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Lee J. Cobb
	Date of Birth: Dec 9, 1911 Country: USA Biography: Lee J. Cobb (December 9, 1911 – February 11, 1976) was an American actor. He is best known for his performance in 12 Angry Men (1957) and his Academy Award-nominated performance in On the Waterfront (1954). He also held the role of Willy Loman in the original Broadway performance of Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman under the direction of Elia Kazan... (Wikipedia) Total Films at Criticker: 53 - You've Seen 0
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Inside the Jury Room (2008)

Summary: Short documentary on 12 Angry Men

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The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen (2000)

Summary: Based on the 1971 novel by William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist marries three different scenarios into one extraordinary plot. A visiting actress in Washington, D.C., notices dramatic and dangerous changes in the behavior and physical make-up of her 12-year-old daughter. Meanwhile, a young priest at nearby Georgetown University begins to doubt his faith while dealing with his mother's terminal sickness. And, book-ending the story, a frail, elderly priest recognizes the necessity for a show-down with an old demonic enemy. (imdb)

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Cross Shot (1976)

Summary: In this crime drama a mobster kills a cop during a robbery. He finds himself pursued by the police, his gang, and the media. (allrovi.com)

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That Lucky Touch (1975)

Summary: A European arms dealer (Roger Moore) meets a liberated woman journalist (Susannah York), who is writing a story about the ridiculous things men do with the armaments during a NATO war games meeting. Needless to say, the two meet and make sparks. A rather simple love story ensues. (imdb)

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The Exorcist (1973)

Summary: A troubled cleric tries to help a very disturbed teenage girl.

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The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973)

Summary: A kidnapped woman joins forces with her captors in the old West. (TCM.com)

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Lawman (1971)

Summary: While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken, trail-weary cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death... (imdb)

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The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)

Summary: A Southern lawyer uncovers the truth about a slain undertaker. (imdb)

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Macho Callahan (1970)

Summary: A man tricked into enlisting in the Confederate army is later thrown into a hellish stockade on desertion charges. He eventually breaks out of the prison camp, reunites with his old partner and sets out to kill the man who was responsible for his being in the camp in the first place. However, after accidentally killing a Confederate officer, he finds himself pursued by a gang of vicious bounty hunters intent on collecting the reward put up by the dead officer's widow. (imdb)

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Mackenna's Gold (1969)

Summary: The gangster Colorado kidnaps Marshal McKenna. He believes that McKenna has seen a map which leads to a rich vein of gold in the mountains and forces him to show him the way. But they're not the only ones who're after the gold; soon they meet a group of "honorable" citizens and the cavalry crosses their way too - and that is even before they enter Indian territory. (imdb)

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They Came to Rob Las Vegas (1968)

Summary: Big heist is small potatoes as armed robbers plot to intercept Vegas gambling money. (cinemasirens.com)

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Mafia (1968)

Summary: Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small island town to look into the death of a construction supplier. Once there he is shocked by the influence the Mafia has over the people and even himself. (Answers.com)

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Coogan's Bluff (1968)

Summary: Coogan, an Arizona cop, is sent to New York to collect a prisoner. Everyone in New York assumes Coogan is from Texas, much to his annoyance. To add to Coogan's problems the prisoner isn't ready, so he decides to cut a few corners. (imdb)

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In Like Flint (1967)

Summary: Flint is again called out of retirement when his old boss finds that he seems to have missed 90 seconds while golfing with the president. Flint finds that the president has been replaced by an actor (Flint's line [with a wistful look] is "An Actor as President?") Flint finds that a group of women have banded together to take over the world through subliminal brainwashing in beauty salons they own. (imdb)

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The Meanest Men in the West (1967)

Summary: A compilation of two episodes of "The Virginian" TV western series. Season 1 episode "It Tolls For Thee" (1962) guest star Lee Marvin, and season 6 episode "Reckoning" (1967) guest star Charles Bronson. (imdb)

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Our Man Flint (1966)

Summary: James Bond spoof about a hipster spy who takes on villains that want to take over the world with an earthquake machine. (imdb)

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Come Blow Your Horn (1963)

Summary: A big city swinger teaches his sheltered brother how to become a chick magnet. (TCM.com)

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The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)

Summary: Paris, city of lovers...the day the clocks stopped turning and the world stood still...

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How the West Was Won (1962)

Summary: Sprawling epic which follows the Prescotts, an emigrant family through four generations, from the Erie Canal in the 1830's to their settled home in the West a half a century later... (imdb)

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Exodus (1960)

Summary: The theme is the founding of the state of Israel. The action begins on a ship filled with Jewish immigrants bound for Israel who are being off loaded on Cyprus. An Intelligence officer succeeds in getting them back on board their ship only to have the harbor blocked by the British with whom they must negotiate. The second part of the film is about the situation in Israel as independence is declared and most of their neighbors attack them. (imdb)

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But Not for Me (1959)

Summary: Russ Ward, after 30 years of producing Broadway plays, is ready to quit. His secretary, Ellie Brown, on being given notice, tells him she loves him. Russ proceeds to turn this into a hit play starring Ellie and romance her in a May-December affair.

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The Trap (1959)

Summary: Lawyer Ralph Anderson arrives in Tula, an amazingly remote town in the desert, as reluctant emissary of mob chief Victor Massonetti, who wants the airstrip clear for his unofficial exit from the country. Ralph's arrival has a profound effect on his estranged father, the sheriff; his brother Tip, an alcoholic deputy; and his ex-sweetheart Linda, now married to Tip. Tension builds as a small army of gangsters takes over the town. Then the situation abruptly changes. (imdb)

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Green Mansions (1959)

Summary: A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace, he goes to the mountains and the forests of the Amazon. There he encounters Rima, the Bird Girl, an orphan living a life of nature. It is all an admirable romance telling a tale of "quest, love, and violence." (imdb)

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The Brothers Karamazov (1958)

Summary: In this adaptation of the Dostoevsky classic, four brothers fight to adjust to the death of their domineering father. (imdb)

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Party Girl (1958)

Summary: Lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career defending crooks in trials. He has never realised that there is a downside to his success, until he meets the dancer Vicki Gayle. (imdb)

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Man of the West (1958)

Summary: On his way to hire a schoolteacher, a homesteader is left a hundred miles from anywhere when the train he is on is robbed. With him are an attractive dancehall girl and an untrustworthy gambler and he decides to get shelter nearby from outlaw relatives he used to run with. They don't trust him and he loathes them but they decide he can help them with one last bank job. (imdb)

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The Garment Jungle (1957)

Summary: A dress manufacturer brings in the mob to fight unionization. (TCM.com)

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The Three Faces of Eve (1957)

Summary: Eve White is a quite, mousy, unassuming wife and mother who keeps suffering from headaches and occasional black outs. Eventually she is sent to see psychiatrist Dr. Luther, and, while under hypnosis, a whole new personality emerges: the racy, wild, fun-loving Eve Black... (imdb)

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12 Angry Men (1957)

Summary: A dissenting juror in a murder trial slowly manages to convince the others that the case is not as obviously clear as it seemed in court (imdb)

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Miami Expose (1956)

Summary: Like most Sam Katzman efforts of the late 1950s, Miami Expose laid claim to being "torn from today's headlines." Lensed on location, the film stars Lee J. Cobb as dedicated police lieutenant Bart Scott. Though he'd like nothing better than to smash Miami's gambling racketeers, Scott is forever stymied by legal loopholes. (allrovi.com)

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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)

Summary: An ex-soldier faces ethical questions as he tries to earn enough to support his wife and children well. (imdb)

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The Left Hand of God (1955)

Summary: A man in priestly robes, seemingly the long-awaited Father O'Shea, arrives at a little-frequented Catholic mission in 1947 China. Though the man seems curiously uncomfortable with his priestly duties, his tough tactics prove very successful in the Seven Villages, as around them China disintegrates in civil war and revolution. But he has a secret, and his friendship with mission nurse Anne (an attractive war widow) seems to be taking on an unpriestly tone. (imdb)

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The Racers (1955)

Summary: An Italian bus driver decides to join the European champion racing circuit and meets a ballerina who supports him to get there. (TCM.com)

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The Road to Denver (1955)

Summary: The Mayhew brothers flee from one Texas town to another as older brother Bill repeatedly attempts to keep younger brother Sam out of jail. Bill finally gives up on his younger brother and heads for Colorado. He gets a job and all is well until his brother shows up and takes a job that puts them on opposite sides of the law. (imdb)

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Gorilla at Large (1954)

Summary: At sinister carnival The Garden of Evil, the main attraction is Goliath, "world's largest gorilla...cost the lives of 1,000 men before his capture." Barker Joey Matthews is about to enter the gorilla act, teamed with seductive mantrap Laverne, the owner's wife. Then a man is found dead of a broken neck. Was it Goliath or someone wearing Joey's gorilla suit? Detective Sgt. Garrison finds four interlocked romantic triangles among the suspects... (imdb)

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Yankee Pasha (1954)

Summary: Salem, Massachusetts, 1800. Mountaineer Jason Starbuck rides into town with furs to sell and dreams to fulfill. He falls in love with Roxana, who breaks her previous engagement and leaves for France to await Jason. Roxana's ship is attacked by pirates and she is sold into slavery in Morocco. Jason follows her to Morocco and must win the support of the sultan in order to continue his efforts to locate and rescue her. (imdb)

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On the Waterfront (1954)

Summary: Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize fighter, while tending his pigeons and running errands at the docks for Johnny Friendly, the corrupt boss of the dockers union. Terry witnesses a murder by two of Johnny's thugs, and later meets the dead man's sister and feels responsible for his death. She introduces him to Father Barry, who tries to force him to provide information for the courts that will smash the dock racketeers. (IMDB.com)

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The Family Secret (1951)

Summary: A lawyer must make the most difficult decision of his life in this crime drama that begins when the attorney's son inadvertently kills his best friend. No one was around to see what happened and only his family is the wiser. But the death creates a rift in the family. His father wants him to confess while his mother begs him to stay quiet. Eventually she prevails and the father promises to keep the secret. Then he finds himself appointed to defend the innocent man accused of the killing. (allrovi.com)

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Sirocco (1951)

Summary: A cynical American expatriate gets involved in smuggling and gun-running for the rebels during the 1925 Syrian insurgency against French occupation. (imdb)

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The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950)

Summary: A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case (imdb)

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Thieves' Highway (1949)

Summary: A war-veteran-turned-truck driver attempts to avenge the crippling and robbing of his father at the hands of an amoral produce scofflaw. (imdb)

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The Luck of the Irish (1948)

Summary: Following American reporter Stephen Fitzgerald from Ireland to New York, a grateful leprechaun acts as the newsman's servant and conscience. (imdb)

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The Dark Past (1948)

Summary: Crazed killer takes psychologist hostage. (imdb)

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Call Northside 777 (1948)

Summary: Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal re-opens a ten year old murder case. (imdb)

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The Miracle of the Bells (1948)

Summary: Granting her final request, a Hollywood press agent brings the dead body of an actress, who died after making her first and only film, back to her hometown for burial. To arouse public interest, and to get the reluctant studio head to release the film, he asks all the local churches to ring their bells for three days. (imdb)

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Boomerang! (1947)

Summary: This dramatization of a factual incident opens in a quiet Connecticut town where a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner. The citizens are horrified and demand action from the police. All of the witnesses identify John Waldron, a nervous out-of-towner, as the killer. Although Waldron vehemently denies the crime, no one will believe him. District Attorney Henry Harvey is then put on the case and faces political opposition in his attempt to prove Waldron's innocence. (imdb)

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Captain from Castile (1947)

Summary: The invasion of Mexico by Cortez, as seen by a young Spanish officer fleeing the Inquisition. (imdb)

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Johnny O'Clock (1947)

Summary: High-class gambler gets in trouble with the law. (imdb)

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Anna and the King of Siam (1946)

Summary: In 1862, young English widow Anna Owens accepts the job of teaching the royal children of Siam. On her arrival in Bangkok, culture clash is immediate. The king respects Anna for standing up to him, though this appalls his courtiers. In due course, she becomes the king's confidant and diplomatic advisor; their relationship endures through many trials. (imdb)

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Buckskin Frontier (1943)

Summary: A railroad man and the owner of a freight line battle for control of a crucial mountain pass. (imdb)

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The Song of Bernadette (1943)

Summary: In 1858 France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but the townspeople all assume it to be the virgin Mary. The pompous government officials think she is nuts, and do their best to suppress the girl and her followers, and the church wants nothing to do with the whole matter... (imdb)

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Men of Boys Town (1941)

Summary: Mr. and Mrs. Maitland invite Whitey to their home on a trial basis. Whitey tries to visit a friend in reform school and inmate Flip is hiding in car as Whitey leaves. Flip steals money and both boys go to reform school. Father Flanagan exposes the conditions in the school and the boys are released to him. Ted's dog is killed but Ted can walk. The Maitlands work to pay off the debts threatening Boys Town. (imdb)

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Golden Boy (1939)

Summary: Despite his musical talent, Joe Bonaparte wants to be a boxer. (imdb)

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