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Martin Balsam
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Martin Balsam - what members say
review by A customer from Shropshire
Movie Making at its best 20 August 2007
review by GraftheGreatest from London, England
Superb rendition of Christie's locomotive thriller! 19 May 2004
Martin Balsam - filmography
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Cape Fear
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese's remake of J. Lee Thompson's 1962 film is a stylish, taut thriller. Public defender Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte) served as the attorney for brutal rapist Max Cady (Robert De Niro) at his arraignment. Shocked by the violence of Cady's crime, Sam duplicitously withheld information ..read more »
 
70%
from 17,938 members
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Cape Fear - Blu-ray
(1991)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese's remake of J. Lee Thompson's 1962 film is a stylish, taut thriller. Public defender Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte) served as the attorney for brutal rapist Max Cady (Robert De Niro) at his arraignment. Shocked by the violence of Cady's crime, Sam duplicitously withheld information ..read more »
73%
from 121 members
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Two Evil Eyes
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Adrienne Barbeau, E.G. Marshall, Harvey Keitel
Director: George A. Romero, Dario Argento
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George A. Romero (NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD) and Dario Argento (SUSPIRIA) each try their hand at a tale by Edgar Allan Poe in this feature comprising two hour-long segments. In Romero's THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF MR. VALDEMAR, Adrienne Barbeau is Jessica Valdemar, a former stewardess who marries an ..read more »
50%
from 679 members
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Death Wish 3
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Charles Bronson, Ed Lauter, Deborah Raffin
Director: Michael Winner
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He's Judge, Jury and Executioner! Paul Kersey doesn't seek out violence. It just seems to find him. But when it does... he's not about to back down! Charles Bronson brings out the heavy artillery in this gun-blazing, no-holds-barred thriller! Road-worn and battle-weary, Kersey longs to leave his ..read more »
58%
from 173 members
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The Sentinel
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Cristina Raines, Martin Balsam, Ava Gardner
Director: Michael Winner
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Shortly after moving into a new apartment, a beautiful, young fashion model (Cristina Raines) discovers that it the building actually provides a gateway to hell! When she complains to her rental agent, she is met with stony silence, and soon comes to learn that her moving in was not an accident. ..read more »
51%
from 508 members
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Two Minute Warning
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Beau Bridges
Director: Larry Peerce
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When a crazed sniper hides out in a football stadium waiting for the game, and his killing spree, to start Captain Peter Holly (Heston) is sent in to find and disarm him before anyone gets killed. However, his mission is made harder by the arrival of a rival SWAT team who plan to rush the sniper ..read more »
66%
from 123 members
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All The President's Men
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Meredith Baxter, Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman
Director: Alan J. Pakula
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Watch now: Unavailable
Conspiracy film specialist Alan J. Pakula turned journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's best-selling account of their Watergate investigation into one of the hit films of Bicentennial year 1976. While researching a story about a botched 1972 burglary of Democratic Party headquarters at the ..read more »
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from 11,768 members
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The Six Million Dollar Man
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Lee Majors, Martin Balsam
Certificate: 
"Steve Austin, astronaut. A man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before...better, stronger, faster." Almost any child of the 1970s will remember this ..read more »
62%
from 444 members
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The Six Million Dollar Man - Vol. 4
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Lee Majors, Martin Balsam
Director: Richard Irving
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This SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN collection presents more adventures of Steve Austin. Lee Majors stars as Austin, the Bionic Man, a special agent capable of superhuman feats of strength and agility. The release features three episodes: Population: Zero, Doomsday and Counting, and 'Survival of the Fittest.
62%
from 207 members
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The Taking Of Pelham 123 - Blu-ray
(1974)
Starring: Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam
Director: Joseph Sargent
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
On a quiet midday in New York, along the Lexington Avenue subway line, the train designated Pelham One Two Three -- so named for its station of origin and time of departure -- makes its way down the East Side of Manhattan. One by one, three men board the train, and at 28th Street, a fourth man ..read more »
57%
from 4 members
Not available for rental
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The Taking Of Pelham 123
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam
Director: Joseph Sargent
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
On a quiet midday in New York, along the Lexington Avenue subway line, the train designated Pelham One Two Three -- so named for its station of origin and time of departure -- makes its way down the East Side of Manhattan. One by one, three men board the train, and at 28th Street, a fourth man ..read more »
73%
from 3,065 members
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Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
(1973)
Starring: Joanne Woodward, Martin Balsam, Sylvia Sidney
Director: Gilbert Cates
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American GI Harry Walden (Martin Balsam) emerged from a harrowing experience in WWII to find himself living an outwardly-happy but inwardly-empty and tedious existence in the post-war U.S. He is an eye doctor, successful in his work, but unfulfilled spiritually and emotionally. He and his wife Rita ..read more »
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The Anderson Tapes
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Sean Connery, Martin Balsam, Dyan Cannon
Director: Sidney Lumet
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This breathlessly paced high-tech thriller stars Sean Connery as Anderson, a career criminal who's just been released from his latest prison term. Seeking a quick financial turnover, Anderson uses mob funding to finance an ambitious robbery. With a gang of expert thieves, Anderson sets about to rob ..read more »
55%
from 582 members
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Catch 22
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Anthony Perkins
Director: Mike Nichols
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Director Mike Nichols and writer-actor Buck Henry followed their enormous hit The Graduate (1967) with this timely adaptation of Joseph Heller's satiric antiwar novel. Haunted by the death of a young gunner, all-too-sane Capt. Yossarian (Alan Arkin) wants out of the rest of his WW II bombing ..read more »
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from 3,397 members
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Little Big Man
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam
Director: Arthur Penn
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Recounting how the West was won through the eyes of a white man raised as a Native American, Arthur Penn's 1970 adaptation of Thomas Berger's satirical novel was a comic yet stinging allegory about the bloody results of American imperialism. As a misguided 20th-century historian listens, 121-year-..read more »
70%
from 2,645 members
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The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
(1969)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, George Kennedy, David Carradine
Director: Burt Kennedy
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Marshal Flagg, an ageing lawman about to be retired, hears that his old nemesis, the outlaw McKaye, is back in the area and planning a robbery. Riding out to hunt down McKaye, Flagg is captured by McKaye's gang and finds out that McKaye is no longer the leader of the gang, but is considered just an ..read more »
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from 2 members
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After The Fox
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Victor Mature, Britt Ekland
Director: Vittorio De Sica
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Directed by Vittorio De Sica, AFTER THE FOX is collaboration between highly regarded American playwright Neil Simon and celebrated Italian screenwriter Cesare Zavattini on Simon's first screenplay. The film stars Peter Sellers as Aldo Vanucci, a blundering master thief. Vanucci contentedly whiles ..read more »
57%
from 572 members
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The Bedford Incident
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, James MacArthur
Director: James B. Harris
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At the peak of Cold War tensions, a U.S. naval ship discovers a Soviet submarine in the North Atlantic and proceeds to scrutinize its every move. As the crew's Captain Findlander pushes forward intensely, relations between members become strained and a battle of wits ensues. Sidney Poitier plays an ..read more »
54%
from 615 members
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Breakfast At Tiffany's
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Martin Balsam
Director: Blake Edwards
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Blake Edwards's adaptation of Truman Capote's classic novella is ideally cast with Audrey Hepburn in the role of Holly Golightly. The free-spirited gamine darts about New York, feted by wealthy men drawn to her megawatt charm and elegance, hoping that the party will never end. After "shopping" in ..read more »
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from 37,452 members
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Psycho - Blu-ray
(1960)
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Credited with inventing the genre of the modern horror film, PSYCHO has had its share of sequels and imitators, none of which diminishes the achievement of this shocking and complex horror thriller. Alfred Hitchcock's choreography of elements in PSYCHO is considered so perfect it inspired a shot-by-..read more »
85%
from 143 members
Not available for rental
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Psycho
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Credited with inventing the genre of the modern horror film, PSYCHO has had its share of sequels and imitators, none of which diminishes the achievement of this shocking and complex horror thriller. Alfred Hitchcock's choreography of elements in PSYCHO is considered so perfect it inspired a shot-by-..read more »
74%
from 25,206 members
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Twelve Angry Men
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley
Director: Sidney Lumet
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In the definitive version of Reginald Rose's timeless script, an all-white jury decides the fate of a youth accused of murder. This tightly constructed searing exposé of prejudice in the American legal system stars Henry Fonda and a pantheon of great character actors.
81%
from 23,543 members
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On The Waterfront
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb
Director: Elia Kazan
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Elia Kazan's compelling social drama was the winner of eight Academy Awards and marks one of Marlon Brando's finest screen performances. Brando is Terry Malloy, a handsome but inarticulate longshoreman, who gets involved in a labor scandal when a fellow dock worker is murdered. He knows that the ..read more »
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from 14,613 members
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On The Waterfront - Blu-ray
(1954)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb
Director: Elia Kazan
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Elia Kazan's compelling social drama was the winner of eight Academy Awards and marks one of Marlon Brando's finest screen performances. Brando is Terry Malloy, a handsome but inarticulate longshoreman, who gets involved in a labor scandal when a fellow dock worker is murdered. He knows that the ..read more »
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from 57 members
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...elivery of justice. Brilliant performances all round led by Fonda, Lee J Cobb, Martin Balsam, Jack Klugman and EG Marshall.
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