Edmond O'Brien
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Edmond O'Brien (September 10, 1915 – May 9, 1985) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor who is perhaps best remembered for his role in D.O.A. (1950). His many memorable films included The Killers, White Heat, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Wild Bunch.
He also co-starred with Richard Rust in the NBC legal drama Sam Benedict, which aired during the 1962-1963 television season.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 11.584 |
| Birthday | 1915-09-10 |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Edmund O'Brien, Edmond Joseph O'Brien, |
1962
Birdman of Alcatraz
7.483/299
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stro...
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Birdman of Alcatraz
1969
The Wild Bunch
7.602/1200
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
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The Wild Bunch
1966
Fantastic Voyage
6.7/446
In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.
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Fantastic Voyage
2005
White Heat: Top of the World
8/1
An examination of "White Heat" (1949) by film historians and critics.
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White Heat: Top of the World
1956
1984
6.5/120
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
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1984
1954
Shield for Murder
6.6/31
A crooked detective masterminds a robbery then fights to keep his money.
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Shield for Murder
1953
Julius Caesar
7/211
The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic.
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Julius Caesar
1962
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
7.775/1152
Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon...
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1964
Seven Days in May
7.3/197
A U.S. Army colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
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Seven Days in May
1939
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
7.3/195
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback...
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1957
The Comedian
9/1
Sammy Hogarth, a vaudeville comedian who now has his own TV show, is a ruthless egomaniac who demands instant obedience from his staff and heaps abuse...
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The Comedian
1982
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
6.628/390
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist...
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1962
The Longest Day
7.6/942
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the d...
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The Longest Day
1950
Backfire
5.8/28
When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on th...
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Backfire
1954
The Barefoot Contessa
6.779/228
Has-been director Harry Dawes gets a new lease on his career when the independently wealthy tycoon Kirk Edwards hires him to write and direct a film....
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The Barefoot Contessa
1951
Two of a Kind
6.7/12
A con woman and a lawyer get a carnival grifter to pose as an elderly rich couple's long-lost son.
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Two of a Kind
1969
The Love God?
6/15
Ornithologist Abner Peacock sells off his modest-selling birdwatching periodical to a charlatan who turns it into a girlie mag, making it a massive fi...
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The Love God?
1947
The Web
7/41
A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly real...
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The Web
1953
The Hitch-Hiker
6.8/186
Roy and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He's kill...
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The Hitch-Hiker
1947
A Double Life
6.3/67
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.
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A Double Life
1956
A Cry in the Night
5.2/19
A police captain's emotions get in the way when his daughter is kidnapped.
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A Cry in the Night
1960
The 3rd Voice
5.8/10
Marian Forbes has been having an affair with her boss and when he drops her for another woman. In an act of jealousy and greed she convinces an acquai...
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The 3rd Voice
1946
The Killers
7.345/386
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Si...
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The Killers
1956
The Girl Can't Help It
6.1/65
A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star within six weeks.
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The Girl Can't Help It
1950
711 Ocean Drive
6.3/36
A telephone repairman in Los Angeles uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie set up a betting operation. After the bookie is murdered, the...
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711 Ocean Drive
1955
Pete Kelly's Blues
6.1/25
In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange fo...
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Pete Kelly's Blues
1948
An Act of Murder
6.8/20
A man kills his terminally ill wife to prevent her further suffering.
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An Act of Murder
1952
The Turning Point
6.258/31
Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. John doesn't unders...
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The Turning Point
1950
The Admiral Was a Lady
6.1/6
Ex-WAVE encounters four fun-loving, work-hating men, all of whom want to marry her.
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The Admiral Was a Lady
1950
Between Midnight and Dawn
5.8/26
Rocky and Dan, war buddies, are prowl car cops on night duty. Dan is a cynic who views all lawbreakers as scum; Rocky feels more lenient. Both are att...
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Between Midnight and Dawn
1960
The Last Voyage
6.2/40
The S. S. Claridon is scheduled for her five last voyages after thirty-eight years of service. After an explosion in the boiler room, Captain Robert A...
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The Last Voyage
1972
They Only Kill Their Masters
5.3/11
An enigmatic young woman has been murdered in a small California coast town. The investigation by the local sheriff uncovers a complex web of relation...
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They Only Kill Their Masters
1949
White Heat
7.652/480
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After th...
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White Heat
1943
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
6.4/7
A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
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The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1960
The Great Impostor
6.9/21
Fictionalized account of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., who stole or created fictional identities and worked in a variety of occupations, most quite succ...
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The Great Impostor
1956
D-Day the Sixth of June
5.3/26
En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances with the same woman.
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D-Day the Sixth of June
1962
Moon Pilot
5.4/21
An Air Force captain inadvertently volunteers to make the first manned flight around the moon. He immediately falls under the watchful protection of v...
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Moon Pilot
1959
Up Periscope
6.3/32
Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy...
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Up Periscope
1953
Man in the Dark
5.9/22
Many interested parties are after the loot from a factory payroll heist but the mobster who hid it has amnesia after undergoing experimental brain sur...
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Man in the Dark
1949
D.O.A.
6.913/173
Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determi...
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D.O.A.
1974
99 and 44/100% Dead
4.6/11
Uncle Frank Kelly calls on Harry Crown to help him in a gang war. The war becomes personal when Harry's new girlfriend is kidnapped by Uncle Frank's e...
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99 and 44/100% Dead
2004
Los Angeles Plays Itself
7.7/52
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen...
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
1956
The Rack
6.6/25
Army Captain Edward Hall returns to the U.S. after two years in a prison camp in the Korean War. In the camp, he was brainwashed and helped the Chines...
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The Rack
1953
The Bigamist
6.4/93
San Francisco businessman Harry Graham and his wife and business partner, Eve, are in the process of adopting a child. When private investigator Mr. J...
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The Bigamist
1949
Task Force
7/13
After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott and his pals spend the next two decades promoting the...
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Task Force
1948
For the Love of Mary
5.8/6
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.
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For the Love of Mary
1956
A Ticket for Thaddeus
7/1
A Polish refugee and new citizen gets involved in a slight car accident, but he doesn't fully understand American life, and believes he will be sent t...
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A Ticket for Thaddeus
1973
Lucky Luciano
6.3/66
Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss. But a few years l...
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Lucky Luciano
1964
The Hanged Man
4.6/3
A gunman whose best friend has been murdered enacts a plan to blackmail the corrupt labor union leader responsible but finds he isn't the only one aft...
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The Hanged Man
1965
Sylvia
6.2/8
Sylvia West (Carroll Baker) may not be who she says she is. Her fiancé, the very well-to-do Frederick Summers (Peter Lawford), hires an investigator n...
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Sylvia
1948
Fighter Squadron
5.7/11
During World War II, an insubordinate fighter pilot finds the shoe on the other foot when he's promoted.
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Fighter Squadron
1951
The Redhead and The Cowboy
4.9/8
Gil Kyle finds himself caught up in the politics and unrest of the American Civil War and soon gets himself framed for a murder. His only alibi is Can...
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The Redhead and The Cowboy
1965
Synanon
6/2
A dramatization of the goings on at a drug rehabilitation home. Filmed at the original Synanon House in Santa Monica, California.
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Synanon
1958
The World Was His Jury
5.9/4
A sea captain stands trial for manslaughter after 162 people are killed in a fire aboard his cruise ship. Director Fred F. Sears' 1958 drama stars Edm...
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The World Was His Jury
1942
Powder Town
3.7/3
Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret formula at an explosives plant, stars Edmond O'Brien...
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Powder Town
1953
China Venture
7.5/2
American soldiers undertake a mission to capture a Japanese admiral who has survived an air crash in China during WWII.
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China Venture
1948
Another Part of the Forest
7.6/11
This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.
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Another Part of the Forest
1957
Stopover Tokyo
5.6/6
An American intelligence agent is sent to Tokyo to track down a Communist spy ring.
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Stopover Tokyo
1952
Denver and Rio Grande
5.4/12
Jim Vesser and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less scrupulous construction workers sab...
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Denver and Rio Grande
1942
Obliging Young Lady
5/2
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
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Obliging Young Lady
1944
Winged Victory
5.5/2
Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with...
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Winged Victory
1951
Warpath
5.8/12
John Vickers has spent eight years hunting for the three men who murdered the woman he loved. He finds one, Woodson, and kills him in a gunfight, but...
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Warpath
1941
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
4.7/3
Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as h...
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A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
1967
To Commit a Murder
4.5/4
A writer gets wrapped up in espionage.
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To Commit a Murder
1954
The Shanghai Story
4.8/9
Shanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a hotel by the communist authorities in order to find the s...
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The Shanghai Story
1971
What's a Nice Girl Like You...?
5.5/2
A Bronx working girl is drawn into an elaborate extortion plot after being kidnapped by a gang of sophisticated con men who force her, because of her...
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What's a Nice Girl Like You...?
1973
Isn't It Shocking?
6.1/9
A small-town sheriff is confronted with the deaths of local senior citizens and strange goings-on in his town.
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Isn't It Shocking?
1941
Parachute Battalion
5.5/4
Director Leslie Goodwins' 1941 military drama, about various men who become buddies when they join the paratroopers, stars Robert Preston, Edmond O'Br...
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Parachute Battalion
1967
The Viscount
5.9/5
Inspector for a major insurance company, Clint de La Roche, known as "le vicomte", is enjoying a pleasant vacation on the Spanish coast with a few pre...
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The Viscount
1958
Sing Boy Sing
6/1
The teenage son of a rural preacher becomes a huge Elvis-like rock 'n' roll star, but he has trouble adjusting to fame and success.
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Sing Boy Sing
1970
The Intruders
5.7/3
The James and Younger outlaw gangs ride into town, and it is up to the local marshal, who has lost both his nerve and his gun skills, to stop them.
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The Intruders
1957
The Big Land
6.2/16
Back home in Texas following the Civil War, former Confederate officer Chad Morgan (Alan Ladd) leads a cattle drive to Missouri, assuring fellow ranch...
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The Big Land
1966
The Doomsday Flight
6.5/5
A bomb on board an airliner has an altitude-sensitive trigger. Unless a ransom is paid, it will explode when the plane descends to land.
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The Doomsday Flight
1971
River of Mystery
0/0
A couple of freelance explosives experts find jungle adventure while being stalked by a revolutionary leader and a diamond hunter.
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River of Mystery
1972
Jigsaw
0/0
In this pilot for the 1972-73 series, a detective specializing in missing persons cases finds himself accused of murder after being found unconscious...
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Jigsaw
1953
Cow Country
4.4/6
A hired hand gets caught between a noble rancher and ruthless land grabbers.
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Cow Country
2018
The Other Side of the Wind
6.7/215
Surrounded by fans and skeptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years abroad in Europe to a changed Hollywood, where he attempts...
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The Other Side of the Wind
1947
Something in the Wind
6.3/7
A grandson of a recently deceased millionaire mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, who once dated the grandfather.
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Something in the Wind
1964
Rio Conchos
6.2/50
Two Army officers, an alcoholic ex-Confederate soldier and a womanizing Mexican travel to Mexico on a secret mission to prevent a megalomaniacal ex-Co...
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Rio Conchos
1951
Silver City
6.5/8
Having masterminded the hold up of his company office, a mining engineer is barred from the industry. He then sets up shop as an assayer, scheming to...
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Silver City
1955
Dark Stranger
0/0
A writer's fiction becomes terrifying reality, sucking him into his own novel being played out.
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Dark Stranger
1970
Dream No Evil
5.667/18
Grace is a troubled young lady with some serious daddy issues. She was adopted as a young girl and raised up in a family of traveling faith healers. A...
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Dream No Evil
1959
The Ambitious One
6.5/1
This Yves Allegret film is set in French Polynesia and stars Edmond O'Brien, Richard Basehart, Andrea Parisy, Nicole Berger and Reg Lye. Basehart is t...
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The Ambitious One
2000
Déjà-Vu
10/1
A cinematic experience by Douglas Gordon - in which the film D.O.A. is screened simultaneously on three screens beside one another, but at slightly di...
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Déjà-Vu
1967
The Outsider
6/1
Darren McGavin is David Ross, a private investigator playing a game of follow the money. A simple case of embezzling turns bad quickly when bodies sta...
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The Outsider
1952
The Greatest Show on Earth
6.3/250
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won c...
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The Greatest Show on Earth
1964
The Adventures of Gallegher
0/0
An energetic newspaper copyboy in 1889 wants to become a reporter, and he is soon more deeply involved in his stories than he had expected. When he di...
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The Adventures of Gallegher
1965
The Further Adventures of Gallegher
0/0
The young copyboy helps the town’s first female newspaper reporter, who is writing a series on confidence men. The swindlers are caught up in a sting,...
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The Further Adventures of Gallegher
1996
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
6.9/7
Oscar nominated "Making of" documentary about Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch.
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The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
2010
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
6.742/33
In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first...
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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
1949
Under Capricorn
6/169
A native Briton banished to Australia for murder, and his wife, Henrietta, the disturbed sister of the man he was convicted on killing, set out to hel...
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