There Was a Crooked Man… (1970)
Comedy | Western
A charming but totally ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison. He enlists the help of his cellmates in an escape attempt with the promise of sharing his hidden loot.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn, Warren Oates, Burgess Meredith, John Randolph
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)
Drama | Romance | Western
A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for his role in the rape and murder of the marshal's Native American wife.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones, Earl Holliman, Brian G. Hutton, Brad Dexter
Director: John Sturges
The Final Countdown (1980)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross, James Farentino, Ron O'Neal, Charles Durning
Director: Don Taylor
Seven Days in May (1964)
Drama | Thriller
United States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Martin Balsam
Director: John Frankenheimer
Tough Guys (1986)
Comedy
Two elderly gangsters are released from prison only to find they have trouble fitting in as old men who still take no guff from anyone.
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charles Durning, Alexis Smith, Dana Carvey, Darlanne Fluegel, Eli Wallach
Director: Jeff Kanew
It Runs in the Family (2003)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile.
Starring: Michael Douglas, Kirk Douglas, Rory Culkin, Cameron Douglas, Diana Douglas, Michelle Monaghan
Director: Fred Schepisi
Greedy (1994)
Comedy
Uncle Joe is ageing. He's also a millionaire. That's why his family is trying so very hard to get into his good books. They all want a piece of his empire. Unfortunately Uncle Joe isn't as stupid as his family thinks he is. He can see that his family is only nice to him because they want his money. Along comes Daniel McTeague, a struggling bowler, imported from another city by his family, to put an end to this ridiculous situation. The fight won't be easy, though, because the poor family has a little bit of competition – A beautiful nurse who takes care of Uncle Joe (and no doubt would love to take care of his bank account). Who gets all the money?
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Kirk Douglas, Nancy Travis, Olivia d'Abo, Phil Hartman, Ed Begley Jr.
Director: Jonathan Lynn
Spartacus (1960)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | War
Filmed in Technirama, this epic story chronicles one of histories greatest underdogs — Spartacus! He and other slaves are sold to an owner of a school for gladiators. Spartacus excels and is rewarded with a slave women, Varinia, for his pleasure in which he demurs. However they eventually fall for each other before a death match for a corrupt Roman senator, Marcus Crassus. After the brutal spectacle, Spartacus is enraged by the death of his friends and the loss of his love. He leads a revolt and bolts. Marching across the countryside to escape over the sea to their homelands, he is elated to find Varinia. Their quest becomes entwined with the political aspirations of Crassus and sets the fate of all three. Spartacus' saga survives the test of time and has been immortalized by this landmark film.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin
Director: Stanley Kubrick
The Arrangement (1969)
Drama
Advertising executive Eddie Anderson has success in business, comfort in marriage…and a gnawing despair he can't escape. So one morning he turns his sports car into the path of an 18-wheeler on the freeway — and toward a tumultuous future.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Faye Dunaway, Deborah Kerr, Richard Boone, Hume Cronyn, Harold Gould
Director: Elia Kazan
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Parodies of the '40s hard boiled detective genre, with a very clever conceit: weaving the plot and production design around memorable movie clips (The Killers, The Big Sleep, Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, White Heat, This Gun for Hire, Sorry, Wrong Number, Notorious). Cool Rigby Reardon tries solving an incomprehensible mystery with the assistance of Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Burt Lancaster, Fred MacMurray, Ingrid Bergman, and Ray Milland, among others.
Starring: Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Humphrey Bogart, Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Carl Reiner
Director: Carl Reiner
Out of the Past / Build My Gallows High (1947)
Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
A private eye becomes the dupe of a homicidal moll.
Starring: Rhonda Fleming, Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Dickie Moore, Richard Webb
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Ace in the Hole / The Human Interest Story (1951)
Drama | Film-Noir
A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to re-jump start his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall, Ray Teal, Frank Cady
Director: Billy Wilder
Paths of Glory (1957)
Crime | Drama | War
Safe in their picturesque chateau behind the front lines, the French General Staff passes down a direct order to Colonel Dax: take the Ant Hill at any cost. A blatant suicide mission, the attack is doomed to failure. Covering up their fatal blunder, the Generals order the arrest of three innocent soldiers, charging them with cowardice and mutiny. Dax, a lawyer in civilian life, rises to the men's defense but soon realizes that, unless he can prove that the Generals were to blame, nothing less than a miracle will save his clients from the firing squad.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready, Wayne Morris, Richard Anderson
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Once Is Not Enough (1975)
Drama | Romance
January (Deborah Raffin), daughter of movie producer Mike Wayne (Kirk Douglas), returns to New York, only to find her father married to Deidre (Alexis Smith), the fifth richest woman in the world. Jealous January resents her father and cannot accept the moral codes of this new world, finding only frustration. She gets a job with Gloss Magazine and falls in love with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Tom Colt (David Janssen), whose virile prose and celebrated fistfights turn out to be a compensation for his physical inadequacies. Her Stepmother Dee wants her to marry David Milford (George Hamilton), a wolf-about-town, who's having an affair with the reclusive retired movie star, Karla (Melina Mercouri), who in turn is carrying on a lesbian affair with Dee. Brenda Vaccaro co-stars as the man-crazy editor of the fashion magazine.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, David Janssen, George Hamilton, Melina Mercouri, Gary Conway, Brenda Vaccaro, Deborah Raffin
Director: Guy Green
In Harm's Way (1965)
Drama | War
A naval officer unjustly reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese and to his naval pilot son.
Starring: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, Paula Prentiss, Brandon De Wilde, Jill Haworth
Director: Otto Preminger
A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
Drama | Romance
A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands–but she doesn't say which one.
Starring: Jeanne Crain, Ann Sothern, Linda Darnell, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Champion (1949)
Drama | Film-Noir | Romance | Sport
Midge Kelly, hitchhiking west with lame brother Connie, is hustled unprepared into a pro boxing match. Though he's severely beaten, manager Tommy Haley finds him promising. Arrived in California, Midge and Connie find nothing but a menial job from which Midge gets relief by seducing Emma, a lovely young waitress. One shotgun marriage later, ambitious Midge falls back on the only option he knows: boxing. Seduced by cheering crowds, money, and a succession of blondes, Midge becomes more and more of a hero in public…and a heel in private.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman, Luis Van Rooten
Director: Mark Robson
Detective Story (1951)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
Jim McLeod is a hard-nosed and cynical detective. He believes in a strict interpretation of the law and doesn't believe in turning the other cheek. The current object of his zealousness is Karl Schneider, an abortionist responsible for the death of several young women. Schneider's lawyer tells the precinct lieutenant that McLeod has his own personal reasons for going after his client. It turns out that his wife was a patient before they met, although Jim knew nothing of it. His world suddenly turned upside down, McLeod is too late in re-evaluating his priorities.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell, George Macready
Director: William Wyler
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Just after the end of the American Civil War a terrifying "Sea Monster" is destroying shipping at will, and a military expedition is created to track and kill the beast before more lives are lost. Famed oceanographer Professor Arronax and his assistant Conseil are on board when they are attacked by the creature far out at sea, it races towards them with a howling shriek, glowing eyes, and "breath like a furnace," tearing open their warship and sending it to the bottom with almost all hands. Adrift on the open ocean Arronax, Conseil, and a lone sailor, Ned Land, discover the "monster" at rest, but instead of a living creature they find a fantastical vessel, the Nautilus, its dedicated crew, and its commander, the driven and enigmatic Captain Nemo… now their adventure REALLY begins!!!
Starring: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre, Robert J. Wilke, Ted de Corsia
Director: Richard Fleischer
The Way West (1967)
Adventure | Western
In 1843 a former U.S. senator leads a wagon train of settlers to Oregon, but his megalomania leads to growing dissatisfaction with his leadership.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark, Lola Albright, Sally Field
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
