Favorite Burt Lancaster movie?
 

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Vera Cruz (The first Spaghetti Western) and The Birdman of Alcatraz.

So many excellent movies no idea where to begin

Either Cannonball Run or Smokey & the Bandit. Love both

The Crimson Pirate!

"Judgment at Nuremberg". One of my all-time favorites: I've watched it many times but enjoy it just as much every time. So much great acting in that movie, though: it wasn't just Burt Lancaster that made it what it is.

Very good movie! I am still shocked by how a relatively wealthy and well educated group of people could follow such evil ideas as those espoused by Hitler and his goons. He did target his enemies rather early in his career and then used his talents as a speaker to inflame those not so educated nor wealthy.

He gave his best performance in "Elmer Gantry".

Field of Dreams is one of my favorite sports movies even though Burt was past his prime. Another movie I saw with him for the first time 4 years ago was The Swimmer. A very underrated and introspective film.

Amen!

That would be Reynolds, and those are 2 of my favorites with him along with Longest Yard and WW.

Was Reynolds in either of those films?

Favorite Burt Lancaster FIlm
 

Too many great ones to really pick one. His best performance might have been as Elmer Gantry.

Loved the book.

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Crimson Pirate
 

The one I can watch over again! Shows off his athleticism in a lighthearted movie! My dad actually told me about the movie and he’s been dead for 50 years but was a huge BL fan.

Also, "The Rainmaker".
 

All good ones. Another favorite of mine was "The Rainmaker" with Katharine Hepburn and other wonderful actors.

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Come Back Little Sheba, Lawman, and Tough Guys

I may watch Valdez Is Coming - Wikipedia today.

Burt Lancaster movie
 

Sweet smell of success

I vote also for Sweet Smell of Success and Seven Days in May in both he showed how menacing a character he could play and in Seven Days in May he had a great name for a general, James Mattoon Scott, and 2 of my all time film noir movies Criss Cross and the Killers ,I know to many but I had to put these in

Ah, yes, Elmer Gantry, that silver-tongued, self-indulgent, ruthless liar who conned all those followers.

Lancaster won the Oscar for that one in 1961.

But when Sinclair Lewis published the book in 1927, it was banned.

The book has been called “the greatest, most vital, and most penetrating study of hypocrisy that has been written since the works of Voltaire.”

(I have not read Voltaire, but I read Elmer Gantry decades ago and just ordered it to read again — here in the 21st Century, with hypocrisy and conning still thriving — more than ever, in more ways, and with even more at stake.)

Anyway, thanks, Tal, I just checked and saw that the movie is streaming.

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We watched Field of Dreams recently and it took us forever to come up with his name, his voice we knew, but could not put a name to it. Finally it clicked.

The Rainmaker…