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- SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1957) Directed by Alexander Mackendrick. Screenplay by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman, based on the novelette by Lehman. Starring Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Martin Milner, Sam Levene, Barbara Nichols, Joe Frisco.
- ELMER GANTRY (1960) Directed by Richard Brooks. Screenplay by Brooks, based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis. Starring Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones, Patti Page, Edward Andrews, Hugh Marlowe, John McIntire, Rex Ingram.
- ATLANTIC CITY (1981) Directed by Louis Malle. Written by John Guare. Starring Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid, Robert Joy, Hollis McLaren, Michel Piccoli, Al Waxman.
- FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953) Directed by Fred Zinnemann. Screenplay by Daniel Taradash, based on the novel by James Jones. Starring Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Frank Sinatra, Donna Reed, Philip Ober, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Warden.
Nov 3, 2017 · Burt Lancaster is Bob Valdez, a Mexican and town constable. He comes upon a standoff. Lawful citizens, led by cattleman Frank Tanner, have a black man and his woman holed up in a shack. Tanner suspects the man of killing his lover’s husband.
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A Mexican-American sheriff (Burt Lancaster) must resort to violence against a powerful rancher (Frank Tanner, played by Jon Cypher) in order to get just compensation for the pregnant Indian widow of a wrongly killed black man.
- (4.6K)
- Drama, Western
- Edwin Sherin
- 1971-04-09
- SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1957) As J.J. Hunsecker, a powerful New York gossip columnist who rules Broadway with an iron pen, Lancaster creates one of the all-time great movie baddies.
- ELMER GANTRY (1960) Richard Brooks’ “Elmer Gantry” brought Lancaster his sole Oscar victory as Best Actor, and what a heavenly triumph it was. He stars as the titular character, a huckster salesman who convinces a sincere evangelist (Jean Simmons) he can help her spread the word of God.
- ATLANTIC CITY (1981) Lancaster earned his final Oscar nomination for playing Lou Pascal, an aging gangster with little to show for his life. He falls in love with a Casino waitress (Susan Sarandon) whose husband steals drugs from the mob.
- FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953) James Jones’ epic novel about three U.S. Army soldiers (Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra) stationed in Hawaii in the months leading up to Pearl Harbor translates beautifully to the screen thanks to Fred Zinnemann’s sensitive treatment.
When rancher Frank Tanner (Jon Cypher) hoodwinks local lawman Bob Valdez (Burt Lancaster) into shooting an innocent man, Valdez is remorseful and tries to take up a collection for the widow.
- (1.4K)
- Edwin Sherin
- PG-13
- Burt Lancaster
Aging town constable Bob Valdez (Burt Lancaster) is tricked into killing an innocent African-American man by powerful rancher Frank Tanner (Jon Cypher), whose hired gun R.L. Davis (Richard Jordan) shot up the hovel where the wrongly accused man and his Indian wife were trapped.
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Burt Lancaster, one of the cinema's truly great stars, stoically embodies Bob Valdez, a former cavalry scout of Mexican descent and veteran of the Apache wars. Valdez is going quietly to seed as a part-time town constable and shotgun guard for the local stagecoach line.
