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1. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
directed by Stanley Kubrick
featuring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, James Earl JonesIn 1964, with the Cuban Missile Crisis fresh in viewers' minds, the Cold War at its frostiest, and the hydrogen bomb relatively new and frightening, ... More
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2. The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
directed by John Huston
featuring Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, James Whitmore, Jean Hagen, Sam JaffeThe Asphalt Jungle is a brilliantly conceived and executed anatomy of a crime -- or, as director John Huston and scripter Ben Maddow put it, "a left ... More
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3. Prince Valiant (1954)
directed by Henry Hathaway
featuring James Mason, Janet Leigh, Robert Wagner, Debra Paget, Sterling HaydenHal Foster's Sunday-comics saga of a young Viking prince in the service of King Arthur is brought to the screen in CinemaScope and Technicolor in ... More
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4. King of the Gypsies (1978)
directed by Frank Pierson
featuring Sterling Hayden, Shelley Winters, Susan Sarandon, Eric RobertsNot surprisingly, this fascinating dissection of Gypsy life in America was vilified by several ethnic special-interest groups, who'd previously ... More
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5. Winter Kills (1979)
directed by William Richert
featuring Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins, Sterling Hayden, Eli WallachBased on a novel by the iconoclastic Richard Condon (of Manchurian Candidate and Prizzi's Honor fame), Winter Kills was one of the vanguard efforts ... More
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6. The Golden Hawk (1952)
directed by Sidney Salkow
featuring Rhonda Fleming, Sterling Hayden, Helena Carter, John Sutton, Paul CavanaghThis Sam Katzman costume quickie stars Sterling Hayden as 17th-century privateer Kit Gerardo, and (inevitably in a buccaneer meller of this sort) ... More
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7. Kansas Pacific (1953)
directed by Ray Nazarro
featuring Sterling Hayden, Eve Miller, Barton MacLane, Harry Shannon, Tom FaddenWalter Wanger's first production for Allied Artists, Kansas Pacific is more slick and polished than the usual budget western. Set just before the ... More
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8. Nine to Five (1980)
directed by Colin Higgins
featuring Brad David, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman, Sterling HaydenJudy Bernly (Jane Fonda), a housewife whose husband has left her for his secretary, begins her own secretarial career at a huge corporation. Violet ... More
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9. Valerie (1957)
directed by Gerd Oswald
featuring Sterling Hayden, Anita Ekberg, Anthony Steel, Peter Walker, John WengrafAnita Ekberg amply fills the title role in the offbeat western Valerie. Clearly inspired by Rashomon, the film offers contradictory flashbacks during ... More
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10. Terror in a Texas Town (1958)
directed by Joseph H. Lewis
featuring Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot, Carol Kelly, Eugenio Martín, Ned YoungThis near-legendary western stars Sterling Hayden as George Hanson, the son of a Swedish seaman-turned-farmer (Ted Stanhope). When he runs afoul of ... More
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11. The Iron Sheriff (1957)
directed by Sidney Salkow
featuring Sterling Hayden, Constance Ford, John Dehner, Kent Taylor, Darryl HickmanList of all editionsFrontier peacekeeper Sheriff Galt (Sterling Hayden) faces a crisis of conscience in The Iron Sheriff. In the aftermath of a robbery-murder, Galt ... More
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12. The Final Programme (1973)
directed by Robert Fuest
featuring Hugh Griffith, Jon Finch, Jenny Runacre, Patrick Magee, Sterling HaydenList of all editionsJon Finch stars as Jerry Cornelius, swinging London's leading scientific genius, in this screen adaptation of the acclaimed science fiction novel by ... More
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13. The Star (1952)
directed by Stuart Heisler
featuring Bette Davis, Sterling Hayden, Natalie Wood, Warner Anderson, Minor WatsonList of all editionsAn actress who once knew the heights of fame is forced to confronts the depths of defeat in this show business drama. Margaret Elliot (Bette Davis) ... More
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14. Flat Top (1952)
directed by Lesley Selander
featuring Sterling Hayden, Richard Carlson, William Phipps, John Bromfield, Keith LarsenList of all editionsIn an obvious attempt to recreate some of the power and impact of Henry King's Twelve O'Clock High, Lesley Selander's Flat Top tells its story in ... More
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15. The Killing (1956)
directed by Stanley Kubrick
featuring Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Marie Windsor, Elisha Cook, Jr., Vince Edwards, Jay C. FlippenList of all editionsThe Killing was director Stanley Kubrick's first major film effort -- though, like Kubrick's earlier films, it was economically produced with an ... More
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16. Shotgun (1955)
directed by Lesley Selander
featuring Yvonne De Carlo, Sterling Hayden, Zachary Scott, Guy PrescottList of all editionsWhile John Ford and Howard Hawks received all the critical plaudits, Lesley Selander quietly went about his business directing some of the best ... More
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17. Hellgate (1952)
directed by Charles Marquis Warren
featuring Sterling Hayden, Joan Leslie, Ward Bond, James Arness, Marshall BradfordList of all editionsThis western stars Sterling Hayden as a man who innocently tends to the needs of a mysterious stranger. When it turns out that the stranger was part ... More
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18. Gas (1981)
directed by Les Rose
featuring Donald Sutherland, Susan Anspach, Howie Mandel, Sterling Hayden, Sandee CurrieWhen the money-hungry Duke Stuyvesant (Sterling Hayden) orchestrates a phony gas shortage, chaos ensues in a small Midwestern town. ~ Iotis Erlewine, ... More
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19. Crime Wave (1954)
directed by André De Toth
featuring Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk, Ted de CorsiaA car with two men visible in it pulls up to a Los Angeles service station at night, with a single attendant (Dub Taylor) working. As he starts to ... More
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20. 1900 (1976)
directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
featuring Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Burt Lancaster, Sterling Hayden, Donald Sutherland, Dominique SandaList of all editionsBernardo Bertolucci's 255-minute 1900 was a gargantuan undertaking, requiring the resources of three European countries and a trio of American movie ... More
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21. The Denver and Rio Grande (1951)
directed by Byron Haskin
featuring Edmond O'Brien, Sterling Hayden, Dean Jagger, Laura Elliot, Lyle BettgerList of all editionsAudiences got their money's worth and then some from Byron Haskin's The Denver and Rio Grande. Edmond O'Brien plays Jim Vesser, a former U.S. Cavalry ... More
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22. The Long Goodbye (1973)
directed by Robert Altman
featuring Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Henry Gibson, Mark RydellList of all editions"It's OK with me...." Applying his deconstructive eye to the "film noir" tradition, Robert Altman updated Raymond Chandler in his 1973 version of ...
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23. Venom (1982)
directed by Piers Haggard
featuring Klaus Kinski, Oliver Reed, Nicol Williamson, Sarah Miles, Sterling Hayden, Lance HolcombList of all editionsA big black mamba snake that has gotten loose in a townhouse slithers through a kidnapping plot in this film. Based on a novel by Alan Scholefield, ... More
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24. Crime of Passion (1957)
directed by Gerd Oswald
featuring Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr, Fay Wray, Royal Dano, Virginia GreyList of all editionsKathy Ferguson (Barbara Stanwyck) is a cynical newspaper columnist in San Francisco, handling women's advice -- by chance one day, the paper's city ... More
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25. Zero Hour (1957)
directed by Hall Bartlett
featuring Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Sterling Hayden, Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch, Geoffrey TooneList of all editionsThis suspenseful air-borne adventure can rightfully lay claim to being the Mother of All subsequent in-flight disaster films of the '70s. The trouble ... More







