Biography: Martin Balsam |
Bronx-raised actor Martin Balsam was the oldest of three children of a ladies' sportswear salesman. "Actors are bums" was dad's reaction when Balsam announced his intention of going into show business; still, young Martin took full advantage of lunch... more
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Corruzione Al Palazzo Di Giustizia (1974)
Cast: Fernando Rey
Tags: Melodrama Political Drama Drama
Length: 100min
The shocking premise of this film -- that many magistrates in the Italian system of justice are on the take from corporations, politician, and gangsters -- was soon overshadowed by real-life revelations of corruption in high places. One high point in...
Cast: Charles Bronson Ralph Waite
Tags: Action Police Detective Film
Length: 100min
The John Gardner novel -A Complete State of Death became this bloody crime flick that united frequent action genre collaborators Charles Bronson and director Michael Winner. Bronson stars as Detective Lieutenant Lou Torry, a grizzled undercover New...
Cast: Francisco Rabal
Length: 104min
When the godson of San Francisco's crime lord asks permission to leave "the business," Don Antonio (Martin Balsam) agrees, but reluctantly. Such behavior by either one is a violation of the code, and a bloody mob war breaks out. It is only through the...
Cast: James Earl Jones Jerry Goldsmith Burgess Meredith Martin Balsam
Tags: Political Thriller Drama
Length: 93min
Rod Serling, a master of speculative scriptwriting, penned the screenplay of The Man. Set a few days into the future, the story contrives to kill off the President, the vice president, and virtually everyone in line of succession in a bizarre...
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973)
Cast: Joanne Woodward
Tags: Drama
Length: 87min
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...
The Six Million Dollar Man (1972)
Tags: Sci-Fi Action Action Adventure Science Fiction
Length: 73min
This TV movie was the pilot for the popular series The Six Million Dollar Man. In this maiden effort, we are told just how astronaut Steve Austin became a bionic man. Surviving a near-fatal crash, the mutilated Austin is given artificial limbs (plus...
Cast: Faye Dunaway Arthur Penn Dustin Hoffman
Tags: Epic Western Indian Western Western Revisionist Western
Length: 139min
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...
Cast: Sean Connery Dyan Cannon Sidney Lumet
Tags: Crime Comedy Paranoid Thriller Thriller Crime Caper Crime Thriller
Length: 98min
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...
Bad Cop Chronicles #1: Confessions of a Police Captain (1971)
Tags: Crime Thriller Thriller Poliziotteschi
Length: 101min
A mild-mannered police commissioner (Martin Balsam) is frustrated at every attempt to capture a political crimelord with legal means, so he is forced to turn to vigilante justice to get his man. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
Cast: Mike Nichols Alan Arkin Orson Welles Jon Voight Richard Benjamin
Tags: Ensemble Film Comedy Satire Black Comedy Military Comedy
Length: 121min
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)...
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