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Strother Martin
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Strother Martin - what members say
review by huck from Washington, England
One of best movies of all time! 22 November 2006
Strother Martin - filmography
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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 »
 
59%
from 1,034 member
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The End
(1978)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Sally Field
Director: Burt Reynolds
Certificate: 
Wendell Lawson has only 6 months to live. Not wanting to live his last few months of life waiting for the end, he decides to take his own life. He enlists the help of a humorously delusional mental patient, and the movie chronicles his many unsuccessful attempts to kill himself. Will he ever succeed...?
53%
from 16 members
Currently unavailable
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Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Stacy Keach
Director: Lou Adler
Certificate: 
Cheech and Chong's first "hit" movie is a popular comedy for the red-eyed generation. The outrageous pair begin their search for green pastures and good grass. After several wacky adventures and close shaves ensue, the comedic duo end up at L.A.'s Roxy Theatre to perform a hilarious final scene. ..read more »
70%
from 2,621 members
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Slap Shot
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Steve Carlson, Andrew Duncan, Allan Nicholls
Director: George Roy Hill
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A rougher version of George Roy Hill's pet theme of men as overaged adolescents, SLAP SHOT stars Paul Newman as Reggie Dunlop, the venerable player-coach of the Charlestown Chiefs, a fifth-rate minor league hockey team. When their blue-collar town falls prey to Rust Belt ills of the 1970s, ..read more »
67%
from 2,062 members
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Hard Times
(1975)
Starring: Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, James Coburn
Director: Walter Hill
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Writer-director Hill's first feature is a picturesque action film about a bareknuckle streetfighter (Bronson) who drifts into Depression-era New Orleans and hooks up with a small-time gambler. The gambler takes over the boxer's career, arranging illegal fights and involving him in a scheme to ..read more »
69%
from 606 members
Not currently released
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Rooster Cogburn And The Lady
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Jordan
Director: Stuart Millar
Certificate: 
Two of the most popular stars in screen history are brought together for the first time in this follow up to True Grit. The film returns John Wayne to the role of Rooster Cogburn that won him an Academy Award. Katherine Hepburn is prim Eula Goodnight, a bible thumping missionary who is out to ..read more »
69%
from 1,082 member
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, David Warner
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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Double-crossed and left without water in the desert, Cable Hogue is saved when he finds a spring. It is in just the right spot for a much needed rest stop on the local stagecoach line, and Hogue uses this to his advantage. He builds a house and makes money off the stagecoach passengers. Hildy, a ..read more »
67%
from 382 members
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The Wild Bunch
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Strother Martin, Emilio Fernandez, Edmund O'Brien
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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As a counterpoint to the heroic horde of THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, the ageing gunmen of Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece break the very laws of honour which bind them in this bloody and meditative tale of the American West--widely considered to be the self-conscious nail in the coffin of the genre. William ..read more »
70%
from 6,985 members
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True Grit
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby
Director: Henry Hathaway
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A pure Western in which a lawman tracks a criminal, TRUE GRIT, based on Charles Portis's novel, reunited John Wayne with director Henry Hathaway (THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER). Wayne is crotchety U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, who would rather stay home than chase criminals. He heeds the call, though, ..read more »
72%
from 3,447 members
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True Grit - Blu-ray
(1969)
Starring: John Wayne, John Wayne, Glen Campbell
Director: Henry Hathaway
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A pure Western in which a lawman tracks a criminal, TRUE GRIT, based on Charles Portis's novel, reunited John Wayne with director Henry Hathaway (THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER). Wayne is crotchety U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, who would rather stay home than chase criminals. He heeds the call, though, ..read more »
70%
from 585 members
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Cool Hand Luke - Blu-ray
(1967)
Starring: Paul Newman, Ralph Waite, Clifton James
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
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In this classic Southern prison drama, social misfit Lucas Luke Jackson (Paul Newman) is incarcerated for a petty crime and sentenced to a chain gang. Luke is a sullen and laconic young man whose cool defiance of the sadistic warden and bullying inmates earns him the title Cool Hand Luke. But as ..read more »
79%
from 1,083 member
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Cool Hand Luke
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Dennis Hopper
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
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Paul Newman was nominated for an Oscar and George Kennedy received one for his work in this allegorical prison drama. Luke Jackson (Paul Newman) is sentenced to a stretch on a southern chain gang after he's arrested for drunkenly decapitating parking meters. While the avowed ambition of the captain ..read more »
78%
from 7,723 members
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The Sons Of Katie Elder
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Martha Hyer
Director: Henry Hathaway
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Henry Hathaway directs the 1965 psychological Western The Sons of Katie Elder. Four sons reunite in their Texas hometown to attend their mother's funeral. John (John Wayne) is the gunfighter, Tom (Dean Martin) is the gambler, Matt (Earl Holliman) is the quiet one, and Bud (Michael Anderson Jr.) is ..read more »
70%
from 1,671 member
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles
Director: John Ford
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Like Pontius Pilate, director John Ford asks What is truth? in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance--but unlike Pilate, Ford waits for an answer. The film opens in 1910, with distinguished and influential U.S. senator Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) and his wife Hallie (Vera Miles) returning to the ..read more »
72%
from 3,705 members
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Attack
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Richard Jaeckel, Buddy Ebsen, William Smithers
Director: Robert Aldrich
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Captain Cooney (Eddie Albert) is a bombastic, but incompetent, military leader who jeopardizes the lives of the men under his control. His lapdog of a colonel (Lee Marvin) tries his best to sweep Cooney's errors under the rug, but soon the dastardly leaders have a problem on their hands in the form ..read more »
61%
from 533 members
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Strother Martin facts
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...er-the-top performance from David Warner, and familiar western character actors Strother Martin, LQ Jones and others. This is Peckinpah's tour de force - forget the Wild Bunch...
