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  • Sabotage
  • Sabotage review by from Reading.
    Rated - 5.0 stars Great Hitchcock!!! 11 March 2005
    ...loved. A gripping script, fine performances, including one American film star: Sylvia Sidney who has a naturalistic acting style. The true star of the film is Alfred Hitch...   Read customer review
  • The Trail Of Lonesome Pine
  • The Trail Of Lonesome Pine review by FrankIV from Cirencester, England
    Rated - 4.0 stars A Real Find 27 September 2009
    ...justice and civil law is discussed in a wonderful scene between Fred MacMurray, Sylvia Sidney and a sherrif whom MacMurray wants to prosecute a crime, while in another scene...   Read customer review

Sylvia Sidney - filmography


  • Beetlejuice - Blu-ray (1988)
    Starring: Michael Keaton,  Geena Davis,  Alec Baldwin
    Director: Tim Burton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    In the surreal, wonderfully cartoon-like comedy BEETLEJUICE, a childless couple, Barbara and Adam (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin), move to the country only to be killed in a car accident while passing over a quaint covered bridge. Their ghosts return to their beloved Victorian home, and find the '..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 2,241 members
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  • Beetlejuice on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Michael Keaton,  Geena Davis,  Alec Baldwin
    Director: Tim Burton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    In the surreal, wonderfully cartoon-like comedy BEETLEJUICE, a childless couple, Barbara and Adam (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin), move to the country only to be killed in a car accident while passing over a quaint covered bridge. Their ghosts return to their beloved Victorian home, and find the '..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 21,305 members
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  • Snowbeast on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Bo Svenson,  Yvette Mimieux,  Robert Logan
    Director: Herb Wallerstein
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    A Colorado ski resort is terrorised by an angry bigfoot, with several skiers being eaten. Everyone believes it to be a bear, but when it invades the town, it soon becomes clear that it is something far more ominous.
    2 stars out of 5 37% from 178 members
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  • Death at Love House (1976)
    Starring: Robert Wagner,  Kate Jackson,  Sylvia Sidney
    Director: E.W. Swackhamer
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Donna and Joel Gregory are busy researching a book about highly-revered and long-dead Hollywood film goddess Lorna Love. They decide to visit Lorna's estate, where they stay while interviewing old "friends" of Lorna. Things get sticky when Joel, whose father had had a passionate affair with Lorna, ..read more »
    1 star out of 5 16% from 5 members
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  • Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973)
    Starring: Joanne Woodward,  Martin Balsam,  Sylvia Sidney
    Director: Gilbert Cates
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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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  • Blood On The Sun on DVD (1945)
    Starring: James Cagney,  Wallace Ford,  Robert Armstrong
    Director: Frank Lloyd
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    BLOOD ON THE SUN stars James Cagney as Nick Condon, an American newspaper editor working in Japan between World War I and World War II. While investigating the double murder of a fellow reporter and his wife, Condon discovers the insidious Tanaka Plan, which plainly states the Japanese aims of ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 180 members
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  • You Only Live Once (1937)
    Starring: Henry Fonda,  Sylvia Sidney,  Barton MacLane
    Director: Fritz Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney play ill-fated lovers in Fritz Lang's fatalistic psychological thriller, YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE. The film opens as Joan (Sidney), a secretary in the public defender's office, excitedly awaits the release of her thrice-convicted criminal lover Eddie (Fonda). The two try to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 387 members
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  • Sabotage (1936)
    Starring: Sylvia Sidney,  Desmond Tester,  John Loder
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Oskar Homolka plays a London movie-theatre owner who maintains a secret life as a paid terrorist. Homolka's wife Sylvia Sidney doesn't suspect Homolka of any wrongdoing, but she's picked up enough second-hand information about her husband's activities to arouse the interest of government agent (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 634 members
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  • The Trail Of Lonesome Pine on DVD (1936)
    Starring: Spanky McFarland,  Henry Fonda,  Fuzzy Knight
    Director: Henry Hathaway
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This adaptation of John Fox Jr.'s novel was the first feature to be shot outdoors in Technicolor. It tells the tale of a railroad engineer who inadvertently fans the flames of an ancient family feud when he arrives to build a line through the Blue Ridge Mountains. Academy Award Nominations: Best ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 20 members
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  • Fury (1936)
    Starring: Sylvia Sidney,  Walter Abel,  George Walcott
    Director: Fritz Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When a prisoner barely survives a lynch mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to frame the mob for his murder.
    4 stars out of 5 82% from 7 members
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Sylvia Sidney facts

5 most recent films

Beetlejuice - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Beetlejuice - 3.5 stars
Raid On Entebbe - 3.0 stars
Snowbeast - 2.0 stars
Death at Love House - 1.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Beetlejuice - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Beetlejuice - 3.5 stars
You Only Live Once - 3.0 stars
Sabotage - 3.0 stars
Raid On Entebbe - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams - 3 stars
Death at Love House - 1.0 stars
The Trail Of Lonesome Pine - 2.5 stars
Alfred Hitchcock - The British Years - 3.5 stars
Fury - 4.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Annie McEnroe - 3 times - show films
Catherine O'Hara - 3 times - show films
Geena Davis - 3 times - show films
Alec Baldwin - 3 times - show films
Susan Kellerman - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Alfred Hitchcock - 3 times - show films
Tim Burton - 3 times - show films
Frank Lloyd - 2 times - show films
Fritz Lang - 2 times - show films
Herb Wallerstein - 2 times - show films