Sterling Hayden
21) Prince Valiant
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English
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Hal Foster's Sunday-comics saga of a young Viking prince in the service of King Arthur.
23) Johnny Guitar
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English
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"When the railroad finally comes to a frontier boomtown, so does trouble. Enterprising business woman Joan Crawford not only controls the nearby profitable gambling, she's been busy buying up enough property to make her the most powerful person in town. Arch-rival Mercedes McCambridge sets out to stop her and force her out of town. The timely arrival of Sterling Hayden as the ex-gunslinging troubadour, Johnny Guitar, temporarily thwarts McCambride's...
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English
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Epic story covering a period in U.S. history from John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859 to the summer of 1865 following President Lincoln's death. Focuses on two related families living on either side of the Mason-Dixon line who find themselves at war with each other.
25) Venom
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English
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The plot of a group of kidnappers is foiled by an escaped black mamba snake.
26) The long goodbye
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English
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It is a gloriously inspired subversion of the film noir genre with the "sun-baked Sodom" of 1970s Hollywood as its backdrop. Private eye Philip Marlowe faces the most bizarre case of his life when a friend's apparent suicide turns into a double murder involving a sexy blonde, a disturbed gangster, and a suitcase full of drug money. But as Marlowe stumbles toward the truth, he soon finds himself lost in a maze of sex and deceit only to discover that...
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English
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Description
The Godfather : Vito Corleone, the aging patriarch of an organized dynasty in postwar New York City transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant youngest son.
The Godfather, part II: The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.
The Godfather, part III/The Godfather coda, the death of Michael Corleone: Now in his...
28) The killing
Series
Criterion collection volume 575
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English
Description
"Stanley Kubrick's account of an ambitious racetrack robbery is one of Hollywood's tautest, twistiest noirs. Aided by a radically time-shuffling narrative, razor-sharp dialogue from pulp novelist Jim Thompson, and a phenomenal cast of character actors, including Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Timothy Carey, Elisha Cook Jr., and Marie Windsor, The Killing is both a jaunty thriller and a cold-blooded punch to the gut. And with its precise tracking shots...
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Criterion collection volume 821
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English
Description
"Paranoid Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper of Burpelson Air Force Base, believing that fluoridation of the American water supply is a Soviet plot to poison the U.S. populace, is able to deploy through a back door mechanism a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union without the knowledge of his superiors, including the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Buck Turgidson, and President Merkin Muffley. Only Ripper knows the code to recall the B-52 bombers...
30) El Paso
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English
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After serving in the Civil War, an ex-Confederate captain is ready for a quiet life as a lawyer in peacetime El Paso, Texas. However, with a corrupt sheriff, a drunken judge and a crooked landowner running the town, he decides to form a vigilante group to combat them.
31) The Star
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English
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Gertrude Lawrence was a musical comedy star who started out as an ambitious bit actress and moved her way up to being the toast of London and Broadway. Her success is offset by a stormy private life, which is given some additional ballast when she falls in love with an American financier. Gertrude was temperamental, sarcastic, profane and at times, self-destructive.
32) Suddenly
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Language
English
Description
In the city of Suddenly, three gangsters trap the Benson family in their own house, on the top of a hill nearby the railroad station, with the intention of killing the president of the USA.
33) 1900
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Italiano
Description
Epic story of two families in Italy traces both the rise of fascism and the conflict between the sons of the families, both born on January 1, 1900.
34) So big
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English
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"After her mother dies, Selina Peake's father takes her to Chicago, where she attends a finishing school. When her father is killed, leaving her penniless, Selina's friends learn that he was a gambler and drop her. Only Julie Hemple helps her, persuading her father, August Hemple, to get Selina a job as a schoolteacher in a small Dutch community near Chicago. There, Selina lives with a farm family, helping their adoring son Roelf with his lessons....
36) Johnny Guitar
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English
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Vienna is a saloon owner with a sordid past. Persecuted by the townspeople, Vienna must protect her life and property when a lynch mob led by her sexually repressed rival, Emma Small, attempts to frame her for a string of robberies she did not commit. Enter Johnny Guitar, a guitar-strumming ex-gunfighter, who once was, and perhaps still is, in love with Vienna.
37) Winter kills
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English
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"Nick Kegan, the son of world-famous tycoon Pa Kegan and half-brother of the late US President Timothy Kegan, who was slain by a lone assassin nineteen years earlier. But when a long-rumored 'second gunman' makes a secret deathbed confession, Nick begins to unravel a trail of suspects that includes a billionaire war-freak, a murderous mob boss, a shady nightclub owner, a Cuban kingpin, an eccentric computer expert, and a mysterious Washington madam"--Container....
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English
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Godfather: "The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son."--IMDb.com, 02/03/17.
Godfather Part II: "The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York is portrayed while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate."--IMDb.com, 02/03/17.
Godfather Part III: "In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in New York and Italy...
Series
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English
Description
Crime wave (1954 ; 74 min.): "Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter"--Amazon.com.
Decoy (1946 ; 76 min.): "A mortally wounded female gangster recounts how she and her gang revived an executed killer from the gas chamber, to try and find out where he buried a fortune in cash"--Amazon.com.