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Whit Bissell - filmography


  • The Magnificent Seven on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Yul Brynner,  Steve McQueen,  Robert Vaughn
    Director: John Sturges
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    John Sturges's remake of Akira Kurosawa's classic THE SEVEN SAMURAI has become an influential film in its own right. A small farming Mexican village that makes involuntary donations of its harvest to a gang of bandits led by Calvera (Eli Wallach) decides to hire a group of professional gunmen, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 10,215 members
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  • The Magnificent Seven - Blu-ray (1960)
    Starring: Yul Brynner,  Steve McQueen,  Robert Vaughn
    Director: John Sturges
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    John Sturges's remake of Akira Kurosawa's classic THE SEVEN SAMURAI has become an influential film in its own right. A small farming Mexican village that makes involuntary donations of its harvest to a gang of bandits led by Calvera (Eli Wallach) decides to hire a group of professional gunmen, ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 43 members
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  • The Defiant Ones on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Sidney Poitier,  Tony Curtis,  Charles McGraw
    Director: Stanley Kramer
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Convicts Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier escape from a chain gang. Curtis' character, John Joker Jackson, hates blacks, while Poitier's character, Noah Cullen, hates whites. However, the men are manacled together, forced to rely on each other to survive. Captured at one point by a lynch-happy mob, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 979 members
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  • The Young Stranger on DVD (1957)
    Starring: James MacArthur,  Kim Hunter,  James Daly
    Director: John Frankenheimer
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Following in the wake of REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE made two years earlier, THE YOUNG STRANGER is another tale of teenage angst. When young Hal gets into a fight with the local theatre owner he gets labelled as juvenile delinquent. It soon becomes apparent that the real problems lie in his distant ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 36% from 33 members
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  • Gunfight At The OK Corral on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Kirk Douglas,  Burt Lancaster,  Rhonda Fleming
    Director: John Sturges
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 648 members
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  • Raw Deal on DVD (1948)
    Starring: Dennis O'Keefe,  Claire Trevor,  Marsha Hunt
    Director: Anthony Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    In this film noir classic, a revenge-seeking gangster (Dennis O'Keefe) is sent to prison after being framed for a crime he didn't commit. After seducing a beautiful young woman, he uses her to help him carry out his plot for vengeance, leading him to the crazy pyromaniac (Raymond Burr) who set him up.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 134 members
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  • He Walked by Night (1948)
    Starring: Jack Webb,  Charles Lang,  Whit Bissell
    Director: Alfred Werker
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A burglar becomes a cold-blooded cop killer and is hunted down on the streets of Los Angeles. The men in blue manage to track their suspect down into the bowels of the city--the labyrinth sewer system. Noir veteran Anthony Mann, though uncredited, co-directed the film. Well-done and supposedly an ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 38% from 10 members
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Whit Bissell facts

5 most recent films

The Time Tunnel - Complete Series - 3.5 stars
The Magnificent Seven - 3.5 stars
The Magnificent Seven - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Defiant Ones - 3.0 stars
The Young Stranger - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Magnificent Seven - 3.5 stars
Gunfight At The OK Corral - 3.5 stars
The Time Tunnel - Complete Series - 3.5 stars
Raw Deal - 3.5 stars
The Defiant Ones - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Young Stranger - 2.0 stars
He Walked by Night - 2.0 stars
The Magnificent Seven - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Defiant Ones - 3.0 stars
Raw Deal - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

John Zaremba - 10 times - show films
James Darren - 10 times - show films
Robert Colbert - 10 times - show films
Bing Russell - 5 times - show films
Bob Wilke - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Sobey Martin - 10 times - show films
Harry Harris - 10 times - show films
Irwin Allen - 10 times - show films
John Sturges - 6 times - show films
Alfred Werker - 1 times - show films