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Marini overjoyed by Douglas' play approval -
14 August 2011
-Hollywood icon Kirk Douglas has made actor Gilles Marini's day after giving his new play This the seal of approval.-The Sex and the City movie star makes his stage debut in Melissa James Gibson's drama, about the lives of five friends in their 40s.- Marini stars alo
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Douglas' son sentenced to five years in prison -
21 April 2010
Douglas called Cameron "a loving man" and "a thoughtful friend".-
- Cameron's stepmother Catherine Zeta-Jones and grandfather Kirk Douglas also penned letters to Manhattan's Federal Court in New York in the hope of seeking a reduced sentence.-
- Michael Douglas' le
Kirk Douglas - what members say
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A true classic 14 May 2004
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POWERFUL 30 August 2004
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Odin! This is a movie fit for the gods! 3 March 2004
Kirk Douglas - filmography
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Jack Cardiff - Cameraman
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Jack Cardiff, John Mills, Thelma Schoonmaker
Director: Craig McCall
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Jack Cardiff was lauded by the Hollywood greats he photographed films for - John Huston, Sophia Loren, Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe - and described by Michael Powell as "A genius, a daydreamer, a baby. He should have been a painter instead of being the best colour cameraman in the world." Yet ..read more »
 
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It Runs In The Family
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Michael Douglas, Kirk Douglas, Rory Culkin
Director: Fred Schepisi
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Three generations of Hollywood's Douglas clan star in this family comedy that mirrors the ups and downs of the famous family's real lives. Following in the footsteps of ON GOLDEN POND Michael Douglas and his father Kirk Douglas appear onscreen together as a dysfunctional father and son struggling ..read more »
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The Lies Boys Tell
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Craig T. Nelson, Eileen Brennan
Director: Tom McLoughlin
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This made-for-TV movie stars Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas as Ed Reece, a dying man who wants to pass away in the bed he was born. En route to his childhood home across the United States, he tends to various unfinished business, including visiting an old flame and reconciling with his estranged son...read more »
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The Simpsons - Season 7
(4 discs)
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Julie Kavner, Albert Brooks, Dan Castellaneta
Director: Bill Brown, Wesley Archer, Susie Dietter
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All the episodes from Season 7 of The Simpsons, in which Springfield plays host to the shooting of the Radioactive Man movie, Homer becomes clinically obese in order to work at home, Homer's mom appears and her shady past catches up with her, Sideshow Bob steals a nuclear bomb, Bart is nabbed while ..read more »
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Oscar
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Don Ameche, Tim Curry
Director: John Landis
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Sylvester Stallone stars as famed mobster Angelo SnapsProvolone, who promises his dying father (Kirk Douglas) that he will hang up his tommy gun and lead a kinder, gentler life. However, on the day Snaps is to start his legitimate career in banking, he gets derailed by a spate of family emergencies...read more »
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from 765 members
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Queenie
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Mia Sara, Joel Grey
Director: Larry Peerce
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Based on the best-seller by Michael Korda, this epic tells of a young woman who rose from the slums of Calcutta to the heights of Hollywood, only to be tormented by her turbulent past.
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from 90 members
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Tough Guys
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Charles Durning
Director: Jeff Kanew
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Action comedy tale of two legendary bank robbers who are released on parole after their thirty year imprisonment. Together they face the 1980's as they plan a daring train heist, eagerly pursued by a stubborn old cop and a myopic hitman...
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from 658 members
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Remembrance Of Love
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Pam Dawber, Robert Clary
Director: Jack Smight
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A man separated from his lover and his unborn child during the Second World War has no idea whether they survived the Holocaust. Beginning a new life in America he finds a wife and settles down. But he discovers that his old love is still alive following a reunion in Israel.
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from 17 members
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The Final Countdown
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross
Director: Don Taylor
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When the US aircraft carrier Nimitz collides with an unnatural storm, the crew are transported from the present to Pearl Harbour - December 6th, 1941. Captain Kirk Douglas must decide whether to interfere with the past and stop the Japanese Fleet attacking the US base or let history run its course...
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from 1,022 member
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Saturn 3
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett, Harvey Keitel
Director: Stanley Donen
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Two alternative food researchers (Farrah Fawcett and Kirk Douglas) stationed in the rings off Saturn work in romantic and professional bliss until their perfect lives are disrupted by the intrusion of Benson (Harvey Keitel), sent to speed up the scientists' work. But Fawcett's looks and charm ..read more »
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Cactus Jack
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Ann-Margret, Arnold Schwarzenegger
Director: Hal Needham
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Stuntman-turned-director Hal Needham (CANNONBALL RUN), fashioned this intricately staged slapstick Western after Road Runner cartoons. Cowboy Handsome Stranger (Arnold Schwarzeneggar) is escorting Charming Jones (Ann-Margret) to obtain a large amount of money from her father. However, they don't ..read more »
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Home Movies
(1979)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Keith Gordon, Nancy Allen
Director: Brian De Palma
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Keith Gordon is a creative young man who films the oddball doings of his family and peers. "The Maestro" appears frequently to give him pointers on his techniques. It's almost a film about a young man making the film.
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The Fury
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Carrie Snodgress
Director: Brian De Palma
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In THE FURY, former government agent Peter Sandza (Kirk Douglas) searches for his son (Andrew Stevens), kidnapped by a secret agency hoping to exploit the young man's telekinetic powers for their own ends. Meanwhile a young woman, Gillian (Amy Irving), begins to display her own psychic abilities ..read more »
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from 740 members
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Holocaust 2000
(1977)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Simon Ward, Agostina Belli
Director: Alberto De Martino
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An executive in charge of a Middle Eastern nuclear plant discovers that his son is the Anti Christ and sets out to stop him from using the nuclear power at his fingertips to wipe out mankind.
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from 23 members
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Once Is Not Enough
(1975)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, David Janssen
Director: Guy Green
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In this high-suds potboiler based on the best-selling novel by Jacqueline Susann, Mike Wayne (Kirk Douglas) is a past-his-prime movie producer who lives to make his college-age daughter January (Deborah Raffin) happy. January is also very fond of her father, perhaps more so than would seem healthy ..read more »
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Posse
(1975)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Bruce Dern, Bo Hopkins
Director: Kirk Douglas
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A publicity-hungry U.S. Marshal doesn't just hunt down and capture fugitives, he makes sure a photographer is around to record his crime-fighting exploits and bolster his political aspirations. In POSSE the lawman soon discovers that fame may be fleeting when he sets his sights on his No. 1 target: ..read more »
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from 12 members
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Master Touch
(1972)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Giuliano Gemma, Florinda Bolkan
Director: Michele Lupo
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A partner in a daring and clever robbery finds out the hard way that 'there is no honour among thieves' when he is double crossed and left to take the rap while his buddy enjoys the loot. Wallace is a career criminal, freshly released from a stint in the pen. To his wife's dismay, Wallace embarks ..read more »
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Is Paris Burning?
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron
Director: Rene Clement
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This epic World War II film focuses on the final days of the war, when the French attempted to liberate Paris, and the Nazis made a last-ditch effort to destroy the city before their retreat. Employing a documentary style, the movie shows the Paris uprising, the German army's efforts to stop the ..read more »
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from 424 members
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Cast A Giant Shadow
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, John Wayne, Frank Sinatra
Director: Melville Shavelson
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In this story of Israel's difficult struggle for statehood, Kirk Douglas plays the role of colonel David Marcus, an American military officer who defied orders and led a faction of the Israeli Army in defense of its newly formed borders.
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from 375 members
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In Harm's Way
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal
Director: Otto Preminger
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In Harm's Way, based on James Bassett's novel Harm's Way, has enough plot in it for four movies or a good miniseries (when it was shown on network television in prime time, it was broken into two very full nights). On the morning of December 7, 1941, a heavy cruiser, commanded by Captain Rockwell ..read more »
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Seven Days In May
(1964)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March
Director: John Frankenheimer
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Like much of the American public, Gen. Scott, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff is unhappy with a nuclear arms pact with the Soviet Union recently signed by President Jordan Lyman (Fredric March). But the extent of Scott's displeasure is not fully understood until his aide, Col. Martin "..read more »
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The List of Adrian Messenger
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, George C. Scott, Dana Wynter
Director: John Huston
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Messenger asks a friend to check into a list of names before leaving on a trip. When his plane is blown out of the sky, the matter becomes more serious. As his friend checks into the list, each seems to have died in mysterious circumstances. As he goes down the list, the deaths become more recent ..read more »
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For Love Or Money
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Mitzi Gaynor, Gig Young
Director: Michael Gordon
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In this romantic comedy, Deke Gentry (Kirk Douglas) is a lawyer who gets an unusual assignment from Chloe Brasher (Thelma Ritter), a wealthy widow, owner of a successful hotel chain, and one of his most prominent clients. Chloe has three daughters, sensible Kate (Mitzi Gaynor), bohemian Jan (Leslie ..read more »
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Lonely Are the Brave
(1962)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau
Director: David Miller
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Kirk Douglas, as cowboy Jack Burns, breaks jail to help an old friend and heads for the state border with the sheriff, played by Walter Matthau, in pursuit. Based on Edward Abbey's elegiac novel "The Brave Cowboy" and written by Dalton Trumbo, Burns's flight for freedom on his old horse, pursued by ..read more »
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Two Weeks in Another Town
(1962)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, Cyd Charisse
Director: Vincente Minnelli
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One of Hollywood's great directors, Vincente Minnelli, turns a jaundiced eye towards the film industry in this drama about the inner workings of the movie business. Jack Andrus (Kirk Douglas) is an actor whose career has gone into a tailspin along with his personal life; after a severe bout with ..read more »
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The Last Sunset
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, Dorothy Malone
Director: Robert Aldrich
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Hollywood legends Rock Hudson and Kirk Douglas star on opposite sides of the law in this dramatic tale of justice and forbidden love. Sheriff Dana Stribling (Hudson) hunts down Brendan O'Malley (Douglas), a hot-headed but affable rogue charged with murder. O'Malley takes refuge in Mexico at the ..read more »
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Spartacus - HD
(1960)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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SPARTACUS, based on Howard Fast's popular novel, is Stanley Kubrick's glorious masterpiece about a slave uprising in Rome in 70 BC. Kirk Douglas, who also served as executive producer, stars as the title character, a man born of a slave woman and a slave master who has known nothing but chains for ..read more »
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from 237 members
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Strangers When We Meet
(1960)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak, Ernie Kovacs
Director: Richard Quine
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Architect Larry Coe has a wife and family, but becomes embroiled in an affair with beautiful Maggie Gault, a neighbor with her own family. The two lovers are forced to face the choice between love and loyalty.
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Spartacus - Blu-ray
(1960)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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SPARTACUS, based on Howard Fast's popular novel, is Stanley Kubrick's glorious masterpiece about a slave uprising in Rome in 70 BC. Kirk Douglas, who also served as executive producer, stars as the title character, a man born of a slave woman and a slave master who has known nothing but chains for ..read more »
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from 46 members
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Spartacus
(1960)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) is a rebellious slave purchased by Lentulus Batiatus (Peter Ustinov), owner of a school for gladiators. For the entertainment of corrupt Roman senator Marcus Licinius Crassus (Laurence Olivier), Batiatus' gladiators are to stage a fight to the death. On the night before the ..read more »
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The Vikings
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine
Director: Richard Fleischer
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Inspired by the novel The Viking by Edison Marshall, The Vikings was lensed on location in Norway under extremely adverse weather conditions. Adding to the difficulty was the fact that star Kirk Douglas and director Richard Fleischer never quite found a common ground, and for years thereafter would ..read more »
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Paths Of Glory
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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PATHS OF GLORY is among the most powerful antiwar films ever made. The story takes place in 1916 France, as the French command orders an exhausted unit to wrest control of an anthill from the Germans--expecting a casualty rate of 60 percent. The battle--during which the Germans are never seen, ..read more »
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Gunfight At The OK Corral
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Rhonda Fleming
Director: John Sturges
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Of all the film versions of the famed 1881 gunfight, this one, starring Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday, probably has the highest testosterone quotient. Focusing on the friendship between the forthright, responsible sheriff and the risk-taking, consumptive gambler, it ..read more »
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Lust For Life
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, James Donald, Anthony Quinn
Director: Vincente Minnelli
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This filmed biography of Vincent Van Gogh was adapted by Norman Corwin from the best-selling novel by Irving Stone, which was in turn inspired by the written correspondence between Van Gogh and his brother Theo. Kirk Douglas plays the tormented genius, whose obsessive devotion to his art engulfs, ..read more »
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Man without a Star
(1955)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, Claire Trevor
Director: King Vidor
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Dempsey Rae, a cowboy with no clear aim in life, winds up working on a spread with a hard lady owner just arrived from the East. She needs a tough new top hand and uses all her means of persuasion to get Rae to take the job. But he doesn't like the way the other settlers are getting treated and ..read more »
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The Indian Fighter
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau, Diana Douglas
Director: Andre De Toth
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In Andre de Toth's rough and tumble Western, Kirk Douglas stars as Johnny Hawks, a cocky, brash cowboy notorious as the Indian fighter throughout the Oregon territories. Captain Trask (Walter Abel), commander of the local fort, calls in Hawks due to trouble with the neighboring Sioux tribe, lead by ..read more »
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20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas
Director: Richard Fleischer
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This 1954 Disney version of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea represented the studio's costliest and most elaborate American-filmed effort to date. Kirk Douglas plays a trouble-shooting 19th century seaman, trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. ..read more »
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The Big Trees
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Eve Miller, Patrice Wymore
Director: Felix E. Feist
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In THE BIG TREES, tough lumber baron Jim Fallon (Kirk Douglas) wants to take control of a verdant forest valley, where a colony of Quakers have taken up residence. A battle ensues for control of the towering forest. Spectacular scenery and fierce dramatic action typify this big screen production ..read more »
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The Big Sky
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, Steve Geray
Director: Howard Hawks
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Jim Deakins is a frontiersman and Indian trader who is making a perilous journey with a group of other men up the Missouri River to get a large haul of furs from friendly Blackfoot Indians. The problem is that they have to get through hostile Indian territory first and they find that they have ..read more »
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The Bad And The Beautiful
(1952)
Starring: Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas
Director: Vincente Minnelli
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An egotistical producer, Jonathan Shields (Douglas), determined to prove himself the finest filmmaker of all, gladly steps all over those who helped him when he was starting out. Told from the perspective of three victims -- an actress (Turner), a writer (Powell), and a director (Sullivan) -- this ..read more »
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Detective Story
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix
Director: William Wyler
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Based on the smash Broadway hit, the gritty and gripping drama of Detective Story explodes onto the big screen under the capable direction of William Wyler (The Best Years Of Our Lives, Roman Holiday, Ben-Hur). Set amidst the hectic activity of a New York City police station, Kirk Douglas stars as ..read more »
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Ace in the Hole
(1951)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Porter Hall
Director: Billy Wilder
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A cave collapse in New Mexico traps a man, and all eyes turn toward the tragedy, including those of Charles "Chuck" Tatum (Kirk Douglas), a washed-up newspaper reporter who sees the incident as a ticket back to his former days at the top of the journalism heap. As the media circus begins to swirl ..read more »
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Young Man With A Horn
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day
Director: Michael Curtiz
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Aimless youth Rick Martin learns he has a gift for music and falls in love with the trumpet. Legendary trumpeter Art Hazzard takes Rick under his wing and teaches him all he knows about playing. To the exclusion of anything else in life, Rick becomes a star trumpeter, but his volatile personality ..read more »
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My Dear Secretary
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laraine Day, Keenan Wynn
Director: Charles Martin
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Owen Waterbury is a bestselling novelist who recruits Stephanie Gaylord as the next in a long line of personal secretaries. She soon decides to leave as well as his department seems to prefer fun and games to work. He swallows his pride and asks her to marry him...
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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 »
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...A great movie! Features a bravura performance by Kirk Douglas as the eponymous leader of a slave revolt on Imperial Rome that came close to toppling Rome and destroyed seve...
