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On Golden Pond
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda
Director: Mark Rydell
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Based on the play by Ernest Thompson, ON GOLDEN POND tells the deceptively simple tale of one family's summer. The story centres around the bickering but loving relationship between Ethel and Norman Thayer (Katharine Hepburn and Henry Fonda), an elderly couple who are spending their 48th summer at ..read more »
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71%
from 2,536 members
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Last Days of Mussolini
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Lino Capolicchio, Umberto Raho, Rod Steiger
Director: Carlo Lizzani
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In Italian and English, 1974's THE LAST DAYS OF MUSSOLINI depicts the Italian dictator's final days of power. This tense, intriguing historical drama tracks Mussolini's actions as he finds himself hunted by Hitler, the allies, and the Italian government. The film is noteworthy for its strong ..read more »
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56%
from 21 members
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Night Flight from Moscow
(1972)
Starring: Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Dirk Bogarde
Director: Henri Verneuil
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The tension-filled days of Cold War espionage and international intrigue return to life in this edge-of-the-seat political thriller. Yul Brynner plays a Soviet spy who defects to the West and brings along with him a list of several high-ranking Western officials who are in fact Soviet double agents...read more »
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57%
from 10 members
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The American West Of John Ford
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, John Wayne
Director: John Ford
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A documentary which focuses on the director John Ford and his interest in the western film. Featuring insights from the actors who so often starred in his westerns; James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda. Introduced by Tony Curtis and featuring the original theatrical trailer for the film Vertigo.
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55%
from 88 members
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Sometimes A Great Notion
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Richard Jaeckel, Lee Remick, Cliff Potts
Director: Paul Newman
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Featuring an all-star cast including Henry Fonda, Paul Newman, Lee Remick and Michael Sarrazin, Sometimes a Great Notion is based on the novel by Ken Kesey [One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest].
A family of Oregonian loggers, led by patriarch Henry [Fonda], live and work by the family motto &#..read more »
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68%
from 38 members
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Too Late The Hero
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Michael Caine, Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson
Director: Robert Aldrich
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In Robert Aldrich's pulsating World War II thriller, Lawson (Cliff Robertson), an American naval officer specializing in Asiatic languages, is sent to the Pacific theater to assist a group of British soldiers (Michael Caine, Denholm Elliott, and Harry Andrews) in a seemingly simple mission--knock ..read more »
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60%
from 766 members
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Yours, Mine And Ours
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Van Johnson
Director: Melville Shavelson
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After being set up by a matchmaker, naval officer Frank Beardsley (Henry Fonda, THE GRAPES OF WRATH)--a widowed father with ten children--falls in love with Helen North (Lucille Ball, I LOVE LUCY), a naval base nurse who has eight children. They marry and the couple and their 18 children move into ..read more »
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62%
from 121 members
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Once Upon A Time In The West
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards
Director: Sergio Leone
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Sergio Leone's monumental epic Once Upon A Time In The West ranks among the five or six all-time Western masterpieces. The picture itself is as big as its Monument Valley locations, as grand as its fine, distinguished cast. Henry Fonda plays the blackest character of his long career and he's ..read more »
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71%
from 12,738 members
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Madigan
(1968)
Starring: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Harry Guardino
Director: Don Siegel
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Adapted from Richard Dougherty's 'The Commissioner', 'Madigan' stars Richard Widmark as the eponymous New York detective in this warm-up for Don Siegel's 'Dirty Harry'. Joined by his partner Rocco Bonaro, Madigan raids the apartment of criminal Barney Benesch, but when both cops are briefly frozen ..read more »
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58%
from 85 members
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The Boston Strangler
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy
Director: Richard Fleischer
Certificate: 
Boston is held under siege by a murderous madman in this shocking true story based on Gerald Frank's best-selling novel of the psychotic murderer and the Assistant Attorney General who is obsessed with the case.
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63%
from 428 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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A navy man goes out to capture strategic islands held by the Japanese during World War II. It doesn't get more macho than this: IN HARM'S WAY was directed by Otto Preminger and stars John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy, and many more tough guys.
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64%
from 306 members
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Battle Of The Bulge
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Robert Shaw
Director: Ken Annakin
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This World War II spectacular tells the story of the tank battles of December 1944, in which the Nazi Panzer forces staged a last-ditch offensive on the Belgian front.
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71%
from 1,540 member
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Best Man
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Edie Adams
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
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When intellectual William Russell (Henry Fonda) and down-to-earth Joe Cantwell (Cliff Robertson) run for the Presidency at the White House they find that neither have the majority. They must decide how much they want the job - and what they are willing to do to get it.
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73%
from 44 members
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Fail-Safe
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Following closely on the heels of Stanley Kubrik's DR. STRANGELOVE (all too closely for Kubrick and company, who quickly filed a lawsuit alleging plagiarism), Sidney Lumet's FAIL-SAFE employs a similarly stylized and heightened dramatic structure in its nerve-crushing moral tale. Taking place over ..read more »
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77%
from 270 members
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Longest Day, The - BLU-RAY Version
(1962)
Starring: John Wayne, Richard Burton, Henry Fonda
Director: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki
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An all-star cast has been enlisted for this epic recreation of the Allied invasion of Normandy that took place on June 6, 1944. This spectacular film noisily dramatises the viewpoints of the French, British, German, and American soldiers. Featuring Oscar winning special effects and cinematography, ..read more »
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80%
from 13 members
Due for release on 9th November 2009
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The Longest Day
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: John Wayne, Richard Burton, Henry Fonda
Director: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki
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An all-star cast has been enlisted for this epic recreation of the Allied invasion of Normandy that took place on June 6, 1944. This spectacular film noisily dramatises the viewpoints of the French, British, German, and American soldiers. Featuring Oscar winning special effects and cinematography, ..read more »
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72%
from 5,415 members
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Warlock
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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The town of Warlock is plagued by a gang of thugs, leading the inhabitants to hire Clay Blaisdell, a famous gunman, to act as Marshal. Various townspeople, concerned by the illegality of Blaisdell's position, induce one of the thugs, who has reformed, to accept the post of Sheriff in rivalry to the ..read more »
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64%
from 225 members
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Twelve Angry Men
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley
Director: Sidney Lumet
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In the definitive version of Reginald Rose's timeless script, an all-white jury decides the fate of a youth accused of murder. This tightly constructed searing exposé of prejudice in the American legal system stars Henry Fonda and a pantheon of great character actors.
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80%
from 18,840 members
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The Tin Star
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Henry Fonda, Betsy Palmer, Anthony Perkins
Director: Anthony Mann
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When a small town's sheriff is murdered, inexperienced deputy Ben Owens (Anthony Perkins) steps in as a temporary replacement. Idealistic and eager to succeed, Owens enlists the services of ex-lawman turned bounty hunter Morg Hickman (Henry Ford) to help him grow into his new role. The cynical, ..read more »
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70%
from 92 members
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War & Peace
(1956)
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer
Director: King Vidor
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Spruced up adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's epic novel about the life of a Russian family during the War of 1812. The historical and personal events are seen mostly through the eyes of Natasha, who is 16 years old at the start of the movie. Contains many panoramic shots of battle in action.
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63%
from 41 members
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The Wrong Man
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Henry Fonda plays musician Manny Balestro, a man full of visible but unspoken rage at his wrongful arrest. Vera Miles is his distraught wife Rose, driven to madness by the ordeal.
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67%
from 880 members
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Fort Apache
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Shirley Temple
Director: John Ford
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A first of John Ford's trilogy of cavalry movies set during America's struggle against the Apache Indian.
Henry Fonda plays the stubborn Colonel Thursday whose textbook methods of warfare appear as pure as suicide to everyone but him. John Wayne stars as Captain York, a soldier experienced in ..read more »
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67%
from 1,428 member
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The Fugitive
on DVD
(1947)
Starring: Henry Fonda
Director: John Ford
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The Fugitive follows the journey of a village priest (Henry Fonda) who despite the threat of death at the hands of revolutionary militants, who have outlawed religion, returns to his people to administer to their religious needs.
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69%
from 15 members
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My Darling Clementine
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Henry Fonda, Victor Mature, Walter Brennan
Director: John Ford
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In another of his classic Westerns, John Ford again reflects upon the advance of civilisation on the receding frontier, recounting the events leading up to and including the legendary gunfight at the O.K. Corral. As they drive their cattle toward California, Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda) and his ..read more »
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74%
from 741 members
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The Ox-Bow Incident
(1943)
Starring: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes
Director: William A. Wellman
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Two drifters are passing through a Western town, when news comes in that a local farmer has been murdered and his cattle stolen. The townspeople, joined by the drifters, form a posse to catch the perpetrators. They find three men in possession of the cattle, and are determined to see justice done ..read more »
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67%
from 58 members
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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...
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72%
from 1,083 member
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The Grapes Of Wrath
on DVD
(1940)
Starring: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell
Director: John Ford
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A moving story of the migration to California of an Oklahoma family during the 'Dust-Bowl' period of the 1930's. Henry Fonda gives a sterling performance as Tom Joad, a poor farmer who refuses to be beaten down by misfortune and oppression. Based on a novel by John Steinbeck.
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73%
from 2,332 members
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Drums Along The Mohawk
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver
Director: John Ford
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DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK is John Ford's first film in Technicolor (which recently perfected far richer shadings of colour than had previously been possible), and the director uses it to stunning effect. The film stars Henry Fonda as Revolutionary War-era farmer Gilbert Martin, who, in 1776, has ..read more »
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57%
from 184 members
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Jezebel
(1938)
Starring: Henry Fonda, Bette Davis, Bette Davis
Director: William Wyler
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Set in the antebellum South, William Wyler�s JEZEBEL centers on high society beauty Julie Marsden. Julie first arrives on horseback, then enters her home flamboyantly hooking the long flowing train of her dress with her riding crop and hoisting it to her shoulders. Julie is not just high-..read more »
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77%
from 39 members
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You Only Live Once
on DVD
(1937)
Starring: Henry Fonda, Sylvia Sidney, Barton MacLane
Director: Fritz Lang
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Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney play ill-fated lovers in Fritz Lang's fatalistic psychological thriller, YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE. The film opens as Joan (Sidney), a secretary in the public defender's office, excitedly awaits the release of her thrice-convicted criminal lover Eddie (Fonda). The two try to ..read more »
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64%
from 320 members
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The Trail Of Lonesome Pine
on DVD
(1936)
Starring: Spanky McFarland, Henry Fonda, Fuzzy Knight
Director: Henry Hathaway
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This adaptation of John Fox Jr.'s novel was the first feature to be shot outdoors in Technicolor. It tells the tale of a railroad engineer who inadvertently fans the flames of an ancient family feud when he arrives to build a line through the Blue Ridge Mountains. Academy Award Nominations: Best ..read more »
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60%
from 7 members
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The Long Night
on DVD
Starring: Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price
Director: Anatole Litvak
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Presented in an intricate web of flashbacks, The Long Night follows the fractured thoughts of Joe Adams (Henry Fonda), a factory worker pinned inside his third-floor apartment after gunning down a mysterious, dapper gentleman (Vincent Price). Joe's memories (often containing flashbacks within ..read more »
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54%
from 35 members
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Jesse James
Starring: Henry Fonda, Tyrone Power, Nancy Kelly
Director: Henry King
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The legend of Jesse James stars Tyrone Power as the most infamous bandit in the history of the West. Jesse James was a young Missouri farmer forced outside the law after ruthless agents for the transcontinental railroad kill his ailing mother and steal his family's land. Together with his brother ..read more »
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54%
from 19 members
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Blockade
on DVD
Starring: Madeleine Carroll, Henry Fonda
Director: William Dieterle
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The screen explodes with action in this war-torn drama. Henry Fonda stars as the passionate, courageous Marco, a peasant farmer determined to protect his land from invading soldiers. The gorgeous Madeleine Carroll is Norma, the daredevil spy whose heart he captures. With gunfire thundering around ..read more »
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49%
from 15 members
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Henry Fonda facts
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Classic Western 3 September 2006
...of John Fords Cavalry Trio ( Rio Grande ,She wear a yellow ribbon). Sorry Duke -Henry Fonda stole the show in this one. ...
Underrated Western 14 April 2005
