Movies by Burt Lancaster
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NFL Films Classics: Big Game America (2008)
Cast: Don Meredith, Burt Lancaster
Professional football's glory years in the United States are the focus of this retrospective documentary narrated by silver-screen legend Burt Lancaster. Along with chronicling how…
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Separate But Equal (1991)
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Burt Lancaster, Richard Kiley …
Directed by: George Stevens Jr.
Sidney Poitier stars as the dazzling legal mind Thurgood Marshall in this drama that follows the strong-willed attorney as he battles to desegregate schools, taking on John W. Davis (Burt…
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The Phantom of the Opera (1990)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Charles Dance, Teri Polo …
Directed by: Tony Richardson
Charles Dance has the title role in this made-for-TV adaptation of the classic tale, based on a stage version by noted playwright Arthur Kopit. A masked phantom terrorizes the Paris Opera…
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Field of Dreams (1989)
Cast: Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, Gaby Hoffmann …
Directed by: Phil Alden Robinson
Kevin Costner stars as an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's directions don't stop -- even…
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Rocket Gibraltar (1988)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Suzy Amis, Patricia Clarkson …
Directed by: Daniel Petrie
Levi Rockwell's (Burt Lancaster) family has gathered at his home to celebrate his upcoming 77th birthday, and his children and their spouses are an anxious and egocentric bunch set on…
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The Jeweller's Shop (1988)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Daniel Olbrychski, Ben Cross …
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Burt Lancaster stars as the titular merchant in this classic adaptation of Pope John Paul II's best-selling play "The Jeweller's Shop," an inspiring drama about three married…
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Scandal Sheet (1985)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Pamela Reed, Robert Urich …
Directed by: David Lowell Rich
With an eye on selling papers, an unscrupulous tabloid publisher (Burt Lancaster) sets his sights on an aging actor with an alcohol problem (Robert Urich), scooping the skeletons out of his…
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Local Hero (1983)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson …
Directed by: Bill Forsyth
In this good-natured fish-out-of-water comedy, disenchanted Texas oil tycoon Felix Happer (Burt Lancaster) sets out to buy an entire Scottish town in order to drill offshore. When one…
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The Osterman Weekend (1983)
Cast: Rutger Hauer, John Hurt, Craig T. Nelson …
Directed by: Sam Peckinpah
An investigative reporter for a TV news show throws a big soiree every year to which he invites his closest friends. But the C.I.A. dumps a wet blanket on the festivities when they tell him…
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
Cast: Steve Martin, Humphrey Bogart, Rachel Ward …
Directed by: Carl Reiner
Gumshoe Rigby Reardon (Steve Martin) takes on the case of a missing cheese maker/scientist when the man's shapely daughter, Juliet Forrest (Rachel Ward), hires the detective to…
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Atlantic City (1980)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid …
Directed by: Louis Malle
Longtime low-level mobster Lou (Burt Lancaster) is fading and past his prime -- much like the decaying city in which he lives. He meets and falls for a sexy casino employee named Sally (Susan…
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Zulu Dawn (1979)
Cast: Bob Hoskins, Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole …
Directed by: Douglas Hickox
Douglas Hickox helms this authentically staged epic dramatizing the clash between thousands of Zulu warriors and a considerably smaller number of British soldiers stationed in Natal, South…
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Go Tell the Spartans (1978)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson, Jonathan Goldsmith …
Directed by: Ted Post
Stogie-chomping career soldier Maj. Asa Barker (Burt Lancaster) is assigned to defend an insignificant outpost with a handful of raw recruits and South Vietnamese militia. Barker follows…
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1900 (1977)
Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Laura Betti, Robert De Niro …
Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci's epic tale follows the lives of two Italian men -- a peasant (Gerard Depardieu) and a landowner (Robert De Niro) -- both born on Jan. 1, 1900. Friends as children,…
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The Island of Dr. Moreau: Director's Cut (1977)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport …
Directed by: Don Taylor
This 1977 adaptation of H.G. Wells's sci-fi novel stars Michael York as Andrew Braddock, a shipwrecked sailor who washes up on a mysterious island inhabited by mad scientist Dr. Paul…
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Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Roscoe Lee Browne, Joseph Cotten …
Directed by: Robert Aldrich
When he's framed and sent to prison under false pretenses, a vengeful U.S. Air Force general mounts his escape with two willing accomplices, takes over an ill-guarded missile silo and…
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The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
Cast: Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Martin Sheen …
Directed by: George P. Cosmatos
Boasting a sprawling disaster-movie cast (including Martin Sheen, Richard Harris, Burt Lancaster and O.J. Simpson), The Cassandra Crossing is like Murder on the Orient Express -- on steroids!…
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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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Ali the Fighter (1975)
Cast: Muhammad Ali, Burt Lancaster, Joe Frazier …
Directed by: William Greaves
Director William Greaves's compelling documentary about boxer Muhammad Ali chronicles the champ's 1971 bout against Joe Frazier. Greaves goes behind the scenes of the event,…
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Scorpio (1973)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, J.D. Cannon …
Directed by: Michael Winner
The assassination of the prime minister of Eritrea sets off a chain of events with global repercussions in the intelligence community. Longtime CIA operative Gerald Cross (Burt Lancaster)…
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Executive Action (1973)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer …
Directed by: David Miller
Based on the novel Rush to Judgment, this chilling drama purports that JFK's assassination was a conspiracy concocted by military and industrial leaders. Burt Lancaster, Will Geer and…
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Ulzana's Raid (1972)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Bruce Davison, Jorge Luke …
Directed by: Robert Aldrich
An idealistic lieutenant and an aging scout lock horns as they try to stop the attacks of a brutal Apache chief. While a violent battle with the insurgents brews, the unlikely pair attempt to…
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Lawman (1970)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, J.D. Cannon, Joseph Wiseman …
Directed by: Michael Winner
Director Michael Winner's stoic interpretation of a timeless Western motif stars Burt Lancaster as flinty, uncompromising Marshal Jered Maddox. He's out to jail seven cowpunchers…
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Valdez Is Coming (1970)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Frank Silvera, Hector Elizondo …
Directed by: Edwin Sherin
Tight-lipped Mexican lawman Bob Valdez (Burt Lancaster) is a deputy sheriff in an American frontier town overrun by racism. When a ruthless gang slays an innocent victim and wrongs Valdez one…
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Airport / Airport 1975 (1970)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg …
Directed by: George Seaton, Jack Smight
The first Airport film focuses on a 12-hour period at a major airport where manager Mel Bakersfeld (Burt Lancaster) must deal with a powerful blizzard, a blocked runway and a mentally…
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Airport (1970)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Van Heflin …
Directed by: George Seaton
Based on Arthur Hailey's best-selling novel, this is the granddaddy of disaster movies, starring Burt Lancaster as a harried airport manager facing an imminent blizzard, spineless…
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The Gypsy Moths (1969)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman …
Directed by: John Frankenheimer
Three skydivers and their traveling thrill show arrive at a small Midwestern town one Fourth of July weekend and take the town -- a few townspeople in particular -- by storm. In this haven of…
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Castle Keep (1969)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Patrick O'Neal, Jean-Pierre Aumont …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack directs an all-star cast (Burt Lancaster, Peter Falk, Bruce Dern, Jean-Pierre Aumont and Patrick O'Neal) in an allegorical tale about an American military squad that,…
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The Swimmer (1968)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Janet Landgard, Janice Rule …
Directed by: Frank Perry
Burt Lancaster stars as the titular backstroker in this adaptation of John Cheever's short story about one man's attempt to find meaning in his life. Ned Merrill (Lancaster) wakes…
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The Scalphunters (1968)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Outnumbered by a tribe of gun-toting Kiowa Indians, illiterate trapper Joe Bass (Burt Lancaster) reluctantly agrees to trade his furs for educated slave Joseph Lee (Ossie Davis). Bass and Lee…
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The Professionals (1966)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan …
Directed by: Richard Brooks
A largely forgotten action-adventure gem, The Professionals teams Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan and Burt Lancaster with more star wattage than most Westerns have ever marshaled. Hired to retrieve…
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The Hallelujah Trail (1965)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Jim Hutton …
Directed by: John Sturges
A veritable who's who of 1960s Hollywood is represented in this rollicking, satiric Western about a boisterous temperance leader (Lee Remick) out to stop a cavalry-protected whiskey…
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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 Train (1964)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Michael A. Simon …
Directed by: John Frankenheimer
During World War II, a French train engineer (Burt Lancaster) attempts to stop a Nazi-led train from leaving France with valuable works of art stolen from a museum. Lancaster performs all of…
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The Leopard (Italian Version) (1963)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon …
Directed by: Luchino Visconti
In this war drama set in 1860s Sicily, Prince Don Fabrizio Salina (Burt Lancaster) attempts to hold onto the glory he once knew, while his nephew, Tancredi Falconeri (Alain Delon), has joined…
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The Leopard (English version) (1963)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon …
Directed by: Luchino Visconti
In this war drama set in 1860s Sicily, Prince Don Fabrizio Salina (Burt Lancaster) attempts to hold onto the glory he once knew, while his nephew, Tancredi Falconeri (Alain Delon), has joined…
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A Child Is Waiting (1963)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Gena Rowlands …
Directed by: John Cassavetes
Sympathetic music teacher Jean Hansen (Judy Garland) butts head with Ben Clark (Burt Lancaster), the stern administrator of a school for mentally disabled children, when she takes a…
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Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter …
Directed by: John Frankenheimer
Convict Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster, Oscar-nominated for his portrayal of the real-life inmate) finds solace in his life sentence of solitary confinement for murder by becoming an…
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Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark …
Directed by: Stanley Kramer
This Academy Award-winning film by Stanley Kramer stars Spencer Tracy as American judge Dan Haywood, who's chosen to guide a 1948 tribunal that's trying Germans suspected of…
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The Young Savages (1961)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Edward Andrews …
Directed by: John Frankenheimer
When three Italian teens are accused of stabbing a young Puerto Rican in East Harlem, an ambitious district attorney pushes for the death penalty, but wary assistant DA Hank Bell (Burt…
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Elmer Gantry (1960)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy …
Directed by: Richard Brooks
Hollywood legend Burt Lancaster nabbed a Best Actor Oscar as glad-handing, soul-redeeming charlatan Elmer Gantry, a huckster who spins his talent for preaching into a métier behind the…
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The Unforgiven (1960)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy …
Directed by: John Huston
It's 1865, and the Southwest is plagued by post-Civil War tensions. But winsome Rachel Zachary (Audrey Hepburn) lives unperturbed with her mother Matilda on a Texas cattle ranch. One…
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Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden, Don Rickles …
Directed by: Robert Wise
Film legend Clark Gable plays single-minded Cmdr. Richardson, who lost his submarine during an overzealous pursuit and has sworn to take revenge against the Japanese destroyer that sunk his…
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Separate Tables (1958)
Cast: Deborah Kerr, Rita Hayworth, David Niven …
Directed by: Delbert Mann
Lonely characters staying at an English hotel try to connect with one another. Maj. Pollack (David Niven, who won an Oscar for his role) likes to reminisce about acts of heroism in WWII.…
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming …
Directed by: John Sturges
This classic Western about the unusual friendship between Wyatt Earp (Burt Lancaster) and Doc Holliday (Kirk Douglas) is as good it gets. When Wyatt puts an end to the cattle-rustling…
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Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Martin Milner …
Directed by: Alexander Mackendrick
Walter Winchell-style columnist J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) uses his power to steamroll both friends and enemies. Fawning press agent Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis), desperate to promote his…
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The Rainmaker (1956)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn, Wendell Corey …
Directed by: Joseph Anthony
Flimflamming his way through the drought-plagued Southwest, Bill Starbuck (Burt Lancaster) promises -- for $100 -- to bring rain to farmer H.C. Curry (Cameron Prud'Homme). But…
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The Rose Tattoo (1955)
Cast: Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan …
Directed by: Daniel Mann
Penned by Tennessee Williams, this bittersweet tale of a widowed Italian woman living in the South focuses on recluse Serafina (Anna Magnani), who longs for her dead husband, but finds…
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The Kentuckian (1955)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Dianne Foster, Diana Lynn …
Directed by: Burt Lancaster
Burt Lancaster produced and directed this action-packed oater, which recounts the story of gritty widower Elias Wakefield (Lancaster) and his son (Donald MacDonald), who leave Kentucky to…
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Vera Cruz (1954)
Cast: Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Denise Darcel …
Directed by: Robert Aldrich
A mission to escort a beautiful Mexican countess (Denise Darcel) to the port of Vera Cruz unites Ben, a Civil War veteran (Gary Cooper), and Joe, a man on the run (Burt Lancaster). The…
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Apache (1954)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, John Dehner, Paul Guilfoyle …
Directed by: Robert Aldrich
Apache renegade Massai (Burt Lancaster) refuses to surrender with Geronimo and gets shipped to Florida with the rest of his tribe. Escaping en route, Massai journeys back to his home village…
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His Majesty O'Keefe (1954)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Joan Rice, Andre Morell …
Directed by: Byron Haskin
Eighteenth-century entrepreneur David O'Keefe (Burt Lancaster) travels the South Seas, sharing agricultural tips with the islanders. Along the way, the swashbuckling sailor becomes…
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From Here to Eternity (1953)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr …
Directed by: Fred Zinnemann
This gripping adaptation of James Jones's novel about Army life in Hawaii in the idyllic days just before Dec. 7, 1941, boasts one of the hottest love scenes in screen history: Burt…
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South Sea Woman (1953)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Chuck Connors …
Directed by: Arthur Lubin
In this World War II comedy, Marine sergeant James O'Hearn (Burt Lancaster), absent from his post during the attack on Pearl Harbor, is branded a coward. But during his court-martial,…
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Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Shirley Booth, Terry Moore …
Directed by: Daniel Mann
Shirley Booth (in her film debut) took home a Best Actress Oscar for her superb performance as Lola Delaney, a maudlin, slovenly housewife whose world is shaken by her recovering alcoholic…
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The Crimson Pirate (1952)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok …
Directed by: Robert Siodmak
Burt Lancaster stars in this comedy set on the high seas in the 1700s. A sea captain (Lancaster) has a fine racket going: His crew pretends to be stricken with scurvy so they can take over…
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Vengeance Valley (1951)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Robert Walker, Joanne Dru …
Directed by: Richard Thorpe
Burt Lancaster stars in this strong example of the mature Westerns that were coming out of Hollywood in the early 1950s. There are Biblical undertones in the story of Owen (Lancaster), the…
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Jim Thorpe, All American (1951)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Charles Bickford, Steve Cochran …
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
In this moving biopic, Burt Lancaster portrays Native American athlete Jim Thorpe, one of the most versatile sportsmen in history. The story follows Thorpe through the highs of gold medal…
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The Flame and the Arrow (1950)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Robert Douglas …
Directed by: Jacques Tourneur
In medieval Italy, mercenary Dardo Bartoli (Burt Lancaster) rebels against the Hessian occupation. When his ex-wife (Lynne Baggett) takes up with an enemy leader (Robert Douglas), Dardo…
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Criss Cross (1949)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea …
Directed by: Robert Siodmak
Working man Steve (Burt Lancaster) makes a decent and honest living as an armored truck driver. His only downfall? His lingering feelings for his ex-wife, Anna (Yvonne De Carlo), a greedy…
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Rope of Sand (1949)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains …
Directed by: William Dieterle
Big game hunter Mike Davis (Burt Lancaster) heads to the African desert in pursuit of the most elusive quarry of all -- a lode of diamonds whose location only Davis knows but vicious…
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Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards …
Directed by: Anatole Litvak
In this gripping thriller, Barbara Stanwyck stars as Leona Stevenson, a young, beautiful, rich hypochondriac who rarely gets out of bed. When she dials a wrong number by mistake, she…
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I Walk Alone (1948)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas …
Directed by: Byron Haskin
Frankie Madison (Burt Lancaster), just out of prison, expects to pick up his bootlegging racket right where he left off. Unfortunately, his former partner, Noll Turner (Kirk Douglas), now a…
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Brute Force (1947)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Yvonne De Carlo …
Directed by: Jules Dassin
In this intense prison drama, Burt Lancaster plays Joe Collins, the toughest inmate on the cell block, and Hume Cronyn is Capt. Munsey, a corrupt prison guard whose ruthless nature has made…
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers / Kirk Douglas on Film: Double Feature (1946)
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin …
Directed by: Lewis Milestone, Ted Newsom
Kirk Douglas makes his screen debut in the 1946 film noir classic The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, playing the weak, alcoholic husband of a powerful heiress (Barbara Stanwyck). The doomed…
As a director:
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The Kentuckian (1955)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Dianne Foster, Diana Lynn …
Directed by: Burt Lancaster
Burt Lancaster produced and directed this action-packed oater, which recounts the story of gritty widower Elias Wakefield (Lancaster) and his son (Donald MacDonald), who leave Kentucky to…