Edward G. Robinson

All Movies of Edward G. Robinson

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  A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas! (TV)
  TCM looks back at the history of Christmas movies from classics like "Scrooge", "It's a Wonderful Life", "Miracle on 34th Street", and "White Christmas" to contemporary films like "Home
  Character: (archive footage)

   2011

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  Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire (TV)
  Sally Field hosts this thorough documentary about actress Barbara Stanwyck. Highlights include Bola de fuego, Perdición and Voces de muerte.
  Character: Self (archive footage)

   1991

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  6.5
  Soylent Green
  In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary and needed new foodst
   1973

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  Neither by Day Nor by Night
   1972

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  6.0
  The Old Man Who Cried Wolf (TV)
  Emile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless. When he wakes up he is told that Abe is dead, dead by natural causes, the doctors tell him. When Emile insists...
   1970

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  7.5
  Night Gallery (TV Series)
  Serling appeared in an art gallery setting and introduced the macabre tales that made up each episode by unveiling paintings (by artist Tom Wright) that depicted the stories. Night Gallery regularly presented adaptations of cla...
  Character:  Abraham Goldman (segment "The Messiah on Mott Street") 1 episode, 1971

   1969

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  Never a Dull Moment
   1968

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  2.0
  The Biggest Bundle of Them All
   1968

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  4.0
  Operation St. Peter's
  Small time crook Napoleone falls into an unlikely gang made up of a gangster, called The Baron, and his two cohorts, Agonia and The Captain, where Napoleone takes them to Rome where they shack up with a shady used car dealer caled...
   1967

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  7.0
  The Cincinnati Kid
  A rising cardshark challenges a veteran player for the chance to be known as "The Man." Set in the swampy hedonism of New Orleans during the Great Depression, the card game is a gritty exploration of the manly sport of s...
   1965

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  6.3
  The Outrage
  A Mexican bandit, Juan Carrasco, spies a newlywed couple journeying through rugged country. He confronts them, rape and robbery on his mind, and the husband ends up dead. From the viewpoints of each participant and witness, a diff...
  Character: Con Man

   1964

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  Good Neighbor Sam
   1964

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  7.1
  Cheyenne Autumn
  Cheyenne Indians flee their squalid Oklahoma reservation and return to their traditional homeland along the Yellowstone River in Wyoming. A U.S. cavalry officer gets the call to return the tribe to the reservations but begins to q...
  Character: Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz

   1964

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  6.5
  Robin and the 7 Hoods
  A Chicago gangster, called Robbo, tries to hide fifty thousand ill gotten, and very hot, dollars by donating the loot to the Blessed Shelter Orphans Home. The result is a lot of good press and public adulation for Robbo, who finds...
  Character: Big Jim Stevens

   1964

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  Hollywood: The Great Stars
  Host Henry Fonda follows the creation of the star system with Mary Pickford in the Silent Era through its demise in the early Sixties.
  Character: Johnny Rocco (archive footage)

   1963

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  Sammy Going South (A Boy Ten Feet Tall)
  A charming picaresque saga about an orphaned ten-year-old trekking across Africa on his own.
   1963

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  7.3
  The Prize
  Character: Dr. Max Stratman

   1963

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  6.3
  Two Weeks in Another Town
  An actor trying to revive his career after a nervous breakdown finds the manipulative characters in his life seem to be standing in his way.
  Character: Maurice Kruger

   1962

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  6.8
  My Geisha
  Paul Robaix (Yves Montand) is a well known director, married to Lucy Dell (Shirley MacLaine), a famous movie star. Robaix wants to make a movie of the classic play Madame Butterfly, but he doesn't want his wife to play the leading...
  Character: Sam Lewis

   1962

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  6.8
  Seven Thieves
  A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull off one last job--the casino vault in Monte Carlo.
  Character: Theo Wilkins

   1960

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  7.0
  Pepe
  The young Mexican Pepe's beloved horse is sold to Hollywood star Ted Holt, leading to Pepe's journey to Hollywood to get the horse back, and Pepe's encounter with half the stars working in Hollywood at the time.
   1960

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  6.5
  A Hole in the Head
  Tony Manetta runs an unsuccessful Miami hotel, on which he can't meet the payments. Another liability is his weakness for dames (Shirl, his sexy current flame, is even less responsible than Tony). But a solid asset is Ally, his se...
  Character: Mario Manetta

   1959

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  8.0
  The Ten Commandments
  To escape the edict of Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, condemning all first-born Hebrew males, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up i...
   1956

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  7.0
  Illegal
  After an overly aggressive district attorney unknowingly sends an innocent man to the chair, he resigns, turns to drink, and acquires a criminal clientele. Remake of "The Man Who Talked Too Much".
   1955

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  6.0
  Hell on Frisco Bay
  After 5 years in prison, ex-cop Steve Rollins is paroled and searches for the San Francisco mobsters who framed him for manslaughter.
   1955

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  6.5
  The Violent Men
  Crippled cattle baron Lew Wilkison causes nothing but trouble for the peaceful landowners living in his valley. Wilkison wants every spot in the region for himself and he'll do anything to drive away all the newcomers, who include...
  Character: Lew Wilkison

   1955

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  Big Leaguer
  Big Leaguer was the inauspicious feature-film debut for director Robert Aldrich. Edward G. Robinson stars as the real-life Hans Lobert, the baseball scout in charge of the New York Giants' Florida training camp. Each year, a new c...
   1953

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  6.9
  Vice Squad
  When a police officer is shot arresting a car thief, Captain Barnaby uses his skills and contacts to track down the culprits and uncovers a bank heist plan in the process. Barnaby has no qualms about bending the law to achieve his...
   1953

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  6.5
  The Glass Web
  A beautiful but heartless television actress, uses seduction and tricks to blackmail the men in her life to a point, where she could get herself killed.
  Character: Henry Hayes

   1953

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  7.2
  My Daughter Joy
  A business tycoon spoils his young daughter, but his relationship with his wife leaves much to be desired.
  Character: George Constantin

   1950

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  7.1
  House of Strangers
  Max Monetti is consumed with vengeance against his brothers after their betrayal of his father Gino. But after remembering his past, especially his relationship with Irene Bennett, Max realizes that his father had caused all the t...
  Character: Gino Monetti

   1949

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  8.1
  Key Largo
  Frank McCloud is an embittered war veteran who travels to Key Largo in Florida in order to meet Nora Temple, the wife of a friend of his who died in the war. He plans to stay at a hotel run by relatives of Nora's, but discovers th...
  Character: Johnny Rocco

   1948

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  7.7
  The Stranger
  Charles Rankin is a professor in a respectable Connecticut town about to marry the daughter of a U.S. Supreme Court justice. But his name is fake and his past is filthy. An earnest convert to Christianity, who once ran a Nazi conc...
  Character: Mr. Wilson

   1946

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  Scarlet Street
  Chris Cross (Edward G. Robinson), a mild mannered bank clerk, celebrates his 25 years of service, but he is unhappy with his dead end job and his shrieking harpy of a wife. The only pleasure he finds in his life is painting, which...
   1945

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  8.3
  Double Indemnity
  Unsuspecting Mr. Dietrichson becomes increasingly accident prone after his icily calculating wife (Barbara Stanwyck) encourages him to sign a double indemnity policy proposed by a smooth-talking insurance agent (Fred MacMurray). A...
  Character: Barton Keyes

   1944

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  8.4
  The Woman in the Window
  Gotham College professor Wanley and his friends become obsessed with the portrait of a woman in the window next to the men's club. Wanley happens to meet the woman while admiring her portrait, and ends up in her apartment for talk...
  Character: Professor Richard Wanley

   1944

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  Tales of Manhattan
  A formal tailcoat that gets passed from one owner to another affects each life in a significant way.
   1942

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  7.5
  The Sea Wolf
  An odd group of people find themselves aboard the Ghost, a sealing schooner captained by the hard taskmaster, Wolf Larson. George Leach is the on the run from the police as is Ruth Webster who has escaped from a women's penitentia...
   1941

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  8.0
  Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
  Dr. Paul Ehrlich was the German physician who developed the first synthetic antimicrobial drug, 606 or Salvarsan. The film describes how Ehrlich first became interested in the properties of the then-new synthetic dyes and had an i...
   1940

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  A Dispatch from Reuter's
  Character: Baron Julius Reuter

   1940

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  6.8
  Confessions of a Nazi Spy
  Ed Renard is a G-Man investigating a huge Nazi spy ring in the United States. Contacts are discovered and arrested in U.S.A.
  Character: Edward Renard

   1939

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  I Am the Law
  Law professor John Lindsay volunteers to clean up the corruption and graft in his town when the authorities seem unable to do so. When the gangsters infiltrate his staff, he recruits his law students to form an army of law enforce
   1938

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  Thunder in the City
  Dan comes to England to learn more sedate business practices. While there he becomes involved in a scheme to exploit mangalite mines in Rhodesia. He and Manningdale become rivals for Patricia.
   1937

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  8.0
  Kid Galahad
  Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
   1937

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  The Little Giant
  Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her ...
   1933

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  6.0
  The Hatchet Man
  Wong Low Get (Edward G. Robinson) is the most highly respected hatchet man of his Tong. Having sworn total allegiance, he cannot turn down an order, even one to kill his best friend Sun Yat Sen (J. Carrol Naish). His friend forgiv...
   1932

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  Silver Dollar
  Yates and Sarah Martin are barely getting by in a Colorado boom town grocery store. Sudden wealth leads to greater prosperity and political power. In Denver Yates buys a mansion and builds an opera house. He leaves Sarah for glamo...
   1932

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  Two Seconds
  A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, flashes back over his life and the incidents that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair.
   1932

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  Tiger Shark
  After surviving a shipwreck, San Diego tuna fisherman Mike Mascarenhas, an immigrant from Portugal, loses a hand to a shark. The following season, one of his crew, Manuel Silva, falls overboard and is killed by the sharks followin...
   1932

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  5.0
  The Stolen Jools (S)
  Star-packed promotional short subject intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists tuberculosis sanatarium, produced in association with a cigarette company! Plot involves the investigation of the reported theft of Nor...
   1931

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  6.5
  Smart Money
   1931

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  7.0
  Little Caesar
  The ambitious criminal Rico moves from the country to the big city in the east and joins Sam Vettori's gang with his friend Joe Massara. Sooner he becomes the leader of the gangsters and known as Little Caesar, and gets closer to ...
   1931

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  8.0
  Five Star Final
   1931

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  East Is West
  Ming Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by Lo Sang Kee. To save her from deportation she is sold to Charlie Yong, the Chop Suey King. Billy kidnaps her with plans of marriage.
   1930