Don Siegel
Director, Actor
- Big Steal, The (w/ Illegal) (1949-1955)
- Dir. Don Siegel, Lewis Allen
Feat. Robert Mitchum, William Bendix, Jane Greer…
- On the run after being framed for a payroll robbery, GI Robert Mitchum evades William Bendix, teaming up with Jane Greer enroute to Mexico. Exciting…
- Riot In Cell Block 11 (1954)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Neville Brand, Emile Meyer, Frank Faylen…
- No–nonsense prison movie portrays simmering frustrations from both sides of the bars that develop into chaos. Shot on location using inmates as…
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates…
- 50's sci–fi masterpiece about alien pods replicating and replacing American townspeople. Whether read as a Communist or McCarthyist parable, it…
- Flaming Star (1960)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Elvis Presley, Barbara Eden, Dolores Del Rio
- Elvis Presley plays a half Native American rancher whose neighbourhood starts getting raided by people from the same tribe he is descended from, in…
- Hell Is For Heroes (1962)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker…
- An expertly written and delivered WWII adventure, where a small squad of US soldiers, headed by Steve McQueen, must hold off an advancing German…
- Killers, The (1964)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Lee Marvin, Clu Gulager, Angie Dickinson…
- Transposed into the garish 60s, Ernest Hemingway's famous story is transformed into a harder, more callous exercise in casual violence and sexual…
- Madigan (1967)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda
- Possibly the last film in which cops and crooks dress in snappy fedora hats and dark coats, a craggy Richard Widmark plays the addled NY Inspector…
- Stranger on the Run (1967)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Henry Fonda, Anne Baxter, Michael Parks…
- Henry Fonda is once again THE WRONG MAN in this tasty Don Siegel western. Fonda plays an embittered ex–con who falls foul of a ruthless…
- Coogan's Bluff (1968)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb
- Pre–DIRTY HARRY thriller has tough Arizona ranger Clint Eastwood dealing out the law his way in pursuit of an escaped suspect. Exciting action,…
- Beguiled, The (1970)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman
- Clint Eastwood plays a wounded Union soldier taken refuge at a Confederate girl's school, where his presense stirs up a hornet's nest. The closest…
- Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Shirley Maclaine
- Mexican–set western adventure following a mysterious nun pursued by the French Army who begins a mutually beneficial relationship with a…
- Dirty Harry (1971)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Clint Eastwood
- Classic genre film with Clint Eastwood as Inspector Callaghan, a dynamic cop determined to bring in a psycho–killer, even if he has to break a…
- Charley Varrick (1973)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr…
- Walter Matthau makes for a fascinating, unconventional armed robber in this punchy heist picture, trademarked by Don Siegel's famously pacey…
- Black Windmill, The (1974)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Michael Caine, Delphine Seyrig, Donald Pleasence…
- Michael Caine is in second–hand Harry Palmer–mode as a lone British espionage agent whose son is kidnapped and ransomed for diamonds by a…
- Shootist, The (1976)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. John Wayne, Ron Howard, Lauren Bacall
- Celebrated finale to John Wayne's career playing an aging gunfighter seeking obscurity but assailed by cancer and various 'young guns', out to prove…
- Telefon (1977)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Charles Bronson
- Espionage thriller with Bronson as Russian agent sent to stop a crazy defector from triggering hypnotised saboteurs in the US.
- Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom…
- Clint Eastwood uses a pair of nail–clippers to stage his bid for freedom, in this memorable, understated thriller based on the only successful…