Luther Adler

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The Desert Fox review by A customer from Harrogate

Good Film, Bad History 12 December 2008
...performance from James Mason as the Field Marshal and strong contributions from Luther Adler - a totally convincing Hitler - and Cedric Hardwicke. Henry Hathaway's directio... Read customer review

Absence Of Malice on DVD (1981)
Starring: Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Sydney Pollack directs Paul Newman as Michael Gallagher, the innocent son of a long-dead Mafia boss who suddenly finds that he is the subject of a criminal investigation. Eventually he discovers that the press's source is intentionally pressuring him and hoping that he'll leak insider information ..read more »

62% from 558 members

The Man In The Glass Booth on DVD (1975)
Starring: Maximilian Schell, Lois Nettleton, Luther Adler
Director: Arthur Hiller
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This adaptation of Robert Shaw's play is part of the American Film Theatre series, conceived in the 1970s by producer Ely Landau, and meant to be shown theatrically just like a play, with tickets sold in advance. Arthur Goldman stars as an eccentric Jewish tycoon who watches over his financial ..read more »

56% from 110 members

The Twilight Zone - Season 2 - Blu-ray (4 discs) (1961)
Starring: Burgess Meredith, William Shatner, John Carradine
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The complete second season of the classic American television sci-fi series by Rod Serling. In each of these 29 stand alone episodes, an ordinary person finds himself in an extraordinary situation, where the laws of reality are suspended. In this series, a Second World War pilot finds himself alone ..read more »

74% from 75 members

Hot Blood on DVD (1955)
Starring: Cornel Wilde, Jane Russell, Luther Adler
Director: Nicholas Ray
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A musical in which a gypsy woman who marries men and takes their money meets her match when she is set up with a brother of a gypsy king, who has not intention of getting married.

48% from 34 members

The Desert Fox / The Desert Rats (2 discs) on DVD (1951)
Starring: James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy
Director: Robert Wise, Henry Hathaway
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A double pack featuring 'The Desert Fox' which tells the tale of Field Marshal Rommel, the leader of Germany's Afrika Korps, which dominated North Africa during the early years of World War II, later to be overrun by the might of the Allied forces. Later, Rommel becomes disillusioned with Hitler, ..read more »

68% from 9 members

The Desert Fox on DVD (1951)
Starring: James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy
Director: Henry Hathaway
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James Mason delivers a strong performance in the title role of this sympathetic study of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. In the early '40s, Rommel's juggernaut Afrika Korps dominated North Africa. But as the tide turned and he came to the painful realization that his Fuhrer, to whom he had sworn ..read more »

69% from 775 members

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye on DVD (1950)
Starring: James Cagney, Barbara Payton, Helena Carter
Director: Gordon Douglas
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From the trial of the survivors, we flash back to amoral crook Ralph Cotter's violent prison break, assisted by Holiday Carleton, sister of another prisoner...who doesn't make it. Soon Ralph manipulates the grieving Holiday into his arms, and two crooked cops follow her into his pocket. Ralph's ..read more »

67% from 71 members

D.O.A. (1950)
Starring: Edmund O'Brien, Neville Brand, Luther Adler
Director: Rudolph Mate
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This famous film-noir murder mystery features an inventive twist: the victim as "detective," desperately trying to solve his own murder. An accountant on vacation in San Francisco gets a dose of lethal, slow-acting poison. He then begins a desperate search for the individual responsible for his ..read more »

58% from 375 members
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House of Strangers (1949)
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward, Richard Conte
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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A ruthless banker uses his four sons in any way necessary to build his empire in HOUSE OF STRANGERS. However, when the favorite goes to prison for his father's sins, the other three stage a coup and drive the older man to his death, prompting the incarcerated brother to swear an oath of vengeance ..read more »

57% from 11 members
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The Loves Of Carmen on DVD (1948)
Starring: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Ron Randell
Director: Charles Vidor
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Don Jose (Glen Ford), a handsome young Dragoon, is newly arrived in the Spanish city of Seville. Exploring its streets, he comes across the beautiful Carmen (Rita Hayworth), a fiery gypsy girl. Within moments she has picked his pockets - and stolen his heart. Others in the regiment are quick to ..read more »

45% from 9 members

The Twilight Zone - Season 2 - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Desert Fox - 3.5 stars
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye - 3.5 stars
Absence Of Malice - 3.0 stars
D.O.A. - 3.0 stars

The Loves Of Carmen - 2.5 stars
Hot Blood - 2.5 stars
House of Strangers - 3.0 stars
The Desert Fox / The Desert Rats - 3.5 stars
The Man In The Glass Booth - 3.0 stars

Sydney Pollack - 5 times - show films
Jack Carson - 5 times - show films
John Carradine - 5 times - show films
William Shatner - 5 times - show films
Burgess Meredith - 5 times - show films

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Henry Hathaway - 2 times - show films
Stuart Rosenberg - 1 times - show films
Arthur Hiller - 1 times - show films
Gordon Douglas - 1 times - show films