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Tag Archives: Lee Marvin
The Iceman Cometh (1973) John Frankenheimer, Lee Marvin, Fredric March, Robert Ryan
It’s 1912 and the patrons of ‘The Last Chance Saloon’ have gathered for their evening of whiskey Read More »
The Glory Brigade (1953) Robert D. Webb, Victor Mature, Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin
During the Korean War Lt. Sam Pryor volunteers his platoon to escort Greek troops to perform a reconnaissance mission behind Communist lines. Read More »
Gorky Park (1983) Michael Apted, William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy
An investigator on the Moscow police force relentlessly pursues the solution to a triple homicide which occurred in Moscow’s Gorky Park. Read More »
Prime Cut (1972) Michael Ritchie, Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Sissy Spacek
A Chicago mob enforcer is sent to Kansas City to settle a debt with a cattle rancher who not only grinds his enemies into sausage, but sells women as sex slaves. Read More »
Death Hunt (1981) Peter R. Hunt, Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Andrew Stevens
Canada 1931: The unsociable trapper Johnson lives for himself in the ice-cold mountains near the Yukon river. Read More »
The Dirty Dozen (1967) Robert Aldrich, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson
A Major with an attitude problem and a history of getting things done is told to interview military prisoners with death sentences or long terms for a dangerous mission Read More »
The Klansman (1974) Terence Young, Lee Marvin, Richard Burton, Cameron Mitchell, Crime, Drama, Thriller
A tiny southern city has only been rocked by a catastrophe: a young girl was raped. Read More »
Shout at the Devil (1976) Peter R. Hunt, Lee Marvin, Roger Moore, Barbara Parkins, Action, Adventure, Drama
Just prior to World War One the hard drinking sharpshooting, Irish American Colonel Flynn O’Flynn, uses British aristocrat Sebastian Oldsmith to help poach ivory Read More »
The Killers (1964) Don Siegel, Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Don Siegel directed this intensely pessimistic re-make of Robert Siodmak’s 1946 film noir masterpiece The Killers, based upon a story by Ernest Hemingway. Read More »
Pocket Money (1972) Stuart Rosenberg, Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin, Western, Comedy, Drama
Jim Kane is a loser cowboy in Nogales, Arizona.He has more good nature than good sense and often takes jack-of-all-trades jobs. Read More »
Emperor of the North Pole (1973) Robert Aldrich, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine, Action, Adventure, Drama
It is during the great depression in the US, and the land is full of people who are now homeless. Read More »
Paint Your Wagon (1969) Joshua Logan, Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, Comedy, Drama, Musical
A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Read More »
Eight Iron Men (1952) Edward Dmytryk, Bonar Colleano, Arthur Franz, Lee Marvin, Drama, War
Stanley Kramer’s WW-II character study has Lee Marvin as the Sergeant of a small squad laid over during fighting in Italy.
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Hell in the Pacific (1968) John Boorman, Lee Marvin, Toshirô Mifune, Adventure, War, Drama
During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves stranded on the same small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. Following war logic, each time the crafty Japanese devises something useful, he guards it to deny its use to the Yank, who then steals it, its proceeds or the idea and/or ruins it. Yet each gets his chance to kill and/or capture the other, but neither pushes this to the end. After a while of this pointless pestering, they end up joining forces to build and man a raft…
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