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George C. Scott has 19 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1990s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
1998
Drama
Anatomy of a Murder
1959 · Movie · Actor
Top 5%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads
The Changeling
1980 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%AMC+ · Included
The Hustler
1961 · Movie · Actor
Top 8%Prime Video · Included
12 Angry Men
1997 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%Prime Video · Included
A Christmas Carol
1984 · Movie · Actor
Top 16%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads
The Exorcist III
1990 · Movie · Actor
Top 31%Prime Video · Included
as General 'Buck' Turgidson
After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.
Dir. Stanley Kubrick · With Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden
Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.
Dir. Otto Preminger · With James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara
After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house that has been uninhabited for many years. But, soon after, the obscure history of such an old mansion and his own past begin to haunt him.
Dir. Peter Medak · With George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas
Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.
Dir. Robert Rossen · With Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie
"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with Patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.
Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner · With George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Stephen Young
During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result of their preconceptions and prejudices.
Dir. William Friedkin · With Courtney B. Vance, Ossie Davis, George C. Scott
Covering only the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis, vignettes include: Adam and Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden until their indulgence in the forbidden fruit sees them driven out; Cain murdering his brother Abel; Noah building an ark to preserve the animals of the world from the coming flood; and Abraham making a covenant with God.
Dir. John Huston · With Michael Parks, Ulla Bergryd, Richard Harris
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Dir. Clive Donner · With George C. Scott, Roger Rees, David Warner
On the fifteenth anniversary of the exorcism that claimed Father Damien Karras' life, Police Lieutenant Kinderman's world is once again shattered when a boy is found decapitated and savagely crucified.
Dir. William Peter Blatty · With George C. Scott, Ed Flanders, Brad Dourif
Charlene "Charlie" McGee has the amazing ability to start fires with just a glance. Can her psychic power and the love of her father save her from the threatening government agency which wants to destroy her?
Dir. Mark L. Lester · With David Keith, Drew Barrymore, Freddie Jones
Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his personal life. When an intern is found dead in a hospital bed, it appears to Bock to be a case of unforgivable malpractice. Hours later, another doctor, who happens to be responsible for another case of malpractice, is found dead. Despondent, Bock finds himself drawn to Barbara, the daughter of a comatose missionary.
Dir. Arthur Hiller · With George C. Scott, Diana Rigg, Barnard Hughes
Joseph "Doc" Frail is a doctor with a past he's trying to outrun. While in Montana, he comes across a mining camp with a hanging tree and rescues a man named Rune from the noose. With Rune as his servant, Frail decides to settle down, and he takes over as town doctor. He meets Elizabeth, who is suffering from shock, and the two soon fall in love. But when Elizabeth is attacked, Frail's attempt to help her lands them both in trouble.
Dir. Delmer Daves · With Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden
A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's a college professor. Things are never the same after she is taken to hospital and operated upon by Jed, a "know all" doctor.
Dir. Harold Becker · With Alec Baldwin, Nicole Kidman, Bill Pullman
A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in search of his runaway teenage daughter who’s making hardcore films in the pits of Los Angeles.
Dir. Paul Schrader · With George C. Scott, Peter Boyle, Season Hubley
Military cadets take extreme measures to ensure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.
Dir. Harold Becker · With George C. Scott, Timothy Hutton, Ronny Cox
Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security. As he races against the clock to uncover a possible saboteur aboard the doomed zeppelin he finds that any of the passengers and crew could be the culprit.
Dir. Robert Wise · With George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton
A lawless poacher wants to capture a majestic and rare golden eagle, so he kidnaps the boy who knows where to find the bird. Not to worry -- the Rescue Aid Society's top agents, heroic mice Miss Bianca and Bernard, fly to Australia to save the day. Accompanying the fearless duo are bumbling albatross Wilbur and local field operative Jake the Kangaroo Rat.
Dir. Mike Gabriel, Hendel Butoy · With Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor, John Candy
After serving a prison term for her boyfriend, a streetwise, middle-aged moll named Gloria stands up against the mobs, which is complicated by a six-year-old urchin with a will of his own, whom she reluctantly takes under her wing after his family has been gunned down.
Dir. Sidney Lumet · With Sharon Stone, Jeremy Northam, Cathy Moriarty
Titanic is a made-for-TV dramatization that premiered as a 2-part miniseries on CBS in 1996. Titanic follows several characters on board the RMS Titanic when she sinks on her maiden voyage in 1912. The miniseries was directed by Robert Lieberman. The original music score was composed by Lennie Niehaus. This is the first Titanic movie to show the ship breaking in two.
With Peter Gallagher, George C. Scott, Catherine Zeta-Jones
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