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Absence of Malice

Absence of Malice (1981) more movies like this

directed by Sydney Pollack
featuring Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon, Luther Adler, Wilford Brimley

In this legal drama from director Sydney Pollack, Sally Field stars as Megan, an ambitious newpaper reporter who, based on information from FBI investigator Rosen, played by Bob Balaban, writes a scathing article that implicates Gallagher, a reclusive business-owner played by Paul Newman, in the recent disappearance of a labor leader. When ...

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The Desert Fox

The Desert Fox (1951) more movies like this

directed by Henry Hathaway
featuring James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy, Luther Adler, Everett Sloane

The Desert Fox is a superb filmed biography of German general Erwin Rommel, concentrating on the period between his retreat from North Africa and his government-decreed death. A brilliant tactician, Rommel earns the respect not only of his own men but of the enemy. Unfortunately, Adolph Hitler (Luther Adler), laboring under the delusion that he ...

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The Brotherhood

The Brotherhood (1968) more movies like this

directed by Martin Ritt
featuring Kirk Douglas, Alex Cord, Irene Papas, Luther Adler, Susan Strasberg

In Martin Ritt's The Brotherhood, Kirk Douglas plays Frank Ginetta, an old-line Mafioso who resents the newer policies encouraged by his younger brother Vince (Alex Cord). Frank resists all attempts at modernizing his operation, whereupon Vince cajoles his father-in-law Dominick Bertolo (Luther Adler) to spearhead an inter-mob rebellion. Summing ...

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D.O.A.

D.O.A. (1949) more movies like this

directed by Rudolph Maté
featuring Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler, Beverly Campbell, Lynne Baggett

"I want to report a murder...mine." So begins D.O.A. Told in flashback, the story tells of how vacationing CPA Frank Bigelow (Edmond O'Brien) becomes the recipient of a deadly poison known as iridium. Told by a doctor that he hasn't long to live, Bigelow desperately retraces his movements of the previous 24 hours, trying to locate his murderer. ...

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Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950) more movies like this

directed by Gordon M. Douglas
featuring James Cagney, Barbara Payton, Helena Carter, Ward Bond, Luther Adler

Based on a novel by Horace McCoy (They Shoot Horses, Don't They), Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye offers James Cagney at his nastiest. The star plays career criminal Ralph Cotter, who gets things started by violently busting out of jail, then murdering his partner in crime. Seeking out female companionship, he "courts" his ex-partner's sister Holiday ...

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Wake of the Red Witch

Wake of the Red Witch (1949) more movies like this

directed by Edward Ludwig, John Farrow
featuring John Wayne, Gail Russell, Gig Young, Luther Adler, Adele Mara

This unusual, dreamlike John Wayne vehicle is set in the East Indies. The focus of the film is the deadly rivalry between two men of the sea. Ship's captain Rails (John Wayne) nurses a long-standing grudge against shipping magnate Van Schreeven (Luther Adler). The reason for the animosity: Van Schreeven stole away Rails' love, Angelique (Gail ...

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House of Strangers

House of Strangers (1949) more movies like this

directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
featuring Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Luther Adler, Paul Valentine

House of Strangers is the first of three film versions of Jerome Weidman's I'll Never Go Home Any More, each of which was scripted by Philip Yordan. Edward G. Robinson plays a Giannini-like Italian-American banker, Gino Monetti, who runs roughshod over his four grown sons. The ruthless Gino engages in several illegal activities to build up his ...

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The Loves of Carmen

The Loves of Carmen (1948) more movies like this

directed by Charles Vidor
featuring Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Ron Randell, Victor Jory, Luther Adler, Arnold Moss

Perhaps it's just as well that Columbia elected to film Prosper Merimee's Carmen without Georges Bizet's music: after all, Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford weren't exactly Leontyne Price and Robert Merrill. The Loves of Carmen is a reasonably faithful rehash of Merimee's story of the tempestuous gypsy cigarette-factory worker Carmen (Hayworth) and the ...

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The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955) more movies like this

directed by Richard Fleischer
featuring Ray Milland, Joan Collins, Farley Granger, Luther Adler

Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, the real-life personality so brilliantly (albeit briefly) portrayed by Elizabeth McGovern in Ragtime (1981), is given the full biopic treatment in 20th Century Fox's The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing. Since the real Mrs. Thaw served as technical advisor for the film, it isn't surprising that the controversial Evelyn comes across ...

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The Tall Texan

The Tall Texan (1953) more movies like this

directed by Elmo Williams
featuring Lloyd Bridges, Lee J. Cobb, Marie Windsor, Luther Adler, Sid Saylor

Elmo Williams, the veteran Hollywood film editor who gained fame for his work on High Noon, serves as director of the medium-budget western The Tall Texan. Lloyd Bridges plays the title character, a convicted murderer named Ben Trask. While being escorted to prison, Trask talks his captors into prospecting for gold. A rich vein has been found in ...

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The Man in the Glass Booth (1975) more movies like this

directed by Arthur Hiller
featuring Maximilian Schell, Lois Nettleton, Luther Adler, Lawrence Pressman, Henry Brown

Actor/writer Robert Shaw's powerhouse stage play The Man in the Glass Booth was transferred to the screen as part of the American Film Theatre series. Maximilian Schell plays Arthur Goldman, a Jewish businessmen living in Manhattan in 1965. A group of Israeli underground agents barge into Goldman's office and kidnap him. He is brought to Israel, ...

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The Last Angry Man (1959) more movies like this

directed by Daniel Mann
featuring Paul Muni, David Wayne, Betsy Palmer, Luther Adler, Joby Baker

In danger of losing his job, TV-producer David Wayne hopes to cook up a real ratings winner by building a network special around the life and work of elderly doctor Paul Muni. For the past 45 years, the iconoclastic Muni has run a free clinic in the slums of Brooklyn. Muni has no time for television, however, so Wayne tries to get Muni's lifelong ...

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Live a Little, Steal A Lot (1974) more movies like this

directed by Marvin J. Chomsky
featuring Robert Conrad, Don Stroud, Donna Mills, Robyn Millan, Luther Adler

Live a Little, Steal a Lot and You Can't Steal Love were both alternate titles for the fact-based crime caper Murph the Surph. In the early 1960s, a "celebrity beach bum" named Jack Murphy--aka Murph the Surph--helped mastermind the stealing of the Star of India sapphire from the American Museum of Natural History. The film concentrates on the ...

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Hoodlum Empire (1952) more movies like this

directed by Joseph Kane
featuring Brian Donlevy, Claire Trevor, Forrest Tucker, Vera Ralston, Luther Adler

The Kefauver Committee's ongoing investigation of organized crime spawned several "Torn from Today's Headlines!" films in the early 1950s. Republic's Hoodlum Empire concerns the efforts by gangster Joe Gray (John Russell) to get out of the rackets after WW II. Part of Gray's "reclamation" is to testify at a public hearing, prompting a series of ...

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Crashout (1955) more movies like this

directed by Lewis R. Foster
featuring William Bendix, Arthur Kennedy, Luther Adler, William Talman, Gene Evans

Six convicts plan a prison break and are successful, though their ringleader (William Bendix) is injured in the attempt. He promises to share the fortune in gold he has stowed away if they help him get to a doctor. John Bush, All Movie Guide

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South Sea Sinner (1950) more movies like this

directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
featuring MacDonald Carey, Shelley Winters, Helena Carter, Luther Adler

South Sea Sinner is a remake of 1940's Seven Sinners, with Shelley Winters in the Marlene Dietrich role and MacDonald Carey as the John Wayne counterpart. Winters plays cabaret singer Coral, who manages to spark a riot wherever she goes. Carey co-stars as Jake Davis, who has been wandering aimlessly throughout the South Seas ever since he was ...

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