For those of us who would like to see more of his work, please share your top 3/5/10/however many favourite Kirk Douglas films.
My current top ten, chronologically...
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Out of the Past (1947)
Champion (1949)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
Paths of Glory (1957)
The Vikings (1958)
Spartacus (1960)
Seven Days in May (1964)
Lust for Life
shareLet me also recommend his early 1970s Western Posse, a terrific little film in which he plays a cynical, scheming lawman who puts on a charming façade in order to make the leap into politics. He intends to use the capture & trial of outlaw Bruce Dern as his ticket to the big leagues … but Bruce has other ideas ...
sharePaths of Glory (1957)
Spartacus (1960)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
Seven Days in May (1964)
Lust for Life (1956)
Saturn 3 (1980)
A Gunfight (1971)
Eddie Macon's Run (1983)
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
My favorite Kirk Douglas appearance was a TV show not a movie:
Kirk was in an episode of
Tales From the Crypt, titled Yellow,
with his son Eric Douglas.
Episode aired 28 August 1991
It is the second highest rated episode of Tales From the Crypt. I have seen the highest rated episode and it isn't even close to being as good as the one Kirk and his son are in.
If you can find it, watch it. Great episode.
Yellow is great.
shareWhoa, ten. Ok, here goes:
Ace in the Hole
Lust for Life
Lonely are the Brave
Spartacus
Paths of Glory
The Vikings
Heroes of Telemark
Detective Story
The Light at the Edge of the World
The Man from Snowy River
I could go on. Films I haven't seen yet that I think might be great:
Bad and the Beautiful
Last Train from Gun Hill
Young Man with a Horn
Ulysses