Movies by Elia Kazan
As part of the cast:
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A Letter to Elia (2010)
Cast: Martin Scorsese, Elia Kazan
Directed by: Martin Scorsese, Kent Jones
From Martin Scorsese and documentarian Kent Jones comes this examination of the brilliant and controversial career of film and theater director Elia Kazan: Oscar winner, nurturer of…
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James Dean: Sense Memories (2005)
Cast: James Dean, Mark Rydell, Nicholas Ray …
Sharing their memories of actor James Dean -- whose tragic death ended his career at the height of his fame -- celebrity friends and colleagues (including Martin Landau, Eartha Kitt and Eli…
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50 Years: The Best of Hollywood (1999)
Cast: Marlon Brando, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis …
Join host Tab Hunter in reliving some of the best moments from the greatest films of all time. This entertaining documentary features never-before-seen footage and more than 35 rare…
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Blues in the Night (1941)
Cast: Priscilla Lane, Betty Field, Richard Whorf …
Directed by: Anatole Litvak
Jigger Pine (Richard Whorf) and his traveling jazz band face rejection, alcoholism, heartbreak and tragedy as they try to make it big -- with a little help from a gangster who books them at…
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City for Conquest (1940)
Cast: James Cagney, Jerome Cowan, Donald Crisp …
Directed by: Anatole Litvak
In this heart-tugging drama based on Aben Kandel's novel, truck driver Danny Kenny (James Cagney) pays a heavy price when he turns to boxing to help bankroll his brother's music…
As a director:
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The Last Tycoon (1976)
Cast: Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum …
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel about Hollywood and its denizens, this Elia Kazan-helmed drama tells the tale of Monroe Stahr (Robert De Niro), a 1930s studio head driven…
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The Visitors (1972)
Cast: Steve Railsback, Chico Martínez, James Woods …
Directed by: Elia Kazan
When they're released from prison for the rape and murder of a civilian back in Vietnam, two angry veterans (Steve Railsback and Chico Martínez) track down Bill Schmidt (James Woods),…
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The Arrangement (1969)
Cast: Richard Boone, Hume Cronyn, Kirk Douglas …
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Wealthy advertising executive Eddie Anderson (Kirk Douglas) is trapped in an unhappy marriage and a mind-numbing career and slipping deeper and deeper into a midlife crisis. Trying to find…
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America, America (1963)
Cast: Stathis Giallelis, Frank Wolff, Elena Karam …
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Director Elia Kazan vividly recounts the dramatic life story of his own uncle, who's encouraged by his father to leave their home village in Turkey when oppression of the Greek minority…
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Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Cast: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle …
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Young lovers Deanie Loomis (Natalie Wood) and Bud Stamper (Warren Beatty, in his big-screen debut) find their awakening sexuality at odds with their own moral standards -- and those of their…
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A Face in the Crowd (1957)
Cast: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa …
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan's masterpiece proves that celebrity isn't all it's cracked up to be. When talent scout Marcia Jeffries (Patricia Neal) spots drifter Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes (Andy…
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Baby Doll (1956)
Cast: Karl Malden, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach …
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Written by Tennessee Williams, this black comedy tells the story of cotton gin owner Archie (Karl Malden) and his sexy teenage wife (Carroll Baker), who won't consummate the marriage…
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East of Eden: Special Edition (1955)
Cast: Julie Harris, James Dean, Raymond Massey …
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Set in California's Salinas Valley, Elia Kazan's adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel centers on Cal Trask (James Dean), the black sheep son of a stern farmer(Raymond Massey).…
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On the Waterfront (1954)
Cast: Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb …
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Winner of eight Oscars, director Elia Kazan's classic morality tale stars Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy, a has-been boxer who experiences a crisis of conscience while working for…
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Viva Zapata! (1952)
Cast: Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn …
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Marlon Brando earned an Oscar nod for his portrayal of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, an illiterate peasant who rallies the countryside against the government and eventually ascends…
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Cast: Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter …
Directed by: Elia Kazan
After losing the family plantation to creditors, aging Southern belle Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) travels to New Orleans seeking solace in her sister, Stella (Kim Hunter). Instead, she goes…
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Panic in the Streets (1950)
Cast: Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes …
Directed by: Elia Kazan
A medical official races against time to stop a deadly epidemic from spreading across the United States in this taut drama. Lt. Cmdr. Dr. Clinton Reed (Richard Widmark) frantically scours New…
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Pinky (1949)
Cast: Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters …
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan's anti-racist drama centers on a light-skinned black woman trying to fit into society. When her white boyfriend proposes, Patricia "Pinky" Johnson (Jeanne Crain) fears that he…
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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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Boomerang! (1947)
Cast: Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb …
Directed by: Elia Kazan
When a man of the cloth is shot to death on the street, pressure mounts on District Attorney Henry Harvey (Dana Andrews) to put drifter John Waldron (Arthur Kennedy) on trial for the killing.…
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The Sea of Grass (1947)
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Walker …
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn mark their fourth onscreen pairing as tyrannical New Mexico cattleman Col. James Brewton his reluctant wife, Lutie, in this sweeping Elia Kazan Western…
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
Cast: Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn …
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Set in the early 1900s, Elia Kazan's first film centers on a poor Brooklyn family struggling not only to survive, but to improve their meager existence. Young Francie (Peggy Ann Garner)…