Strother Martin — Actor (25)
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
director: John Ford actor: John Wayne / James Stewart …
other title: L'uomo che uccise Liberty Valance / Manden der skød Liberty Valance …
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 saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.
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Cool Hand Luke (1967) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB NeoDB WikiData
Cool Hand Luke
director: Stuart Rosenberg actor: Paul Newman / George Kennedy …
other title: Nick mano fredda / Skrappe Luke …
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
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Kiss Me Deadly (1955) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData IMDb
Kiss Me Deadly
director: Robert Aldrich actor: Ralph Meeker / Albert Dekker …
other title: Un bacio e una pistola / O Beijo Fatal …
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
director: Sam Peckinpah actor: Jason Robards / Stella Stevens …
other title: La ballata di Cable Hogue / Præriens tørstige mand …
Double-crossed and left without water in the desert, Cable Hogue is saved when he finds a spring. It is in just the right spot for a much needed rest stop on the local stagecoach line, and Hogue uses this to his advantage. He builds a house and makes money off the stagecoach passengers. Hildy, a prostitute from the nearest town, moves in with him. Hogue has everything going his way until the advent of the automobile ends the era of the stagecoach.
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The Wild Bunch (1969) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData
The Wild Bunch
director: Sam Peckinpah actor: William Holden / Ernest Borgnine …
other title: Il mucchio selvaggio / Den vilde bande …
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
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True Grit (1969) [Movie] Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb NeoDB
True Grit
director: Henry Hathaway actor: John Wayne / Kim Darby …
other title: Il Grinta / De frygtløse …
The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of getting the job done.
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Rooster Cogburn (1975) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData
Rooster Cogburn
director: Stuart Millar actor: John Wayne / Katharine Hepburn …
other title: Torna El Grinta / Sheriffen og pebermøen …
After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Reverend Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the aid of US Marshal Cogburn to hunt them down and bring her father's killers to justice.
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Up in Smoke (1978) [Movie] TMDB Douban WikiData IMDb
Up in Smoke
director: Lou Adler actor: Cheech Marin / Tommy Chong …
other title: Cheech & Chong: Op i røg / E Tudo o Fumo Levou …
An unemployed pot-smoking slacker and amateur drummer, Anthony Stoner ditches his strict parents and hits the road, eventually meeting kindred spirit Pedro de Pacas. While the drug-ingesting duo is soon arrested for possession of marijuana, Anthony and Pedro get released on a technicality, allowing them to continue their many misadventures and ultimately compete in a rock band contest, where they perform the raucous tune "Earache My Eye."
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The Champ (1979) [Movie] TMDB
The Champ
director: Franco Zeffirelli actor: Jon Voight / Faye Dunaway …
other title: Il campione / Der Champ …
Billy used to be a great boxer, but he's settled into a hardscrabble life that revolves around drinking, training horses, and the one bright spot in his existence — his young son, T.J. Although Billy has had custody of T.J. since his wife, Annie, left the family years ago, her return prompts a new struggle for the former fighter. Determined to hold on to his son, Billy gets back into the ring to try and recapture his past success.
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A Star Is Born (1954) [Movie] TMDB
A Star Is Born
director: George Cukor actor: Judy Garland / James Mason …
other title: È nata una stella / En stjerne fødes …
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
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The Asphalt Jungle (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Asphalt Jungle
director: John Huston actor: Sterling Hayden / Louis Calhern …
other title: Giungla d'asfalto / Asfaltjunglen …
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
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World Without End (1956) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
World Without End
director: Edward Bernds actor: Hugh Marlowe / Nancy Gates …
other title: Mondo senza fine / Planet des Grauens …
Four astronauts returning from man's first mission to Mars enter a time warp and crash on a 26th Century Earth devastated by atomic war. At first unaware where they are, but finding the atmosphere safe to breathe, they start exploring and find themselves in a divided future where disfigured mutants living like cavemen inhabit the surface, while the normals live comfortably below the surface but are dying as a race from lack of natural water, air and sunlight.
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The Magnetic Monster (1953) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Magnetic Monster
director: Curt Siodmak / Herbert L. Strock actor: Richard Carlson / King Donovan …
other title: Il mostro magnetico / El monstruo magnético
The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process. Although microscopic, it will soon become big enough to destroy Earth; and how to stop it is yet to be determined. The film's Deltatron special effects footage is taken from the 1934 German sci-fi film GOLD.
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Slap Shot (1977) [Movie] IMDb WikiData
Slap Shot
director: George Roy Hill actor: Paul Newman / Strother Martin …
other title: Colpo secco / Vale Tudo …
To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.
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Hard Times (1975) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Hard Times
director: Walter Hill actor: Charles Bronson / James Coburn …
other title: L'eroe della strada / The Streetfighter …
In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of no-holds-barred street boxing bouts. They go to New Orleans where Speed borrows money to set up fights for Chaney, but Speed gambles away any winnings.
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Love and Bullets (1979) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Love and Bullets
director: Stuart Rosenberg / John Huston actor: Charles Bronson / Jill Ireland …
other title: Tiro incrociato / Ein Mann räumt auf …
Jackie Pruit is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa. When it looks as if Bomposa's goons are threatening Jackie's life, the FBI moves in to protect her, hoping that she'll have incriminating evidence. Veteran agent Charlie Congers is assigned to watch over Jackie, and while it soon becomes apparent that she knows almost nothing about Bomposa that would be of any use to the FBI, he falls in love with her. Bomposa decides it would be more convenient to have Jackie out of the way, ordering her to be executed. Bomposa's henchmen slip through FBI security and murder her, but now they have to answer the angry and vengeful Congers.
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Hannie Caulder (1971) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Hannie Caulder
director: Burt Kennedy actor: Raquel Welch / Robert Culp …
other title: La Texana e i fratelli Penitenza / In einem Sattel mit dem Tod …
After she's raped by the outlaw trio who murdered her husband, a frontierswoman hires a bounty hunter to instruct her in the ways of a gun in order to exact her revenge.
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Brainstorm (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Brainstorm
director: William Conrad actor: Jeffrey Hunter / Anne Francis …
other title: Un'idea per un delitto / Das teuflische Spiel …
Scientist Jim Grayam saves his boss' wife from suicide but then falls in love with her.