Movies by Sam Jaffe
As part of the cast:
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Broadway Theatre Archive: Enemies (2003)
A put-upon waiter (Sam Jaffe) at a Catskills resort finally strikes back at an annoying customer (Ned Glass) who never stops complaining about the restaurant's service. But as the…
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On the Line (1984)
Cast: David Carradine, Scott Wilson, Victoria Abril …
Directed by: José Luis Borau
While learning the ropes as a new border patrol officer, Chuck (Jeff Delger) falls for Engracia (Victoria Abril), a seductive Mexican prostitute. But when Chuck marries Engracia and tries to…
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Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)
Cast: George Peppard, Robert Vaughn, Richard Thomas …
Directed by: Jimmy T. Murakami
With the peaceful planet of Akir in peril, seven mercenaries join forces to protect it from the plottings of an intergalactic megalomaniac in this Roger Corman-produced sci-fi fantasy…
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Gideon's Trumpet (1980)
Cast: Henry Fonda, John Houseman, Fay Wray …
Directed by: Robert E. Collins
Oscar-winning actor Henry Fonda stars in this Emmy-nominated Hallmark Hall of Fame drama based on Anthony Lewis's book by the same name, the true story of one man's fight for the…
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
Cast: Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall …
Directed by: Robert Stevenson
During World War II, eccentric, self-styled witch Eglantine Price (Angela Lansbury) aims to use her newfound powers to ward off a Nazi incursion of England. But she's saddled with a trio…
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Dunwich Horror (1970)
Cast: Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley …
Directed by: Daniel Haller
In a rare leading role, noted character actor Dean Stockwell plays Wilbur, a disturbed young warlock who wants to open a demonic portal, in this film based on the classic H.P. Lovecraft…
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Guns for San Sebastian (1968)
Cast: Anthony Quinn, Anjanette Comer, Charles Bronson …
Directed by: Henri Verneuil
Anthony Quinn stars in this classic spaghetti Western as an outlaw who goes into hiding as a monk, only to be mistaken for a real priest by local villagers who need his protection from…
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Ben-Hur (1959)
Cast: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet …
Directed by: William Wyler
Charlton Heston plays Judah Ben-Hur, a proud Jew who runs afoul of ambitious boyhood friend Messala (Stephen Boyd) in this 1959 epic that boasts an unforgettable chariot race and earned 11…
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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Cast: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe …
Directed by: Robert Wise
A humanoid envoy (Michael Rennie) from another world lands in Washington, D.C., with a warning to Earth's people to cease their violent behavior. But panic erupts when a nervous soldier…
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The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen …
Directed by: John Huston
Nominated for four Academy Awards and long considered a noir classic, John Huston's heist film follows a band of criminal masterminds (Sam Jaffe, Sterling Hayden and Louis Calhern) as…
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Rope of Sand (1949)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains …
Directed by: William Dieterle
Big game hunter Mike Davis (Burt Lancaster) heads to the African desert in pursuit of the most elusive quarry of all -- a lode of diamonds whose location only Davis knows but vicious…
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Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
Cast: Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield …
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Enterprising reporter Phil Green (Gregory Peck), eager to blow the lid off anti-Semitism, accepts an assignment to pen a series of frank exposés for a progressive magazine. Looking for a…
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13 Rue Madeleine (1947)
Cast: James Cagney, Annabella, Richard Conte …
Directed by: Henry Hathaway
After one of his men is murdered by a German enemy within the ranks, intelligence agent turned O.S.S. instructor Robert Sharkey (James Cagney) travels to occupied France to track down the…
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Gunga Din (1939)
Cast: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. …
Directed by: George Stevens
Three British soldiers -- Sgt. Cutter (Cary Grant), Sgt. Ballantine (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) and Sgt. McChesney (Victor McLaglen) -- are sent to India to investigate sabotaged telegraph wires.…
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Lost Horizon (1937)
Cast: Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, John Howard …
Directed by: Frank Capra
In Frank Capra's classic based on the James Hilton novel, plane-crash survivors are led through the Himalayas to Shangri-La, a village without hate or crime where no one ages. Robert…
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We Live Again (1934)
Cast: Anna Sten, Fredric March, Jane Baxter …
Directed by: Rouben Mamoulian
When Dimitri (Frederic March) returns from military service in Czarist Russia, he's ecstatic to discover that his childhood sweetheart, Katusha (Anna Sten), has grown into a beautiful…
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The Scarlet Empress (1934)
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe …
Directed by: Josef Von Sternberg
Marlene Dietrich stars as Sophia Frederica, a young German princess who uses her cunning and sexual prowess to seize Russia's throne from her ineffective husband, Peter (Sam Jaffe), and…