Irvin Kershner

Irvin Kershner

Date of Birth: 29 Apr 1923

Country: USA

Total Credits at Criticker: 4 (Actor), 18 (Director)

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    Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
    Three years after the events of "Star Wars," Imperial forces continue to pursue the Rebels. After the Rebellion's defeat on the ice planet Hoth, Luke journeys to the planet Dagobah to train with Jedi Master Yoda, who has lived in hiding since the fall of the Republic. In an attempt to convert Luke to the dark side, Darth Vader lures young Skywalker into a trap in the Cloud City of Bespin. In the midst of a fierce lightsaber duel with the Sith Lord, Luke faces a startling revelation. (20th Century Fox)
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    RoboCop 2
    A corrupt businesswoman seeks to disable Robocop in favor of her own model of cyborg. (imdb)
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    Never Say Never Again
    A SPECTRE agent has stolen two American nuclear warheads, and James Bond must find their targets before they are detonated.
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    Eyes of Laura Mars
    Suddenly Laura Mars can see through the eyes of a serial killer as he commits his crimes. She contacts the police and with the aid of a police detective, tries to stop the killer. But first, they have to figure out who it is. (imdb)
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    The Flim-Flam Man
    Mordrcai Jones (George C. Scott) is a rural con artist (a 'flim flam man') who takes on a young army deserter Curley (Michael Sarrazin) as his protégé and teaches him the tricks of the trade. (imdb)
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    The Return of a Man Called Horse
    In the 1840s, trappers with government backing push the Yellow Hands Sioux off their sacred land; they retreat into an apocalyptic spirituality, passively waiting for supernatural wrath to descend on their usurpers. Meanwhile, in England, Lord John Morgan feels his spirit weaken, so he returns to America to live again with the Yellow Hand... (imdb)
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    S*P*Y*S
    Two CIA agents make a costly error on an easy mission and soon everyone is looking to kill them. With the KGB, the Anarchists and the CIA all involved, the two agents' bumbling antics tear up the streets of Paris.
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    Raid on Entebbe
    Second of a series of dramas about a daring Israeli commando assault on the Entebbe Airport in Uganda. (imdb)
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    A Fine Madness
    Samson Shillitoe, a frustrated poet and a magnet for women, is behind in his alimony payments, and lives with Rhoda, a waitress who stands by him through all his troubles. Samson becomes belligerent when he cannot find the inspiration to finish his big poem so Rhoda tries to get him to see the psychiatrist Dr. West, who claims to be able to cure writer's block. Samson ends up begin pursued by various women while trying to evade the subpoena servers and finish his poem. (imdb)
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    Hoodlum Priest
    Based on the life of Fr. Charles Clark, a minister to street gangs.
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    Up the Sandbox
    A young wife and mother is bored with day-to-day life in New York City and is neglected by her far-too-busy husband. To combat boredom, she finds herself slipping into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and somehow joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty. (netflix.com)
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    Loving
    Brooks Wilson is in crisis. He is torn between his family and his mistress, and has doubts about his professional life as well.
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    Stakeout on Dope Street
    Three teenagers find a briefcase with a beat-up old can in it. They throw away the can and pawn the suitcase. When they read in the papers that the can was full of uncut heroin and belonged to a drug dealer who killed two narcotics agents in a shootout, they go back to look for the can, find it, and decide to go into the heroin selling business. However, the drug dealer's gang also wants the heroin, finds out the boys have it, and sets out to hunt them down and get back their dope. (imdb)
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    A Face in the Rain
    In this melodrama, set in German-occupied Italy during WW II, a Yankee spy is concealed in the attic of an underground contact's house. The contact's wife does not want him there as she is having an affair with the German Officer who is looking for him. He remains in the attic, hidden by the woman's son. Trouble ensues when the American is seen by the woman and her lover. He must escape across the slippery rain-soaked tile roof tops. The German troops are in hot pursuit. (allrovi.com)
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    The Luck of Ginger Coffey
    An out-of-work Irish immigrant in Montreal remains hopeful that his luck is about to change but his disillusioned family grow tired of his pigheadedness and instability. (imdb)
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    The Rebel
    The Rebel (1959) - TV Series
    After the end of the American Civil War, a former Confederate Army private roams the Wild West and, as a rogue drifter, gets involved in helping out various settlers threatened by various bad guys.
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    Now Is Tomorrow
    A film about looking ahead, with stories of people today pursuing their destinies in the world of tomorrow.
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    SeaQuest DSV
    SeaQuest DSV (1993) - TV Series
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