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Tag Archives: Sidney Lumet
King: A Filmed Record… Montgomery to Memphis (1970) Sidney Lumet, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Ruby Dee
Follows Martin Luther King’s life and decades long civil rights activism. Read More »
The Appointment (1969) Sidney Lumet, Omar Sharif, Anouk Aimée, Didi Perego
Frederico Fendi, a Rome-based lawyer, is not totally fulfilled despite his professional success Read More »
The Fugitive Kind (1960) Sidney Lumet, Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, Anna Magnani
Having fled New Orleans to avoid arrest, the undeniably alluring Valentine “Snakeskin” Xavier (Val) Read More »
Power (1986) Sidney Lumet, Richard Gere, Julie Christie, Gene Hackman
Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. Read More »
The Offence (1973) Sidney Lumet, Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Vivien Merchant
In Sidney Lumet’s harrowing portrayal of police brutality, Detective Sergeant Johnson has been with the British Police Force for 20 years. Read More »
Prince of the City (1981) Sidney Lumet, Treat Williams, Jerry Orbach, Richard Foronjy
New York City cop Daniel Ciello is involved in some questionable police practices. Read More »
Daniel (1983) Sidney Lumet, Timothy Hutton, Mandy Patinkin, Lindsay Crouse
The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson Read More »
12 Angry Men (1957) Sidney Lumet, Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room Read More »
A View from the Bridge AKA Vu du pont (1962) Sidney Lumet, Raf Vallone, Maureen Stapleton, Carol Lawrence
Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice Read More »
Just Tell Me What You Want (1980) Sidney Lumet, Ali MacGraw, Alan King, Myrna Loy
A TV producer who is the mistress of her boss, tries to have him make their relationship more permanent, and begins a relationship with a younger man. Read More »
The Deadly Affair (1966) Sidney Lumet, James Mason, Maximilian Schell, Simone Signoret
After Charles Dobbs, a security officer, has a friendly chat with Samuel Fennan from the Foreign Office, the man commits suicide. Read More »
Garbo Talks (1984) Sidney Lumet, Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver, Carrie Fisher, Comedy, Drama
Estelle is a one-person protest army: she goes to jail over grocery prices, shames construction workers for catcalls to passing women, and won’t cross a picket line for her son’s wedding. Read More »
The Sea Gull (1968) Sidney Lumet, James Mason, Vanessa Redgrave, Simone Signoret, Drama, Romance
An aging actress named Irina Arkidana pays summer visits to her brother Pjotr Nikolayevich Sorin and her son Konstantin on a country estate. Read More »
The Iceman Cometh (1960) Sidney Lumet, Jason Robards, Myron McCormick, Tom Pedi, Drama
The chilling tale of a high-rolling gambler who changes his ways and is determind to help the drifters, alcoholics and prostitutes who have come to depend on his “generosity”. Read More »