Movies: Burt Lancaster

  • 1996
    Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach

    Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach (1996)

    Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach

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    He went from street-wise tough to art-collector liberal-activist, from circus-acrobat hunk to Academy Award winner. Burton Stephen Lancaster — later Burt Lancaster — was one of five children of a New York City postal worker. By eighteen, Burt was 6'2...

    Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
  • 1949
    Rope of Sand

    Rope of Sand (1949)

    Rope of Sand

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    Story of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking out for smugglers....

    Rope of Sand
  • 1959
    The Devil's Disciple

    The Devil's Disciple (1959)

    The Devil's Disciple

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    In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Rev. Anthony Anderson and arrested by the British. Dick discovers himself incapable of accusing anothe...

    The Devil's Disciple
  • 1982
    Night of 100 Stars

    Night of 100 Stars (1982)

    Night of 100 Stars

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    The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contri...

    Night of 100 Stars
  • 1989
    The Jeweller's Shop

    The Jeweller's Shop (1989)

    The Jeweller's Shop

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    Burt Lancaster stars as the titular merchant in this classic adaptation of Pope John Paul II's best-selling play "The Jeweller's Shop," an inspiring drama about three married couples and their ups and downs in holy matrimony. With a faithful jeweler ...

    The Jeweller's Shop
  • 1987
    Control

    Control (1987)

    Control

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    An experiment of psychological effects under stressful conditions in a shelter. When fifteen strangers are put into a nuclear shelter to see how long they can survive without interaction with the outside, things work out fine....

    Control
  • 1951
    The Screen Director

    The Screen Director (1951)

    The Screen Director

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    A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film for production, meeting with the writer and producer, approving wardrobe and set design, rehearsing sce...

    The Screen Director
  • 1948
    All My Sons

    All My Sons (1948)

    All My Sons

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    During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever. Years later, his sin comes back to haunt him when his son plans to marry Deever's daughter....

    All My Sons
  • 2023
    Paul Newman: The Restless

    Paul Newman: The Restless (2023)

    Paul Newman: The Restless

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    Multi-talented, Paul Newman is one of the greatest American actors of all time. With his silhouette of a Greek statue and his unreal blue eyes, he embodied the quintessential Hollywood star. But he never seemed satisfied. The son of a Jewish sporting...

    Paul Newman: The Restless
  • 1991
    Separate But Equal

    Separate But Equal (1991)

    Separate But Equal

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    A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation....

    Separate But Equal
  • 1990
    Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair

    Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair (1990)

    Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair

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    The story of the hijacking of the Italian luxury liner Achille Lauro by four Palestinians....

    Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
  • 1951
    Jim Thorpe – All-American

    Jim Thorpe – All-American (1951)

    Jim Thorpe – All-American

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    The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his medals on a technicality....

    Jim Thorpe – All-American
  • 2016
    Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion

    Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion (2016)

    Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion

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    Forty years after his death, this documentary pays tribute to one of the major filmmakers of Italian cinema, to an original work that continues to inspire today's cinema. Coming from one of the greatest families of the Italian aristocracy, he could h...

    Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
  • 1997
    Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

    Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line (1997)

    Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

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    Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned excellent reviews for a bit part in a Broadway play — and she had a new name: Barbara Stanwyck....

    Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
  • 1947
    Variety Girl

    Variety Girl (1947)

    Variety Girl

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    Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick i...

    Variety Girl
  • 1979
    A Walking Tour of Sesame Street

    A Walking Tour of Sesame Street (1979)

    A Walking Tour of Sesame Street

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    Sesame Street celebrated its 10th anniversary in the spring of 1979 with a half-hour PBS special hosted by James Earl Jones titled A Walking Tour of Sesame Street. The special aired on individual PBS stations at various times between March and May 19...

    A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
  • 1982
    I Love Liberty

    I Love Liberty (1982)

    I Love Liberty

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    An all-star variety special saluting America....

    I Love Liberty
  • 2002
    Luchino Visconti

    Luchino Visconti (2002)

    Luchino Visconti

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    A chronological look at the creative life of Luchino Visconti (1906-1976). It examines his theatricality, role in the neorealist movement, use of melodrama, and relation to decadence. It touches on the impact of a fabulously wealthy childhood, his wr...

    Luchino Visconti
  • 1953
    Three Sailors and a Girl

    Three Sailors and a Girl (1953)

    Three Sailors and a Girl

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    A group of sailors invest in a musical revue....

    Three Sailors and a Girl
  • 1985
    Little Treasure

    Little Treasure (1985)

    Little Treasure

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    Margo is an ex-stripper who meets her long, lost father in Mexico. She looks after him in the waning days of his life, with the help of a traveling projectionist. The father passes away, telling of the loot from a botched bank robbery that he buried ...

    Little Treasure