Sterling Hayden

Sterling Hayden

Sterling Walter Hayden, born Sterling Relyea Walter, was an American actor and author. He didn't really harbor any aspirations of being an actor, dropped out of high school at the age of 16 and hired on as mate on a schooner. He was a ship's captain at 22, and in need of cash to buy his own boat, established himself as a model in New York, discovered by Paramount Studios talent scouts and offered a contract. Sterling Hayden, the handsome tall blond actor who played wholesome leading-man movie roles in the 1940's and 1950's and later weathered into a rough-hewn solid character actor in films such as ''Dr. Strangelove'', ''The Godfather,'' "Nine to Five" and "King of the Gypsies". He appeared in 71 feature films and tv-productions from the debut in "Virginia" 1941 to the tv mini-series "The Blue and the Gray" in 1982. He wrote of his obsessive fascination with the sea in a 1963 autobiography, ''Wanderer,'' and in 1970 his 700-page epic novel of the sea, ''Voyage,'' was a main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. Sterling Hayden appeared in the German documentary, ''Pharos of Chaos,'' (1983) filmed aboard his barge in Europe, and seemed to be in an alcoholic stupor much of the time, supplementing his wine intake with hashish. On camera he said: ''What confuses me is I ain't all that unhappy. So why do I drink, I don't know.''

  • Title: Sterling Hayden
  • Popularity: 11.924
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1916-03-26
  • Place of Birth: Upper Montclair, New Jersey, USA
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  • Also Known As: Sterling Relyea Walter, Sterling Walter Hayden
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Sterling Hayden Movies

  • 1956
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    The Killing

    The Killing

    7.7 1956 HD

    Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one...

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  • 1964
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    Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

    Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

    8.117 1964 HD

    After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian...

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  • 1973
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    The Long Goodbye

    The Long Goodbye

    7.41 1973 HD

    In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.

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  • 1956
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    Crime of Passion

    Crime of Passion

    6.2 1956 HD

    Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the...

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  • 1976
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    1900

    1900

    7.8 1976 HD

    The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.

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  • 1978
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    King of the Gypsies

    King of the Gypsies

    5.6 1978 HD

    Zharko, leader of the Romanis in NYC, passes his position of leadership on to his unwilling grandson, Dave, leading to infighting between Dave and...

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  • 1981
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    Venom

    Venom

    5.6 1981 HD

    International terrorists attempt to kidnap a wealthy couple's child. Their plan comes unstuck when a deadly Black Mamba, sent by mistake instead of a...

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  • 1954
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    Johnny Guitar

    Johnny Guitar

    7.4 1954 HD

    On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin' Kid and his gang....

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  • 1981
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    The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic

    The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic

    9.3 1981 HD

    The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic is a reduced, 386-minute version of the 1977 television miniseries, "Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The...

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  • 1954
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    Naked Alibi

    Naked Alibi

    6 1954 HD

    Questioned as a murder suspect, solid (but drunk) citizen Al Willis attacks his police questioners, is beaten, and swears vengeance against them....

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  • 1979
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    Winter Kills

    Winter Kills

    5.8 1979 HD

    The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be...

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  • 1973
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    The Final Programme

    The Final Programme

    5.1 1973 HD

    After the death of his Nobel Prize-winning father, billionaire physicist Jerry Cornelius becomes embroiled in the search for the mysterious "Final...

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  • 1949
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    Manhandled

    Manhandled

    5.1 1949 HD

    Merle Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a private eye and former cop. Merle mentions in passing...

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  • 1956
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    The Come On

    The Come On

    5 1956 HD

    A con woman tries to swindle her partner-in-crime husband with the help of one of her former marks. But is she to be trusted?

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  • 1950
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    The Asphalt Jungle

    The Asphalt Jungle

    7.5 1950 HD

    Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of...

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  • 1954
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    Prince Valiant

    Prince Valiant

    5.9 1954 HD

    A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.

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  • 1958
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    Terror in a Texas Town

    Terror in a Texas Town

    6.7 1958 HD

    Armed with a harpoon, a Swedish whaler is out for revenge after the death of his father. A greedy oil man trying to buy up the Swede's land might be...

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  • 1969
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    Hard Contract

    Hard Contract

    4.9 1969 HD

    A cold hearted American hit man goes to Europe for "one last score". His encounter with a beautiful young woman casts self doubt on his lifeblood,...

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  • 1953
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    Kansas Pacific

    Kansas Pacific

    4.8 1953 HD

    Just before the Civil War (but after the South has seceded), Southern saboteurs try to prevent railroad construction from crossing Kansas to the...

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  • 1954
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    Suddenly

    Suddenly

    6.4 1954 HD

    The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns...

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  • 1953
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    So Big

    So Big

    5.6 1953 HD

    A girl of wealth comes to a Dutch community outside Chicago as a schoolteacher, and while there falls in love with a poor but big-hearted farmer.

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  • 1980
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    Nine to Five

    Nine to Five

    6.9 1980 HD

    Frank Hart is a pig. He takes advantage of the women who work with him in the grossest manner. When his three assistants manage to trap him in his...

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  • 1952
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    Flat Top

    Flat Top

    4 1952 HD

    A rock hard commander trains Navy Carrier Pilots during the Second World War

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  • 1953
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    Crime Wave

    Crime Wave

    7 1953 HD

    Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then...

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  • 1957
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    Zero Hour!

    Zero Hour!

    6.7 1957 HD

    In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food poisoning, thus forcing an ex-WW2 fighter pilot to try to...

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  • 1957
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    Valerie

    Valerie

    4.1 1957 HD

    After the American Civil War, former Union Major John Garth marries pretty settler Valerie but tragedy strikes and the two spouses end up in court...

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  • 1970
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    Loving

    Loving

    6 1970 HD

    Brooks Wilson is in crisis. He is torn between his wife Selma and two daughters and his mistress Grace, and also between his career as a successful...

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  • 1975
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    Deadly Strangers

    Deadly Strangers

    5.7 1975 HD

    After she misses her train, a young woman is forced to hitch a ride back to town. After managing to get away from a lecherous trucker, she is given a...

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  • 1975
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    Cry, Onion!

    Cry, Onion!

    4.9 1975 HD

    Onion Jack has bought a piece of land on which to settle, but the property is still in possession of the orphans of the original owner and is coveted...

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  • 1980
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    The Outsider

    The Outsider

    5.6 1980 HD

    Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to Belfast to join the cause of his grandfather, Seamus...

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  • 1952
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    The Star

    The Star

    7.2 1952 HD

    Actress Margaret Elliot is well past her prime but refuses to retire from the acting business. Despite entreaties from both her daughter, Gretchen,...

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  • 1956
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    Five Steps to Danger

    Five Steps to Danger

    6.286 1956 HD

    Can a couple keep important secrets from Communist spies?

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  • 1972
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    The Godfather

    The Godfather

    8.7 1972 HD

    Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito...

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  • 1964
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    Carol for Another Christmas

    Carol for Another Christmas

    5.8 1964 HD

    Daniel Grudge, a wealthy industrialist and fierce isolationist long embittered by the loss of his son in World War II, is visited by three ghosts on...

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  • 1941
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    Bahama Passage

    Bahama Passage

    6 1941 HD

    A girl, Carol whom the audience is quickly informed "has been around," and her father arrive to take over the business management of an island in the...

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  • 1985
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    Irving Johnson High Seas Adventurer

    Irving Johnson High Seas Adventurer

    1 1985 HD

    High Seas Adventurer highlights Johnson's exciting life, beginning with his introduction to the sea aboard the PEKING in 1929. Around Cape Horn, a...

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  • 1971
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    Angel's Leap

    Angel's Leap

    5.4 1971 HD

    In this French crime thriller, you can leave the mob, but the mob won't leave you. Louis (Jean Yanne) has retired to a Thailand plantation with an...

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  • 1947
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    Variety Girl

    Variety Girl

    6.1 1947 HD

    Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful...

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  • 1953
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    Take Me to Town

    Take Me to Town

    5.7 1953 HD

    Saloon entertainer Vermilion O'Toole and her former partner in crime Newt Cole escape from a train ride to prison and hide out in logging town...

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  • 1955
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    Battle Taxi

    Battle Taxi

    5.4 1955 HD

    In the Korean war, the commander of an Air Rescue helicopter team must show a hot-shot former jet pilot how important helicopter rescue work is and...

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  • 1954
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    Arrow In The Dust

    Arrow In The Dust

    5.9 1954 HD

    Director Lesley Selander's 1954 western stars Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Keith Larsen, Tom Tully, Lee Van Cleef and Jimmy Wakely.

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  • 1958
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    Ten Days To Tulara

    Ten Days To Tulara

    4.8 1958 HD

    Director George Sherman's 1958 western about gold thieves in Mexico stars Sterling Hayden, Grace Raynor and Rodolfo Hoyos.

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  • 1952
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    Denver and Rio Grande

    Denver and Rio Grande

    5.4 1952 HD

    Jim Vesser and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less scrupulous construction workers...

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  • 1955
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    Shotgun

    Shotgun

    5.2 1955 HD

    a deputy U.S. Marshall pursue the gang of Ben Thompson after the murder of another marshall. Along with a bounty hunter and a half-breed woman they...

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  • 1952
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    The Golden Hawk

    The Golden Hawk

    5.1 1952 HD

    A 17th-century French pirate (Sterling Hayden) sides with an English noblewoman (Rhonda Fleming) who's posing as a pirate.

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  • 1957
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    Gun Battle at Monterey

    Gun Battle at Monterey

    4 1957 HD

    An outlaw saved by a Mexican girl hunts the holdup partner who shot him in the back.

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  • 1949
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    El Paso

    El Paso

    5.6 1949 HD

    Ex-confederate officer Clay Fletcher jumps at the chance to reunite with his once lady-friend, Susan Jeffers, when his father, Judge Fletcher, sends...

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  • 1952
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    Hellgate

    Hellgate

    6.7 1952 HD

    A man is framed and sent to the toughest prison in the territory.

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  • 1955
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    Top Gun

    Top Gun

    6 1955 HD

    A gunslinger returns to his hometown to warn of an impending outlaw gang attack, but he's met with hatred and fear for his previous killings.

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  • 1941
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    Virginia

    Virginia

    1 1941 HD

    Post-Civil War romantic drama about defeated Southerners, starring Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray.

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  • 1947
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    Blaze of Noon

    Blaze of Noon

    5 1947 HD

    In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs to become mail pilots. Because their job...

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  • 1957
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    The Iron Sheriff

    The Iron Sheriff

    6.2 1957 HD

    Frontier peacekeeper Sheriff Galt faces a crisis of conscience in The Iron Sheriff. In the aftermath of a robbery-murder, Galt follows the trail of...

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  • 1953
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    Fighter Attack

    Fighter Attack

    4.5 1953 HD

    World War II film set in German occupied Italy. A US fighter pilot is shot down in enemy territory during a raid against a German supply depot. He...

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  • 1955
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    The Eternal Sea

    The Eternal Sea

    6.4 1955 HD

    Biography of Admiral John Hoskins' efforts to retain active command despite WW2 injury.

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  • 1980
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    The Starlost: The Beginning

    The Starlost: The Beginning

    1 1980 HD

    Three farmers in Cypress Corners discover that farm life is not so simple. Discovering a hidden door in the earth, they break through it, discovering...

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  • 2016
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    Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'

    Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'

    1 2016 HD

    Larry Ceplair, co-author of The Inquisition in Hollywood, and blacklisted screenwriter Walter Bernstein, a former member of the Communist Party,...

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  • 2016
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    Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?

    Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?

    1 2016 HD

    Critics Kent Jones, B. Ruby Rich, Joe McElhaney and Miriam Bale take a closer look at the feminist overtones in "Johnny Guitar."

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  • 2016
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    Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other

    Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other

    1 2016 HD

    Critics Kent Jones, B. Ruby Rich, Joe McElhaney and Miriam Bale discuss the unique qualities of "Johnny Guitar," its lasting appeal and the influence...

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  • 1955
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    Timberjack

    Timberjack

    3.2 1955 HD

    A young man seeks his father's killers among lumberjacks, and discovers that they are actually timber barons who also seek to control lumber mills....

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  • 2022
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    Rat Pack

    Rat Pack

    9 2022 HD

    In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey...

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  • 1955
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    The Last Command

    The Last Command

    6.5 1955 HD

    During the Texas War of Independence of 1836 American frontiersman and pioneer Jim Bowie pleads for caution with the rebellious Texicans. They don't...

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  • 1952
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    Flaming Feather

    Flaming Feather

    5.8 1952 HD

    A mysterious outlaw known as the Sidewinder, phantom leader of renegade Ute Indians, terrorizes the people of the Arizona Territory in the 1870s....

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  • 1951
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    Journey Into Light

    Journey Into Light

    6 1951 HD

    John Burrows, an ordained minister from a small village in the East, envisions himself with a larger congregation. He is mortified when his wife...

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  • 1958
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    Old Man

    Old Man

    1 1958 HD

    In the South, convicts get a temporary release to help during a flood.

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  • 1983
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    Pharos of Chaos

    Pharos of Chaos

    6.3 1983 HD

    A superb, moving and thrilling interview with American actor Sterling Hayden (1916-86), held in Besançon, France, on board a dilapidated...

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  • 1970
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    Sweet Hunters

    Sweet Hunters

    6 1970 HD

    An ornithologist goes on a field trip to a deserted island near the mainland with his wife and small son, and is joined by the wife's sister, who is...

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  • 1972
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    The Big Departure

    The Big Departure

    6 1972 HD

    This is the only feature directed by the famed French painter and sculptor Martial Raysse. In keeping with the revolutionary spirit of the time, the...

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  • 1981
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    Gas

    Gas

    3.5 1981 HD

    Susan Anspach stars in this comedy as a news reporter who investigates a story about stolen milk causing milk and gas prices to rise. During the...

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  • 2016
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    The Albatross

    The Albatross

    6.3 2016 HD

    In the center of a freezing, misty lake, a struggling writer's solitary fishing trip is disrupted by a strange creature from the bottom of a whiskey...

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  • 1976
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    The Cinema According to Bertolucci

    The Cinema According to Bertolucci

    6.5 1976 HD

    Documentary on the filming of Novecento by Bernardo Bertolucci

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  • 1982
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    Vor Anker, Land unter - Ein Film mit Sterling Hayden

    Vor Anker, Land unter - Ein Film mit Sterling Hayden

    1 1982 HD

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  • 2020
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    Kubrick by Kubrick

    Kubrick by Kubrick

    7.5 2020 HD

    A rare and transcendent journey into the life and films of the legendary Stanley Kubrick like we've never seen before, featuring a treasure trove of...

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  • 1984
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    The Shipwrecker

    The Shipwrecker

    5.7 1984 HD

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  • 1953
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    General Electric Theater

    General Electric Theater

    5.5 1953 HD

    General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was...

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  • 1951
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    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    6.5 1951 HD

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was...

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  • 1956
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    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

    5.5 1956 HD

    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to...

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  • 1956
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    Playhouse 90

    Playhouse 90

    7.4 1956 HD

    Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. It originated from...

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  • 1951
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    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    6.5 1951 HD

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was...

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  • 1962
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    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    7.4 1962 HD

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally...

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  • 1972
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    Banacek

    Banacek

    8.6 1972 HD

    Banacek is an American detective TV series starring George Peppard that aired on the NBC network from 1972 to 1974. The series was part of the...

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  • 1977
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    Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television

    Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television

    8.5 1977 HD

    An adaptation of Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II, re-edited in chronological order with additional footage not seen...

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  • 1982
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    The Blue and the Gray

    The Blue and the Gray

    6.9 1982 HD

    The Blue and the Gray is a television miniseries that first aired on CBS in three installments on November 14, November 16, and November 17, 1982....

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  • 1973
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    The Starlost

    The Starlost

    8.1 1973 HD

    A huge generational colony spacecraft called The Ark has gone off-course. Many of the descendants from the original crew and colonists are unaware...

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