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Sam Jaffe
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The Asphalt Jungle 11 May 2009
Sam Jaffe - filmography
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: John Ericson, Cindy O'Callaghan, Roy Smart
Director: Robert Stevenson
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In England during World War II, three young kids are forced to evacuate their home and move in with the eccentric Eglantine Price (Angela Lansbury). At first the youths are unhappy--until they discover that Eglantine is studying to become a witch. Eglantine teaches the children magic, using her new ..read more »
 
71%
from 9,766 members
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The Dunwich Horror
(1970)
Starring: Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley
Director: Daniel Haller
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Adaptation of the classic H.P. Lovecraft story. Stockwell's interest in a rare book called "The Necronomicon" soon requires more than an attentive reading and begins to impinge on his relationship with girlfriend Dee. Begley, is the professor who puts a stop to all this evil.
49%
from 30 members
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Ben-Hur - Blu-ray
(1959)
Starring: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd
Director: William Wyler
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Anno Domini: the seventh year of Augustus Caesar's reign. In the Roman province of Judea, Jews return to the city of their birth for the census. A bright star in the night over Bethlehem marks the birth of Jesus Christ. Years later, Roman commander Messala (Stephen Boyd), who was brought up in ..read more »
79%
from 253 members
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Ben Hur
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Hugh Griffith, Martha Scott, Sam Jaffe
Director: William Wyler
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This 1959 version of Lew Wallace's best-selling novel, which had already seen screen versions in 1907 and 1926, went on to win 11 Academy Awards. Adapted by Karl Tunberg and a raft of uncredited writers including Gore Vidal and Maxwell Anderson, the film once more recounts the tale of Jewish prince ..read more »
71%
from 8,337 members
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The Barbarian And The Geisha
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: John Wayne, Sam Jaffe, Noriyuki 'Pat' Morita
Director: John Huston
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Barbarian and the Geisha is the true story of Townsend Harris (Wayne), who in 1856 was appointed the first American consul to Japan. Headquartered in Shimoda, Harris discovers that the Japanese thoroughly mistrust the Americans (and, as it turned out, not without reason). It's an uphill climb, but ..read more »
58%
from 221 members
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Les Espions
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Curt Jurgens, Gerard Sety, Vera Clouzot
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
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This French thriller sees a down-on-his-luck doctor lured by the American military to look after a mysterious patient in return for a handsome reward. Soon his hospital is overrun with international spies, all desperate to get their hands on the information that the patient holds.
58%
from 299 members
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The Day The Earth Stood Still
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Lock Martin, Frank Conroy, Edith Evanson
Director: Robert Wise
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All of Washington, D.C., is thrown into a panic when an extraterrestrial spacecraft lands near the White House. Out steps Klaatu (Michael Rennie, in a role intended for Claude Rains), a handsome and soft-spoken interplanetary traveler, whose bodyguard is Gort (Lock Martin), a huge robot who spews ..read more »
72%
from 6,743 members
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The Asphalt Jungle
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern
Director: John Huston
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The Asphalt Jungle is a brilliantly conceived and executed anatomy of a crime -- or, as director John Huston and scripter Ben Maddow put it, a left-handed form of human endeavor. Recently paroled master criminal Erwin Doc Riedenschneider (Sam Jaffe), with funding from crooked attorney Emmerich (..read more »
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from 1,434 member
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Gentleman's Agreement
on DVD
(1947)
Starring: Anne Revere, Albert Dekker, Gregory Peck
Director: Elia Kazan
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Adapted by Moss Hart from the novel by Laura Z. Hobson, this film stars Gregory Peck as recently widowed journalist Phil Green. With a growing son (Dean Stockwell) to support, Green is receptive to the invitation of magazine publisher John Minify (Albert Dekker) to write a series of hard-hitting ..read more »
63%
from 743 members
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13 Rue Madeleine
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Frank Latimore, Richard Conte, James Cagney
Director: Henry Hathaway
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As the U.S. prepares for D-Day, a secret branch of the Allied military begins its disinformation campaign. U.S. Military Intelligence does not know that a Nazi mole has infiltrated its ranks. Novice American spy Jeff Lassiter inadvertently tells the mole, who uses the alias "Bill O'Connell," that ..read more »
60%
from 257 members
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Lost Horizon
on DVD
(1937)
Starring: Arthur Rankin, Ronald Coleman, Jane Wyatt
Director: Frank Capra
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Capra's timeless masterpiece is fully restored. Based on James Hilton's book, five people stumble upon an idyllic valley in the Himalayas called Shangri-La, where peace abounds and time has virtually stopped. Academy Award Nominations: 7, including Best Picture. Academy Awards: Best Film Editing, ..read more »
68%
from 1,408 member
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Scarlet Empress
on DVD
(1934)
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe
Director: Josef Von Sternberg
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Of the two 1934 film versions of the life of Russia's Catherine the Great, Josef von Sternberg's The Scarlet Empress was the most opulent and exotic. Marlene Dietrich plays the German-born Catherine, who is required to marry Russia's mad Grand Duke Peter (Sam Jaffe, decked out in a Harpo Marx wig). ..read more »
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from 497 members
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...ate script,and superb acting from the ensemble cast, with a special mention for Sam Jaffe, Louis Calhern and the always underrated Jean Hagen, the whole thing is held to...
