Sam Wanamaker

Filmography

Sam Wanamaker - filmography

Pure Luck (1991)
Starring: Martin Short, Danny Glover, Sheila Kelley
Director: Nadia Tass
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The daughter of a wealthy businessman has disappeared in Mexico, and all the efforts to find her have been unsuccessful. A psychologist, knowing that the girl has an ultra bad luck, persuades her father to send to Mexico one of his employees, an accountant with super bad luck, to find her. Perhaps ..read more »

85% from 14 members
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The Shell Seekers (1990)
Starring: Angela Lansbury, Sam Wanamaker, Christopher Bowen
Director: Waris Hussein
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A mother of three reflects on each of her offspring and their self-made unhappiness as she recovers from a mild heart attack. Their true characters, however, don't really surface until the real value of a family painting comes to their attention. Based on Rosamunde Pilcher's first novel.

60% from 323 members
Not currently released

Guilty By Suspicion on DVD (1990)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Annette Bening, George Wendt
Director: Irwin Winkler
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Hollywood, 1950. When David Merrill (Robert De Niro), one of Hollywood's top directors, returns from a recuperative European hiatus, he finds himself in a tinsel town he no longer recognizes. His friends are ill at ease, good folks won't talk openly anymore and the House Un-American Activities ..read more »

62% from 684 members

Columbo - Series 8 (2 discs) on DVD (1989)
Starring: Peter Falk
Director: Leo Penn, James Frawley, Sam Wanamaker
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Peter Falk dusts down his trenchcoat for another season of Columbo.

82% from 290 members

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace on DVD (1987)
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Jackie Cooper
Director: Sidney J. Furie
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Watch now: £2.49
Heeding the emotional appeal of a 12 year-old boy, Superman agrees to rid the world of all nuclear weapons. Arch-villain Lex Luthor, however, has other ideas. Now an enterprising nuclear arms dealer, Luthor attempts to thwart the peace plan by creating the ultimate henchman in the fearsome form of ..read more »

51% from 4,905 members

Raw Deal - Blu-ray (1986)
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ed Lauter, Kathryn Harrold
Director: John Irvin
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A Chicago Mafia is violently doing away with witness who were to incriminate them in court. Schwarzenegger is the ex-FBI agent enlisted to slip into the nefarious organisation. Violence and bloodshed ensue, as Schwarzenegger delivers his own brand of justice!

60% from 249 members

Raw Deal on DVD (1986)
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ed Lauter, Kathryn Harrold
Director: John Irvin
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A Chicago Mafia is violently doing away with witness who were to incriminate them in court. Schwarzenegger is the ex-FBI agent enlisted to slip into the nefarious organisation. Violence and bloodshed ensue, as Schwarzenegger delivers his own brand of justice!

57% from 3,800 members

Private Benjamin on DVD (1980)
Starring: Mary Ka, Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan
Director: Howard Zieff
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Watch now: Unavailable
After the surprise termination of her second marriage, a spoiled Jewish princess joins the Army. Thanks to the double-crossing recruiter who will do anything to enlist her, she expects her hitch to be a vacation. It's... not. Academy Award Nominations: 3, including Best Actress-Goldie Hawn.

67% from 4,279 members

The Competition (1980)
Starring: Ty Henderson, Joseph Cali, Vicki Kriegler
Director: Joel Oliansky
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Two piano players fall in love while competing for the same prize in an important San Francisco competition. Heidi Schoonover and Paul Dietrich met each other once before, at another contest, but now their mutual attraction is so strong that they get romantically involved despite being opponents. ..read more »

100% from 1 member
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Sinbad And The Eye Of The Tiger on DVD (1977)
Starring: Patrick Wayne, Jane Seymour, Margaret Whiting
Director: Sam Wanamaker
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SINBAD AND THE EYE OF THE TIGER is a fantastical adventure dealing with the exploits of the legendary sailor. In this 1977 film, Sinbad (Patrick Wayne) goes on a dangerous journey where he encounters demons, a sabre-toothed tiger, and other dreadful beasts--all brought to life by the ground-..read more »

67% from 1,087 member

Sell Out (1976)
Starring: Richard Widmark, Oliver Reed, Gayle Hunnicutt
Director: Peter Collinson
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The KGB and CIA decide to eliminate any former agents that could be embarrassing for them but a former CIA agent avoids elimination and calls in a favour from his former mentor.

60% from 1 member
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Catlow (1971)
Starring: Yul Brynner, Richard Crenna, Leonard Nimoy
Director: Sam Wanamaker
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An outlaw tries to avoid interference as he journeys to pull off a $2-million gold robbery.

35% from 15 members
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Broken Wing on DVD (1967)
Starring: Stuart Whitman, Pat Hingle, Larry Gates
Director: Sam Wanamaker
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The people of Cimarron form an angry lynch mob when the drunken son of a rancher shoots the local preacher. Marshall Crown faces his toughest test yet trying to control his own townspeople in this 'Cimarron' Western.

40% from 10 members

Cimarron Strip - E03 - Broken Wing (1967)
Starring: Stuart Whitman, Percy Herbert, Randy Boone
Director: Sam Wanamaker
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There is trouble in Cimarron when Jing McQueen, the drunken son of wealthy cattleman Mike McQueen, shoots a local preacher and burns down a livery stable. When the preacher recovers, he refuses to press charges, and McQueen is released from jail. As anger levels rise and the people of Cimarron ..read more »

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Taras Bulba on DVD (1962)
Starring: Brad Dexter, Sam Wanamaker, Guy Rolfe
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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A "Romeo and Juliet" story that takes place in 18th c. Ukraine. Taras (Yul Brenner) has settled into comfortable farm life after years of adventures and swashbuckling with his cossack companions. Though not wealthy, he is able to send his son Andrei (Tony Curtis) away to a Polish school. At this ..read more »

70% from 181 members

The Criminal (1960)
Starring: Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Grégoire Aslan
Director: Joseph Losey
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An ex-con who's taken part in the robbery of a racetrack is caught and sent back to prison, but he won't tell his fellow gang members where he's stashed the loot.

66% from 50 members
Not currently released

Pure Luck - 4.5 stars
The Shell Seekers - 3.0 stars
Guilty By Suspicion - 3.0 stars
Columbo - Series 8 - 4.0 stars
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace - 2.5 stars

Columbo - Series 8 - 4.0 stars
Taras Bulba - 3.5 stars
Private Benjamin - 3.5 stars
Sinbad And The Eye Of The Tiger - 3.5 stars
Guilty By Suspicion - 3.0 stars

Catlow - 2.0 stars
Broken Wing - 2.0 stars
Sell Out - 3.0 stars
The Criminal - 3.5 stars
Pure Luck - 4.5 stars

Stuart Whitman - 3 times - show films
Peter Falk - 3 times - show films
Pat Hingle - 3 times - show films
Larry Gates - 3 times - show films
Steve Forrest - 3 times - show films

James Frawley - 3 times - show films
Leo Penn - 3 times - show films
Howard Zieff - 2 times - show films
John Irvin - 2 times - show films
Sidney J. Furie - 2 times - show films