85% (3) Serpico 130 min, R, [Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller] [Sidney Lumet] [26 Feb 1974]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 78%, Rotten Tomatoes: 90%, Metacritic: 87%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 9 nominations.
Actors: Al Pacino, Biff McGuire, Jack Kehoe, John Randolph
Writer: Peter Maas (book), Waldo Salt (screenplay), Norman Wexler (screenplay)
External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, Italian, Spanish Country: USA, Italy
Plot: Serpico is a cop in the 1960s-early 1970s. Unlike all his colleagues, he refuses a share of the money that the cops routinely extort from local criminals. Nobody wants to work with Serpico, and he's in constant danger of being placed in life threatening positions by his "partners". Nothing seems to get done even when he goes to the highest of authorities. Despite the dangers he finds himself in, he still refuses to 'go with the flow', in the hope that one day, the truth will be known.
Rotten Tomatoes: This is the real-life story of a New York cop who takes on corruption in the police department.
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85% (2) Pretty Poison 89 min, Approved, [Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller] [Noel Black] [19 Jul 1968]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 71%, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination.
Actors: Anthony Perkins, Beverly Garland, John Randolph, Tuesday Weld
Writer: Stephen Geller (novel), Lorenzo Semple Jr. (screenplay by)
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, Russian, Spanish Country: USA
Plot: A formerly institutionalized young man (Anthony Perkins) meets up with a cute, sexy high school cheerleader (Tuesday Weld) and pretends to be a CIA agent to get her interested in him while she responds to his fantasy all too willingly. This, combined with her adult craving for sensual excitement, adds up to a potentially explosive pairing indeed. And explode it does.
Rotten Tomatoes: Easygoing but psychotic Dennis (Anthony Perkins) is released from jail, where he has served a sentence for his complicity in a suspicious death. Wandering through a small, working-class New England town, Dennis befriends apparently normal high school A-student Sue Ann (Tuesday Weld). He fills her head with lies about his imaginary career as a secret agent. She is thrilled, and makes up her mind to join him in his further adventures. This jet-black "who's manipulating who?" seriocomedy was adapted by Lorenzo Semple Jr. from Stephen Geller's novel She Let Him Continue. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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84% (2) Seconds 106 min, R, [Sci-Fi, Thriller] [John Frankenheimer] [14 Nov 1966]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 77%, Rotten Tomatoes: 91%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 2 nominations.
Actors: Barbara Werle, Frances Reid, Frank Campanella, John Randolph, Rock Hudson
Writer: Lewis John Carlino (screenplay), David Ely (based on the novel by)
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA
Plot: Middle-aged banker Arthur Hamilton is given the opportunity to start a completely new life when he receives calls from his old friend Charlie. The only problem is that Charlie is supposed to be dead. Hamilton is eventually introduced to a firm that will fake his death and create an entirely new look and life for him. After undergoing physical reconstruction surgery and months of training and psychotherapy, Hamilton returns to the world in the form of artist Tony Wilson. He has a nice house in Malibu and a manservant, a company employee who is there to assist him with his adjustment. He finds that the life he had hoped for isn't quite what he expected and asks the company to go through the process with surprising results.
Rotten Tomatoes: Fifty-ish Arthur Hamilton (John Randolph) is approached by a secret company that promises to provide him with a fresh start, complete with a new face (Rock Hudson) and lifestyle. But as he struggles with his own sense of identity, he begins to have second thoughts.
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78% (2) Prizzi's Honor 130 min, R, [Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance] [John Huston] [14 Jun 1985]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, Rotten Tomatoes: 88%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 25 wins & 24 nominations.
Actors: Jack Nicholson, John Randolph, Kathleen Turner, Robert Loggia
Writer: Richard Condon (novel), Richard Condon (screenplay), Janet Roach (screenplay)
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, Italian Country: USA
Plot: Charley Partanna is a hit-man who works for the Prizzis, one of the richest crime syndicate families in the country. Unbeknownst to Charley,the Prizzis just hired Irene Walker, a free-lance killer, to eliminate someone who double-crossed them. When Irene and Charley fall in love their jobs become complicated. Their jobs become impossible when each is given a contract that neither can go through with.
Rotten Tomatoes: Richard Condon's delicious black comedy was lovingly translated to the screen by legendary director John Huston in one of his last movies. The Prizzis are a powerful family of mobsters, as devoted to their code of honor as they are to bending laws and breaking skulls. Charley Partanna (Jack Nicholson), a Prizzi hit man, is not quite so honorable, at least where affairs of the heart are concerned. While attending a mob wedding, he throws over his longtime sweetheart Maerose Prizzi (Anjelica Huston) in favor of gorgeous Irene Walker (Kathleen Turner). Supposedly a tax consultant, Irene is actually a paid killer like Charley--and this endears her to him all the more. But when it turns out that Irene has betrayed the Prizzis, Charley finds himself on the horns of a dilemma: does he kill Irene or marry her? Fortuitously, Irene helps Charley make up his mind by attempting to kill him. The film's strongest suit is its matter-of-fact approach to Charley and Irene's profession; in the movie's most memorable scene, the two lovers calmly discuss their dinner plans while disposing of the corpse of their latest victim. Nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, Prizzi's Honor won Best Supporting Actress for Huston's daughter Anjelica, playing the "art imitates life" role of Nicholson's cast-off girl friend. The win made Anjelica, John, and Walter Huston the only three generations of one family all to win Oscars.
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60% (2) King Kong 134 min, PG, [Adventure, Horror] [John Guillermin] [17 Dec 1976]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 59%, Metacritic: 61%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 1 nomination.
Actors: Charles Grodin, Jeff Bridges, Jessica Lange, John Randolph
Writer: James Ashmore Creelman (based on the {1933} screenplay), Ruth Rose (based on the {1933} screenplay), Merian C. Cooper (from an idea conceived by), Edgar Wallace (from an idea conceived by), Lorenzo Semple Jr. (screenplay)
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Plot: An expedition of the "Petrox" company, is exploring in search of petrol. A strange island where they arrive is the home of a giant ape, King Kong, that is captured by the expedition in order to make money exhibiting it to the world. When in the U.S. the huge gorilla becomes restless, trying to return home...
Rotten Tomatoes: Abandoned in the jungle after his parents are killed, a young boy is taken in by a family of apes and raised as one of their own. As he grows older, he begins to question his origins and sets out to discover his true self. Co-written and directed by Rene Cardona Jr., this adventurous tale from Mexico stars Hugo Stiglitz, Peggy Bass, Jorge Graham, Martin Espinosa, Aurelio Sparrow, Edith Gonzalez and Carlos East.
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55% (1) Number One 100 min, PG-13, [Drama, Sport] [Tom Gries] [21 Aug 1969]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 55%, External Reviews
Actors: Bruce Dern, Charlton Heston, Jessica Walter, John Randolph
Writer: David Moessinger
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA
Plot: The story of Cat Catlan (Heston), a washed up quarterback who turns to drink and women to solve his problems. But he soon discovers that his problems are just beginning.
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