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Burt Lancaster

Burt Lancaster

02/11/1913- 20/10/1994
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The Leopard

The Leopard
7.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/03/1963
  • Character: Don Fabrizio Salina
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.

Field of Dreams

Field of Dreams
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaFantasy
  • Release: 21/04/1989
  • Character: Doc "Moonlight" Graham
Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's directions don't stop -- even after the spirits of deceased ballplayers turn up to play.

The Professionals

The Professionals
7.3/10
An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.

The Train

The Train
7.8/10
  • Genre: ThrillerWar
  • Release: 24/09/1964
  • Character: Paul Labiche
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.

Criss Cross

Criss Cross
7.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/02/1949
  • Character: Steve Thompson / Narrator
Burt Lancaster plays Steve Thompson, a man who seals his dark fate when he returns to Los Angeles to find his ex-wife Anna Dundee (Yvonne DeCarlo) eager to rekindle their love against all better judgement. She encourages their affair but then quickly marries mobster Slim Dundee (Dan Duryea). To deflect suspicion of the affair, Steve Thompson leads Dundee into a daylight armored-truck robbery.

From Here to Eternity

From Here to Eternity
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomanceWar
  • Release: 28/08/1953
  • Character: 1st Sgt. Milton Warden
In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.

1900

1900
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 03/09/1976
  • Character: Alfredo Berlinghieri the Elder
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.

The Killers

The Killers
7.7/10
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

Vera Cruz

Vera Cruz
7/10
After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. The former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane meets the gunman and killer Joe Erin and his men, and together they are hired by the Emperor Maximillian and the Marquis Henri de Labordere to escort the Countess Marie Duvarre to the harbor of Vera Cruz.

Airport

Airport
6.6/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 05/03/1970
  • Character: Mel Bakersfeld
Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.

Lawman

Lawman
7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 11/03/1971
  • Character: Bannock Marshal Jared Maddox
While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death. Bannock lawman Jered Maddox later arrives there to arrest everyone involved on a charge of murder. Sabbath is run by land baron Vince Bronson, a benevolent despot, who, upon hearing of the death, offers restitution for the incident.

Local Hero

Local Hero
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 17/02/1983
  • Character: Felix Happer
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.

Sweet Smell of Success

Sweet Smell of Success
8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/07/1957
  • Character: J.J. Hunsecker
New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the method.

The Island of Dr. Moreau

The Island of Dr. Moreau
5.9/10
A ship-wrecked man floats ashore on an island in the Pacific Ocean. The island is inhabited by a scientist, Dr. Moreau, who in an experiment has turned beasts into human beings.

Brute Force

Brute Force
7.6/10
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?

Tough Guys

Tough Guys
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 03/10/1986
  • Character: Harry Doyle
Harry Doyle and Archie Lang are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been incarcerated for thirty years. After serving their time, they are released from jail and have to adjust to a new life of freedom. and soon realize that they still have the pizzazz when, picking up their prison checks at a bank, they foil a robbery attempt.

The Unforgiven

The Unforgiven
6.6/10
The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their adopted daughter was stolen from the local Kiawa tribe.

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
7.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 30/05/1957
  • Character: Marshal Wyatt Earp
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

Atlantic City

Atlantic City
7.3/10
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.

The Cassandra Crossing

The Cassandra Crossing
6.3/10
  • Genre: ActionThriller
  • Release: 18/12/1976
  • Character: Col. Stephen Mackenzie
Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off the train.

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