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Actor: Sterling Hayden

Sterling Hayden ran guns to Yugoslav partisans during the war and won a Silver Star, then named names before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1951, an act he condemned himself for publicly for the rest of his life.

The Asphalt Jungle and The Killing gave him the definitive noir heavies, men whose plans are sound and whose luck is not, and Kubrick used him again as General Ripper in Dr. Strangelove.

The Long Goodbye gives him a late, sprawling, largely improvised performance as a drunken novelist that is closer to a documentary of the man.

He sailed to Tahiti in defiance of a court order during a custody dispute and wrote a well-regarded memoir, Wanderer.

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The Long Goodbye (1973)

Robert Altman's 1973 Chandler revisionism. The Long Goodbye is Robert Altman's 1973 American neo-noir adapting Raymond Chandler's 1953 novel.

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The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

Sterling Hayden, Sam Jaffe, brief Marilyn Monroe. The original ensemble heist film.

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The Killing (1956)

Kubrick's 1956 racetrack robbery. Non-linear structure that became Tarantino's vocabulary.

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George C. Scott

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Kubrick's 1964 Cold War satire. Sellers in three roles, Scott as Buck Turgidson.

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The Blue and the Gray (1982)

The Blue and the Gray is a CBS miniseries from 1982 that tried to do for the Civil War what Roots had done for slavery a few years earlier. Stacy Keach plays Jonas Steele, a Pinkerton operative.

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The Godfather Review

The Godfather is the best film ever made from a craft perspective. Not the most entertaining, not the most beloved, not the most influential, though it is all three.