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Il Bidone review by from Kilmarnock

Under-rated gangster movie from Fellini 2 April 2005
... find redemption? He can certainly recognise the idealism and hope portrayed by Richard Basehart as his co-conspirator, Carlo, a man who aspires to be an artist. But Augusto ca... Read customer review

La Strada review by TristanWhite from London, UK

Slow starter but improves considerably as the film goes on 23 September 2005
...elop - and were it not for encouragement from 'Il Matto' (the 'Fool', played by Richard Basehart) it would have ended even earlier. We never really warm entirely to Quinn's cha... Read customer review

He Walked by Night review by from London

Only The Names Have Been Changed 21 June 2007
...Richard Basehart plays a clever loner thief and cop killer who is tracked down by the LA police. The film, a semi-documentary noir based on an actual case, was the inspiration ... Read customer review

Richard Basehart - filmography

Bix - 'Ain't None Of Them Play Like Him Yet' (1981)
Starring: Bix Beiderbecke, Mary Louise Shoemaker, Hoagy Carmichael
Director: Brigitte Berman
Certificate:
Tribute to the late Leon `Bix' Beiderbecke, jazz cornetist who died in 1931 at the age of 28. Film consists of interviews with friends and associates, still photographs and the music.

60% from 3 members
Currently unavailable

Being There - Blu-ray (1979)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden
Director: Hal Ashby
Certificate:
BEING THERE is based on Jerzy Kosinski's short comic novel about a simpleton, Chance (Peter Sellers), raised in isolation whose only education came from watching TV. When he's forced out of the house where he worked as a gardener by the death of the wealthy recluse who raised him from infancy, he's ..read more »

72% from 455 members

Being There on DVD (1979)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden
Director: Hal Ashby
Certificate:
BEING THERE is based on Jerzy Kosinski's short comic novel about a simpleton, Chance (Peter Sellers), raised in isolation whose only education came from watching TV. When he's forced out of the house where he worked as a gardener by the death of the wealthy recluse who raised him from infancy, he's ..read more »

68% from 6,354 members

The Island Of Dr Moreau on DVD (1977)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport
Director: Don Taylor
Certificate:
Andrew Braddock is attacked by a band of strange-looking wild animals. He has stumbled on the hideous results of Dr Moreau's secret experiments - a discovery with terrifying consequences!

58% from 117 members

Mansion Of The Doomed (1977)
Starring: Lance Henriksen, Richard Basehart, Gloria Grahame
Director: Michael Pataki
Certificate:
World-reknowed eye surgeon Dr. Chaney (Richard Basehart), blames himself for a car accident that left his daughter Cathy blind. Now he will stop at nothing to get her eyesight back. Thus he begins a series of kidnappings in which he extracts his victim's eyes in hopes of successfully transplanting ..read more »

30% from 12 members
Currently unavailable

21 Hours At Munich on DVD (1976)
Starring: William Holden, Shirley Knight, Franco Nero
Director: William A. Graham
Certificate:
A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered 11 Israeli athletes.

52% from 173 members

Chato's Land on DVD (1971)
Starring: Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, Richard Basehart
Director: Michael Winner
Certificate:
After killing a man in self-defenCe, Chato (Charles Bronson), a half-breed Apache, is on the run from a 13-man posse, because that man was the town Sheriff. Vowing to avenge the death of their fallen constable, they follow Chato into the wilderness. Living off the land, he outwits the riders ..read more »

62% from 517 members

William Shatner (1970)
Starring: Vince Edwards, Richard Basehart, William Shatner
Director: Paul Stanley
Certificate:
This DVD 2-Pack includes MIND MELD, a conversation between William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy about their Star Trek days covering the original crew, past colleagues, the fans, behind the scenes stories, and the legacy of the show, and SPPLAT ATTACK, a reality based shoot 'em which fuses the final ..read more »

57% from 4 members
Currently unavailable

Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea - Series... (1964)
Starring: Terry Becker, Richard Basehart, David Hedison
Director: Irwin Allen, Jack Gross Jr.
Certificate:
Series three of VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA brings the world's first privately owned nuclear submarine. SSRN Seaview was a tool of oceanographic research and dealt with a range of topical situations from nuclear doomsday, pollution, foreign threat and the theft of American technology.

55% from 7 members
Not currently released

Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea - Series... (8 discs) on DVD (1964)
Starring: Terry Becker, Richard Basehart, David Hedison
Director: Irwin Allen, Jack Gross Jr.
Certificate:
Series four of VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA brings the world's first privately owned nuclear submarine. SSRN Seaview was a tool of oceanographic research and dealt with a range of topical situations from nuclear doomsday, pollution, foreign threat and the theft of American technology.

58% from 15 members

Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea - Series 1 (9 discs) on DVD (1964)
Starring: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Del Monroe
Director: Jus Addiss, Lisa Bendick
Certificate:
VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA brings the world's first privately owned nuclear submarine. SSRN Seaview was a tool of oceanographic research and dealt with a range of topical situations from nuclear doomsday, pollution, foreign threat and the theft of American technology.

67% from 78 members

Kings of the Sun on DVD (1963)
Starring: Yul Brynner, George Chakiris, Shirley Anne Field
Director: J Lee Thompson
Certificate:
In this historical adventure saga, Balam (George Chakiris) is the son of the ruler of the Mayan people; when his father is killed in battle, Balam succeeds his father as King and leads his followers out of Mexico to a coastal region. The Mayan's new home, however, is already the province of a ..read more »

62% from 68 members

Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea - Series... (7 discs) on DVD (1961)
Starring: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Robert Dowdell
Director: Irwin Allen, Jack Gross Jr.
Certificate:
Series two of VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA brings the world's first privately owned nuclear submarine. SSRN Seaview was a tool of oceanographic research and dealt with a range of topical situations from nuclear doomsday, pollution, foreign threat and the theft of American technology.

66% from 38 members

Portrait in Black (1960)
Starring: Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart
Director: Michael Gordon
Certificate:
Wanting to be free of her crippled husband but not his enormous fortune, a glamorous wife talks her lover, who is also her spouse's personal physician, into injecting poison into the ailing industrialist. This crime melodrama chronicles the chain of events that leads to the murderous lovers' ..read more »

16% from 3 members
Currently unavailable

Moby Dick on DVD (1956)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Orson Welles
Director: John Huston
Certificate:
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The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.

67% from 754 members

Il Bidone (1955)
Starring: Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Franco Fabrizi
Director: Federico Fellini
Certificate:
A group of con artists have their sights set firmly upon the riches of the Italian bourgeoisie, who turn out to be just as crooked as they are...

69% from 386 members
Not currently released

La Strada on DVD (1954)
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart
Director: Federico Fellini
Certificate:
Gelsomina, a half-witted peasant girl, is hired by Zampano, a travelling street entertainer doing a strong-man act, who pays her mother 10,000 lire as part of the deal...

75% from 2,272 members

The Good Die Young on DVD (1954)
Starring: Laurence Harvey, Gloria Grahame, Stanley Baker
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Certificate:
A fallen aristocrat with a mountainous gambling debt enlists three men with similar financial instabilities to assist him in a mail van robbery.

60% from 164 members

Decision Before Dawn on DVD (1951)
Starring: Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill, Oskar Werner
Director: Anatole Litvak
Certificate:
As the US Army approaches Nazi Germany, they recruit German prisoners to spy behind German lines.

58% from 32 members

The House On Telegraph Hill on DVD (1951)
Starring: Valentina Cortese, Richard Basehart, William Lundigan
Director: Robert Wise
Certificate:
After surviving the hell of a Nazi death camp, a refugee faces even greater dangers in America in this tale of murder, deceit, and assumed identities. Victoria Kopwelska (Valentina Cortese) is a Polish woman imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp near the end of World War II. Desperate to survive, ..read more »

66% from 73 members

Fixed Bayonets on DVD (1951)
Starring: Richard Basehart, Gene Evans, Michael O'Shea
Director: Samuel Fuller
Certificate:
As freezing snow blasts the mountain peaks of wartime Korea, a small platoon of army grunts are ordered to stay behind to protect a 15,000-man division as it moves out under heavy communist fire. One corporal, whom the platoon has mistakenly come to believe is a hero, is left with the ..read more »

67% from 73 members

He Walked by Night (1948)
Starring: Jack Webb, Charles Lang, Whit Bissell
Director: Alfred Werker
Certificate:
A burglar becomes a cold-blooded cop killer and is hunted down on the streets of Los Angeles. The men in blue manage to track their suspect down into the bowels of the city--the labyrinth sewer system. Noir veteran Anthony Mann, though uncredited, co-directed the film. Well-done and supposedly an ..read more »

41% from 11 members
Currently unavailable

Richard Basehart facts

5 most recent films

Bix - 'Ain't None Of Them Play Like Him Yet' - 3.0 stars
Being There - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Being There - 3.5 stars
The Island Of Dr Moreau - 3.0 stars
Mansion Of The Doomed - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

La Strada - 4.0 stars
Being There - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Il Bidone - 3.5 stars
Being There - 3.5 stars
Moby Dick - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Portrait in Black - 1.0 stars
Mansion Of The Doomed - 2.0 stars
He Walked by Night - 2.5 stars
William Shatner - 2.5 stars
Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea - Series 3 - Complete - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

David Hedison - 20 times - show films
Del Monroe - 20 times - show films
Paul Trinka - 10 times - show films
Richard Bull - 10 times - show films
Arch Whiting - 10 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Irwin Allen - 18 times - show films
Jack Gross Jr. - 18 times - show films
Jus Addiss - 10 times - show films
Lisa Bendick - 10 times - show films
Hal Ashby - 2 times - show films