Essential Burt Lancaster...(REVISED & EXPANDED plus top co-starring performances)

Submitted by flfrleta on Mon, 02/14/2005 - 08:15
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  • Best Starring Performances: The Top 30

  • 1.ELMER GANTRY (1960)

  • 2.THE SWIMMER (1968)

  • 3.ATLANTIC CITY (1980)

  • 4.CONVERSATION PIECE (1974)

  • 5.CASTLE KEEP (1969)

  • 6.ULZANA'S RAID (1972)

  • 7.SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1957)

  • 8.THE PROFESSIONALS (1966)

  • 9.GO TELL THE SPARTANS (1978)

  • 10.LAWMAN (1971)

  • 11.THE GYPSY MOTHS (1969)

  • 12.VALDEZ IS COMING (1971)

  • 13.FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953)

  • 14.THE CRIMSON PIRATE (1952)

  • 15.CATTLE ANNIE AND LITTLE BRITCHES (1981)

  • 16.THE RAINMAKER (1956)

  • 17.SCORPIO (1973)

  • 18.THE HALLELUJAH TRAIL (1965)

  • 19.SEVEN DAYS IN MAY (1964)

  • 20.THE TRAIN (1965)

  • 21.THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU (1977)

  • 22.BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ (1962)

  • 23.THE SCALPHUNTERS (1968)

  • 24.VERA CRUZ (1954)

  • 25.TOUGH GUYS (1986)

  • 26.THE UNFORGIVEN (1960)

  • 27.ROCKET GIBRALTAR (1988)

  • 28.SOUTH SEA WOMAN (1953)

  • 29.THE FLAME AND THE ARROW (1950)

  • 30.COME BACK LITTLE SHEBA (1952)

  • to see or rewatch: The Killers, Brute Force, Kiss The Blood Off My Hands, Criss Cross, Rope of Sand, Ten Tall Men, The Devil's Disciple, La Pelle, The Jeweller's Shop

  • Best Starring Performances... special circumstances

  • THE LEOPARD (ITALIAN VERSION) (1963)

  • this is a Top 30 performance but since the performance is not wholly Lancaster, but also includes the Italian dubbing his voice, I did not include it on the above list

  • Supporting Performances Ranked

  • 1.1900 (1976)

  • 2.FIELD OF DREAMS (1989)

  • 3.BUFFALO BILL AND THE INDIANS, OR SITTING BULL'S HISTORY LESSON (1976)

  • 4.LOCAL HERO (1983)

  • 5.THE OSTERMAN WEEKEND (1983)

  • 6.JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961)

  • 7.THE CASSANDRA CROSSING (1976)

  • 8.LITTLE TREASURE (1985)

  • TV Performances Ranked

  • 1.MOSES THE LAWGIVER (1975)

  • 2.ON WINGS OF EAGLES (1986)

  • 3.SEPARATE BUT EQUAL (1991)

  • 4.BARNUM (1986)

  • 5.SCANDAL SHEET (1985)

  • 6.THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1990)

  • 7.VOYAGE OF TERROR: THE ACHILLE LAURO AFFAIR (1990)

  • to see or rewatch: The Betrothed, Marco Polo, Mind Control, Sins of the Fathers, Victory at Entebbe
  • back to the movies...

  • Best Co-Starring Performances, Actor

  • 1.TONY CURTIS - SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1957)

  • 2.PAUL SCOFIELD - THE TRAIN (1965)

  • 3.MONTGOMERY CLIFF - FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953)

  • 4.ROBERT RYAN - LAWMAN (1971)

  • 5.KIRK DOUGLAS - GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL (1957)

  • 6.FRANK SINATRA - FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953)

  • 7.FREDRIC MARCH - SEVEN DAYS IN MAY (1964)

  • 8.TELLY SAVALAS - THE SCALPHUNTERS (1968)

  • 9.CLARK GABLE - RUN SILENT RUN DEEP (1958)

  • 10.PAUL NEWMAN - BUFFALO BILL AND THE INDIANS, OR SITTING BULL'S HISTORY LESSON (1976)

  • Best Co-Starring Performances, Actress

  • 1.SHIRLEY BOOTH - COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA (1952)

  • 2.DEBORAH KERR - THE GYPSY MOTHS (1969)

  • 3.SUSAN SARANDON - ATLANTIC CITY (1980)

  • 4.DEBORAH KERR - SEPARATE TABLES (1958)

  • 5.KATHARINE HEPBURN - THE RAINMAKER (1956)

  • 6.DEBORAH KERR - FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953)

  • 7.JUDY GARLAND - A CHILD IS WAITING (1963)

  • 8.ANNA MAGNANI - THE ROSE TATTOO (1955)

  • 9.BARBARA STANWYCK - SORRY, WRONG NUMBER (1948)

  • 10.LEE REMICK - THE HALLELUJAH TRAIL (1965)

  • Best Cast

  • FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953)

  • honorable mention: The Professionals (1966)
allegheny02/16/2005

I like this, a guide or essential's list of Burt Lancaster films. I saw the Train a few weeks back. It was excellent. Burt Lancaster and Paul Scofield were both great, and Frankenheimer's earlier work is thrilling. I liked the distinctions between Lancaster and Scofield's character. LaBeif treasured the lives of people over art, and the Colonel treasured art of the lives of human beings. Strange at the end, the French Resistance Fighter most reluctant to save the Art from reaching Germany was the one who finally did save it at the end. And then, after the train is derailed and Nazis are dealt with, LaBeif just walks away and leaves the treasure by the train. It was a good movie about the Resistance FIghters too, shows how even the slightest action can stall an enemy long enough.

flfrleta02/17/2005

Paul Scofield teamed up with Lancaster years later in Scorpio, a spy drama, but the results were somewhat disappointing.
The subject of whether or not to protect art treasures is also a part of another Lancaster WWII movie... Castle Keep directed by Sidney Pollack. A film that should be seen in its widescreen edition.

flfrleta08/11/2005

I recently rewatched Scorpio and changed my opinion of it. It's a fine movie with fine performances.

192203/26/2005

Not yet seen Judgment at Nuremberg or Airport?

flfrleta03/28/2005

I've seen them both, but I wouldn't include either performance in the top 20.