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The Last Hunt (1956) Richard Brooks, Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Lloyd Nolan
Set in the early 1880s, this is the story of one of the last buffalo hunts in the Northwest. Read More »
Fever Pitch (1985) Richard Brooks, Ryan O’Neal, Catherine Hicks, Giancarlo Giannini, Drama
Investigative sports journalist veteran Steve Taggart is working on his latest story – an inside look at professional gambling. Read More »
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) Richard Brooks, Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight, Drama
Drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown after many years of trying to make it in the movies. Read More »
Elmer Gantry (1960) Richard Brooks, Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Drama
Elmer Gantry is a fast-talking, hard-drinking traveling salesman who always has a risqué story and a hip flask to entertain cronies and customers alike. Read More »
The Blackboard Jungle (1955) Richard Brooks, Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern, Drama
War veteran Rick Dadier is one of three new teachers hired at North Manual High School, an inner city boys school. Read More »
Wrong Is Right (1982) Richard Brooks, Sean Connery, George Grizzard, Robert Conrad, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
A satire of American news reporting, Covert Agencies, and political system. The theft of two suitcase sized nuclear weapons, and their sale to a terrorist group, leads TV Newsman Patrick Hale on an international chase to track them down, and uncover the twisting maze of apparent involvement of US Government agencies.
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The Light Touch (1951) Richard Brooks, Stewart Granger, Pier Angeli, George Sanders, Crime, Drama
Sam and Felix are art thieves. Sam has just stolen a picture from a museum in Italy, but told Felix that it was lost in a boat accident. He wants copies made to sell while he will sell the original and get paid both ways. To find an artist, they pick the young, beautiful, naive Anna. When Anna has doubts, Sam strings her along and then marries her and go to Sicily on their honeymoon. Anna finds out that Sam is a thief and is very disappointed. Felix finds out that Sam has the original and is out to get it. The police are also waiting along with the buyer that Sam has for the painting.
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Bite the Bullet (1975) Richard Brooks, Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, James Coburn, Action, Adventure, Western
At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, among them a woman, Miss Jones, a Mexican, an Englishman, a young cow-boy, an old one and two friends, Sam Clayton and Luke Matthews. All those individualists will learn to respect each other.
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