Director Wolf-Eckart Bühler follows up his earlier, lengthy interview with Sterling Hayden in this three-part chronicle of...
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Book Author
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1984
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Sterling Hayden (1916-1986) is interviewed on his barge on a river in Holland by a West German documentary crew, and reveals...
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1983
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A big black mamba snake that has gotten loose in a townhouse slithers through a kidnapping plot in this film. Based on a...
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Howard Anderson
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1982
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Originally networkcast in three installments, the 8-hour Blue and the Gray is a sprawling adaptation of a story concept by...
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1982
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When the money-hungry Duke Stuyvesant (Sterling Hayden) orchestrates a phony gas shortage, chaos ensues in a small Midwestern...
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Duke Stuyvesant
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1981
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Judy Bernly (Jane Fonda), a housewife whose husband has left her for his secretary, begins her own secretarial career at a...
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Tinsworthy
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1980
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The ugly conflict between Irish and British forces in Northern Ireland provides the backdrop for this drama set in the early...
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Seamus Flaherty
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1979
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Z.K. Dawson
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1979
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Not surprisingly, this fascinating dissection of Gypsy life in America was vilified by several ethnic special-interest...
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King Zharko Stepanowicz
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1978
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Originally screened as a mini-series on the NBC television network, this epic-length feature combines the entirety of The...
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1977
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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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Leo Dalco
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1976
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The title tells all in this western. The trouble is that it is difficult to tell whether or not the film is a serious...
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1975
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1975
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Everything appears to be fine when a pair of strangers (Hayley Mills, Simon Ward) meet up and agree to travel together....
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1974
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Fly Me - If You Can Find Me was originally an episode of the weekly, 90-minute TV mystery series Banacek. Detective Banacek...
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1974
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1973
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Jon Finch stars as Jerry Cornelius, swinging London's leading scientific genius, in this screen adaptation of the acclaimed...
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Maj. Wrongway Lindbergh
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1973
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Roger Wade
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1973
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Popularly viewed as one of the best American films ever made, the multi-generational crime saga The Godfather is a touchstone...
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1972
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For most of this experimental, allegorical French movie, the story is told using a reversed color (negative) developing...
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"The Leader"
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1972
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In this French crime thriller, you can leave the mob, but the mob won't leave you. Louis (Jean Yanne) has retired to a...
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Custer
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1971
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Lepridon
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1970
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1969
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A family living on a remote island learns an escaped prisoner may be in the area. Allan (Sterling Hayden) is the professor...
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Allan
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1969
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In 1964, with the Cuban Missile Crisis fresh in viewers' minds, the Cold War at its frostiest, and the hydrogen bomb...
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Gen. Jack D. Ripper
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1964
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Charles Dickens' classic tale A Christmas Carol is revisited yet again in this made-for-television holiday drama. Told with a...
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1964
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George Hansen
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1958
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Scotty (Sterling Hayden), a charter pilot operating out of Mexico, is forced to join up with a criminal gang when his son is...
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Scotty
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1958
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Anita Ekberg amply fills the title role in the offbeat western Valerie. Clearly inspired by Rashomon, the film offers...
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John Garth
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1957
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Frontier peacekeeper Sheriff Galt (Sterling Hayden) faces a crisis of conscience in The Iron Sheriff. In the aftermath of a...
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Sheriff Galt
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1957
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This suspenseful air-borne adventure can rightfully lay claim to being the Mother of All subsequent in-flight disaster films...
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Treleaven
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1957
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Kathy Ferguson (Barbara Stanwyck) is a cynical newspaper columnist in San Francisco, handling women's advice -- by chance one...
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Bill Doyle
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1957
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Gun Battle at Monterey begins where most other westerns would end: with outlaw Turner (Sterling Hayden) double-crossed and...
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Turner
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1957
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Five Steps to Danger was adapted from thenovel The Steel Mirror by Donald Hamilton. When her scientist brother is killed in...
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John Emmett
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1957
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The Killing was director Stanley Kubrick's first major film effort -- though, like Kubrick's earlier films, it was...
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Johnny Clay
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1956
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In this convoluted thriller a manipulative woman gets entangled in her own web of deceit. The story is set in Mexico, where...
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Dave Arnold
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1956
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While John Ford and Howard Hawks received all the critical plaudits, Lesley Selander quietly went about his business...
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Clay
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1955
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One of Republic's most elaborate productions of the 1950s, The Eternal Sea is the biography of American admiral John M....
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Rear Adm. John M. Haskins
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1955
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Republic's Trucolor process is shown off to good advantage in the outdoors actioner Timberjack. Sterling Hayden and David...
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Tim Chipman
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1955
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In this western with echoes of High Noon, gunman Rick Martin (Sterling Hayden) rides into a small frontier town to warn its...
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Rick Martin
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1955
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Battle Taxi is set during the height of the Korean War. Sterling Hayden plays an officer of the Helicopter Air Rescue...
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Capt. Russ Edwards
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1955
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The Republic super-production The Last Command is a partial remake of the same studio's Man of Conquest (1939). But whereas...
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Jim Bowie
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1955
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Suddenly is the name of the small town invaded by professional assassin Frank Sinatra and his henchmen. Taking a local family...
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Tod Shaw
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1954
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One of the strangest westerns on record, Johnny Guitar has less in common with Zane Grey than it does with Sigmund Freud and...
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Johnny Guitar
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1954
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Arrow in the Dust is an intelligently assembled story of regeneration. Deserting cavalry trooper Bart Laish (Sterling Hayden)...
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Bart Laish
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1954
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Ross Hunter hadn't yet completely graduated to glossy, star-studded soap operas when he produced the taut crime meller Naked...
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Chief Joe Conroy
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1954
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Hal Foster's Sunday-comics saga of a young Viking prince in the service of King Arthur is brought to the screen in...
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Sir Gawain
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1954
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A car with two men visible in it pulls up to a Los Angeles service station at night, with a single attendant (Dub Taylor)...
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Detective Sgt. Sims
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1954
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This 1953 tear-jerker is the third film version of the Edna Ferber novel So Big. Stepping into the role previously essayed by...
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Pervus DeJong
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1953
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An outdoor adventure musical comedy, Take Me to Town features Ann Sheridan as Vermilion O'Toole, a barroom singer with a...
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Will Hall
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1953
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Walter Wanger's first production for Allied Artists, Kansas Pacific is more slick and polished than the usual budget western....
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Capt. John Nelson
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1953
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Director Leslie Selander invests the Allied Artists "special" Fighter Attack with the same energy that he'd previously...
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Steve
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1953
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Kit Gerardo
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1952
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Dan Collier
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1952
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This western stars Sterling Hayden as a man who innocently tends to the needs of a mysterious stranger. When it turns out...
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Gil Hanley
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1952
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An actress who once knew the heights of fame is forced to confronts the depths of defeat in this show business drama....
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Jim Johannson
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1952
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Tex McCloud
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1951
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Minister Sterling Hayden is able to tend to the needs of his flock, but can do nothing for his alcoholic wife. She kills...
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John Burrows
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1951
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McCabe
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1951
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The Asphalt Jungle is a brilliantly conceived and executed anatomy of a crime -- or, as director John Huston and scripter...
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Dix Handley
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1950
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Produced in garish Cinecolor, this aspiring "A" Western features John Payne as Clay Fletcher, an Eastern lawyer assigned to...
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Bert Donner
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1949
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Produced by Paramount's Pine-Thomas unit, Manhandled is a no-nonsense film noir with a well-chosen cast. Small-time hoodlum...
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Joe Cooper
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1949
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In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs to become mail pilots....
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Tad McDonald
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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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Adrian
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1941
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If Selznick could make a Gone With the Wind, reasoned Paramount Pictures in 1941, anyone can. Paramount's own spin on Scarlet...
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Norman Williams
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1941
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