Edward G. Robinson
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Key Largo
(1948)Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall ignite in this acclaimed story of a war veteran who finds himself in a deadly fight against gangsters who have taken over a hotel during a tropical storm.

The Prize
(1963)Six Nobel Prize winners in Stockholm including a disillusioned American writer who becomes involved in a kidnapping plot.

The Cincinnati Kid
(1965)A professional poker player, with a "can't lose" reputation, is challenged to a game by another infamous rival.
Two Weeks in Another Town
(1962)In 1952, star Kirk Douglas, director Vincente Minnelli, producer John Houseman and screenwriter Charles Schnee teamed for what manyconsider the greatest drama ever made about Hollywood: The Bad and the Beautiful. Ten years later, they took another powerfulinsider's look at the movie business, this time adapting a book by Irwin Shaw. Douglas portrays has-been screen idol Jack Andrus.Just out of a sanitarium, Jack grabs at a small role in a movie shot in Rome by a director (Edward G. Robinson) whose career is alsoon the skids. When the director falls ill, Jack takes over, realizing this is his last shot at personal and professional redemption.Trenchant, confrontational, intensified by Minnelli's genius for color, Two Weeks in Another Town captures the passion of creativepeople facing the abyss.

A Hole in the Head
(1959)The story of Tony Manetta, a widowed hotel owner, who, despite being unreliable when it comes to his professional and love life, is devoted to his son. Tony's brother, Mario, offers to help him with his finances, if he agrees to settle down.
Never a Dull Moment
(1968)Mistaken for a hit man, a TV actor (Dick Van Dyke) plays the part to foil a gangster's (Edward G. Robinson) pop-art plot.

The Hole in the Wall
(1929)After being sent to prison on a false charge, a scorned woman seeks revenge, but a gangster and a newspaperman may throw a wrench in her plans.
Operation Heartbeat
(1969)In a world where life and death depends on split-second decisions, the doctors of an urban teaching hospital work overtime to heal the bodies--and the lives--of all those who enter the University Medical Center--the U.M.C. Dr. Joseph Gannon (Richard Bradford) and Dr. Paul Lochner (James Daly) struggle to keep two men alive: Raymond Hanson (William Windom) and their colleague, Dr. Forestman (Edward G. Robinson). They cannot save Hanson, but before he dies Hanson wills his heart to save Dr. Forestman--without telling his wife. When Mrs. Hanson (Kim Stanley) discovers the close relationship between the three doctors, she files a malpractice suit--claiming that Gannon and Lochner allowed her husband die to save Dr. Forestman.

The Violent Men
(1955)Edward G. Robinson plays a disagreeable cattle baron whose wife (Barbara Stanwyck) is two-timing him. Together with his brother (with whom Stanwyck is having the affair), Robinson snatches up land illegally. Glenn Ford plays the pacifist who must engage in guerrilla warfare with the greedy brothers.

My Geisha
(1962)A Hollywood actress disguises herself as a geisha to convince her producer-husband to cast her in his Japan-based production of MADAME BUTTERFLY.

The Ten Commandments
(1956)The story of Moses who is banished from Egypt but returns to help the enslaved Hebrews and lead them against their overlords. He frees the Israelites from bondage and takes them to the Promised Land.

The Outrage
(1964)Academy Award winner Paul Newman stars as a bandit who stands trial for rape and murder in this classic English-language reimagining of Akiro Kurowsawa's classic Rashomon--The Outrage.

Journey Together
(1945)Two Englishmen train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.

Soylent Green
(1973)Richard Fleischer directed this nightmarish science fiction vision of an over-populated world, based on the novel by Harry Harrison. In 2022, New York City is a town bursting at the seams with a 40-million-plus population. Food is in short supply, and most of the population's food source comes from synthetics manufactured in local factories -- the dinner selections being a choice between Soylen...

Grand Slam
(1967)A quiet schoolteacher recruits an elite team of international criminals for the ultimate diamond caper at the frenzied peak of Carnival.
The Biggest Bundle of Them All
(1968)A kidnapped gangster turns his captors into a crack band of crooks.