Biography: Lee Van Cleef |
Following a wartime tour with the Navy, New Jersey-born Lee Van Cleef supported himself as an accountant. Like fellow accountant-turned-actor Jack Elam, Van Cleef was advised by his clients that he had just the right satanic facial features to thrive... more
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Cast: Ernest Borgnine Klaus Kinski
Tags: Action
Length: 101min
In this commando action-adventure by Antonio Margheriti, Captain Wesley (Lewis Collins) has been charged with cleaning out some drug sites in Thailand and gathers up four of his mercenaries for the task. His superior is Fletcher (Ernest Borgnine), a...
Cast: David Carradine
Tags: Action Thriller Action
Length: 86min
Fred Olen Ray always manages to attract major names to his bargain-basement actioners, and Armed Response is no exception. The scene is Chinatown, where Yakuza boss Mako yearns to get his hands on a stolen jade statue. David Goss, son of retired cop...
Tags: Action Thriller Martial Arts Action
Length: 103min
Karate champ Chuck Norris returns for another chop-socky vigilante flick in The Octagon, one of a handful of undistinguished Ninja pictures released during the early '80s. Norris appropriately plays a retired karate champ hired as a bodyguard for a...
Cast: Isaac Hayes Donald Pleasence Kurt Russell John Carpenter
Tags: Escape Film Science Fiction Action Sci-Fi Action
Length: 99min
The year is 1997. Manhattan Island is now a heavily guarded maximum-security prison, where the scum of the earth have converged. When Air Force One crash-lands in Manhattan, the president (Donald Pleasence) is held hostage by its denizens. One-eyed...
Là Dove non Batte il Sole (1974)
Tags: Martial Arts Spaghetti Western Action Western
Length: 100min
Spaghetti meets chop-suey in the Italian/Spanish/Hong Kong production Blood Money. Lee VanCleef plays an adventurer in search of a treasure buried somewhere in the orient. The clues are tattooed on the backs of four lovely young ladies. This...
Cast: Richard Boone Jack Palance Lee Van Cleef Leif Garrett
Tags: Spaghetti Western Western
Length: 93min
One of two 1976 Italian-Israeli co-productions starring Lee Van Cleef and Leif Garrett (Joseph Manduke's Kid Vengeance was the other), this spaghetti Western stars Van Cleef in a dual role as twin brothers. One of the brothers, Father John, is gunned...
Cast: Dario Argento
Tags: War Adventure War
Length: 100min
A combined force of Italian and American commandos are ordered to attack and take over an air base in North Africa with only two days to do it. The Italian film, dubbed into English, is also known as Sullivan's Marauders. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
Tags: Traditional Western Coming-of-Age Western
Length: 90min
One of Cannon Films' two 1976 Italian-Israeli co-productions starring Lee Van Cleef and Leif Garrett (Gianfranco Parolini's Pistola di Dio was the other), this spaghetti western was actually shot in the Middle East by American director Joseph Manduke....
Cast: Lionel Stander
Tags: Crime Thriller Crime
Length: 93min
In this crime drama a safe cracker comes out of retirement to pull off one last caper. The Germans behind the theft are planning to steal 1 million; unbeknownst to the safe cracker, they are also planning to kill him afterward. As soon as he finds...
Cast: Jerry Goldsmith Fred Williamson Catherine Spaak
Tags: Spaghetti Western Western
Length: 110min
Jim Brown and Fred Williamson team up for this violent western, directed by Antonio Marghetti under the name of Anthony M. Dawson. Brown plays Pike, a stonefaced cowboy who meets up Tyree (Fred Williamson), a jocular and dishonest gambler. Together...
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