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The hit Broadway musical from the 1940s gets a lavish if not always exciting workout in this 1955 film version directed by old lion Fred Zinnemann (High Noon). Gordon MacRae brings his sterling voice to the role of cowboy Curly, and Shirley Jones plays Laurie, the object of his affection. The Rodgers and Hammerstein score includes "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top," "Oh, What a Beautiful ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, Charlotte Greenwood, Shirley Jones
Directed By: Fred Zinnemann

David Lean focused all his talent as an epic-maker on Boris Pasternak's sweeping novel about a doctor-poet in revolutionary Russia. The results may sometimes veer toward soap opera, especially with the screen frequently filled with adoring close-ups of Omar Sharif and Julie Christie, but Lean's gift for cramming the screen with spectacle is not to be denied. The streets of Moscow, the snowy ...

Manufacturer: MGM
Starring: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness
Directed By: David Lean

A boy learns about responsibility, commitment and friendship while trying to rescue a beagle pup from mistreatment by its owner. Michael Moriarty, Rod Steiger, Scott Wilson and young Blake Heron, star in a wonderful all-family treat. Year: 1996

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Blake Heron, Michael Moriarty, Scott Wilson, Bonnie Bartlett, Rod Steiger
Directed By: Dale Rosenbloom

This 1967 film took home lots of Oscars for its fascinating drama about a Philadelphia detective (Sidney Poitier) who assists a redneck Southern sheriff (Rod Steiger) in solving a murder. A study in racism that ebbs a bit through the collective and shared need between a black man and a white man who don't want to be working together, the film continues to strike a chord today. Steiger is a mass of ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, Larry Gates
Directed By: Norman Jewison

Manufacturer: Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Maximilian Schell, Rod Steiger, Robby Benson, Barry Miller, Hildy Brooks
Directed By: Jeremy Kagan

Marlon Brando's famous "I coulda been a contenda" speech is such a warhorse by now that a lot of people probably feel they've seen this picture already, even if they haven't. And many of those who have seen it may have forgotten how flat-out thrilling it is. For all its great dramatic and cinematic qualities, and its fiery social criticism, Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront is also one of the ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning
Directed By: Elia Kazan

A fatally ambitious gangland enforcer (John Turturro) collides with destiny after following the murderous advice of three fortunetellers and his shrewish wife . . . does any of this sound familiar, Shakespeare fans? While this occasionally effective, mostly hilarious drama may not be the first film to transplant the tragedy of Macbeth to a modern-day milieu (that honor goes to a 1955 ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: John Turturro, Katherine Borowitz, Dennis Farina, Peter Boyle, Lilia Skala
Directed By: William Reilly

Manufacturer: New Concorde
Starring: Rod Steiger, Michael Gross, Gary Basaraba, Christopher Rich, Amy Wright
Directed By: Dick Lowry

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Video
Starring: Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins, Virginia McKenna
Directed By: Sergei Bondarchuk

Despite incorporating elements of Shakespeare's Othello, Delmer Daves's CinemaScope Jubal is the first and least of three Westerns the director made with star Glenn Ford. Although not up to the measure of 3:10 to Yuma and the boldly original (and sadly neglected) Cowboy, it's still a well-above-average Western by a man whose sturdy sense of drama and pictorial ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Rod Steiger, Valerie French, Felicia Farr
Directed By: Delmer Daves