
Birthday:
12-04-1913
Deathday:
06-20-1978 (64 years)
Birthplace:
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Biography
Mark Robson (4 December 1913 – 20 June 1978) was a Canadian-born film editor, film director and producer in Hollywood.
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Nine Hours to Rama
Producer
event1963 star_border 6.1
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José Ferrer and Horst Buchholz star in this fictionalised account of events leading up to the assassination of Indian spiritual leader and independence campaigner Mahatma Gandhi.
The Prize
Director
event1963 star_border 6.8
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A group of Nobel laureates descends on Stockholm to accept their awards. Among them is American novelist Andrew Craig, a former literary luminary now writing pulp detective stories to earn a living. Craig, who is infamous for his drinking and womanizing, formulates a wild theory that physics prize winner Dr. Max Stratman has been replaced by an impostor, embroiling Craig and his chaperone in a Cold War kidnapping plot.
Avalanche Express
Producer
event1979 star_border 4.8
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CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting to the west. Wargrave decides they should travel to safety on a train across Europe, the "Atlantic Express". During the journey, they must survive attacks by terrorists and an avalanche, all planned by Russian spy-catcher Nikolai Bunin.
Valley of the Dolls
Director
event1967 star_border 6
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In New York City, bright but naive New Englander Anne Welles becomes a secretary at a theatrical law firm, where she falls in love with attorney Lyon Burke. Anne befriends up-and-coming singer Neely O'Hara, whose dynamic talent threatens aging star Helen Lawson and beautiful but talentless actress Jennifer North. The women experience success and failure in love and work, leading to heartbreak, addiction and tragedy.
The Seventh Victim
Director
event1943 star_border 6.4
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After young Mary Gibson discovers that her older sister Jacqueline has disappeared, she leaves her boarding school and heads to New York City to track down her sibling. But Mary gets drawn deeper into the mystery.
Isle of the Dead
Director
event1945 star_border 6
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On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people—a superstitious old peasant—suspects a young woman of being a vampiric demon.
Journey into Fear
Editor
event1943 star_border 6
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An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.
Von Ryan's Express
Director
event1965 star_border 7.1
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Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.
Earthquake
Producer
event1974 star_border 6.1
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Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.
Bedlam
Director
event1946 star_border 6.5
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London, 1761. St. Mary's of Bethlehem, a sinister madhouse, is visited by wealthy people who enjoy watching the patients confined there as if they were caged animals. Nell Bowen, one of the visitors, is horrified by the deplorable living conditions of the unfortunate inhabitants of this godforsaken place, better known as Bedlam.
Champion
Director
event1949 star_border 6.6
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An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.
Cat People
Editor
event1942 star_border 6.9
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A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.
I Walked with a Zombie
Editor
event1943 star_border 6.8
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A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.
The Leopard Man
Editor
event1943 star_border 6.5
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When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.
The Harder They Fall
Director
event1956 star_border 7.1
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Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch and a glass jaw. Exploiting Willis' reputation for integrity and standing in the boxing community, Benko arranges a series of fixed fights that propel the unsophisticated Moreno to #1 contender for the championship. The reigning champ, the sadistic Buddy Brannen, harbors resentment at the publicity Toro has been receiving and vows to viciously punish him in the ring. Eddie must now decide whether or not to tell the naive Toro the truth.
The Ghost Ship
Director
event1943 star_border 6.3
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Captain Stone's newly recruited officer, Tom Merriam, idolizes his senior who treats him like a friend. But when a couple of his crew members die mysteriously, Tom starts doubting Stone's authority.
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Director
event1954 star_border 5.9
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A naval aviator is assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges during the Korean War.
Lost Command
Director
event1966 star_border 6.2
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After being freed from a Vietnamese war prison, French Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy is sent to help quell resistance forces in Algeria. With the help of the Capt. Esclavier, who has grown weary of war, and Capt. Boisfeuras, who lives for it, Raspeguy attempts to convert a rugged band of soldiers into a formidable fighting unit, with the promise of marrying a beautiful countess if he's made a general.
Edge of Doom
Director
event1950 star_border 5.9
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A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.
From the Terrace
Director
event1960 star_border 6.7
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Alfred Eaton, an ambitious young executive, climbs to the top of New York's financial world as his marriage crumbles. At the brink of attaining his career goals, he is forced to choose between business success, married to the beautiful, but unfaithful Mary and starting over with his true love, the much younger Natalie.
Peyton Place
Director
event1957 star_border 6.7
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In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion -- which resulted in her illegitimate daughter Allison -- by adopting a chaste, prudish attitude towards all things sexual. In spite of herself, Constance can't help but be attracted to handsome new teacher Michael Rossi. Meanwhile, the restless Allison, who'd like to be as footloose and fancy-free as the town's "fast girl" Betty Anderson, falls sincerely in love with mixed-up mama's boy Norman Page.
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Director
event1958 star_border 6.7
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All her life, Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent there as a missionary, Gladys works as a domestic to earn the money to send herself to a poor, remote village. There she eventually lives a full and happy life: running the inn, acting as "foot inspector", advising the local Mandarin, and even winning the heart of mixed race Captain Lin Nan. But Gladys discovers her real destiny when the country is invaded by Japan and the Chinese children need her to save their lives. Based on a true story.
The Falcon's Brother
Editor
event1942 star_border 6.4
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A gentlemanly detective known as The Falcon calls on his brother to help him stop the Nazis from assassinating a key diplomat.
Phffft
Director
event1954 star_border 6.2
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Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves into disagreements and divorce. But their separate attempts to get back out on the dating scene have a funny way of bringing them together.
Happy Birthday, Wanda June
Director
event1971 star_border 5.5
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A hunter back from years in the Amazon finds his wife and life changed.
Home of the Brave
Director
event1949 star_border 6.7
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A sensitive, educated black man's World War II-time problems. This is essentially the duplicate of his peace-time problems which are pointed up in a flashback of his life, and primarily of his war-time adventures with four white soldiers on a dangerous reconnaissance mission on a Japanese-held island.
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
Director
event1969 star_border 5
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A mentally disturbed man stalks a woman who had once aborted the child he had fathered.
Youth Runs Wild
Director
event1944 star_border 4.2
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The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war.
Bright Victory
Director
event1951 star_border 6.9
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A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life.
Hell Below Zero
Director
event1954 star_border 6
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Duncan Craig signs on a whaling ship, partly because his own business deal has fallen through, partly to help Judie Nordhall find her father. Rumor has it that her father may have been murdered by Erik Bland, son of her father's partner and her one-time lover. Duncan and Erik find themselves on rival whaleboats and, ultimately, on an ice floe.
My Foolish Heart
Director
event1950 star_border 6.7
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After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona. Eloise drinks too much and is unhappily married to Lew Wengler. Eloise falls asleep and remembers her time with her true love, Walt Dreiser, at the beginning of the Second World War. She recalls the events that lead up to her split with Mary Jane, and how Lew married Eloise rather than Mary Jane.
Roughshod
Director
event1949 star_border 5.3
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Rancher Clay and his brother, Steve, head out across the Sonora mountain pass, followed by Lednov, an ex-con seeking revenge on Clay for putting him behind bars. Clay and Steve unexpectedly cross paths with a group of dance hall girls -- including Mary, Marcia and Helen -- whose stagecoach has broken down, and help them get to the nearest ranch, where Lednov unfortunately catches up to Clay.
A Prize of Gold
Director
event1955 star_border 5.4
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A U.S. sergeant, a British sergeant and a British pilot hijack gold for a German refugee's war orphans.
Trial
Director
event1955 star_border 6.7
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A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters. A courtroom drama set in 1947 and underlying post-WW2 acute problems facing the USA such as stormy race relations and the growing threat of local communism.
Return to Paradise
Director
event1953 star_border 5.9
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An American drifter comes to a remote Polynesian island controlled by a Puritanical missionary and turns the social life of the island upside-down.
The Little Hut
Director
event1957 star_border 6.5
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Sir Philip Ashlow (Stewart Granger), his neglected wife, Lady Ashlow (Ava Gardner) and his best friend Henry Brittingham-Brett (David Niven) are shipwrecked on a desert island. This potential ménage à trois where the two men compete for the lady's attention is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a fourth inhabitant of the island.
I Want You
Director
event1951 star_border 5.2
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The scene is a small town in the Eastern United States, where the outbreak of hostilities in Korea has a profound effect on several people. WWII veteran Martin Greer wants to re-enlist, much to the dismay of his wife Nancy.
Limbo
Director
event1972 star_border 6
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A ride to the airport unites three women whose husbands are either prisoners or missing in Vietnam.
The Magnificent Ambersons
Additional Editing
event1942 star_border 7.3
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The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
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