Cliff Robertson

Cliff Robertson
Country: USA
Total Credits at Criticker: 58 (Actor), 2 (Director), 2 (Writer)
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Riding the Bullet
A classic coming-of-age tale in which a young man must face his own mortality and the death of a loved one. (Motion Picture Corporation of America)
Spider-Man
Peter Parker (Maguire), after being bitten by a genetically altered spider, becomes Spider-Man, a hero of superhuman strength with the ability to cling to any surface. He dedicates himself to a life of fighting crime, while living a double life as a superhero and working student. (Sony)
+7
Picnic
The morning of a small town Labor Day picnic, a drifter (Hal Carter) blows into town to visit an old fraternity buddy (Alan Benson) who also happens to be the son of the richest man in town (imdb)
The Devil\
During World War II a special fighting unit is formed combining a crack Canadian outfit and a conglomeration... (imdb)
Charly
Charly is a retarded adult male struggling to survive in the world. His frequent attempts at learning, reading, and writing prove worthless. (imdb)
Class
Jonathan, a naive country boy, gets a scholarship to a classy prep school, where he rooms with suave, rich and handsome Skip (imdb)
3 Days of the Condor
A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust. (imdb)
+4
Gidget
A young girl discovers surfing and love (in that order) during one transitive summer. (imdb)
+4
The Best Man
The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority... (imdb)
Obsession
New Orleans businessman Michael Courtland's life is shattered when his wife and daughter are tragically killed in a botched kidnap rescue attempt... (imdb)
+2
Wind
Will Parker, played by Matthew Modine, loses the Americas Cup, the worlds biggest sailing prize, to the Australians and decides to form his own syndicate to win it back. (imdb)
PT 109
Dramatization of President John F. Kennedy's war time experiences during which he captained a PT boat, took it to battle and had it sunk by a Japanese destroyer. (imdb)
Brainstorm
Brilliant researchers Lillian Reynolds and Michael Brace have developed a system of recording and playing back actual experiences of people... (imdb)
+4
13th Child
People are being killed by someone or something using superhuman strength. A clever DA Assistant is sent to investigate. Is this just a way to commit the perfect murder or will the legend of the Jersey Devil prove to be true? (imdb)
Midway
A dramatization of the battle that turned out to be the turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II. (imdb)
+5
Wild Hearts Can\
Sonora Webster, a runaway in the thirties, desperately wants to be a diving girl- a girl who rides on a diving horse as it drops from a forty-foot platform into a deep pool of water. She finally achieves her dreams, when it seems that it's all going to be taken away from her- she goes blind from an accident. (imdb)
+4
Star 80
Based on the story of Dorothy Stratten, 1980 Playmate of the Year, Star 80 explores a brief and tragic career that was engineered by Stratten's loutish husband and manager, Paul Snider. Shunned by the rich and powerful people who court his beautiful, ingenuous wife, Snider makes her first the beneficiary and then the victim of his own ambition. (imdb)
+2
Shaker Run
With the accidental discovery of a lethal bio-agent at her research facility, Dr. Christine Ruben decides to double cross her own government by stealing the deadly formula to keep it out of the clutches of the military, whom she doesn't trust. To make her rendezvous with some confederates who promise to get her out of the country, she recruits daredevil driver Judd Pierson and his partner Casey Lee, who are down on their luck and take the job without knowing what they're getting into. (imdb)
The Naked and the Dead
In the Pacific during World War 2, the officers live a comfortable life with good food, good drink and good quarters. To them, war is a game which they know they will win and the common soldiers are the pawns on the board. When the campaign slows down, the Commander sends a squad to the top of a mountain behind enemy lines to report on the Japanese troop movements. The squad is commanded by a tough cynical Sergeant who takes no prisoners and even takes the gold from the teeth of the enemy dead.... (imdb)
Underworld U.S.A.
Fourteen-year-old Tolly Devlin sees four hoods beat his father to death. Twenty years later, the killers have risen to the top of the crime syndicate and Tolly has a plan for revenge. (imdb)
+3
Too Late the Hero
A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don't go exactly to plan. This film differs in that some of the 'heros' are very reluctant, but they come good when they are pursued by the Japanese who are determined to prevent them returning to base. (imdb)
Mach 2
A Presidential candidate running against the Vice-President plans a trip to the Balkans to negotiate the release of American servicemen being held hostage. Before he leaves, he receives a disk documenting evidence that the Vice-President has been trying to revive the American economy by causing a war in the Balkans... (imdb)
Autumn Leaves
Milly, a lonely older woman, marries Burt Hanson, a much younger man. But after the wedding, Milly discovers that Burt has been mentally unhinged by the discovery, some time before, of his first wife Virginia in the arms of his father. The reappearance of his father and former wife in Burt's new life throws him into deep mental distress, and Milly must decide whether to have him committed to a mental institution. (imdb)
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces for a bungled robbery of the bank in Northfield, MN. (imdb)
633 Squadron
An RAF squadron is assigned to knock out a German rocket fuel factory in Norway,, which is part of the Nazi effort to lauch rockets on England during D-day, by flying up a well-defended fjord at low level. (imdb)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock
A look at Alfred Hitchcock's films. The Master of Suspense himself, who is interviewed extensively here, shares stories including his deep-seated fear of policemen, elaborates on the difference between shock and suspense, defines the meaning of "MacGuffin," and discusses his use of storyboarding in designing a film. (imdb)
Sunday in New York
Eileen is 22 and engaged to Russ. She comes to New York to visit her brother, an airline pilot. One of Eileen's concerns is that she may be the only 22 year old virgin left in the world. Russ assures her that sex is not want all men look for and that he does not, in fact, concern himself about different women every time. Eileen is unsure about marrying Russ, and decides to see if she can have some fun for herself in New York. But can she have that kind of fun with Mike who she meets on the bus? (imdb.com)
The Honey Pot
Inspired by his favorite play, Volpone, millionaire Cecil Fox (Rex Harrison) devises an intricate plan to dupe three of his former mistresses into believing he is dying. (imdb)
Dominique Is Dead
A millionaire who has recently lost his wife starts believing that he is being haunted by her spirit. (imdb)
Man on a Swing
A small-town police chief investigating a murder is offered help by a self-described psychic. However, when the chief discovers that the "psychic" is in possession of information known only to the police, he suspects that the man may be more involved in the case than he lets on. (imdb)
Masquerade
The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince. (imdb)
The Pilot
Mike Hagan is a pilot in passenger service and candidate for the honor "Best Pilot of the Year". Nobody knows that he's got private sorrows - he's an alcoholic. A stewardess notices his regular visits of the toilet and reports it. (imdb)
Malone
Ex-CIA hit-man running from his past (Malone) finds just how difficult it is to retire when he runs across a small town controlled by mercenaries and a family that's resisting their control. (imdb)
+5
Falcon Down
When CIA agents recruit him to steal a top-secret aircraft from its rogue civilian contractors, disgraced military pilot Capt. Hank Thomas (Dale Midkiff) must also face down desperate mercenaries, the Chinese military and betrayal within his own ranks. His mission becomes even more deadly when hijackers force him to land the jet on weak polar ice.
+1
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
An in depth look at the films and creative process of Vincente Minnelli. (imdb comments)
The Girl Most Likely
A girl accepts three wedding proposals at once and dreams of marriage to each man. (TCM.com)
J.W. Coop
After losing eight years to prison, cowboy J. W. Coop is released to return to life as a professional rodeo cowboy in the 60's. Determined to make up for the lost 'prime' years of his career, he doggedly goes forward, and learns that not only has the business of rodeo changed during his incarceration but society as a whole has made dramatic changes as well. (imdb)
+2
My Six Loves
Successful Broadway star Janice Courtney collapses from exhaustion and is ordered to rest for six weeks at her country home in Connecticut. While there, she meets some people who change her life permanently, and discovers true love and happiness. (imdb)
Battle of the Coral Sea
A U.S. submarine and its crew are captured by the Japanese on the eve of a major World War II battle. (TCM.com)
Shoot
When boredom, pride and a mad second of misjudgement leaves a hunter shot dead by one of five combat veterans also hunting in the Canadian hills, it is expected a police investigation will follow, but when the veterans discover the incident has not been reported, the leader of the team, Major Rex (Cliff Robertson) suspects the other party maybe plotting revenge.
The Interns
During their first year of internship at New North Hospital, a group of aspiring doctors undergo both personal and professional upheavals. John Paul Otis destroys his medical career when he falls in love with celebrated model Lisa Cardigan and tries to steal pills from the hospital in order to abort her pregnancy. His lifelong friend, Lew Worship, feels duty-bound to report the theft, and Otis is expelled. (imdb)
Love Has Many Faces
Rich playgirl Kit Jordan (nee Katherine Lawson Chandler) is in Acapulco vacationing with her current husband, Pete Jordan, formerly an American beach boy working the Acapulco shores for rich women. Meanwhile, the body of one of Pete's fellow beach boys, Billy Andrews, washes to shore. On his wrist is a bracelet engraved with "Love is thin ice." The police investigate whether it was murder or suicide. (imdb)
Ford: The Man and the Machine
A compelling biography of the brilliant inventor and entrepreneur who embodied the American Dream. Henry Ford shared that dream with the world - but almost destroyed himself in the process. This is his amazing story through fifty years of struggle, invention, conflict and controversy. (ebay.com)
Fraternity Row
Story of an upper class college in the early '50s and how a "harmless" hazing resulted in a student's death. (imdb)
Up from the Beach
This war-drama centers more on the effects of battle on civilians than it does on the bravery of the fighters as it tells the story of a courageous squadron of Yankee soldiers endeavoring to protect and bring to safety a village full of French civilians whom they saved from German captors following the Allied invasion of Normandy. During the battle to free them, the soldiers also capture a German officer. They then begin heading toward the beach with the civilians so they can go to England. (allrovi.com)
Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies
Story of a 1920s stunt flyer and the son he takes on the road with him. (imdb)
As the Sea Rages
After five tears of war, Clements, a professional seaman, has no ambitions other than to live in peace and carry out his activity. Having settled down in the archipelago of the Aegean Sea, he has founded a small sponge fishing company in an idyllic place and foresees an optimistic future. Unfortunately, he soon finds himself caught in a crossfire. (imdb)
The Big Show
A colorful circus spectacular finds a rich American girl (Esther Williams) falling for the man on the flying trapeze (Cliff Robertson). His brother (Robert Vaughn) plots revenge against his father, a hard driving old world sadist who pushes the family to greater and more dangerous aerial acts. (allrovi.com)
Dead Reckoning
A doctor, his wife and her lover make a voyage on the yacht of the doctor. But when the weather turns very bad they have to stop the seacruise and seek refuge on a lonley island. There begins a deadly game in which the lover and the wife try to kill the husband. (imdb)
The Key to Rebecca
roduced for the syndicated "Operation Prime Time" anthology, The Key to Rebecca is a two-part adaptation of the Ken Follett novel. Cliff Robertson stars as a British major who is determined to capture an elusive German spy during World War II.The spy in question, played by David Soul, has disguised himself as a British subject and is squirreled away somewhere in Cairo. (allrovi.com)
The Man Without a Country
At his court-martial, an American Army officer renounces his country. For his punishment he is ordered to spend the rest of his life on a ship that sails all over the world, but he will never be allowed to set foot on his country's soil. nor come within site of it, nor be allowed to know anything about the country (imdb)
Dreams of Gold: The Mel Fisher Story
The true story of treasure hunter Mel Fisher, who spent much of his life--and his fortune--hunting for sunken Spanish treasure galleons off the coast of Florida.
Washington: Behind Closed Doors
The story of a power-hungry U.S. President, and the men he surrounds himself with in order to keep his hold on power. Based on John Ehrlichman's book about the Nixon administration. (imdb)
My Father\
While recuperating from a heart attack--brought about in part by his job as a hard-charging but highly paid executive--a man begins to reflect on his life and the simpler time when he was growing up. (imdb)
Out of Season
Middle-aged Ann and her teenage daughter Joanna manage a failing hotel on an island off the British coast. One day, the hotel receives an unexpected guest, a man named Joe. Joe and Ann had an affair years ago, and it's suggested (though never stated) that Joanna could be their child. Joe and Ann soon renew their relationship, but Ann discovers that she has a rival for Joe's affections when Joanna makes her interest in the handsome older man clear.
Return to Earth
The story of Buzz Aldrin, the second astronaut to walk on the moon, and the problems he had after his return to Earth, including the breakup of his marriage, a nervous breakdown and his hospitalization for psychiatric problems.
The Little Prince
The Little Prince questions the universe in this story of innocence and wonder.
Melting Pot
An East L.A working stiff is bullied by his wife to run for a City Council position against a well-organized recognized political figure.