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  • The Killing
  • The Killing review by LostSoul from Aylesbury
    Rated - 4.0 stars Thouroughly enjoyable heist movie 27 February 2008
    ...Sterling Hayden is on top form in this fast-paced heist movie. A group of (mostly) likeable rogues down on their luck hatch a plot to steal the day's takings from the racetra...   Read customer review
  • The Long Goodbye
  • The Long Goodbye review by from UK
    Rated - 4.0 stars Don't miss this 13 April 2005
    ..., is much the same. Excellent performances from the charismatic Gould, from Sterling Hayden - a perfect Roger Wade - and Nina Van Pallandt. The supporting cast is also exc...   Read customer review
  • Venom
  • Venom review by from Cardiff, Wales
    Rated - 3.0 stars La Mamba 11 November 2004
    ...into a hellish nightmare. With characters like Klaus Kinksi, Oliver Reed and Sterling Hayden on board, you know that even if the plot is lacking there will be some semblanc...   Read customer review

Sterling Hayden - filmography


  • Venom (1982)
    Starring: Klaus Kinski,  Oliver Reed,  Nicol Williamson
    Director: Piers Haggard
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    When an international terrorist (Kinski) hatches a plot along with a sexy maid (George) and chauffeur (Reed), to kidnap the 10 year old child of a wealthy couple-it seems like the perfect crime. Unfortunately, it goes terribly wrong when, during the kidnapping, the boy's pet Black Mamba snake is ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 227 members
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  • 9 To 5 on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Jane Fonda,  Lily Tomlin,  Lawrence Pressman
    Director: Colin Higgins
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Judy Bernly (Jane Fonda), a housewife whose husband has left her for his secretary, begins her own secretarial career at a huge corporation. Violet Newstead (Lily Tomlin), a feisty, veteran office manager, instructs her on the perils and procedures of office life -- and of working for Franklin Hart ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 2,236 members
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  • Deadly Strangers (1974)
    Starring: Hayley Mills,  Simon Ward,  Sterling Hayden
    Director: Sidney Hayers
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    After she misses her train, a young woman is forced to hitch a ride back to town. After managing to get away from a lecherous trucker, she is given a ride by a good-looking but somewhat mysterious young man, who she comes to suspect may be a dangerous escapee from a mental asylum.
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 6 members
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  • The Long Goodbye on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Elliott Gould,  Sterling Hayden,  Jim Bouton
    Director: Robert Altman
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Director Robert Altman, famous for his ability to turn any genre inside out, takes aim at film noir with this evocative adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel. Altman's Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) is a relatively unsuccessful private eye living and working in 1970s Los Angeles. Stepping into the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 3,178 members
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  • The Godfather on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Marlon Brando,  Richard Conte,  James Caan
    Director: Francis Ford Coppola
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Francis Ford Coppola's epic masterpiece features Marlon Brando in his Oscar winning role as the patriarch of the Corleone family. Director Coppola paints a chilling portrait of the Sicilian clan's rise and near fall from power in America, masterfully balancing the story between the Corleone's ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 81% from 72,408 members
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  • Dr. Strangelove - Blu-ray (1964)
    Starring: George C. Scott,  Peter Sellers,  Sterling Hayden
    Director: Stanley Kubrick
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    DR. STRANGELOVE is Stanley Kubrick's Cold War masterpiece. Based on the novel RED ALERT by Peter George, the film is set at the height of the tensions between Russia and the United States, when all it would take to destroy the world was one push of a button. And General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 80% from 732 members
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  • Johnny Guitar on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Joan Crawford,  Sterling Hayden
    Director: Nicholas Ray
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Strong-willed saloon-casino owner Vienna squares off against her nemesis, the shrieking Emma Small, who wrongly blames Vienna for her brother's death.
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 908 members
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  • Dr. Strangelove on DVD (1963)
    Starring: George C. Scott,  Peter Sellers,  Sterling Hayden
    Director: Stanley Kubrick
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB is the cold war masterpiece by Stanley Kubrick. Based on the novel RED ALERT by Peter George, the film is set at the height of the tensions between Russia and the United States, when all it would take to destroy the world was one ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 74% from 27,680 members
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  • Terror In A Texas Town on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Sterling Hayden,  Sebastian Cabot,  Carol Kelly
    Director: Joseph H. Lewis
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When George Hansen (Hayden) arrives in Prairies City, Texas, to help manage his family's fledgling farm, he finds that his father has been mysteriously murdered, and no one in town-not even the sheriff-plans to do anything about it! Determined to track down the killer himself, Hansen learns that a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 40 members
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  • The Killing on DVD (1956)
    Starring: Coleen Gray,  Sterling Hayden,  Marie Windsor
    Director: Stanley Kubrick
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Sterling Hayden stars in Stanley Kubrick's crime noir classic, THE KILLING, based on crime Lionel White's novel CLEAN BREAK. Hayden plays Johnny Clay, an ex-con with a plan to steal $2 million from a San Francisco racetrack. He assembles an odd collection of tough guys and moles to participate in ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,895 members
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  • Suddenly on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Frank Sinatra,  Sterling Hayden,  James Gleason
    Director: Lewis Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    A tense, somewhat prescient drama in which Sinatra plays a psychopathic triggerman hired to kill the United States President. On the way he and his two partners take over a widow's house, which is perfectly situated for an ambush. After Kennedy's assassination, the film was shelved and Sinatra ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 184 members
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  • Prince Valiant on DVD (1954)
    Starring: James Mason,  Janet Leigh,  Robert Wagner
    Director: Henry Hathaway
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The Saturday matinee adventure classic is back! Young Prince Valiant travels to Camelot to become a squire for Sir Gawain, one of King Arthur's legendary knights, unaware that the traitor that sold his father King Aguar to the pagan rival King Sligon is already seated at the Round Table! With ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 27 members
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  • Prince Valiant - Blu-ray (1954)
    Starring: James Mason,  Janet Leigh,  Robert Wagner
    Director: Henry Hathaway
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The Saturday matinee adventure classic is back! Young Prince Valiant travels to Camelot to become a squire for Sir Gawain, one of King Arthur's legendary knights, unaware that the traitor that sold his father King Aguar to the pagan rival King Sligon is already seated at the Round Table! With ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 33 members
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  • Kansas Pacific on DVD (1953)
    Starring: Sterling Hayden,  Eve Miller,  Barton MacLane
    Director: Ray Nazarro
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    As America edged slowly towards civil war the need for a train line through the heart of the country became imperative in order to provide troops and supplies, however not everyone was in favour of the new lifeline. Sterling Hayden stars as undercover army engineer Captain John Nelson sent to deal ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 37% from 8 members
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  • The Asphalt Jungle on DVD (1950)
    Starring: Marilyn Monroe,  Sterling Hayden,  Louis Calhern
    Director: John Huston
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 1,434 member
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Sterling Hayden facts

5 most recent films

Venom - 2.5 stars
9 To 5 - 3.5 stars
Winter Kills - 2.5 stars
Deadly Strangers - 3.0 stars
The Long Goodbye - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Godfather Trilogy - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
The Godfather - 4.0 stars
Dr. Strangelove - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Dr. Strangelove - 4.0 stars
The Asphalt Jungle - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Darn Good Westerns Box Set Vol.2 - Hellgate - 2.0 stars
Kansas Pacific - 2.0 stars
Darn Good Westerns Box Set Vol.2 - Panhandle - 2.0 stars
Darn Good Westerns Box Set Vol.2 - Shotgun - 2.5 stars
3 Classic Westerns Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 8 - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Reed Hadley - 4 times - show films
Guy Prescott - 4 times - show films
Anne Gwynne - 4 times - show films
Robert J. Wilke - 4 times - show films
Rod Cameron - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Stanley Kubrick - 6 times - show films
Francis Ford Coppola - 4 times - show films
Charles Marquis Warren - 4 times - show films
Lesley Selander - 4 times - show films
Lewis Allen - 3 times - show films