 37% (3) The Delta Force 125 min R [Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War] [Menahem Golan] [14 Feb 1986]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 56%, Rotten Tomatoes: 18%, Metacritic: 37%, External Reviews Awards: 1 nomination. Actors: Chuck Norris, Joey Bishop, Lee Marvin, Martin Balsam Writer: James Bruner, Menahem Golan External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek Country: USA, Israel Plot: When the terrorists Abdul Rafai and Mustafa hijack a Boeing 707 in Athenas with 144 passengers and crew, they use a grenade to force Captain Campbell to fly to Beirut, Lebanon, instead of to Rome and New York. Meanwhile the Delta Force commanded by Colonel Nick Alexander and Major McCoy are assigned to resolve the situation. Abdul and Mustafa separate the Jewish and Marine passengers and they are transported to Beirut, while twelve other terrorists embark on board. Then they fly to Algiers, where the women and children are released. McCoy and the Delta Force team are prepared to attack the plane when Alexander learns that there are now fourteen terrorists on board and not only two, and he aborts the mission. Abdul kills a Marine and returns to Beirut with the male passengers on board. Now the Delta Force needs to act in two locations crowded of terrorists to release the hostages. Will they succeed? Rotten Tomatoes: The first installment in a series of pictures, The Delta Force was loosely based on the true events of a June 1985 hijacking. The leader of an anti-terrorist force (Lee Marvin) and its most effective member (Chuck Norris) must deal with a group of fanatical Arabs who have taken over a jet bound for Rome and have ordered it to fly to Beirut. 1 / 25 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  73% (2) Gorky Park 128 min R [Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller] [Michael Apted] [16 Dec 1983]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, Rotten Tomatoes: 78%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 1 nomination. Actors: Brian Dennehy, Ian Bannen, Lee Marvin, William Hurt Writer: Martin Cruz Smith (novel), Dennis Potter (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: An investigator on the Moscow police force relentlessly pursues the solution to a triple homicide which occurred in Moscow's Gorky Park. He finds that no one really wants him to solve the crime because it is just the tip of a complex conspiracy which involves the highest levels of the Moscow city government. Rotten Tomatoes: In the dead of a Moscow winter, three bodies are found in Gorky Park. Police Inspector Renko (William Hurt) is unable to identify the corpses, since even their fingerprints have removed. For reasons unknown to him, Renko's investigation is somehow being stymied by his higher-ups. Ferreting out information on his own, Renko makes the acquaintance of Soviet dissident Irina (Joanna Pacula), a friend of one of the victims, and Lee Marvin as Armand Hammer-style American businessman. As in Martin Cruz Smith's novel, the identity of the killer is not as well hidden as the reasons behind the killing. 'Glasnost' had not yet taken effect in 1983, thus Gorky Park was filmed in Finland rather than Russia. 2 / 25 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 42% (3) Death Hunt 97 min R [Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller, Western] [Peter R. Hunt] [01 Jan 1981]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 70%, Rotten Tomatoes: 17%, Metacritic: 40%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Andrew Stevens, Carl Weathers, Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin Writer: Michael Grais, Mark Victor External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA, Hong Kong Plot: Canada 1931: The unsociable trapper Johnson lives for himself in the ice-cold mountains near the Yukon river. During a visit in the town he witnesses a dog-fight. He interrupts the game and buys one of the dogs - almost dead already - for $200 against the owner's will. When the owner Hasel complains to Mountie Sergeant Millen, he refuses to take action. But then the loathing breeder and his friends accuse Johnson of murder. So Millen, although sympathetic, has to try to take him under arrest - but Johnson defends his freedom in every way possible. Rotten Tomatoes: Set in the '30s, Mountie Millen (Lee Marvin) is assigned to track down accused murderer Johnson (Charles Bronson), who has escaped in the high passes of the Canadian Rockies. Johnson, a trapper, has extensive knowledge of wilderness living, but Millen has the resources of the Canadian police at his beck and call. 3 / 25 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  80% (3) The Big Red One 113 min R [Drama, War] [Samuel Fuller] [18 Jul 1980]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 72%, Rotten Tomatoes: 91%, Metacritic: 77%, External Reviews Awards: 2 wins & 1 nomination. Actors: Bobby Di Cicco, Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine Writer: Samuel Fuller External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, French, Italian, German Country: USA Plot: The story of a hardened army Sergeant and four of his men from their first fight at the Kasserine Pass after the invasion of North Africa through to the invasion of Sicily, D-Day, the Ardennes forest and the liberation of a concentration camp at the end of the war. As the five of them fight - and survive to fight yet again in the next battle - new recruits joining the squad are swatted down by the enemy on a regular basis. The four privates are naturally reluctant to get to know any of the new recruits joining the squad, who become just a series of nameless faces. Rotten Tomatoes: Samuel Fuller's valedictory war picture, The Big Red One follows the First Infantry Division from Africa to Europe during the years 1942 through 1945. Lee Marvin portrays the division sergeant; he's tough and experienced, to be sure, but he takes on his job with cool professionalism rather than Hollywood bravado. Based on Fuller's own experiences, the film is a loosely constructed series of anecdotes. Among them are an insane asylum under bombardment while the inmates applaud and a climactic vignette in which a very young concentration camp internee dies while a friendly soldier plays piggy-back with the boy. 4 / 25 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 61% (2) Shout at the Devil 150 min PG [Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance, War] [Peter R. Hunt] [01 Jan 1976]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 63%, Rotten Tomatoes: 60%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Barbara Parkins, Ian Holm, Lee Marvin, Roger Moore Writer: Stanley Price (screenplay), Alastair Reid (screenplay), Wilbur Smith (screenplay), Wilbur Smith (book) External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, German Country: UK Plot: Just prior to World War One the hard drinking sharpshooting, Irish American Colonel Flynn O'Flynn, uses British aristocrat Sebastian Oldsmith to help poach ivory from German controlled territory in East Africa, putting them at odds with Herman Fleischer, the local German Provincial Commander. When Sebastian is infected with malaria he is nursed back to health by Flynn's daughter Rosa, they fall in love and marry. Not long after Britain declares war on Germany and they are drawn into the conflict, ultimately making a daring attack on the German armored cruiser SMS Blücher as it undergoes repairs in a local estuary. Rotten Tomatoes: Based on the novel by Wilbur Smith, this film follow the scheme of a proper English gentleman, Sebastian (Roger Moore), and a wild Irish-American, Flynn (Lee Marvin), as they set out to destroy a German battleship docked in East Africa before the outbreak of World War I. 5 / 25 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  64% (1) The Spikes Gang 96 min PG [Drama, Western] [Richard Fleischer] [11 Apr 1974]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 64%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Charles Martin Smith, Gary Grimes, Lee Marvin, Ron Howard Writer: Irving Ravetch (screenplay), Harriet Frank Jr. (screenplay), Giles Tippette (novel) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Three farm boys in the Old West help a wounded bank robber, who teaches them the trade. Rotten Tomatoes: In this western, an outlaw is wounded in battle and manages to escape to the home of two helpful runaways who help him recuperate. During this time, the outlaw regales them with thrilling tales of his adventurous exploits. His stories inspire the lads to form a gang of their own; the outlaw is more than happy to help and become their leader. They rob a few banks and have great fun until the outlaw becomes a turncoat and begins hunting them for a generous bounty. But one of the boys decides to get revenge and rootin' tootin' mayhem ensues. 6 / 25 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 51% (1) The Klansman 112 min R [Crime, Drama, Thriller] [Terence Young] [25 Oct 1974]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 51%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Cameron Mitchell, Lee Marvin, O.J. Simpson, Richard Burton Writer: William Bradford Huie (novel), Millard Kaufman (screenplay), Samuel Fuller (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: A small southern town has just been rocked by a tragedy: a young woman has been violently raped. The white town fathers immediately declare that the attacker had to be black, and place the blame on Garth, a young black man. Assuming that the men in white sheets aren't intent on holding a fair and impartial trial, Garth takes to the woods as the Klansmen lynching party hunts him down. Rotten Tomatoes: Samuel Fuller was originally set to direct this turgid racial melodrama but jumped ship, replaced by Terence Young. Lee Marvin stars as Sheriff Bascomb, the entire law enforcement department in a small Southern town, who is trying to keep a lid on local Ku Klux Klan activity. But racial tensions first simmer and then explode when Nancy Poteet (Linda Evans) is raped and the town's mayor Hardy (David Huddleston), who is also the head of the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, blames an innocent black man for the crime. Also involved in the proceedings is local landowner Breck Stancill (Richard Burton), who must have modeled his Southern accent on the soupy delivery of James Mason in Mandingo. 7 / 25 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  81% (2) The Iceman Cometh 239 min PG [Drama] [John Frankenheimer] [10 Nov 1973]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 74%, Rotten Tomatoes: 89%, External Reviews Awards: 3 wins & 1 nomination. Actors: Fredric March, Jeff Bridges, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan Writer: Thomas Quinn Curtiss, Eugene O'Neill (play) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: It's 1912 and the patrons of 'The Last Chance Saloon' have gathered for their evening of whiskey to contemplate their lost faith and dreams, when Hickey (Lee Marvin) arrives. Hickey is out to convince everyone that he can help them all find peace of mind by ridding them of the foolish dreams and by bringing them back to reality. Hickey is working especially hard on Larry Slade (Robert Ryan) a former anarchist who has lost his will for life and is awaiting the eventuality of death. Larry is not affected by the cajolings of Hickey but his young companion Parritt (Jeff Bridges) is strangely affected and this leads to revelations about his own mother and feelings of betrayal and loss. As the night wears on the mood changes as everyone has the their faith and dreams slowly destroyed by Hickey. As the anger builds everyone turns on Hickey about his wife and the iceman. This leads to more revelations and with Hickey having the faint questioning of his own new found convictions. Rotten Tomatoes: This film, based on Eugene O'Neill's 1947 Broadway play, is set in 1912 at Harry Hope's waterfront saloon. On the occasion of Harry's birthday, several derelicts enter the scene to pontificate on the lives they'd planned, the lives they still dream about, and the wasted lives they wound up with. 8 / 25 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 69% (2) Prime Cut 88 min R [Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller] [Michael Ritchie] [08 Jul 1972]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, Rotten Tomatoes: 70%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Angel Tompkins, Gene Hackman, Gregory Walcott, Lee Marvin, Sissy Spacek Writer: Robert Dillon External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: A Chicago mob enforcer is sent to Kansas City to settle a debt with a cattle rancher who not only grinds his enemies into sausage, but sells women as sex slaves. Rotten Tomatoes: In this unusual crime thriller, the countryside becomes the homeplace for evil, and the cityscape is a relatively peaceful place. 'Mary Ann' is the odd name for Gene Hackman's character, a scandalous cattleman who rips off meat-packing plants while pimping girls and running drugs. The quasi-gangster heads of the meat-packing plants arrange for Nick Devlin (Lee Marvin), a real gangster, to teach this creep a lesson. Thrilling momenta at a county fair and in wheatfields demonstrate that car chases aren't the only way to build suspense in action scenes. 9 / 25 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  61% (2) Pocket Money 102 min PG [Comedy, Drama, Western] [Stuart Rosenberg] [01 Feb 1972]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 55%, Rotten Tomatoes: 67%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Lee Marvin, Paul Newman, Strother Martin, Wayne Rogers Writer: Terrence Malick (screenplay), J.P.S. Brown (novel), John Gay (adaptation) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Jim Kane is a loser cowboy in Nogales, Arizona.He has more good nature than good sense and often takes jack-of-all-trades jobs. His bank loans are jeopardized when his latest horse purchase is a bust. His horses are quarantined with STD. Jim is broke. The local hotel clerk sympathetic about his situation lets him live in the hotel maid's room for free. His ex-wife goes gentle on him when he cannot make the alimony payments. Jim turns down his uncle's offer of a job but accepts a deal to buy cattle in Mexico for a shady businessman who has a bad reputation. Jim travels to Mexico where he teams up with another loser, an old friend by the name of Leonard, who moved to Mexico in order to pursue one of his many failed get-rich-quick schemes. The two amigos set out to buy Mexican cattle from various local ranchers but they experience difficulties and soon run into trouble. Rotten Tomatoes: Two modern day cowboys smuggle a herd of cows across the border in this loosely amiable comedy. Jim Kane (Paul Newman) is a cowboy who unexpectedly finds himself deep in debt and in need of some fast cash. A less-than-scrupulous businessman approaches Kane and offers him a handsome payday to escort 200 head of cattle from Mexico into the United States for use of the rodeo circuit. While the deal seems dubious, Kane goes along with it, and persuades his friend Leonard (Lee Marvin) to tag along. However, the cattle drive proves to be more of a challenge than the men expected, with a number of less-than-welcome adventures following the cattlemen along the way. Pocket Money also features Strother Martin, Hector Elizondo and Wayne Rogers; keep an eye peeled for a cameo appearance by Terrence Malick, who wrote the film's screenplay years before directing the acclaimed Badlands and Days of Heaven. 10 / 25 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 79% (2) Monte Walsh 106 min PG-13 [Western] [William A. Fraker] [07 Oct 1970]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 71%, Rotten Tomatoes: 88%, External Reviews Awards: 1 nomination. Actors: Jack Palance, Jeanne Moreau, Lee Marvin, Mitchell Ryan Writer: Lukas Heller (screenplay), David Zelag Goodman (screenplay), Jack Schaefer (based upon the novel by) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Monte Walsh is an aging cowboy facing the ending days of the Wild West era. As barbed wire and railways steadily eliminate the need for the cowboy, Monte and his friends are left with fewer and fewer options. New work opportunities are available to them, but the freedom of the open prairie is what they long for. Eventually, they all must say goodbye to the lives they knew, and try to make a new start. Rotten Tomatoes: After losing his job at a ranch, an old cowboy finds that he is one of the last of a dying breed and decides to settle down. His friend and fellow cowboy tries to make a go of it too but realizes that the range is a part of him. 11 / 25 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  48% (3) Paint Your Wagon 164 min PG-13 [Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, Western] [Joshua Logan] [15 Oct 1969]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 67%, Rotten Tomatoes: 27%, Metacritic: 50%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 2 nominations. Actors: Clint Eastwood, Harve Presnell, Jean Seberg, Lee Marvin Writer: Alan Jay Lerner (book), Alan Jay Lerner (screenplay), Paddy Chayefsky (adaptation) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnaping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boomtown. Along the way there is plenty of drinking, gambling, and singing. They even find time to do some creative gold mining. Rotten Tomatoes: After a debut on Broadway in 1951, Paramount spent an estimated 17 to 20 million dollars in production costs for this Lerner and Loewe musical. With Loewe's permission, Lerner wrote five additional tunes for the film with Andre Previn. Ben Rumson (Lee Marvin) is the grizzled prospector trying his luck panning for gold in California. Pardner (Clint Eastwood) is his companion. When Ben buys a woman from a Mormon, Elizabeth (Jean Seberg) expects equal rights for her gender and chooses to live with both men. Ben and Pardner tunnel under the boomtown to gather the fallen gold dust that has filtered through the cracks of the saloon and other places. The musical comedy features 13 songs, the most recognizable being 'They Call The Wind Maria'. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band helps out on the song 'Hand Me Down That Can O' Beans'. Both Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin are given a chance to show their vocal ability (or lack of it) in several songs. The initial release fell far short of regaining the millions put into the production, and most critics dipped their pens in poison to pan the picture -- though the film plays better than the critics would lead anyone to believe. Many jumped on the Paint Your Wagon smear campaign after the film proved to be not nearly as successful as other musicals. 12 / 25 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 84% (2) Point Blank 92 min Not Rated [Crime, Drama, Thriller] [John Boorman] [10 Feb 1968]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 74%, Rotten Tomatoes: 94%, External Reviews Awards: 1 win. Actors: Angie Dickinson, Carroll O'Connor, Keenan Wynn, Lee Marvin Writer: Alexander Jacobs (screenplay), David Newhouse (screenplay), Rafe Newhouse (screenplay), Donald E. Westlake (novel) External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Mal Reese is in a real bind - owing a good deal of money to his organized crime bosses - and gets his friend Walker to join him in a heist. It goes off without a hitch but when Reese realizes the take isn't as large as he had hoped, he kills Walker - or so he thinks. Some time later, Walker decides the time has come get his share of the money and starts with his ex-wife Lynne who took up with Reese after the shooting. That leads him on a trail - to his wife's sister Chris, to Reese himself, then onto Big Stegmam, then Frederick Carter and on and up the line of gangsters all in an effort to get money from people who simply won't acknowledge that he's owed anything. Rotten Tomatoes: In this film, Lee Marvin and John Vernon have just swiped a large amount of mob money. As they sit down to divvy up the loot, Vernon pulls out a gun and shoots Marvin. Left for dead, Marvin manages to recover sufficiently to seek revenge. 13 / 25 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  71% (2) Hell in the Pacific 103 min G [Adventure, War] [John Boorman] [18 Dec 1968]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 73%, Rotten Tomatoes: 69%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Lee Marvin, Toshirô Mifune Writer: Alexander Jacobs (screenplay), Eric Bercovici (screenplay), Reuben Bercovitch (story) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, Japanese Country: USA Plot: During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves stranded on the same small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. Following war logic, each time the crafty Japanese devises something useful, he guards it to deny its use to the Yank, who then steals it, its proceeds or the idea and/or ruins it. Yet each gets his chance to kill and/or capture the other, but neither pushes this to the end. After a while of this pointless pestering, they end up joining forces to build and man a raft... Rotten Tomatoes: The entire cast of Hell in the Pacific consists of two high-powered international stars: Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune. The time is World War II. A downed American marine pilot (Marvin), is stalked on a remote Pacific island by a Japanese navy officer (Mifune). The Japanese officer captures the American, but this situation is reversed when he manages to wriggle free. The two enemies finally decide to live and let live, each moving to their own separate portion of the island. By and by the adversaries come to rely upon one another to survive; they set up living quarters in a deserted camp, get drunk together, and almost -- but not quite -- become friends. The present ending of Hell in the Pacific is greatly at odds with director John Boorman's original vision, in which the Japanese officer angrily kills two Japanese soldiers who have come across the American and decapitated him. As it now stands, viewers are left with an explosive 'lady or the tiger' denouement. 14 / 25 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 80% (3) The Dirty Dozen 150 min Not Rated [Action, Adventure, War] [Robert Aldrich] [22 Oct 1967]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 78%, Rotten Tomatoes: 91%, Metacritic: 73%, External Reviews Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 8 nominations. Actors: Charles Bronson, Ernest Borgnine, Jim Brown, Lee Marvin Writer: Nunnally Johnson (screenplay), Lukas Heller (screenplay), E.M. Nathanson (novel) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, German, French, Spanish, Latin Country: UK, USA Plot: A Major with an attitude problem and a history of getting things done is told to interview military prisoners with death sentences or long terms for a dangerous mission; To parachute behind enemy lines and cause havoc for the German Generals at a rest house on the eve of D-Day. Rotten Tomatoes: Director Robert Aldrich took what he considered a hopelessly old-fashioned script by Lukas Heller and Nunnally Johnson and fashioned The Dirty Dozen into one of MGM's biggest moneymakers of the 1960s--and the sixth highest-grossing film in the studio's history. Lee Marvin plays Major Reisman, assigned to coordinate a suicide mission on a French chateau held by top Nazi officers. Since no 'normal' GI can be expected to volunteer for this mission, Reisman is compelled to draw his personnel from a group of military prisoners serving life sentences. This 'dirty dozen' includes a sex pervert (Telly Savalas), a psycho (John Cassavetes), a retarded killer (Donald Sutherland), and the equally malevolent Charles Bronson, Trini Lopez, Jim Brown, and Clint Walker. On the dim promise of receiving pardons if they survive, the criminals undergo a brutal training program, then are marched behind enemy lines dressed as Nazi soldiers, the better to overtake the chateau and kill everyone in it--including the innocent wives and mistresses of the German officers. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi 15 / 25 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  83% (2) The Professionals 117 min PG-13 [Action, Adventure, Western] [Richard Brooks] [13 Dec 1966]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 74%, Rotten Tomatoes: 93%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 5 nominations. Actors: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode Writer: Frank O'Rourke (novel), Richard Brooks (written for the screen by) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, Spanish Country: USA Plot: A rich Texan, J.W. Grant, selects three men and invites them to his private train to offer them a contract: Rescue his wife who has been kidnapped by a Mexican revolutionary. The leader of the men, Rico, decides they would be a better team if Grant would hire one more man, an explosives expert. Grant quickly agrees and soon the four are off to complete the contract. However, while on the trail, they discover some interesting facts, like has Mrs. Grant 'really' been kidnapped? Rotten Tomatoes: Grant (Ralph Bellamy) is a wealthy rancher who hires four mercenaries to retrieve his wife, Maria (Claudia Cardinale), from the clutches of the desperado Raza (Jack Palance) in this Western adventure set in 1917. Dolworth (Burt Lancaster) is a munitions expert who joins gunslinger Fardan (Lee Marvin), horse trainer Hans Ehrengard (Robert Ryan), and longbow master Jake (Woody Strode) when the men are offered 10,000 dollars apiece for the safe return of Grant's kidnapped wife. The cadre travels 100 miles into Mexico to retrieve the woman, whom they later discover wants to remain with Raza, but they decide to nab Maria anyway to make good on the money. Soon Fardan, Hans, and Jake are chased across the border by the enraged Raza and his equally deadly female accomplice Chiquita (Marie Gomez), while Dolworth stays behind to fight off Raza's Mexican banditos. The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Direction (Richard Brooks), Best Screenplay (Brooks again), and Best Cinematography (Conrad L. Hall). ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi 16 / 25 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 84% (2) Cat Ballou 97 min Not Rated [Comedy, Romance, Western] [Elliot Silverstein] [24 Jun 1965]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 9 wins & 14 nominations. Actors: Dwayne Hickman, Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Michael Callan Writer: Walter Newman (screenplay), Frank Pierson (screenplay), Roy Chanslor (based on a novel by) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Cat(herine) Ballou's family farm is being threatened by the Rail Road. She sends for Kid Shelleen, finding him to be the drunkest gunfighter in the west. When her father is killed by the rail road magnate's gunman, she vows to fight on. Shelleen manages to ride sideways in several scenes, while minstrels sing the ballad of Cat Ballou in between scenes. Rotten Tomatoes: This western spoof tells the story of a tough schoolmarm who becomes a gunslinger to avenge the death of her father. Knowing the killer to be a formidable foe, she hires his twin brother, a drunken lout barely able to stand up, let alone hold a gun. 17 / 25 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  76% (2) Ship of Fools 149 min Not Rated [Drama, Romance, War] [Stanley Kramer] [01 Oct 1965]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 72%, Rotten Tomatoes: 81%, External Reviews Awards: Won 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 13 nominations. Actors: José Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Simone Signoret, Vivien Leigh Writer: Katherine Anne Porter (novel), Abby Mann (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, German, Spanish Country: USA Plot: 1933: An ocean liner belonging to a second-rate German company is making a twenty-six day voyage from Veracruz, Mexico to Bremerhaven, Germany. Along the way it will stop in Cuba to pick up a large group of Spanish farm laborers who are being shipped home and who will be housed like cattle in steerage. There it will also pick up La Condesa, a Spanish countess. It will stop in Tenerife, where the farm workers will disembark and where La Condesa will be sent to a German-run prison for her 'traitorous' activities in Cuba. This voyage will be the last of three for the ship's doctor, Willi Schumann, who has a serious heart ailment and who thought he could find some meaning to his life through this job. Willi and La Condesa fall in love, with the ship's Captain Thiele, who is Willi's closest friend on board, believing the drug-addicted La Condesa is only using him to get her fixes. Willi and La Condesa have to figure out if there is a future for them after the voyage, as Willi's life also includes a wife and sons back in Bremerhaven. Among the other motley crew of passengers are: Mary Treadwell, a middle-aged American divorcée who is trying to recapture her youth; Tenny, a middle-aged American ex-baseball player who laments never having made it big in the game; David and Jenny, a young American couple who say they are in love but who have to overcome their fundamental differences in social standing and life outlooks; Rieber, a middle-aged German Nazi sympathizer who is traveling with a young woman companion and who lords his beliefs over the other German passengers, who in turn are either so self-absorbed with their own lives and/or just don't care to notice what is happening in Germany with the Nazis; and Lowenthal and Glocken, a German Jew and a German dwarf respectively, who are 'paired' as the outsiders among those in first class. Their encounters, plus those with a rambunctious pair of children, two German teenagers who are coming into their sexual being but are having problems overcoming issues they face, and a troupe of gypsy entertainers whose women are pimped out by their leader, lead to an interesting voyage. Rotten Tomatoes: The first person the audience sees in Ship of Fools is dwarf Michael Dunn, who speaks to viewers directly and acts as a Greek chorus throughout the film. It begins on the deck of an ocean liner travelling from Vera Cruz to Bremerhaven. The time is the 1930s, so close and yet so far from war. The cross-section of humanity on board includes ship's doctor Oscar Werner, Spanish political activist Simone Signoret, aging coquette Vivien Leigh, hedonistic baseball player Lee Marvin, philosophical Jew Heinz Ruhmann, a smattering of pro- and anti-Hitlerites (Jose Ferrer plays the nastiest and most vocal 'pro') and young lovers George Segal and Elizabeth Ashley. Yes, it's Grand Hotel at sea, a feast for stargazers and an endurance test for those who aren't comfortable with non-stop speechmaking. Despite such lines as 'What can the Nazis do? Kill all six million of us?,' Ship of Fools manages to stay afloat throughout its 148 minutes. Michael Dunn was nominated for an Academy Award for his interlocutory characterization; the rest of the performances range from brilliant to merely filling up the room. Other Oscars were presented to cinematographer Ernest Lazslo and to the art-direction staff. Ship of Fools was adapted by Abby Mann from the novel by Katharine Ann Porter. 18 / 25 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 75% (2) The Killers 93 min Not Rated [Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller] [Don Siegel] [24 Oct 1964]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 71%, Rotten Tomatoes: 79%, External Reviews Awards: Won 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 nomination. Actors: Angie Dickinson, Clu Gulager, John Cassavetes, Lee Marvin Writer: Ernest Hemingway (story), Gene L. Coon (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: A remake of The Killers (1946) which itself was inspired by the Ernest Hemingway short story. Told instead from the hitmen's point of view, the killers decide to find out why their latest victim (a race car driver) 'just stood there and took it' when they came to shoot him. They also figure on collecting more money. Ronald Reagan plays a rich, double-crossing financier. Lovely Angie Dickinson plays the femme fatale. Rotten Tomatoes: Based on an Ernest Hemingway short story, this cult classic stars Lee Marvin and Clu Gulagher as a pair of hit men assigned to kill John Cassavetes, a teacher at a school for the blind. After committing the crime, they try to piece together the man's past. 19 / 25 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  64% (2) Donovan's Reef 109 min Not Rated [Adventure, Comedy, Romance] [John Ford] [19 Jul 1963]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, Rotten Tomatoes: 60%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Elizabeth Allen, Jack Warden, John Wayne, Lee Marvin Writer: Frank S. Nugent (screenplay), James Edward Grant (screenplay), Edmund Beloin (story) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, French Country: USA Plot: 'Guns' Donovan prefers carousing with his pals Doc Dedham and 'Boats' Gilhooley, until Dedham's high-society daughter Amelia shows up in their South Seas paradise. Rotten Tomatoes: John Ford's last film to deal with World War II, Donovan's Reef is an alternately comical and sentimental look back on the fighting Navy men from that war, and how and where -- in Ford's eyes, and Frank Nugent and James Edward Grant's script -- they should have ended up. Michael 'Guns' Donovan (John Wayne), Thomas 'Boats' Gilhooley (Lee Marvin), and Dr. William Dedham (Jack Warden), a trio of navy veterans who fought on the Pacific island of Haleakalowa during the war, now live on the island. Donovan and Gilhooley, biding time and enjoying themselves, engage in rough-house hijinks among themselves, and are both part of the doctor's extended family, enjoying the good will of the islanders for whom they fought during the war. While Dedham is away on a call to a neighboring island, his grown daughter, Amelia (Elizabeth Allen), from his first marriage, whom he has never seen, announces that she is arriving from Boston to determine Dedham's fitness of character to inherit the majority shares in the family shipping business. Donovan contrives to present Dedham's three Polynesian children, whom the doctor had with the island's hereditary princess, as his own, and also squires Amelia around the island in her father's absence. In the process, the cold Bostonian woman discovers a whole world -- of passion, joy, heroism, and a life among men and women whose lives have been about something other than making money -- that she's never known. She also understands all of the good that her father has accomplished away from Boston, even though it entailed abandoning her. Sparks and even a few fists fly between Donovan and Amelia (and between Donovan and several other characters), in the usual Ford rough-house manner, before their eventual reconciliation and a romantic clinch at the end, in this sweet, sentimental comedy-drama. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi 20 / 25 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 89% (3) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 123 min Not Rated [Drama, Western] [John Ford] [22 Apr 1962]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 81%, Rotten Tomatoes: 93%, Metacritic: 94%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 2 nominations. Actors: James Stewart, John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Vera Miles Writer: James Warner Bellah (screenplay), Willis Goldbeck (screenplay), Dorothy M. Johnson (based on the story by) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: When Senator Ransom Stoddard returns home to Shinbone for the funeral of Tom Doniphon, he recounts to a local newspaper editor the story behind it all. He had come to town many years before, a lawyer by profession. The stage was robbed on its way in by the local ruffian, Liberty Valance, and Stoddard has nothing to his name left save a few law books. He gets a job in the kitchen at the Ericson's restaurant and there meets his future wife, Hallie. The territory is vying for Statehood and Stoddard is selected as a representative over Valance, who continues terrorizing the town. When he destroys the local newspaper office and attacks the editor, Stoddard calls him out, though the conclusion is not quite as straightforward as legend would have it. Rotten Tomatoes: Eastern attorney Ranson Stoddard (James Stewart) heads to the wild West in search of a new life. He settles in the small town of Shinbone where he meets up with Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin). Valance is as bad a villain as there ever was, and his dastardly deeds are financed by an evil conglomerate resolute on stopping the territory from gaining statehood. When Valance beats Stoddard to a bloody pulp, Stoddard is rescued by rancher Tom Doniphon (John Wayne). Tom helps Ranson to a nearby restaurant where owner Hallie (Vera Miles) who patches him up and gives him a job as table server. Valance and his sadistic sidekicks delight in berating the hapless waiter, branding him as 'yellow.' Once again, Tom comes to the rescue when Ranson is tripped by Valance and spills his food. Ranson's only allies appear to be Hallie, Tom, and a dipsomaniac newspaper publisher named Dutton Peabody (Edmund O'Brien. When Peabody prints an article which advocates statehood, he is beaten by Valance and his vermin and his printing office is wrecked. Having stood by and watched the action long enough, Stoddard places his lawyer's shingle in front of the newspaper office. This sets the stage for a showdown between the lawless Valance and the lawful Stoddard, while Tom waits in the wings and watches. Film is directed by John Ford. 21 / 25 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  87% (2) Attack 107 min Approved [Action, Drama, War] [Robert Aldrich] [17 Oct 1956]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 75%, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination. Actors: Eddie Albert, Jack Palance, Lee Marvin, Robert Strauss Writer: Norman Brooks (play), James Poe (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, German Country: USA Plot: During the closing days of WWII, a National Guard Infantry Company is assigned the task of setting up artillery observation posts in a strategic area. Lieutenant Costa knows that Cooney is in command only because of 'connections' he had made state-side. Costa has serious doubts concerning Cooneys' ability to lead the group. When Cooney sends Costa and his men out, and refuses to re-enforce them, Costa swears revenge. Rotten Tomatoes: It is easy to see why the US Army refused to cooperate in the production of Attack. Based on the Norman Brooks play The Fragile Fox, this searing war film is a powerful indictment against a military system which protects even its most incompetent of officers. Eddie Albert plays a posturing but hopelessly inept infantry captain, whose misdeeds are covered up by his colonel Lee Marvin. Albert has strong political connections in the US, and Marvin hopes to take advantage of this after the war. Lieutenant Jack Palance has sworn to kill Albert with his bare hands if the officer bungles another mission. Albert orders Palance and his men into an untenable position on the battlefields of Belgium--and then, true to character, is too cowardly to send backup troops, leaving Palance's men to their fate. By sheer strength of will, Palance, whose arm has been shattered by an enemy tank, drags himself to the cellar where Albert is billeted and attempts to rid the world of the terror-stricken captain. Palance dies before he can keep his promise, but when the craven Albert makes an effort to surrender himself and his men to the Germans, he is shot down by lieutenant William Smithers. The rest of the men conspire to cover up Smithers' 'crime' by claiming that Albert died from enemy fire, but Smithers proves to be less willing to prevaricate than his fellow soldiers. Though most filmgoers are mesmerized by Eddie Albert's virtuoso performance as a snivelling yellow-belly, director Robert Aldrich claimed that Albert gave his best reading during rehearsals, and that what ended up on film was nowhere near as powerful as it might have been. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi 22 / 25 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 64% (1) I Died a Thousand Times 109 min Passed [Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller] [Stuart Heisler] [09 Nov 1955]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 64%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Jack Palance, Lee Marvin, Lori Nelson, Shelley Winters Writer: W.R. Burnett External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: During the 1950s California aging bank robber Roy 'Mad Dog' Earle is pardoned after 8 years in prison.Once out of prison, Roy,at the request of his crime boss 'Big Mac',decides to pull one more heist before retiring.His target is a fancy mountain resort hotel where employee Louis Mendoza is Roy's 'inside man'.Roy Earle's team of robbers include hotheaded Babe,Red and dance-hall girl Marie.Marie falls for Roy but he only thinks of innocent young girl Velma whom he recently met.Velma has a slight foot handicap and smitten Roy plans to pay for her foot surgery with his share of the loot.Unfortunately,the robbery doesn't go as planned. Rotten Tomatoes: In this remake of High Sierra, Jack Palance stars as over-the-hill gangster Mad Dog Earle, who plans one final heist before giving up his life of crime. 23 / 25 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  75% (2) The Wild One 79 min Not Rated [Drama] [Laslo Benedek] [01 Feb 1954]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, Rotten Tomatoes: 81%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Lee Marvin, Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith Writer: John Paxton (screenplay), Frank Rooney (based on a story by) External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Cop-hating Johnny Strabler is recounting the fateful events that led up to the 'whole mess' as he calls it, his role in the mess and whether he could have stopped it from happening. The Black Rebels, a motorcycle gang of which Johnny is the leader, cause a ruckus using intimidation wherever they go, with their actions bordering on the unlawful. On the day of the mess, they invade a motorcycle racing event, at which they cause a general disturbance culminating with one of the gang members stealing a second place trophy to give to Johnny. Despite not being the larger winning trophy, it symbolizes to Johnny his leadership within the group. Their next stop is a small town where their disturbance and intimidation tactics continue. Some in town don't mind their arrival as long as they spend money. Harry Bleeker, the local sheriff, doesn't much like them but is so ineffective and weak that he doesn't do anything to stop them, much to the annoyance of some of the other townsfolk, who see the gang as being a criminal element not to be tolerated. Johnny is attracted to the innocent Kathie Bleeker, the waitress at the local café, who is initially intimidated by Johnny and the gang. His feelings change when he learns she is Sheriff Bleeker's daughter. The actions of the gang escalates when the Beetles, a splinter group of the Black Rebels, arrive in town. As things start to get out of hand between the gangs, some of the townsfolk, such as Charlie Thomas who is in his own right a bully albeit one of the 'establishment', decide to take matters into their own hands. But Kathie may make Johnny change his beliefs, especially about what is happening this day in the town. Rotten Tomatoes: Johnny and his vicious biker gang invade a small, sleepy 1950s California town. The leather-jacketed young biker seems hell-bent for destruction until he falls for Kathie, a good girl whose father happens to be a cop. Unfortunately for Johnny, his one shot at redemption is threatened by a psychotic rival, Chino, plus the hostility and prejudice of the townspeople. All their smoldering passions explode in an electrifying climax! 24 / 25 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 69% (1) The Raid 83 min Approved [Action, Drama, War, Western] [Hugo Fregonese] [04 Aug 1954]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Anne Bancroft, Lee Marvin, Richard Boone, Van Heflin Writer: Sydney Boehm (screenplay), Francis M. Cockrell (story), Herbert Ravenel Sass (based on 'Affair at St. Albans') External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: A group of Confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get the lie of the land, their leader spends a few days in the town and finds he is getting drawn into its life and especially into that of an attractive widow and her son. Rotten Tomatoes: Based on a true story from the Civil War, this drama follows a band of Confederate POWS who escape from a New England prison head for Canada and begin planning to distract Union forces by looting and pillaging a Vermont town. 25 / 25 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |