Sammy Davis Jr. — Actor (30)

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Tap (1989)
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other title: Tap - Sulle strade di Broadway / Tap Dance …
Max Washington has just been released from prison after serving time for burglary. He returns to his old hangout, a hoofer club. His old girl friend, Amy, who still works at the club as a Tap instructor, is less than thrilled to see him. Her father, Little Mo, is happy to see him, because he has plans for a show involving Max. In addition, Max's old partners in crime have another job for him.

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That's Dancing! (1985)
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other title: ¡Esto sí es bailar!
A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from its origins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s, up to the break dance and music videos from the 80s.

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Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)
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other title: I 4 di Chicago / Os Sete Ladrões da Cidade …
Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisborne a cut of their profits after Guy shoots mob boss Big Jim and takes over. When Big Jim's daughter, Marian, gives Robbo a large sum, believing he has avenged her father's death, the gangster donates to an orphanage, cementing his reputation as a softhearted hood.

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Moon Over Parador (1988)
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other title: Il dittatore del Parador in arte Jack / Mond über Parador …
Underappreciated actor Jack Noah is on location in Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right-hand man makes Jack an offer he cannot refuse... to play the dictator. Jack's acting skills fool the masses but not close friends and employees of the dictator.

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Salt & Pepper (1968)
Salt & Pepper
other title: Sale e pepe: Super-spie hippy / Salz und Pfeffer …
After discovering the body of a murdered female agent in their trendy Soho, London nightclub, groovy owners Charles Salt and Christopher Pepper partake in a fumbling investigation and uncover an evil plot to overthrow the government. Can our cool, yet inept duo stop the bad guys in time?

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Cannonball Run II (1984)
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other title: La corsa più pazza d'America n. 2 / Ud At Køre Med De Skøre 2 …
When a wealthy sheikh puts up $1 million in prize money for a cross-country car race, there is one person crazy enough to hit the road hard with wheels spinning fast. Legendary driver J.J. McClure enters the competition along with his friend Victor and together they set off across the American landscape in a madcap action-adventure destined to test their wits and automobile skills.

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Porgy and Bess (1959)
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Otto Preminger actor: Sidney Poitier / Dorothy Dandridge …
other title: Porgy und Bess / Porgy y Bess
In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.

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Smorgasbord (1983)
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Jerry Lewis actor: Jerry Lewis / Milton Berle …
other title: Qua la mano picchiatello!.. / Cracking Up - As Loucuras de Jerry Lewis …
Warren Nefron is a hopeless klutz who has some of the worst luck in the world: when he tries to end it all with a foolproof suicide plan, he still manages to mess it up. In desperation, he goes to a psychiatrist to see if there is some way for him to end his troubles.

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Pepe (1960)
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George Sidney actor: Cantinflas / Dan Dailey …
other title: Pepe - Was kann die Welt schon kosten / Pepe – Was kann die Welt schon kosten
The young Mexican Pepe's beloved horse is sold to Hollywood director Ted Holt, leading to Pepe's journey to Hollywood to get the horse back, and Pepe's encounter with half the stars working in Hollywood at the time.

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Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1966)
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Alex Lovy actor: Sammy Davis Jr. / Zsa Zsa Gabor …
other title: The New Alice in Wonderland / Alice in Wonderland (or What’s a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?)
A loose adaptation and parody of the Lewis Carroll tale by Hanna-Barbera Productions. A modern-day teenager doing a book report on Alice is accidentally sucked into her television set and ends up in a wacky version of Wonderland.

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Night of 100 Stars (1982)
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Clark Jones actor: Ed Asner / Jane Alexander …
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.

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Sammy Stops the World (1978)
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Mel Shapiro actor: Sammy Davis Jr. / Dennis Daniels …
A man who sells coffee for a living gets his boss's daughter pregnant. This changes his life and eventually leads to his becoming a powerful business tycoon with no moral center. (TCM)

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The Fall (1969)
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Peter Whitehead actor: Peter Whitehead / Alberta Tiburzi …
"The Fall" depicts certain scenes in New York City between October 1967 and March 1968, shot by the independent filmmaker, Peter Whitehead. It is a very personal documentary, and Whitehead appears in a large number of scenes, and we hear his lengthy ruminations on the state of the United States and the war in Vietnam.

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Jingle Bells: RFK - 1964 (1977)
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D. A. Pennebaker actor: Robert F. Kennedy / Ethel Kennedy …
Surrounded by his children, his wife Ethel, and Sammy Davis, Jr., RFK visits schoolchildren around the city, and is every bit the good patriarch and dutiful public servant. But it’s the films’ fleeting, in-between, moments where Pennebaker most precisely hits the mark, offering reflection on the possibilities that Robert Kennedy’s all too brief life foreclosed. Set against the pageantry of a long ago Christmas, the film speaks to tragic contingencies of history lying far beyond the ken of politics that continue to circumscribe the tortured destiny of our country.

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Nightmare in the Sun (1965)
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Marc Lawrence / John Derek actor: John Derek / Aldo Ray …
other title: Sfida sotto il sole / Tendre garce …
A hitchhiker sleeps with a rancher's wife and is hunted by the sheriff for her murder.

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Johnny Cool (1963)
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William Asher actor: Henry Silva / Elizabeth Montgomery …
other title: "Johnny Cool" messaggero di morte / Hævneren fra underverdenen …
A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S.