 The African Queen 1951  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: John Huston
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Theodore Bikel, Walter Gotell, Richard Marner, Gerald Onn, Peter Swanwick, Errol John
Humphrey Bogart (in his second Oscar-winning role) and Katharine Hepburn are great together as liquor-loving steamboat captain Charlie and religious spinster Rose in Africa during World War I. After Rose's brother is killed by the Germans, Charlie gives her safe passage, but she has other ideas–such as using the steamer to attack a German gunboat. Academy Award nominations included Best Actress and Director.
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The Angry Hills 1959  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Elisabeth Mueller, Stanley Baker, Gia Scala, Theodore Bikel, Sebastian Cabot, Kieron Moore, Leslie Phillips, Donald Wolfit, Marius Goring
Mike Morrison (Robert Mitchum) is a World War II war correspondent in the Balkans whose mission is to escape from Greece to give the Allies valuable information about Nazi activities.
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The Defiant Ones 1958  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Cara Williams, Lon Chaney Jr., Charles McGraw, King Donovan, Claude Akins, Whit Bissell, Lawrence Dobkin, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, Kevin Caughlin
Hatred turns into understanding and finally love when two escaped convicts (Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier) must lean on each other to survive. This movie, about the futility of racial hatred, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, Actor (both Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier), Supporting Actor (Theodore Bikel), Supporting Actress (Cara Williams), Director, and Film Editing. It won for Best Writing and Cinematography.
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The Enemy Below 1957 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Dick Powell
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Curt Jurgens, Russell Collins, Theodore Bikel, Doug McClure, David Hedison, Kurt Kreuger, Frank Albertson, Biff Elliot, Alan Dexter
The captains of warring naval ships match wits in this World War II submarine chase story. Captain Murrell (Robert Mitchum) commands the U.S.S. Haines, a destroyer, while Curt Jurgens commands the German U-boat Von Stolberg. After the final battle, both ships sink, and the skippers experience the irony of sharing the same lifeboat.
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 I Bury the Living 1958 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Albert Band
Cast: Richard Boone, Theodore Bikel, Peggy Maurer, Robert Osterloh, Herbert Anderson, Howard Smith, Russ Bender, Matt Moore, Glen Vernon, Lynette Bernay
Robert Kraft (Richard Boone) is the new chairman of a cemetery, and in his office is a large map of the grounds. Plots are marked: black pins for occupied plots and white pins for plots that have been sold but not yet occupied. When Robert mistakenly places a black pin on a plot that should have been white, the plot-owner dies. This starts a series of MAJOR problems. Good trick photography.
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I Want to Live! 1958 N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Wise
Cast: Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent, Wesley Lau, Theodore Bikel, Philip Coolidge, James Philbrook, Bartlett Robinson, Joe De Santis, Gavin MacLeod, Lou Krugman, Gage Clark
This is the true story of Barbara Graham, a prostitute who maintains her innocence throughout her trial and subsequent execution for murder. Susan Hayward won an Oscar for her role as Barbara Graham.
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The Little Kidnappers 1953  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Philip Leacock
Cast: Jon Whiteley, Vincent Winter, Duncan Macrae, Adrienne Corri, Theodore Bikel, Francis De Wolff, Jean Anderson, Jameson Clark, John Rae, Jack Stewart
Two children (Jon Whiteley and Vincent Winter) bring home an abandoned baby after their grandfather refuses to allow a dog in the house. Set in early 1900s Nova Scotia, this is an entertaining children's story. Both of the boys, Jon Whiteley and Vincent Winter, received Honorary Oscars for Outstanding Juvenile Performances.
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Murder on Flight 502 1975  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller / Drama
Director: George McCowan
Cast: Robert Stack, Ralph Bellamy, Theodore Bikel, Walter Pidgeon, Hugh O'Brian, Farrah Fawcett, Polly Bergen, Laraine Day, Dane Clark, Fernando Lamas, Brooke Adams, Sonny Bono, George Maharis, Danny Bonaduce
After a jumbo jet takes off from New York to London, a note is found with the message that some of the passengers are going to be killed. At first, the message is not taken seriously, but when two on board are murdered, the pilot (Robert Stack) tries to calm his passengers while background checks on the passengers are performed at the airport.
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 My Fair Lady 1964 N/R, 170 min.
Genre: Family / Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Rex Harrison, Audrey Hepburn, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Theodore Bikel, Gladys Cooper, Jeremy Brett, Isobel Elsom, Mona Washbourne, John Alderson, John Holland, James Wood, Grady Sutton, John McLiam, Queenie Leonard
Among other awards, this film captured the Oscar for Best Picture, Best Director (George Cukor), and Best Actor (Rex Harrison). It is the delightful story of "Pygmalion" set to music by Lerner and Lowe. Rex Harrison plays tutor Henry Higgins who claims that he can change the demeanor of Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn). In all, the film received eight Oscars and was nominated for four others, including Best Supporting Actor (Stanley Holloway) and Supporting Actress (Gladys Cooper).
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Never Let Me Go 1953 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Delmer Daves
Cast: Clark Gable, Gene Tierney, Bernard Miles, Richard Haydn, Belita, Kenneth More, Theodore Bikel, Karel Stepanek, Frederick Valk, Anton Diffring
This Cold-War story is about an American reporter, Philip Sutherland (Clark Gable), stationed in Moscow who falls in love with a Russian ballerina, Marva Lamarkins (Gene Tierney). Problems become overwhelming when Sutherland is ordered out of Russia, and his new wife is not allowed to leave with him.
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 The Pride and the Passion 1957 N/R, 132 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren, Theodore Bikel, Jay Novello, John Wengraf, Jose Nieto, Philip Van Zandt, Carlos Larranaga, Paco El Laberinto
During Napoleon's takeover in Europe in the early 1800s, British Captain Anthony Trumbull (Cary Grant) joins up with a band of Spanish guerillas to fight against French forces. A particular target is an enormous cannon.
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The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! 1966 N/R, 126 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Alan Arkin, Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, John Phillip Law, Paul Ford, Tessie O'Shea, Brian Keith, Theodore Bikel, Ben Blue, Jonathan Winters
This story reveals the atmosphere of the Cold War in the 1960s. The plot involves the forced landing of Russian submariners off Nantucket and, in an alien land, the sailors find a mixed greeting from the Americans. Although a good farce, this film gives the viewer insight into a world gone slightly mad during the arms race. An Academy Award nomination was received for Best Picture, and Alan Arkin was nominated for Actor.
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Shadow Conspiracy 1997  R, 103 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: George P. Cosmatos
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Linda Hamilton, Donald Sutherland, Stephen Lang, Sam Waterston, Ben Gazzara, Nicholas Turturro, Stanley Anderson, Theodore Bikel, Charles Cioffi
Conspiracy in the highest levels of government is the theme of this story featuring Charlie Sheen as the president's (Sam Waterston) special assistant and Linda Hamilton as a reporter who are the objects standing in the way of a hired killer (Stephen Lang). They must be silenced at all cost. So should this film.
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Shattered 1991 R, 98 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Cast: Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, Greta Scacchi, Joanne Whalley, Corbin Bernsen, Theodore Bikel, Debi Monahan, Bert Rosario, Jedda Jones, Scott Getlin
Following a serious car accident and his subsequent amnesia, a husband (Tom Berenger) begins to suspect his wife (Greta Scacchi) of attempting to murder him. He hires a detective (Bob Hoskins) to sort out the puzzle.
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A Stoning in Fulham County 1988 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Larry Elikann
Cast: Ken Olin, Jill Eikenberry, Ron Perlman, Gregg Henry, Theodore Bikel, Nicholas Pryor, Peter Michael Goetz, Noble Willingham, Brad Pitt, Olivia Burnette
In this made-for-TV movie Amish parents, following the murder of their infant by local teenagers, refuse to help prosecute the case.
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 Sweet November 1968 N/R, 114 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Ellis Miller
Cast: Sandy Dennis, Anthony Newley, Theodore Bikel, Burr DeBenning, Sandy Baron, Marj Dusay, Martin West, Virginia Vincent, King Moody, Robert Gibbons
Although Sara (Sandy Dennis) knows she is dying from a terminal disease, that doesn't stop her from finding one insecure man every month, allowing him to move in with her, helping him to gain self-confidence, and then sending him on his way. All goes well until Charlie Blake (Anthony Newley) becomes Sara's "man of the month." Charlie falls in love with Sara, and love does not fit into Sara's plans.
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Very Close Quarters 1986 R, 101 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: The Communal Flat
Director: Vladimir Rif
Cast: Shelley Winters, Paul Sorvino, Theodore Bikel, Farley Granger, Lee Taylor-Allan, Ellen Barber, Frederick Allen, Dennis Boutsikaris, Kathleen Doyle
Although filmed in 1983, this movie was not released until 1986, but the later date for release did not help this bomb. It is based on sexual habits within a Moscow communal flat.
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The Woman Obsessed 1959 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: Susan Hayward, Stephen Boyd, Barbara Nichols, Dennis Holmes, Theodore Bikel, Ken Scott, Arthur Franz, James Philbrook, Fred Graham, Tommy Farrell
What was supposed to be a happy marriage for widowed Mary (Susan Hayward) turns into an abusive situation when her new husband, Fred Carter (Stephen Boyd), reveals a side of himself that Mary must deal with.
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| 1. The African Queen (1951)
2. The Angry Hills (1959)
3. Benefit of the Doubt (1993)
4. The Blue Angel (1959)
5. The Defiant Ones (1958)
6. The Enemy Below (1957)
7. I Bury the Living (1958)
8. I Want to Live! (1958)
9. The Little Kidnappers (1953)
10. Murder on Flight 502 (1975)
11. My Fair Lady (1964)
12. Never Let Me Go (1953)
13. The Pride and the Passion (1957)
14. Prince Jack (1985)
15. The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! (1966)
16. Shadow Conspiracy (1997)
17. Shattered (1991)
18. A Stoning in Fulham County (1988)
19. Sweet November (1968)
20. Very Close Quarters (1986)
aka: The Communal Flat
21. The Woman Obsessed (1959)
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