Tubbs Dario Moreno Jo Dest Antonio Centa Luis de Lima
driver worker tense gritty south america oil field mountain truck cantina daunting task oil exploitation death dangerous assignment rivalry quest 1950s
Four men take on the dangerous mission of driving two nitroglycerin-laden trucks through harsh terrain.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
UK
1966
112 Minutes
Hans-Dieter Mundt
Richard Burton Claire Bloom Oskar Werner Peter Van Eyck George Voskovec Sam Wanamaker Cyril Cusack Michael Hordern Bernard Lee
spy drunk intelligence officer interrogator jew communist bleak brooding gritty suspenseful tense london east berlin courtroom betrayal espionage cold war drinking sacrifice underdog
Instead of coming in from the Cold War, British agent Alec Leamas chooses to face another mission.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1956
99 Minutes
Dr. Van Anders
Richard Widmark Jane Greer Trevor Howard Peter Van Eyck Juan Garcia José Antonio Carbajal José Chávez Guillermo Calles
journalist writer nazi collaborator nazi native american hunter frightening suspenseful intense mexico jungle airplane airplane crash hunting nazis survival journalism escape love underdog
In Central America, an action-adventure novelist and a journalist for a magazine find themselves at the mercy of Nazi war criminals.
War
1955
93 Minutes
Lt. Heinrich Heldman
Jacques Sernas Kurt Kaszner Arnold Moss Peter Van Eyck Marcel Dalio Norman Dupont Larry Dobkin Patricia Blake Alberto Morin Maurice Marsac Louis Mercier
French volunteers parachute into Indochina to help defeat the enemy in a 56-day battle at Dien Bien Phu.
War
USA
1943
96 Minutes
Lt. Schwegler
Franchot Tone Anne Baxter Erich von Stroheim Akim Tamiroff Peter Van Eyck Fortunio Bonanova Konstantin Shayne Fred Nurney Miles Mander Leslie Denison Ian Keith
soldier innkeeper clerk field marshal erwin rommel tense thrilling engaging hotel desert cairo war espionage dangerous assignment world war ii adventure sacrifice pursuit 1940s
In the North African campaign a British straggler manages to pass himself off as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Rommel's headquarters. He has thoughts of assassinating Rommel but his cover may have an even better use.
Western
UK|West Germany|USA
1968
113 Minutes
Frederick Von Hallstatt
Sean Connery Brigitte Bardot Stephen Boyd Jack Hawkins Peter Van Eyck Honor Blackman Woody Strode Eric Sykes Alexander Knox Valerie French Julian Mateos
tracker lady countess aristocrat cowboy apache thrilling tense new mexico indian reservation camp wilderness hunting hostage situation survival abandonment infidelity class distinctions rescue underdog
In 1880 New Mexico, a group of European hunters runs afoul of the Apache but is aided by an ex-cavalryman turned guide.
Drama
USA
1944
80 Minutes
Heinrich Schulz
Paul Lukas K.T. Stevens Carl Esmond Mady Christians Morris Carnovsky Peter Van Eyck
art dealer partner daughter actress nazi son emotional tense germany san francisco art gallery betrayal nazism anti-semitism ambition family fall revenge transformation 1930s
US art dealer returns to his native Germany for a visit and is attracted by Nazi propaganda.
War, Drama, History
USA
1969
115 Minutes
Gen. Von Brock
George Segal Robert Vaughn Ben Gazzara Bradford Dillman E.G. Marshall Peter Van Eyck Hans Christian Blech Heinz Reincke Joachim Hansen Sonja Ziemann
army officer military officer soldier nazi gripping suspenseful germany battlefield river bridge recording studio remagen, germany war world war ii battle honor adventure rivalry quest 1940s
As the Allied armies close in, the Germans decide to blow up the last Rhine bridge, trapping their own men on the wrong side. But will it happen?
Crime, Drama
1968
102 Minutes
Walter Green
Patrick O'Neal Joan Hackett John Gielgud Herbert Lom Eric Portman Peter Van Eyck Oscar Homolka Leon Greene
An insurance sleuth (Patrick O'Neal) goes to Switzerland to learn why a shipping tycoon's (John Gielgud) ships are sinking.
Drama, War
USA
1956
107 Minutes
SS Captain
Jack Palance Eddie Albert Lee Marvin Robert Strauss Richard Jaeckel Buddy Ebsen Jon Shepodd Peter Van Eyck Jimmy Goodwin Steven Geray Jud Taylor
soldier lieutenant german troops coward captain suspenseful gripping patriotic belgium battlefield war world war ii arrogance battle of the bulge revenge escape rivalry 1940s
In 1945, an American Infantry company sets up an artillery observation post, but tensions between Captain Cooney and Lieutenant Costa run high.
Drama
1955
99 Minutes
Orson Welles Michael Redgrave Robert Arden Paola Mori Patricia Medina Akim Tamiroff Mischa Auer Katina Paxinou Jack Watling Gregoire Aslan Peter Van Eyck
wealthy man ex-convict murderer smuggler gangster daughter creative dark dense copenhagen, denmark mexico amsterdam railyard street amnesia investigation deception mystery transformation adventure
A shady financier (Orson Welles) pays a man (Robert Arden) to research his past, in order to erase it with murder.