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Posted on April 7, 2013 |
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The Professionals (1966)
Action | Adventure | Western
A wealthy rancher, Frank Carter (Ralph Bellamy), hires four tough gunslingers to rescue his wife (Claudia Cardinale) who is being held captive by Captain Rasa (Jack Palance), one of Pancho Villa's most desperate revolutionaries, in this dynamic and hard-hitting Western set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution of 1917. The wild West commando team consists of a dynamite expert (Burt Lancaster), an ex-revolutionary and munitions expert (Lee Marvin), a horse specialist (Robert Ryan), and a tracker (Woody Strode). On their mission to return Carter's highly prized wife, they track the Mexican revolutionaries through rough and rugged desert terrain, determined to outsmart, outshoot, and outride anyone they come across–until they meet the the charismatic Rasa and discover that Carter's seductive wife is in love with the Mexican outlaw and has no intention of returning with the band of "professionals."
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale, Woody Strode, Ralph Bellamy
Director: Richard Brooks
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Tags: Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Jack Palance, Lee Marvin, Ralph Bellamy, Richard Brooks, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode
Posted on January 13, 2013 |
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Point Blank (1967)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.
Starring: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, Carroll O'Connor, Lloyd Bochner
Director: John Boorman
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Tags: Angie Dickinson, Carroll O'Connor, John Boorman, Keenan Wynn, Lee Marvin, Lloyd Bochner
Posted on November 23, 2012 |
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Attack (1956)
Action | Drama | War
During the closing days of WWII, a National Guard Infantry Company is assigned the task of setting up artillery observation posts in a strategic area. Lieutenant Costa knows that Cooney is in command only because of 'connections' he had made state-side. Costa has serious doubts concerning Cooneys' ability to lead the group. When Cooney sends Costa and his men out, and refuses to re-enforce them, Costa swears revenge.
Starring: Jack Palance, Lee Marvin, Eddie Albert, Robert Strauss, Richard Jaeckel
Director: Robert Aldrich
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Tags: Eddie Albert, Jack Palance, Lee Marvin, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Aldrich, Robert Strauss
Posted on June 22, 2012 |
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The Delta Force (1986)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller | War
A 707 aircraft jetliner on its way from Athens to Rome and then to New York City is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists. The terrorists demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandoes led by Major McCoy and by Colonel Alexander as been called into service to eliminate all terrorists on the jetliner and who's involved in the hijacking and try to retake the plane before the terrorists kill all the hostages.
Starring: Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, Martin Balsam, Joey Bishop, Robert Forster
Director: Menahem Golan
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Tags: Chuck Norris, Joey Bishop, Lee Marvin, Martin Balsam, Menahem Golan, Robert Forster
Posted on June 16, 2012 |
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Drama | Romance | Western
Big-city lawyer Ransom heads into the Wild West outpost of Shinbone to bring local outlaw Liberty Valance to justice. En route, he is met by a posse led by Valance, who beat him within an inch of his life. Passing cowboy Tom Doniphon (John Wayne) rescues Ransom, gets him set up in Shinbone, and supports his efforts to be elected sheriff. Meanwhile, he also attempts to teach his clumsy protegé the fundamentals of gunslinging, so that Valance may at last be brought to book.
Starring: John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien
Director: John Ford
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Posted on June 3, 2012 |
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The Big Heat (1953)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
A police detective whose wife was killed by the mob teams with a scarred gangster's moll to bring down a powerful gangster.
Starring: Glenn Ford, Lee Marvin, Jocelyn Brando, Gloria Grahame
Director: Fritz Lang
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Posted on March 18, 2012 |
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Gorky Park (1983)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
An investigator on the Moscow police force relentlessly pursues the solution to a triple homicide which occurred in Moscow's Gorky Park. He finds that no one really wants him to solve the crime because it is just the tip of a complex conspiracy which involves the highest levels of the Moscow city government.
Starring: William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy, Ian Bannen, Joanna Pacula
Director: Michael Apted
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Posted on February 4, 2012 |
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Death Hunt (1981)
Action | Adventure | Crime
Canada 1931: The unsociable trapper Johnson lives for himself in the ice-cold mountains near the Yukon river. During a visit in the town he witnesses a dog-fight. He interrupts the game and buys one of the dogs – almost dead already – for $200 against the owner's will. When the owner Hasel complains to Mountie Sergeant Millen, he refuses to take action. But then the loathing breeder and his friends accuse Johnson of murder. So Millen, although sympathetic, has to try to take him under arrest – but Johnson defends his freedom in every way possible.
Starring: Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Andrew Stevens, Carl Weathers, Angie Dickinson
Director: Peter R. Hunt
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Posted on October 9, 2011 |
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The Comancheros (1961)
Action | Adventure | Western
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
Starring: John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin, Nehemiah Persoff, Lee Marvin
Director: Michael Curtiz
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Tags: Ina Balin, John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Michael Curtiz, Nehemiah Persoff, Stuart Whitman
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