Tony Curtis Movie Rankings
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 3.8338 out of 4 stars for Sweet Smell of Success
3.8338
J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster), the most prestigious newspaper columnist in New York, recruits shady press agent Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis) to ruin the reputation of jazz guitarist Steve Dallas (Martin Milner) who has begun to date Hunsecker’s sister. ... more about Sweet Smell of Success
Actor Awards
BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actor
DVD from $4.00 
(7 sellers)
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 3.6863 out of 4 stars for Some Like It Hot
3.6863
Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) just happen to be at the wrong place at the wrong time when they witness a murder by the mob. Now, to evade the gangsters the men dress up as women and join an all girl musical band. ... more about Some Like It Hot
DVD from $3.98 
(7 sellers)
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 3.1397 out of 4 stars for Vikings
3.1397
Einar and Eric are two Viking half-brothers. The former is a great warrior whilst the other is an ex-slave, but neither knows the true identity of the other. ... more about Vikings
DVD from $5.97 
(5 sellers)
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 3.1368 out of 4 stars for Defiant Ones
3.1368
Joker Jackson and Noah Cullen are two convicts on a chain gang who hate each other. After a truck prison accident, they flee and are pursued by the police. While they're chained, the two are dependent on one another. ... more about Defiant Ones
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actor
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
DVD from $5.99 
(2 sellers)
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 2.9090 out of 4 stars for Winchester '73
2.9090
In a marksmanship contest, Lin McAdam (Stewart) wins a prized Winchester rifle, which is immediately stolen by the runner-up, Dutch Henry Brown (McNally. ... more about Winchester '73
DVD from $5.26 
(6 sellers)
6
Tony Curtis scores a combined 2.8267 out of 4 stars for Boston Strangler
2.8267
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. ... more about Boston Strangler
Actor Awards
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
DVD from $4.11 
(5 sellers)
7
Tony Curtis scores a combined 2.8005 out of 4 stars for Great Race
2.8005
Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. ... more about Great Race
DVD from $10.00 
(4 sellers)
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 2.7921 out of 4 stars for Celluloid Closet
2.7921
A comprehensive documentary of the history of gays and lesbians in cinema, from negative to positive reflections of gay characters and the troubles of actors and actresses. ... more about Celluloid Closet
DVD from $9.89 
(6 sellers)
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 2.6094 out of 4 stars for Mirror Crack'd
2.6094
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie. The year is 1953. The small English village of St. ... more about Mirror Crack'd
DVD from $5.99 
(0 sellers)
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 2.5984 out of 4 stars for Naked in New York
2.5984
Naked in New York begins in the car of grown up Jake, he is talking to us about his girlfriend, Joanne, (watch for the facial expressions) and to whom you can turn to for help while facing life ('your parents, nyaa, I don't think so'). ... more about Naked in New York
DVD from $3.76 
(6 sellers)
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 2.5705 out of 4 stars for Monte Carlo or Bust
2.5705
In an international car rally, competitors must travel from various points in Europe to Monte Carlo, then race their cars. Things are complicated by smuggling, cheating, honor, inventions, medicine, and love at first sight... ... more about Monte Carlo or Bust
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 2.5275 out of 4 stars for Operation Petticoat
2.5275
A submarine newly commissioned is damaged in the opening days of WW II. A captain, looking for a command insists he can get it to a dockyard and captain it. Going slowly to this site, they find a stranded group of Army nurses and must take them aboard. ... more about Operation Petticoat
DVD from $6.99 
(3 sellers)
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 2.4604 out of 4 stars for Houdini
2.4604
A romanticized version of the life and times of the legendary escape artist , Harry Houdini. Chronicles his early beginnings in show business as a dime museum performer, to his ultimate (and inaccurate) death on stage in the Chinese Water Torture Cell. ... more about Houdini
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 2.4117 out of 4 stars for No Room for the Groom
2.4117
Alvah, a young GI who happens to own a vineyard, elopes to Las Vegas with Lee, his housekeeper's daughter. But Alvah's chicken pox postpone the wedding night. ... more about No Room for the Groom
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 2.2920 out of 4 stars for List of Adrian Messenger
2.2920
Messenger asks a friend to check into a list of names before leaving on a trip. When his plane is blown out of the sky, the matter becomes more serious. As his friend checks into the list, each seems to have died in mysterious circumstances. ... more about List of Adrian Messenger
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 2.2840 out of 4 stars for Play It To the Bone
2.2840
Two aging fighters in LA, friends, get a call from a Vegas promoter because his undercard fighters for a Mike Tyson bout that night are suddenly unavailable. He wants them to box each other. ... more about Play It To the Bone
DVD from $2.02 
(5 sellers)
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 2.2210 out of 4 stars for Manitou
2.2210
Karen Tandy (Susan Strasberg) enters a San Franisco hospital suffering from a growing tumor on her back. To the doctors (Jon Cedar and Paul Mantee) think it's a living creature, a fetus is being born inside the tumor. ... more about Manitou
DVD from $5.50 
(5 sellers)
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 1.9038 out of 4 stars for Sex and the Single Girl
1.9038
Using Helen Gurley Brown's book as a jump off point, we follow the adventures of a supermarket tabloid editor as he tries to parlay an interview with the author of the book into headlines and sales. Of course, a romantic entanglement ensues. ... more about Sex and the Single Girl
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 1.9003 out of 4 stars for Beachhead
1.9003
On a Japanese-occupied island during World War II, only two soldiers remain alive after a mission attempt goes horribly wrong. Trapped on the island, they must escort a scientist and his daughter to the other side of the island where their ship awaits. ... more about Beachhead
DVD from $2.99 
(5 sellers)
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 1.8719 out of 4 stars for Captain Newman
1.8719
Dr. Josiah Newman (Gregory Peck) runs the psychiatric unit of a U.S. Military Hospital during WWII. Short of help, Newman coerces newly arrived neurotic orderly Jackson Leibowitz (Tony Curtis) to work in his ward. ... more about Captain Newman
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 1.8702 out of 4 stars for Insignificance
1.8702
Four 1950's cultural icons (Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio and Senator Joseph MacCarthy) who conceivably could have met and probably didn't, fictionally do in this modern fable of post-WWII America. ... more about Insignificance
DVD from $59.99 
(0 sellers)
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 1.8428 out of 4 stars for Midnight
1.8428
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 1.7745 out of 4 stars for Don't Make Waves
1.7745
Carlo Cofield first meets Laura when she wreckss his car and destroys all his worldly possessions. In trying to get insurance money from her he finds she is being kept by married swimming-pool big-shot Rod Prescott. ... more about Don't Make Waves
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 1.7095 out of 4 stars for BrainWaves
1.7095
After a traffic accident Kaylie is in coma for months. Her doctors want to try a new procedure on her: to regain her consciousness, they stimulate her brain with neural patterns of a woman who just died. It works, and Kaylie seems to be ok again. ... more about BrainWaves
DVD from $219.99 
(0 sellers)
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 1.7077 out of 4 stars for Center of the Web
1.7077
An actor (John Phillips) is wrongly taken as a professional killer by a band planning to murder the Governor. Then he is hired by the Security Dept. to try to unmask and to catch the leaders. ... more about Center of the Web
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 1.5981 out of 4 stars for City Across the River
1.5981
Brooklyn youth Frank Cusack, good son and brother by day, is a gang member by night. The Dukes, seemingly likable dead-end-kids, are dangerously involved with racketeer Gaggsy Steens. ... more about City Across the River
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 1.5840 out of 4 stars for Bad News Bears Go to Japan
1.5840
In this third film version of the Bad News Bears series, Tony Curtis plays a small time promotor/hustler who takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best little league baseball team. ... more about Bad News Bears Go to Japan
DVD from $1.82 
(4 sellers)
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 1.5015 out of 4 stars for Francis
1.5015
The truthful soldier Stirling didn't know how to lie about his source of information, the talking army Mule, Francis, so he was treated as a lunatic and led to one after another hilarious situations, where the mule was the only one that appeared in his ... more about Francis
DVD from $10.25 
(5 sellers)
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 1.4985 out of 4 stars for Purple Mask
1.4985
France, 1803: 11 years after the Revolution, a royalist underground is led by a new 'Scarlet Pimpernel', the Purple Mask, who rescues nobles in distress and kidnaps Napoleon's officials for ransom, aided by the spy services of a group of lovely models ... more about Purple Mask
Not Available on DVD
32
Tony Curtis scores a combined 1.4381 out of 4 stars for Great Impostor
1.4381
Based on a true story, a bright young man who hasn't the patience for the normal way of advancement finds that people rarely question you if your papers are in order. He becomes a marine, a monk, a surgeon onboard a Canadian Warship, and a prison warden. ... more about Great Impostor
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 1.2249 out of 4 stars for Lobster Man from Mars
1.2249
Young film student tries to sell his weird movie to a desparate film producer who is in need of a tax write-off. The producer screens the film "Lobster Man From Mars". ... more about Lobster Man from Mars
DVD from $6.50 
(2 sellers)
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 1.2235 out of 4 stars for Boeing
1.2235
American playboy Bernard Lawrence (Tony Curtis) has cleverly designed a system using the airline timetables to keep going three affairs with flight stewardesses. ... more about Boeing
Not Available on DVD
36
Tony Curtis scores a combined 1.2082 out of 4 stars for Club Life
1.2082
A young man from a small town goes to Hollywood to make his fortune. ... more about Club Life
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 1.1788 out of 4 stars for Son of Ali Baba
1.1788
In medieval Persia, Kashma Baba is a military cadet by day and a roisterer by night. The morning after a rowdy banquet, Kiki, an escaped slave, takes shelter under Kashma's roof. ... more about Son of Ali Baba
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Alien X Factor
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An Alien Spaceship crashes on California Highway 118, near the farm of Pamela Wood (Susan Anspach). The US Government sends the Air Force and a team of Secret Agents to cover up the incident. ... more about Alien X Factor
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for All American
0.0001
Nick Bonelli, quarterback for Mid-State, proves himself an All American in the championship, but his parents die in an auto accident coming to the game. Nick decides to transfer to Sheridan University to pursue his real interest of studying architecture. ... more about All American
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Balboa
0.0001
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Black Shield of Falworth
0.0001
Technicolor & tights. In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, without any knowledge of who their father really was. But one day they journey to Macworth castle. ... more about Black Shield of Falworth
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Double Take
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Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Drop Dead Darling
0.0001
Nick has married several times, but all his rich wives were "accidently" killed after some time. Now he's married a young Italian widow, but it is not so easy to get rid of her, especially when she learns of his plans and tries to turn the tables. ... more about Drop Dead Darling
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Flesh and Fury
0.0001
Deaf boxer Paul Callan captures the interest of gold-digging blonde Sonya Bartow and retired fight manager 'Pop' Richardson. For a time, Sonya has the upper hand with Paul, but ultimately a rival appears in the shape of upper-crust reporter Ann Hollis. ... more about Flesh and Fury
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Forbidden
0.0001
Eddie Darrow has been hired by Philadelphia mobster Barney Pendleton to locate Christine Lawrence (Eddie's ex-lover and widow of Barney's former associate) and bring her home. ... more about Forbidden
Not Available on DVD
50
Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Goodbye Charlie
0.0001
Shot by a jealous husband, Charley falls out a porthole and is lost at sea only to find himself returned as an attractive blond woman. ... more about Goodbye Charlie
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Immortals
0.0001
A crafty nightclub owner (Jack) brings together a group of small time hoods and teams them up in unusual pairs (black man and white racist, Ivy Leaguer and simpleton) for a set of multiple heists which turn out to be an elaborate double cross against a ... more about Immortals
DVD from $3.99 
(3 sellers)
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Johnny Dark
0.0001
Automobile engineer, Johnny Dark (Tony Curtis), designs a radical new car. ... more about Johnny Dark
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Kansas Raiders
0.0001
Audie Murphy plays a young Jesse James falling under the Svengali-like spell of the outlaw William Quantrill, played by Brian Donlevy. ... more about Kansas Raiders
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Lady Gambles
0.0001
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. ... more about Lady Gambles
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Lepke
0.0001
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Little Miss Marker
0.0001
Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in 1930's. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a bet, he gets stuck with her. His life will change a great deal with her arrival and his sudden love for a woman also involved in gambling operations. ... more about Little Miss Marker
DVD from $3.92 
(4 sellers)
62
Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for London Conspiracy
0.0001
Life is never dull where Lord Brett Sinclair and Danny Wilde are concerned. ... more about London Conspiracy
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Midnight Story
0.0001
Beloved priest Father Thomasino is murdered in a San Francisco alley, and the police have few clues. But traffic cop Joe Martini becomes obsessed with finding the killer; he suspects Sylvio Malatesta. ... more about Midnight Story
Not Available on DVD
66
Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Mister Cory
0.0001
Cory, an ambitious Chicago slum kid with a knack for gambling, gets a busboy job at a posh Wisconsin resort...where his real purpose is to gamble with the staff and guests and romance rich young ladies. ... more about Mister Cory
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Not with My Wife
0.0001
During the Korean War, Italian nurse Virna Lisi falls in love with two American fliers, Tony Curtis and George C. Scott. Lisi marries Curtis after he convinces her that Scott has been killed in a plane crash. ... more about Not with My Wife
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Outsider
0.0001
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Perfect Furlough
0.0001
To pacify 104 sex-starved male soldiers building an Arctic radar base, Army psychologist Vicki Loren suggests choosing one by lot to have a "perfect furlough" as selected by the men: three weeks in Paris with their favorite pin-up queen, Sandra Roca. ... more about Perfect Furlough
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Prime Target
0.0001
John Bloodstone is a cop who is put on suspension after he uses a blow torch to stop a group of hostage takers. ... more about Prime Target
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Rat Race
0.0001
Tony Curtis plays a musician dropped into NYC straight from a bus from a small town in the Midwest somewhere. ... more about Rat Race
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Rawhide Years
0.0001
Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with his girlfriend, luscious entertainer Zoe. ... more about Rawhide Years
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Sierra
0.0001
Ring Hassard and father Jeff, wild horse breakers, live in a hidden mountain eyrie because Jeff is wanted for a murder he didn't commit. ... more about Sierra
Not Available on DVD
75
Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Six Bridges to Cross
0.0001
Youth gang leader Jerry Florea is shot fleeing from a crime scene by rookie cop Ed Gallagher. Result: "he'll never have children of his own. ... more about Six Bridges to Cross
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for So This Is Paris
0.0001
Three sailors on leave (Joe, Al and Davy) head for Paris with one thing on their minds. ... more about So This Is Paris
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Square Jungle
0.0001
Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing. His cop friend McBride finances him; ex-con Bernie Browne trains him. ... more about Square Jungle
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Taras Bulba
0.0001
A "Romeo and Juliet" story that takes place in 18th c. Ukraine. Taras (Yul Brenner) has settled into comfortable farm life after years of adventures and swashbuckling with his cossack companions. ... more about Taras Bulba
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Title Shot
0.0001
In Toronto, Canada, a troubled police detective investigates fixed betting and corruption in the world of heavyweight boxing. He uncovers a plot by a crime boss to use computerised data to rig fights. ... more about Title Shot
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Trapeze
0.0001
Mike Ribble was once a great trapeze artist - and the only to have completed a triple somersault - before his accident. Tino joins the circus, and manages to covince Mike to teach him the 'triple'. Meanwhile Lola, a tumbler, wants to get in on the act. ... more about Trapeze
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Wild and Wonderful
0.0001
Cognac, a pampered poodle and popular star on French television, creates marital problems for his pretty owner Giselle when he becomes jealous of her new husband. ... more about Wild and Wonderful
Not Available on DVD
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Tony Curtis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for You Can't Win 'Em All
0.0001
Two former U.S. Army soldiers, Adam Dyer and Josh Corey, join a band of Turkish mercenaries in 1922 Turkey whom are hired by Osman Bey, a local governor, to escort his tree daughters to Smyran and to protect a gold shipment that is to accompany them. ... more about You Can't Win 'Em All
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Birthdate:
June 3, 1925

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Career Span:

Decade
# Movies
Movie Score
1940s
3
total ranking of 0.3182  0.3182
1950s
30
total ranking of 2.8518  2.8518
1960s
18
total ranking of 2.3047  2.3047
1970s
10
total ranking of 1.7603  1.7603
1980s
12
total ranking of 1.7718  1.7718
1990s
11
total ranking of 2.0127  2.0127
2000s
1
total ranking of 1.0816  1.0816
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score:
2.7134
Tony Curtis is ranked overall as 2.7134 of of 4 stars
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