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The Manchurian Candidate
(1962)
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John Frankenheimer
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Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva
An unusually tense and intelligent political thriller, The Manchurian Candidate was a film far ahead of its time. Its themes of thought control, political assassination, and multinational conspiracy were hardly common currency in 1962, and while its outlook is sometimes informed by Cold War paranoia, the film seemed nearly as timely when it was ...
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Seven Days in May
(1964)
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John Frankenheimer
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Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien
Adapted by Rod Serling from the best-selling novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles Waldo Bailey II, Seven Days in May was allegedly inspired by the far-right ramblings of one General Edwin Walker. Burt Lancaster plays General James M. Scott, who, convinced that liberal President Jordan Lyman (Fredric March) is soft on America's enemies, plots a ...
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Grand Prix
(1966)
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John Frankenheimer
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James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand, Toshiro Mifune, Brian Bedford
There's a few million dollars' worth of star power and a nickel's worth of plot in the lavish race-car melodrama Grand Prix. Among the participants in this annual cross-continent competition are characters played by James Garner, Yves Montand, Brian Bedford, and Antonio Sabato. Interested parties include Toshiro Mifune (his voice dubbed by Paul ...
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Andersonville
(1996)
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John Frankenheimer
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Jarrod Emick, Frederic Forrest, Ted Marcoux, Tom Aldredge, Carmen Argenziano
Made for the TNT cable channel, this lengthy docudrama records the harrowing conditions at the Confederacy's most notorious prisoner-of-war camp. The drama unfolds through the eyes of a company of Union soldiers captured at the Battle of Cold Harbor, VA, in June 1864, and shipped to the camp in southern Georgia. A private, Josiah Day (Jarrod Emick ...
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The Train
(1964)
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John Frankenheimer
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Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Michel Simon, Suzanne Flon
John Frankenheimer directs Burt Lancaster in the tense spy thriller The Train. Lancaster plays Labiche, a French railway inspector. Allied forces are threatening to liberate Paris, so Col. Franz von Waldheim (Paul Scofield) is ordered to move the priceless works of art from the Jeu de Paume Museum to the fatherland. The head of the museum (Suzanne ...
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
(1996)
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John Frankenheimer
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Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, David Thewlis, Fairuza Balk, Ron Perlman
On a remote tropical island, Dr. Moreau has appointed himself ruler over a menagerie of genetic mutants fashioned in his gene-splicing chamber of horrors. The products of his misguided attempt to create a more "pure" human species, the man-beasts worship Moreau as their god and "father" and live by his code of law -- a code rigidly enforced by ...
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Ronin
(1998)
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John Frankenheimer
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Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgård, Sean Bean
John Frankenheimer directed this $20 million international action thriller from a screenplay by Richard Weisz (pseudonym for David Mamet) and J.D. Zeik. In Paris, Irish organizer Deidre (Natascha McElhone) assembles a team to grab a mysterious briefcase from criminals. They are never told who hired them or the true identity of their targets. The ...
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Path to War
(2002)
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John Frankenheimer
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Michael Gambon
Inspired by author Robert A. Caro's massive biography of President Lyndon Baines Johnson, the made-for-cable Path to War retraces the world-shaking events occurring between LBJ's jubilant inaugural in 1965 and his tired, dispirited decision not to seek another presidential term in 1968. At the crux of these tumultuous three years is the war in ...
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The Holcroft Covenant
(1985)
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John Frankenheimer
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Michael Caine, Anthony Andrews, Victoria Tennant, Lilli Palmer, Mario Adorf
Director John Frankenheimer and writers Edward Anhalt and George Axelrod try to inject some life into this adaptation of Robert Ludlum's best-selling espionage novel. Michael Caine stars as Noel Holcroft, who was adopted in Germany by an American family in the waning days of World War II. Now middle-aged, Noel learns that his biological father, ...
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Black Sunday
(1977)
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John Frankenheimer
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Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver, Steven Keats
Bruce Dern is ideally cast as Lander, a crazed Vietnam veteran, in Black Sunday. Lander joins terrorists Dahlia (Marthe Keller) and Fasil (Bekim Fehmu) in a plot to create a bloodbath at the annual Super Bowl. Piloting the ubiquitous Goodyear blimp, Lander is to ram the aircraft into the capacity Orange Bowl crowd, then fire thousands of poisoned ...
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The Burning Season
(1994)
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John Frankenheimer
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Raul Julia
This highly acclaimed made-for-cable movie tells the real-life story of one man's battle to save his land. Raul Julia stars as Chico Mendes, the Brazilian union leader who rallied his people to rise up and fight the exploitation of the rainforest. Mendes called on the locals to protest land developers building a road through the Amazon in an ...
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I Walk the Line
(1970)
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John Frankenheimer
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Gregory Peck, Tuesday Weld, Estelle Parsons, Ralph Meeker, Lonny Chapman
In this collaboration between actor Gregory Peck and director John Frankenheimer, Peck plays Southern sheriff Henry Tawes, who intends to bring moonshiner Carl McCain (Ralph Meeker) to justice. Instead, Tawes falls in love with McCain's nubile daughter, Alma (Tuesday Weld), and arranges for the feds to keep their hands off McCain's still. The ...
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Birdman of Alcatraz
(1962)
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John Frankenheimer
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Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter, Neville Brand, Betty Field, Telly Savalas
In this film based on a true story, Burt Lancaster plays Robert Stroud, a withdrawn prison inmate who cures a sick bird that flies into his cell and eventually becomes a world-renowned ornithologist -- all while serving a life sentence. An overbearing warden (Karl Malden) eventually transfers Stroud to the notoriously brutal prison on Alcatraz, ...
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52 Pick-Up
(1986)
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John Frankenheimer
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Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Vanity, John Glover, Robert Trebor
Wealthy metallurgist Harry Mitchell (Roy Scheider) lives to regret his extramarital affair with pretty young Cini (Kelly Preston). A trio of vicious blackmailers (John Glover, Robert Trebor, Clarence Williams III) show Mitchell a videotape of his most recent roll in the sack with Cini. They demand a huge amount of hush money, but Mitchell calls ...
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Prophecy
(1979)
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John Frankenheimer
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Talia Shire, Robert Foxworth, Armand Assante, Richard Dysart, Victoria Racimo
This schlock horror classic from the 1970s is a product of the career ebb experienced by director John Frankenheimer. Robert Foxworth stars as Dr. Robert Verne, an inner-city physician renowned for his compassion and fairness. So he's asked by the EPA to mediate a dispute between Native American tribes and a polluting paper mill in isolated ...
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Reindeer Games
(2000)
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John Frankenheimer
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Ben Affleck, Gary Sinise, Charlize Theron, Dennis Farina, James Frain
A burglar looking to make time with a beautiful woman after five years in prison falls into a dangerous trap in this action drama. Rudy (Ben Affleck) is serving time in prison for auto theft, where he becomes friendly with his cellmate Nick (James Frain). Nick has been enjoying a spicy courtship by mail with a woman named Ashley (Charlize Theron), ...
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All Fall Down
(1962)
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John Frankenheimer
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Eva Marie Saint, Warren Beatty, Karl Malden, Angela Lansbury, Brandon de Wilde
In one of his first roles, Warren Beatty plays a callous, self-involved young man who is idolized by his younger brother Brandon DeWilde. When Beatty and DeWilde's parents Karl Malden and Angela Lansbury take in Eva Marie Saint as a boarder, Beatty makes violent love to the poor (but not entirely unwilling) girl. Saint becomes pregnant, a ...
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Dead Bang
(1989)
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John Frankenheimer
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Don Johnson, Penelope Ann Miller, William Forsythe, Bob Balaban, Frank Military
A police detective (Don Johnson), whose job is the only thing he has left in his life, must investigate the murder of a fellow officer. He follows the trail and is shocked to find a white-supremacist conspiracy in the process. John Bush, All Movie Guide
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Year of the Gun
(1991)
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John Frankenheimer
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Andrew McCarthy, Valeria Golino, Sharon Stone, John Pankow, Mattia Sbragia
In this thriller, American novelist David Raybourne (Andrew McCarthy) accidentally becomes entangled in the Red Brigade's terrorist plan to kidnap Italian Premier Aldo Moro during a research trip to Rome. As the terrorists attempt to kill David, he and his photojournalist friend (Sharon Stone) must struggle to stay alive. Iotis Erlewine, All ...
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The Gypsy Moths
(1969)
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John Frankenheimer
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Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman, Scott Wilson
John Frankenheimer directed this low-key drama about three men who stage a sky-diving thrill show and what happens when they roll into a small town in Kansas. Mike Rettig (Burt Lancaster) is the oldest of the group and more than a bit jaded; Joe Browdy (Gene Hackman) is the fast-talking MC who knows how to work the crowd; and Malcolm Webson (Scott ...
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Against the Wall
(1994)
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John Frankenheimer
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Kyle MacLachlan, Samuel L. Jackson, Harry Dean Stanton, Clarence Williams III, Frederic Forrest
Made for cable TV, Against the Wall represents filmmaker John Frankenheimer's return to the small screen. This in-your-face reenactment of the 1971 Attica prison riots is jam-packed with political and sociological implications. Refreshingly, none of the participants -- the prisoners, the guards, the high-profile mediators, the New York powers-that ...
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The Fourth War
(1990)
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John Frankenheimer
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Roy Scheider, Jürgen Prochnow, Tim Reid, Lara Harris, Harry Dean Stanton
The Fourth War finds director John Frankenheimer delving into the same Cold-war territory he'd previously cultivated in films like The Manchurian Candidate. Col. Jack Knowles (Roy Scheider), serving at a faraway post on the German-Czech border, carries on a personal war with his Soviet counterpart, Colonel Valachev (Jurgen Prochnow). Both have ...
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The Iceman Cometh
(1973)
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John Frankenheimer
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Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Fredric March, Jeff Bridges
John Frankenheimer's screen version of Eugene O'Neill's 1947 Broadway play The Iceman Cometh is set in 1912 at Harry Hope's dingy waterfront saloon. On the occasion of Hope's birthday, several derelicts enter the scene to pontificate on the lives they'd planned, the lives they still dream about, and the wasted lives they wound up with. The cast ...
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Playhouse 90: Days of Wine and Roses
(1958)
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John Frankenheimer
The devastating effects of alcoholism provide the basis for this episode of the Playhouse 90 television series. The tale centers on an ambitious young executive and his wife. Heavy drinking seems to be a mandatory part of their hectic social schedule and this takes them on a disastrous ride to the bottom of a bottle. Remade as a feature film in ...
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The Fixer
(1968)
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John Frankenheimer
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Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Georgia Brown, Hugh Griffith, Elizabeth Hartman
John Frankenheimer directed this intense film adaptation of the Bernard Malamud novel. During the days of Czarist Russia, a poor but educated Jew, Yakov Bok (Alan Bates) is abandoned by his wife Raisl (Carol White). Yakov decides to leave his small village and travel to Kiev. Since it is the time of the pogroms, Yakov poses as a gentile and takes ...
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