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Tag Archives: Charlton Heston
Midway (1976) Jack Smight, Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Action, Drama, History, War
He summer of 1942 attracted Naval stalemate into the Pacific since the Japanese and American fleets stood even numbers each waiting for another to start a renewed offensive. Read More »
Earthquake (1974) Mark Robson, Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Action, Drama, Thriller
Construction Engineer Stuart Graff is estranged from his jealously possessive wife, Remy, and has an affair with Denise Marshall, the widow of a co-worker. Read More »
Pony Express (1953) Jerry Hopper, Charlton Heston, Rhonda Fleming, Jan Sterling, History, Romance, Western
Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok join forces to establish a mail route that can get mail from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, in ten days. Read More »
The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962) Melville Shavelson, Charlton Heston, Elsa Martinelli, Harry Guardino, Comedy, War
Khartoum (1966) Basil Dearden, Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Richard Johnson, Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
After an Egyptian army, commanded by British officers, is destroyed in a battle in the Sudan in the 1880’s, the British government is in a quandary. Read More »
The Naked Jungle (1954) Byron Haskin, Charlton Heston, Eleanor Parker, Abraham Sofaer, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
It’s 1901. At 19, tough, stubborn Christopher Leiningen came to South America and built levees to claim thousands of acres of Rio Negro river land for a chocolate plantation. Read More »
Bad for Each Other (1953) Irving Rapper, Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Dianne Foster, Drama
A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between setting up a glamorous practice and helping the poor.
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Three Violent People (1956) Rudolph Maté, Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Gilbert Roland, Western
Former dance hall girl Lorna, masquerading as a lady, meets and marries Confederate ex-officer Colt Saunders, returning to his rich Texas ranch. Read More »
Julius Caesar (1970) Stuart Burge, Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, John Gielgud, Drama, History, War
All star cast heads up this 1970 remake of the William Shakespeare classic tale of the betrayal of the the Roman senate against their emperor, the plotting and scheming that led up to the assassination of the title charecter, and all of Romes’ fickleness towards the events.
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The Awakening (1980) Mike Newell, Charlton Heston, Susannah York, Jill Townsend, Horror
An American archaeologist is in Egypt with his pregnant wife, searching for the tomb of a long-lost Egyptian queen. At the same moment he discovers the tomb and opens it’s accursed seal, his wife gives birth to his daughter. Years later it transpires that the malevolent spirit of the Egyptian queen left the tomb just as he was entering, and possessed his baby girl. As the truth becomes clear, the archaeologist realizes that he must destroy his daughter in a ceremonial ritual, before she uses her awesome powers to threaten the safety of mankind.
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The Omega Man (1971) Boris Sagal, Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash, Action, Sci-Fi
Due to an experimental vaccine, Dr. Robert Neville is the only survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. The plague caused by the war has killed everyone else except for a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people calling themselves “The Family”. The plague has caused them to become sensitive to light, as well as homicidally psychotic. They believe science and technology to be the cause of the war and their punishment, and Neville, as the last symbol of science, the old world, and a “user of the wheel”, must die. Neville, using electricity, machinery, and science attempts to hold them at bay.
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Secret of the Incas (1954) Jerry Hopper, Charlton Heston, Robert Young, Nicole Maurey, Adventure
An Inca legend says the Inca Empire was destroyed by the gods when a gold and jeweled star burst was stolen from the Temple of the Sun centuries ago, and the ancient civilization will spring anew when the treasure is returned. The natives want it but so does Harry Steele, an American adventurer of slightly-shady ways who wants it for personal gain, as does his adversary, a grizzled old man even more into skulduggery than Steele. The latter teams up with Elena Antonescu, an Iron Curtain refugee fleeing from the MKVD. She can help him get a plane and he can help her escape Peru for the relative safety of Mexico.
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The Private War of Major Benson (1955) Jerry Hopper, Charlton Heston, Julie Adams, William Demarest, Comedy, Family, Romance
A Major noted for advancing with his mouth before thinking is given a choice: to be drummed out of the Army, or take command of and shape up the ROTC program at Sheridan Academy before it fails its next inspection. At Sheridan he encounters three hundred pre-teen cadets who range from rascally to adorable, and a female doctor who has just the right prescription for him.
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The Crucifer of Blood (1991) Fraser Clarke Heston, Charlton Heston, Richard Johnson, Susannah Harker, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Beautiful, young Irne St. Claire enlists Holmes’ and Watson’s help for her father, a former veteran of the Great Indian Mutiny, who has become a hopeless opium addict. His drug dependence is a direct result of guilt and fear arising from a blood pact of secrecy made during the siege of Agra in 1857 in which he was party to the theft of a maharajah’s treasure, murder, and betrayal. When an avaricious co-conspirator dies under mysterious circumstances, St. Clair is certain that the curse will strike him next.
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