Strother Martin — Actor (34)
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The Magnetic Monster (1953)
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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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World Without End (1956)
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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 Asphalt Jungle (1950)
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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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The Champ (1979)
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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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Up in Smoke (1978)
Up in Smoke
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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True Grit (1969)
True Grit
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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The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
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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Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Kiss Me Deadly
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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Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Cool Hand Luke
★ 7.6 5 ratings
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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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
★ 7.2 5 ratings
John Ford actor: Andy Devine / Andy Devine …
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.