Strother Martin — Actor (34)
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The Magnetic Monster (1953) [Movie] IMDb TMDB 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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World Without End (1956) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
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 Asphalt Jungle (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Skybridge
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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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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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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Rooster Cogburn (1975) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB 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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True Grit (1969) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb NeoDB Skybridge WikiData
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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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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Kiss Me Deadly (1955) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb Skybridge WikiData
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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Cool Hand Luke (1967) [Movie] Douban IMDb NeoDB Skybridge TMDB 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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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) [Movie] Douban IMDb NeoDB TMDB WikiData Skybridge
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
8.6 (12 ratings) director: George Roy Hill actor: Paul Newman / Robert Redford …
other title: Butch Cassidy / Butch Cassidy e Sundance Kid …
As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by a posse and decide to flee to South America in hopes of evading the law.
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb Skybridge WikiData
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
7.2 (5 ratings) director: 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.