Sam Wanamaker

Sam Wanamaker

Country: USA

Total Credits at Criticker: 31 (Actor), 7 (Director)

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    Raw Deal
    Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina (imdb)
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    Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
    The Man of Steel crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex Luthor's latest creation, Nuclear Man. (imdb)
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    Baby Boom
    The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative. (imdb)
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    Guilty by Suspicion
    David Merrill (Robert DeNiro), a fictitious 1950s Hollywood director, returns from filming abroad in France to find that his loyalty has been called into question by the House Committee on Un-American Activities and he is unable to work until cleared. (imdb)
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    The Aviator
    A 1920s mail pilot and a rich man's daughter crash-land on a mountain full of hungry wolves. (imdb)
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    Pure Luck
    The daughter of a wealthy bussinessman has dissapeared in Mexico, and all the efforts to find her have been unsuccessful. A psycologist, knowing that the girl has an ultra bad luck, persuades her father to send to Mexico one of his employees, an accountant with super bad luck, to find her. (imdb)
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    Irreconcilable Differences
    Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both. (imdb)
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    The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
    British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the cold war during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one. (imdb)
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    Voyage of the Damned
    937 Jewish Germans are offered safe haven in Havana, Cuba, in 1939. They depart Hamburg in high spirits, looking forward to their new life. However, the whole voyage is actually a Nazi propaganda scheme and the passengers are never really intended to be allowed ashore once they reach their destination. After weeks of unsuccessful pleas they are forced to return back to Europe. (imdb)
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    Private Benjamin
    When her husband dies in the wedding night Judy decides to join the army. What looks like a bad decision at first, turns out not so bad at all...
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    Taras Bulba
    A "Romeo and Juliet" story that takes place in 18th c. Ukraine. Taras (Yul Brenner) has settled into comfortable farm life after years of adventures and swashbuckling with his cossack companions. Though not wealthy, he is able to send his son Andrei (Tony Curtis) away to a Polish school... (imdb)
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    The Competition
    The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chance to compete, but newcomer Heidi may be a better pianist. Can romance be far away? Will she take a dive despite the pressure to win from her teacher, Greta, or will she condemn Paul to obscurity? (imdb)
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    The Criminal
    An ex-con who's taken part in the robbery of a racetrack is caught and sent back to prison, but he won't tell his fellow gang members where he's stashed the loot. The gang kidnaps his girlfriend and has him tortured in prison in an effort to find out where the money is. (imdb)
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    From Hell to Victory
    On August 24, 1939, at a small French cafe, six friends are about to go their separate ways. They vow to reunite on that day each year at the cafe. The film follows each of their lives: one begins work with the French resistance, one joins the French commandos, another is forced to join the Nazi army, one becomes a flier, and the two others are just simple officers. On the day Paris is liberated, the three surviving friends meet at the cafe and get drunk. (imdb)
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    Man in the Middle
    Court-martial drama about an American Colonel assigned to defend a fellow serviceman accused of murdering a British soldier while stationed in India during World War II. (TCM.com)
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    Warning Shot
    A police sergeant kills a man who pulls a gun on him during a stakeout. The man's gun disappears, and the sergeant is charged with manslaughter. The sergeant works to clear his name and determine where the gun went and why the man was there at all. (imdb)
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    Billy Jack Goes to Washington
    Billy Jack fights against the scheme of political boss Bailey and fellow Senator Paine to exploit a planned nuclear plant for their financial gain. (BFI)
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    Holocaust
    Holocaust (1978) - TV Mini-Series
    The saga of a Jewish family's struggle to survive the horror of Nazi Germany's systematic marginalization and extermination of their community. (imdb)
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    The Day the Fish Came Out
    A cautionary tale. A plane carrying a weapon more dangerous than a nuclear weapon goes down near Greece. To prevent panic, the officials go in dressed as tourists (who are dressed so casually that the pilots assume that they are all gay). The pilots are not to make themselves known and can't contact the rescue team. The secrecy causes a comedy of errors including the desolate Greek Isle deciding that since tourists have now arrived, they have to become touristy. (imdb)
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    Christ in Concrete
    Geremio, a young Italian immigrant to New York City, works as a bricklayer and is courting an Italian girl, Annunziata, by mail. He lies to her that he owns his own home and, after they are married, has to rent one for their three-day honeymoon. The years pass and they are unable to save enough money to get out of their slum tenement, and the 1929 depression brings even harder times to the family that now includes three children. (imdb)
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    Judgment in Berlin
    American judge in Germany must decide if the hijacking of an East German plane into West Berlin was justified. (imdb)
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    The Sell-Out
    The KGB and the CIA have struck a bargain to eliminate former agents who might prove embarrassing to either of their espionage organizations. The chief of the CIA mission in Lebanon names Gabriel Lee as the next agent it wishes to have liquefied. Lee is vacationing in Israel when the assassins fail at their first attempt to kill him and he turns to his former mentor, also a retired agent, for assistance. (imdb)
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    Mr. Denning Drives North
    When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and causing his death when he falls. Instead of calling the police he dumps the body in a lonely spot on the road to the North, making it look like a hit-and-run accident. Weeks later there is still no report of the body being found, and Denning starts to go to pieces. (imdb)
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    Deceptions
    Deceptions (1985) - TV Mini-Series
    Twin sisters trade places with unexpected results. (imdb)
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    The Spiral Staircase
    This remake of a taut thriller from 1946 concerns a small-town psycho stalking disabled female victims, whom he shoots with a silencer pistol. His next intended prey is a poor young woman who cannot speak. (allrovi.com)
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    Cat and Mouse
    A high school teacher separated from his son plots revenge on his ex-wife. (imdb)
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    A Deadly Game
    Charlie Muffin, top British Intelligence operative, has just broken up a major Soviet spy network in England. However, a new Director with new ideas takes over and wants Charlie out. But then a high-ranking Soviet spy-master hints that he wants to defect, and both British Intelligence and the CIA want him and will do anything to get him. (imdb)
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    Wild Justice
    Wild Justice (1994) - TV Movie
    Colonel Peter Stride is on the trail of a mysterious international criminal known only as Caliph.
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    The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
    Ann, a former chorus girl marries above herself into a rich society family, but her mother-in-law regards her with great suspicion from the start. When Ann shoots her husband dead, claiming she thought he was a prowler, the older Mrs. Grenville decides to back the woman she despises, to protect the family image.
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    My Girl Tisa
    Tisa has been in America only four months, yet she is holding four jobs to save enough money to pay for her father's boat passage to America. She works in a garment factory in Greenwich Village owned by Mr. Grumbach, who is studying to pass his citizenship test. Denek, a brash young man, tries to help her but gets her into trouble and her deportation is ordered by an immigration judge. (imdb)
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    The Billion Dollar Bubble
    The Billion Dollar Bubble is a 1978 film made for the BBC series Horizon and directed by Brian Gibson about the story of the two billion dollar insurance embezzlement scheme involving Equity Funding Corporation of America. The movie stars James Woods in the role of the actuary.
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