Charles Durning

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Hi Mom! (1970): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Robert De Niro, Charles Durning, Allen Garfield…; One of dir. De Palma's underrated early satires is loosely a sequel to 'Greetings', with Robert De Niro returning from the Vietnam War to try and…
Dealing (1972): Dir. Paul Williams
Feat. John Lithgow, Barbara Hershey, Charles Durning…; Entertaining hippy comedy about a law student who runs a pot scam on the side. A young John Lithgow and Barbara Hershey display cool flares. Written…
Sting, The (1973): Dir. George Roy Hill
Feat. Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert Shaw…; Classic vehicle for Robert Redford and Paul Newman playing two Depression–era conmen. Winner of seven Oscars including Best Picture. Music by…
Hindenburg, The (1975): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton…; Tense thriller follows the last flight of the Hindenburg airship from Nazi Germany to New York in 1937, where it notoriously burst into flames upon…
Breakheart Pass (1975): Dir. Tom Gries
Feat. Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna…; Charles Bronson plays a prisoner being transported on a train with a small U.S. army unit and medical supplies through the Rocky mountains. The…
Captains and the Kings (TV Mini-Series) (1976): Feat. Patty Duke, Jane Seymour, Perry King…; Rich inter–generational saga chronicling the life of an Irish immigrant who arrives penniless in America in the mid–19th century.…
An Enemy of the People (1977): Dir. George Shaefer
Feat. Steve McQueen, Charles Durning; Seldom–seen version of the Henrik Ibsen play (adapted by Arthur Miller), was a labour of love for Steve McQueen, who plays a scientist…
Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977): Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning…; A powerful political thriller following an American Air Force pilot (Burt Lancaster) who goes renegade, escaping from military prison and taking…
Muppet Movie, The (1979): Dir. James Frawley
Feat. Dom DeLuise, Charles Durning; The first Muppet feature has Kermit the Green One taking a long hop from his swamp in Georgia all the way to Hollywood, en route collecting Miss…
When a Stranger Calls (1979): Dir. Fred Walton
Feat. Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Colleen Dewhurst…; "Have you checked the children?". This line and the opening twenty minutes of this film (later parodied in SCREAM) preyed on babysitters' fears the…
Starting Over (1979): Dir. Alan J. Pakula
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen…; James L. Brooks scripted this classic breakup comedy with Burt Reynolds and Jill Clayburgh (fresh off AN UNMARRIED WOMAN) as divorcees trying to get…
Final Countdown, The (1980): Dir. Don Taylor
Feat. Martin Sheen, Kirk Douglas, Katherine Ross…; The nuclear–era aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, skippered by Martin Sheen, steams into a time–warp and pops up in the Pacific Ocean, just…
Sharky's Machine (1981): Dir. Burt Reynolds
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Vittorio Gassman, Brian Keith…; Burt Reynolds assumed directing duties for this sleazy cop–thriller about political corruption. Mixes exciting, gory action–scenes with…
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The (1982): Dir. Colin Higgins
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise…; Dolly Parton is the buxom madam of Texas’ famous Chicken Ranch whorehouse (portrayed less flatteringly in Nick Broomfield’s documentary) in this…
To Be or Not to Be (1983): Dir. Alan Johnson
Feat. Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Tim Matheson…; Mel Brooks features in this remake of the 1940s Ernst Lubitsch comedy.
Two of a Kind (1983): Dir. John Herzfeld
Feat. John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Charles Durning…; God (voiced by Gene Hackman) is so disappointed with mankind he prepares a second Flood, but is persuaded by angels to bet on the reformation of two…
Death of a Salesman (1985): Dir. Volker Schlondorff
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Charles Durning; An excellent adaptation of Arthur Miller’s most famous play, with Dustin Hoffman bringing pathos, seediness and tragedy to the central…
Stick (1985): Dir. Burt Reynolds
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Candice Bergen, George Segal…; Moody action flick with a paroled Reynolds becoming embroiled in drug–running with an old friend. Unintentionally campy fun based on the Elmore…
Big Trouble (1985): Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Charles Durning…; Cassavette's final film is far from a fitting finale to the iconoclast's career, but its not without its charms. Arkin plays a besieged insurance…
Where the River Runs Black (1986): Dir. Christopher Cain
Feat. Charles Durning, Dana Delany; Compassionate eco–drama about an Amazon–raised orphan who is assimilated into civilisation by a priest (Durning).
Tough Guys (1986): Dir. Jeff Kanew
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Charles Durning…; A low–brow but likeable vehicle for macho Hollywood icons Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster who play two elderly gangsters who are released from…
Cat Chaser (1989): Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Peter Weller, Kelly McGillis, Charles Durning…; The director atypically sidesteps controversy in adapting Elmore Leonard's political novel about a Miami hotel owner who courts danger when he…
Butter Battle Book (1989): Dir. Ralph Bakshi
Feat. Charles Durning; Ralph Bakshi animates the Dr. Suess favourite about the ridiculously trivial feud between the Yooks and the Zooks.
V.I. Warshawski (1991): Dir. Jeff Kanew
Feat. Kathleen Turner, Jay O. Sanders, Charles Durning…; Kathleen Turner hams it up as the vivacious gumshoe of Sara Paretski's pulp novellas, grappling with both crime and chauvinism, armed with some sharp…
Music of Chance, The (1993): Dir. Philip Haas
Feat. James Spader, Mandy Patinkin, Charles Durning…; Impressively cast against type, James Spader's slimy card shark entices broken family man Mandy Patinkin to accept a poker challenge by two eccentric…
When a Stranger Calls Back (1993): Dir. Fred Walton
Feat. Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Jill Schoelen; Sequel to the 1979 classic WHEN A STRANGER CALLS, with the same director and much of the same cast. Babysitter Julia is looking after two kids…
Home for the Holidays (1995): Dir. Jodie Foster
Feat. Holly Hunter, Robert Downey Jnr., Anne Bancroft…; Holly Hunter returns to her family for a holiday get–together and finds a mixture of romance and family conflicts amid some bright, eccentric…
Spy Hard (1996): Dir. Rick Friedberg
Feat. Leslie Nielsen, Nicollette Sheridan, Charles Durning; Leslie Nielsen is back for another round of movie send–ups in what increasingly seems like an exhausted genre. A barrage of hits and misses…
Jerry and Tom (1999): Dir. Saul Rubinek
Feat. Joe Mantegna, Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy…; Adding mileage to the crime–caper genre, Joe Mantegna plays a hitman who puts used–car salesman Sam Rockwell (LAWN DOGS) through a droll…
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000): Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson…; The Coen Brothers' return to their best form with what they neatly describe as the Rolls–Royce of 'hayseed' movies (by which they mean a…

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