Lee J. Cobb — Actor (48)
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But Not for Me (1959) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
But Not for Me
director: Walter Lang actor: Clark Gable / Carroll Baker …
other title: Ma non per me / Bei mir nicht …
Out of hit ideas and seemingly in the twilight of his career, Broadway producer Russ Ward decides to give up the game. But when Russ lays off his nubile secretary, Ellie Brown, she shocks him with a declaration of love. Inspired, Ward commands playwright MacDonald to rewrite his latest show as a May-December romance starring Brown herself. Ward struggles to make a comeback as his ex-wife, Kathryn, plots to end his new relationship.
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Double Indemnity (1973) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Double Indemnity
director: Jack Smight actor: Richard Crenna / Lee J. Cobb …
other title: Assurance sur la mort
A scheming wife lures an insurance investigator into helping murder her husband and then declare it an accident. The investigator's boss, not knowing his man is involved in it, suspects murder and sets out to prove it.
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Cross Shot (1976) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
La legge violenta della squadra anticrimine
director: Stelvio Massi actor: Lee J. Cobb / John Saxon …
other title: La legge violenta della squadra anticrimine / Die Killer der Apokalypse …
A mobster kills a cop during a robbery and then finds himself pursued by the police, his gang, and the media.
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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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The Left Hand of God (1955) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Left Hand of God
director: Edward Dmytryk actor: Humphrey Bogart / Gene Tierney …
other title: La mano sinistra di Dio / General Yangs fange …
A man in priestly robes, seemingly the long-awaited Father O'Shea, arrives at a little-frequented Catholic mission in 1947 China. Though the man seems curiously uncomfortable with his priestly duties, his tough tactics prove very successful in the Seven Villages, as around them China disintegrates in civil war and revolution. But he has a secret, and his friendship with mission nurse Anne (an attractive war widow) seems to be taking on an unpriestly tone.
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Captain from Castile (1947) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB Skybridge
Captain from Castile
director: Henry King actor: Tyrone Power / Jean Peters …
other title: Il capitano di Castiglia / Der Hauptmann von Kastilien …
Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to flee, Pedro, friend Juan Garcia, and adoring servant girl Catana join Cortez' first expedition to Mexico. Arriving in the rich new land, Cortez decides to switch from exploration to conquest...with only 500 men. Embroiled in continuous adventures and a romantic interlude, Pedro almost forgets he has a deadly enemy...
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Party Girl (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Party Girl
director: Nicholas Ray actor: Robert Taylor / Cyd Charisse …
other title: Il dominatore di Chicago / A Bela do Bas-Fond …
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.
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Golden Boy (1939) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Golden Boy
director: Rouben Mamoulian actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Adolphe Menjou …
other title: Passione / Sueño dorado
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his father. When gangsters try to buy a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.
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The Brothers Karamazov (1958) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
The Brothers Karamazov
director: Richard Brooks actor: Yul Brynner / Maria Schell …
other title: Karamazov / Os Irmãos Karamazov …
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Katya, herself lovely and rich. The other brothers include a sterile aesthete, a factotum who is a bastard, and a monk. Family tensions erupt when Dmitri falls in love with one of his father's mistresses, the coquette Grushenka. Two brothers see Dmitri's jealousy of their father as an opportunity to inherit sooner. Acts of violence lead to the story's conclusion: trials of honor, conscience, forgiveness, and redemption.
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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
director: Nunnally Johnson actor: Gregory Peck / Jennifer Jones …
other title: L'uomo dal vestito grigio / Der Mann im grauen Flanell …
Tom Rath is a suburban father and husband haunted by his memories of World War II, including a wartime romance with Italian village girl Maria, which resulted in an illegitimate son he's never seen. Pressed by his unhappy wife to get a higher-paying job, Rath goes to work as a public relations man for television network president Ralph Hopkins. Drawn into poisonous office politics, Tom finds he must choose his career or his family.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
director: Vincente Minnelli actor: Glenn Ford / Ingrid Thulin …
other title: I quattro cavalieri dell'Apocalisse / Die vier apokalyptischen Reiter …
In Argentina, one daughter of patriarch Madariaga is married to a Frenchman while the other is married to a German thus leading to a crisis when Nazi Germany occupies France and some Madariaga family members fight on opposite sides.
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The Trap (1959) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Trap
director: Norman Panama actor: Richard Widmark / Lee J. Cobb …
other title: L'agguato / Die Falle von Tula …
Lawyer Ralph Anderson arrives in Tula, an amazingly remote town in the desert, as reluctant emissary of mob chief Victor Massonetti, who wants the airstrip clear for his unofficial exit from the country. Ralph's arrival has a profound effect on his estranged father, the sheriff; his brother Tip, an alcoholic deputy; and his ex-sweetheart Linda, now married to Tip. Tension builds as a small army of gangsters takes over the town. Then the situation abruptly changes...
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The Miracle of the Bells (1948) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Miracle of the Bells
director: Irving Pichel actor: Fred MacMurray / Alida Valli …
other title: Il miracolo delle campane / Die Glocken von Coaltown …
The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three days after she was buried, but is told that this will cost a lot of money. The checks that he writes to the various churches all bounce, but it is the weekend and, in desperation, he prays that a miracle will happen before the banks reopen. It does, but not in the way he hoped.
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Johnny O'Clock (1947) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Johnny O'Clock
director: Robert Rossen actor: Dick Powell / Evelyn Keyes …
other title: A sangue freddo / L'Heure du crime
When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's affection and decides to run away with her, but conflict within his business threatens their plans. As Johnny tries to distance himself from the casino, his shady past comes back to haunt him.