Burt Lancaster – Stream On Demand

The original ‘The Killers’ on Criterion Channel

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Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner becames stars in Robert Siodmak’s 1946 film noir classic, a caper twisted by betrayal, based on a story by Ernest Hemingway.

‘From Here to Eternity’ – love in the time of World War II on HBO Max

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Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, and Montgomery Clift star in the Oscar-winning classic romantic drama set in the days leading up to Pearl Harbor.

Burt Lancaster applies ‘Brute Force’ on HBO Max and Criterion Channel

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Jules Dassin’s brooding, brutal drama is a classic film noir as well as one of the greatest prison films ever made.

Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster in Alexander Mackendrick's great Broadway noir

Last chance: ‘Sweet Smell of Success’ – Broadway noir on Criterion Channel

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Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis star in this brilliant 1957 classic about the power of media personalities in the intersection of show business and politics.

Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, and Claudia Cardinale star in Luchino Visconti's adaptation of Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s novel

Burt Lancaster is ‘The Leopard’ in Luchino Visconti’s masterpiece

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A lush, powerful, complex drama set during Italy’s 19th century revolution and one of the grand masterpieces of world cinema.

Burt Lancaster and Gary Cooper in the 1954 western by Robert Aldrich

‘Vera Cruz’ – The proto-spaghetti western on Amazon Prime

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“You’re the first friend I ever had,” grins flamboyant mercenary Burt Lancaster to lean, laconic Gary Cooper in with a smile that suggests that he may be the last. They’re a pair of Americans abroad looking to cash in the Mexican revolution by selling their services to the highest bidder in Vera Cruz (1954), Robert […]

Burt Lancaster is the ‘Birdman of Alcatraz’ on Amazon Prime Video

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Amazon Prime Video, based on a true story, biographical, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, socially aware cinema, SVOD 08/09/2020 Sean Axmaker

Filmmaker John Frankenheimer earned his first major big screen success with Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), his third theatrical feature and his second collaboration with producer/star Burt Lancaster (they would make five films together all told). Lancaster delivers an angry, brooding performance as real life criminal Robert Stroud, a violent killer who developed into an internationally […]