Martin Balsam Movie Rankings
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3.9683
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. ... more about 12 Angry Men
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3.8620
Marion Crane on impulse steals $40,000 that has been entrusted to her by her employer. On the evening of her run-away she stops at a dark, off-road motel for the night and encounters a friendly, but deranged manager and soon meets an untimely demise. ... more about Psycho
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3.2153
New York playgirl Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) puzzles a writer (George Peppard) who lives in her building. When she meets the sober, handsome, nice guy, she begins to gradually re-think her anything-goes, high-living life style. ... more about Breakfast at Tiffany's
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3.1228
Max Cady, a wily, cruel ex-convict, is ravenous for the ruination of Sam Bowden, a Georgia laywer who eight years earlier sent Max to prison for his brutal assault of a young woman in a parking... ... more about Cape Fear
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3.1119
In the run-up to the 1972 elections, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward covers what seems to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party National headquarters. ... more about All the President's Men
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3.0388
In 1941 the Japanese are at odds with the United States on a number of issues which they are attempting to resolve via their Washington embassy. In case this diplomacy fails, the military are hatching plans for a surprise early Sunday morning air attack. ... more about Tora! Tora! Tora!
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3.0061
At 120 years old, Jack Crabb tells his life story about being adopted by Indians, "saved" by a Christian minister, reuniting with his sister, marrying a Russian woman, marrying an Indian woman and leading Custer into his last battle at Little Big Horn. ... more about Little Big Man
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2.9682
In the near future, the President of the United States discovers a miltary coup is being plotted by one of his Joint Chiefs and must find a way to dismantle it. ... more about Seven Days in May
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2.8862
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney/"Leave It to Beaver"-esque family-man. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. ... more about Cape Fear
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2.8695
In this film more is said with just one look than in 100 cute one-liners. An Indian policeman travels by stagecoach and encounters more than his share of trouble. Filled with hard looks, calmly delivered threats and lots of gun play. ... more about Hombre
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2.8624
A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way cope with a crazy situation. Catch-22 is a parody of a "military mentality" and of a bureaucratic society in general. ... more about Catch-22
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2.8038
A fashion model moves into a house inhabited (on the top floor) by a blind priest. She begins having strange physical problems, has trouble sleeping at night, and has some nasty flashbacks of her attempted suicide. ... more about Sentinel
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2.7029
George Peppard plays a hard-driven industrialist more than a little reminiscent of Howard Hughes. While he builds airplanes, directs movies and breaks hearts, his friends and lovers try to reach his human side, and find that it's an uphill battle. ... more about Carpetbaggers
Actor Awards
National Board of Review, USA - Best Supporting Actor
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2.5751
Twelve-year-old Nick (played by Barry Gordon) lives with his Uncle Murray (Jason Robards), a Mr.Micawber-like Dickensian character who keeps hoping something won't turn up. ... more about Thousand Clowns
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Not Available on DVD
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2.5545
"The Facts About Mr. Valdeman." A woman's husband is on his deathbed, and a psychiatrist with whom she's having an affair hypnotizes him so they can get him to sign all his money over to his wife before he dies. ... more about Due occhi diabolici
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2.5311
Four armed men hijack a New York City subway train and demand 1 million dollars - which must be delivered in 1 hour - for the train and the lives of the passengers held hostage. Lt. ... more about Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Actor Awards
BAFTA Awards - Best Supporting Actor
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2.4146
Richard Widmark plays a hardened cold-warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. Sidney Poitier is a reporter given permission to interview the captain during a routine patrol. ... more about Bedford Incident
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2.3547
Joe Don Baker is Mitchell- a hard-nosed, soft-bellied cop with an affinity for porn and Schlitz. His latest assignment has him engaging in no-speed car chases, yelling at children, shooting innocents and sloppily carousing Linda Evans. ... more about Mitchell
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2.3393
Famous detective Hercule Poirot is on the Orient Express, but the train is caught in the snow. When one of the passengers is discovered murdered, Poirot immediately starts investigating. ... more about Murder on the Orient Express
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2.3217
Paul Kersey, New York architect and part-time vigilante, comes to LA to visit an old friend. Instead, he must avenge his death by fighting youth gangs. ... more about Death Wish 3
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2.2747
While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. ... more about Marjorie Morningstar
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2.0738
In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder, extortion, and political fraud. ... more about Al Capone
Not Available on DVD
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2.0102
End fifties a British hireling is send to Cuba to train the Basistas. They must be trained to fight Castro's army. In Cuba he encounters an old love, who is married in the mean time. While Castro's army wins more and more their love revives... ... more about Cuba
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1.8308
Bo Gillis is running for Governor. Steve writes the speeches, Sylvester runs the campaign and Bo plays the guitar. Everything is going according to the plan until a hooker named Ada is setup with Bo one night. ... more about Ada
Not Available on DVD
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1.7689
A psychotic man, armed with a hunting rifle and acting alone, goes on a sniping spree and is hunted by the police and a SWAT team. ... more about Two-Minute Warning
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1.7621
A thief (Duke Anderson) just released from ten years in jail, takes up with his old girlfriend (Ingrid) in her posh apartment. He makes plans to rob the entire building. ... more about Anderson Tapes
Not Available on DVD
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1.6616
Top detective Lou Torrey is transferred to Los Angeles and uncovers a plot by a Sicilian mafioso to use Vietnam veterans to murder all his enemies in a rerun of the "Sicilian Vespers" when the previous generation of Sicilian mafiosi were all killed on a ... more about Stone Killer
Not Available on DVD
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1.6436
"Miriam": Miss Miller has spent her life as a governess for children in some of the most fashionable homes in New York. ... more about Trilogy
Not Available on DVD
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1.5296
The federal agent Joe di Foster is currently investigating on a serial killer, helped by doctor Animal who is isolated in a maximum security jail. This film is the funny parody of the silence of the lambs. ... more about Silenzio dei prosciutti
Not Available on DVD
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1.3831
When the President and Speaker of the House are killed in a building collapse, and the Vice-President declines the office due to age and ill-health, Senate President pro tempore Douglas Dilman (James Earl Jones) suddenly becomes the first black man to ... more about Man
Not Available on DVD
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1.3283
"Doc" Fletcher (Michael Caine) is ordered by his boss Joe Fiore (Martin Balsam) to go to set up a fake bank in Monte Carlo. ... more about Silver Bears
Not Available on DVD
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1.2401
An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a salamander. ... more about Salamander
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1.2235
Marshal Flagg, an aging lawman about to be retired, hears that his old nemesis, the outlaw McKaye, is back in the area and planning a robbery. ... more about Good Guys and the Bad Guys
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1.0909
Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her relationships with her mother, her eye doctor husband, her alienated daughter and estranged son. ... more about Summer Wishes
Actor Awards
Golden Globes, USA - Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
Not Available on DVD
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In this story, Harlow starts in the movies as set dressing, the pretty girl who is used for the glamour shots. Refusing to descend to the casting couch for work, she finds that she is soon blacklisted from the industry. ... more about Harlow
Not Available on DVD
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A woman living in Dallas discovers that her husband, from New Zealand, is actually a crazed serial killer who murders prostitutes. She helps the authorities arrest him, and he is sent to a hospital for the criminally insane. ... more about Innocent Prey
Not Available on DVD
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Jed and his veterinarian mother are looking after a wolf-dog that was rescued from the Alaskan wilderness after being injured in a long-running spirit battle with a raven. ... more about Legend of the Spirit Dog
Not Available on DVD
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A photographer and his model are on a photo shoot in a forest when they get the feeling they are being watched. The feeling becomes so strong that they decide to cut their session short and leave. ... more about Occhi dalle stelle
Not Available on DVD
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A nervous ad executive (Tom Smothers) creates havoc on his daughter's wedding day and becomes obsessed with a dream girl (Twiggy) he keeps seeing everywhere but whom he can't catch. ... more about There Goes the Bride
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Military investigator Colonel Edwards is assigned a case involving Major Cargill, a Korean War POW who is accused of treason. ... more about Time Limit
Not Available on DVD
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Actor Jason Steele plays a caring, godlike doctor on television. Off the set, he's the insecure fiancee of Melissa, a pretty art teacher. ... more about Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?
Not Available on DVD
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