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Barbara Stanwyck
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Barbara Stanwyck - what members say
review by from Northern Ireland
Underrated Film Noir 1 August 2005
review by A customer from Rye, East Sussex
Mr Capra Goes to town..... 10 November 2005
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Do I laugh now or wait 'til it gets funny. 1 September 2006
Barbara Stanwyck - filmography
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The Big Valley - Palms Of Glory And 11 ...
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Lee Majors, Barbara Stanwyck, Linda Evans
Certificate: 
This collection includes 12 episodes of the first series of THE BIG VALLEY, the classic vintage Western program from the mid-1960's starring Barbara Stanwyck as Victoria Barkley, the widowed matriarch of a clan of wealthy California ranchers. The series is set in the tumultuous 1870s, and the ..read more »
 
57%
from 9 members
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Roustabout
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Elvis Presley, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Freeman
Director: John Rich
Certificate: 
In ROUSTABOUT, Elvis plays Charlie Rogers, a carefree, leather-clad biker who joins the carnival of Maggie Morgan (Barbara Stanwyck). There he finds hard work, romance, and a job as a tent crooner. Inevitably, he attracts the attention of a sleazy rival. Raquel Welch makes her screen debut in a bit ..read more »
63%
from 467 members
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Forty Guns
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger
Director: Samuel Fuller
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Cult hero Samuel Fuller wrote and directed this visually inventive western, which didn't fare well with American audiences but earned a potent reputation with European cineastes. Jessica Drummond (Barbara Stanwyck) is a despotic landowner who, with a posse of hired guns, has made herself the law of ..read more »
63%
from 198 members
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There's Always Tomorrow
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: William H. Reynolds, Fred MacMurray, Jane Darwell
Director: Douglas Sirk
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THERE'S ALWAYS TOMORROW is a remake of a 1934 film of the same name. Fred MacMurray is a toy company executive whose wife (Joan Bennett) and kids (Gigi Perreau, William Reynolds and Judy Nugent) take him for granted. Barbara Stanwyck is Fred's former girlfriend, whose own business activities result ..read more »
72%
from 89 members
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Escape To Burma
(1955)
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, David Farrar
Director: Allan Dwan
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A local prince in British Burma has been killed, apparently by his prospecting partner Jim Brecan. The bereaved father wants Brecan's head, no questions asked, but Captain Cardigan of the colonial police hopes to find him first for a fair trial. Meanwhile, Brecan finds refuge on the teak plantation ..read more »
52%
from 4 members
Currently unavailable
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The Violent Men
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Director: Rudolph Mate
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Rudolphe Maté directs the western The Violent Men, based on the novel Rough Company by Donald Hamilton. Edward G. Robinson plays Lee Wilkison, the bad-guy owner of Anchor Ranch with a plan to buy out all the smaller ranches to gain control of the valley. Barbara Stanwyck plays his wife Martha, who ..read more »
59%
from 11 members
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The File on Thelma Jordon
(1950)
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Paul Kelly
Director: Robert Siodmak
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No one is as good as Barbara Stanwyck when she's bad. Here Stanwyck plays Thelma Jordon, a woman who late one night shows up in the office of happily married Assistant DA Cleve Marshall (Wendell Corey) to seek help in solving the string of robberies at her wealthy aunt's estate. Before Cleve can ..read more »
70%
from 4 members
Currently unavailable
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
(1946)
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Elizabeth Scott
Director: Lewis Milestone
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STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS: Barbara Stanwyck is the eponymous character of this classic noir, a woman of wealth and position in her small community, and the wife of local district attorney, Walter O'Neil (Kirk Douglas), a self-loathing alcoholic whom she holds in contempt. When her old friend Sam ..read more »
63%
from 336 members
Currently unavailable
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Double Indemnity
(1944)
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Director: Billy Wilder
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Director Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler (Creator of the ultimate private investigator, Philp Marlowe - 'The Big Sleep', 'Farewell My Lovely'), adapted James M. Cain's hard-boiled novel into this dark film noir. Insurance investigator Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) plans the perfect murder with the ..read more »
78%
from 6,334 members
Not available for rental
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Double Indemnity - Blu-ray
(1944)
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Director: Billy Wilder
Certificate: 
Wilder's classic noir, a familiar brew of lust, larceny, and lethal intentions, stars Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck as a hot-blooded couple. Framed in flashback, the story is told by the dying Walter Neff (MacMurray), beginning with his first meeting with the seductive Phyllis Dietrichson (..read more »
82%
from 17 members
Not available for rental
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The Lady Eve
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda
Director: Preston Sturges
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When Jean Harrington meets Charles Pike on a ship, a misunderstanding leaves them parting on bad terms. In order to win back his love, Jean disguises herself as an English lady and sets off to pursue him...
72%
from 1,453 member
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Meet John Doe
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Walter Brennan, Spring Byington, Gene Lockhart
Director: Frank Capra
Certificate:
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In this Frank Capra film, Gary Cooper plays Long John Willoughby, an unemployed man who is duped into becoming an American symbol by D.B. Norton (Edward Arnold), an unscrupulous newspaper tycoon. When Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck) is fired by Norton, she sends a fake suicide note to the publisher ..read more »
65%
from 500 members
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Ball Of Fire
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka
Director: Howard Hawks
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Professor Bertram Potts is the youngest of eight bookish academics assembling a dictionary of slang. They find a perfect "research associate" in the curvaceous form of strip-tease dancer Kathryn "Sugar Puss" O'Shea, who has hidden out at the professors' domicile to escape Joe Lilac, her gangster ..read more »
72%
from 107 members
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The Mad Miss Manton
on DVD
(1938)
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene
Director: Leigh Jason
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Melsa Manton (Barbara Stanwyck) is a wealthy Manhattan debutante who is notorious for headline grabbing pranks. One night, Melsa notices a man running out of a supposedly deserted house and goes to investigate. She discovers a body, but when the police eventually arrive the body has disappeared and ..read more »
62%
from 28 members
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Stella Dallas
(1937)
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck
Director: King Vidor
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Stella Martin marries ambitious Stephen Dallas and soon they have a daughter named Laurel. But Stella's vulgar ways and resistance to improving herself lead to divorce. Stephen later marries respectable widow Helen Morrison and Laurel becomes the focus of Stella's life and love. Nothing is too good ..read more »
68%
from 26 members
Currently unavailable
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Annie Oakley
on DVD
(1935)
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas
Director: George Stevens
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Barbara Stanwyk stars in this rip-roaring biopic of the sharpest shooter in the Old West. Annie Oakley is just a gal from the Ohio backwoods but her skill with the six-shooters wins her a place in Buffalo Bill’s legendary Wild West show.
She’s shown the ropes by fellow gunslinger Toby Walker (..read more »
56%
from 15 members
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The Bitter Tea of General Yen
on DVD
(1933)
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Toshia Mori
Director: Frank Capra
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Set in China during the "Warlord Period" of the late 20s and early 30s, the film concerns the strange abduction of a New England missionary and a cruel but highly cultured Chinese general. As the general tries to woo the missionary, her conflicted feelings for him come to the forefront, all the ..read more »
68%
from 259 members
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The Miracle Woman
on DVD
(1931)
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, Sam Hardy
Director: Frank Capra
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After Florence Fallon's father is fired from the church where he preached for many years, she becomes embittered and loses faith. She teams up with Horsby, a con man, and performs fake miracles for profit. But the love and trust of a blind man restores her faith in God and her fellow man.
59%
from 93 members
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The Big Valley
(3 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Lee Majors
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Set in California's San Joaquin Valley in the 1870s, The Big Valley is the story of one family and their fight to survive and prosper on the frontier. Widow Victoria Barkley (Barbara Stanwyck) is the powerful head of the Barkley clan, which includes illegitimate son Heath (Lee Majors) and daughter ..read more »
57%
from 43 members
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Hollywood Song And Dance - The Musical Years
on DVD
Starring: John Wayne, Al Jolson, Peggy Lee
Director: Roy Selfe
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This programme breathes new life into the golden days of Hollywood, using film clips which trace the development of the movies from the early talkies through the pursuit of new styles. Featuring: Al Jolson, Bob Hope, Peggy Lee, John Wayne, Roy Rogers, Betty Grable, Fred Astaire, Barbara Stanwyck ..read more »
41%
from 104 members
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Barbara Stanwyck facts
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...rk Douglas (in a minor role be warned) is very good as the alcoholic husband of Barbara Stanwyck (Martha Ivers), who have known each other from childhood.
Her real childhood...
