The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Drama | Western
A senator returns to a western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins.
Starring: John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien, Andy Devine
Director: John Ford
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Action | Adventure | War
During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.
Starring: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Richard Jaeckel, George Kennedy
Director: Robert Aldrich
Hangman's Knot (1952)
Romance | Western
A Confederate Major and his troops are falsely led to believe the Civil War is not over, and become wanted men after they attack a Union Army wagon train in Nevada.
Starring: Randolph Scott, Donna Reed, Claude Jarman Jr., Frank Faylen, Glenn Langan, Richard Denning, Lee Marvin
Director: Roy Huggins
Cat Ballou (1965)
Comedy | Western
A prim schoolteacher turns outlaw queen when the railroad steals her land.
Starring: Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Michael Callan, Dwayne Hickman, Nat Cole, Stubby Kaye
Director: Elliot Silverstein
Avalanche Express (1979)
Action | Thriller
When a senior Russian official, Gen. Marenkov, decides to defect to the west, CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to lead the team to get him out. Malenkov reveals that the Russians are trying to develop biological weapons. Wargrave decides that Malenkov should travel across Europe by train, on the "Atlantic Express", in an attempt to try and lure the Russians into attacking the train so that they can discover who the Russian secret agents in Europe are. During the journey they must survive terrorist attack and an avalanche, all planned by Russian spy-catcher Nikolai Bunin.
Starring: Lee Marvin, Robert Shaw, Linda Evans, Maximilian Schell, Mike Connors
Director: Mark Robson
Attack (1956)
Action | Drama | War
When Lieutenant Joe Costa learns that his men died because the commander, Captain Cooney, was too much of a coward to join the fight, Costa issues a serious warning: Don't let it happen again! But Cooney's cowardice forces Costa into a fateful choice: continue to risk the lives of his men…or take the life of the captain!
Starring: Jack Palance, Eddie Albert, Lee Marvin, Robert Strauss, Richard Jaeckel, Buddy Ebsen
Director: Robert Aldrich
Prime Cut (1972)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Marvin is an underworld enforcer sent to Kansas City to collect money from Hackman, a mysterious mobster who has no intention of paying up.
Starring: Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Gregory Walcott, Sissy Spacek
Director: Michael Ritchie
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, Michael Strong
Director: John Boorman
The Killers (1964)
Crime | Drama | Mystery
Supposedly based on the short story by Ernest Hemingway. In this film noir, two hitmen want to find out why their latest victim (a race car driver!) "just stood there and took it" when they came to shoot him. Ronald Reagan plays a rich, double-crossing bad guy. A young Angie Dickinson (looking just like Ellen Barkin) plays the femme fatale.
Starring: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Ronald Reagan, Clu Gulager, Claude Akins
Director: Don Siegel
Shout at the Devil (1976)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller | War
During World War One an English poacher, an American adventurer and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar.
Starring: Lee Marvin, Roger Moore, Barbara Parkins, Ian Holm, Karl Michael Vogler, Reinhard Kolldehoff
Director: Peter R. Hunt
The Wild One (1953)
Drama
Two rival motorcycle gangs terrorize a small town after one of their leaders is thrown in jail.
Starring: Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith, Lee Marvin, Jay C. Flippen, Peggy Maley
Narrator: Marlon Brando
Director: Laslo Benedek
Violent Saturday (1955)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.
Starring: Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Stephen McNally, Virginia Leith, Tommy Noonan, Lee Marvin
Director: Richard Fleischer
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
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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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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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
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
The Comancheros (1961)
Action | Adventure | Romance | 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, Michael Ansara
Director: Michael Curtiz
