Robert Ryan
1) The outfit
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"You know how it is. You hit us. We hit you." Career thief Earl Macklin pays no mind to the mobster's threat. He intends to put a big hurt on an L.A crime outfit. He, his girlfriend, and his partner will avenge the murder of Macklin's brother by cutting down gangland operations bit by violent bit.
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A farmer is obsessed with finding gold on his land supposedly buried by his grandfather. To find it he moves a marker out of his way that designates the land on which it rests as God's Little Acre, where anything that comes from the ground will go to God's work. Eventually he abducts an albino to help him find the gold. Meanwhile, his daughter-in-law is suspected of fooling around with a labor activist out of work since the mill is closed, and a local...
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Earle Slater is a racist ex-con looking to make a quick buck. Johnny Ingram is a nightclub performer with gambling debts. Greed and shared rage against the world turn them into bitter allies when a disgraced ex-cop recruits them to pull a bank heist. But a pivotal moment will send both men toward a cataclysmic outcome that is anything but black and white.
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Fox film noir volume 4
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"Sandy Dawson has assembled a platoon of ex-Army thugs to run pachinko parlors while pulling off bloody heists and armed robbery. The murder of a friend brings Eddie Spanier into the group, along with his beautiful mistress. But Spanier's behavior grows treacherous, and his loyalties become questionable, leading to a breathless, murderous conclusion high above the ancient city of Tokyo."--Container.
6) The racket
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A straight-arrow cop and an old-school gangster find a common foe: big shots who run crime like a corporation.
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American Film Theatre volume Collection 1
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In the faded, Vermeer-like light of Harry Hope's 1912 New York skid row bar, a ragtag group of fallen men await the annual arrival of their friend Hickey. But now Hickey is sober, and he wants his drunken friends to follow the same path.
10) The wild bunch
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AFI's 100 years 100 movies volume no. 80
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Outlaws on the U.S.-Mexican border face the march of progress, the Mexican army and a gang of bounty hunters led by a former member as they plan to rob a U.S. Army train.
11) Executive action
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Who killed President Kennedy? Mixing narrative sements with newsreel footage, the story of a group of powerful men who plot the assassination. First they must recruit and train a shooter, then frame Lee Harvey Oswald.
Powerful. Influential. Wealthy. They have ties to business, government and a vast network of intelligence operatives and now plan the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Could this conspiracy have happened? Nearly two decades...
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In the forsaken town of Bitters, Wyoming, tensions between homesteaders and cattlemen are high. When a conflict erupts between a farmer and ruthless rancher Blaise Starrett, it appears that the icy relations in snow-covered Bitters are in danger of heating to a boil. But as a gang of outlaws under the leadership of Jack Bruhn rides into town and begins to further threaten the town's way of life, Starrett must find a way to save the town.
14) The naked spur
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"'Plain arithmetic. Money splits better two ways instead of three, ' smooth-talking outlaw Ben Vandergroat reasons to his captors, three bounty hunters thrown together by chance. They're taking him to justice in Abilene, but Ben has other ideas."--Container.
15) Anzio
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After landing with Allied troops at Anzio, Italy, in 1944, war correspondent Dick Ennis and buddy Corporal Rabinoff tell Anzio commander General Lesley that the road to Rome is wide open. But instead of heading to Rome, Lesley attempts to build a coastal stronghold, only to discover that the Germans have outflanked them by enclosing the Anzio beachhead. Four months and over 30,000 casualties later, the Allied forces smash through the German lines...
17) The dirty dozen
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A World War II drama in which an army major selects 12 men convicted for crimes of violence and offers them their freedom if they will complete a dangerous mission behind Nazi lines.
18) King of Kings
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The story of the life of Christ, describing certain events that took place between Romans and Jews and setting the political background for the life of Christ, and the personalities and ideas of the New Testament.
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Lawman : (Rated R) Western about a stoic sheriff who comes into an unfamiliar town to bring in a bunch of cowboys who, on a drunken spree, accidentally killed an old man.
Hour of the gun : (Not rated) James Garner plays legendary Wyatt Earp in director John Sturges' hard-hitting, historically accurate account of the famed Tombstone gunfight's bloody aftermath. Jon Voight makes his film debut.
Day of the outlaw : (Not rated) When a gang of outlaws...
20) Billy Budd
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An innocent, naive British Naval seaman is accused and tried of murdering the sadistic master-at-arms.