Absence of Malice 1981  PG, 116 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon, Wilford Brimley, Luther Adler, Barry Primus, Josef Sommer, John Harkins
If you're looking for a good story, this is it. Over-eager news reporting and its victimization of innocents are exposed as a young reporter (Sally Field) has not yet learned the power of the press to harm as well as help. Tragedy results when pressure is put on an innocent warehouse owner (Paul Newman). Newman received an Oscar nomination (Best Actor) as did Melinda Dillon (Best Supporting Actress).
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The Brotherhood 1968   PG-13, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Martin Ritt
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Alex Cord, Irene Papas, Luther Adler, Susan Strasberg, Murray Hamilton, Eduardo Ciannelli, Joe De Santis, Val Avery, Alan Hewitt, Connie Scott, Val Bisoglio, Barry Primus, Louis Badolati, Michele Cimarosa
Frank Ginetta (Kirk Douglas) is an old-line Mafioso on the board of the New York syndicate. Frank's younger brother, Vince (Alex Cord), enters the scene and has many new ideas to modernize the operation. When Frank doesn't go along with Vince's plans, Vince tries to get his father-in-law Dominick Bertolo (Luther Adler) to encourage mob members to rebel. Frank has Bertolo killed, and now Vince gets the assignment to kill Frank. 1 User Review
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| | A movie I have not seen for more than a decade | Anonymous 11/20/2009 | | This is one of the best movies I have ever seen. It is sad that it is one of those movies that is hard to find on DVD so a person can watch it at their pleasure. |
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Cast a Giant Shadow 1966  N/R, 144 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Melville Shavelson
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger, Angie Dickinson, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, Yul Brynner, James Donald, Luther Adler, Topol
Col. David Marcus (Kirk Douglas), West Point graduate and military lawyer, is recruited to aid Israel in its 1947 war against the Arabs. This is a romanticized perspective of the establishment of the Jewish state.
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D.O.A. 1950 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: Rudolph Mate
Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler, Beverly Garland, Lynn Baggett, William Ching, Henry Hart, Neville Brand, Jess Kirkpatrick, Laurette Luez, Frank Gerstle, Lawrence Dobkin, Cay Forrester, Frank Jaquet, Carol Hughes
This good, tense mystery starts with Frank Bigelow (Edmond O'Brien) walking into the police station to report his own murder. He had gone to San Francisco for a week on the town before his marriage. But, he gets poisoned, and the doctor says he has but a week to live and no known antidote exists. He sets out to discover who did it and why. Remade in 1969 as "Color Me Dead" and again in 1988.
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The Desert Fox 1951 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: James Mason, Jessica Tandy, Cedric Hardwicke, Luther Adler, Everett Sloane, Leo G. Carroll, George Macready, Richard Boone, Eduard Franz, Dan O'Herlihy
Germany's Field Marshal Rommel and tank warfare in Africa during World War II are highlighted in this film. Actual war film footage is interspersed with studio filming, but the human story of Rommel's disfavor upon his return to Germany is what stands out in this excellent film.
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The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing 1955 N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Ray Milland, Joan Collins, Farley Granger, Luther Adler, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Glenda Farrell, Frances Fuller, Philip Reed, Gale Robbins, John Hoyt
Based on a scandal that happened in New York during the early 1900s, this is the story of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw's (Joan Collins) affair with Stanford White (Ray Milland) that resulted in his murder by her husband, Harry (Farley Granger).
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Hot Blood 1956 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Musical / Drama / Romance
Director: Nicholas Ray
Cast: Jane Russell, Cornel Wilde, Luther Adler, Joseph Calleia, Mikhail Rasumny, Nina Koshetz, Helen Westcott, James H. Russell, Wally Russell, Nick Dennis, Richard Deacon, Robert Foulk, John Raven, Peter Brocco, Ross Bagdasarian
In this story, set in a gypsy community in Los Angeles, aspiring dancer Stephen Torino (Cornel Wilde) enters into an arranged marriage with Annie (Jane Russell). At first, Stephen shows little interest in Annie, but when he gets to know her, he changes his attitude, and romance is on his mind.
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House of Strangers 1949 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Luther Adler, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Debra Paget, Hope Emerson, Esther Minciotti, Diana Douglas, Paul Valentine
A banker, Gino Monette (Edward G. Robinson), is the patriarch of his family, and his manipulation of his four sons causes conflicts between them all.
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Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye 1950 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Gordon Douglas
Cast: James Cagney, Barbara Paxton, Helena Carter, Ward Bond, Luther Adler, Barton MacLane, William Frawley, Steve Brodie, Rhys Williams, Kenneth Tobey
Shades of the B movie days, this fast-paced gangster film highlights Cagney as the ruthless gangster Ralph Cotter. Cotter and his cronies break out of jail and return to their life of crime.
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The Last Angry Man 1959 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Daniel Mann
Cast: Paul Muni, David Wayne, Betsy Palmer, Luther Adler, Joby Baker, Joanna Moore, Billy Dee Williams, Godfrey Cambridge, Cicely Tyson, Nancy R. Pollock
Dr. Sam Abelman (Paul Muni) is an elderly doctor who has spent his lifetime helping his patients without regard for financial gain. Now the media is interested in him, and he is determined to remain true to his idealism. Muni received an Academy Award nomination.
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The Loves of Carmen 1948 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Charles Vidor
Cast: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Ron Randell, Victor Jory, Luther Adler, Philip Van Zandt, Arnold Moss, Margaret Wycherly, Bernard Nedell, Wally Cassell
Carmen (Rita Hayworth) is a beautiful–but immoral–gypsy who has been told that she will die "at the hands of the man she loves." When she ruins the life of "the man she loves," a young officer, Don Jose (Glenn Ford), he fulfills the prophecy and kills Carmen.
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 M 1951 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Joseph Losey
Cast: David Wayne, Howard Da Silva, Martin Gabel, Jim Backus, Luther Adler, Steve Brodie, Raymond Burr, Karen Morley, Norman Lloyd, John Miljan
This remake of the 1931 German film is not as good; however, it is an entertaining thriller about the tracking-down of a child murderer.
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The Man in the Glass Booth 1975 PG, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Maximilian Schell, Lois Nettleton, Luther Adler, Lawrence Pressman, Henry Brown, Richard Rasof, David Nash, Martin Berman, Sy Kramer, Lloyd Bochner, Robert H. Harris, Norbert Schiller, Berry Kroeger, Leonardo Cimino, Connie Sawyer
In 1965, Arthur Goldman (Maximilian Schell) is a wealthy Jewish industrialist enjoying life in a luxury apartment in Manhattan when Israeli agents break into his home and arrest him for being the Nazi war criminal "Dorff" who ran a Nazi death camp. Goldman is drugged and sent to Israel where he is tried while in a protective glass booth. Now the question is, "Is he, or is he not, really Dorff?" This screen adaptation of Robert Shaw's play is so far removed from Shaw's interpretation that Shaw removed his name from the credits.
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Mean Johnny Barrows 1976  R, 85 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: Fred Williamson
Cast: Fred Williamson, Roddy McDowall, Jenny Sherman, Stuart Whitman, Luther Adler, R.G. Armstrong, Lee Van Cleef, Anthony Caruso, Elliott Gould, Mike Henry, Aaron Banks, Jenny Sherman, Victor Rogers, John LaMotta, Gregory Bach
Johnny Barrows (Fred Williamson) returns home after an unwarranted Dishonorable Discharge during the Vietnam War. Unsuccessful in finding work and against his desires, he is brought into a gang war between rival Mafia families in his home town and uses his military training to survive the urban battlefield.
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Saigon 1948 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Leslie Fenton
Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Douglas Dick, Wally Cassell, Luther Adler, Morris Carnovsky, Mikhail Rasumny, Luis Van Rooten, Philip Ahn, Eugene Borden
Three army buddies are tempted to go for illegally begot riches as they head for adventure in Saigon.
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South Sea Sinner 1949 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast: Macdonald Carey, Shelley Winters, Helena Carter, Luther Adler, Frank Lovejoy, John Ridgely, Liberace, Art Smith, James Flavin, Molly Lamont
This remake of "Seven Sinners" features MacDonald Carey in the role of "Jake" Davis who arrives on a small island where he encounters cabaret singer Coral (Shelley Winters).
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The Three Sisters 1966 N/R, 168 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Bogart
Cast: Kim Stanley, Geraldine Page, Shelley Winters, Kevin McCarthy, Sandy Dennis, Luther Adler, Robert Loggia, Gerald Hiken, James Olson, John Harkins, David Paulsen, Salem Ludwig
This is a fine rendition of Chekhov's play about three 19th-century sisters Olga, Irina, and Masha (Geraldine Page, Sandy Dennis, and Kim Stanley) and their desire to move to Moscow where they hope to find happiness.
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Wake of the Red Witch 1948 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance
Director: Edward Ludwig
Cast: John Wayne, Gail Russell, Gig Young, Luther Adler, Grant Withers, Dennis Hoey, Paul Fix, Henry Daniell, Adele Mara, Eduard Franz, Jeff Corey, Erskine Sanford, Duke Kahanamoku, David Clarke, Al Kikume
Captain Ralls (John Wayne) is a ship's captain out to seek justice and the love of Angelique (Gail Russell). Dutch shipping magnate Sidneye (Luther Adler) had stolen Angelique away from Ralls and married her seven years ago, and their feud still continues. Now, Ralls finds his means of getting even. While Ralls is serving as captain of Sidneye's ship, the Red Witch, he drives the ship into a reef and sinks it with plans to return and retrieve $5,000,000 in the cargo of gold that is on the ship.
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| 1. Absence of Malice (1981)
2. The Brotherhood (1968)
3. Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)
4. D.O.A. (1950)
5. The Desert Fox (1951)
6. The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955)
7. Hot Blood (1956)
8. House of Strangers (1949)
9. Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)
10. The Last Angry Man (1959)
11. The Loves of Carmen (1948)
12. M (1951)
13. The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)
14. Mean Johnny Barrows (1976)
15. Saigon (1948)
16. South Sea Sinner (1949)
17. The Tall Texan (1953)
18. The Three Sisters (1966)
19. Wake of the Red Witch (1948)
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