 The American Friend 1977  N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
aka: Der Amerikanische Freund
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Dennis Hopper, Lisa Kreuzer, Gerard Blain, Nicholas Ray, Samuel Fuller, Jean Eustache, Peter Lilienthal, Daniel Schmid, Rudolf Schundler, Sandy Whitelaw, Lou Castel, Heinz Joachim Klein, David Blue, Rosemarie Heinikel
This psychological thriller stars Dennis Hopper as Tom Ripley who sells forged paintings. Jonathan Zimmerman (Bruno Ganz) suffers from a fatal illness, and Ripley persuades him to become the paid killer of a French Mafioso. Zimmerman plans to use the money to support his family after his death. But, one murder leads to another.
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The Baron of Arizona 1950  N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Vincent Price, Ellen Drew, Beulah Bondi, Vladimir Sokoloff, Reed Hadley, Robert Barrat, Fred Kohler Jr., Tristram Coffin, Robin Short, Barbara Woodell
Nineteenth-century entrepreneur James Addison Reavis (Vincent Price) has big plans to ignore Spanish land grants and purchase Arizona for his own selfish interests.
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The Big Red One 1980 PG, 113 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bobby DiCicco, Kelly Ward, Siegfried Rauch, Stephane Audran, Maurice Marsac, Perry Lang
This top-notch adventure looks at war through the eyes of the foot soldiers who exist one day at a time in the dangerous war zone. Director Samuel Fuller, a WWII veteran, was disappointed when his film was cut to 113 minutes. In 2003, film historian Richard Schickel added footage to expand the film by 45 minutes to better reflect Fuller's desired product. This version is the one to get.
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Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street 1973  PG, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Glenn Corbett, Christa Lang, Anton Diffring, Eric P. Caspar, William Ray, Anthony Chinn, Alexander D'Arcy, Sieghardt Rupp, Hans-Christoph Blumenberg, Stephane Audran
After his partner is killed by a gang conducting blackmail and high-level corruption in Germany, an American private eye (Glenn Corbett) seeks revenge.
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The End of Violence 1997  R, 122 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Bill Pullman, Andie MacDowell, Gabriel Byrne, Loren Dean, Traci Lind, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Udo Kier, Rosalind Chao, K. Todd Freeman, John Diehl, Chris Douridas, Soledad St. Hilaire, Nicole Ari Parker, Daniel Benzali, Samuel Fuller
Surveillance expert Ray Bering (Gabriel Byrne) looks out on Los Angeles via secret TV cameras and watches impotently as Hollywood producer Mike Max (Bill Pullman) is kidnapped, escapes, and hides out with a Mexican family. Numerous subplots evolve in this confusing story.
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Fixed Bayonets! 1951 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Richard Basehart, Gene Evans, Michael O'Shea, Richard Hylton, Craig Hill, Skip Homeier, Henry Kulky, Richard Monahan, Paul Richards, Tony Kent, Neyle Morrow, John Doucette, James Dean
Corporal Denno (Richard Basehart) is a member of a group of U.S. Army soldiers fighting in the Korean War. Denno, who cannot imagine killing another human being, ends up in command of his platoon. When the situation reaches a crisis point, Denno is finally able to shake off his fear and manages to save his soldiers.
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 Forty Guns 1957 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger, John Ericson, Gene Barry, Robert Dix, Eve Brent, Ziva Rodann, Chuck Hayward
The new sheriff of Tombstone (Barry Sullivan) almost meets his match in Jessica Drummond (Barbara Stanwyck), the wealthy owner of a cattle empire.
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Hell and High Water 1954 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Richard Widmark, Bella Darvi, Victor Francen, Cameron Mitchell, Gene Evans, David Wayne, Stephen Bekassy, Richard Loo, Peter Scott, Henry Kulky, Harry Carter, Robert Adler, Rollin Moriyama, Leslie Bradley
In this Cold War era film, Prof. Montel (Victor Francen) and his daughter Denise (Bella Darvi) worry that the U.S. government is not capable of handling a nuclear threat. The solution is to hire ex-Navy Captain Adam Jones (Richard Widmark) to command a submarine as the means of looking for evidence that the Communists are planning to launch a nuclear missile aimed at North Korea and then blame the U.S. for the action. Special effects are impressive–especially when Jones must deal with a Communist Chinese submarine that his own submarine is no match for, and the subs run silent and deep.
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House of Bamboo 1955 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi, Cameron Mitchell, Brad Dexter, Sessue Hayakawa, Biff Elliot, Sandro Giglio, Harry Carey Jr., Robert Quarry, DeForest Kelley
In this remake of "The Street With No Name" (1948), the setting is changed to Japan. Robert Stack takes on the role of a down-on-his-luck ex-GI who arrives in Tokyo and goes undercover to join a well-organized syndicate in an effort to stop the burglaries and bring down its psychotic leader (Robert Ryan).
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I Shot Jesse James 1949 N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Western / Drama / Romance
Director: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Preston Foster, Barbara Britton, John Ireland, Reed Hadley, J. Edward Bromberg, Victor Kilian, Barbara Woodell, Tom Tyler, Tommy Noonan, Byron Foulger, Margia Dean, Eddie Dunn, Jeni Le Gon, Phillip Pine, Robin Short
In Samuel Fuller's directorial debut, he puts together a dark, fictionalized tale of Bob Ford (John Ireland) who killed his friend Jesse James (Reed Hadley) for the reward money. As a result, he loses his girlfriend Cynthy (Barbara Britton), is reduced to making money by acting out his killing in bars, and finally must run from would-be killers who seek to kill the man who killed Jesse James.
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The Last Movie 1971  R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Chinchero
Director: Dennis Hopper
Cast: Dennis Hopper, Stella Garcia, Samuel Fuller, Sylvia Miles, Julie Adams, Rod Cameron, Peter Fonda, Roy Engel, Kris Kristofferson, John Phillip Law
This movie lacks the finesse to deliver its message about moviemaking's effect on the location site of a Peruvian village. Kristofferson's debut.
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The Meanest Men in the West 1967 TV, 93 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Charles S. Dubin, Samuel Fuller
Cast: Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Lee J. Cobb, James Drury, Charles Grodin, Miriam Colon, Albert Salmi, Don Mitchell, Brad Weston, Sara Lane
Bronson and Marvin play half brothers, both of whom are outlaws. They also don't especially like each other, which leads to complications. Not much here, especially considering the good cast.
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Merrill's Marauders 1962 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Jeff Chandler, Ty Hardin, Peter Brown, Andrew Duggan, Will Hutchins, Claude Akins, John Hoyt, Jack Williams, Chuck Roberson, Chuck Hayward
In this film, which is Jeff Chandler's last movie, Chandler plays Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill–the leader of U.S. Army troops fighting World War II in the jungles of Burma.
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The Naked Kiss 1964 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Iron Kiss
Director: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Michael Dante, Virginia Grey, Patsy Kelly, Betty Bronson, Marie Devereux, Karen Conrad, Linda Francis, Barbara Perry
After a brutal fight with her pimp, prostitute Kelly (Constance Towers) heads for a small town and a new life. A trick with a man (Anthony Eisley), who happens to be the sheriff–and who knows all about her–makes her decide to find honest work. She takes a job as a nurse's aide taking care of handicapped children and meets a respected man (Michael Dante). She tells him about her past, which he accepts, and they become engaged. But Kelly soon finds out that he has his own, even worse, secrets. Another of Samuel Fuller's intense films.
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Pickup on South Street 1953 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Murvyn Vye, Richard Kiley, Willis Bouchey, Milburn Stone, George E. Stone, Parley Baer, Henry Slate
The small-time crime of pickpocketing leads to espionage involvement for Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark) who unwittingly has stolen government secrets. Thelma Ritter was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Pierrot le fou 1965 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Dirk Sanders, Graziella Galvani, Raymond Devos, Roger Dutoit, Samuel Fuller, Hans Meyer, Pascal Aubier, Laszlo Szabo, Henri Attal, Pierre Hanin, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Dominique Zardi
Ferdinand Griffon (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and Marianne (Anna Karina), who insists on calling Ferdinand "Pierrot," try to escape past lives by heading for the Riviera in search of Marianne's rum-running brother Fred (Dirk Sanders). But, plans go awry because Marianne's gangster past of smuggling weapons ensures that an idyllic life is not to be when Marianne is pursued by mobsters.
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A Return to Salem's Lot 1987 R, 96 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Larry Cohen
Cast: Michael Moriarty, Samuel Fuller, Evelyn Keyes, June Havoc, James Dixon, Ricky Addison Reed, Andrew Duggan, Ronee Blakely, Jill Gatsby, David Holbrook, Katja Crosby, Tara Reid, Brad Rijn, Janelle Webb, Robert Burr
Anthropologist/Filmmaker Joe Weber (Michael Moriarty), trying to make friends with his son Jeremy (Ricky Addison Reed), goes back to his hometown in New England. Joe is unaware that vampires make up most of the population, and they request that Joe produce a history of them. Meanwhile, Joe and Jeremy become romantically involved with vampires. Stephen King was a consultant for this movie, which takes its characters from a King story, "Salem's Lot."
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Run of the Arrow 1957 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Western
aka: Hot Lead
Director: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Rod Steiger, Sarita Montiel, Brian Keith, Ralph Meeker, Jay C. Flippen, Charles Bronson, Frank DeKova, Tim McCoy, Stuart Randall, Carleton Young
Following the Civil War, one Southerner is not ready to give up his fight against the Yankees. So, he teams up with the Sioux to continue his own war.
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Shark! 1969 PG, 92 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Thriller
aka: Maneater
Director: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Barry Sullivan, Arthur Kennedy, Silvia Pinal, Enrique Lucero, Carlos Beriochoa, Manuel Alvarado, Emilia Stuart, Francisco Reiguera, Carlos Barry, Jose Chavez
On the run from soldiers after pilfering weapons, gunrunner Caine (Burt Reynolds) finds refuge in a small Sudan town. His benefactors Mallare and Anna (Barry Sullivan and Silvia Pinal) talk him into going on an expedition to gather ocean fish specimens. They are really after buried treasure, which they find. Anna sics the sharks onto the two water-borne men, and Mallare is killed. Caine survives, but problems still lie ahead for him.
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Shock Corridor 1963 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans, James Best, Hari Rhodes, Larry Tucker, Bill Zuckert, Philip Ahn, Chuck Roberson, Paul Dubov
Reporter Johhy Barrett (Peter Breck) wants to win a Pulitzer prize, and he thinks he has the subject: a murder in an asylum and only three witnesses, none of whom will talk. The solution is to get himself admitted, but there will be a price to pay if he gets the job done. A typical Fuller effort–even more intense than usual.
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Slapstick (Of Another Kind) 1982 PG, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Steven Paul
Cast: Jerry Lewis, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, John Abbott, Jim Backus, Merv Griffin, Pat Morita, Orson Welles, Samuel Fuller, Steven Paul
Wealthy and famous parents, Wilbur (Jerry Lewis) and Eliza (Madeline Kahn) Swain, have very ugly twins (also played by Lewis and Kahn) who are actually aliens from another planet.
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Somebody to Love 1994 R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alexandre Rockwell
Cast: Rosie Perez, Harvey Keitel, Michael DeLorenzo, Stanley Tucci, Steve Buscemi, Quentin Tarantino, Anthony Quinn, Samuel Fuller, Steven Randazzo, Paul Herman, Gerardo Mejia, Sully Boyar, Elizabeth Bracco, Edward Lynch, Edward Bunker
Three characters–dancer Mercedes (Rosie Perez), gravedigger Ernesto (Michael DeLorenzo), and passe TV cowboy star Harry (Harvey Keitel)–strive for happiness, but their goals do not appear to be in reach. After Ernesto dances with Mercedes, he falls in love with her, but Mercedes is in love with Harry. Ernesto wants to give Mercedes gifts to gain her affection, and when Harry needs $10,000 to divorce his wife, Mercedes asks Ernesto for help. For Ernesto, it is a no-win situation, but he remains hopeful in spite of the disappointments.
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The State of Things 1982 N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Allen Garfield, Samuel Fuller, Paul Getty III, Roger Corman, Patrick Bauchau, Isabelle Weingarten, Geoffrey Carey, Rebecca Pauly, Geoffrey Carey, Jeffrey Kime
This film is a remake of Roger Corman's "The Day the World Ended" is a tribute to the producer and tries to present an insider's perspective of the film industry.
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The Steel Helmet 1951  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Gene Evans, Robert Hutton, Steve Brodie, James Edwards, Richard Loo, Sid Melton, Richard Monahan, William Chun, Harold Fong, Neyle Morrow, Lynn Stalmaster
Set during the Korean War, in this film Gene Evans plays the role of cantankerous Sgt. Zack who is rescued by Korean orphan Short Round (William Chun). They meet a group of American soldiers, and Zack leads them to a Buddhist temple where they set up an observation post while awaiting enemy action.
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Street of No Return 1989 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Keith Carradine, Valentina Vargas, Bill Duke, Andrea Ferreol, Bernard Fresson, Marc de Jonge, Rebecca Potok, Jacques Martial, Sergio Godinho, Antonio Rosario, Dominique Hulin, Gordon Heath
Michael (Keith Carradine), once a wealthy rock star, is now a drunken street bum. His current fate was a result of crime boss Eddie (Marc de Jonge), the boyfriend of Celia (Valentina Vargas) with whom Michael had had a passionate affair. Eddie had Michael's throat slashed, thus ruining Michael's career and life. When a major riot occurs and Michael is accused of the murder of a cop, he is convinced that Eddie is behind the riot and, with the help of a sympathetic policeman, sets out to prove it.
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White Dog 1982 PG, 90 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
aka: Trained to Kill
Director: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Kristy McNichol, Paul Winfield, Burl Ives, Jameson Parker, Lynne Moody, Marshall Thompson, Bob Minor, Vernon Weddle, Christa Lang, Tony Brubaker, Samuel Fuller, Paul Bartel
Julie (Kristy McNichol) has adopted a dog that, unknown to her, has been trained to kill Blacks. Once she discovers what her dog is capable of, she asks for help from Black animal-trainer Keys (Paul Winfield) who takes on the challenge.
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| 1. The American Friend (1977)
aka: Der Amerikanische Freund
2. The Baron of Arizona (1950)
3. The Big Red One (1980)
4. Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street (1973)
5. The End of Violence (1997)
6. Fixed Bayonets! (1951)
7. Forty Guns (1957)
8. Hell and High Water (1954)
9. House of Bamboo (1955)
10. I Shot Jesse James (1949)
11. The Last Movie (1971)
aka: Chinchero
12. The Meanest Men in the West (1967)
13. Merrill's Marauders (1962)
14. The Naked Kiss (1964)
aka: The Iron Kiss
15. Pickup on South Street (1953)
16. Pierrot le fou (1965)
17. A Return to Salem's Lot (1987)
18. Run of the Arrow (1957)
aka: Hot Lead
19. Shark! (1969)
aka: Maneater
20. Shock Corridor (1963)
21. Slapstick (Of Another Kind) (1982)
22. Somebody to Love (1994)
23. The State of Things (1982)
24. The Steel Helmet (1951)
25. Street of No Return (1989)
26. White Dog (1982)
aka: Trained to Kill
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