Lionel Stander — Actor (23)
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The Kid from Brooklyn (1946)
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Norman Z. McLeod actor: Danny Kaye / Virginia Mayo …
other title: Preferisco la vacca / Der Held des Tages …
Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister. The newspapers get hold of the story and photographers even catch Burleigh knock out Speed again. Speed's crooked manager decides to turn Burleigh into a fighter. Burleigh doesn't realize that all of his opponents have been asked to take a dive. Thinking he really is a great fighter, Burleigh develops a swelled head which puts a crimp in his relationship with pretty nightclub singer Polly Pringle. He may finally get his comeuppance when he challenges Speed for the title.
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Professor Beware (1938)
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Elliott Nugent actor: Harold Lloyd / Phyllis Welch …
other title: Il prode faraone / No se duerma, Profesor …
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
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Father Jackleg (1972)
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Enzo G. Castellari actor: Jack Palance / Giancarlo Prete …
other title: Tedeum / Tedeum - jeder Hieb ein Prankenschlag …
A con man inherits a gold mine. Knowing that his family are even bigger con artists than he is, he assumes the mine is worthless, and teams up with a partner in a scheme to unload it on some unsuspecting chumps. However, the other members of his family discover that the gold mine is actually worth a lot of money, and they set out to take it from him before he realizes what he has.
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St. Benny the Dip (1951)
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Edgar G. Ulmer actor: Dick Haymes / Nina Foch …
other title: Saint Benny le pickpocket / San Benny el carterista
A gang of con artists disguise themselves as clerics in order to pull off a job, but soon find that even pretending to be religious people is having an effect on them.
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Wicked Stepmother (1989)
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Larry Cohen actor: Colleen Camp / Barbara Carrera …
other title: Strega per un giorno / Tanz der Hexen …
A pair of witches descend upon a family and wreak havoc. Now it's up to the family's matriarch, a private detective, and a suspended police officer to stop them.
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Meet Nero Wolfe (1936)
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Herbert J. Biberman actor: Edward Arnold / Lionel Stander …
Rex Stout's portly detective prides himself on solving crimes without venturing outside his comfortable home; here he relies on others to do the legwork in pinpointing who among a number of suspects is responsible for two sudden deaths, which the authorities at first are not convinced were murders.
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Cookie (1989)
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Susan Seidelman actor: Peter Falk / Dianne Wiest …
other title: Gangsterbossens datter / Cookie - Die Tochter des Paten …
Cookie Voltecki is the illegitimate daughter of mobster Dino Capisco, who has just finished thirteen years in prison. Since being released from jail, all that Dino wants is to settle some old scores, and make up for lost time with his daughter.
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Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence (1969)
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Luigi Comencini actor: Leonard Whiting / Maria Grazia Buccella …
other title: Infanzia, vocazione e prime esperienze di Giacomo Casanova, veneziano / Kindheit, Berufung und erste Erlebnisse des Venezianers Giacomo Casanova …
Through the childhood and adolescence of Signor Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people lived in 18th-century Venice: their customs, habits, medicine, religion, and--most of all--the omnipresence of hypocrisy.
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Red Coat (1975)
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Joe D'Amato actor: Fabio Testi / Lionel Stander …
other title: Giubbe rosse / Die Rotröcke …
Cormack, the lawman most feared by the rugged pioneers at the turn of the century, has a mysterious bond with "Caribou," an outlaw whom he has jailed. When Caribou escapes from prison, he returns to seek revenge.
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The Milky Way (1936)
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Leo McCarey actor: Harold Lloyd / Adolphe Menjou …
other title: La via lattea / Ausgerechnet Weltmeister …
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and then have the champ beat him to regain his title.