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George Kennedy has 33 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2010s. 4 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Dirty Dozen.
The King of the Kickboxers
1990
Action · Crime
Charade
1963 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Prime Video · Included
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
1988 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%Paramount+ · Included
Death on the Nile
1978 · Movie · Actor
Top 21%Prime Video · Included
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
1991 · Movie · Actor
Top 24%Paramount+ · Included
The Sons of Katie Elder
1965 · Movie · Actor
Top 27%AMC+ · Included
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
1974 · Movie · Actor
Top 30%Prime Video · Included
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.
Dir. Robert Aldrich · With Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson
After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex, Scobie and Gideon, who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines.
Dir. Stanley Donen · With Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
Dir. Stuart Rosenberg · With Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Luke Askew
When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.
Dir. David Zucker · With Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, Ricardo Montalban
A cargo aircraft crashes in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for a replacement aircraft they need to build before their food and water run out.
Dir. Robert Aldrich · With James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch
A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.
Dir. David Miller · With Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau
As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board and every elegant passenger becomes a prime suspect.
Dir. John Guillermin · With Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Lois Chiles
Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.
Dir. David Zucker · With Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy
The four sons of Katie Elder reunite in their hometown of Clearwater, Texas for her funeral and discover that the family ranch is now in the hands of Morgan Hastings, a corrupt businessman who wants to exploit the area around the town.
Dir. Henry Hathaway · With John Wayne, Dean Martin, Martha Hyer
With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.
Dir. Michael Cimino · With Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy
After a blackout in his office building, accountant David Stillwell emerges outside to find out a man he did not know either jumped or was pushed out a window to his death — and that he can't remember the past two years of his life. Enlisting the help of a rookie private eye and a reluctant old flame, Stillwell uncovers the mystery detail by unexpected detail.
Dir. Edward Dmytryk · With Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau
Three macabre tales from the latest issue of a boy's favorite comic book, dealing with a vengeful wooden Native American, a monstrous blob in a lake, and an undying hitchhiker.
Dir. Michael Gornick · With Lois Chiles, George Kennedy, Dorothy Lamour
After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.
Dir. William Castle · With Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson
Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Adding to his problems, Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for a baby.
Dir. Peter Segal · With Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy
An ambitious singing and dancing cat in 1939 Hollywood overcomes several obstacles to fulfill his dream of becoming a movie star.
Dir. Mark Dindal · With Scott Bakula, Jasmine Guy, Natalie Cole
In the Oregon mountains, a pair of hunters encounter a machete-wielding killer in an abandoned church. Meanwhile, five campers arrive to examine some property one of them has inherited but are warned by the forest ranger not to venture forth. Soon after they set up camp, they begin hearing strange noises, encounter a mysterious singing girl and start disappearing one by one.
Dir. Jeff Lieberman · With George Kennedy, Mike Kellin, Chris Lemmon
Posing as a hangman, Mace Bishop arrives in town with the intention of freeing a gang of outlaws, including his brother, from the gallows. Mace urges his younger brother to give up crime. The sheriff chases the brothers to Mexico. They join forces, however, against a group of Mexican bandits.
Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen · With James Stewart, Dean Martin, George Kennedy
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.
Dir. Richard Fleischer · With Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy
Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.
Dir. Mark Robson · With Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy
A classical art professor and collector, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend.
Dir. Clint Eastwood · With Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Vonetta McGee
Literature professor Jim Bennett leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Staying one step ahead, he pits his creditor against the operator of an illicit gambling ring while garnering the attention of Frank, a paternalistic loan shark. As his relationship with a student deepens, Bennett must risk everything for a second chance.
Dir. Rupert Wyatt · With Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, Brie Larson
A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandos have been called in to eliminate all terrorists on the jetliner.
Dir. Menahem Golan · With Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, Martin Balsam
An airport manager tries to keep his terminals open during a snowstorm, while a suicide bomber plots to blow up a Boeing 707 airliner in flight.
Dir. George Seaton · With Burt Lancaster, Dana Wynter, Dean Martin
In a battle of man versus machine, Martin, a top neurosurgeon who's studying brain malfunctions that cause mental illness, delves deep into his own mind to save himself from a megalomaniacal corporation.
Dir. Adam Simon · With Bill Pullman, Bill Paxton, Bud Cort
J.D. Cahill is the toughest U.S. Marshal they've got, just the sound of his name makes bad guys stop in their tracks, so when his two young boy's want to get his attention they decide to rob a bank. They end up getting more than they bargained for.
Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen · With John Wayne, George Kennedy, Gary Grimes
A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family dynamics.
Dir. Sam Levinson · With Ellen Barkin, Ezra Miller, Ellen Burstyn
Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passengers must brave panic, slow leaks, oxygen depletion, and more while attempting a daring plan, all while 200 feet underwater.
Dir. Jerry Jameson · With Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Brenda Vaccaro
Survivors of a tragic shipping collision are rescued by a mysterious black ship which appears out of the fog. Little do they realise that the ship is actually a Nazi torture ship which has sailed the seas for years, luring unsuspecting sailors aboard and killing them off one by one.
Dir. Alvin Rakoff · With George Kennedy, Richard Crenna, Nick Mancuso
Barricade the doors. Lock the windows. Because he's baaaack. That one-boy wrecking crew, Dennis the Menace, returns for more mischief and mayhem. Based on the comic strip and TV show about a mischievous little boy with a gift for the potentially lethal prank.
Dir. Charles T. Kanganis · With Don Rickles, George Kennedy, Justin Cooper
When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfriend Alan Murdock, a retired test pilot, tries to talk her through piloting and landing the 747 aircraft. Worse yet, the anxious passengers — among which are a noisy nun and a cranky man — are aggravating the already tense atmosphere.
Dir. Jack Smight · With Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy
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