1. – Marius Goring, Ill Met By Moonlight, 1957. The Rank Organisation was typically stingy. ”Dirk Bogarde can’t carry this picture alone,” said director Michael Powell, “Give us Dirk, Curt Jürgens [as he was billed in English] or Yul Brynner and Stewart Granger… and we’ll give you a picture that will set the world spinning.” Or not.
2. – Rex Harrison, Cleopatra, 1963
3. – Heinz Domez, Lieb vaterland, magst ratig sein/Dear Fatherland, West Germany, 1975. After ten years trying to make the drama of an East German refugee as writer-star-director, Jürgens finally sold his rights to the Johannes Maria Simmel book for $87,000. Roland Klick made it without him.
4. – Hardy Kruger, The Wild Geese, 1978. No contest!
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