Edward G. Robinson — Actor (36)
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Brother Orchid (1940) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Brother Orchid
director: Lloyd Bacon actor: Edward G. Robinson / Ann Sothern …
other title: Il vendicatore / Orchid, der Gangsterbruder …
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
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All My Sons (1948) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
All My Sons
director: Irving Reis actor: Edward G. Robinson / Burt Lancaster …
other title: Erano tutti miei figli / Alle meine Söhne …
During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever. Years later, his sin comes back to haunt him when his son plans to marry Deever's daughter.
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Illegal (1955) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Illegal
director: Lewis Allen actor: Edward G. Robinson / Nina Foch …
other title: Voi Assassini / Schakale der Unterwelt …
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.
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Tales of Manhattan (1942) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Tales of Manhattan
director: Julien Duvivier actor: Charles Boyer / Rita Hayworth …
other title: Destino / Seis Destinos …
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video release features a W.C. Fields segment not included in the original theatrical release.
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The Prize (1963) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Prize
director: Mark Robson actor: Paul Newman / Edward G. Robinson …
other title: Intrigo a Stoccolma / O Prémio …
A group of Nobel laureates descends on Stockholm to accept their awards. Among them is American novelist Andrew Craig, a former literary luminary now writing pulp detective stories to earn a living. Craig, who is infamous for his drinking and womanizing, formulates a wild theory that physics prize winner Dr. Max Stratman has been replaced by an impostor, embroiling Craig and his chaperone in a Cold War kidnapping plot.
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Two Seconds (1932) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Two Seconds
director: Mervyn LeRoy actor: Edward G. Robinson / Vivienne Osborne …
other title: Zwei Sekunden / Dos segundos …
A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in flashback, we witness a sleazy dancehall girl dupe a high rise riveter into marriage so she can live off of him. But when he loses his job and his marbles, she ends up supporting him with money from her side man--and misses no opportunity to rub it in his face that she's now supporting him in his emasculated state. As the animosity grows and things get more and more unbearable, he is eventually driven to desperate measures.
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The Whole Town's Talking (1935) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Whole Town's Talking
director: John Ford actor: Edward G. Robinson / Jean Arthur …
other title: Tutta la città ne parla / Stadtgespräch …
Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.
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A Bullet for Joey (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
A Bullet for Joey
director: Lewis Allen actor: Edward G. Robinson / George Raft …
other title: Spionaggio atomico / Akte XP 15 …
Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to carry out the abduction, balks when he learns what is at stake and helps Leduc out instead.
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House of Strangers (1949) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
House of Strangers
director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz actor: Edward G. Robinson / Susan Hayward …
other title: Amaro destino / Blutsfeindschaft …
Ruthless Italian-American banker Gino Monetti is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help their father stay out of prison after he's arrested for his questionable business practices. Three of them take over the business but kick their father out. Max, a lawyer, is the only son that remains loyal.
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The Violent Men (1955) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Violent Men
director: Rudolph Maté actor: Glenn Ford / Barbara Stanwyck …
other title: Uomini violenti / Vestens Vilde Mænd …
A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled owner and the outfit's bullying tactics make him reconsider. When one of his hands is murdered he decides to stay and fight, utilizing his war experience. Not all is well at Anchor with the owner's wife carrying on with his brother who also has a Mexican woman in town.