Jack Palance
Actor
Films to Rent on DVD
- Halls of Montezuma (1950)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Karl Malden…
- Unflashy and well–cast war film, that follows the US Marines into action on a Pacific island. Makes a fairly gung–ho contrast to dir.…
- Panic in the Streets (1950)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes…
- Early New Orleans–set Kazan noir, follows the hunt for a killer who may be spreading a bubonic plague. Tense, detailed examination of morality…
- Sudden Fear (1952)
- Dir. David Miller
Feat. Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame…
- Enjoyable potboiler with Palance as an ambitious young actor who sets out to seduce and destroy wealthy playwright Crawford. Rollicking…
- Shane (1953)
- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Alan Ladd, Jack Palance, Emile Meyer
- Former gunfighter Alan Ladd comes to the defence of homesteaders menaced by Jack Palance (satanically clad all in black). Classic Western is splendid…
- Big Knife, The (1955)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Rod Steiger…
- Lurid expose of the Hollywood 'studio system' from the melodramatic pen of playwright Clifford Odets.
Palance shows a rare vulnerability as a…
- Attack! (1956)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Jack Palance, Lee Marvin, Eddie Albert
- Departing from the glory–day stories of WW2, Aldrich offers a hard–edged realism to the nightmare of war. Jack Palance, Lee Marvin and…
- Barabbas (1962)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Jack Palance, Arthur Kennedy…
- Lavish, literate and thrilling by equal measure, this Hollywood Roman speculation follows the wanderings of the legendary thief (Quinn) who was saved…
- Le Mepris (Contempt) (1963)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Fritz Lang
- An insecure screen–writer struggles with vulgar producers as well as his movie–star wife on the set of Homer's Odyssey. Brigitte Bardot,…
- Professionals, The (1966)
- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan…
- A taut precursor to THE WILD BUNCH, with a gang of American mercenaries making an incursion into Mexican territory to rescue a beautiful hostage…
- Torture Garden (1967)
- Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Jack Palance, Burgess Meredith, Beverly Adams…
- Grisly, well–acted omnibus of four horror stories by PSYCHO–scribe Robert Bloch, framed by the fiendish hype of Burgess Meredith's…