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Edward G. Robinson


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  • Key Largo
  • Key Largo review by A customer from Newcastle
    Rated - 5 stars Bogey gets a slap 9 July 2004
    ...McCloud is suitably laid back and brave as he confronts the gangsters headed by Edward G. Robinson as Johnny Rocco. Lauren Bacall plays the widow of Bogey's war time friend and t...  
  • Scarlet Street
  • Scarlet Street review by from LONDON
    Rated - 5 stars 17 December 2003
    ...et Street takes a Noir formula to new heights of dark fatalism and bitterness. Edward G. Robinson, usually the ?heavy?, plays against type as a henpecked bank clerk who moonligh...  
  • Soylent Green
  • Soylent Green review by from Manchester
    Rated - 4 stars Not a bright future 8 July 2004
    ...ioned professionalism by Richard Fleischer, and has a towering performance from Edward G. Robinson as Heston's assistant. Perhaps a bigger budget would have allowed a greater sen...  

Edward G. Robinson - filmography


  • My Geisha on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Yves Montand,  Edward G. Robinson,  Shirley MacLaine
    Director: Jack Cardiff
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 64 members
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  • Some Like It Hot on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Marilyn Monroe,  Jack Lemmon,  Tony Curtis
    Director: Billy Wilder
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 76% from 26,699 members
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  • The Ten Commandments on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Anne Baxter,  Edward G. Robinson,  Yul Brynner
    Director: Cecil B. DeMille
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    This spectacular biblical epic from legendary showman Cecil B. DeMille tells the story of Moses from his infancy to the triumphant moment when he led the Israelites out of captivity in Egypt. The film begins as the pharaoh's daughter (Yvonne De Carlo) discovers the abandoned infant Moses and takes ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,019 members
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  • House of Strangers (1949)
    Starring: Edward G. Robinson,  Susan Hayward,  Richard Conte
    Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 5 members
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  • Orson Welles - The Stranger on DVD (1946)
    Starring: Orson Welles,  Edward G. Robinson,  Loretta Young
    Director: Orson Welles
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 352 members
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  • Scarlet Street on DVD (1946)
    Starring: Edward G. Robinson,  Joan Bennett,  Margaret Lindsay
    Director: Fritz Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    In this remake of Jean Renoir's controversial 1931 film, LA CHIENNE, Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson), a quiet, staid cashier and dedicated Sunday painter, feels consumed by passion for the first time in his life when he meets pretty, manipulative Kitty (Joan Bennett). The two become involved,..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 540 members
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  • Double Indemnity on DVD (1944)
    Starring: Fred MacMurray,  Barbara Stanwyck,  Edward G. Robinson
    Director: Billy Wilder
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 77% from 5,002 members
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Edward G. Robinson - watch online


  • The Ten Commandments to Watch Now (1956)
    Starring: Anne Baxter,  Edward G. Robinson,  Yul Brynner
    Director: Cecil B. DeMille
    Certificate: Certificate: U (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 202 minutes
    This spectacular biblical epic from legendary showman Cecil B. DeMille tells the story of Moses from his infancy to the triumphant moment when he led the Israelites out of captivity in Egypt. The film begins as the pharaoh's daughter (Yvonne De Carlo) discovers the abandoned infant Moses and takes ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 3 members
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  • Scarlet Street to Watch Now (1945)
    Starring: Edward G. Robinson,  Joan Bennett,  Margaret Lindsay
    Director: Fritz Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: PG (TBC)
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    Run time: 103 minutes
    In this remake of Jean Renoir's controversial 1931 film, LA CHIENNE, Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson), a quiet, staid cashier and dedicated Sunday painter, feels consumed by passion for the first time in his life when he meets pretty, manipulative Kitty (Joan Bennett). The two become involved,..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 16 members
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Edward G. Robinson facts

5 most recent films

Soylent Green - 3.5 stars
MacKenna's Gold - 3.0 stars
Grand Slam - 2.0 stars
Sammy Going South - 3.5 stars
My Geisha - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Double Indemnity - 4.0 stars
Some Like It Hot - 4.0 stars
Key Largo - 3.5 stars
Little Caesar - 3.5 stars
The Ten Commandments - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Paul Newman Collection Vol.2 - Silver Chalice/The Helen Morgan Story/The Outrage/Rachel Rachel/When Time Ran Out - 3 stars
Grand Slam - 2.0 stars
The Red House - 2.5 stars
Barbary Coast - 3.0 stars
House of Strangers - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Charlton Heston - 3 times - show films
Joan Bennett - 3 times - show films
Dan Duryea - 3 times - show films
Judith Anderson - 3 times - show films
Martha Scott - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Fritz Lang - 3 times - show films
Orson Welles - 2 times - show films
Billy Wilder - 2 times - show films
Cecil B. DeMille - 2 times - show films
J. Lee Thompson - 1 times - show films