Lawrence Tierney — Actor (32)
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A Child Is Waiting (1963)
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John Cassavetes actor: Burt Lancaster / Judy Garland …
other title: Gli esclusi / Minha Esperança É Você …
Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her life some meaning, joins the staff of the hospital. Jean, who tries to shelter the children with her love, suspiciously regards Dr. Clark's stern training methods. She becomes emotionally involved with 12-year-old Reuben Widdicombe, who has been abandoned by his divorced parents.
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Step by Step (1946)
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Phil Rosen actor: Lawrence Tierney / Anne Jeffreys …
other title: Paso a paso
Marine veteran Johnny Christopher meets and is immediately drawn to beautiful Evelyn Smith one day on the beach. Evelyn's new job as secretary to a U.S. senator in California soon brings unexpected intrigue and trouble for her and Johnny. The machinations of a sinister group of Nazi spies lead to mysteries and mistaken identities, and the two soon find themselves framed for murder!
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The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947)
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Felix E. Feist actor: Lawrence Tierney / Ted North …
other title: Autostop al infierno
Steve Morgan kills a man in a holdup and hitches a ride to Los Angeles with Fergie. At a gas station, they pick up two women. Encountering a roadblock, Morgan takes over and persuades the party to spend the night at an unoccupied beach house. The police close in as one by one, the others learn that Morgan is a killer.
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Portrait in Red (1995)
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T.L. Lankford actor: Lisa Comshaw / Clayton Norcross …
An artist with a rather unusual art-style literally uses all the men she likes for her artworks. Bodies begin to pile up in abandoned alleyways, and the case is handed out to a homicide detective to bring in the artistic serial killer.
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Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987)
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Norman Mailer actor: Ryan O'Neal / Isabella Rossellini …
other title: I duri non ballano / Harte Männer tanzen nicht …
Tim Madden awakens one morning to discover a fresh tattoo on his arm, his car covered in blood, his girlfriend in bed with the town sheriff, and a woman's severed head in his weed stash. Sensing a setup and in desperate need to clear his name, he begins an investigation that soon begins to expose a web of corruption in the small coastal community of Provincetown.
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Shakedown (1950)
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Joseph Pevney actor: Howard Duff / Brian Donlevy …
other title: Jack il ricattatore / Ohne Skrupel
Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.
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Midnight (1982)
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John A. Russo actor: Melanie Verlin / Lawrence Tierney …
other title: Tras la medianoche
While hitchhiking to escape an abusive home life, a teenage girl is picked up by a couple on a camping trip. The trip turns deadly when a group of Satanists, hellbent on resurrecting their dead mother, attack the campers.
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From a Whisper to a Scream (1987)
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Jeff Burr actor: Vincent Price / Clu Gulager …
other title: Il villaggio delle streghe / Die Nacht der Schreie …
The uncle of an executed murderess relates four stories of his hometown, Oldfield, to a reporter. In the first, an elderly man pursues a romance with a younger woman, even to the grave and beyond. In the second, a wounded man on the run from creditors is rescued by a backwoods hermit who holds the secret to eternal life. In the third, a glass-eating carny pays the ultimate price for looking for love on the outside. And in the fourth, a group of Civil War soldiers are held captive by a household of orphans with strange intentions for them.
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Dillinger (1945)
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Max Nosseck actor: Lawrence Tierney / Edmund Lowe …
other title: Lo sterminatore / Dillinger, l'ennemi public n° 1 …
The life of American public enemy number one who was shot by the police in 1934.
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Nothing Lasts Forever (1984)
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Tom Schiller actor: Zach Galligan / Apollonia van Ravenstein …
other title: Alles ist vergänglich / Nada es eterno …
An artist fails a test and is required to direct traffic in New York City's Holland Tunnel. He winds up falling in love with a beautiful woman, who takes him to the moon on a Lunar Cruiser.
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The Ghost Ship (1943)
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Mark Robson actor: Richard Dix / Russell Wade …
other title: Le vaisseau fantôme / El barco fantasma …
Captain Stone's newly recruited officer, Tom Merriam, idolizes his senior who treats him like a friend. But when a couple of his crew members die mysteriously, Tom starts doubting Stone's authority.
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Bad (1977)
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Jed Johnson actor: Carroll Baker / Perry King …
other title: Il male di Andy Warhol / Andy Warhol's Bad …
Hazel runs a beauty salon out of her house, but makes extra money by providing ruthless women the oppurtunity to perform hit jobs. L.T. is a parasite, and contacts Hazel looking for work after he runs out of money. She is reluctant to use him for a hit, since she prefers using women, but decides to try him on a trial basis. Meanwhile, the cop she pays off wants an arrest to make it look like he's doing his job, but Hazel doesn't want to sacrifice any of her "associates". The sleazy side of life is explored in this delightfully dark and deadpan film.
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Abduction (1975)
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Joseph Zito actor: Judith Marie-Bergan / David Pendleton …
other title: Patty - Die meistgesuchteste Frau Amerikas / Rapt …
The daughter of wealthy businessman is taken hostage by a gang of radical black revolutionaries. While she fears for her life at first, she gradually starts to become sympathetic to her kidnappers' cause, and begins to consider herself to be one of them.