Richard Basehart
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Filmography
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He Walked by Night
(1949)Police try to track down an elusive thief and cop killer who seemingly vanishes into thin air. Can they catch him before he murders again?

Decision Before Dawn
(1951)Richard Basehart and Gary Merrill star in this stirring 1951 Best Picture Oscar Nominee about a risky, radical plan wherein the Allies attempt to employ German POWs as spies!

Miracles of Thursday
(1957)Hitler
(1962)Richard Basehart delivers an incendiary performance as history's most notorious madman in this searing exposé of the private life of Adolf Hitler. A semi-factual account of the Führer's rise and fall, this rarely seen film follows Hitler's political career from the failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923 to his suicide in a Berlin bunker at the end of WWII. Inspired by a 1959 interview with a woman who claimed to be his lover, Hitler mixes historical fact with the theory that impotence and an Oedipal complex fueled the Führer's psychotic quest for power. Costarring John Banner (Hogan's Heroes) and Cordula Trantow in a Golden Globe®-nominated performance as the Führer's beloved niece Geli.

Mansion of the Doomed
(1976)A doctor trying to restore his daughter’s eyesight kidnaps victims and transplants their eyes in this horror film banned in the U.K.
The Great Bank Hoax
(1978)God Bless America... but grab what you can just in case. When, on the eve of an inspection by a bank examiner, the executives of a small-town bank discover that a trusted employee has been embezzling, they concoct a plan to cover the loss--which will net them a tidy sum in the process. Now, as word spreads of the embezzlement and cover-up among the upstanding citizens of the town, everyone decides that, rather than report the crime to the authorities, it's time to cash in for him or herself in this hilarious comedy of corruption.

Canyon Crossroads
(1955)A modern-day uranium prospector recruits a geology professor and his daughter to seek the "mother lode" in Utah. A sinister mine owner sends helicopters into Utah flats to stop them. The prospector's only defense--a six-shooter.

Moby Dick
(1956)When a sailor joins the crew of a whaling ship captained by a man bent on killing a white whale, he is swept up in an obsessive and fatal pursuit

Reign of Terror
(1949)A powerful figure in the French Revolution desperately seeks his book listing those marked for death, thereby guaranteeing his rise to dictatorship.

Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet
(1982)Cornetist/pianist/composer Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke (1903-1931) was jazz's man who got away - the James Dean, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain of his day. Born in Davenport, Iowa into an upper-middle-class family, Beiderbecke became a legend even in his short lifetime, bringing an amazing new energy and unprecedented maturity to the music and influencing generations of musicians. After a bout battling alcoholism, Bix died in Sunnyside, Queens on August 6, 1931. The cause of death was lobar pneumonia. He was 28.Using archival photographs and rare footage (including the three sole momentary fragments capturing Bix on film) and interviews with friends and colleagues (including jazz greats Hoagy Carmichael, Doc Cheatham, Artie Shaw, et al.), Oscar winner Brigitte Berman's acclaimed documentary paints a vivid portrait of a vanished era and brings to life the only cornetist Louis Armstrong regarded as an equal (the quotation in the film's title was once spoken by Armstrong).New restoration by Oren Edenson with fully remastered soundtrack by Daniel Pellerin.

The Bounty Man
(1972)Two rival bounty hunters are after the same murderer but find they have to join together to fight off his gang of cut-throat killers.

The Swindle
(1955)
La Strada
(1954)A traveling strongman buys a peasant girl to be his wife and co-star.

Cry Wolf
(1947)Errol Flynn and Barbara Stanwyck star in this psychological thriller about a wealthy young widow who discovers the hereditary insanity that has been a well-guarded secret within the walls of her late husband's family estate.

Kings of the Sun
(1963)In this historic epic, a great Mayan king moves his surviving tribesmen to the coast, where tense rivalries and civil strife result in a harsh war.

21 Hours at Munich
(1976)Chilling account of events that shocked the world at the twentieth Olympics in Munich, West Germany, when a group of terrorists killed two Israeli team members and took nine others hostage.

The Island of Dr. Moreau
(1977)Based on the H.G. Wells novel, a sailor washes ashore on an island where a mad scientist’s experiments toy with the nature of animal and man.

The Brothers Karamazov
(1958)Dostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov is given the Hollywood screen treatment in this sumptuous and colorful film. Lee J. Cobb, in an Academy Award®-nominated role plays Fyodor Karamazov, the wealthy father of four grown sons: Dmitri (Yul Brynner), a callous Russian officer; Ivan (Richard Basehart), the intellectual; pious Alexey (William Shatner in his screen debut); and half-brother Smerdyakov. Tensions erupt to a murderous end when libertine father and romantic son find themselves vying for the affections of the same woman, the wild Grushenka. Finding themselves adrift without the dark anchor that held them together, the four brothers must now find peace, each in their own way.

Roseanna McCoy
(1949)The saga of the Hatfield-and-McCoy feud is romanticized in Samuel Goldwyn's Roseanna McCoy. Newcomer Joan Evans stars as the title character, whose elopement with Johnse Hatfield serves to further fuel the flames of the deadly mountain feud.

Titanic
(1953)La vie des passagers du Titanic, paquebot de luxe voué à un funeste destin, est présentée avant et pendant son triste naufrage dans l'Atlantique.