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Marlon Brando
Born 3 April 1924, in Omaha, Nebraska; died 1 July 2004, in Los Angeles, California
Wise words: "I'm one of those people who believes that if I'm very good in this life I'll go to France when I die."
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Marlon Brando - news / articles
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Brando trustees sue for leather jacket cash -
25 May 2010
-The trustees of Marlon Brando's estate have filed suit against a clothing company over the unlicensed use of the Brando name in the marketing of a new leather jacket range. -
-Brando Enterprises has filed a lawsuit against Joe's Jeans, seeking compensation for damages
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Coppola blasts Brando's bad reputation -
9 June 2009
-Late acting legend Marlon Brando was a misunderstood eccentric, according to Francis Ford Coppola, the director who knew him best.-
-Coppola cast Brando in two of his most famous roles as mafia boss Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather and Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse No
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Brando returns to the big screen -
19 May 2004
Veteran actor Marlon Brando is set to return to the big screen starring as himself in low-budget project "Brando and Brando".-Details of the £3 million movie were revealed during the Cannes film festival this week.-"Brando and Brando" tells the
Marlon Brando - what members say
review by Zamy from LONDON
19 July 2004
review by Cato from Lydbury North
Song and Dance and Talk 3 July 2010
review by from London
Classic, unrivalled superhero epic 22 October 2004
Marlon Brando - filmography
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Naqoyqatsi
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Elton John, Marlon Brando/ Elton John
Director: Godfrey Reggio
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Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh (Best Director, Traffic, 2000) presents Naqoyqatsi ("Life As War"), from filmmaker Godfrey Reggio, in collaboration with composer Philip Glass, whose original score features renowned cellist yo-yo Ma. in this cinematic concert a follow-up to the ..read more »
 
56%
from 648 members
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The Score
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Angela Bassett
Director: Frank Oz
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Every thief dreams of the big heist that will allow him to leave the business of crime behind. Every thief except Nick (Robert De Niro), a cool, methodical safecracker who never takes on long-shot jobs until his longtime partner, Max (Marlon Brando), offers him the big score--to filch a priceless ..read more »
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from 7,460 members
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The Score - Blu-ray
(2001)
Starring: Edward Norton, Robert De Niro, Marlon Brando
Director: Frank Oz
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Every thief dreams of the big heist that will allow him to leave the business of crime behind. Every thief except Nick (Robert De Niro), a cool, methodical safecracker who never takes on long-shot jobs until his longtime partner, Max (Marlon Brando), offers him the big score--to filch a priceless ..read more »
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from 1,712 member
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Free Money
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Donald Sutherland, Charlie Sheen
Director: Yves Simoneau
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Prison warden the Swede strikes fear in the heart of everyone, especially his sons-in-law Bud (Sheen) and Larry (Church). When the boys come across a money train carrying millions of unmarked bills to be destroyed, and the only obstacle between them and untold riches is the Swede himself, they must ..read more »
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from 118 members
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The Brave
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Marlon Brando, Marshall Bell
Director: Johnny Depp
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Johnny Depp writes, directs and stars in this tense drama about a man racing to save his own life. Depp plays Raphael, whose family are struggling to make ends meet and defy poverty. He seeks a more secure future for his family when he meets the sinister McCarthy (Brando) who offers him $30000 to ..read more »
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from 3,278 members
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The Island Of Dr Moreau
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Val Kilmer, David Thewlis, Marlon Brando
Director: John Frankenheimer
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Marlon Brando stars as the eponymous scientist in the third adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic. The archetypal mad scientist, the good doctor has been conducting a number of experiments in his remote island kindom, producing a race of genetic mutants both man and beast in his quest to produce a ..read more »
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from 1,495 member
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Don Juan DeMarco
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Marlon Brando, Faye Dunaway
Director: Jeremy Leven
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Dr. Jack Mickler, ten days before his retirement, takes on his last case as a psychiatrist. The case is that of Don Juan, who has seduced more than a thousand women, and starts Dr. Mickler re-evaluating his own life...
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from 5,703 members
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The Freshman
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Matthew Broderick, Bruno Kirby
Director: Andrew Bergman
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In this farcical comedy, Matthew Broderick plays Clark Kellogg, an aspiring director who arrives in New York City to attend film school. However, moments after he arrives in the city, he's robbed by Victor Ray (Bruno Kirby), leaving him no money for the $700 in books required by his instructor, ..read more »
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from 823 members
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A Dry White Season
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman, Zakes Mokae
Director: Euzhan Palcy
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Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardeners son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realise his society is built on a pillar of ..read more »
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from 210 members
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The Formula
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Marlon Brando, George C. Scott, Marthe Keller
Director: John G. Avildsen
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During World War II, Germany developed a method to derive cheap, pollution-free gasoline from coal. But when the Third Reich collapsed, the formula disappeared. A lone L.A. detective sets out to find it.
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from 96 members
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Apocalypse Now Redux
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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Released in August 2001, APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX, a restored and updated version of the 1979 film, includes 49 minutes of never-before-seen footage, a Technicolor enhancement, and a six-channel soundtrack.Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam epic, loosely based on HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad, tells ..read more »
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from 45,463 members
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Apocalypse Now - Blu-ray
(1979)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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Francis Ford Coppola's masterful film about the moral madness of the Vietnam War was inspired by Joseph Conrad's novella, HEART OF DARKNESS. Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is sent into the Cambodian jungle to terminate with extreme prejudice Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who has become insane and ..read more »
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from 1,100 member
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Superman
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando
Director: Richard Donner
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In Richard Donner's blockbuster, the Superman myth is well told, from his birth on the doomed planet Krypton to his childhood in a small Kansas town and beyond. After he comes of age, young Clark Kent, as his Earth parents have named him, learns the truth of his alien birth on a voyage of discovery ..read more »
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from 16,145 members
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Superman - Blu-ray
(1978)
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman
Director: Richard Donner
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Born on planet Krypton but raised in Kansas, USA, Clark Kent (as his Earth parents have named him) embarks on a voyage of self-discovery to the Arctic, where he learns the truth about his alien origins, superhuman abilities, and responsibility to preserve and protect 'truth, justice and the ..read more »
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from 1,719 member
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Superman - HD
(1978)
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando
Director: Richard Donner
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Born on planet Krypton but raised in Kansas, USA, Clark Kent (as his Earth parents have named him) embarks on a voyage of self-discovery to the Arctic, where he learns the truth about his alien origins, superhuman abilities, and responsibility to preserve and protect 'truth, justice and the ..read more »
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from 435 members
Not currently released
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The Missouri Breaks
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid
Director: Arthur Penn
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It's the wild frontier and anything goes, especially in the untamed territory of Montana. Tom Logan (Jack Nicholson) leads a gang of cattle thieves out for revenge when one of its members is hanged by wealthy rancher David Braxton. Braxton, however, has hired expert manhunter Lee Clayton (Marlon ..read more »
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from 811 members
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The Nightcomers
(1972)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Stephanie Beacham, Thora Hird
Director: Michael Winner
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Isolated in a traditional English country manor, two rich orphans--Miles (Christopher Ellis) and Flora (Verna Harvey)--have only their nurse, their housekeeper, and a strange gardener named Quint (Marlon Brando) to provide them with company and care. The youngsters are particularly intrigued by ..read more »
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from 325 members
Currently unavailable
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The Godfather
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Richard Conte, James Caan
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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Francis Ford Coppola's epic masterpiece features Marlon Brando in his Oscar winning role as the patriarch of the Corleone family. Director Coppola paints a chilling portrait of the Sicilian clan's rise and near fall from power in America, masterfully balancing the story between the Corleone's ..read more »
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from 72,401 members
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Burn
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Sal Marquez, Renato Salvatori
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
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British agent provocateur William Walker foments a slave uprising on a Caribbean island of Quemada in the 1840s and then installs his own leader, an illiterate sugar cane cutter. But, when the puppet leader learns that the new masters are no better than the old, Walker must return to the island to ..read more »
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from 338 members
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The Chase
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford
Director: Arthur Penn
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All hell breaks loose in a Texas town when an escaped convict heads home in Arthur Penn's Southern gothic melodrama. Appointed by local kingpin Val Rogers (E. G. Marshall), benevolent Sheriff Calder (Marlon Brando) manages to keep the peace in Tarl, but the situation starts to fester one Saturday ..read more »
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from 569 members
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The Appaloosa
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Anjanette Comer, Anjanette Comer
Director: Sidney J. Furie
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Marlon Brando plays Matt Fletcher a bone-weary saddle trap, tired of life on the range who wants to settle down and breed horses. His dream is shattered when the prize Appaloosa stallion is stolen by a Mexican bandit.
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from 114 members
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Morituri
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard
Director: Bernhard Wicki
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A British secret agent is sent to sabotage a German freight ship and deliver the cargo of rubber into Allied hands. The German captain in charge of the ship has been ordered to ensure that it reaches it's destination safely...
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from 192 members
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Bedtime Story
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Marlon Brando, David Niven, Shirley Jones
Director: Ralph Levy
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In this 1960s comedy, Freddy Benson (Marlon Brando) and Lawrence 'The Prince' Jameson (David Niven) are two charming scoundrel confidence trickster gigolos who prey on wealthy women taking holidays on the French Riviera. The pair join a playful competition to see who is best at the job, and the ..read more »
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from 327 members
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The Ugly American
(1963)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Eiji Okada, Sandra Church
Director: George Englund
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Taken from a best-selling book, this is an uneven, politically tinged drama by George Englund that does not really follow the book that closely. Marlon Brando is Harrison Carter MacWhite, an ambassador to a Southeast Asian country that goes unnamed but stands in well for Vietnam. There is a growing ..read more »
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Mutiny On The Bounty
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Richard Harris, Trevor Howard, Marlon Brando
Director: Lewis Milestone
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Lewis Milestone replaced Carol Reed as director on this third version of Nordhoff and Hall's classic true account of naval rebellion. The film stars Marlon Brando as the spirited Fletcher Christian and Trevor Howard as the tyrannical Captain Bligh. Their ship, the Bounty, leaves Portsmouth in 1787, ..read more »
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from 319 members
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One Eyed Jacks - Blu-ray
(1961)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Pina Pellicer
Director: Marlon Brando
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Western bandit Kid Rio (Marlon Brando) is betrayed by his partner, Dad Longworth (Karl Malden). Escaping from prison, Rio learns that Longworth has become a wealthy and influential lawman. Rio thirsts for revenge, but bides his time, waiting for the right moment to strike. In the meantime, Rio ..read more »
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from 2 members
Not available for rental
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One Eyed Jacks
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Pina Pellicer
Director: Marlon Brando
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Western bandit Kid Rio (Marlon Brando) is betrayed by his partner, Dad Longworth (Karl Malden). Escaping from prison, Rio learns that Longworth has become a wealthy and influential lawman. Rio thirsts for revenge, but bides his time, waiting for the right moment to strike. In the meantime, Rio ..read more »
62%
from 799 members
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Sayonara
(1957)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, Kent Smith
Director: Joshua Logan
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Marlon Brando is an American serviceman on leave in Japan during the Korean War who discovers that his long-distance relationship with his fiancee has faltered. He soon finds that he has fallen in love with a Japanese entertainer (Miko Taka), despite the policies and standards set by the American ..read more »
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from 190 members
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Guys And Dolls
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Sheldon Leonard, B. S. Pully, Marlon Brando
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Based on the Broadway show from the Damon Runyon short story and filled to the brim with Frank Loesser tunes such as "Luck Be a Lady" and "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat," this outrageously comic film featuring Marlon Brando's bold musical debut is a colorful tale about gamblers, a feisty ..read more »
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from 3,365 members
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On The Waterfront - Blu-ray
(1954)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb
Director: Elia Kazan
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Elia Kazan's compelling social drama was the winner of eight Academy Awards and marks one of Marlon Brando's finest screen performances. Brando is Terry Malloy, a handsome but inarticulate longshoreman, who gets involved in a labor scandal when a fellow dock worker is murdered. He knows that the ..read more »
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The Wild One
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith
Director: Laslo Benedek
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What are you rebelling against? asks someone. What've you got? responds surly, leather-jacketed motorcycle punk Marlon Brando. It comes as a disappointment to discover that The Wild One, the quintessential Brando rebel film, is at base a traditional misunderstood youth vs. the nasty system effort, ..read more »
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from 1,786 member
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On The Waterfront
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb
Director: Elia Kazan
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Elia Kazan's compelling social drama was the winner of eight Academy Awards and marks one of Marlon Brando's finest screen performances. Brando is Terry Malloy, a handsome but inarticulate longshoreman, who gets involved in a labor scandal when a fellow dock worker is murdered. He knows that the ..read more »
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from 14,613 members
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Viva Zapata
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn
Director: Elia Kazan
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Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and directed by Elia Kazan, this film follows the life of Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando) from his peasant upbringing, through his rise to power in the early 1900s, to his death. The film presents an interesting but fictionalized picture of ..read more »
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from 452 members
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A Streetcar Named Desire
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter
Director: Elia Kazan
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In the classic play by Tennessee Williams, brought to the screen by Elia Kazan, faded Southern belle Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) comes to visit her pregnant sister, Stella (Kim Hunter), in a seedy section of New Orleans. Stella's boorish husband, Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), not only regards ..read more »
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from 4,208 members
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The Men
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright
Director: Fred Zinnemann
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Wounded veterans struggle as they must survive in post-war America, faced with the everyday difficulties of being handicapped as well as the prejudice they face due to their condition.
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from 170 members
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Saddles, Saloons And Six Shooters
(5 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Gary Cooper, Errol Flynn, John Wayne
Director: D.W. Griffith, Charles Swickard, George B. Seitz
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A collection of 14 westerns. Titles include THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, THE RED MAN'S VIEW, HELL'S HINGES, THE VANISHING AMERICAN, FIGHTING CARAVANS, PAINTED DESERT,, DESERT TRAIL, TROUBLE IN TEXAS, SANTA FE TRAIL, ARIZON A BOUND, THE OUTLAW, ABILENE TOWN, DANIEL BOONE - TRAIL BLAZER and ONE EYED JACKS.
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from 31 members
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The D-Day Sixth Of June
on DVD
Starring: Robert Taylor, May Britt, Richard Todd
Director: Henry Koster, Edward Dmytryk
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In this electrifying film, Robert Taylor portrays Captain Brad Parker, an American officer on the front lines on June 6. 1944, D-Day, when 3,000,000 men, 11,000 planes and 4,000 ships will come together to invade Normandy and determine the world's future. And since Parker and his commander (Richard ..read more »
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Marlon Brando facts
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... their exploits looks very tame today. The main interest is the performance of Marlon Brando in the title role. He certainly looks good in his leathers: a rather camp gay ...
