Edmond O'Brien

By any standard, director Sam Peckinpah's film The Wild Bunch, a powerful tale of hang-dog desperados bound by a code or honor, rates as one of the all-time greatest Westerns, perhaps one of the greatest of all films.This Original Director's Cut restores ...

The Wild Bunch - Director's Cut (1969)

Sam Peckinpah

Edmond O'Brien,Warren Oates,Robert Ryan,William Holden,Ernest Borgnine

Western,General Action,Classic Western,Action & Adventure

This science-fiction "inner space" thriller, one of the most amazing ever conceived, follows a crew of medical scientists (Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, Donald Pleasance, Arthur O'Connell, William Redfield, Arthur Kennedy) on an incredible s...

Fantastic Voyage (1966)

Richard Fleischer

Edmond O'Brien,Arthur Kennedy,Raquel Welch,William Redfield,Arthur O'Connell,Stephen Boyd,Donald Pleasence

Sci-fi & Fantasy,General Adventure,General Sci-Fi,Action & Adventure

Ranking with Stagecoach as one of the greatest of its genre, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is the modern-day western to beat all westerns. John Ford, whose very name is synonymous with "westerns," directed the ideal cast. Jimmy Stewart plays ...

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

John Ford

Vera Miles,Ken Murray,Andy Devine,James Stewart,Edmond O'Brien,Lee Marvin,John Wayne

Classic Western,Western

In this electrifying film, Robert Taylor portrays Captain Brad Parker, an American officer on the front lines on June 6, 1944 - D-Day when 3,000,000 men, 11,000 planes and 4,000 ships will come together to invade Normandy and determine the world's future....

D-Day: The Sixth Of June (1958)

Henry Koster

Edmond O'Brien,Robert Taylor,Richard Todd,Jerry Paris,John Williams,Dana Wynter

Military & War,Military Drama,Drama,General Action,Action & Adventure

Sparkling with "juicy dialogue" (Leonard Maltin) and a superb cast (including Edmond O'Brien in an Oscar winning performance), this landmark film is "spectacular...ingeniously-fashioned, original entertainment" (Variety). With e...

The Barefoot Contessa (1954)

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Edmond O'Brien,Humphrey Bogart,Warren Stevens,Rossano Brazzi,Bessie Love,Marius Goring,Elizabeth Sellars,Valentina Cortesa,Ava Gardner

General Drama,Drama

D.O.A has one of the most compelling openings in film history; a man stumbles into a police station to report a murder. "Whose?", the officer on duty asks, "My own" the man reploes. He then proceeds to recount, in flashback, how he has...

D.O.A. - Dead On Arrival (1949)

Rudolph Mate

Pamela Britton,Beverly Campbell,Lynn Baggett,Luther Adler,Edmond O'Brien,Neville Brand

Suspense & Thriller,Murder,Mystery,General Drama,Period Drama,Crime,Drama,Action & Adventure

Among the many films attempting to capture the emerging rock 'n' roll sound, Frank Tashlin's high-voltage, candy-coloured satire on the 50s popular culture stands out as a masterpiece.Featuring electrifying performances from rock 'n' rollers The Platters,...

The Girl Can't Help It (1956)

Frank Tashlin

Jayne Mansfield,Tom Ewell,Edmond O'Brien

Music & Performance,Rock,General Comedy,General Music,Comedy

As a psychotic thug devoted to his hard-boiled ma, James Cagney - older, scarier and just as electrifying - gives a performance to match his work in The Public Enemy as White Heat's cold-blooded Cody Jarrett.Bracingly directed by Raoul Walsh, this fast-pa...

White Heat (1949)

Raoul Walsh

Fred Clark,Virginia Mayo,Edmond O'Brien,James Cagney

General Drama,Drama

Hemingway's terse, tense dialogue marks the unnerving opening sequence that introduces Burt Lancaster - in his film debut - as doomed protagonist 'The Swede', a star-crossed boxer hunted by hired guns after he becomes infatuated with fickle fe...

The Killers (1946)

Robert Siodmak

Albert Dekker,Edmond O'Brien,Burt Lancaster,Ava Gardner

Romance,Suspense & Thriller,Drama,Crime,Mobster,General Romance,Action & Adventure

For her first film in two years Universal hired respected French director Jean Renoir to helm what was to be Deanna's first dramatic role. However when the film was released it included songs and the director's credit went to Bruce Manning, the fi...

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943)

Henry Koster

Arthur Treacher,Harry Davenport,Deanna Durbin,Edmond O'Brien,Barry Fitzgerald

General Comedy,General Drama,Drama,Comedy