Agent 38-24-36 1964  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
aka: The Ravishing Idiot
The Warm-Blooded Spy
Director: Edouard Molinaro
Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Anthony Perkins, Gregoire Aslan, Andre Luguet, Charles Millot, Helene Dieudonne, Denise Provence, Jacques Monod, Jean-Marc Tennberg, Hans Verner
Penelope (Brigitte Bardot) is a beautician working for the wife of the British security chief. Russian-born Harry (Anthony Perkins) has lost his job at the Bank of England and takes up with a Russian spy–a friend of Harry's father. Harry is also infatuated with Penelope. When Harry joins a scheme to steal British secrets, which have been faked to trap the spies, the fun begins.
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Catch-22 1970  R, 121 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Orson Welles, Martin Sheen, Jack Gilford, Buck Henry, Bob Newhart, Paula Prentiss, Anthony Perkins, Austin Pendleton, Jon Voight, Orson Welles
Based on Joseph Heller's novel, this is a good anti-war film. It is the story of a World War I bomber group whose fatalities are mounting. One member, Captain Yossarian (Alan Arkin), tries to be diagnosed as insane to escape further bombing missions.
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Crimes of Passion 1984  R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance / Thriller
Director: Ken Russell
Cast: Kathleen Turner, Anthony Perkins, John Laughlin, Annie Potts, Bruce Davison, Stephen Lee, John G. Scanlon, Gordon Hunt, Pat McNamara, Dan Gerrity, Terry Hoyos, Vince McKewin, Norman Burton, James Crittenden
Prostitute or fashion designer–Joanna Crane (Kathleen Turner) cannot seem to decide which way to go. She works as designer "Joanna" by day but at night is streetwalker "China Blue." When Bobby Grady (John Laughlin) is given the job of looking for evidence that Joanna is stealing designs, he sees her turning into China Blue at night. Unhappily married to his wife (Annie Potts), Bobby falls in love with Joanna. But, a fanatic preacher, Rev. Peter Shane (Anthony Perkins), is determined to prevent Bobby and Joanna from ever getting together.
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 Desire Under the Elms 1958 N/R, 114 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Delbert Mann
Cast: Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Burl Ives, Frank Overton, Pernell Roberts, Anne Seymour, Rebecca Welles, Jean Willes
This story, based on Eugene O'Neill's 19th-century play, is about New England farm life. It stars Sophia Loren as Anna, the ill-fated third wife of Ephraim Cabot (Burl Ives), who drives a further wedge into the already dysfunctional Cabot family.
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Edge of Sanity 1989  R, 85 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Gerard Kikoine
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Glynis Barber, Sarah Maur Thorp, David Lodge, Ben Cole, Ray Jewers, Jill Melford, Lisa Davis, Noel Coleman, Briony McRoberts
In another adaptation Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," Anthony Perkins plays the Doctor who, in this version, turns into a Jack the Ripper-like Mr. Hyde after his monkey knocks over a bottle of ether into some cocaine being used to create a new anesthetic. The resulting fumes do their thing, and Jack is on his way to rid the world of prostitutes.
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Fear Strikes Out 1957 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Mulligan
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Karl Malden, Norma Moore, Adam Williams, Perry Wilson, Edd Byrnes, Bart Burns, Bing Russell, Peter J. Votrian, Don Brodie, Richard Bull, June Jocelyn, George Pembroke, Jeffrey Sayre, Gary Vinson
Boston Red Sox outfielder Jimmy Piersall (Anthony Perkins) suffered from mental illness that led to a nervous breakdown. This is the story of how his desire to please his pugnacious father, John (Karl Malden), brought on the breakdown and how Jimmy fights to overcome adversity and return to baseball.
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Friendly Persuasion 1956  N/R, 140 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins, Phyllis Love, Marjorie Main, Richard Eyer, Robert Middleton, Walter Catlett, Richard Hale, Joel Fluellen, Peter Mark Richman, Theodore Newton, John Smith, Marjorie Main
The Civil War interferes with a Quaker farm family's peaceful existence in Indiana. Son Josh (Anthony Perkins) defies his parents' (Gary Cooper and Dorothy McGuire) beliefs and enlists on the Union side as a soldier. The film accumulated several major Oscar nominations (Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor (Anthony Perkins), Song, Writing, and Sound).
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The Glory Boys 1984 TV, 110 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Michael Ferguson
Cast: Rod Steiger, Anthony Perkins, Alfred Burke, Joanna Lumley, Aaron Harris, Gary Brown, Sheila Allen, Sallyanne Law, Michael J. Jackson, Ron Berglas, Robert Lang, Christopher Reich
Based on a novel by Gerald Seymour, this British TV miniseries tells the story of an Arab terrorist and an IRA terrorist teaming up to assassinate a famous Israeli nuclear scientist, Dr. Sokarev (Rod Steiger). But the agent, Jimmy (Anthony Perkins)–assigned to protect Sokarev–is a force to be reckoned with.
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Goodbye Again 1961 N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anatole Litvak
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Yves Montand, Anthony Perkins, Jessie Royce Landis, Diahann Carroll, Pierre Dux, Lee Patrick, Peter Bull, Michele Mercier
Based on a story by Francoise Sagan, the plot for this film involves an older woman (Ingrid Bergman) who is torn between her longtime paramour (Yves Montand) and a dashing younger man (Anthony Perkins).
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Green Mansions 1959  N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mel Ferrer
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Lee J. Cobb, Anthony Perkins, Sessue Hayakawa, Henry Silva, Nehemiah Persoff, Michael Pate, Estelle Hemsley
Set in a South American jungle, this is a W.H. Hudson love story about forest sprite Rima (Audrey Hepburn) and a mere human being, Abel (Anthony Perkins).
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How Awful About Allan 1970 TV, 73 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Curtis Harrington
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Julie Harris, Joan Hackett, Kent Smith, Robert H. Harris, Molly Dodd, Billy Bowles, Trent Dolan, Bill Erwin, Kenneth Lawrence, Jeannette Howe
When blind mental patient Allan (Anthony Perkins), who has been tormented with guilt over his fathers death, goes home to live with his sister (Julie Harris) in hopes of being cured, it may not have been a wise decision.
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Is Paris Burning? 1966 N/R, 173 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Rene Clement
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Kirk Douglas, Glenn Ford, Yves Montand, Anthony Perkins, Simone Signoret, Orson Welles
This is the story of the liberation of Paris in 1944. When the Allies approached the city, the Nazis were ordered to burn it to the ground.
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La Decade Prodigieuse 1972 PG, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Mystery
aka: Ten Days Wonder
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Orson Welles, Marlene Jobert, Anthony Perkins, Michel Piccoli, Guido Alberti, Ermanno Casanova, Mathilde Ceccarelli, Eric Frisdal, Giovanni Sciuto, Vittorio Sanipoli
In this interesting mystery, Charles (Anthony Perkins) becomes enamored with his father's (Orson Welles) new bride (Marlene Jobert), and events lead to murder.
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 Les Miserables 1978  TV, 150 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Glenn Jordan
Cast: Richard Jordan, Anthony Perkins, Cyril Cusack, Claude Dauphin, John Gielgud, Flora Robson, Celia Johnson, Ian Holm, Joyce Redman, Christopher Guard
This made-for-TV adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic tale features Richard Jordan as Jean Valjean, the persecuted ex-convict, and Anthony Perkins as the mean-spirited policeman, Javert, who trails him for 40 years. The lavish production–with a great cast–includes scenes that have been ignored by other makers of this story.
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The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean 1972 PG, 120 min.
Genre: Western
Director: John Huston
Cast: Paul Newman, Victoria Principal, Roddy McDowall, Ava Gardner, Anthony Perkins, John Huston, Stacy Keach, Ned Beatty, Jacqueline Bisset, Tab Hunter
This comedy Western stars Paul Newman as the hanging judge Roy Bean who avenges his own near-death experience by killing his enemies.
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The Lonely Man 1957 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Henry Levin
Cast: Jack Palance, Anthony Perkins, Neville Brand, Robert Middleton, Lee Van Cleef, Denver Pyle, Claude Akins, Elisha Cook Jr., Elaine Aiken, Harry Shannon
Ex-outlaw Jacob Wade (Jack Palance) tries to go straight and reconcile with his son Riley (Anthony Perkins) but finds many obstacles in his way.
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Mahogany 1975 PG, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Berry Gordy
Cast: Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Perkins, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Beah Richards, Nina Foch, Marisa Mell, Lenard Norris, Ira Rogers, Marvin Corman
Tracy (Diana Ross) is a poor secretary from a Chicago ghetto who struggles to reach the top of the fashion world. Ross is good in an otherwise weak film.
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The Matchmaker 1958 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Joseph Anthony
Cast: Shirley Booth, Anthony Perkins, Shirley MacLaine, Paul Ford, Robert Morse, Wallace Ford, Perry Wilson, Russell Collins, Rex Evans, Gavin Gordon, Torben Meyer, Bess Flowers
This forerunner of the musical "Hello, Dolly" stars Shirley Booth as matchmaker Dolly Levi who falls in love with Horace Vandergelder (Paul Ford). Anthony Perkins and Shirley MacLaine play the young couple, Cornelius Hackl and Irene Malloy, who Dolly has matched.
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 Murder on the Orient Express 1974 PG, 127 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Thriller
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Albert Finney, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, Vanessa Redgrave, Michael York, Jacqueline Bisset, Lauren Bacall, Wendy Hiller, Martin Balsam, Richard Widmark, Jean-Pierre Cassel, John Gielgud, Anthony Perkins, Rachel Roberts, Colin Blakely
Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot (Albert Finney) investigates a murder that takes place on a train trip from Calais to Istanbul. This is an exciting movie with an exceptional cast of characters. Ingrid Bergman won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. There were five other nominations, including Best Actor (Albert Finney).
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North Sea Hijack 1980 PG, 97 min.
Genre: Action
aka: Assault Force
ffolkes
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast: Roger Moore, James Mason, Anthony Perkins, Michael Parks, Faith Brook, Lea Brodie, David Hedison, Jack Watson, George Baker, Jeremy Clyde, David Wood, Philip O'Brien
Frogman commando James Excaliber ffolkes (Roger Moore) is called upon for service when terrorists seize a Norwegian ship and threaten seizure of Britain's oil rigs.
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On the Beach 1959 N/R, 134 min.
Genre: Drama / Sci-Fi
Director: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins, Donna Anderson, John Tate, Lola Brooks, John Meillon, Guy Doleman, Harp McGuire, Kevin Brennan, Grant Taylor
The rest of the world has been destroyed by radiation; however, one United States submarine, captained by Dwight Towers (Gregory Peck) sails into an Australian port where the radiation has not yet traveled. Although the citizens are not yet affected by the deadly radiation, they are suffering from having to survive on their own. Dwight becomes enamored with Moira Davidson (Ava Gardner) and, through her, gets involved with naval officer Peter Holmes (Anthony Perkins) and his wife Mary (Donna Anderson). All have different methods of dealing with their tragic fates.
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Pretty Poison 1968 R, 89 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Noel Black
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld, Beverly Garland, John Randolph, Dick O'Neill, Clarice Blackburn, Joseph Bova, Ken Kercheval, Don Fellows, Parker Fennelly
Mentally unstable Dennis (Anthony Perkins) has recently been released from prison after having burned down a house–with his aunt in it. He gets a job in a small town and meets perky, high-school student Sue Ann (Tuesday Weld). To impress Sue Ann, he tells her that he is a government agent. Sue Ann, who isn't what she appears to be, teams up with him in order to execute her own agenda. She starts by shooting her mother. Good performance by Tuesday Weld.
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Psycho 1960 N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Simon Oakland, John Anderson, Vera Miles, Vaughn Taylor, John Gavin, John McIntire, Martin Balsam, Lurene Tuttle, Frank Albertson, Patricia Hitchcock, Mort Mills, George Eldredge, Sam Flint
Janet Leigh plays confused Marion Crane who helps herself to company funds and is on her way to a better life with her newly found wealth. In the course of her escape, she stops at the Bates Motel where she meets the weird manager Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) who has his own plans for her. She better not take a shower! Leigh was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress, and Alfred Hitchcock was nominated for Best Director.
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Psycho II 1983 R, 113 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Richard Franklin
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Meg Tilly, Robert Loggia, Dennis Franz, Hugh Gillin, Claudia Bryar, Lee Garlington, Tom Holland, Tim Maier, Robert Alan Browne, Jill Carroll, Chris Hendrie, Michael Lomazow, Oz Perkins
Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) has served his time in the mental hospital and has been released, despite objections from one of his victim's relatives (Vera Miles). Norman now befriends a young waitress (Meg Tilly). Norman begins receiving mysterious messages, and murders ensue–including that of the new manager of the Bates Motel. Is Norman again responsible?
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Psycho III 1986 R, 94 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Comedy
Director: Anthony Perkins
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Diana Scarwid, Jeff Fahey, Roberta Maxwell, Hugh Gillin, Lee Garlington, Robert Alan Browne, Gary Bayer, Patience Cleveland, Juliette Cummins, Steve Guevara, Kay Heberle, Donovan Scott, Karen Hensel, Jack Murdock
A would-be suicide Maureen Coyle (Diana Scarwid) is a former nun who has fallen from grace. She hitches a ride through the desert with musician Duane Duke (Jeff Fahey). As would have it, they check into the Bates Motel–still run by Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins)–where many people do not make it out alive. But, there is a new twist to this sequel when Norman falls in love with Maureen.
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Psycho IV: The Beginning 1990 TV, 96 min.
Genre: Horror / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Mick Garris
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Henry Thomas, Olivia Hussey, CCH Pounder, Warren Frost, Donna Mitchell, Thomas Schuster, Sharen Camille, Bobbi Evors, John Landis, Kurt Paul, Louis Crume, Cynthia Garris, Doreen Chalmers, Alice Hirson
Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) is back one more time, and he's even more of a basket case. He calls into a radio talk show and tells about how his crazy, domineering mother (Olivia Hussey) has much to do with why he is what he is today as he reflects on his childhood. Now, Norman is plotting to kill Connie (Donna Mitchell) who is pregnant with his child.
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Someone Behind the Door 1971 PG, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nicolas Gessner
Cast: Charles Bronson, Anthony Perkins, Jill Ireland, Henri Garcin, Adriano Magestretti, Agathe Natanson, Viviane Everly, Andre Penvern, Denise Peronne, Isabelle Del Rio, Silvana Blasi, Yves Elliot, Carl Studer, Colin Mann
"The Stranger" (Charles Bronson) is an amnesiac who was found disoriented on a beach with the body of a dead woman. Laurence Jeffries (Anthony Perkins) is the doctor on duty when the Stranger is brought to the hospital, and he has a "different" method of treatment. Jeffries takes the Stranger home, hypnotizes him, and gives him instructions to kill Jeffries' wife Frances (Jill Ireland) and her lover Paul (Henri Garcin). The Stranger, in his hypnotized state, sets off to do the killings, but will Jeffries change the plans before both are killed?
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Tall Story 1960 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Joshua Logan
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Jane Fonda, Ray Walston, Marc Connelly, Anne Jackson, Murray Hamilton, Elizabeth Patterson, Bart Burns, Tom Laughlin, Bob Wright
Although Ray Blent is a star college basketball player, he requires the aid of his girlfriend, June (Jane Fonda) to pass an important exam. Fonda's film debut.
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The Tin Star 1957 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Anthony Mann
Cast: Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer, Michel Ray, Neville Brand, John McIntire, Peter Baldwin, Lee Van Cleef, Richard Shannon, James Bell
While Nona (Betsy Palmer) tries to talk her boyfriend, Ben Owens (Anthony Perkins), out of his dangerous job of sheriff, Ben tries to bring order to their town. In desperation, he enlists the aid of bounty hunter Morg Hickman (Henry Fonda).
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The Trial 1963 N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Orson Welles
Cast: Elsa Martinelli, Jeanne Moreau, Anthony Perkins, Romy Schneider, Akim Tamiroff, Orson Welles, Arnoldo Foa, Suzanne Flon, Jess Hahn, Madeleine Robinson
This is the film adaptation of Frank Kafka's classic tale about the imperfections inherent in a judicial system as exemplified by a man who is arrested for an unspecified crime.
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Winter Kills 1979 R, 97 min.
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Director: William Richert
Cast: Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins, Sterling Hayden, Eli Wallach, Dorothy Malone, Ralph Meeker, Richard Boone, Elizabeth Taylor, Erin Gray
Based on the Richard Condon novel, this is a good story about the investigation of a President's assassination, which turns up many surprises. This mystery/thriller was not received well the first time around but had a better viewing after re-editing and re-releasing. John Huston turns in a fine performance as the assassinated President's father Pa Kegan who is also the father of Nick (Jeff Bridges) who, 19 years later, tries to solve the case.
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WUSA 1970 PG, 115 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Perkins, Laurence Harvey, Cloris Leachman, Wayne Rogers, Pat Hingle, Don Gordon, Michael Anderson Jr., Moses Gunn
Rheinhardt (Paul Newman) is a drifter who ends up with a job as a disc jockey for radio station WUSA in New Orleans. It is only later that he learns that he is an unwary participant in an ultra-conservative plot.
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| 1. The Actress (1953)
2. Agent 38-24-36 (1964)
aka: The Ravishing Idiot
aka: The Warm-Blooded Spy
3. The Black Hole (1979)
4. Catch-22 (1970)
5. Crimes of Passion (1984)
6. Desire Under the Elms (1958)
7. Edge of Sanity (1989)
8. Fear Strikes Out (1957)
9. Friendly Persuasion (1956)
10. The Glory Boys (1984)
11. Goodbye Again (1961)
12. Green Mansions (1959)
13. How Awful About Allan (1970)
14. Is Paris Burning? (1966)
15. I'm Dangerous Tonight (1990)
16. La Decade Prodigieuse (1972)
aka: Ten Days Wonder
17. Les Miserables (1978)
18. The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
19. The Lonely Man (1957)
20. Lovin' Molly (1974)
21. Mahogany (1975)
22. The Matchmaker (1958)
23. Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
24. North Sea Hijack (1980)
aka: Assault Force
aka: ffolkes
25. On the Beach (1959)
26. Pretty Poison (1968)
27. Psycho (1960)
28. Psycho II (1983)
29. Psycho III (1986)
30. Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990)
31. Someone Behind the Door (1971)
32. Tall Story (1960)
33. The Tin Star (1957)
34. The Trial (1963)
35. Winter Kills (1979)
36. WUSA (1970)
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