Movies by Martin Balsam
As part of the cast:
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: Mitchell (1993)
Cast: Joe Don Baker, Martin Balsam, Kevin Murphy …
Revel in mind-numbingly bad cinema with this series that's become a stunning cult phenomenon. The show's hosts, robots Tom Servo and Crow, along with their human sidekick, are…
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Cape Fear (1991)
Cast: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange …
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Public defender Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte) served as the attorney for brutal rapist Max Cady (Robert De Niro) at his arraignment. Shocked by the violence of Cady's crime, Sam duplicitously…
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Two Evil Eyes (1990)
Cast: Adrienne Barbeau, Harvey Keitel, Ramy Zada …
Directed by: Dario Argento, George A. Romero
Directors George Romero and Dario Argento each try their hand at an Edgar Allan Poe tale -- "The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar" and "The Black Cat," respectively -- in this eerie double…
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The Delta Force (1986)
Cast: Chuck Norris, Bo Svenson, Robert Vaughn …
Directed by: Menahem Golan
When American tourists get skyjacked and held hostage in Beirut, an elite team of U.S. commandos -- with tough guys Col. Nick Alexander (Lee Marvin) and Maj. Scott McCoy (Chuck Norris) as…
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St. Elmo's Fire (1985)
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy …
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Best friends and recent Georgetown graduates struggle with the newfound responsibilities of life in the real world -- in between visits to their favorite bar, St. Elmo's -- in this…
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Death Wish 3 (1985)
Cast: Charles Bronson, Deborah Raffin, Ed Lauter …
Directed by: Michael Winner
When his friend is beaten to death by a group of thugs, vigilante Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) steps in to seek revenge. Granted permission by the police to kill punks at will, Paul engages…
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I Want to Live (1983)
Cast: Lindsay Wagner, Martin Balsam, Pamela Reed …
Directed by: David Lowell Rich
Prostitute and addict Barbara Graham (Lindsay Wagner) tries to go straight but marries the wrong man and her life goes downhill, culminating in her involvement in a hold-up gone wrong that…
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The Salamander (1981)
Cast: Franco Nero, Anthony Quinn, Martin Balsam …
Directed by: Peter Zinner
Members of an Italian rebellious movement are being murdered one after another, and the only clue left at each crime scene is a strange symbol depicting a salamander. Special Agent Dante…
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There Goes the Bride (1980)
Cast: Jim Backus, Martin Balsam, Broderick Crawford …
Directed by: Terry Marcel
When he accidentally whacks his head on his daughter's wedding day, uptight ad exec Timothy Westerby (Tom Smothers) causes no end of trouble when he starts chasing the hallucinatory…
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Cuba (1979)
Cast: Sean Connery, Brooke Adams, Chris Sarandon …
Directed by: Richard Lester
Viva la Revolución! Director Richard Lester trains his camera lens on the Cuban Revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power in the 1950s. Sean Connery's a British operative sent…
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The House on Garibaldi Street (1979)
Cast: Topol, Nick Mancuso, Janet Suzman …
Directed by: Peter Collinson
When Israeli officials learn that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann (Alfred Burke) -- who was responsible for millions of deaths during World War II -- may be living in Argentina, they send a…
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The Sentinel (1977)
Cast: Chris Sarandon, Cristina Raines, Martin Balsam …
Directed by: Michael Winner
Model Alison Parker gets a great deal on a Brooklyn, N.Y., apartment -- but there's just one catch: It's also the gateway to Hell, and she's on the invite list.…
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All the President's Men (1976)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden …
Directed by: Alan J. Pakula
The film that launched a thousand journalism school students, All the President's Men chronicles how the work of reporters Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin…
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Two-Minute Warning (1976)
Cast: Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Martin Balsam …
Directed by: Larry Peerce
An assassin lies in wait for the president at a football playoff game, and when he goes on a killing spree, it's up to two cops (played by John Cassavetes and Charlton Heston) to calm…
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Raid on Entebbe (1976)
Cast: Peter Finch, Martin Balsam, Horst Buchholz …
Directed by: Irvin Kershner
Peter Finch, Charles Bronson and Yaphet Kotto star in this docudrama about the 1976 Israeli commando rescue of Jewish passengers of an Air France plane hijacked by Palestinian and German…
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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Cast: Walter Matthau, Beatrice Winde, Robert Shaw …
Directed by: Joseph Sargent
Deep in the bowels of New York City, a gang of men led by "Mr. Blue" (Robert Shaw) hijacks a subway car and radios the transit authority with a demand: Deliver $1 million in cash in the next…
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Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Cast: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam …
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Investigator Hercule Poirot (Albert Finney) is heading home aboard the Orient Express when a fellow passenger, American businessman Samuel Ratchett (Richard Widmark), is found murdered in…
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Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973)
Cast: Joanne Woodward, Martin Balsam, Sylvia Sidney …
Directed by: Gilbert Cates
New York City homemaker Rita (Joanne Woodward, who won a BAFTA Best Actress Award) is tortured by her own aloofness and empty lifestyle. Her unfolding emotional crisis forces her to reexamine…
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A Brand New Life (1973)
Cast: Cloris Leachman, Martin Balsam, Marge Redmond …
Directed by: Sam O'Steen
Happily married (and childless) Jim and Victoria Douglas (Martin Balsam and Cloris Leachman) are both on the leeward side of 40. Content with their peaceful existence, the couple finds their…
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The Man (1972)
Cast: James Earl Jones, Martin Balsam, Burgess Meredith …
Directed by: Joseph Sargent
When top-level government officials are killed, Senate President Pro Tempore Douglass Dilman (James Earl Jones) suddenly finds himself ascending to the White House as the first…
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The Anderson Tapes (1971)
Cast: Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam …
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Sean Connery stars as Duke Anderson, a con fresh from prison who rounds up a top-level crew to relieve a posh apartment building of its wealth. What Anderson doesn't know, however, is…
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Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Cast: Martin Balsam, Soh Yamamura, Joseph Cotten …
Directed by: Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasuka, Toshio Masuda …
Named for the Japanese phrase that signals the start of an attack, Tora! Tora! Tora! tells both the American and Japanese versions of the infamous attack that catapulted the United States…
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Little Big Man (1970)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George …
Directed by: Arthur Penn
Dustin Hoffman stars as Jack, a 121-year-old man who recounts a long and colorful life in the Wild West, including being raised by Native Americans. His recollections form a Western epic that…
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Catch-22 (1970)
Cast: Alan Arkin, Martin Sheen, Richard Benjamin …
Directed by: Mike Nichols
Capt. Yossarian (Alan Arkin) tries to escape the travesties of World War II by convincing his Air Force commanders that he's crazy. Hilarity ensues -- but so does reality as he watches…
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The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969)
Cast: Martin Balsam, David Carradine, John Carradine …
Directed by: Burt Kennedy
Veteran marshal James Flagg (Robert Mitchum) and his long-time nemesis, gunslinger Big John McKay (George Kennedy), team up to prevent a train robbery in this comic Western. Flagg's been…
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Me, Natalie (1969)
Cast: Patty Duke, James Farentino, Martin Balsam …
Directed by: Fred Coe
This warm and witty drama follows the adventures of Natalie Miller (Patty Duke), a plain Jane who strikes out on her own in the big city and learns some tough lessons about love. After…
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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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After the Fox (1966)
Cast: Peter Sellers, Victor Mature, Martin Balsam …
Directed by: Vittorio De Sica
More than $3 million in gold bullion is bound for Italy from Cairo, Egypt, and con man Aldo Vanucci (Peter Sellers) knows just how to pilfer it: masquerade as a flamboyant director filming a…
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A Thousand Clowns (1965)
Cast: Jason Robards, Barbara Harris, Martin Balsam …
Directed by: Fred Coe
An arrested adolescent at heart, 40-year-old Murray Burns (Jason Robards) -- fed up with the daily grind -- quits his job, refusing to yield to convention. Trouble is, he's the custodian…
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The Bedford Incident (1965)
Cast: Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, James MacArthur …
Directed by: James B. Harris
At the peak of Cold War tensions, a U.S. naval ship discovers a Soviet submarine in the North Atlantic and scrutinizes its every move. As the ship's commander, Capt. Findlander (Richard…
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Harlow (1965)
Cast: Carroll Baker, Red Buttons, Raf Vallone …
Directed by: Gordon Douglas
Carroll Baker plays screen legend Jean Harlow in this slick biopic about the platinum-haired star who died at the tender age of 26. Among the characters who exploit Jean are her overbearing…
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Seven Days in May (1964)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March …
Directed by: John Frankenheimer
Military aide Martin Casey (Kirk Douglas) stumbles across a plot by his boss (Burt Lancaster) to overthrow the U.S. president (Fredric March), who has just negotiated a controversial peace…
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The Carpetbaggers (1964)
Cast: George Peppard, Alan Ladd, Robert Cummings …
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
This 1964 blockbuster, based on Harold Robbins's best-selling novel and loosely based on Howard Hughes's life, chronicles the financial rise and moral descent of half-cocked…
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Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963)
Cast: Dean Martin, Elizabeth Montgomery, Carol Burnett …
Directed by: Daniel Mann
Dean Martin pours on the charm as hunky actor Jason Steel in this romantic comedy directed by Daniel Mann. When Steel is mistaken for the doctor he plays on TV, he finds himself providing…
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Cape Fear (1962)
Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen …
Directed by: J. Lee Thompson
Released on parole after eight years in stir for rape and assault, Max Cady (Robert Mitchum) is hell-bent on vengeance. He heads straight for Sam Bowden (Gregory Peck), the ex-prosecutor…
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Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal …
Directed by: Blake Edwards
In this Blake Edwards-directed adaptation of Truman Capote's novel, fortune hunter Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) finds herself captivated by aspiring writer Paul Varjak (George…
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Naked City: New York to L.A. (1961)
Cast: Harry Bellaver, Horace McMahon, Paul Burke …
Directed by: William A. Graham, Elliot Silverstein, Paul Wendkos …
Cities are teeming with tales that need to be told. This collection from the film-noir TV series that mines the urban landscape for inspiration features a talented roster of guest stars,…
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Psycho (1960)
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin …
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where twitchy…
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The Twilight Zone: Vol. 36 (1960)
Cast: Rod Serling, Martin Balsam, Simon Oakland …
Directed by: William Asher, Jus Addiss
Creator Rod Serling's long-running, Emmy-winning television series brought science fiction to the masses. Viewers enjoyed the twisted, often-humorous mysteries as well as the show's…
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The Twilight Zone: Vol. 12 (1959)
Cast: Martin Balsam, Ida Lupino, Dan Duryea …
Directed by: William Asher, Jus Addiss
Creator Rod Serling's long-running, Emmy-winning television series brought science fiction to the masses. Viewers enjoyed the twisted, often-humorous mysteries as well as the show's…
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Middle of the Night (1959)
Cast: Fredric March, Kim Novak, Effie Afton …
Directed by: Delbert Mann
Award-winning scriptwriter Paddy Chayevsky penned this romantic drama that chronicles the love affair between a widowed clothing manufacturer (Fredric March, in a Golden Globe-nominated…
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12 Angry Men (1957)
Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley …
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Knowing full well that a guilty verdict means death, a jury of 12 men (including Jack Warden and Jack Klugman) must decide the fate of an 18-year-old boy accused of fatally stabbing his…
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Studio One: The Defender (1957)
Cast: Martin Balsam, Ralph Bellamy, Steve McQueen …
Featuring live dramas with both well-known actors and future stars such as Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford, "Studio One" stands out as a classic series from the early days of…
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Time Limit (1957)
Cast: Richard Widmark, Richard Basehart, Dolores Michaels …
Directed by: Karl Malden
Richard Widmark stars in this court drama as Col. William Edwards, a military lawyer assigned to defend Korean War POW Maj. Cargill (Richard Basehart) of treason. But as commanding officers…
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On the Waterfront (1954)
Cast: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb …
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Winner of eight Oscars, director Elia Kazan's classic morality tale stars Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy, a has-been boxer who experiences a crisis of conscience while working for…
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Port of New York / Death Rage / Poppies Are Also Flowers (1949)
Cast: Yul Brynner, Scott Brady, Richard Rober …
Directed by: László Benedek, Antonio Margheriti, Terence Young …
The intense, deep-voiced star Yul Brynner headlines these three underworld dramas, which span the Russian-born actor's long and illustrious career. He makes his film debut as a drug…