Stuart Whitman
1) The sea wolf
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A thrilling epic of a sea voyage and a complex novel of ideas. The Sea Wolf is a standard-bearer of its genre. The vivid story of a gentleman scholar's rescue and subsequent ordeal at the hands of a hunting schooner's brutal captain and devious crew. It remains one of Jack London's finest achievements.
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When a celebrity reporter Stephen Rojack (Stuart Whitman), who has made his name by exposing mafia corruption inside the police department, accidentally kills his alcoholic wife-and covers up the crime-he finds himself caught between the cops and the mobsters. Now, as seemingly everyone wants him dead, Rojack realizes he his caught in a lethal trap that was once An American Dream.
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Texas Ranger Jake Cutter (Wayne) arrests gambler Paul Regret (Whitman) but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a violent band of gunrunners and thieves known as the Comancheros. The last film of director Michael Curtiz (Casablanca).
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"On June 6, 1944, the Allied Invasion of France marked the beginning of the end of Nazi domination over Europe. The attack involved 3,000,000 men, 11,000 planes and 4,000 ships, comprising the largest armada the world has ever seen. Presented in its original black and white version, [it] is a vivid, hour-by-hour recreation of this historic event. Featuring a stellar international cast, and told from the perspectives of both sides, it is a fascinating...
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Emmy Award-winner Ben Gazzara ("Happiness," "The Big Lebowski") portrays a convicted killer who, when he receives a reprieve from a date with the electric chair, goes on to find redemption in prison. An all-star cast provides strong support in this drama based on a true story. Also starring Emmy Award-winner Ray Walston (TV's "Picket Fences," "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"), Academy Award-winner Rod Steiger ("In the Heat of the Night," "On the Waterfront"),...
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The Blue Max: James Mason, George Peppard, and Ursula Andress highlight this stirring, highly-acclaimed action-drama in which an elite German WWI pilot must prove himself to his fellow flyers. (1966).
The Desert Fox: James Mason delivers a mesmerizing performance in this fascinating portrait of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, one of the most respected military tacticians of modern times. (1951).
Immortal Sergeant: Legendary Oscar Winner Henry Fond delivers...
11) Second chances
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Based on a true story, "Second Chances" is the uplifting tale of a little girl's physical and emotional reawakening after a car crash.
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A chartered plane crashes in a remote African desert after colliding with a swarm of locusts. It's not the harsh surroundings or the vicious baboons that the survivors have to worry about, but a crazed fellow passenger. The stellar cast includes Stuart Whitman as a businessman and big-game hunter, Stanley Baker as a chain-smoking and alcoholic mining engineer, Susannah York as a beautiful young divorcee, Nigel Davenport as the plane's captain, and...
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Rio Conchos: An ex-Confederate, two Army officers, and a Mexican bandit team up to find the thieves who are supplying guns to renegade Indians and outlaws for the purpose of resurrecting the Civil War.
Take a Hard Ride: A loyal cowboy, whose boss died during an arduous cattle drive, vows to take the money made from the sale of the herd to the man's widow. Accompanied by two offbeat companions, he encounters killers, thieves, and a ruthless bounty...
14) Cuba crossing
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An adventurer gets caught up in a plot to kill Fidel Castro.
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Two of the West's most legendary figures search for the demon buffalo that haunts them both! They called him Wild Bill Hickok. The Prince of Pistoleers. A frontier adventurer and killer of men. Now, in his last years, he is an old gunfighter plagued by fears and driven by a need to make peace with himself. The white buffalo is his constant nightmare. He must find the fabled beast and destroy it…before it destroys him. He was Crazy Horse. The greatest...
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Crazy Mama: A widow in the 1950s begins a wacky life of crime when she loses her beauty parlor. She's joined by her mother, her pregnant daughter and her boyfriend, an old lady, a greaser and a defecting sheriff. The Lady in Red: A farm girl flees her abusive father and lands in a sewing sweatshop in Chicago, where the girls are exploited by a sleazy manager. After landing in jail, she becomes a prostitute and then a waitress while falling in love...
17) Second chances
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A car crash leaves a ten year old girl fatherless and unable to walk without crutches, but she begins to recover after she moves next door to a horse ranch.
18) The Mark
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The story of Jim Fuller, a 33-year-old man released from prison after serving a term for child molesting. His life was shattered when his past was revealed.
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Detective Sergeant Rick Hunter and his partner, Sergeant Dee Dee McCall, are homicide investigators with the Los Angeles Police Department. Often they must go undercover to catch a variety of L.A.-style villains. In this explosive second season, Hunter and McCall take on deadly heists, killer porn stars, gangland murders, international terrorists, punk rockers and more.