TV Guide: Akim Tamiroff

Video: Ebb Tide (1937)

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Starring Oskar Homolka, Frances Farmer, Ray Milland, Lloyd Nolan, Barry Fitzgerald Directed by James P. Hogan Print: black/white Runtime: 94 min. Genre: adventure Technicolor is the main attraction of this overheated South Seas adventure. Ray Milland, Akim Tamiroff and Barry Fitzgerald play three shifty sailors who commandeer a smallpox-ridden boat and set out to sea. A typhoon washes them ashore on a faraway Pacific island, which is ruled by a white religious fanatic (Lloyd Nolan) who has set himself up as the local god. The three sailors anxiously await an opportunity to appropriate the "god's" valuable stash of pearls and head for the mainland. Only one of the sailors escapes to tell his story; check out the cast list and guess which one survives. The third filmization of Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osborne's novel, Ebb Tide is rough going until Lloyd Nolan shows up to deliver the picture's best and subtlest performance. Remade as Adventure Island (1947).

Video: Ebb Tide (1937)

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Video: Touch Of Evil

Starz — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Synopsis: The original 1958 studio version! Director Orson Welles spins a dark, twisting tale of gangland drugs, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town. With Janet Leigh, Mercedes McCambridge, Marlene Dietrich.

Video: For Whom the Bell Tolls

Amazon Video on Demand — Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Based on the best-selling controversial novel by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls graces the screen with legendary stars Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. The story follows expatriate American demolition expert Robert Jordan (Cooper) who aides anti-fascist freedom fighters of Spain. Assisting him is a band of warriors including the strong-willed Pilar (Katina Paxinou in an Oscar-winning performance), the dangerously undependable Pablo (Akim Tamiroff) and the lovely, innocent Maria (Bergman). As danger mounts, Robert and Maria develop a closeness that blossoms into one of the screen's greatest love stories. Epic in scope yet intimate in feeling, For Whom the Bell Tolls remains a shining example of Hollywood moviemaking at its finest.

Video: For Whom the Bell Tolls

Amazon Video on Demand — Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Video: For Whom the Bell Tolls [HD]

Amazon Video on Demand — Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Video: Tortilla Flat -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Mackerel

TCM — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Opening credits followed by Yankee Spencer Tracy and Russian Akim Tamiroff in their first scene as Mexican peasants Pilon and Pablo, in Tortilla Flat, 1942, from the John Steinbeck novel.

Video: Tortilla Flat -- (Movie Clip) Ay, Paisano!

TCM — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500

John Garfield (as "Danny"), Spencer Tracy (as "Pilon"), Akim Tamiroff (as "Pablo") and Sheldon Leonard (as "Tito") sing "Ay, Paisano!" by Frank Loesser and Franz Waxman, followed by chatter, in Tortilla Flat, 1942.

Video: Mr. Arkadin

Hulu — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500

A shady financier pays a man to research his past, in order to erase it with murder.

Video: The Corsican Brothers (B&W)

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Douglas Fairbanks jr plays Siamese twins, separated by a good doctor [scalpel hemostat sutures quickly!!] after their parents are killed by Vendetta, personified by Akim Tamiroff in bolero suits. One goes to Paris, one to the Corsican Mountains to become, respectively, a gentleman and a bandit. What will happen? "I have performed the miracle I have separated their bodies. But what of their souls?" Lucien [the bandit] feels everything Mario [the Parisian fop - I mean, gentleman] feels. 20 years pass...then another year...and they are reunited in Corsica. Banditry and vendetta and a beautiful Corsican countess ensue.

Video: Dragon Seed -- (Movie Clip) Refugees

TCM — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Jade (Katharine Hepburn) and Wu Lien (Akim Tamiroff) make plans to leave their village, parting with Ling (Walter Huston) and joining the refugees in Dragon Seed, 1944.