Movies by Paul Newman
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Bang the Drum Slowly / The Battler (2008)
Cast: Paul Newman, Albert Salmi, Rudy Bond …
Directed by: Arthur Penn
At the beginning of his legendary career, Paul Newman shines in two sports-themed TV movies from the 1950s. In Bang the Drum Slowly, baseball pitcher Henry Wiggen (Newman) keeps secret the…
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Woman in Love / Ice from Space (2008)
Cast: Paul Newman, Arnold Moss, Gaby Rodgers …
Directed by: Don Medford, Robert Mulligan
A few years before he became a big-screen icon, Paul Newman appeared in these episodes from the early-1950s TV series "Tales of Tomorrow" and "Suspense." In "Ice from Space," the American…
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The Meerkats (2008)
Cast: Paul Newman
Directed by: James Honeyborne
Oscar-winning actor Paul Newman narrates this captivating documentary that chronicles the antics of young Kolo and his family, a clan of meerkats that makes its home in the harsh climate of…
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The Price of Sugar (2007)
Cast: Paul Newman, Christopher Hartley
Directed by: Bill Haney
Paul Newman narrates this documentary about the thousands of dispossessed Haitians in the Dominican Republic who work grueling hours harvesting sugarcane and one man's attempt to help…
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Cars (2006)
Cast: Owen Wilson, Paul Newman, Bonnie Hunt …
Directed by: John Lasseter
Prepare to peel out with this revved-up animated adventure featuring classic automobiles, plenty of fender benders, guffaws galore and a nostalgic Route 66 road trip with a crew that…
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Our Town (2003)
Cast: Paul Newman, Maggie Lacey, Ben Fox …
Directed by: James Naughton
The illustrious Paul Newman plays the Stage Manager in Thornton Wilder's classic 1938 play about the passage of time and the ties that bind, first conceived at the Westport Country…
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Paul Newman: Hollywood's Cool Hand (2003)
Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross …
This installment of A&E's "Biography" series profiles charismatic leading man Paul Newman, a Tinseltown icon justly famed for his good looks and piercing blue eyes -- but who was never…
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Road to Perdition (2002)
Cast: Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Tyler Hoechlin …
Directed by: Sam Mendes
Hit man Michael Sullivan (Tom Hanks), known in his 1930s Chicago world as The Angel of Death, is on the run after his wife (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and son are murdered. With his surviving son…
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Where the Money Is (2000)
Cast: Paul Newman, Linda Fiorentino, Dermot Mulroney …
Directed by: Marek Kanievska
Paul Newman proves he's still got prodigious acting chops, playing an aging bank robber who may have one last job in him. Faking a stroke, the incarcerated Newman is transferred to a…
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Message in a Bottle (1999)
Cast: Kevin Costner, Robin Wright, Paul Newman …
Directed by: Luis Mandoki
Newspaper researcher Theresa Osborne (Robin Wright Penn) finds a letter in a bottle penned by grieving shipbuilder Garret Blake (Kevin Costner), who writes to ease the pain of his wife's…
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Twilight (1998)
Cast: Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman …
Directed by: Robert Benton
Harry Ross (Paul Newman) is a Hollywood private eye who's living out his golden years in the house of two fading movie stars -- Catherine (Susan Sarandon) and Jack Ames (Gene Hackman).…
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Super Speedway (1997)
Cast: Paul Newman, Richard Garneau, Mario Andretti …
Directed by: Stephen Low
If you feel the need for speed, racing legend Mario Andretti and his son Michael lay a patch in this revved-up IMAX feature that serves as a mini-history of auto racing with a decided accent…
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The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Cast: Paul Newman, Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh …
Directed by: Joel Coen
The Coen brothers deliver a screwball comedy gem about mail clerk Norville Barnes, (Tim Robbins) who falls into good -- or bad? -- luck when he becomes the CEO of a successful business. The…
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Nobody's Fool (1994)
Cast: Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis …
Directed by: Robert Benton
Paul Newman received an Oscar nod for his turn as Donald, a loner who walked out on his family years ago and now lives in a small town in New York, spending his days working for a contractor…
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Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)
Cast: Paul Newman, Saundra McClain, Joanne Woodward …
Directed by: James Ivory
The American middle class is the target of this masterful Merchant-Ivory film based on a pair of novels by Evan S. Connell starring real-life husband and wife Paul Newman and Oscar nominee…
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Blaze (1989)
Cast: Paul Newman, Lolita Davidovich, Jerry Hardin …
Directed by: Ron Shelton
Louisiana governor Earl Long (Paul Newman) is known for his grandiose behavior and his fondness for strip clubs. Unabashed about his habits, Long falls in love with much younger stripper…
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Fat Man & Little Boy (1989)
Cast: Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia …
Directed by: Roland Joffé
Helming the Manhattan Project, flinty Gen. Leslie R. Groves clashes with head scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer as they race to build the first nuclear bomb. With the deadline looming,…
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Nobody's Fool / Fat Man & Little Boy (1989)
Cast: Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis …
Directed by: Roland Joffé, Robert Benton
Paul Newman turns in a pair of memorable performances in this double feature, playing Sully Sullivan, an emotionally immature construction worker, and Leslie Groves, the powerful Army general…
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The Color of Money (1986)
Cast: Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Paul Newman …
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
The Hustler isn't what he used to be in this continuation of the 1961 film: "Fast" Eddie Felson (Oscar-winner Paul Newman) has given up pool for life as a liquor salesman. But then he…
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Harry and Son (1984)
Cast: Paul Newman, Robby Benson, Ellen Barkin …
Directed by: Paul Newman
When an accident leaves lifelong construction worker Harry Keach (Paul Newman, who also directs) jobless, he's forced to confront his son, Howard (Robby Benson), and his long list of…
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The Verdict (1982)
Cast: Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden …
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
A washed-up, ambulance-chasing attorney (Paul Newman) gets a chance at redemption when his friend (Jack Warden) tosses him an open-and-shut medical malpractice case. But instead of accepting…
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Come Along with Me (1982)
Cast: Estelle Parsons, Sylvia Sidney, Barbara Baxley …
Directed by: Joanne Woodward
When her husband dies, Mabel Lederer (Estelle Parsons) sells all her possessions, changes her name and begins a brand-new life in a distant town, where she begins strange experiments with the…
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Absence of Malice (1981)
Cast: Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Sally Field stars as a novice reporter at a Miami newspaper, who becomes a pawn in the investigation of a liquor distributor suspected of being involved in a mob murder. Scandal and tragedy…
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Fort Apache, the Bronx (1981)
Cast: Paul Newman, Edward Asner, Erik Estrada …
Directed by: Daniel Petrie
Murphy (Paul Newman) is a street cop in the tough borough of the Bronx -- known to its denizens as "Fort Apache." While Murphy treats the people on his beat with dignity, he can't seem…
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When Time Ran Out... (1980)
Cast: Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden …
Directed by: James Goldstone
After the success of The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, movie mogul Irwin Allen returned to the disaster movie genre to produce this lesser-known effort about a group of…
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Quintet (1979)
Cast: Paul Newman, Vittorio Gassman, Fernando Rey …
Directed by: Robert Altman
Essex (Paul Newman) struggles to survive in a bleak, frozen city of the future. Director Robert Altman's existential film pulls no punches in presenting a withering vision of a…
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Slap Shot (1977)
Cast: Paul Newman, Strother Martin, Michael Ontkean …
Directed by: George Roy Hill
This foul-mouthed classic follows an ex-hockey star who winds up coaching a hapless minor-league club. When the Charlestown Chiefs realize that playing dirty excites the crowd, they become a…
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Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976)
Cast: Paul Newman, Burt Lancaster, Shelley Duvall …
Directed by: Robert Altman
Robert Altman delivers an uproarious look at Buffalo Bill Cody (Paul Newman), the legendary Western adventurer who turned his celebrity into cash with the creation of a Wild West sideshow.…
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Silent Movie (1976)
Cast: Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise …
Directed by: Mel Brooks
Mel Funn (Mel Brooks), Marty Eggs (Marty Feldman) and Dom Bell (Dom DeLuise) are aspiring filmmakers with a million-dollar idea that goes completely against the modern grain: They want to…
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The Drowning Pool (1975)
Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa …
Directed by: Stuart Rosenberg
Private eye Lew Harper is called away from his Southern California haunt to the Louisiana bayous on what he thinks is a standard blackmail case. He arrives to find it involves an old flame…
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The Towering Inferno (1974)
Cast: Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden …
Directed by: John Guillermin
In director Irwin Allen's Oscar-winning actioner, architect Doug Roberts (Paul Newman) and builder James Duncan (William Holden) are celebrating their latest success: the world's…
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The Sting (1973)
Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw …
Directed by: George Roy Hill
After rookie grifter Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford) tracks down veteran flim-flam man Henry Gondorff (Paul Newman) in 1930s Chicago, the duo plans to fleece a homicidal racketeer (Robert…
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The Mackintosh Man (1973)
Cast: Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason …
Directed by: John Huston
John Huston's Cold War thriller stars Paul Newman as Joseph Rearden, a British intelligence agent tasked with bringing down a communist spy ring. After purposely getting himself tossed…
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The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
Cast: Paul Newman, Victoria Principal, Anthony Perkins …
Directed by: John Huston
John Huston brings to life the legendary hanging judge of the Old West, Roy Bean (Paul Newman). The film is a comic take on Bean, who was judge, jury and executioner for most crimes committed…
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Pocket Money (1972)
Cast: Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin …
Directed by: Stuart Rosenberg
With dreams to finance, Jim Kane (Paul Newman) takes his tough but dim friend Leonard (Lee Marvin) to Mexico in a get-rich-quick cattle scam. When they're cheated out of their cut by the…
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Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Cast: Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Lee Remick …
Directed by: Paul Newman
Paul Newman directs and stars in this rough-and-tumble drama about Hank Stamper, who is trying to keep his family's logging business afloat despite the complications caused by his gruff…
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Once Upon a Wheel (1971)
Cast: Mario Andretti, Mario Andrelli, Paul Newman …
Directed by: David Winters
Actor and racing enthusiast Paul Newman hosts this fast-paced, award-winning glimpse into the early days of race-car driving. Celebrity friends such as Kirk Douglas, Dick Smothers and James…
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WUSA (1970)
Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Perkins …
Directed by: Stuart Rosenberg
Jaded disc jockey Rheinhardt (Paul Newman) finds a berth at right-wing New Orleans station WUSA, whose hateful message he sets aside his own beliefs to spread -- but his indifference is…
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Winning (1969)
Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Robert Wagner …
Directed by: James Goldstone
Professional race-car driver Frank Capua (Paul Newman) takes a breather from the racing circuit to focus on fatherhood after marrying a single mother (Joanne Woodward) with a 13-year-old son…
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross …
Directed by: George Roy Hill
Legendary outlaws Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) and the Sundance Kid (Robert Redford) display their gifts for perfect comedic timing and charisma as they pull off heist after heist in this…
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Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Cast: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J.D. Cannon …
Directed by: Stuart Rosenberg
"What we have here is a failure to communicate." Luke Jackson (Paul Newman) is a man who likes to do things his own way, which leads to a world of hurt when he ends up in a Southern prison…
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Hombre (1967)
Cast: Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone …
Directed by: Martin Ritt
Paul Newman stars as a half-Indian shunned by his fellow stagecoach passengers until a holdup forces them to trust him as he finds a way out of the desert. More 1960s than 1860s, this Western…
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Torn Curtain (1966)
Cast: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova …
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
In Alfred Hitchcock's 50th thriller, an American scientist (Paul Newman) heads off to Copenhagen for a conference with his fiancée (Julie Andrews) in tow, only to see her get drawn…
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Harper (1966)
Cast: Lauren Bacall, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh …
Directed by: Jack Smight
Paul Newman steps into the hard-boiled tradition of Sam Spade and Phillip Marlowe as Lew Harper, a "new type" of detective -- as he puts it. Lauren Bacall plays the wife of a missing…
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What a Way to Go! (1964)
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum …
Directed by: J. Lee Thompson
A frazzled widow tells her psychiatrist the unbelievable circumstances that made her a multimillionaire in this star-studded comedy. In a series of flashbacks, Louisa (Shirley MacLaine)…
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The Outrage (1964)
Cast: Paul Newman, William Shatner, Edward G. Robinson …
Directed by: Martin Ritt
When outlaw Juan Carrasco (Paul Newman) stands trial for the rape of a settler woman (Claire Bloom) and the murder of her husband (Laurence Harvey), three conflicting accounts of the crime…
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A New Kind of Love (1963)
Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Thelma Ritter …
Directed by: Melville Shavelson
Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman star in this lighthearted romantic farce about plain Jane fashion buyer Samantha Blake, who gets a dramatic makeover and is subsequently mistaken for a…
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Hud (1963)
Cast: Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal …
Directed by: Martin Ritt
Martin Ritt successfully transforms a Larry McMurtry novel into a contemporary Western set on a Texas ranch where Cadillacs, cattle and transistor radios threaten to displace time-honored…
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The Prize (1963)
Cast: Mark Robson, Paul Newman, Elke Sommer …
Paul Newman stars in this Hitchcock-style thriller about Nobel Prize-winning author Andrew Craig, who gets caught up in an international incident while attending the awards ceremony in…
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Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
Cast: Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight …
Directed by: Richard Brooks
Directed by Richard Brooks, this atmospheric drama stars Paul Newman as handsome cad Chance Wayne, who returns to his Southern hometown with faded movie star Alexandra Del Lago (Geraldine…
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Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
Cast: Paul Newman, Susan Strasberg, Jessica Tandy …
Directed by: Martin Ritt
Richard Beymer portrays the titular young man, and Paul Newman turns in a stunning cameo as a punch-drunk pugilist in this atmospheric adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's…
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The Hustler (1961)
Cast: Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie …
Directed by: Robert Rossen
Paul Newman scores as pool shark "Fast Eddie" Felson, who tours the country hustling games -- even challenging reigning champion Minnesota Fats (Jackie Gleason) -- in this brooding drama that…
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Exodus (1960)
Cast: Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson …
Directed by: Otto Preminger
Find a comfy seat for this epic (nearly 4-hour) tale about the founding of Israel. Directed by Otto Preminger and starring Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb and Sal Mineo, Exodus is…
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From the Terrace (1960)
Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Myrna Loy …
Directed by: Mark Robson
Paul Newman stars as ambitious Alfred Eaton, whose drive to climb the corporate and social ladders forces him to choose between love and his all-consuming career. Relentless in his pursuit of…
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The Young Philadelphians (1959)
Cast: Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Alexis Smith …
Directed by: Vincent Sherman
In this Academy Award-nominated melodrama from veteran director Vincent Sherman, Paul Newman plays Anthony Lawrence, an ambitious young lawyer raised to place success and material gain above…
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The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa …
Directed by: Martin Ritt
Director Martin Ritt combines two William Faulkner stories into a smoldering drama starring Paul Newman as Ben Quick, a wandering handyman who arrives in Frenchman's Bend, Miss., where…
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Cast: Jack Carson, Larry Gates, Vaughn Taylor …
Directed by: Richard Brooks
Members of an avaricious Southern clan scramble to curry favor with dying, wealthy patriarch Harvey "Big Daddy" Pollitt (Burl Ives) in this Oscar-nominated adaptation of playwright Tennessee…
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The Left Handed Gun (1958)
Cast: Paul Newman, Lita Milan, John Dehner …
Directed by: Arthur Penn
Young, unstable Billy (Paul Newman) finds a job and a home with kindly rancher Tunstall (Colin Keith-Johnston), who is then gunned down by the corrupt sheriff's henchmen. Billy vows…
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Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958)
Cast: Joan Collins, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward …
Directed by: Leo McCarey
Sleepy suburb Putnam's Landing has been earmarked for a new Army missile base, and Grace Bannerman (Joanne Woodward) won't stand for it. Meanwhile, her husband, (Paul Newman), who…
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The Helen Morgan Story (1957)
Cast: Paul Newman, Ann Blyth, Gene Evans …
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Ann Blyth stars as troubled songbird Helen Morgan, who rose from obscurity in the 1920s to become a singing sensation and the toast of Broadway for her turn in the hit musical "Show Boat," in…
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Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Cast: Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane …
Directed by: Robert Wise
Based on boxer Rocky Graziano's autobiography and directed by Robert Wise, this poignant biopic nabbed Oscars for Cinematography and Art Direction. Raised in a slum, young Graziano (Paul…
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The Silver Chalice (1954)
Cast: Virginia Mayo, Jack Palance, Paul Newman …
Directed by: Victor Saville
After he's sold into slavery by his villainous uncle, Greek sculptor Basil (Paul Newman, in his big-screen debut) is forced to fashion a silver chalice intended to hold the cup Christ…
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Harry and Son (1984)
Cast: Paul Newman, Robby Benson, Ellen Barkin …
Directed by: Paul Newman
When an accident leaves lifelong construction worker Harry Keach (Paul Newman, who also directs) jobless, he's forced to confront his son, Howard (Robby Benson), and his long list of…
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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972)
Cast: Joanne Woodward, Nell Potts, Roberta Wallach …
Directed by: Paul Newman
Directing his wife, Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman crafts an unsentimental metaphorical tale based on Paul Zindel's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about an embittered widow (Woodward) raising…
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Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Cast: Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Lee Remick …
Directed by: Paul Newman
Paul Newman directs and stars in this rough-and-tumble drama about Hank Stamper, who is trying to keep his family's logging business afloat despite the complications caused by his gruff…
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Rachel, Rachel (1968)
Cast: Joanne Woodward, James Olson, Kate Harrington …
Directed by: Paul Newman
After living with an overbearing mother her whole life, an unmarried 35-year-old teacher (Joanne Woodward) gets a chance at romance with a handsome suitor (James Olson) from the big city.…