Burt Lancaster was one of the best American actors of the 20th century. His performances were usually a unique blend of...
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2000
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Based on the ground-breaking Brown vs. the Board of Education case, the made-for-television Separate But Equal follows a...
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John W. Davis
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1991
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Based on a novel by Pope John Paul II, this reverent tale focuses on a pair of married Polish couples whose children meet...
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1990
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This made-for-television film Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair chronicles the true story of the 1985 hijacking of...
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Leon Klinghoffer
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1990
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Gerard Carriere
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1990
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"If you build it, he will come." That's the ethereal message that inspires Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) to...
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Dr. Graham
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1989
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Narrated by Burt Lancaster, Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs provides a comprehensive overview of the life and career of jazz...
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1989
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On the occasion of wealthy patriarch Burt Lancaster's 77th birthday, his Long Island home is invaded by well-meaning family...
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Levi Rockwell
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1988
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This German drama chronicles the lives of a family of industrialists whose lives are forever changed by Hitler and WW II. ~...
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1988
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Learn about the horrors of nuclear war through the use of interviews with Hiroshima survivors. ~ Rovi...
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1988
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1988
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Fifteen strangers who have volunteered for an experiment in isolation are forced to deal with an even larger problem in this...
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Herbert Monroe
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1987
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Harry Doyle
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1986
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This made-for-television film chronicles the life of 19th-century American showman P. T. Barnum. Using flashbacks (and flash...
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Phineas T. Barnum
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1986
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On Wings of Eagles was adapted for television from the best-selling book by Ken Follett. Inspired by fact, the story involves...
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1986
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In a weakly-limned story that starts off on one foot and then quickly jumps to another, Margot Kidder plays Margo, a stripper...
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Teschemacher
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1985
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In this collection of excerpts from seven theatrical masterworks featuring some of the greatest opera talents ever to grace...
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1985
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Burt Lancaster is eminently hissable as a tabloid publisher in the made-for-TV Scandal Sheet. The current target of...
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Harold Fallen
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1985
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A man discovers that his best friends are actually spies -- or are they? -- in this thriller based on Robert Ludlum's...
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1983
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Bill Forsyth's whimsical tale of sweet-natured corporate rapacity features standout performances by Burt Lancaster and...
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Felix Happer
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1983
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Screenwriter
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1982
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This lavish, 10-hour European miniseries plots the life and times of the famous composer Giuseppe Verdi. Filmed on-location,...
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1982
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Thirteen months and ten million dollars were lavished upon this ten-hour, four-part TV miniseries about legendary...
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1982
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The Italian La Pelle was released in English-speaking countries as The Skin. Set in the twilight of World War 2, the film is...
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Gen. Mark Clark
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1981
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This offbeat and atmospheric western is set in 1893, as a gang led by longtime outlaws Bill Doolin (Burt Lancaster) and Bill...
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Bill Doolin
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1981
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Lou
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1980
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This 1979 documentary chronicles the first 64 years in the life of Arthur Miller (b. 1915), an important 20th-century...
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1979
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This film depicts the events prior to the devastating conflict that occurred in 1879 when British soldiers were held siege...
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Col. Anthony Durnford
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1979
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Go Tell the Spartans is set in Vietnam during that period in which American troops were euphemistically termed "advisors"....
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Maj. Asa Barker
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1978
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Parapsychology. Covers ESP, kirlian photography, telekinesis and other psychic phenomena. ~ Rovi...
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1977
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In The Island of Dr. Moreau, which is based on a novella by H.G. Wells, Braddock (Michael York) is a decent young Englishman...
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Dr. Moreau
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1977
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Soured on America by his experiences as a POW in Vietnam, General Lawrence Dell (Burt Lancaster) hopes that his government...
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Lawrence Dell
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1977
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This bizarre entry into the disaster film genre concerns a group of hapless passengers aboard a transcontinental luxury train...
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MacKenzie
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1976
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Originally filmed for British television as a six-hour miniseries, Moses appeared in the U.S. in 1975 as a 2 1/2-hour...
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Moses
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1976
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Bernardo Bertolucci's 255-minute 1900 was a gargantuan undertaking, requiring the resources of three European countries and a...
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Alfredo Berlinghieri, grandfather
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1976
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The American Film Institute put together this movie of film clips from all eras of American filmmaking as a Bicentennial...
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1976
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"Truth is whatever gets the loudest applause." Debunking western myths even more than he did in McCabe and Mrs. Miller...
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1976
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Within months after the spectacular July 4, 1976 rescue of hostages from Uganda's Entebbe airport, there were two competing...
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Shimon Peres
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1976
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Ali the Fighter was made in 1975, when the Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier fight was still fresh in everyone's memory banks. Thus, a...
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1975
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An introverted American professor (Burt Lancaster) has retired to an Italian house, but finds his life interrupted when a...
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Professor
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1974
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One night after finishing his rounds as security chief at Jordan College, Quartz Willinger (Cameron Mitchell) stops by an...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Jim Slade
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1974
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If you think that Oliver Stone invented the "political paranoia" movie, take a glance at Executive Action sometime. Based on...
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Farrington
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1973
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Cross
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1973
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Joe Frazier's life and career are profiled in this exciting film. ~ Rovi...
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1972
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One of the best films by often-underrated director Robert Aldrich, this stark, brutal Western is also an effective allegory...
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McIntosh
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1972
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In Lawman, Burt Lancaster is Jered Maddox, a dedicated marshal with an inflexible adherence to upholding the law at all...
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Jered Maddox
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1971
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Adapted from an Elmore Leonard novel, Valdez is Coming stars Burt Lancaster in the title role. A scrupulously honest...
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Bob Valdez
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1971
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Airport had enough plot and enough star power in its cast for three feature films, and it only encompassed about half of the...
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Mel Bakersfeld
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1970
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Having tackled every known film subject in his long career, from musicals to murder mysteries, Sidney Lumet tries his hand at...
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1970
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This decidedly different war movie follows Maj. Abraham Falconer (Burt Lancaster), a tired, one-eyed Army officer, as he...
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Maj. Abraham Falconer
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1969
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John Frankenheimer directed this low-key drama about three men who stage a sky-diving thrill show and what happens when they...
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Mike Rettig
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1969
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1969
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John Cheever's "misery in suburbia" short stories, brief and to the point, have always proven excellent TV fodder. Director...
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Ned
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1968
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Narrated by Burt Lancaster, this video is a look back at pro football's first half century. Created by NFL Films, this...
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1968
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For his third feature outing, director Sydney Pollack helmed this comedic western starring (Burt Lancaster) as fur trapper...
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Joe Bass
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1968
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Bill Dolworth
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1966
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In The Hallelujah Trail, Lee Remick plays temperance leader Cora Templeton Massingale, who is determined to halt a shipment...
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Col. Thadeus Gearhart
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1965
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Labiche
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1964
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Adapted by Rod Serling from the best-selling novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles Waldo Bailey II, Seven Days in May was...
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Gen. James M. Scott
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1964
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Prince Fabrizio Salina
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1963
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1963
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Produced by Stanley Kramer, A Child is Waiting is set in an institution for the mentally handicapped, with many actual...
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Dr. Matthew Clark
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1963
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In this film based on a true story, Burt Lancaster plays Robert Stroud, a withdrawn prison inmate who cures a sick bird that...
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Robert Stroud
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1962
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After the end of World War II, the world gradually became aware of the full extent of the war crimes perpetrated by the Third...
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Ernst Janning
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1961
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The Young Savages is what used to be called a "thinking man's picture" about a potentially lurid subject: urban juvenile...
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Hank Bell
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1961
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Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster), a drunken, dishonest street preacher allegedly patterned on Billy Sunday, wrangles a job with...
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Elmer Gantry
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1960
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One of Hollywood's most famous and acclaimed directors, John Huston guides this western with an unerring hand -- the cast of...
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Ben Zachary
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1960
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This film version of George Bernard Shaw's satirical take on the American Revolution had a troubled production history (with...
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The Rev. Anthony Anderson
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1959
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Young (19-year-old) reggae and rhythm-and-blues singer Johnny Nash stars in this conventional coming-of-age story about a...
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Executive Producer
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1959
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Based on Terence Rattigan's play, Separate Tables is about a number of characters and their adventures at a British seaside...
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John Malcolm
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1958
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The contrasting acting styles of Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster serve to increase the already high tension level of the WW2...
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Lt. Jim Bledsoe
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1958
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Of the many filmed versions of the October 26, 1881, O.K. Corral shootout in Tombstone, Arizona, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral...
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Wyatt Earp
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1957
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Ernest Lehman drew upon his experiences as a Broadway press agent to write the devastating a clef short story "Tell Me About...
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J.J. Hunsecker
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1957
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Former circus aerialist Burt Lancaster was the logical choice to star in the Technicolor drama Trapeze. Lancaster plays a...
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Mike Ribble
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1956
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N. Richard Nash's play The Rainmaker has always attracted the most flamboyant of performers, and this 1956 film version is no...
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Bill Starbuck
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1956
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Alvaro Mangiacavallo
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1955
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Paddy Chayefsky's Oscar-winning slice-of-life drama originated as a live 1953 broadcast directed by Delbert Mann on The...
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Producer
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1955
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Produced and directed by star Burt Lancaster, The Kentuckian is a leisurely western occasionally punctuated by spurts of...
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Director, Big Eli
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1955
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Produced by Burt Lancaster's own company, Vera Cruz teams Lancaster with the venerable Gary Cooper. The story, set during the...
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Co-producer, Joe Erin
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1954
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Massai
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1954
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Captain David O'Keefe is a character based on the real-life 18th-century American who introduced modern agricultural methods...
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Capt. David O'Keefe
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1953
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The scene is Schofield Army Barracks in Honolulu, in the languid days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, where James Jones'...
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Sgt. Milton Warden
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1953
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Though it isn't obvious at first glance, Three Sailors and a Girl is the fourth screen version of the George S. Kaufman stage...
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1953
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Sgt. James O'Hearn
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1953
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Half affectionate parody and half enthusiastic tribute to the swashbuckling pirate epics of the 1930's and 40's, The Crimson...
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Capt. Vallo, The Crimson Pirate
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1952
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Doc Delaney
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1952
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Burt Lancaster stars as Jim Thorpe, the Native American sports whiz whom many consider the greatest athlete of the 20th...
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Jim Thorpe
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1951
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The old "Cain and Abel" plot device is redefined within Western terms in MGM's Vengeance Valley. Burt Lancaster stars as...
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Owen Daybright
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1951
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For his initial effort from his own Norma Productions, Burt Lancaster picked a winner in Ten Tall Men. Lancaster stars as...
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Sgt. Mike Kincaid
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1951
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Based on a true story, Mister 880 is the whimsical tale of an elderly gentleman (Edmund Gwenn) who dabbles in counterfeiting....
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Steve Buchanan
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1950
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Dardo the Arrow
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1950
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Producer Hal Wallis evidently hoped to recapture the magic of his earlier Casablanca with 1949's Rope of Sand. To that end,...
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Mike Davis
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1949
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In this film noir drama, Bill Saunders (Burt Lancaster) is a former Prisoner of War living in England whose experiences have...
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Bill Saunders
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1948
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Frankie Madison
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1948
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Chris Keller
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1948
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When Lucille Fletcher took on the challenge of expanding her classic 30-minute radio suspenser Sorry, Wrong Number into an...
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Henry Stevenson
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1948
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Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster) returns home after a few years of knocking around the country following his divorce from...
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Steve Thompson
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1948
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Desert Fury is a rarety for the 1940s, a Technicolor "film noir." Set in a Nevada gambling town, the story concerns the...
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Tom Hanson
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1947
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This story of two young hopefuls who come to Hollywood is merely a thin device to feature almost every star working for...
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1947
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Burt Lancaster had one of his first starring roles in this hard-hitting prison drama. Capt. Munsey (Hume Cronyn) is a cruel,...
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Joe Collins
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1947
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Ole "Swede" Anderson
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1946
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