Samuel Fuller — Playwright (25)
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The Deadly Trackers (1973) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Deadly Trackers
director: Barry Shear actor: Richard Harris / Rod Taylor …
other title: La rossa ombra di Riata / Fúria no Sangue …
Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick is a pacifist. Frank Brand is the leader of a band of killers. When their paths cross Kilpatrick is compelled to go against everything he has stood for to bring death to Brand and his gang. Through his hunt into Mexico he is challenged by a noble Mexican Sheriff interested only in carrying out the law - not vengeance.
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Street of No Return (1989) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Street of No Return
director: Samuel Fuller actor: Keith Carradine / Valentina Vargas …
other title: Strada senza ritorno / Straße ohne Wiederkehr …
A rock star-turned-bum, his vocal chords severed at the height of his career for the love of a woman, drunkenly roams the city, torn apart by sponsored race riots. When accused of murder, he may have the chance to get revenge on the magnate who maimed him.
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The Meanest Men in the West (1978) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Meanest Men in the West
director: Charles S. Dubin / Samuel Fuller actor: Charles Bronson / Lee J. Cobb …
other title: Quel dannato pugno di uomini / Der gefährlichste Mann des Westens …
Bronson and Marvin star as murderous half-brothers who are running from the law as well as each other. A climatic confrontation proves to each of them just how mean the other can be. "The Meanest Men in the West" is actually an amalgam of two episodes of the hit 1960's TV series, "The Virginian." In one installment, a wealthy man's daughter is kidnapped by a nasty gunslinger. But the crime is only just a means for the ruffian to draw the tough title character into a blood- thirsty revenge scheme. In the second, a drifter burglarizes the Shiloh ranch. Then an unhinged girl relies on the man to aid in her flight from home.
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Margin for Error (1943) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Margin for Error
director: Otto Preminger actor: Joan Bennett / Milton Berle …
other title: Marge d'erreur / Margen de error
When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer by the mayor of New York City, Finkelstein turns in his badge, convinced he has to quit the service because the man is a Nazi.
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Hell and High Water (1954) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Hell and High Water
director: Samuel Fuller actor: Richard Widmark / Bella Darvi …
other title: Operazione mistero / O Demónio dos Mares …
A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer to conduct an Alaskan submarine expedition in order to prevent a Red Chinese anti-American plot that may lead to World War III. Mixes deviously plotted schoolboy fiction with submarine spectacle and cold war heroics.
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Power of the Press (1943) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Power of the Press
director: Lew Landers actor: Guy Kibbee / Lee Tracy …
other title: El poder de la prensa
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, is brought in to find the culprits.
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Shockproof (1949) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Shockproof
director: Douglas Sirk actor: Cornel Wilde / Patricia Knight …
other title: Fiori nel fango / Unerschütterliche Liebe …
Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful eye of her parole officer, Griff Marat, who helps her secure a job caring for his ailing mother.
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Dogface (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Dogface
director: Samuel Fuller actor: Luke Anthony / Neyle Morrow …
This unaired pilot for a series Fuller pitched to CBS about a U.S. infantry troop fighting its way through Nazi-held North Africa offers a fascinating new angle on Fuller’s relationship with the average foot soldier and moral complexity of war.
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The Baron of Arizona (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Baron of Arizona
director: Samuel Fuller actor: Vincent Price / Ellen Drew …
other title: Il barone dell'Arizona / Der Baron von Arizona …
The U.S. government recognizes land grants made when the West was under Spanish rule. This inspires James Reavis to forge a chain of historical evidence that makes a foundling girl the Baroness of Arizona. Reavis marries the girl and presses his claim to the entire Arizona territory.
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The Klansman (1974) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Klansman
director: Terence Young actor: Richard Burton / Lee Marvin …
other title: L'uomo del clan / Verflucht sind sie alle …
A small southern town has just been rocked by a tragedy: a young white woman has been raped by a black man. When young black man Garth witnesses the Ku Klux Klan's violent retaliation against his innocent friend, Garth declares a one-man war on the Klan and hunts them down one-by-one.
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Fixed Bayonets! (1951) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Fixed Bayonets!
director: Samuel Fuller actor: Richard Basehart / Gene Evans …
other title: I figli della gloria / Der letzte Angriff …
The story of a platoon during the Korean War. One by one, Corporal Denno's superiors are killed until it comes to the point where he must try to take command responsibility.
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Merrill's Marauders (1962) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Merrill's Marauders
director: Samuel Fuller actor: Jeff Chandler / Ty Hardin …
other title: L'urlo della battaglia / Junglekrig i Burma …
Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), aka "Merrill's Marauders", behind Japanese lines across Burma to Myitkyina, pushing beyond their limits and fighting pitched battles at every strong-point.
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The Big Red One (1980) [Movie] IMDb WikiData NeoDB TMDB Skybridge
The Big Red One
director: Samuel Fuller actor: Lee Marvin / Mark Richard Hamill …
other title: Il grande uno rosso / Den barske elite …
A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.
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Shark (1969) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Shark
director: Samuel Fuller actor: Burt Reynolds / Barry Sullivan …
other title: 4 bastardi per un posto all'inferno / Outsider …
A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.
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Forty Guns (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Forty Guns
director: Samuel Fuller actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Barry Sullivan …
other title: 40 pistole / Vierzig Gewehre …
An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshall arrives to set things straight, the cattle queen finds herself falling for the avowedly non-violent lawman. Both have itchy-fingered brothers, a female gunman enters the picture, and things go desperately wrong.