Burt Lancaster — Actor (62)
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Elmer Gantry (1960) IMDb TMDB
Elmer Gantry
director: Richard Brooks actor: Burt Lancaster / Jean Simmons …
other title: Il figlio di Giuda / O Falso Profeta …
A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of the same name.
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Ulzana's Raid (1972)
Ulzana's Raid
director: Robert Aldrich actor: Burt Lancaster / Bruce Davison …
other title: Nessuna pietà per Ulzana / Ulzanas sidste kamp …
A report reaches the US Army Cavalry that the Apache leader Ulzana has left his reservation with a band of followers. A compassionate young officer, Lieutenant DeBuin, is given a small company to find him and bring him back; accompanying the troop is McIntosh, an experienced scout, and Ke-Ni-Tay, an Apache guide. Ulzana massacres, rapes and loots across the countryside; and as DeBuin encounters the remains of his victims, he is compelled to learn from McIntosh and to confront his own naivity and hidden prejudices.
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The Killers (1946)
The Killers
director: Robert Siodmak actor: Edmond O'Brien / Burt Lancaster …
other title: I gangsters / Den, der hævner …
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
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The Rainmaker (1956) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
The Rainmaker
director: Joseph Anthony actor: Burt Lancaster / Katharine Hepburn …
other title: Il mago della pioggia / Regnmageren …
Lizzie Curry is on the verge of becoming a hopeless old maid. Her wit and intelligence and skills as a homemaker can't make up for the fact that she's just plain plain! Even the town sheriff, File, for whom she harbors a secrect yen, won't take a chance --- until the town suffers a drought and into the lives of Lizzie and her brothers and father comes one Bill Starbuck ... profession: Rainmaker!
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) IMDb TMDB
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
director: Carl Reiner actor: Steve Martin / Rachel Ward …
other title: Il mistero del cadavere scomparso / Bogart Junior …
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.
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Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Sweet Smell of Success
★ 7.2 (6 ratings) director: Alexander Mackendrick actor: Burt Lancaster / Tony Curtis …
other title: Piombo rovente / Magtens sødme …
New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the method.
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Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Judgment at Nuremberg
director: Stanley Kramer actor: Spencer Tracy / Richard Widmark …
other title: Vincitori e vinti / Dommen i Nürnberg …
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.
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Field of Dreams (1989)
Field of Dreams
director: Phil Alden Robinson actor: Kevin Costner / Amy Madigan …
other title: L'uomo dei sogni / Campo dos Sonhos …
Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's directions don't stop -- even after the spirits of deceased ballplayers turn up to play.
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Brute Force (1947) IMDb TMDB
Brute Force
director: Jules Dassin actor: Burt Lancaster / Hume Cronyn …
other title: Forza bruta / Brutal magt …
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?
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Criss Cross (1949) IMDb TMDB
Criss Cross
director: Robert Siodmak actor: Burt Lancaster / Yvonne De Carlo …
other title: Doppio gioco / Døden giver ikke rabat …
An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.
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Conversation Piece (1974)
Gruppo di Famiglia in un Interno
director: Luchino Visconti actor: Burt Lancaster / Silvana Mangano …
other title: Gruppo di famiglia in un interno / Vold og lidenskab …
A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.
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The Leopard (1963)
Il gattopardo
★ 9.0 (6 ratings) director: Luchino Visconti actor: Burt Lancaster / Claudia Cardinale …
other title: Il gattopardo / Leoparden …
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.