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Lionel Stander - what members say

Cul-De-Sac review by A customer from London

Genius on a budget 14 June 2004
...e characterisation, the performances of Donald Pleasence, Fran?oise Dorl?ac and Lionel Stander, and the macabre and unsettling atmosphere Polanski creates from the very first... Read customer review

Pulp review by A customer from Sheffield, England

Going Through The Motions 28 March 2005
...s hammy as ever but the film is stolen from under Caine's nose by the underused Lionel Stander. One particularly unpleasant aspect of the film, however, is a scene used ove... Read customer review

Lionel Stander - filmography

Hart To Hart - Season 2 (5 discs) on DVD (1980)
Starring: Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers, Lionel Stander
Director: Tom Mankiewicz, John Patterson, Earl Bellamy
Certificate:
Jonathan Hart (Robert Wagner) is a self-made millionaire, the owner of a huge corporation called Hart Industries, while his wife, Jennifer (Stephanie Powers), is a well-known freelance journalist. Their opulent household is rounded out by the Harts' loyal housekeeper and sidekick, Max (Lionel ..read more »

67% from 84 members

The Squeeze (1978)
Starring: Lee Van Cleef, Karen Black, Lionel Stander
Director: Antonio Margheriti
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In this crime drama a safe cracker comes out of retirement to pull off one last caper. The Germans behind the theft are planning to steal $1 million; unbeknownst to the safe cracker, they are also planning to kill him afterward. As soon as he finds out, he begins plotting his revenge.

60% from 4 members
Not available for rental

New York, New York on DVD (1977)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Liza Minnelli, Lionel Stander
Director: Martin Scorsese
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This story, set in the late 1940s, follows the turbulent relationship between a saxophone player and a girl singer destined for stardom.

60% from 1,122 member

The Cassandra Crossing on DVD (1976)
Starring: Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Martin Sheen
Director: George Pan Cosmatos
Certificate:
This exciting disaster/thriller features an all-star cast. A thousand passengers traveling from Geneva to Stockholm on a luxury express train, learn that there's a terrorist on board carrying a highly infectious plague virus.

61% from 438 members

Pulp on DVD (1972)
Starring: Giulio Donnini, Luciano Pigozzi, Al Lettieri
Director: Mike Hodges
Certificate:
Pulp fiction writer Mickey King (Michael Caine) gets mixed up with gangsters and murder on the island of Malta in this parody of private eye mysteries. It all begins when movie legend Preston Gilbert (Mickey Rooney) hires King to ghostwrite an autobiography about his colourful life, now he's dying ..read more »

51% from 183 members

Treasure Island on DVD (1972)
Starring: Orson Welles, Walter Slezak, Lionel Stander
Director: John Hough
Certificate:
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Of all the stories of sea and ships and daring desperate men, none can compare with the adventure of Treasure Island.

52% from 201 members

Calibre 9 (1972)
Starring: Gastone Moschin, Lionel Stander, Barbara Bouchet
Director: Fernando Di Leo
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Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.

51% from 9 members
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Once Upon A Time In The West - Blu-ray (1968)
Starring: Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards
Director: Sergio Leone
Certificate:
Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti), the power-hungry owner of a railroad company, hires Frank (Henry Fonda, playing against type), a gunfighter without a conscience, to kill anyone who stands in the way of the completion of the railroad. After Frank murders land owner Brett McBain (Frank Wolff), McBain's ..read more »

85% from 321 members

A Dandy In Aspic on DVD (1968)
Starring: Mia Farrow, Laurence Harvey, Tom Courtenay
Director: Anthony Mann
Certificate:
A Russian counter-espionage agent working in British intelligence finds his cover blown, leaving him with no one to trust.

60% from 114 members

Once Upon A Time In The West on DVD (1968)
Starring: Gabriele Ferzetti, Woody Strode, Jack Elam
Director: Sergio Leone
Certificate:
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 »

72% from 14,919 members

Cul-De-Sac on DVD (1966)
Starring: Francoise Dorleac, Donald Pleasence, Lionel Stander
Director: Roman Polanski
Certificate:
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A somewhat surreal black comedy directed and co-scripted by Roman Polanski, CUL-DE-SAC is the tale of a mismatched married couple, George and Teresa (Donald Pleasence and Francoise Dorleac), living in an 11th-century castle on an isolated island whose home is invaded by two gangsters on the run ..read more »

63% from 1,132 member

A Star Is Born on DVD (1937)
Starring: Fredric March, Janet Gaynor, Adolphe Menjou
Director: Willam A Wellman, William A. Wellman
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A classic which has been remade twice in 1954 featuring Judy Garland and in 1976 starring Barbra Streisand, this, the 1937 version is regarded by many to be the premier version of the tragic tale of a movie star declinig in popularity who marries a shy girl and helps her become a star.

63% from 182 members

The Milky Way on DVD (1936)
Starring: Adolphe Menjou, Harold Lloyd, Charles Lane
Director: Leo McCarey
Certificate:
Burleigh Sullivan is a wimpy, harmless milkman whose life is transformed after he accidentally KOs a boxing champ and gets signed by a nefarious fight promoter.

46% from 29 members

Mr Deeds Goes To Town on DVD (1936)
Starring: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft
Director: Frank Capra
Certificate:
When a car crash ends the life of a fabulously wealthy patron of the arts, the decedent's $20,000,000 fortune is inherited by one Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper) of Mandrake Falls, Vermont. Already a reasonably successful local businessman, Deeds doesn't really feel the need for anything extra in ..read more »

73% from 928 members

Hart To Hart - Season 1 (6 discs) on DVD
Starring: Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers, Lionel Stander
Certificate:
Created by best-selling novelist Sidney Sheldon, Hart To Hart: The Complete First Season stars Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers as Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a fabulously rich couple who always seem to find themselves entangled in an exotic blend of mystery, intrigue and adventure. Accompanied by ..read more »

58% from 321 members

Lionel Stander facts

5 most recent films

Hart To Hart - Season 2 - 3.5 stars
The Squeeze - 3.0 stars
New York, New York - 3.0 stars
The Cassandra Crossing - 3.0 stars
Pulp - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Once Upon A Time In The West - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Mr Deeds Goes To Town - 3.5 stars
Once Upon A Time In The West - 3.5 stars
Hart To Hart - Season 2 - 3.5 stars
Cul-De-Sac - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Milky Way - 2.5 stars
Calibre 9 - 2.5 stars
The Squeeze - 3.0 stars
Pulp - 2.5 stars
Treasure Island - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Stefanie Powers - 13 times - show films
Robert Wagner - 13 times - show films
Vincent Schiavelli - 7 times - show films
Paul Rudd - 7 times - show films
Richard B. Shull - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 7 times - show films
John Patterson - 6 times - show films
Earl Bellamy - 6 times - show films
Tom Mankiewicz - 6 times - show films
Sergio Leone - 4 times - show films