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1. 21 Hours at Munich (1976)
directed by William A. Graham
featuring Franco Nero, William Holden21 Hours at Munich is a grim reenactment of the darkest days of the 1972 Munich Olympics. A gang of eight Arab terrorists storm the Israeli dormitory ... More
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2. The Horse Soldiers (1959)
directed by John Ford
featuring John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers, Althea Gibson, Hoot GibsonBased on an actual Civil War mission, Colonel Marlowe (John Wayne) and Major Kendall (William Holden) are ordered by General Grant to take three ... More
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3. The Towering Inferno (1974)
directed by Irwin Allen, John Guillermin
featuring Carlena Gower, Carol McEvoy, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Richard ChamberlainA skyscraper and an all-star cast go up in flames in Irwin Allen's classic disaster movie. To celebrate the construction of the Glass Tower, the ... More
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4. When Time Ran Out (1980)
directed by James Goldstone
featuring Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, Edward Albert, Red ButtonsAfter producer Irwin Allen highlighted the dangers of fire in the Towering Inferno and the dangers of water in the Poseidon Adventure, he is back to ... More
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5. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
directed by David Lean
featuring William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, Geoffrey Horne, James DonaldThe Bridge on the River Kwai opens in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1943, where a battle of wills rages between camp commander Colonel ... More
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6. Arizona (1940)
directed by Wesley Ruggles
featuring William Holden, Jean Arthur, Warren William, Porter Hall, Paul HarveyWesley Ruggles's Arizona is an epic western set in an impoverished Arizona outpost. It tells the story of the feisty, no-nonsense Phoebe Titus (Jean ... More
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7. Sabrina (1954)
directed by Billy Wilder
featuring Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, Walter Hampden, John WilliamsBilly Wilder directs the lighthearted romantic comedy Sabrina, based on the play by Samuel A. Taylor. Sabrina Fairchild (Audrey Hepburn) is the ... More
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8. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
directed by Billy Wilder
featuring William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred ClarkBilly Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of Hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie fandom. The story begins at the ... More
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9. The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)
directed by George Seaton
featuring William Holden, Lilli Palmer, Hugh Griffith, Erica Beer, Ernst Schroeder, Eva DahlbeckIn this tense espionage drama set in 1942, William Holden plays Eric Erickson, an American-born Swede who is put on the Allied blacklist for trading ... More
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10. The Key (1958)
directed by Carol Reed
featuring William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard, Oscar Homolka, Kieron MooreThe Key was adapted by Carl Foreman from Stella, a novel by Jan De Hartog. The time is WW2: The place, Plymouth England. Canadian tug captain David ... More
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11. Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)
directed by John Sturges
featuring William Holden, Eleanor Parker, John Forsythe, William Demarest, William CampbellList of all editionsA nail-biting Indian deadlock remains the climax of this otherwise overly verbose Western filmed in M-G-M's then-new Ansco colors (forerunner of ... More
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12. Toward the Unknown (1956)
directed by Mervyn LeRoy
featuring William Holden, Lloyd Nolan, Virginia Leith, Charles McGraw, Murray HamiltonList of all editionsThis high-flying thriller utilizes exciting footage of the USAF Thunderbirds in action--an interesting and authentic look into the world of Air Force ... More
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13. Dance Fools Dance (1931)
directed by Harry Beaumont
featuring Joan Crawford, Cliff Edwards, William Bakewell, William HoldenList of all editionsJoan Crawford and William Bakewell play the spoiled-rotten grown children of stockbroker William Holden. When Wall Street lays its famous egg in 1929 ... More
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14. Our Town (1940)
directed by Sam Wood
featuring William Holden, Martha Scott, Fay Bainter, Beulah Bondi, Thomas MitchellList of all editionsThornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town is given the Hollywood treatment in this adaptation directed by Sam Wood featuring an ... More
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15. Network (1976)
directed by Sidney Lumet
featuring Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Wesley AddyList of all editionsA trenchant satire of "trash TV," Network seems to grow only more relevant with each passing year. Howard Beale (Peter Finch), the dean of ... More
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16. The Moon Is Blue (1953)
directed by Otto Preminger
featuring William Holden, David Niven, Maggie McNamara, Tom Tully, Dawn AddamsList of all editionsThis is the story of a chaste young TV-commercial actress (Maggie McNamara) who is romanced by a playboy architect (William Holden). Despite all ... More
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17. Stalag 17 (1953)
directed by Billy Wilder
featuring William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss, Harvey LembeckList of all editionsThe scene is a German POW camp, sometime during the mid-1940s. Stalag 17, exclusively populated by American sergeants, is overseen by sadistic ... More
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18. Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
directed by Henry King
featuring William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher, Isobel Elsom, Murray Matheson, Virginia GreggList of all editionsBased on the autobiographical novel by Han Suyin, Love is a Many Splendored Thing was evocatively location-filmed in Hong Kong. Jennifer Jones plays ... More
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19. Invisible Stripes (1940)
directed by Lloyd Bacon
featuring George Raft, Jane Bryan, William Holden, Humphrey Bogart, Flora RobsonInvisible Stripes is a cookie-cutter Warners prison drama which rounds up the usual suspects. George Raft and Humphrey Bogart are top-billed, and as ... More
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20. S.O.B. (1981)
directed by Blake Edwards
featuring Julie Andrews, William Holden, Marisa Berenson, Larry Hagman, Robert LoggiaList of all editionsIn this biting comedy satirizing Hollywood cynicism from writer-director Blake Edwards, Felix Farmer (Richard Mulligan) is a motion picture director ... More
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21. Union Station (1950)
directed by Rudolph Maté
featuring William Holden, Nancy Olson, Barry Fitzgerald, Lyle Bettger, Jan SterlingList of all editionsUnion Station is a tense crime thriller in the tradition of The Naked City that unfolds in Los Angeles. William Holden plays railroad worker Lt. ... More
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22. The Country Girl (1954)
directed by George Seaton
featuring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, William Holden, Anthony Ross, Gene ReynoldsList of all editionsBing Crosby does the Academy Award-bid bit in the atypical role of a self-pitying alcoholic, but it was his co-star, a deglamorized Grace Kelly, who ... More
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23. The Earthling (1980)
directed by Peter Collinson
featuring William Holden, Rick Schroder, Jack Thompson, Olivia Hamnett, Alwyn KurtsDespite its title, The Earthling is not a science fiction opus. Instead, it's a low-key character study about a doomed man who finds a new lease on ... More
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24. Executive Suite (1954)
directed by Robert Wise
featuring William Holden, June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March, Walter PidgeonList of all editionsCameron Hawley's novel of corporate in-fighting and gamesmanship was brought to the screen by producer John Houseman and director Robert Wise, ... More
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25. The Man from Colorado (1949)
directed by Henry Levin
featuring Glenn Ford, William Holden, Ellen Drew, Ray Collins, Edgar BuchananList of all editionsGlenn Ford is top-billed in Man From Colorado, though he's anything but a hero. Ford plays a seriously disturbed Civil War vet who kills because he ... More







