$ 1972  R, 120 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
aka: Dollars ($)
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn, Gert Frobe, Robert Webber, Scott Brady, Arthur Brauss, Robert Stiles, Wolfgang Kieling, Bob Herron, Hans Hutter, Christiane Maybach, Monica Stender, Wolfgang Kuhlman, Horst Hesslein, Klaus Schichan
Hamburg, Germany, bank security expert Joe Collins (Warren Beatty) joins forces with hooker Dawn Divine (Goldie Hawn) to steal $1.5 million from crooks. The crooks include an Army sergeant (Scott Brady), a drug dealer (Arthur Brauss), and an attorney who has been double-crossing the mob (Robert Webber). They have rented bank safety deposit boxes in which to store their loot, and Joe has figured out how to go unnoticed by security cameras and switch the money into Dawn's safety deposit box. All goes well until the crooks catch on, and Joe and Dawn set out on a race across Germany with the crooks in hot pursuit.
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Bite the Bullet 1975   PG, 131 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Gene Hackman, James Coburn, Candice Bergen, Ben Johnson, Jan-Michael Vincent, Paul Stewart, Dabney Coleman, Ian Bannen, Sally Kirkland, Robert Donner
A marathon horse race around 1900 draws in a number of contestants who vie for the large winning purse. Great scenery and story. 1 User Review
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Blackboard Jungle 1955 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern, Margaret Hayes, Sidney Poitier, Vic Morrow, John Hoyt, Richard Kiley, Emile Meyer, Warner Anderson
Richard Dadier (Glenn Ford) teaches at a rough inner-city high school. At first met with resentment and distrust, Dadier earns his students' (Sidney Poitier and Vic Morrow) respect. Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" provides penetrating reinforcement of the theme of early problems in America's school systems.
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The Brothers Karamazov 1958 N/R, 149 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom, Lee J. Cobb, Richard Basehart, Albert Salmi, William Shatner, Simon Oakland, David Opatoshu, Frank DeKova
Based on Dostoyevsky's classic, this is a good film adaptation of the story of brothers (Yul Brynner, Richard Basehart, William Shatner, and Albert Salmi). Set in 19th-century Russia, the plot revolves around greed and hatred brought on by their bullying father, Fyodor (Lee J. Cobb).
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 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Jack Carson, Judith Anderson, Madeleine Sherwood, Larry Gates, Vaughn Taylor, Patty Ann Gerrity, Rusty Stevens, Deborah Miller, Brian Corcoran, Jeane Wood, Walter Merrill, Bobby Johnson
Big Daddy (Burl Ives) is dying, and family members are hovering like vultures around his home. Brick (Paul Newman) and his childless wife, Maggie (Elizabeth Taylor), are there along with his brother's family of "No Neck Monsters"–as Maggie refers to the children. Of the situation, Brick says: "The truth is something desperate, and Maggie's got it. Believe me, it is desperate, and she has got it."
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The Catered Affair 1956  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Bette Davis, Debbie Reynolds, Rod Taylor, Ernest Borgnine, Barry Fitzgerald, Robert F. Simon, Madge Kennedy, Dorothy Stickney, Ray Stricklyn, Dan Tobin
Bette Davis plays the wife of a Bronx taxi driver who is determined to spend more than she has to impress family and friends at her daughter's (Debbie Reynolds) wedding.
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Crisis 1950  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Cary Grant, Jose Ferrer, Paula Raymond, Signe Hasso, Gilbert Roland, Leon Ames, Ramon Novarro, Antonio Moreno, Pedro de Cordoba, Soledad Jimenez
Doctor Eugene Norland Ferguson (Cary Grant) and his wife, Helen (Paula Raymond) are kidnapped while vacationing in Central America. The doctor is then forced to perform needed brain surgery on a dictator–the kidnappers want the dictator to die as a result of the surgery.
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Deadline U.S.A. 1952 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Kim Hunter, Ethel Barrymore, Ed Begley, Paul Stewart, Jim Backus, Warren Stevens, Joe De Santis, Carleton Young, Martin Gabel
Humphrey Bogart plays the honest newspaper editor who fights the evil underworld as his publisher (Ethel Barrymore) struggles to keep the business going.
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Elmer Gantry 1960 N/R, 146 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones, Dean Jagger, Patti Page, Edward Andrews, John McIntire, Hugh Marlowe, Joe Maross, Philip Ober, Barry Kelley
Like some present-day evangelists, Elmer Gantry's personal life is not what he preaches. Also like today, his affairs lead to tragic ends. Jean Simmons is excellent as Sister Sharon. Burt Lancaster took Best Actor honors at the Academy Awards and Shirley Jones walked away with an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. An Oscar was also presented for Best Writing, and the film was nominated for Best Picture and Music.
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 Fever Pitch 1985  R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Catherine Hicks, Giancarlo Giannini, Bridgette Andersen, Chad Everett, John Saxon, Hank Greenspun, William Smith, Keith Hefner, Rafael Campos
Sports columnist Taggart (Ryan O'Neal) writes an expose on the gambling world and, in the process of his investigation, develops gambling fever himself.
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The Happy Ending 1969 PG, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Jean Simmons, John Forsythe, Shirley Jones, Lloyd Bridges, Teresa Wright, Dick Shawn, Nanette Fabray, Tina Louise, Bobby Darin, Barry Cahill
Jean Simmons was nominated for an Academy Award for her portrayal of Mary Wilson, a disillusioned and bored housewife who uses pills and booze to relieve her feelings of being unloved. The film was nominated for another Academy Award: "What Are You Doing the Rest of My Life" for Best Song.
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In Cold Blood 1967 N/R, 134 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Jeff Corey, Paul Stewart, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, John Gallaudet, James Flavin, Charles McGraw, Will Geer, John McLiam, Ruth Storey, Vaughn Taylor
This film is the adaptation of Truman Capote's account of the true story about two Kansas killers (Robert Blake and Scott Wilson). The script traces the events from the planning through the execution of the murder, and on to the final hanging of the killers. John Forsythe plays the detective who broke the case. A great film.
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The Last Time I Saw Paris 1954 N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Donna Reed, Eva Gabor, Kurt Kasznar, Roger Moore, George Dolenz, Celia Lovsky, Peter Leeds, Sandy Descher, John Doucette, Odette Myrtil, Ann Codee, Jean Del Val
Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein, II wrote the title song for this film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Babylon Revisited." Successful writer Charles (Van Johnson) returns to Paris and remembers the last time he was there. Through flashbacks, the story takes place in post-World-War-II Paris where struggling writer Charles meets and falls in love with American ex-patriot Helen Ellswirth (Elizabeth Taylor). They marry, and Charles loves Helen's free-spirited lifestyle. After Charles strikes it rich and lives off the revenue from a Texas oil well, he loses his desire to write, and his drinking leads to devastating results in his personal life.
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Looking for Mr. Goodbar 1977 R, 135 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Diane Keaton, Richard Gere, William Atherton, Tuesday Weld, Richard Kiley, LeVar Burton, Tom Berenger, Priscilla Pointer, Alan Feinstein, Brian Dennehy
This film involves a psychological perspective of a repressed young teacher (Diane Keaton) who is drawn to cheap sex and illicit drugs in her attempt at liberation–the result is tragedy. Tuesday Weld received an Oscar nomination for Supporting Actress.
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Lord Jim 1965 N/R, 154 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Peter O'Toole, James Mason, Curt Jurgens, Jack Hawkins, Eli Wallach, Paul Lukas, Daliah Lavi, Akim Tamiroff, Andrew Keir, Jack MacGowran
This is a good film adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel about a merchant seaman (Peter O'Toole) who jumps ship in a storm and then spends his life trying to atone for his act of cowardice.
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 The Professionals 1966 N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Action / Western
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Jack Palance, Woody Strode, Ralph Bellamy, Claudia Cardinale, Joe De Santis, Vaughn Taylor, Rafael Bertrand, Jorge Martinez de Hoyos, Marie Gomez, Jose Chavez, Carlos Romero
Mercenaries led by Bill Dolworth and Henry "Rico" Fardan (Burt Lancaster and Lee Marvin) are hired by Texas millionaire Joe Grant (Ralph Bellamy) to rescue his wife (Claudia Cardinale) from the clutches of a Mexican revolutionary (Jack Palance). Lots of good action. Richard Brooks received an Oscar nomination for his direction.
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Something of Value 1957 N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Wendy Hiller, Sidney Poitier, Walter Fitzgerald, Frederick O'Neal, Juano Hernandez, William Marshall, Robert Beatty, Michael Pate, Ivan Dixon, Ken Renard, Samadu Jackson, Wilton Graff, Angela Cartwright
Based on Robert Ruark's novel, this is the story of childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier) and Peter McKenzie (Rock Hudson) who, despite one being Black and the other White, had grown up like brothers in British East Africa. Now, as adults, their relationship is shattered when Peter sides with British colonialism, and Kimani joins the brutal Mau-Maus in their uprising in Kenya.
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Sweet Bird of Youth 1962 N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Geraldine Page, Paul Newman, Ed Begley, Shirley Knight, Rip Torn, Mildred Dunnock, Corey Allen, Dub Taylor, Madeleine Sherwood, Philip Abbott, Barry Cahill, Barry Atwater, Charles Arnt, James B. Douglas
This is an excellent version of Tennessee Williams' hit play in which Geraldine Page and Paul Newman recreate their Broadway roles. The story is about has-been film star Alexandra Del Lago (Page) and her young lover Chance Wayne (Newman) who is looking for fame and fortune. They visit Chance's hometown where the corrupt politician Boss Finley (Ed Begley) rules. Finley's daughter Heavenly (Shirley Knight) wants to reunite with Chance, but Finley and his son (Rip Torn) will stop at nothing to prevent that from happening. Geraldine Page: "My checkout time in any hotel in the world is when I–is when I want to check out." Ed Begley received an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor. Geraldine Page and Sandra Knight were nominated for Best Actress and Supporting Actress.
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Wrong Is Right 1982 R, 117 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Sean Connery, George Grizzard, Robert Conrad, Katharine Ross, John Saxon, Henry Silva, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Webber, G.D. Spradlin, Rosalind Cash
An obsessive television news commentator, Patrick Hale (Sean Connery), may be in the right spot at the right time to report the end of the world. Is the U.S. government in cahoots with an international terrorist group? Good satire and performance by Connery.
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| 1. $ (1972)
aka: Dollars ($)
2. Battle Circus (1953)
3. Bite the Bullet (1975)
4. Blackboard Jungle (1955)
5. The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
6. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
7. The Catered Affair (1956)
8. Crisis (1950)
9. Deadline U.S.A. (1952)
10. Elmer Gantry (1960)
11. Fever Pitch (1985)
12. The Happy Ending (1969)
13. In Cold Blood (1967)
14. The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
15. Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
16. Lord Jim (1965)
17. The Professionals (1966)
18. Something of Value (1957)
19. Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
20. Wrong Is Right (1982)
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