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Director Mark Robson’s ultra-gripping classic 1949 boxing drama about ruthless rising to fame in the fight game provided Kirk Douglas with his first out of three Best Actor Oscar nominations. Although in the event the […]
Director Vincente Minnelli’s 1958 portrait of the artist offered Kirk Douglas one of his three chances to win an Oscar but in the event he never won and had to be content with an honorary […]
Director Vincente Minnelli’s literate and intelligent 1962 follow-up to MGM’s The Bad and the Beautiful has the same movie-making background and the same star (Kirk Douglas), writer (Charles Schnee), producer (John Houseman) and director, as […]
Director Brian De Palma’s 1978 thriller stars Kirk Douglas as an American government ex-CIA agent Peter Sandza, who learns his son Robin (Andrew Stevens) has been kidnapped by a wily and unscrupulous former co-worker Ben Childress (John […]
Director Lewis Milestone’s deservedly much admired 1946 thriller The Strange Love of Martha Ivers mixes film noir with steamy melodrama. The result is this fascinating and riveting excursion into one woman’s nightmare. It is notable […]
‘Once I trusted a dame… now I Walk Alone!’ Burt Lancaster and Lizabeth Scott star with Wendell Corey and Kirk Douglas in director Byron Haskin’s authentic 1947 film noir I Walk Alone. ‘Once I trusted a […]