Loosely inspired by the influential newsman Walter Winchell, the film chronicles the mutually exploitive dynamic between a newspaper columnist, J.J. Hunsecker, played by Burt Lancaster, and press ...

Hi, this is Jim Mangold, and this is The Treat: [the 1957 film] Sweet Smell of Success, written by Clifford Odette and Ernest Lehman, directed by my old mentor Alexander McKendrick, starring Burt ...

In the transfixingly strange 1968 film The Swimmer, Burt Lancaster barely ever dried off; in Australian-set thriller The Surfer, Nicolas Cage struggles even to get near the water.The connection is ...

One longtime inmate, Robert Stroud, was even allowed to keep pets; he got the Hollywood treatment from Burt Lancaster in “The Birdman of Alcatraz” (1962). But Alcatraz cost a fortune to operate.

One of the most notorious inmates is known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz," popularized by a 1962 film starring Burt Lancaster of the same name. The inmate's real name was Robert Stroud, who had ...

The island's enduring mystique has also attracted Hollywood, most notably for the 1962 film "The Birdman of Alcatraz," starring Burt Lancaster, and the 1996 action thriller "The Rock," starring ...

One of the most notorious inmates is known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz," popularized by a 1962 film starring Burt Lancaster of the same name. The inmate's real name was Robert Stroud, who had ...

“I used to go to this French restaurant Maison ... Off to San Francisco, where Douglas was doing a play with Burt Lancaster. Kassar met him in his dressing room and Douglas became a quick ...

The screen ensemble was a literal cavalcade of then-stars, including Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Helen Hayes, Jean Seberg, Van Heflin, Jacqueline Bisset, George Kennedy, Barry Nelson, and Lloyd ...

Whether it was real or not, as Burt Lancaster discovered six decades earlier: material wealth is an illusion. Most Popular. The 50 Best Movies on Amazon Prime Right Now (June 2025) ...