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Burt Lancaster Movies
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Genres:
Drama
Family
Fantasy
Sport
Starring:
Kevin Costner,
Amy Madigan,
Gaby Hoffmann,
Ray Liotta,
Timothy Busfield,
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Very rarely, you see a film that means one thing when your father is alive,
and another when he is dead. When I first saw this movie, my father was
still alive, we had not spoken for 8 years, and I thought, cute, but it
knows nothing about real life ! When I saw it again, he had been dead for
over a year, and I cried like a baby.I'm English, so for me the baseball element was lost,...
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Genres:
Comedy
Starring:
Burt Lancaster,
Kirk Douglas,
Charles Durning,
Alexis Smith,
Dana Carvey,
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This is one of my favourite films. I've watched it many times and what's
more my grand-daughters enjoy it too, and they don't even know the two
stars
like I do.It's funny, with a good pacey script. It has something to make you think
about - getting older, not fitting in and being a geriatric rebel. It's got
action, a bank robbery , a fist fight with some great dialogue. It's go...
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Genres:
Comedy
Drama
Starring:
Burt Lancaster,
Peter Riegert,
Fulton Mackay,
Denis Lawson,
Norman Chancer,
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I have no idea what provoked me to see this film in the theatre lo
those many years ago, but I am grateful to the serendipity which has
brought this piece of magic into my life. I am constantly amazed that a
piece of fiction (and not even a written one) could have such an impact
on my heart and soul.From the edgy humor of Happer's encounters with his analyst (I will
always cons...
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Genres:
Comedy
Crime
Thriller
Starring:
Steve Martin,
Rachel Ward,
Alan Ladd,
Carl Reiner,
Barbara Stanwyck,
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I first saw this in the theater with my dad, at the age of 13, when it
was first released - he was a huge fan of classic movies and usually
suffered through the stuff he took me to. Not this one - we were both
in hysterics, and I'd have to say I owe my huge love of classic
Hollywood (and global) cinema to this film. CITIZEN KANE it may not be
but no matter - I dug the humor...
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Genres:
Crime
Drama
Romance
Starring:
Burt Lancaster,
Susan Sarandon,
Kate Reid,
Michel Piccoli,
Hollis McLaren,
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Europeans have always delighted in introducing America to itself. (I am
thinking of de Tocqueville and Nabokov.) There is something very valuable
about seeing ourselves through the eyes of others. In Atlantic City,
assumptions about the American way of life, the American dream and the
America reality, circa 1978, are examined through the artistry of master
French film direct...
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Genres:
Action
Adventure
Drama
History
War
Starring:
Burt Lancaster,
Simon Ward,
Denholm Elliott,
Peter Vaughan,
James Faulkner,
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Released in a badly cut version in 1979 just before the resurgent
interest in Burt Lancaster for his performance in "Atlantic City and
Peter O'Toole for "Stunt Man", this fine historical epic died an
ignominious death at the box office, on the second half of a double
bill with the horror film "Silent Scream". It was originally planned by
Cy Endfield as a companion film to his 1...
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Genres:
Drama
War
Starring:
Burt Lancaster,
Craig Wasson,
Jonathan Goldsmith,
Marc Singer,
Joe Unger,
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There has been criticism of this movie as being dull and unrealistic
(probably from someone who wasn't even born before the events depicted in
the movie). Believe this: it shows things pretty much as they happened.
Lancaster was never better.
I recommend it without reservation....
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Genres:
Drama
Thriller
Action
Starring:
Sophia Loren,
Richard Harris,
Martin Sheen,
O.J. Simpson,
Lionel Stander,
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Disaster epics like "The Poseidon Adventure" and "The Towering Inferno" from
20th Century Fox led almost everyone else to try their hand at it, since,
for a time, disaster at the movies meant box office gold. This entry was
Italy's answer to the genre and, though it is far-fetched and occasionally
ridiculous, it is a thrilling and tense movie. Loren toplines as a divorcee
and...
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Genres:
Western
Starring:
Burt Lancaster,
Robert Ryan,
Lee J. Cobb,
Robert Duvall,
Sheree North,
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Director Michael Winner is a controversial figure, at least in his native
Britain, partly because of his political opinions, but chiefly on account
of
the `Death Wish' movies, which were widely seen as advocating wild-west
style vigilante justice in a modern urban setting. I was therefore
interested to learn that, before making these films, Winner was also
responsible for `...
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Genres:
Drama
Romance
War
Starring:
Burt Lancaster,
Patrick O'Neal,
Jean-Pierre Aumont,
Peter Falk,
Astrid Heeren,
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I actually saw this film on its first theater run. For a young boy, the
movie poster was exciting. I have remembered scenes for these past
thirty years, and recently saw it again, so I'm here to give a few
impressions. The plot, in short, is that a group of replacement US
soldiers led by Burt Lancaster's character is sent to hold an ancient
castle during the Battle of t...
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Genres:
Comedy
Western
Starring:
Burt Lancaster,
Shelley Winters,
Telly Savalas,
Ossie Davis,
Dabney Coleman,
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"The Scalphunters" opens with an illiterate frontier fur trapper named
Joe Bass (Burt Lancaster) refusing to trade his furs, with the Kiowa
Indians, for a runaway field slave… But at the end, he is forced at
gunpoint to do that and Bass finds himself, in one moment, the owner of
Joseph Lee (Ossie Davis), an escapee from Louisiana, formerly of the
Comanche tribe, until stol...
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Genres:
Action
Western
Starring:
Burt Lancaster,
Lee Marvin,
Robert Ryan,
Woody Strode,
Jack Palance,
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'The Professionals' is a greatly entertaining film, excitingly directed
by Richard Brooks who makes its action sequences startlingly real
allowing his stars full scope in developing their characters...There is some nice cinematography in the movie... The Mexican
countryside is a vast place, and we see the beauty of what is otherwise
miles of desert...The motion picture takes place ...
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Genres:
Thriller
War
Action
Starring:
Burt Lancaster,
Paul Scofield,
Jeanne Moreau,
Suzanne Flon,
Michel Simon,
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Genres:
Biography
Drama
Starring:
Burt Lancaster,
Karl Malden,
Thelma Ritter,
Neville Brand,
Betty Field,
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GOOD NEWS: This is a riveting film start-to-finish, which is hard to do
considering it runs over two hours. Burt Lancaster, one of the better
actors, perhaps, of all time, gives a tremendous and very memorable
performance. It's a clich...
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Genres:
Drama
History
Starring:
Spencer Tracy,
Burt Lancaster,
Richard Widmark,
Marlene Dietrich,
Maximilian Schell,
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This is a fine film by a fine director, but I can only hope that Stanley
Kramer, in committing to full length film a television story, knew at
heart
the message his movie was trying to say. Because this is truly a message
movie, for all mankind, but if the reviews I've read on this site are any
indication, the message has been lost to some degree.I've entitled my review "Revela...
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Genres:
War
Action
Drama
Starring:
Clark Gable,
Burt Lancaster,
Jack Warden,
Brad Dexter,
Don Rickles,
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After his submarine is sunk by a Japanese Akikase destroyer in the
Bongo Straits off the coast of Japan in a 1942 encounter, Commander
'Rich' Richardson (Clark Gable) is put behind a desk for a while at
Pearl Harbor... During a year, the vessel that destroyed his battleship, sinks three
other American subs that dare to enter Area Seven home of the Bungo
Straits... Richardson is...
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Genres:
Western
Starring:
Burt Lancaster,
Kirk Douglas,
Rhonda Fleming,
Jo Van Fleet,
John Ireland,
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"Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" derives from one of the most celebrated
shoot-outs in Western history in Tombstone, Arizona, on October 26,
1881... The semi-legendary confrontation had made of Wyatt Earp and Doc
Holliday, men of exceptional quality... "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" has some of the Sturges virtues, but not
all… It doesn't however disappoint when it comes to th...
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Genres:
Drama
Starring:
Burt Lancaster,
Tony Curtis,
Gina Lollobrigida,
Katy Jurado,
Thomas Gomez,
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What can we say about the big guy? He did his own stunts and this little
film with Tony "Yonder's m'fadda's castle" Curtis [n...
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Genres:
Romance
Thriller
Western
Comedy
Starring:
Burt Lancaster,
Katharine Hepburn,
Wendell Corey,
Lloyd Bridges,
Earl Holliman,
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When I was younger & first saw this movie, what caught my eye was the
stage-y production, the over-ripe acting- I was wrong.
It's funny, but being a late 30-something divorcee with my own self-esteem
issues, I now watch this movie & marvel at its depth. This is a movie about so much more than a con man, an old maid and people
stuck and unable to change. It's really about loving you...
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Genres:
Drama
Romance
Starring:
Anna Magnani,
Burt Lancaster,
Marisa Pavan,
Ben Cooper,
Virginia Grey,
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We can always count on Tennessee Williams to give us an engrossing tale of
love, lust, loss, betrayal, sexual frustration, and jealousy. Anna Magnani's
corrosive performance absolutely dominates this film, which works well in
black & white (the overheated emotions seem to leap out of the b&w more
starkly than they would out of color); you can't take your eyes off her -
it's lik...
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Genres:
Western
Starring:
Burt Lancaster,
Jean Peters,
John McIntire,
Charles Bronson,
John Dehner,
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It was only in his third film, "Apache," that Aldrich's assured grasp
of genre and liberal sensibilities came to the fore in a sympathetic
but never maudlin portrait of an Indian alienated from both white
America and his own kind...Based upon the Novel "Bronco Apache" by Paul I. Wellman, the film
relates the story of the last Apache warrior Massai following
Geronimo's surrender...
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Genres:
Action
Adventure
Comedy
Starring:
Burt Lancaster,
Nick Cravat,
Eva Bartok,
Torin Thatcher,
James Hayter,
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It's doubtful whether any pirate ever looked like Lancaster, rigged out
in a succession of exaggeratedly modish outfits and bleached-blond
hair... He is the 18th-century pirate swashbuckler to end all
swashbucklers!With his mute, but athletic side-kick friend Nick Cravat, Lancaster
leads an island's people in rebellion against the tyrant Baron Gruda...
His damsel is Eva Bartok,...
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Genres:
Western
Starring:
Burt Lancaster,
Robert Walker,
Joanne Dru,
Sally Forrest,
John Ireland,
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Robert Walker is a filthy villain, cast as a cattle baron's worthless
son... Despite the presence of an attractive wife, the young boy favors
an illegitimate son by a local waitress, then changes the blame upon
his step-brother...As the ranch foreman who rallies to Walker's aid, Lancaster makes a
strongly convincing hero...Joanne Dru played leads in a variety of films of the 40s an...
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Genres:
Adventure
Starring:
Burt Lancaster,
Paul Henreid,
Claude Rains,
Peter Lorre,
Corinne Calvet,
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I have watched this movie twice and have been waiting for a DVD to be
released for quite a while. You would think a film with Burt Lancaster,
Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre and Sam Jaffe would get some
attention but, I don't believe this was ever available on VHS, either.
Puzzling.It's a good film and worth watching. The first time I saw this it
reminded me a bit of Ca...
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Genres:
Adventure
Starring:
Burt Lancaster,
Paul Henreid,
Claude Rains,
Peter Lorre,
Corinne Calvet,
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I have watched this movie twice and have been waiting for a DVD to be
released for quite a while. You would think a film with Burt Lancaster,
Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre and Sam Jaffe would get some
attention but, I don't believe this was ever available on VHS, either.
Puzzling.It's a good film and worth watching. The first time I saw this it
reminded me a bit of Ca...
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Genres:
Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
Starring:
Barbara Stanwyck,
Burt Lancaster,
Ann Richards,
Wendell Corey,
Harold Vermilyea,
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"Sorry Wrong Number" lacked the humor and humanity of Hitchcock's 'Rear
Window,' but was more relentlessly frightening, and, like "Rear
Window," it exerted its grip because of the helplessness of the
principal character, confined to one room…Barbara Stanwyck played, with terrifying conviction, a wealthy,
neurotic, partly paralyzed, bedridden woman, alone at night in her New
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