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Edward G. Robinson
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Bogey gets a slap 9 July 2004
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17 December 2003
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Not a bright future 8 July 2004
Edward G. Robinson - filmography
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Soylent Green
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Joseph Cotten
Director: Richard Fleischer
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Richard Fleischer directed this nightmarish science fiction vision of an over-populated world, based on the novel by Harry Harrison. In 2022, New York City is a town bursting at the seams with a 40-million-plus population. Food is in short supply, and most of the population's food source comes from ..read more »
 
66%
from 4,183 members
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MacKenna's Gold
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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A U.S. Sheriff, entrusted with a map of the legendary Valley of Gold, is attacked by an unruly bandit gang and his own local townspeople. They are all fired by greed and gold lust, but bound together by a fear of their common enemy - the Apache. Based on a novel by Will Henry, with music by Quincy ..read more »
63%
from 439 members
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The Prize
(1963)
Starring: Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer
Director: Mark Robson
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Based on the novel by Irving Wallace, The Prize takes place in Stockholm, where several laureates gather to accept their Nobel Prizes. At first, the film concentrates on iconoclastic novelist Paul Newman, but he is temporarily shunted to the background when physics expert Edward G. Robinson is ..read more »
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from 1 member
Currently unavailable
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Two Weeks in Another Town
(1962)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, Cyd Charisse
Director: Vincente Minnelli
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One of Hollywood's great directors, Vincente Minnelli, turns a jaundiced eye towards the film industry in this drama about the inner workings of the movie business. Jack Andrus (Kirk Douglas) is an actor whose career has gone into a tailspin along with his personal life; after a severe bout with ..read more »
68%
from 5 members
Currently unavailable
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My Geisha
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Yves Montand, Edward G. Robinson, Shirley MacLaine
Director: Jack Cardiff
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Renowned director Paul Robaix (Yves Montand) doesn't want his actress-wife Lucy Dell (Shirley MacLaine) to star in his latest picture, an adaptation of Madame Butterfly. With the help of producer Sam Lewis (Edward G. Robinson), Lucy devises a scheme to convince her husband that she's right for the ..read more »
64%
from 89 members
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Some Like It Hot - Blu-ray
(1959)
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis
Director: Billy Wilder
Certificate: 
Billy Wilder's classic SOME LIKE IT HOT is one of Hollywood's most beloved comedies. Two musicians (the outrageously hilarious Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis) are forced to go on the run from gangsters and end up posing as women in an all-girl band, which includes a never-better Marilyn Monroe. While ..read more »
70%
from 2 members
Not available for rental
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Some Like It Hot
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis
Director: Billy Wilder
Certificate: 
When Chicago musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) accidentally witness a gangland shooting they quickly board a southband train to Florida, disguised as Josephine and Daphne, the two newest homeliest members of an all-girl jazz band. Their cover is perfect...until a lovelorn singer (..read more »
77%
from 30,932 members
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A Hole In The Head
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Eleanor Parker
Director: Frank Capra
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In this Frank Capra comedy-drama, widower Tony Manetta (Frank Sinatra) is a small-time hotel owner with delusions of grandeur. He seeks help from his wealthy brother (Edward G Robinson) and his wife, who regard him as a worthless dreamer, who's too irresponsible to look after his young son. Instead ..read more »
53%
from 133 members
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The Ten Commandments
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yul Brynner
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
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Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The story relates the life of Moses, from the time he was discovered in the bullrushes as an infant by the pharoah's daughter, to his long, hard ..read more »
69%
from 2,348 members
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Tight Spot
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson, Brian Keith
Director: Phil Karlson
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A former gangster's mistress is moved from prison to a hotel in the hope that she will testify against her former lover. If she testifies she faces the risk of assassination. If she doesn't testify, she will face the anger of attorney Hallet.
56%
from 61 members
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The Violent Men
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Director: Rudolph Mate
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Rudolphe Maté directs the western The Violent Men, based on the novel Rough Company by Donald Hamilton. Edward G. Robinson plays Lee Wilkison, the bad-guy owner of Anchor Ranch with a plan to buy out all the smaller ranches to gain control of the valley. Barbara Stanwyck plays his wife Martha, who ..read more »
58%
from 8 members
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House of Strangers
(1949)
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward, Richard Conte
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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A ruthless banker uses his four sons in any way necessary to build his empire in HOUSE OF STRANGERS. However, when the favorite goes to prison for his father's sins, the other three stage a coup and drive the older man to his death, prompting the incarcerated brother to swear an oath of vengeance ..read more »
57%
from 11 members
Currently unavailable
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Key Largo
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall
Director: John Huston
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Richard Brooks and John Huston's screenplay for Huston's Key Largo eschews the lofty blank verse of Maxwell Anderson's original play, concentrating instead on the simmering tensions among the many characters. Humphrey Bogart plays Frank McCloud, an embittered war veteran who travels to Key Largo in ..read more »
72%
from 3,164 members
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The Red House
on DVD
(1947)
Starring: Lon McCallister, Judith Anderson, Edward G. Robinson
Director: Delmer Daves
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Edward G. Robinson stars as Pete Morgan, an honest small town student who finds after school employment with local farmer Nath Storm (Lon McCallister). Things go awry for the sedulous Pete one day, when he takes a short cut home through haunted woods. Storm warns Pete to stay out of the woods and ..read more »
61%
from 65 members
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Orson Welles - The Stranger
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young
Director: Orson Welles
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Orson Welles directed and stars in THE STRANGER, a tense black-and-white thriller that Welles made for maverick producer Sam Speagle. Welles portrays Charles Rankin, a respected academic at a prominent Connecticut college. He seems to have the perfect life: a beautiful new wife, Mary (Loretta Young)..read more »
62%
from 434 members
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The Stranger
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young
Director: Orson Welles
Certificate: 
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Orson Welles directed and stars in THE STRANGER, a tense black-and-white thriller that Welles made for maverick producer Sam Speagle. Welles portrays Charles Rankin, a respected academic at a prominent Connecticut college. He seems to have the perfect life: a beautiful new wife, Mary (Loretta Young)..read more »
69%
from 226 members
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Scarlet Street
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Margaret Lindsay
Director: Fritz Lang
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Masterfully directed by Fritz Lang, Scarlet Street is a bleak film in which an ordinary man succumbs first to vice and then to murder. Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson) is a lonely man married to a nagging wife. Painting is the only thing that brings him joy. Cross meets Kitty (Joan Bennett) ..read more »
69%
from 759 members
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Double Indemnity - Blu-ray
(1944)
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Director: Billy Wilder
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Wilder's classic noir, a familiar brew of lust, larceny, and lethal intentions, stars Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck as a hot-blooded couple. Framed in flashback, the story is told by the dying Walter Neff (MacMurray), beginning with his first meeting with the seductive Phyllis Dietrichson (..read more »
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Double Indemnity
(1944)
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Director: Billy Wilder
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Director Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler (Creator of the ultimate private investigator, Philp Marlowe - 'The Big Sleep', 'Farewell My Lovely'), adapted James M. Cain's hard-boiled novel into this dark film noir. Insurance investigator Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) plans the perfect murder with the ..read more »
78%
from 6,251 members
Not currently released
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Journey Together
on DVD
(1943)
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling, David Tomlinson
Director: John Boulting
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Originally produced by the RAF Film Unit in 1943 as a public information film which tells the story of the arduous training of pilots, bombers and navigators during World War II. Starring Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling, David Tomlinson and Edward G. Robinson.
63%
from 90 members
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Tales of Manhattan
(1942)
Starring: Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers
Director: Julien Duvivier
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An actor, Paul Orman, is accidentally told that his new, custom made tail coat has been cursed and it will bring misfortune to all who wear it. As the four succeeding wearers of the coat discover, misfortune can often lead to truth.
65%
from 2 members
Currently unavailable
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I Am The Law
on DVD
(1938)
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Barbara O'Neil, John Beal
Director: Alexander Hall
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I Am the Law is arguably the best of the late-1930s films inspired by the racket-busting career of New York district attorney Thomas E. Dewey. A feisty, no-nonsense law professor, Lindsay (Edward G Robinson) is approached by a group of concerned citizens to act as special prosecutor to rid their ..read more »
64%
from 26 members
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Barbary Coast
on DVD
(1935)
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea
Director: Howard Hawks
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Edward G Robinson dominates this film as Louis, the owner of a saloon bar in the 1850's Red Light district of San Fransisco - the Barbary Coast. A cast of Hollywood regulars support Robinson in this rip-roaring tale of the saloons of the California Gold Rush starring Joel McCrea, Walter Brennan, ..read more »
57%
from 37 members
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Little Caesar
on DVD
(1931)
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
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Edward G. Robinson stars as Enrico Bandelli in the role that made him a household name. Bandelli moves to the big city with partner in crime Joe Massara (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) and becomes a member of Sam Vettori's Mafia gang. In spite of the urgings of pretty girl Olga Strassoff (Glenda Farell) to ..read more »
71%
from 502 members
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