Richard Brooks — Playwright (25)
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The Light Touch (1951) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Light Touch
director: Richard Brooks actor: Stewart Granger / Pier Angeli …
other title: L'immagine meravigliosa / Begegnung in Tunis …
After a professional art thief steals a religious painting from an Italian museum, he tries to cheat his partner by claiming the painting was accidentally destroyed but his suspicious partner and the police are determined to find it.
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Any Number Can Play (1949) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Any Number Can Play
director: Mervyn LeRoy actor: Clark Gable / Alexis Smith …
other title: Fate il vostro gioco / Hoher Einsatz …
When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his work separate from his life at home. His son, Paul, feels ashamed of Charley's career and gets into a fight at his prom because of it. Meanwhile, Charley's brother-in-law, Robbin, who works at the casino, begins fixing games due to his extreme gambling debts.
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The Brothers Karamazov (1958) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
The Brothers Karamazov
director: Richard Brooks actor: Yul Brynner / Maria Schell …
other title: Karamazov / Os Irmãos Karamazov …
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Katya, herself lovely and rich. The other brothers include a sterile aesthete, a factotum who is a bastard, and a monk. Family tensions erupt when Dmitri falls in love with one of his father's mistresses, the coquette Grushenka. Two brothers see Dmitri's jealousy of their father as an opportunity to inherit sooner. Acts of violence lead to the story's conclusion: trials of honor, conscience, forgiveness, and redemption.
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Bite the Bullet (1975) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Bite the Bullet
director: Richard Brooks actor: Gene Hackman / Candice Bergen …
other title: Stringi i denti e vai! / Bid tænderne sammen …
At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, among them a woman, Miss Jones, a Mexican, an Englishman, a young cow-boy, an old one and two friends, Sam Clayton and Luke Matthews. All those individualists will learn to respect each other.
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Deadline - U.S.A. (1952) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Deadline - U.S.A.
director: Richard Brooks actor: Humphrey Bogart / Ethel Barrymore …
other title: L'ultima minaccia / Die Maske runter! …
New York City newspaper The Day is in trouble. Even though editor Ed Hutcheson has worked hard running the paper, its circulation has been steadily declining. Now the publisher's widow wants to sell the paper, which will most likely mean its end. Hutcheson's only hope is to finish his exposé on a dangerous gangster before the sale is finalized.
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$ (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
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director: Richard Brooks actor: Warren Beatty / Goldie Hawn …
other title: Il genio della rapina / Der Millionenraub …
A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob the safety deposit boxes of three very different criminals from a high-tech bank in Hamburg.
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Wrong Is Right (1982) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Wrong Is Right
director: Richard Brooks actor: Sean Connery / George Grizzard …
other title: Obiettivo mortale / Manden med det livsfarlige kamera …
Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in this swift, funny and frightening look at the possibilities in today's political arenas. Sean Connery stars as TV Newsman Patrick Hale on an international chase to track two suitcase sized nuclear weapons and to uncover the twisting maze of apparent involvement of US Government agencies.
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Something of Value (1957) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Something of Value
director: Richard Brooks actor: Rock Hudson / Dana Wynter …
other title: Qualcosa che vale / Flammen über Afrika …
As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British colonist, find themselves on opposite sides of the struggle in this provocative drama. Though each is devoted to his cause, both wish for a more moderate path -- but their hopes for a peaceful resolution are thwarted by rage, colonial arrogance and escalating violence on both sides.
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White Savage (1943) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
White Savage
director: Arthur Lubin actor: Maria Montez / Jon Hall …
other title: Selvaggia bianca / Fluch der Tempelgötter
A native boy plays Cupid for a shark fisherman and a South Sea Islands princess.
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Mystery Street (1950) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Mystery Street
director: John Sturges actor: Ricardo Montalban / Sally Forrest …
other title: La strada del mistero / Die Tote in den Dünen …
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.
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Key Largo (1948) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Key Largo
director: John Huston actor: Humphrey Bogart / Edward G. Robinson …
other title: L'isola di corallo / Uvejrsøen Key Largo …
A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud.
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Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban
Sweet Bird of Youth
director: Richard Brooks actor: Paul Newman / Geraldine Page …
other title: La dolce ala della giovinezza / Corações na Penumbra …
Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter of the local politician Tom "Boss" Finley, who more or less forced him to leave his daughter and the town many years ago.
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Cobra Woman (1944) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Cobra Woman
director: Robert Siodmak actor: Maria Montez / Jon Hall …
other title: Il cobra / Die Schlangenpriesterin …
A man tracks his kidnapped bride to a jungle island, where her twin is the high priestess.
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Storm Warning (1951) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
Storm Warning
director: Stuart Heisler actor: 金杰·罗杰斯 / 罗纳德·里根 …
other title: Dilema de uma Consciência / Der Gefangene des Ku-Klux-Klan …
A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister.
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Blackboard Jungle (1955) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Blackboard Jungle
director: Richard Brooks actor: Glenn Ford / Anne Francis …
other title: Il seme della violenza / Sementes de Violência …
Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students' interest in education, challenging both the school staff and the pupils. He is subjected to violence as well as duplicitous schemes.
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Elmer Gantry (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
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.