Daring Game 1968  N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Laszlo Benedek
Cast: Lloyd Bridges, Nico Minardos, Michael Ansara, Joan Blackman, Brock Peters, Alex Montoya, Shepperd Strudwick, Perry Lopez
This was a pilot for a TV series that never made the grade. The story is bout a team of commandos, "The Flying Fish," who perform rescues on land, sea, and air. The plot is set around the rescue of a doctor and his daughter from a Caribbean dictatorship. 1 User Review
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| | outstanding | Anonymous 01/06/2008 | | one of the best movies i've ever seen |
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Death of a Salesman 1951  N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Laszlo Benedek
Cast: Fredric March, Mildred Dunnock, Kevin McCarthy, Cameron Mitchell, Howard Smith, Royal Beal, Don Keefer, Jesse White, Claire Carleton, Elisabeth Fraser
Willie Loman (Fredric March) is Arthur Miller's traveling salesman who realizes his life has been a waste. His solution is suicide; through the use of flashbacks his tragedy is told.
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The Kissing Bandit 1948  N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Western
Director: Laszlo Benedek
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, J. Carrol Naish, Mildred Natwick, Mikhail Rasumny, Billy Gilbert, Sono Osato, Clinton Sundberg, Edna Skinner, Vincente Gomez, Carleton G. Young, Byron Foulger, Ricardo Montalban, Ann Miller, Cyd Charisse
When Ricardo (Frank Sinatra) returns to California to take over his deceased father's hotel business, he learns that his father was a "kissing bandit." Deciding to carry on in his father's tradition, Ricardo kisses the lady victims after robbing them. When he meets Teresa (Kathryn Grayson), who just happens to be the daughter of a governor with tax problems, Ricardo's talents for kissing and the offer of money gained from his thievery pay off, and Teresa is smitten.
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Namu, The Killer Whale 1966  PG, 89 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure
aka: Namu, My Best Friend
Director: Laszlo Benedek
Cast: Robert Lansing, John Anderson, Robin Mattson, Richard Erdman, Lee Meriwether, Joe Higgins, Michael Shea, Clara Tarte, Edwin Rochelle
While marine biologist Hank Donner (Robert Lansing) saves and nurses a wounded orca back to health, he learns that orcas are highly intelligent. Now he must convince local fishermen of this before they kill Namu because they believe killer whales threaten their lives.
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Port of New York 1949 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Laszlo Benedek
Cast: Scott Brady, Richard Rober, K.T. Stevens, Yul Brynner, Neville Brand, Alden "Stephen" Chase, Raymond Greenleaf, William Challee, Tudor Owen, John Kellogg
United States Customs agents try to break up a drug-smuggling ring led by Paul Vicola (Yul Brynner). This was Brynner's film debut.
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 The Wild One 1953  N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Laszlo Benedek
Cast: Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith, Lee Marvin, Jay C. Flippen, Jerry Paris, Alvy Moore, Peggy Maley, Hugh Sanders, Ray Teal, John Brown, Will Wright
When a motorcycle gang descends on a small town in California, trouble is a certainty for the citizens. Dated now, but a big deal in the 1950s, and it set the standard for future cycle flicks. A great, early Marlon Brando performance as motorcycle gang leader Johnny Strabler.
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| 1. Daring Game (1968)
2. Death of a Salesman (1951)
3. The Kissing Bandit (1948)
4. Namu, The Killer Whale (1966)
aka: Namu, My Best Friend
5. Port of New York (1949)
6. The Wild One (1953)
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