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Sterling Hayden has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1980s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
Rififi
1955
Crime · Thriller
The Godfather
1972 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Paramount+ · Included
The Killing
1956 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%Prime Video · Included
The Long Goodbye
1973 · Movie · Actor
Top 13%Prime Video · Included
The Asphalt Jungle
1950 · Movie · Actor
Top 13%Max · Included
Nine to Five
1980 · Movie · Actor
Top 23%Peacock · Included
Suddenly
1954 · Movie · Actor
Top 63%Prime Video · Included
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola · With Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan
as Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper
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
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.
Dir. Stanley Kubrick · With Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards
On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin' Kid and his gang. Another patron of Vienna's establishment is Johnny Guitar, a former gunslinger and her lover. When a heist is pulled in town that results in a man's death, Emma Small, Vienna's rival, rallies the townsfolk to take revenge on Vienna's saloon – even without proof of her wrongdoing.
Dir. Nicholas Ray · With Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge
In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
Dir. Robert Altman · With Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
Dir. John Huston · With Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen
Three female employees of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot find a way to turn the tables on him.
Dir. Colin Higgins · With Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton
The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town... and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush.
Dir. Lewis Allen · With Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason
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