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.
Actor: Sterling Hayden
James WhitmoreThe Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Sterling Hayden, Sam Jaffe, brief Marilyn Monroe. The original ensemble heist film.
Coleen GrayThe Killing (1956)
Kubrick's 1956 racetrack robbery. Non-linear structure that became Tarantino's vocabulary.
George C. ScottDr. Strangelove (1964)
Kubrick's 1964 Cold War satire. Sellers in three roles, Scott as Buck Turgidson.
Gregory PeckThe 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.