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Joe Turkel

Joe Turkel

Joseph Turkel is a prolific American character actor. He is noted for his craggy Bronx looks and distinctive, penetrating voice. Turkel worked steadily from 1949 - 1998 in both films and television. He retired in 1998. He still makes the occasional appearance at fan conventions even at the age of 90+.

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Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (2013)

An oral history story of the making of Stanley Kubrick's horror masterpiece "The Shining" focusing on new interviews with key crew members. ...

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Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (2007)

The definitive 3½-hour documentary about the troubled creation and enduring legacy of the science fiction classic 'Blade Runner', culled from 80 interviews and hours of never-before-seen outtakes and lost footage. ...

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Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling (2007)

A look back to the 2019 fashions, costumes and make-up as seen in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. ...

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On the Edge of 'Blade Runner' (2000)

This is the rare UK Channel 4 documentary about Blade Runner, giving insights into it's history with interviews of Ridley Scott, the writers and nearly all the cast. Interviews with production staff, including Ridley, give details into the creative proces ...

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The Dark Side of the Moon (1990)

It is the year 2022. A mysterious systems failure causes the crew of a spaceship to be stranded on the dark side of the moon, while rapidly running out of fuel and oxygen. They are surprised to discover a NASA space shuttle floating in space, and board it ...

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Reel Horror (1985)

Evil spirits that emerge from cans of old movie film terrorize a neighborhood. ...

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Levitation (1985)

Two young hecklers goad once-great circus magician into reviving his legendary wireless levitation trick, which he abandoned years ago because it went horribly wrong. ...

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Blade Runner (1982)

In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans. ...

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The Shining (1980)

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within. ...

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Which Way Is Up? (1977)

Orange picker Leroy Jones inadvertently becomes a union leader and is forced out of town, leaving behind his sex-obsessed father, Rufus, and timid spouse, Annie Mae. He heads for Los Angeles, where he falls for union organizer Vanetta. Annie Mae seeks sola ...

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The Commitment (1976)

A salesman's marriage is at stake due to his increasing gambling debts. ...

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The Hindenburg (1975)

Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security. As he races against the clock to uncover a possible saboteur aboard the doomed zeppelin he finds that any ...

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The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)

Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave. ...

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The Sex Symbol (1974)

A thinly-disguised version of the life of Marilyn Monroe, detailing her ups and downs in life and how her erratic behavior contributed to her deteriorating career. ...

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Savage Abduction (1973)

A serial killer murders a businessman's wife, then blackmails the man into procuring young girls for him to murder. The businessman hires a gang of renegade motor-cyclists to kidnap girls for him. ...

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Six Hundred and Sixty-Six (1972)

A group of people inside an underground complex which possesses high tech computers which tracks world events consider all options as nuclear war is at hand, air supplies may last only eight days and Biblical prophesy unfolds. ...

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Wild in the Sky (1972)

Three anti-war activists hijack a B-52 bomber. ...

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The Animals (1970)

A woman tracks down the three men who raped her, helped by an Apache. Traveling through the Old West to her new home, young schoolteacher Alice McAndrew is abducted by five outlaws headed by robber Pudge Elliott. The thugs rape Alice before leaving her for ...

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Scream Free! (1969)

A man flees with his girlfriend from a love-in and motorcycles to Mexico with drug smugglers. ...

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The Devil's Eight (1969)

The Devil's 8 is a 1969 film from American International Pictures. It is about a Federal agent (Christopher George) who recruits six convicts to bust a moonshine ring. ...

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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)

Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film tr ...

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The Sand Pebbles (1966)

Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ...

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King Rat (1965)

When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good li ...

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Village of the Giants (1965)

"Genius" accidentally invents "goo" which causes living things to rapidly grow to an enormous size. Seeing an opportunity to get rich, some delinquent teenagers steal the "goo" and, as a result of a sophomoric dare, consume it themselves and become thirty ...

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Johnny Cool (1963)

A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S. ...

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The Yellow Canary (1963)

Andy is an arrogant pop singer about to be divorced by his wife who treats his staff badly. On the same night he starts a job at a theater in Los Angeles his infant son is kidnapped. Despite requests from the lead police officer on the case, Lieutenant Bon ...

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Famous Ghost Stories (1961)

A TV pilot masterminded by B movie auteur Bert I. Gordon and cable production company Herts-Lion International. Vincent Price hosts as a poltergeist introducing the ghost story to follow. It's really an edited version of Gordon's 1960 film Tormented, starr ...

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Portrait of a Mobster (1961)

A vicious hood rises to the top of the rackets in Depression-era New York in this account of the life of Dutch Schultz. ...

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Tormented (1960)

A jazz pianist is haunted by his dead ex-lover's crawling hand and floating head. ...

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The Boy and the Pirates (1960)

Jimmy desires to be a pirate when one day he discovers a magic bottle on the beach. He makes a wish and suddenly finds himself aboard Blackbeard's ship. Soon he realizes that being a pirate isn't what he expected. ...

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The Purple Gang (1959)

The story of the infamous Purple Gang - a ring of bootleggers, hijackers and killers in 1920's Detroit. ...

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Here Come the Jets (1959)

The rehabilitation of a Korean War veteran coincides with the advent of passenger jets. ...

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Warlock (1959)

A band of murderous cowboys has imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. With the sheriff humiliatingly run out of town, the residents hire the services of Clay Blaisedell as de facto town marshal. He arrives along with his friend, Tom Morgan, and ...

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Verboten! (1959)

A young American serviceman stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich, jeopardises his future after falling in love with a German woman. ...

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The Case Against Brooklyn (1958)

A rookie cop takes on criminals who have the local government in their pocket. ...

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The Bonnie Parker Story (1958)

In the 1930s, amoral blonde tommy-gun girl Bonnie Parker cut a swath of bodies across the South-West. Starting out on gas stations and bars with side-kick Guy Darrow she graduated to bank hold-ups with Darrow's brother and, after bloodily springing him, he ...

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The Beast of Budapest (1958)

Archival footage combined with new footage re-creates the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. It is also a love story between a devout communist woman and the liberal son of a prominent professor. Because of their political differences, the two can never be togethe ...

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Paths of Glory (1957)

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916. ...

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House of Numbers (1957)

Story of twin brothers - one trying to help the other escape from prison. ...

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Jeanne Eagels (1957)

Biographical film based loosely on the life of 1920s stage star Jeanne Eagels. ...

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The Midnight Story (1957)

Beloved priest Father Thomasino is murdered in a San Francisco alley, and the police have few clues. But traffic cop Joe Martini becomes obsessed with finding the killer; he suspects Sylvio Malatesta. Ordered off the case, Joe turns in his badge and invest ...

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Hellcats of the Navy (1957)

Future "first couple" Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis made their only joint film appearance in Hellcats of the Navy. Ronnie plays Casey Abbott, commander of a WW2 submarine, while Nancy portrays navy nurse Helen Blair, Abbott's off-and-on girlfriend. During ...

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The Shadow on the Window (1957)

Three delinquents murder a prosperous farmer at an isolated farm house. One witness to the crime - the dead man's secretary - is then taken hostage. The other witness - her young son - is thrown into state of shock. Can he recover soon enough to help the p ...

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Friendly Persuasion (1956)

The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops pass the area they are in real trouble. ...

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The Killing (1956)

Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme ...

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Inside Detroit (1955)

Gus Linden, former racketeer head of a Detroit local of the United Automobile Workers of America, A.F.L, attempts to destroy his successor, Blair Vicker, so he can put his old rackets back into the auto factories. Vickers fights him off, ultimately winning ...

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The Naked Street (1955)

To make an honest woman of his pregnant sister, Rosalie, callous New York mobster Phil Regal intimidates witnesses and bribes a store clerk to get Rosalie's condemned boyfriend, Nicky Bradna, out of prison. But Regal's meddling deeds soon backfire. ...

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Mad at the World (1955)

A neighborhood is terrorized by group of young juvenile delinquents called The WolfPack. When a young father's infant child is seriously injured because of the WolfPack, he decides that the police aren't working fast enough to catch the ones who hurt his b ...

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Cell 2455 Death Row (1955)

A Death Row inmate uses his prison law studies to fight for his life. Based on a true story. ...

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The Human Jungle (1954)

Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also a recent unsolved murder of a strip-tease dancer. Recognizing the laxity of the department he implements ma ...

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Return from the Sea (1954)

A hardened career navel officer must come to terms with adapting to civilian life with the help of a waitress that can see through his tough veneer. ...

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The Bamboo Prison (1954)

A communist POW sides with his North Korean guards against his fellow prisoners. ...

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Gypsy Colt (1954)

In this trans-species remake of Lassie, Come Home, a faithful horse undertakes a perilous journey to return to the family it loves. ...

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Duffy of San Quentin (1954)

San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse. ...

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Man Crazy (1953)

Three women come to Hollywood to break into the movies. ...

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A Slight Case of Larceny (1953)

Two nitwits decide to open a gas station. ...

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The Glass Wall (1953)

Peter Kuban, a Hungarian refugee, is about to be deported after jumping ship in New York harbor. He needs to find an ex-G.I. named Tom whom he helped during the war, as Tom can prove Peter's right to legal entry into the United States. If he can't find Tom ...

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Down Among the Sheltering Palms (1953)

War-weary Captain Willoby and his men are the occupation force on an island of lovely women...and are forbidden to fraternize. ...

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Starlift (1951)

To impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie gets out, chaos ensues. ...

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Fixed Bayonets! (1951)

The story of a platoon during the Korean War. One by one, Corporal Denno's superiors are killed until it comes to the point where he must try to take command responsibility. ...

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Halls of Montezuma (1951)

Richard Widmark leads an all star cast of marine leathernecks including Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone and Jack Webb into battle on a heavily fortified island. This action-packed story follows the squad as they pick their way throu ...

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Southside 1-1000 (1950)

The U.S. Secret Service goes after a counterfeiting ring by placing one of its Treasury agents inside a criminal mob. ...

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Triple Trouble (1950)

Slip and Sach take the rap for a robbery they did not commit in order to uncover the real robbers, whom they suspect are led by a convict who gives orders to his gang outside via a short-wave radio stashed somewhere in the prison. ...

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Federal Man (1950)

A government agent travels from the United States to Mexico to nab drug dealers. ...

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Lucky Losers (1950)

Slip and Sach's boss, David J. Thurston, has allegedly committed suicide. Slip finds a book of matches with the name of a local nightclub on his boss' desk and finds out from Gabe that a gambling casino is being run out of it. Slip comes to the conclusion ...

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Angels in Disguise (1949)

Slip and the gang stray from newspaper work to detective work. ...

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Sword in the Desert (1949)

First American film about the conflict between Jewish nationalists and the British in the creation of the state of Israel. ...

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City Across the River (1949)

Brooklyn youth Frank Cusack, good son and brother by day, is a gang member by night. The Dukes, seemingly likable dead-end-kids, are dangerously involved with racketeer Gaggsy Steens. Despite the efforts of Franks's parents, he and pal Benny get involved i ...

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