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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Tags: War Epic Historical Film War
Length: 144min
This 25-million dollar epic collaboration accurately recreates the events that led to the Japanese attack on the American naval base during World War II. With Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, the wheels are set in motion by Japan to...
Cast: Al Pacino Patty Duke Henry Mancini
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 111min
Since she was a child, Natalie Miller (Patty Duke) has always thought she was an ugly ducking. When a boy called her "clown face", the six-year-old knocked out his front teeth with a shovel. Despite her mother's encouragement that she will grow up to...
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969)
Cast: Robert Mitchum George Kennedy
Tags: Comedy Western Buddy Film Western
Length: 91min
In this comic western, Flagg (Robert Mitchum) is a veteran marshal forced to retire by the pompous Mayor Wilker (Martin Balsam). McKay (George Kennedy) is a wily gunslinger. The two combine forces to stop a young band of outlaws from robbing the train...
Cast: Sidney Poitier Donald Sutherland
Tags: Political Thriller Thriller
Length: 102min
The Bedford Incident was an attempt by Columbia Pictures -- which had previously made Dr. Strangelove and released Fail-Safe -- to tap the well of public anxiety surrounding nuclear weapons and the Cold War one more time. Reporter Ben Munceford...
Cast: Angela Lansbury
Tags: Biopic Showbiz Drama Drama
Length: 125min
Of the two competing Jean Harlow biopics released in 1965, producer Joseph E. Levine's Harlow is the more slickly professional, though neither film is exactly a cinematic landmark. Carroll Baker plays 1930s "platinum blonde" Jean Harlow, who, in...
Cast: Jason Robards, Jr.
Tags: Urban Comedy Comedy Drama
Length: 118min
Jason Robards Jr. superbly re-creates his Broadway role in this 1965 film version of Herb Gardner's play. Robards plays Murray Burns, head writer of TV's popular ~Chuckles the Chipmunk show. Fed up with the rat race, Murray quits his job and retreats...
Cast: Gregory Peck Bernard Herrmann
Tags: Post-Noir (Modern Noir) Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 106min
After an eight-year prison term for rape and assault, Max Cady (Robert Mitchum) is set free. Immediately making a beeline to Sam Bowden (Gregory Peck), the former prosecutor responsible for Cady's conviction, Cady laconically informs Sam that he...
Cast: Audrey Hepburn Mickey Rooney Blake Edwards Patricia Neal George Peppard Buddy Ebsen
Tags: Comedy of Manners Romance Romantic Comedy Comedy Drama
Length: 114min
In an idealized New York City during the early '60s, Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) is a charming socialite with a youthful zest for life who lives alone in a nearly bare apartment. She has such a flippant lifestyle that she won't even give her cat...
Cast: David Niven
Length: 110min
Filmed in 1962 but not released in the US until 1966 (with 20 of its 108 minutes removed), Conquered City is an all-star World War II drama financed in Italy and filmed in Greece. An Athens hotel, full of refugees and expatriates of all nationalities,...
Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963)
Tags: Comedy
Length: 103min
This romantic adult comedy finds psychiatrist Jason Steel (Dean Martin) the leader of a women's group therapy session. Jill St. John, Elizabeth Frazier, Macha Meril, Yoko Tani and Diane Foster all seek the advice of the handsome doctor, while husbands...
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