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Paths of Glory (1957)
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Director Stanley Kubrick
Writer Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham, Jim Thompson
Cast Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou
Plot A colonel defends three of his soldiers in a court-martial after they abandon a suicidal attack.
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Spartacus (1960)
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Director Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Mann
Writer Dalton Trumbo, Howard Fast, Peter Ustinov
Cast Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Tony Curtis
Plot The slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.
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Out of the Past (1947)
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Director Jacques Tourneur
Writer Daniel Mainwaring, James M. Cain, Frank Fenton
Cast Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
Plot A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses, and duplicitous dames.
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Ace in the Hole (1951)
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Director Billy Wilder
Writer Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels, Walter Newman
Cast Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur
Plot Frustrated former journalist Chuck Tatum now working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about trading post owner Leo Minosa trapped in a cave to rekindle Chuck's career, but the story soon escalates into a media circus.
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
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Director Richard Fleischer
Writer Earl Felton, Jules Verne
Cast Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas
Plot A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.
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Seven Days in May (1964)
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Director John Frankenheimer
Writer Fletcher Knebel, Charles W. Bailey II, Rod Serling
Cast Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March
Plot United States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.
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The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
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Director Vincente Minnelli
Writer Charles Schnee, George Bradshaw
Cast Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon
Plot An unscrupulous movie producer uses an actress, a director and a writer to achieve success.
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Lust for Life (1956)
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Director Vincente Minnelli, George Cukor
Writer Norman Corwin, Irving Stone
Cast Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald
Plot The life of brilliant but tortured artist Vincent van Gogh.
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Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
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Director David Miller
Writer Dalton Trumbo, Edward Abbey
Cast Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau
Plot A fiercely independent cowboy gets himself locked up in prison to escape with an old friend.
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
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Director John Sturges
Writer Leon Uris, George Scullin
Cast Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming
Plot Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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Detective Story (1951)
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Director William Wyler
Writer Philip Yordan, Robert Wyler, Sidney Kingsley
Cast Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix
Plot On one day in the 21st Precinct squad room, assorted characters form a backdrop for the troubles of hard-nosed Detective Jim McLeod.
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Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)
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Director John Sturges
Writer Les Crutchfield, James Poe
Cast Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones
Plot A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for his role in the rape and murder of the marshal's Native American wife.
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The Vikings (1958)
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Director Richard Fleischer
Writer Calder Willingham, Dale Wasserman, Edison Marshall
Cast Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine
Plot A slave and a Viking prince fight for the love of a captive princess.
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In Harm's Way (1965)
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Director Otto Preminger
Writer Wendell Mayes, James Bassett
Cast John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal
Plot A Naval officer, reprimanded after Pearl Harbor, is later promoted to Rear Admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.
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Champion (1949)
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Director Mark Robson
Writer Carl Foreman, Ring Lardner
Cast Kirk Douglas, Arthur Kennedy, Marilyn Maxwell
Plot Boxer Midge Kelly rises to fame...mainly by stepping on other people.
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The War Wagon (1967)
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Director Burt Kennedy
Writer Clair Huffaker
Cast John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Howard Keel
Plot The story of a man who was shot, robbed and imprisoned who returns to steal a large gold shipment from the man who wronged him. The gold is transported in an armored stage coach, the War Wagon.
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Ulisse aka Ulysses (1954)
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Director Mario Camerini
Writer Franco Brusati, Mario Camerini, Ennio De Concini
Cast Silvana Mangano, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn
Plot A movie adaptation of Homer's second epic, that depicts Ulysses' efforts to return to his home after the end of ten years of war.
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The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
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Director Anthony Mann
Writer Ivan Moffat, Ben Barzman, Harold Pinter
Cast Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson
Plot Norwegian resistance tries to stop German efforts to produce heavy water needed for making atomic bombs during World War II.
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The Final Countdown (1980)
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Director Don Taylor
Writer Thomas Hunter, Peter Powell, David Ambrose
Cast Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross
Plot A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Young Man with a Horn (1950)
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Director Michael Curtiz
Writer Carl Foreman, Edmund H. North, Dorothy Baker
Cast Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day
Plot A young trumpet player is torn between an honest singer and a manipulative heiress.
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The Big Sky (1952)
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Director Howard Hawks
Writer Dudley Nichols, A.B. Guthrie Jr., Ray Buffum
Cast Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, Elizabeth Threatt
Plot The success of the journey focuses on keeping the Indian girl alive as well as themselves to complete trade with the Blackfeet.
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The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
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Director John Huston
Writer Anthony Veiller, Philip MacDonald, Alec Coppel
Cast Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, George C. Scott
Plot A former intelligence officer is tasked by the heir to the Gleneyre estate to investigate the unusual deaths of a disparate group of eleven men on a list.
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The Man from Snowy River (1982)
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Director George Miller
Writer A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson, John Dixon, Cul Cullen
Cast Kirk Douglas, Tom Burlinson, Terence Donovan
Plot In 1880s Australia, after young Jim Craig's father dies, he takes a job at the Harrison cattle ranch, where he is forced to become a man.
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Man Without a Star (1955)
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Director King Vidor
Writer Borden Chase, D.D. Beauchamp, Dee Linford
Cast Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, Claire Trevor
Plot Sharpshooting drifter Dempsey Rae comes back to Wyoming to work for beautiful rancher Reed Bowman. But Reed's plan to fence in her land's wide open spaces angers other ranchers and soon embroils Dempsey in a bloody range war.
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I Walk Alone (1947)
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Director Byron Haskin
Writer Charles Schnee, Robert Smith, John Bright
Cast Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas
Plot Frankie Madison leaves prison expecting a share from his ex-partner. But Prohibition bootlegging didn't prepare Frankie for Big Business.
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Town Without Pity (1961)
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Director Gottfried Reinhardt
Writer Manfred Gregor, Georg Hurdalek, Jan Lustig
Cast Kirk Douglas, Barbara Ratting, Christine Kaufmann
Plot Four American soldiers stationed near a German village face death in the rape of a local girl, and are defended by outside counsel Major Steve Garrett.
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The Fury (1978)
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Director Brian De Palma
Writer John Farris
Cast Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Carrie Snodgress
Plot A former CIA agent uses the talents of a young psychic to help retrieve his telekinetic son from a shadowy secret government agency.
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The Last Sunset (1961)
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Director Robert Aldrich
Writer Howard Rigsby, Dalton Trumbo
Cast Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, Dorothy Malone
Plot At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling could legally arrest O'Malley, but Breckenridge's wife complicates things.
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Strangers When We Meet (1960)
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Director Richard Quine
Writer Evan Hunter
Cast Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak, Ernie Kovacs
Plot A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down the street.
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The Devil's Disciple (1959)
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Director Guy Hamilton, Alexander Mackendrick
Writer John Dighton, Roland Kibbee, George Bernard Shaw
Cast Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier
Plot The black sheep of a family and the local minister discover their true vocations during the Revolutionary War.
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Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)
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Director Melville Shavelson
Writer Ted Berkman, Melville Shavelson
Cast Kirk Douglas, John Wayne, Frank Sinatra
Plot In 1947, following the U.N. decision to split British Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states, a former U.S. Army officer is recruited by the Jews to reorganize the Haganah.
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Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
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Director Vincente Minnelli
Writer Charles Schnee, Irwin Shaw
Cast Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, Cyd Charisse
Plot After spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old director in Rome as a chance for personal and professional redemption.
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The Way West (1967)
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Director Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer Ben Maddow, Mitch Lindemann, A.B. Guthrie Jr.
Cast Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark
Plot In 1843, a former U.S. Senator leads a wagon train of settlers to Oregon, but his megalomania leads to growing dissatisfaction with his leadership.
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The Arrangement (1969)
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Director Elia Kazan
Writer Elia Kazan
Cast Kirk Douglas, Faye Dunaway, Deborah Kerr
Plot An adman attempts to rebuild his shattered life after suffering a nervous breakdown.
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Along the Great Divide (1951)
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Director Raoul Walsh
Writer Walter Doniger, Lewis Meltzer
Cast Kirk Douglas, Virginia Mayo, John Agar
Plot A U.S. Marshall and two deputies rescue a cattle rustler from a lynch mob led by a local cattle baron convinced that the rustler also killed his son.
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There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)
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Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writer David Newman, Robert Benton
Cast Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn
Plot A charming but totally ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison. He enlists the help of his cellmates in an escape attempt with the promise of sharing his hidden loot.
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The Indian Fighter (1955)
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Director Andre De Toth
Writer Robert L. Richards, Frank Davis, Ben Hecht
Cast Kirk Douglas, Elsa Martinelli, Walter Matthau
Plot A scout leading a wagon train through hostile Indian country unwittingly gets involved with a Sioux chief's daughter.
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Tough Guys (1986)
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Director Jeff Kanew
Writer James Orr, Jim Cruickshank
Cast Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charles Durning
Plot Two elderly gangsters are released from prison only to find they have trouble fitting in as old men who still take no guff from anyone.
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Saturn 3 (1980)
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Director Stanley Donen, John Barry
Writer Martin Amis, John Barry
Cast Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel
Plot Two lovers stationed at a remote base in the asteroid belt of Saturn are intruded upon by an anal-retentive technocrat from Earth and his charge: a malevolent eight foot tall robot.
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The Villain (1979)
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Director Hal Needham
Writer Robert G. Kane
Cast Kirk Douglas, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ann-Margret
Plot Facing hanging, a bank robber makes a deal with the corrupt banker to avoid execution in exchange for a dirty assignment.
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The Story of Three Loves (1953)
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Director Vincente Minnelli, Gottfried Reinhardt
Writer John Collier, Jan Lustig, George Froeschel
Cast Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Leslie Caron
Plot An anthology film consisting of three very different stories about love set in Europe and told in flashback.
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The Glass Menagerie (1950)
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Director Irving Rapper
Writer Peter Berneis, Tennessee Williams
Cast Jane Wyman, Kirk Douglas, Gertrude Lawrence
Plot Merchant marine officer Tom Wingfield reminisces about his life in St. Louis where he had lived with his nagging mother Amanda and crippled shy sister Laura.
