Lee Van Cleef
Clarence LeRoy "Lee" Van Cleef Jr. (January 9, 1925 – December 16, 1989) was an American actor best known for his roles in Spaghetti Westerns such as For A Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Hatchet-faced with piercing eyes, he had declined to have his nose altered to play a sympathetic character in his film debut, High Noon, and was relegated to a non-speaking outlaw as a result. For a decade he was typecast as a minor villain, his sinister features overshadowing his acting skills. After suffering serious injuries in a car crash, Van Cleef began to lose interest in his apparently waning career by the time Sergio Leone gave him a major role in For a Few Dollars More. The film made him a box-office draw, especially in Europe.
Despite suffering from heart disease from the late 1970s and having a pacemaker installed in the early 1980s, Van Cleef continued to work in films until his death on December 16, 1989, at age 64. He was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Hollywood Hills, California, with an inscription on his grave marker referring to his many acting performances as a villain: "BEST OF THE BAD".
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.1295 |
| Birthday | 1925-01-09 |
| Place of Birth | Somerville, New Jersey, USA |
| Also Known As | Clarence Leroy Van Cleef Jr., 李·范克里夫, 리 밴 클리프, |
1952
High Noon
7.666/1561
Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train....
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1965
For a Few Dollars More
8.015/4401
Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on his head.
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1981
Escape from New York
7/3491
In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison where brutal prisoners roam free. After the US pre...
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Escape from New York
1957
The Tin Star
7.007/141
An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.
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The Tin Star
1952
Kansas City Confidential
7.067/142
An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.
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Kansas City Confidential
1957
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
7.013/376
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corr...
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1955
The Big Combo
7/169
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfr...
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The Big Combo
1956
Pardners
6.611/63
Rich momma's boy Wade Kingsley Jr. an Eastern dude, tries to follow in his murdered father's footsteps by returning to the West to partner up with Sli...
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Pardners
1980
The Octagon
5.007/148
Scott James, a veteran martial arts expert, is recruited as the protector of the wealthy and beautiful Justine after she becomes the target of a ninj...
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The Octagon
1970
Barquero
6.216/51
Jake Remy leads a gang of outlaw cutthroats making their escape toward Mexico from a successful robbery. Barring their way is a river--crossable only...
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Barquero
1989
Speed Zone
4.489/88
An illegal race that takes place over the United States and nothing will stop this bunch of racers except for the occasional cop or a damsel in distre...
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Speed Zone
1956
It Conquered the World
4.8/53
An alien from Venus tries to take over the world with the help of a disillusioned human scientist, as his wife, his best friend and the friend's wife...
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It Conquered the World
1968
Beyond the Law
5.8/37
A thief takes the job as a town sheriff in order to rob a silver shipment before his ex-partner can grab it.
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Beyond the Law
1959
Ride Lonesome
6.676/156
On the way to pick up the bounty on a wanted murderer, a bounty hunter stops at a staging post where he is forced to continue his journey with two out...
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Ride Lonesome
1958
The Young Lions
6.757/144
The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
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1953
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
6.595/200
The controlled explosion of an atomic bomb in the Arctic Circle awakens a frozen dinosaur that will wreak havoc in New York City.
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The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
1974
The Stranger and the Gunfighter
5.269/26
During a hold-up in the Wild West, Dakota kills a rich old Chinese man, Wang. Later, he is captured, sentenced, and is about to be hanged - and he nev...
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2014
Peter Baumgartner, Filmkameramann
0/0
Peter Baumgartner talks about his life and work as a DoP for Erwin C. Dietrich and Jess Franco.
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Peter Baumgartner, Filmkameramann
1957
The Lonely Man
5.9/18
Aging gunslinger Jacob Wade hopes to settle down with his estranged son, but his old enemies have other plans for him. Gunslinger Jacob Wade finds his...
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The Lonely Man
1956
Accused of Murder
4.5/15
A police detective finds himself entangled in the web of the underworld when he falls in love with a nightclub singer accused of murdering a crooked l...
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Accused of Murder
1972
The Magnificent Seven Ride!
5.5/98
Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend's request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican bandits. When his wife is killed by bank robbers...
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The Magnificent Seven Ride!
1958
The Bravados
6.588/142
Jim Douglass arrives in the small town of Rio Arriba in order to witness the hanging of the four men he believes murdered his wife. When the convicts...
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The Bravados
1972
The Grand Duel
5.973/110
A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead.
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The Grand Duel
1975
Take a Hard Ride
5.249/43
After his cattle rancher boss dies, right-hand man Pike is given the job of returning $86,000 to some families who live across the border in Sonora, M...
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Take a Hard Ride
1955
Ten Wanted Men
5.768/28
When his ward seeks protection with rival cattleman John Stewart, embittered, jealous rancher Wick Campbell hires ten outlaws to help him seize power...
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Ten Wanted Men
1967
The Big Gundown
7.257/179
Unofficial lawman John Corbett hunts down Cuchillo Sanchez, a Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a 12-year-old girl.
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The Big Gundown
1986
Armed Response
5/17
One of Tanaka's underlings has stolen a rare statuette that he had planned to use as a peace offering between the local Yakusa and Chinese Tong. He hi...
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Armed Response
1990
Thieves of Fortune
2.7/3
A beautiful woman must perform feats of bravery in order to inherit a $28 million fortune and win the man she loves.
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Thieves of Fortune
1967
Death Rides a Horse
6.965/229
Bill Meceita, a boy whose family was murdered in front of him by a gang, sets out 15 years later to exact revenge. On his journey, he finds himself co...
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Death Rides a Horse
1969
Sabata
6.2/118
Several pillars of society have robbed an Army safe containing $100,000 so they can buy the land upon which the coming railroad will be built. But the...
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Sabata
1971
Return of Sabata
5.9/155
Master gunslinger Sabata arrives in Hobsonville, a town completely owned by McIntock, a robber baron who is taxing the inhabitants for the cost of fut...
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Return of Sabata
1973
Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
4.1/8
There's trouble in Frankie Diomede's criminal empire in Genoa. A French gangster has moved into his territory, so he flies home to take care of busine...
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Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
1979
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
0/0
Some of TV and film's popular western actors reunite in this tribute special hosted by Glenn Ford.
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1956
Tribute to a Bad Man
7/30
Jeremy Rodock is a tough horse rancher who strings up rustlers as soon as looks at them. Fresh out of Pennsylvania, Steve Miller finds it hard to get...
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Tribute to a Bad Man
1958
Machete
5.9/4
The opportunistic Jean marries an older man, plantation owner Don Luis, for financial security and finds herself falling for his virile right-hand man...
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Machete
1967
Day of Anger
7.029/155
A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of famed gunfighter Talby, and the stage for confrontation is set when the gunman overruns the boy's town thro...
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Day of Anger
1953
Vice Squad
6/24
A Los Angeles police captain ties the case of a slain policeman to a bank robbery, all in a day.
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Vice Squad
1970
El Condor
5.5/32
Luke, an escaped convict, and Jaroo, a loner gold prospector, team up with a band of Apache Indians in 19th century Mexico to capture a large, heavily...
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El Condor
1957
China Gate
6.1/28
Near the end of the French phase of the Vietnam War, a group of mercenaries are recruited to travel through enemy territory to the Chinese border.
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China Gate
1976
Kid Vengeance
5.1/18
Tom, a teenager, teams with a black gunfighter named Isaac to avenge his family.
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Kid Vengeance
1984
Killing Machine
4.5/12
After a gang of thugs brands a hard working truck driver a traitor and murders his bride, He retaliates by being even more violent than his attackers...
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Killing Machine
1976
God's Gun
5.2/34
Priest turned vigilante Father John hunts down a gang of criminals, led by Sam Clayton, who killed a man in a local bar. On the gang's return to the t...
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God's Gun
1985
Jungle Raiders
3.25/4
An expedition enters an unexplored jungle to search for a legendary ruby.
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Jungle Raiders
1971
Bad Man's River
4.5/27
Robber Roy King loses his wife, Alicia, to revolutionary Montero. Despite their rivalry they collaborate in an attempt to rob the Mexican government o...
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Bad Man's River
1968
Commandos
5.661/31
Sgt. Sullivan puts together a group of Italian-Americans into disguise as Italian soldiers in order to infiltrate a North African camp held by the Ita...
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Commandos
1952
The Lawless Breed
6.7/22
After being released from prison, ex-gunfighter John Wesley Hardin hopes to have his autobiography published in order to rehabilitate his tarnished re...
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The Lawless Breed
1971
Captain Apache
4.515/34
The title character is a US army Captain of Native American descent who is asked to investigate the murder of an Indian agent. His only clue is "April...
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Captain Apache
1953
The Bandits of Corsica
5.8/3
Siamese twins separated at birth retain a psychic link; each feels the other's pain and happiness.
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The Bandits of Corsica
1953
Arena
4.7/9
Left by his wife, a vain rodeo star picks up a floozy and rides a bad Brahman bull.
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Arena
1954
Gypsy Colt
6.3/3
In this trans-species remake of Lassie, Come Home, a faithful horse undertakes a perilous journey to return to the family it loves.
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Gypsy Colt
1980
The Hard Way
5.7/10
John Connor is a soon-to-retire hitman that agrees to take on one last job. After years plying his deadly trade, he has finally had enough. Seeking to...
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The Hard Way
1957
Raiders of Old California
4.7/7
A villainous cavalry officer is trying to force the owner of a hacienda to give him his land when a courageous settler comes to the rescue.
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Raiders of Old California
1988
The Commander
5.5/18
Lewis Collins is back to leading mercenaries on the move in Southeast Asia. This time the cast is unusually good including Lee Van Cleef, Brett Halsey...
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The Commander
1954
Arrow In The Dust
5.8/9
A cavalry deserter poses as a major and leads a wagon train with a hidden cargo of repeating rifles.
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Arrow In The Dust
1984
Code Name: Wild Geese
5.2/28
Commander Robin Wesley, leader of a group of mercenaries, go to the Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia to overthrow the dictator, who is a major manufa...
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Code Name: Wild Geese
1954
Dawn at Socorro
7.2/10
Brett Wade, gambler, gunslinger, and classical pianist, is wounded in a gunfight with the Ferris clan; the doctor finds signs of tuberculosis. En rout...
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Dawn at Socorro
1954
Princess of the Nile
7.1/9
Shalimar, an Egyptian princess, striving to rid her country of its Bedouin conquerors, forms an alliance with Prince Haidi, son of the Caliph of Bagda...
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Princess of the Nile
1977
The Perfect Killer
3/3
Betrayed by his girl and best friend, thief Harry Chapman takes the fall for a racetrack robbery. While in prison, he is offered a chance to participa...
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The Perfect Killer
1952
Untamed Frontier
7.2/6
The Denbow family denies access across their land to homesteaders. To evade a murder charge, Glenn Denbow marries Jane, the only witness who's in love...
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Untamed Frontier
1954
The Yellow Tomahawk
6/6
When the army insists on building a fort on Indian land, in defiance of a treaty, the warnings of a scout go unheeded.
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The Yellow Tomahawk
1957
Joe Dakota
6.3/9
A stranger rides into town and says he is looking for a local Indian. Told he left town, the truth everyone has been hiding comes out including the st...
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Joe Dakota
1955
Treasure of Ruby Hills
4/3
Ranchers battle one another over water rights. Western.
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Treasure of Ruby Hills
1955
The Vanishing American
4/2
A woman arrives in New Mexico to claim property she's inherited and receives an education in the greedy exploitation of the local Navajo.
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The Vanishing American
1957
The Badge of Marshal Brennan
6/1
Jim Davis is a man on the run. He comes across the body of a dead man wearing the badge of a marshal. He buries the body and takes the badge and rides...
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The Badge of Marshal Brennan
1957
The Quiet Gun
6.4/6
A mild mannered sheriff must fight both a hired gun and local anti-Indian bigotry in a small frontier town.
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The Quiet Gun
1953
The Nebraskan
2.7/3
War looms on the horizon when an Army officer's American Indian aide is accused of murdering a tribal elder.
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The Nebraskan
1957
Gun Battle at Monterey
4.6/5
An outlaw saved by a Mexican girl hunts the holdup partner who shot him in the back.
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Gun Battle at Monterey
1954
Rails Into Laramie
6.3/11
A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the construction of a new railroad track.
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Rails Into Laramie
1953
Jack Slade
6.4/5
A young boy witnesses his father murdered by bandits and grows into adulthood vowing revenge.
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Jack Slade
1957
Last Stagecoach West
4.3/3
The coming of the railroad to Cedar City spells the end of the stagecoach as the government gives the mail contract to the fastest means of delivery....
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Last Stagecoach West
1978
The Squeeze
5.2/6
A retired safe cracker is recruited by a young conman to return to the "business" for a million dollar heist.
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The Squeeze
1960
The Slowest Gun in the West
2/1
The town of Primrose, Arizona is beset by outlaws, so the towns people hire Fletcher Bissell III (A.K.A. The Silver Dollar Kid) as their new sheriff....
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The Slowest Gun in the West
1962
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
7.819/1272
Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon...
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1953
Tumbleweed
6.1/17
Jim Harvey is hired to guard a small wagon train as it makes its way west. The train is attacked by Indians and Harvey, hoping to persuade Aguila, the...
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Tumbleweed
1961
Posse from Hell
6.2/29
Banner Cole is a tough sheriff's deputy who forms a small posse to go after 4 death cell escapees who killed the sheriff , along with 3 other men, and...
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Posse from Hell
1966
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
8.5/9571
While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the Amer...
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1955
A Man Alone
5.8/35
A gunfighter, stranded in the desert, comes across the aftermath of a stage robbery, in which all the passengers were killed. He takes one of the hors...
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A Man Alone
2000
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
0/0
Klaus Kinski is one of the few German actors who has achieved international fame. He made headlines. And disappeared behind them. Kinski lived his par...
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Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
1962
How the West Was Won
6.985/488
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one...
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How the West Was Won
1956
The Conqueror
3.5/56
Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai. Temujin becomes the emperor Genghis Khan.
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The Conqueror
1985
The Master Ninja 5
10/1
Lee Van Cleef stars as John Peter McAllister, who as a reverend master of the Ninja warrior society, deserts the order the order to search for his mis...
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The Master Ninja 5
1955
I Cover the Underworld
6/1
Gunner O'Hara is about to be released from prison after serving a five-year sentence, and receives a visit from his twin brother John, a divinity stud...
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I Cover the Underworld
1954
The Desperado
6.6/5
"Only a fool sticks his neck out for somebody else. Don't get in the habit of it." Outlaw gunslinger Sam Garrett offers that sage wisdom to fellow fug...
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The Desperado
1955
The Road to Denver
6.4/5
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 finall...
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The Road to Denver
1984
Master Ninja
4.3/9
Aging skilled master ninja, John Peter McAllister, and his young apprentice search for John's long lost daughter, all the while his old enemies try to...
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Master Ninja
1977
Nowhere to Hide
5/1
A special unit of the U.S. Marshal's Service is assigned to protect a syndicate hitman who is to testify against his former bosses, who have put out a...
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Nowhere to Hide
1984
Master Ninja II
7.2/6
Lee Van Cleef and Timoty Van Patten are back in this "sequel" to their last "movie" about a ninja and his apprentice battling evil wherever they go. I...
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Master Ninja II
1958
Day of the Badman
6.7/14
Judge Jim Scott must contend with the vicious relatives of a murderer he's about to sentence...and his unfaithful fiancee.
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Day of the Badman
1953
White Lightning
6/1
The Red Devils, a professional ice hockey team, owned by Jack Monohan, is in the midst of a long losing streak, due to bribes being accepted from gamb...
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White Lightning
1959
Guns, Girls and Gangsters
5.81/21
Chuck Wheeler gets out of the Pen and sets up an elaborate heist of Vegas casino money travelling by armored truck. He enlists the help of shady club...
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Guns, Girls and Gangsters
1955
The Naked Street
6.1/22
To make an honest woman of his pregnant sister, Rosalie, callous New York mobster Phil Regal intimidates witnesses and bribes a store clerk to get Ros...
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The Naked Street
2024
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
5.3/3
The story of one of the great environmental disasters to befall the United States, and the terrible movie that helped bring the catastrophe to light.
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