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Field Of Dreams
(1988)
Starring: Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, Burt Lancaster
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
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A struggling Iowa farmer (Costner) obeys a mysterious voice in his cornfield that tells him to replace part of his crop with a baseball diamond resulting in the magical meeting of baseball heroes from the past. Mystical forces are at play here as ghosts of other sorts are confronted.
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Tough Guys
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Charles Durning
Director: Jeff Kanew
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Action comedy tale of two legendary bank robbers who are released on parole after their thirty year imprisonment. Together they face the 1980's as they plan a daring train heist, eagerly pursued by a stubborn old cop and a myopic hitman...
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The Osterman Weekend
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Rutger Hauer, John Hurt, Dennis Hopper
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Certificate: 
Once a year John Tanner spends a long weekend with his three best friends from college. When he is approached by a CIA agent who has evidence proving that his three pals are actually spy's working with the Soviet Union, he reluctantly allows, his house to be wired with video surveillance equipment ..read more »
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53%
from 485 members
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Local Hero
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson
Director: Bill Forsyth
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Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. This may be due to the title being deleted or on a limited release. We will continue to rent this title as soon as stock becomes available.A Texas oil company attempts to buy out a Scottish fishing village for a refinery, and the result ..read more »
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69%
from 5,744 members
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Marco Polo
(4 discs)
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Ken Marshall, Denholm Elliott, Tony Vogel
Director: Giuliano Montaldo
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First broadcast in 1982, this Emmy award winning epic adventure cost a staggering ten million dollars and featured an all-star, Oscar winning cast. Filmed on location in Italy, Morocco, Nepal and China this lavish mini-series was the first Western production to film in China after WWII and took ..read more »
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57%
from 31 members
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Atlantic City
(1981)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid
Director: Louis Malle
Certificate: 
The legalization of gambling in Atlantic City brings about big changes in the life of an aging small time numbers runner when he becomes involved with big money and the mob. Academy Award Nominations: 5, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor--Burt Lancaster, Best Actress--Susan Sarandon,..read more »
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64%
from 541 members
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Zulu Dawn
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole, Simon Ward
Director: Douglas Hickox
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ZULU DAWN depicts the bloody Battle of Isandhlwana, in which 30,000 Zulu warriors wiped out nearly 1,500 British troops stationed in Natal. The film focuses most sharply on the preparations for battle and the political situation in the region at that time. Taking Zulu chief Cetshwayo's defiant ..read more »
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63%
from 1,614 member
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Go Tell the Spartans
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Burt Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson
Director: Ted Post
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Lancaster plays a tough U.S. military advisor in 1964 assigned to the abandoned French outpost of Muc Wa, where he must assemble a platoon out of inexperienced American soldiers and hardened Vietnamese mercenaries. As he experiences the conditions at first hand, his doubts about the U.S. ..read more »
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62%
from 80 members
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1900 - Novecento
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Gerard Depardieu, Burt Lancaster
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
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Bernardo Bertolucci's vast historical melodrama used the massive popular, critical, and financial success of its predecessor, the scandalous LAST TANGO IN PARIS, to mount a production of epic scale. The film utilises an all-star Hollywood cast to tell its heavily Marxist tale of Italian peasants ..read more »
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59%
from 1,268 member
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Moses The Lawgiver
(2 discs)
(1975)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Anthony Quayle
Director: Gianfranco De Bosio
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Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause.
Burt Lancaster stars in this internationally-produced and lavish version of the life of Moses, the famous Jewish Leader, who led the children of Israel out of bondage. Moses was ..read more »
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from 72 members
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Conversation Piece
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger
Director: Luchino Visconti
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Burt Lancaster plays an aging college professor who rents a Roman palazzo only to find the upstairs occupied by an Italian family. With his quiet life disrupted he becomes involved in a web of murder and intrigue.
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58%
from 349 members
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Scorpio
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Paul Scofield
Director: Michael Winner
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Burt Lancaster stars as Cross, a US intelligence veteran whose CIA chief McLeod (John Colicos) has marked him for termination. On the run from the assassin, the old spy takes refuge with his Soviet counterpart--a retired KGB operative, Zharkov (Paul Scofield). That action only makes matters worse, ..read more »
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51%
from 186 members
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Ulzana's Raid
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Bruce Davison, Richard Jaeckel
Director: Robert Aldrich
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Angered at their mistreatment by whites, a group of renegade Apaches escape from their reservation and embark on a rampage of murder, rape and destruction. A veteran army scout, McIntosh (Bruce Lancaster), and an unseasoned young cavalry officer, DeBuin (Bruce Davison), are assigned to track down ..read more »
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63%
from 496 members
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Valdez Is Coming
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Burt Lancaster
Director: Edwin Sherin
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Bob Valdez (Burt Lancaster), a Mexican-American deputy sheriff, is forced to kill an accused murderer by ruthless land baron, Frank Tanner. When he discovers that the accused left behind a pregnant girlfriend, he asks around town for money to support her, and is severely beaten and left for dead by ..read more »
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63%
from 321 members
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Lawman
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb
Director: Michael Winner
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While in a neighbouring town, some drunken locals from Sheriff Maddox' domain accidentally kill a man. So the stern, unbending Maddox (Burt Lancaster) goes there to arrest the missing men, a task that proves much harder than he expected, thanks to his rude and arrogant manner. The residents quickly ..read more »
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62%
from 366 members
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Castle Keep
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Peter Falk, Patrick O'Neal
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Sydney Pollack directs this dramatic allegory about an American military squadron seeking refuge in a castle in the Ardennes Forest during the final days of World War II. When the soldiers get a little too comfortable in their new environment, they spark a conflict with its owner over the castle ..read more »
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49%
from 289 members
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The Scalphunters
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Sydney Pollack directs this amiable comic Western in which fur trapper Joe Bass (Burt Lancaster) is returning from a successful expedition only to find himself ambushed by a small group of Indians. The Indians force Joe to trade his pelts for Joseph, an educated runaway slave, played brilliantly by ..read more »
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63%
from 306 members
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The Swimmer
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Janice Rule, Diana Muldaur
Director: Frank Perry
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Burt Lancaster stars in this adaptation of John Cheever's dreamlike short story about one man's highly unusual attempt to find meaning in his life. On the morning after a booze-filled night, Ned Merrill wakes up in a haze, confronted by the sterility of his isolated, wealthy suburban existence. So ..read more »
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68%
from 1,209 member
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The Professionals
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan
Director: Richard Brooks
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A wealthy rancher, Frank Carter (Ralph Bellamy), hires four tough gunslingers to rescue his wife (Claudia Cardinale) who is being held captive by Captain Rasa (Jack Palance), one of Pancho Villa's most desperate revolutionaries, in this dynamic and hard-hitting Western set against the backdrop of ..read more »
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67%
from 1,180 member
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The Hallelujah Trail
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Martin Landau
Director: John Sturges
Certificate: 
THE HALLELUJAH TRAIL is a slapstick comedy starring Burt Lancaster as cavalry officer Col. Thadeus Gearhart, set just before the winter of 1867, when the boomtown of Denver realizes it's almost run out of whiskey. The perenially drunken Oracle Jones (Donald Pleasence) hatches a plan to bring a ..read more »
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60%
from 253 members
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The Train
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau
Director: John Frankenheimer
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The duo of director John Frankenheimer and actor Burt Lancaster again join forces with the latter starring as French railway inspector Labiche. With Allied forces closing in on occupied Paris, Herman Goering orders Col. Franz von Waldheim (Paul Scofield) to move the priceless art from the Jeu de ..read more »
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68%
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Seven Days In May
(1964)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March
Director: John Frankenheimer
Certificate: 
Like much of the American public, Gen. Scott, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff is unhappy with a nuclear arms pact with the Soviet Union recently signed by President Jordan Lyman (Fredric March). But the extent of Scott's displeasure is not fully understood until his aide, Col. Martin "..read more »
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70%
from 52 members
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The Leopard
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon
Director: Luchino Visconti
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Italian director Luchino Visconti delivers one of his most ambitious works with this sprawling historical drama. Based on the acclaimed novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, THE LEOPARD is set in Sicily during the 1800s, as the aristocracy found itself being suffocated by a newly democratic fervor...read more »
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67%
from 3,016 members
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A Child Is Waiting
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Steven Hill
Director: John Cassavetes
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John Cassavetes's second effort as a studio director is an engrossing, sobering exposé of society's cruel prejudice toward children afflicted with mental retardation; the film focuses on an institution for those with Down's syndrome. A young boy, Reuben Widdicombe (Bruce Ritchey), arrives at the ..read more »
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57%
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The List of Adrian Messenger
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, George C. Scott, Dana Wynter
Director: John Huston
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Messenger asks a friend to check into a list of names before leaving on a trip. When his plane is blown out of the sky, the matter becomes more serious. As his friend checks into the list, each seems to have died in mysterious circumstances. As he goes down the list, the deaths become more recent ..read more »
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66%
from 147 members
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Birdman Of Alcatraz
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Karl Malden, Burt Lancaster, Thelma Ritter
Director: John Frankenheimer
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Burt Lancaster reteams with John Frankenheimer, starring as the title character, Robert E. Stroud. Sentenced to a dozen years in prison for killing a man in 1909, he loses any chance for parole by stabbing another prisoner. Incarcerated in Leavenworth, he adds to his problems by killing a prison ..read more »
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71%
from 997 members
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The Young Savages
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Shelley Winters, Burt Lancaster, Telly Savalas
Director: John Frankenheimer
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John Frankenheimer (The Birdman Of Alcatraz, The Manchurian Candidate) is one of the most innovative filmmakers of the twentieth century, whose groundbreaking techniques and definitive, cinematic style has rippled through the history of movies to leave an indelible mark. Renowned actor Burt ..read more »
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65%
from 14 members
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Judgement At Nuremberg
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark
Director: Stanley Kramer
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"Judgment at Nuremberg" explores the post-World War II war crimes committed by the Third Reich through a series of trials held in 1948 Nuremberg, Germany. Judge Dan Haywood is oversees the trials of four German judges -specifically Dr. Ernst Janning and Emil Hahn - accused of knowingly sentencing ..read more »
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73%
from 843 members
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Elmer Gantry
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Dean Jagger
Director: Richard Brooks
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Elmer Gantry is a charming, fast-talking con, working the road as a traveling salesman in the 1920s. Burt Lancaster stars as the elusive Gantry in this charismatic adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's 1927 novel. When Gantry runs across a group of traveling evangelists, he charms their saintly leader, ..read more »
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67%
from 426 members
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The Devil's Disciple
(1959)
Starring: Burt Lancaster
Director: Guy Hamilton
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The black sheep of a family (Dick Dudgeon) and the local minister (Anthony Anderson) discover their true vocations during the Revolutionary War.
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20%
from 3 members
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The Unforgiven
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy
Director: John Huston
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It's 1865 and the southwest is plagued by post-Civil War tensions. But beautiful, winsome Rachel Zachary lives blithely with her mother Matilda on a Texas Panhandle cattle ranch. The Zacharys are a hearty frontier family finally reunited when brothers Ben, Cash and Andy return from a long trip. One ..read more »
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57%
from 491 members
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Run Silent, Run Deep
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden
Director: Robert Wise
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Run silent, run deep is a term that accurately describes the mission of the submarine in this tense World War II drama. Commander Richardson (Clark Gable) is the only survivor when his sub is hit by a notorious Japanese destroyer dubbed Bongo Pete in the Bongo Straits of Japan. Back at Pearl Harbor,..read more »
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67%
from 838 members
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Separate Tables
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Rita Hayworth, David Niven
Director: Delbert Mann
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Life in an English bed and breakfast where the eccentric guests all have one common trait – loneliness. There's Major Pollack who hides a dark secret behind a polished military veneer; Sibyl Railton-Bell, a shy, neurotic old maid who lacks the courage to break away from her domineering mother. John ..read more »
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68%
from 358 members
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Gunfight At The OK Corral
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Rhonda Fleming
Director: John Sturges
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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 »
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72%
from 510 members
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Trapeze
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Gina Lollobrigida, Tony Curtis
Director: Carol Reed
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This splashy Hollywood spectacular was a radical departure for a director who had specialized in socially conscious thrillers. Set against a circus backdrop, it stars Burt Lancaster as Mike Ribble, a crippled former acrobat. Tino Orsino (Tony Curtis), a young aerialist, seeks out the older man, ..read more »
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64%
from 304 members
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The Rose Tattoo
(1955)
Starring: Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan
Director: Daniel Mann
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A Sicilian widow, living in the American south, sustains herself on rosy memories of her deceased husband. Then she discovers that he had a mistress; with her world totally shattered, she's not sure how to go on... until a handsome truck driver comes riding into town and changes everything.
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47%
from 4 members
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The Kentuckian
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Diana Lynn, Walter Matthau
Director: Burt Lancaster
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A rugged frontiersman and his son travel to Texas in search of a place to begin a new life. They face numerous rough characters in their struggle to survive on the Texas prairie. Burt Lancaster directs and stars, with Walter Matthau making his film debut as a whip-wielding brute in this solid, ..read more »
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59%
from 267 members
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Apache
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Jean Peters, Paul Guilfoyle
Director: Robert Aldrich
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In Robert Aldrich's stirring film, an indominable Apache fighter, Massai (Burt Lancaster), refuses to accept the defeat of his people signaled by the surrender of his legendary chief, Geronimo (Monte Blue). Likewise, he will not swallow the pronouncement of a foe, Indian scout Al Sieber (John ..read more »
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59%
from 306 members
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Vera Cruz
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Cesar Romero
Director: Robert Aldrich
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In Robert Aldrich's action-packed Western, Benjamin Trane (Gary Cooper) and Joe Erin (Burt Lancaster) are American soldiers of fortune hired by the Austrian ruler of Mexico, Maximilian, to safeguard a royal convoy transporting gold and an Austrian countess to the port of Vera Cruz. Things get ..read more »
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62%
from 408 members
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From Here To Eternity
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Montgomery Clift
Director: Fred Zinnemann
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An all-star cast brought what was considered an unfilmable James Jones novel to the screen with skill and grace. The story involves the loves, hopes, and dreams of those in a close-knit army barracks in Hawaii shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Montgomery Clift portrays a former boxer who ..read more »
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67%
from 3,177 members
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The Crimson Pirate
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: James Hayter, Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat
Director: Richard Siodmak
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A tongue-in-cheek adventure spoof, set in the late 18th century, of swashbuckling pirates. Burt Lancaster is the captain who takes over royal ships on the high seas by having his crew feign death by scurvy.
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71%
from 423 members
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Vengeance Valley
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Robert Walker, Sally Forrest
Director: Richard Thorpe
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Three features. In 'Vengeance Valley' the foreman of the Strobie Ranch, Owen Daybright, has always taken the blame for any of his friend's mistakes, but now his patience has run out. Also features 'The Big Trees' and 'The Man From Utah'.
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44%
from 114 members
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Jim Thorpe - All American
(1951)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Charles Bickford, Steve Cochran
Director: Michael Curtiz
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Burt Lancaster delivers a powerful performance as Jim Thorpe, a Native American athlete who succeeded as an Olympian, on the gridiron and in the diamond. Hailing from an Oklahoma reservation, Thorpe's prodigious talent won the attention of his coaches at Carlisle College. There he began his road to ..read more »
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55%
from 2 members
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Criss Cross
(1949)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo
Director: Robert Siodmak
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Romantic, obsessive Steve Thompson is drawn back to L.A. to make another try for Anna, his former wife. However, Anna belongs now to the L.A. underworld. Steve believes he can rescue her, ignoring the advice and warnings of people who would try to save him. He commits himself to a dangerous course ..read more »
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52%
from 16 members
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Brute Force
on DVD
(1947)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford
Director: Jules Dassin
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Joe Collins, an inmate of Westgate prison, schemes with a group of convicts to breakout. He's intent on reaching his love, who does not know he's in prison but will not have a lifesaving operation until he's at her side. The escape plan goes awry when Capt. Munsey, the prison guard and Joe's enemy, ..read more »
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62%
from 24 members
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Killers
(2 discs)
Starring: Angie Dickinson, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster
Director: Don Siegel, Robert Siodmak
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The Killers (1946): Uses Ernest Hemingway's classic short story as a jumping-off point for an intense, hard-edged, and stylish tale of robbery, unrequited love, double-crosses, and brutal betrayal.
The Killers (1964): Two hired killers muscle their way into a school for the blind and terrorize ..read more »
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72%
from 701 members
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Come Back, Little Sheba
on DVD
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Shirley Booth, Terry Moore
Director: Daniel Mann
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Shirley Booth won the 1953 Best Actress Oscar for her role as Lola, an ageing woman dealing with loss: the loss of "herself" and her dreams twenty years before, and the recent loss of her dog, Sheba - in effect her replacement for a child. Burt Lancaster plays Doc, Lola's husband; an ex-alcoholic ..read more »
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65%
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Burt Lancaster facts
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