Karl Malden
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When a break-in occurs at a secretive genetics institute, blind puzzle-maker Franco Arnò (Karl Malden, Patton, One-Eyed Jacks), who overheard an attempt to blackmail one of the institute’s scientists shortly before the robbery, teams up with intrepid reporter Carlo Giordani (James Franciscus, Beneath the Planet of the Apes) to crack the case. But before long the bodies begin to pile up and the two amateur sleuths find their own lives imperilled...
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“BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ,” director John Frankenheimer’s biographical drama, stars Burt Lancaster as Robert Stroud who, as the film begins, is incarcerated at Leavenworth Prison for murder, a sentence that will eventually lead him to Alcatraz. Seeing his days stretch out to life without parole for the murder of a prison guard, Stroud passes his days in solitary confinement caring for a baby sparrow, an act which eventually blossoms into caring for...
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Steve McQueen leads an all-star cast in this story of an up-and-coming young poker player out to make a name for himself when the longtime master of the game comes to town--a young poker player who will stop at nothing to become the greatest as the CINCINNATI KID. Based on the novel by Richard Jessup.
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The story takes place in Skull Creek, a 1870s Montana gold camp. Dr. Joseph Frail arrives, setting out his shingle near the camp's boom-or-bust hubbub of adventurers, ladies of fortune, mountain men and just plain decent folks. As skilled with a six-gun as with a scalpel, Frail will need both.
8) Patton
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A dramatization of the experiences of General George S. Patton during World War II.
10) The gunfighter
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Jimmy Ringo is a notorious killer and the deadliest shot in the Old West. Though his appetite for bloodletting has waned, Jimmy is forced to stay on the run by young guns determined to shoot him down. After killing an upstart in self-defense, he escapes the boy's vengeful brothers to the nearby town of Cayenna. There, he hopes to convince his estranged wife to resume their life together. With more young men gunning for him, Ringo's fate lies in the...
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Terry Malloy is a washed-up ex-prize fighter corrupted along with brother Charley at an early age by a ruthless Mob-connected union boss named Johnny Friendly, who runs the waterfront. Malloy is now an errand-boy for the union, while Charley (in return for a college education) is now a lawyer for them. Malloy assists in the killing of a longshoreman who was talking to the crime commission investigating the union. He soon meets the dead man's agonized...
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After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly at the New Orleans home of her pregnant sister Stella Kowalski and her husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money whereby he sets about discovering everything else he...
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After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly at the New Orleans home of her pregnant sister Stella Kowalski and her Stella's husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money whereby he sets about discovering everything...
14) One-eyed Jacks
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Marlon Brando's only time as a Director, Rio (Marlon Brando) also called "The Kid", his mentor Dad Longworth (Karl Malden), & a third man called Doc, rob a bank of two saddlebags of gold in Sonora, Mexico. Mexican mounted police track them down & catch them celebrating in a cantina. Doc gets killed there in a shootout; Dad & Rio manage to escape & go on the run. Many plot twists along the way.
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First shown as a school teacher placed under arrest by state troopers, the story recounts how the untrained, uneducated, yet brilliant young man, Ferdinand Waldo Demara, Jr., assumes the identity of a college professor, Trappist monk, prison warden and surgeon in the Canadian navy. The unbelievable hide-and-seek story mixes suspense with humor, as Demara attempts to outwit and outrun the FBI, the police, a priest and several girlfriends.
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Story of Bob Stroud, (Burt Lancaster) a steely two-time killer with a volatile temper who develops a growing interest & love for birds behind bars, (starting after Stroud finds an orphaned sparrow in the prison yard). Full of wonderful performances, this drama from director John Frankenheimer is rich in character detail, absorbing & rewarding. Lancaster was nominated for an Academy Award.
18) One-Eyed Jacks
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After robbing a Mexican bank, Dad Longworth takes the loot and leaves his partner Rio to be captured, but Rio escapes and searches for Dad in California.
Hollywood Classic
In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
Kid Rio, his mentor Dad Longworth, and a third man called Doc rob a bank of two saddlebags of gold in Sonora, Mexico in 1880. Mexican Rurales (mounted police)...

