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  • Coogan's Bluff
  • Coogan's Bluff review by A customer from GLASGOW
    Rated - 4.0 stars TOP MOVIE !!! 19 October 2005
    ...he first in a series of films on which Eastwood would collaborate with director Don Siegel, it features a memorable scene in which a battle fought with billiard balls and...   Read customer review
  • The Shootist
  • The Shootist review by from Lancashire
    Rated - 5.0 stars Wayne's finest 13 June 2005
    ... from Wayne's earlier films to the final superb shootout in a cavernous saloon, Don Siegel's film is a subtle, touching valedictory tribute to both Wayne and the Western ...   Read customer review
  • Hell Is For Heroes
  • Hell Is For Heroes review by from Andover, Hampshire England
    Rated - 3.0 stars Small Squad Strikes Back 17 October 2007
    ...elieve that it has tried to mix comedy with pathos which is very hard to do. Don Siegel managed a much better job of achieving this in 'Dirty Harry' and 'Charley Varri...   Read customer review

Don Siegel - filmography


  • Rough Cut (1980)
    Starring: Burt Reynolds,  Lesley-Anne Down,  David Niven
    Director: Don Siegel
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A romantic comedy with action and suspense. Two sophisticated jewel thieves join forces to steal $30 million in uncut jewels. Despite a continuous exchange of quips they eventually become romantically involved.
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 2 members
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  • Telefon (1977)
    Starring: Charles Bronson,  Lee Remick,  Donald Pleasence
    Director: Don Siegel,  Don Siegel
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 9 members
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  • The Shootist on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Harry Morgan,  John Wayne,  Lauren Bacall
    Director: Don Siegel
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    John Wayne, in his last film appearance, stars as famed gunfighter J.J. Brooks. After learning from Dr. Hostetler (James Stewart) that he's dying of stomach cancer and has no more than two months to live, he moves into a boarding house in Carson City run by Bond Rogers (Lauren Bacall) and her son, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 1,968 member
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  • Charley Varrick on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Walter Matthau,  Joe Don Baker,  Felicia Farr
    Director: Don Siegel
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Charley Varrick and his friends rob a small town bank. Expecting a small sum to divide amongst themselves, they are surprised to discover a very large amount of money. Quickly figuring out that the money belongs to the MOB, they must now come up with a plan to throw the MOB off their trail.
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 839 members
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  • Dirty Harry on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Clint Eastwood,  Harry Guardino,  Reni Santoni
    Director: Don Siegel
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    You've got to ask yourself a question: 'do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk? Dirty Harry provoked a critical uproar in 1971 for its fascist message about the power of one, as it also elevated Clint Eastwood to superstar status through his most enduring screen persona. Harry Callahan (Eastwood, in a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 14,869 members
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  • Dirty Harry - Blu-ray (1971)
    Starring: Clint Eastwood,  Harry Guardino,  Reni Santoni
    Director: Don Siegel
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    A tremendously controversial film, both decried as an apologia for fascism and hailed as the solution to a decade of rising crime, DIRTY HARRY propelled Clint Eastwood's career into the stratosphere while adding another archetype to join his Man with No Name in film iconography. Clint stars as ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 80% from 1,735 member
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  • Two Mules For Sister Sara on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Clint Eastwood,  Shirley MacLaine,  John Kelly
    Director: Don Siegel
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Starring Clint Eastwood as mercenary gunfighter Hogan, TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA opens with its star saving a naked women from being gang-raped. He's more than a little surprised when the attractive woman, Sister Sara (Shirley McLaine), dons a habit. It seems she's deeply committed to a group of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 3,530 members
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  • The Beguiled on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Geraldine Page
    Director: Don Siegel
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This bizarre Gothic Western, made the year before Clint Eastwood's equally eerie PLAY MISTY FOR ME, makes one wonder what was happening in the actor's personal life during this period. Set in the Deep South during the Civil War, the film stars Eastwood as John McBurney, a severely wounded soldier ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 851 members
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  • Death of a Gunfighter (1969)
    Starring: Richard Widmark,  Lena Horne,  Carroll O'Connor
    Director: Robert Totten,  Don Siegel
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottownwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an old-style lawman in a town determined to become modern. When he kills drunken Luke Mills in self-defense, the town leaders decide it's time for a change. That ask for Patch's resignation, but he refuses on the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 2 members
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  • Madigan (1968)
    Starring: Richard Widmark,  Henry Fonda,  Harry Guardino
    Director: Don Siegel
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    It's a seemingly peaceful spring morning in New York City -- graduation day at the Police Academy -- and Police Commissioner Anthony X. Russell (Henry Fonda) is looking forward to giving a speech to the new officers. But all isn't well: Russell's been given apparently incontrovertible evidence that ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 109 members
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  • Coogan's Bluff on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Susan Clark,  Don Stroud,  Tisha Sterling
    Director: Don Siegel
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Clint Eastwood stars as Walt Coogan, an Arizona deputy sheriff who has been sent to New York City to extradite escaped killer James Ringerman (Don Stroud). On arrival, he's forced to wait by NYPD detective Lieutenant McElroy (Lee J. Cobb), who informs him that Ringerman is recovering from a bad ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,756 member
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  • The Killers (1964)
    Starring: Angie Dickinson,  Ava Gardner,  Burt Lancaster
    Director: Don Siegel,  Robert Siodmak
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    based on the short story by Ernest Hemingway. Don Siegel builds another whole world around Hemingway's premise. The two assassins of Siegel's film go in search of their intended victim - a teacher at a school for the blind - and find that he not only recognises his fate when they show up, but seems ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 74 members
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  • Flaming Star on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Elvis Presley,  Steve Forrest,  Barbara Eden
    Director: Don Siegel
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Elvis Presley stars as Pacer Burton, son of a white father (John McIntire) and Native American mother (Dolores del Rio) who finds his loyalties tested in a war of attrition between a fierce Indian tribe, the Kiowas, and a group of racist white settlers on the Texas frontier in 1870. Although his ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 358 members
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  • Edge of Eternity (1959)
    Starring: Cornel Wilde,  Victoria Shaw,  Mickey Shaughnessy
    Director: Don Siegel
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Helped by socialite Janice Kendon and barkeeper Scott O'Brien, Arizona deputy sheriff Les Martin works to solve three brutal murders in and around the Grand Canyon. His efforts leads to the killer fleeing with Janice as a hostage and a chase by car and helicopter lead to a climax on a miner's ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1 member
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  • The Gun Runners (1958)
    Starring: Audie Murphy,  Eddie Albert,  Patricia Owens
    Director: Don Siegel
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The third and (as of 2005) the last film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's short story To Have and Have Not, The Gun Runners was as topical as this morning's news when it came out in 1958. Audie Murphy plays Sam Martin, a charter-boat skipper based in Key West, whose bad luck has enlarged from the ..read more »
    0.5 stars out of 5 10% from 1 member
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  • Baby Face Nelson (1957)
    Starring: Mickey Rooney,  Carolyn Jones,  Cedric Hardwicke
    Director: Don Siegel
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Fittingly directed by Illinois native and bad-guy filmmaker Don Siegel, this action-packed film stars Mickey Rooney as the unflinching, trigger-happy member of the infamous Dillinger gang that besieged the Midwest circa 1933. Rooney is Lester Baby Face Nelson Gillis and Carolyn Jones his gun moll, ..read more »
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  • Invasion Of The Body Snatchers on DVD (1956)
    Starring: Kevin McCarthy,  Dana Wynter,  Carolyn Jones
    Director: Don Siegel
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A small town doctor returns home to find that what appears to be a case of mass hysteria has broken out amongst his patients. After several reports from the families he follows conventional forms of treatment until he realises the horrific truth..
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 1,406 member
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  • The Duel At Silver Creek on DVD (1952)
    Starring: Audie Murphy,  Faith Domergue,  Lee Marvin
    Director: Don Siegel
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A group of vicious claim-jumpers is killing the miners in a Western settlement. Their latest victim is Cromwell (Harry Harvey), who is shot to death at his mine just after his son Luke (Audie Murphy) leaves for town. Luke has three passions in life -- poker, guns, and the silver ornamentation he ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 156 members
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Don Siegel facts

5 most recent films

Rough Cut - 2.5 stars
Escape From Alcatraz - 3.5 stars
Telefon - 2.5 stars
The Shootist - 3.5 stars
The Black Windmill - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Dirty Harry - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Killers - 4.0 stars
Dirty Harry - 3.5 stars
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers - 3.5 stars
The Shootist - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Baby Face Nelson - 3 stars
The Gun Runners - 0.5 stars
Rough Cut - 2.5 stars
Telefon - 2.5 stars
Death of a Gunfighter - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Andrew Robinson - 4 times - show films
Clint Eastwood - 4 times - show films
Harry Guardino - 4 times - show films
John Mitchum - 3 times - show films
John Larch - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Robert Siodmak - 3 times - show films
Don Siegel - 1 times - show films
Robert Totten - 1 times - show films
Don Seigel - 1 times - show films