The best Lionel Stander’s action movies

Lionel Stander

Lionel Stander

11/01/1908- 30/11/1994
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The Transformers: The Movie

The Transformers: The Movie
7.2/10
The Autobots must stop a colossal planet-consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. At the same time, they must defend themselves against an all-out attack from the Decepticons.

1941

1941
5.8/10
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.

Guadalcanal Diary

Guadalcanal Diary
6.6/10
Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.

Caliber 9

Caliber 9
7.4/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 15/02/1972
  • Character: Americano
Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.

The Cassandra Crossing

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

The Squeeze

The Squeeze
5.2/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 25/10/1978
  • Character: Sam
A retired safe cracker is recruited by a young conman to return to the "business" for a million dollar heist.

The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight

The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
4.9/10
This is the funny story about two warring Mafia gangs in New York. The weaker gang use incredibly a lion to blackmail the opposite gang's "clients". The police succeeds to stop one of the gang, while the other remain without the Boss.

Father Jackleg

Father Jackleg
4.6/10
A con man inherits a gold mine. Knowing that his family are even bigger con artists than he is, he assumes the mine is worthless, and teams up with a partner in a scheme to unload it on some unsuspecting chumps. However, the other members of his family discover that the gold mine is actually worth a lot of money, and they set out to take it from him before he realizes what he has.

Blast of Silence

Blast of Silence
7.4/10
A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York. But a special girl from his past, and a fat gun dealer with pet rats, each gets in his way.

The Crowd Roars

The Crowd Roars
6.7/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 06/08/1938
  • Character: 'Happy' Lane
A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy does for a living.

A Boy, a Girl and a Dog

A Boy, a Girl and a Dog
6.5/10
During World War II, a young boy and girl, living with their respective families in an apartment house that had restrictions against pets, adopt a lost dog and hide it in a vacant apartment, which may have been the only vacant apartment in the United States at the time this movie was being filmed. A burglar breaks in and the apartment is damaged when the dog and crook have a tussle. This blows the dog's cover, but the kids enlist him in the K-9 Corps, and the dog distinguishes himself in the WWII Italian campaign

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