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S.O.B.
(1981)
Starring: Julie Andrews, William Holden, Marisa Berenson
Director: Blake Edwards
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Based on his near-career-ending experience with the box-office disaster DARLING LILI, Blake Edwards fashioned a corrosive behind-the-scenes satire of the business in which he had long plied his trade.The film stars Richard Mulligan as Felix Farmer, a once-successful director whose career is on the ..read more »
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48%
from 35 members
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Network
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, William Holden
Director: Sidney Lumet
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With stunning prescience, Sidney Lumet's searing satire of television and the contemporary moment chronicles the media's imminent corruption and the public's wholesale purchase into the myths that it creates. With a verbose and visceral script from Paddy Chayefsky, NETWORK follows the doomed path ..read more »
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69%
from 5,968 members
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CBS Salutes Lucy - The First 25 Years
(1976)
Starring: Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, Milton Berle
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The Funniest Woman on Television, Lucille Ball, first received her due at this 1976 celebration of her first 25 years on television. CBS TV wanted to show their appreciation for the legendary comedienne, so this tribute was organized featuring cast members and other favorites of early television, ..read more »
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The Towering Inferno
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden
Director: John Guillermin, Irwin Allen
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THE TOWERING INFERNO follows the rescue efforts of fire fighters as they battle to contain a raging fire that has engulfed the world's tallest skyscraper. As the flames reach ever higher, it's a race against time to save a group of people trapped on the top floor. Special effects-laden thriller ..read more »
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63%
from 4,653 members
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The Wild Bunch
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: William Holden, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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As a counterpoint to the heroic horde of THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, the ageing gunmen of Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece break the very laws of honour which bind them in this bloody and meditative tale of the American West--widely considered to be the self-conscious nail in the coffin of the genre. William ..read more »
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70%
from 6,057 members
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The Devil's Brigade
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
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Standard WWII fantasyland fare as Holden grabs a thankless detail: create a fit commando troop from a gaggle of down-and-dirty Canadian and American misfits. Big-budget, big-screen treatment and curious assortment of stars doesn't add up to much, but choosing the the Italian Alps as a theatre of ..read more »
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63%
from 454 members
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Casino Royale
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Peter Sellers, David Niven, Ursula Andress
Director: Val Guest, John Huston, Ken Hughes
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This swinging spoof of Ian Fleming's spy hero concerns an aging James Bond (David Niven), reluctantly dragged out of retirement to face down the evil crime clique called SMERSH. In order to confound the enemy, the Secret Service sends five other agents, also under the name "Bond," and all six ..read more »
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51%
from 2,567 members
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Alvarez Kelly
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: William Holden, Victoria Shaw, Janice Rule
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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William Holden (NETWORK, SUNSET BOULEVARD) stars in this rugged Western--based on an actual incident--as a Mexican-Irish rancher who sells his herd to the Union army during the Civil War. An eye-patch-wearing Confederate colonel (Richard Widmark) tries to buy the cattle, but apolitical Kelly doesn'..read more »
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58%
from 198 members
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Paris When It Sizzles
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, Gregoire Aslan
Director: Richard Quine
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A veteran Hollywood screenwriter goes to Paris to write the screenplay of his career--in three days. Lacking fresh ideas, he turns to his gamine secretary to provide fuel for his imagination, and they come up with various scenarios for his screenplay, called THE GIRL WHO STOLE THE EIFFEL TOWER. ..read more »
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56%
from 788 members
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Satan Never Sleeps
(1962)
Starring: William Holden, Clifton Webb, France Nuyen
Director: Leo McCarey
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The last film by Leo McCarey (AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER) picks up on earlier religious themes in the director's work. It follows Father O'Banion (William Holden, THE WILD BUNCH) to a mission in 1949 China, where he is to take over the position of the elderly Father Bovard (Clifton Webb, CHEAPER BY THE ..read more »
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The World of Suzie Wong
(1960)
Starring: William Holden, Nancy Kwan, Sylvia Syms
Director: Richard Quine
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Robert Lomax tired of working in an office, wants to try his hand as an artist. So he moves to Hong Kong to try his hand at painting. Finding a cheap hotel he checks in, only to find its used by prostitutes and their 'dates' who meet in the bar downstairs. Since he never picks up any of ladies, ..read more »
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64%
from 5 members
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The Horse Soldiers
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers
Director: John Ford
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THE HORSE SOLDIERS, John Ford's only attempt at tackling the subject of the Civil War, is based on Grierson's Raid, part of the Union's assault on Vicksburg in April 1863. After a number of failed efforts at taking the Southern stronghold, Union leaders assign Col. John Marlowe (John Wayne), a ..read more »
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67%
from 838 members
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The Bridge On The River Kwai
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins
Director: David Lean
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One of the all-time great war films, THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI is yet another classic from the marvelous David Lean (LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, DR. ZHIVAGO). The film is an outstanding, psychologically complex adaptation of Pierre Boulle's 1952 novel, a classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to ..read more »
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71%
from 14,573 members
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Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher
Director: Henry King
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Jennifer Jones stars in this true story about a beautiful Eurasian doctor who falls in love with charming American war reporter Mark Elliot (William Holden) in Hong Kong during the troubled time of the Korean War. Their relationship is plagued by the bigotry of those around them and stunted because ..read more »
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62%
from 279 members
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Picnic
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: William Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field
Director: Joshua Logan
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Academy Award-winning drama about the impact of a handsome, virile and egotistic drifter on the lives of five women in a small Kansas town over Labour Day weekend.
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60%
from 95 members
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Sabrina
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, William Holden, Audrey Hepburn
Director: Billy Wilder
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Sabrina (Audrey Hepburn) is the daughter of a Long Island chauffeur, almost a member of the extended family of her father's employer. Linus and David Larrabee are the sons in the wealthy family, and Sabrina has harbored a crush on David (William Holden), the younger and more freewheeling of the ..read more »
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70%
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Stalag 17
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger
Director: Billy Wilder
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Billy Wilder's adaptation of the Broadway hit stars William Holden as the cynical Sefton. Set in the eponymous German prison camp during WWII, the director's broad, black comedy focuses on a group of decidedly unheroic prisoners. While they spend most of their time trying to entertain each other ..read more »
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Born Yesterday
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Judy Holliday, William Holden, Broderick Crawford
Director: George Cukor
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Judy Holliday reprises her Broadway role in this fresh and entertaining comedy based on Garson Kanin's play, directed by George Cukor. Although reputedly not the first choice for the film role, Holliday won an Academy Award for her priceless portrayal of a "dumb but savvy" blonde who outsmarts the ..read more »
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67%
from 611 members
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Sunset Boulevard
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich Von Stroheim
Director: Billy Wilder
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Billy Wilder's masterpiece, a corrosive black comedy that remains the most memorable assault on the emptiness and vanity of the movie business, it stars William Holden as young, down-and-out screenwriter Joe Gillis. Narrated in flashbacks by the now-deceased scribe, the film unwinds the series of ..read more »
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74%
from 9,167 members
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The Man From Colorado
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Glenn Ford, William Holden, Ellen Drew
Director: Henry Levin
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Scarred by the Civil War, trigger-happy Owen Devereaux (Glen Ford) orders the slaughter of a band of holed-up Confederates after he has seen them raise the white flag. Later, he lands a Federal judgeship post in Colorado and tries to settle down. But to no avail, for he abuses his gavel in the same ..read more »
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60%
from 74 members
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Golden Boy
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, William Holden
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
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Joe Bonaparte's father wants him to pursue his musical talent; but Joe wants to be a boxer. Persuading near-bankrupt manager Tom Moody to give him a chance, Joe quickly rises in his new profession...
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54%
from 37 members
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Country Girl
on DVD
Starring: Jacqueline Fontaine, Gene Reynolds, William Holden
Director: George Seaton
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Alcoholic has-been actor Frank Elgin (Bing Crosby) is given one last chance to make a comeback--and save his relationship with his frustrated wife Georgie (Grace Kelly)--when Broadway director Bernie Dodd (William Holden) offers him a starring role in a new musical. Based on the stage play by ..read more »
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64%
from 113 members
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The Revengers
Starring: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Woody Strode
Director: Daniel Mann
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The life of peaceful rancher John Benedict (William Holden) is torn apart when his family is massacred by a gang of marauding outlaws and his farm is destroyed. He assembles a team of mean, lawless convicts to act as his posse as he pursues the gang responsible for the deaths of his loved ones.
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40%
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Our Town
to Watch Now
(1940)
Starring: William Holden, Martha Scott, Fay Bainter
Director: Sam Wood
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Run time: 90 minutes
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get delivered every morning, and nobody locks their front doors.
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William Holden facts
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Peckinpah classic 14 June 2004
...end in one last blaze of glory.
The film features mesmeric performances from William Holden, Robert Ryan and Ernest Borgnine, who look like they've spent years growing old...
Find the humour in this if you can! 13 May 2004
