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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.

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.

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.

The Crimson Pirate

The Crimson Pirate
7.1/10
Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball Scientist, sailing ships, naval fights, and tons of swordplay.

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.

Apache

Apache
6.3/10
Following the surrender of Geronimo, Massai, the last Apache warrior is captured and scheduled for transportation to a Florida reservation. On the way he manages to escape and heads for his homeland to win back his girl and settle down to grow crops. His pursuers have other ideas though.

The Flame and the Arrow

The Flame and the Arrow
6.8/10
Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.

Zulu Dawn

Zulu Dawn
6.6/10
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.

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