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Most of the praise for this sensuous Tennessee Williams adaptation usually goes to Anna Magnani’s Oscar-winning performance as a Southern widow who falls in love with a rakish truck driver (Lancaster).
Starring Anna Magnani, Marisa Pavan, Ben Cooper, Virginia Grey, Jo Van Fleet. Screenplay by Hal Kanter and Tennessee Williams, based on the play by Williams. An intelligent script by Rod Serling and fantastic performances all-around (including Supporting Actor nominee Edmond O’Brien as an alcoholic senator) make this a nail-biting must-see.ĭirected by Daniel Mann. It’s up to the loyal Colonel Martin “Jiggs” Casey ( Kirk Douglas) to help the Commander in Chief stop this diabolical plot before it’s too late. Scott (Lancaster), to take over the United States when the liberal President ( Frederic March) appears soft on Russia. It centers on a military coupe, led by General James M. Though it was released in 1964, John Frankenheimer’s “Seven Days in May” plays like an eerie cautionary tale for the Donald Trump era.
Starring Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Martin Balsam, George Macready, Whit Bissell, Hugh Marlowe. Screenplay by Rod Serling, based on the novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Image Credit: Paramount/Kobal/REX/Shutterstockĭirected by John Frankenheimer.
Check your brain at the door and have some fun with this one. Though he at first plans to double-cross the rebel leader “El Libre” ( Frederick Leister), his plans soon change when he falls in love with the beautiful Consuelo ( Eva Bartok). While looting a British war ship, they become entangled in a political revolution on the Caribbean island of Cobra. Starring Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok, Leslie Bradley, Torin Thatcher, James Hayter.Ī winking throwback to the kind of swashbuckling epics Errol Flynn would’ve made in the 1930s and ‘40s, “The Crimson Pirate” stars Lancaster as the charming leader of a gang of traveling marauders. Image Credit: Warner Bros/Kobal/REX/Shutterstockĭirected by Robert Siodmak. Adapted from a 12-page John Cheever story, “The Swimmer” works both as an allegory for the mysteries of life and an excuse to watch a shirtless Lancaster galavant around town for 95-minutes. Along the way, he encounters people and places that spark memories from his past. In this cult oddity from the husband and wife filmmaking team of Frank and Eleanor Perry, Lancaster plays a prominent ad man who decides to make his way through Connecticut by swimming in one pool after another. Starring Janet Landgard, Janice Rule, Joan Rivers, Tony Bickley, Marge Champion, Kim Hunter, Bill Fiore. Screenplay by Eleanor Perry, based on the ‘New Yorker’ short story by John Cheever. Image Credit: Moviestore/REX/Shutterstockĭirected by Frank Perry. Packed with every cliche and stereotype the genre has to offer, the film is buoyed by the energetic performances of its four leads, particularly Lancaster and Davis as your typical odd couple duo. The two pair up to recover the furs while evading a gang of scalphunters (led by Telly Savalas and Shelley Winters). This western comedy from Sydney Pollack stars Lancaster as a rugged fur trapper forced to trade some valuable pelts to a tribe of Kiowa Indians in exchange for an educated slave (Golden Globe-nominee Ossie Davis). Starring Ossie Davis, Telly Savalas, Shelley Winters, Armando Silvestre, Nick Cravat, Dabney Coleman.
Image Credit: United Artists/Kobal/REX/Shutterstockĭirected by Sydney Pollack.
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Full disclosure, this was a tough one to narrow down, and an even tougher one to pick a “best of the best” for. Tour our photo gallery of Lancaster’s 20 greatest films. Several of Lancaster’s best films came out of this period, including “Sweet Smell of Success” (1957), “Separate Tables” (1958), and “Birdman of Alcatraz.” In the 1950s, the actor decided to chart his own career by forming the production company Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, which churned out a number of successful titles including the Best Picture-winning “Marty” (1955). Lancaster would compete twice more in the category (“Birdman of Alcatraz” in 1962 and “Atlantic City” in 1981). He earned his first Oscar nomination as Best Actor for Fred Zinnemann‘s wartime drama “From Here to Eternity” (1953), winning the prize just seven years later for playing a fast-talking preacher in “Elmer Gantry” (1960).
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He made his movie debut in 1946 with a leading role in the quintessential noir thriller “The Killers” (1946). But which titles are among his finest? Let’s take a look back at 20 of Lancaster’s greatest films, ranked worst to best.īorn in 1913, Lancaster got into acting after performing as an acrobat in the circus. Burt Lancaster is an Oscar-winning actor who appeared in dozens of movies until his death in 1994.
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