Nicholas Ray — Director (12)
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The True Story of Jesse James (1957)
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Nicholas Ray actor: Robert Wagner / Jeffrey Hunter …
other title: La vera storia di Jess il bandito / Rächer der Enterbten …
Having fought with the Confederacy during the Civil War, Jesse James and his brother Frank dream of a farm life in Missouri. Harassed by Union sympathizers, they assemble a gang of outlaws, robbing trains and becoming folk heroes in the process. Jesse marries his sweetheart, Zee, and maintains an aura of domesticity, but after a group of lawmen launch an attack on his mother's house, Jesse plans one more great raid -- on a Minnesota bank.
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Lightning Over Water (1980)
Lightning Over Water
Nicholas Ray / Wim Wenders actor: Wim Wenders / Nicholas Ray …
other title: Lampi sull'acqua - Nick's Movie / Nick's Movie - Um Acto de Amor …
Director 'Nicholas Ray' is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own film Hammett (1983) in Hollywood, but flies to New York to help Ray realize his final wish. Ray's original intent is to make a fiction film about a dying painter who sails to China to find a cure for his disease. He and Wenders discuss this idea, but it is obviously unrealistic given Ray's state of health.
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Party Girl (1958)
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Nicholas Ray actor: Robert Taylor / Cyd Charisse …
other title: Il dominatore di Chicago / A Bela do Bas-Fond …
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.
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Hot Blood (1956)
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Nicholas Ray actor: Jane Russell / Cornel Wilde …
other title: La donna venduta / Feuer im Blut …
Stephen Torino, who is tricked by his brother Marco into an arranged marriage with tempestuous Annie Caldash. Annie is willing to give the union a go, but Torino wants none of it.
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A Woman's Secret (1949)
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Nicholas Ray actor: Maureen O'Hara / Melvyn Douglas …
other title: Hai sempre mentito / Secret de femme …
A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal piano player, Luke Jordan, helps to promote a new, younger singer, Susan Caldwell, to temporarily replace Marian. Susan finds some early acclaim but decides to leave the club after a few performances. Soon after Susan quits, she is gunned down, and Marian quickly becomes a suspect.
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Born to Be Bad (1950)
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Nicholas Ray actor: Joan Fontaine / Robert Ryan …
other title: La seduttrice / La Femme aux Maléfices …
Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master of manipulation, she covertly breaks off the engagement of her trusting cousin, Donna, to her fabulously wealthy beau, Curtis Carey. Once married to Curtis herself, Christabel continues her affair with novelist Nick Bradley, who knows she's evil, but loves her anyway.
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Bitter Victory (1957)
Bitter Victory
Nicholas Ray actor: Richard Burton / Curd Jürgens …
other title: Vittoria amara / Bitter war der Sieg …
During the second world war, two British officers, Brand and Leith, who have never seen combat, are assigned a vital mission. Their relationship and the operation are complicated by the arrival of Brand's wife, who had a tryst with Leith years earlier.
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Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Rebel Without a Cause
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Nicholas Ray actor: James Dean / Natalie Wood …
other title: Gioventù bruciata / Vildt Blod …
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.
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55 Days at Peking (1963)
55 Days at Peking
Nicholas Ray actor: Charlton Heston / Ava Gardner …
other title: 55 giorni a Pechino / 55 dage i Peking …
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.