Burgess Meredith — Actor (65)

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Waiting for Godot
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★ 8.7 14 ratings
Samuel Beckett / 萨缪尔·贝克特 (Samuel Beckett) genre: theater
other title: 等待戈多 director: Samuel Beckett / 未知 … actor: Bert Lahr / Tom Ewell / Zero Mostel / Burgess Meredith / Austin Pendleton
On a bare country road Vladimir and his friend Estragon wait in hope of salvation from a man called Godot. Their hope of salvation lies in Godot's arrival. While waiting they play games, entertain one another with vaudevillian tricks, question whether Godot will arrive and how they will benefit when he does. They are interrupted by the arrival of Pozzo (a land owner) and Lucky (Pozzo's slave). Pozzo questions their reasoning for waiting. Lucky performs a staggering burst of a monologue. Pozzo and Lucky exit, night falls and a young boy arrives and tells Vladimir and Estragon that "Mr Godot won’t come here today but he'll surely arrive tomorrow.” In Act two Pozzo returns but he is blind and Lucky is mute. Vladimir and Estragon continue waiting. Still determining to go, the tramps do not move. “I cannot express how much this show means to me,” writes artistic director, Peter Reid. “It is undoubtedly the greatest show of the 20th Century and has revolutionised the fabric of theatre.”

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Torture Garden (1967)
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other title: 邪恶花园 / 고문 정원 …
A special sideshow torture exhibit has the power, according to showman Dr. Diablo, to warn people of evil in their futures. As skeptical customers are shown the greed and violence they're hiding, one of them snaps and kills Diablo. When they run off, we see the murder to be staged as part of the show. One of the customers has hung around to see this, and wants to make a deal with Diablo, aka the Devil. A very good anthology of tales, written by Robert Bloch and directed by Freddie FRancis, for Amicus, an icon of this kind of movie. The tales are uneven, sure, but they are all at least good, till the perfect final one, the Man who collected Poe, with Jack Palance and Peter Cushing, a great idea, and a marvelous tale to watch. Very good Burgess Meredith as Diabolo the Great, the host for these tales. Unfortunately for us all, this kind of movies are a thing from the past and today we don't get any more gems like this. A must see

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The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go (1970)
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布吉斯·梅迪斯 actor: 胡金铨 / 萧锦 …
other title: 双面人顾先生 / 交易
1970年1月占士美臣(James Mason) 來香港取景拍攝電影 《雙面人顧先生》 The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go (aka The Third Eye) ,邀請導演胡金銓客串飾演日本商人一角,片酬高達十六萬港元,打破港台兩地演員片酬紀錄,無人可望其项背。 此外,占士美臣(James Mason)、保格斯米利迪夫(Burgess Meredith)和年輕的傑夫布里吉(Jeff Bridges),穿起唐裝做戲,一貫的荷李活式東方情調了。

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The Last Chase (1981)
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other title: 大追逐 / 飞车大追击 …
Twenty years after the American people have been told the oil has run out and disease has scared them into complacency, the United States has become a fascist state. One man, former race car driver Franklyn Hart, now a puppet spokesman for public transportation, rebuilds his race car and sets off to California from Boston where people have returned to living life like they were twenty years prior.

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Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
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other title: 美国大兵乔的故事 / 百战英雄 …
France, 1719. Louis 14th died four years ago, Philippe d'Orleans is the regent. He is a liberal and a libertine. His right-hand man, Dubois, an atheistic and cupid priest, as libertine as Philippe, tries to take advantage of a little rebellion lead by a Breton squire (Pontallec) and of the famine to become archbishop... Description of the life of the court in this period of transition where the French Revolution smoulders.

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State of Grace (1990)
State of Grace
★ 7.1 7 ratings
菲尔·乔安诺 / Phil Joanou actor: 西恩·潘 / Sean Penn …
other title: 优雅之邦 / 魔鬼警长地狱镇(台) …
Hell's Kitchen, New York. Terry Noonan returns home after a ten-year absence. He soon reconnects with Jackie, a childhood friend and member of the Irish mob, and rekindles his love affair with Jackie's sister Kathleen.

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That Uncertain Feeling (1941)
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other title: 夫妇之道 / 不稳的感情 …
Against her better judgement, happily married Jill Baker is persuaded to see a popular psychoanalyst about her psychosomatic hiccups. Soon, she's disillusioned about husband Larry; and one day in the doctor's waiting room she meets pianist Alexander Sebastian, who's even more confused than she is. Can this marriage be saved? Larry has a plan that is pure Lubitsch...

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Grumpy Old Men (1993)
Grumpy Old Men
Donald Petrie / 唐纳德·皮特里 actor: 沃尔特·马修 / Jack Lemmon …
other title: 그럼피 올드 맨 / Dois Velhos Rabugentos …
For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in nearby, their bad blood erupts into a high-stakes rivalry full of naughty jokes and adolescent hijinks.

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The Chase for the Golden Needles (1974)
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罗伯特·高洛斯 actor: 乔·唐·巴克 / 伊丽莎白·阿什利 …
other title: 神奇夺命计 / Golden Needles
Various factions are fighting each other to gain possession of a very special statue. The statue itself is not worth much, the needles inside it are the true prize. These “golden needles” hold extraordinary and unique properties, if inserted in the right positions in a man he will gain super sexual prowess, if placed incorrectly he dies.

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Hurry Sundown (1967)
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other title: 田野泪 / 夕阳西下
Following the Second World War, a northern cannery combine negotiates for the purchase of a large tract of uncultivated Georgia farmland. The major portion of the land is owned by Julie Ann Warren and has already been optioned by her unscrupulous, draft dodging husband, Henry. Now the combine must also obtain two smaller plots - one owned by Henry's cousin Rad McDowell, a combat veteran with a wife and family; the other by Reeve Scott, a young black man whose mother had been Julie's childhood Mammy. But neither Rad nor Reeve is interested in selling and they form an unprecedented black and white partnership to improve their land. Although infuriated by the turn of events, Henry remains determined to push through the big land deal. And when Reeve's mother Rose dies, Henry tries to persuade his wife to charge Reeve with illegal ownership of his property, confident the the bigoted Judge Purcell will rule against a Negro.

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The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946)
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other title: 女仆日记 / 어느 하녀의 일기 …
Celestine, the chambermaid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man. But Mr Lanlaire is not a right choice: all the house is firmly controlled by Mme Lanlaire, helped by the strange valet Joseph. Then she tries the neighbour, ex-officer Mauger. This seems to work. But soon the son of the Lanlaires comes back. He is young, attractive, and does not share his mother's anti-republicans opinions. So Celestine's beauty attracts Captain Mauger, young Georges Lanlaire, and also Joseph. Three men, from three different social classes, with three different conceptions of life. Will Celestine be able to convince Georges of her sincerity ? Will sinister and inflexible Joseph let his views upon Celestine be ruined ? A quite disillusioned depiction of humanity.

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The Day of the Locust (1975)
The Day of the Locust
★ 7.7 6 ratings
other title: 蝗虫之日 / 淑女·荡妇·情人 …
Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.