Marc Lawrence

Marc Lawrence

February 17, 1910 · 116 years old

Marc Lawrence was an American character actor who specialized in underworld types. In 1930, Lawrence befriended another young actor, John Garfield. The two appeared in a number of plays before Lawrence was given a film contract with Columbia Pictures. Lawrence appeared in films beginning in 1931. G…

Known For

44 titles
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From Dusk Till Dawn

From Dusk Till Dawn

1996 · 1h 48m · Movie

Two criminals and their hostages unknowingly seek temporary refuge in a truck stop populated by vampires, with chaotic results.

7.2
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The Man with the Golden Gun

The Man with the Golden Gun

1974 · 2h 5m · Movie

James Bond is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin, while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder.

6.7
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Marathon Man

Marathon Man

1976 · 2h 5m · Movie

After the murder of his older brother, a New York history student is hounded by shadowy government agents on the trail of a Nazi war criminal who is trying to retrieve smuggled diamonds.

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Key Largo

Key Largo

1948 · 1h 40m · Movie

A drifter visits the family hotel of a war buddy who was killed in action only to find that a Chicago mobster and his gang have taken over the place. As a hurricane approaches, a confrontation ensues.

7.7
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The Shipping News

The Shipping News

2001 · 1h 51m · Movie

An emotionally beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.

6.7
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The Asphalt Jungle

The Asphalt Jungle

1950 · 1h 52m · Movie

A major heist goes off as planned, but then double crosses, bad luck and solid police work cause everything to unravel.

7.8
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The Ox-Bow Incident

The Ox-Bow Incident

1943 · 1h 15m · Movie

Walter Van Tilburg Clark's novel inspires an account of a lynch mob that seeks revenge for a rancher's murder.

8.0
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Foul Play

Foul Play

1978 · 1h 56m · Movie

A San Francisco librarian picks up a hitchhiker whose car has broken down, which leads to her being stalked and hunted by shady individuals. A cop she briefly met during a function eventually comes to her rescue.

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The Big Easy

The Big Easy

1986 · 1h 42m · Movie

A corrupt lieutenant in the homicide division is threatened by the righteous DA while trying to solve a string of mysterious murders.

6.5
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This Gun for Hire

This Gun for Hire

1942 · 1h 21m · Movie

When assassin Philip Raven shoots a blackmailer and his beautiful female companion dead, he is paid off in marked bills by his treasonous employer who is working with foreign spies.

7.4
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Gotti

Gotti

1996 · 1h 57m · Movie

John Gotti rises to head the powerful Gambino crime family before being convicted in 1992 of racketeering and murder.

7.2
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Super Fuzz

Super Fuzz

1980 · 1h 37m · Movie

Red powder from a nuclear explosion gives a police officer super powers as long as he doesn't see anything red. He is eventually framed for murder and is unsuccessfully executed by many different methods.

6.3
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Hold That Ghost

Hold That Ghost

1941 · 1h 26m · Movie

After inheriting a fortune from a gangster, two dim-witted service station attendants find themselves stranded in a haunted house.

7.2
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Cloak and Dagger

Cloak and Dagger

1946 · 1h 46m · Movie

In WW2, the Allies race against time to persuade two nuclear scientists working for the Germans to switch sides.

6.6
15
I Walk Alone

I Walk Alone

1947 · 1h 37m · Movie

Frankie Madison leaves prison expecting a share from his ex-partner. But Prohibition bootlegging didn't prepare Frankie for Big Business.

7.0
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Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion

Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion

1950 · 1h 20m · Movie

Two Brooklyn wrestling promoters go to French Algeria in search of a famous Algerian wrestler but accidentally end-up in the French Foreign Legion.

6.3
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Helen of Troy

Helen of Troy

1956 · 1h 58m · Movie

The Iliad's story of the Trojan war, told from the Trojan viewpoint.

6.1
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The Shepherd of the Hills

The Shepherd of the Hills

1941 · 1h 38m · Movie

A mysterious but pleasant stranger arrives in the Missouri hills and befriends a young backwoods girl, which doesn't sit well with her moonshiner fiancé who has vowed to find and kill his own father.

6.9
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The Princess and the Pirate

The Princess and the Pirate

1944 · 1h 34m · Movie

A cowardly actor and a runaway princess are voyaging on a ship that is captured by a notorious pirate who recently buried his treasure on a secretly mapped island.

6.8
20
Captain from Castile

Captain from Castile

1947 · 2h 20m · Movie

The invasion of Mexico by Cortez, as seen by a young Spanish officer fleeing the Inquisition.

6.8
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Krakatoa: East of Java

Krakatoa: East of Java

1969 · 2h 11m · Movie

In 1883, ship captain Hanson plans a shipwreck salvage mission in The Dutch East Indies to retrieve a cargo of pearls but an unexpected volcano eruption and a state-ordered transport of convicts upset his plans.

5.5
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San Quentin

San Quentin

1937 · 1h 10m · Movie

An army trainer becomes captain of the prison yard and in time, falls for the sister of a hardened inmate.

6.5
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Invisible Stripes

Invisible Stripes

1939 · 1h 21m · Movie

An ex-con who wants to go straight has difficulties trying to reintegrate into society while on parole.

6.7
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Charlie Chan in Honolulu

Charlie Chan in Honolulu

1938 · 1h 7m · Movie

While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.

6.7
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Hit the Ice

Hit the Ice

1943 · 1h 22m · Movie

Two newspaper photographers get mixed up with gangsters at a ski resort.

6.7
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Custer of the West

Custer of the West

1967 · 2h 23m · Movie

George Armstrong Custer's love of the heroic traditions of the Calvary and his distaste with the coming of industrialization leads him to his destiny at the Little Big Horn.

5.8
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Flame of Barbary Coast

Flame of Barbary Coast

1945 · 1h 31m · Movie

A cowboy competes with a gambling tycoon on the Barbary Coast for the hand of a beautiful dance-hall queen.

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Pigs

Pigs

1973 · 1h 20m · Movie

The owner of a roadside diner and his new waitress kill people and feed them to a pen of 12 pigs.

4.8
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Hot Stuff

Hot Stuff

1979 · 1h 31m · Movie

Miami police fence stolen goods at a storefront-sting operation equipped with a two-way mirror.

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A Piece of the Action

A Piece of the Action

1977 · 2h 15m · Movie

A retired Chicago cop blackmails two rich thieves into "volunteering" to help juvenile delinquents change paths.

6.4
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The Virginian

The Virginian

1946 · 1h 27m · Movie

In Medicine Bow, a newly arrived eastern schoolteacher is courted by two cowpokes but their courtship is interrupted by violent incidents involving local cattle rustlers.

6.4
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Johnny Cool

Johnny Cool

1963 · 1h 43m · Movie

Exiled American gangster Colini sends his protégé-killer Giordano to the USA to eliminate Colini's mob enemies.

6.4
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Blood Red

Blood Red

1989 · 1h 31m · Movie

In 19th-century California, a Sicilian family of able winemakers gets targeted by a corrupt railroad tycoon after they refuse to leave their land.

4.1
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Dust Be My Destiny

Dust Be My Destiny

1939 · 1h 28m · Movie

Joe Bell, wrongly imprisoned for burglary, gets released to a prison farm. His romance with the foreman's daughter leads to the foreman's accidental death. Fearing disbelief, Bell flees with the daughter, Mabel.

6.8
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The Monster and the Girl

The Monster and the Girl

1941 · 1h 5m · Movie

After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.

6.0
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Savage Pampas

Savage Pampas

1966 · 1h 52m · Movie

In the late 1800s, an army captain tries to tame the open plains of Argentina, which are dominated by Indians and bandits. To help do this, the captain brings in a party of women to keep his soldiers happy.

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