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A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

Year:

1995

Duration:

225 min

Genres:

Documentary

IMDB rate:

8.6

Director:

Martin Scorsese

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1995-05-21

Cast

Actor

Character

Martin Scorsese

Himself (Narrator / Host)

Allison Anders

Herself

Kathryn Bigelow

Herself

Francis Ford Coppola

Himself

Brian De Palma

Himself

André De Toth

Himself

Clint Eastwood

Himself

Jodie Foster

Herself

Carl Franklin

Himself

George Lucas

Himself

Gregory Peck

Himself

Arthur Penn

Himself

Joan Bennett

actress 'Scarlet Street'

Jack Carson

actor 'My Dream Is Yours'

Philippe Collin

Récitant / Narrator (French version) (voice)

Peggy Cummins

actress 'Gun Crazy'

John Dall

actor 'Gun Crazy'

Joan Fontaine

actrsss 'Letter to an Unknown Woman'

Christine Gordon

actress 'I Walked with a Zombie'

Rosalind Ivan

actress 'Scarlet Street'

Darby Jones

actor 'I Walked with a Zombie'

Louis Jourdan

acor 'Letter to an Unknown Woman'

Phyllis Kirk

actress 'Crime Wave'

Edmund MacDonald

Actor 'Detour'

Fred MacMurray

actor 'Double Indemnity'

Tom Neal

actor 'I Walked with a Zombie'

Tom Powers

actor 'Double Indemnity'

Allene Roberts

actress 'The Red House'

Edward G. Robinson

actor 'Scarlet Street'

Jay Adler

actor 'The Sweet Smell of Success' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Leon Ames

actor 'Meet Me in St. Louis' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Morris Ankrum

actor 'Silver Lode' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Leon Askin

actor 'One, Two, Three' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Fred Astaire

actor 'The Band Wagon' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mary Astor

actress 'Meet Me in St. Louis' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Trevor Bardette

actor 'Johnny Guitar' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Vince Barnett

actor 'Her Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Richard Barthelmess

actor 'Broken Blossoms' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Anne Baxter

actress 'The Ten Commandments'' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Warren Beatty

actor 'Barney and Clyde' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Wallace Beery

actor 'The Big House' (archive footage) (uncredited)

James Bell

actor 'Crime Wave' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Marisa Berenson

actress 'Barry Lyndon' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Sidney Blackmer

actor 'Duel in the Sun' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Joan Blondell

actress 'Golddiggers of 1933' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Lloyd Bochner

acror 'Point Blank' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Humphrey Bogart

actor 'High Sierra' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Peter Bogdanovich

Fimself (archive voice) (uncredited)

Ward Bond

actor 'The Searchers' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Richard Boone

actor 'The Tall T' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Willis Bouchey

actor 'Pickup on South Street' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Lee Bowman

actor 'My Dream Is Your' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Marlon Brando

actor 'On the Waterfront' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Henry Brandon

actor 'The Searchers' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Peter Breck

actor 'Shock Corridor' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Lucille Bremer

actress 'Meet Me in St. Louis' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Clarence Brown

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Yul Brynner

actor 'The Ten Commandments' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Horst Buchholz

actor 'One, Two, Three' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Sonny Bupp

actor 'Citizen Kane' (archive footage) (uncredited)

James Cagney

actor 'Public Enemy' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Frank Capra

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Harry Carey Jr.

actor 'She Wore a Yellow Ribbon' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Harry Carey

actor 'Musketeers of Pig Alley' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Timothy Carey

actor 'East of Eden' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Lynn Carlin

actress 'Faces' (archive footage) (uncredited)

John Carradine

actor 'The Ten Commandments' (archive footage) (uncredited)

John Cassavetes

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Seymour Cassel

actor 'Faces' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Howland Chamberlain

actor 'Force of Evil' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Charles Chaplin

actor 'The Great Dictator' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Cyd Charisse

actress 'The Band Wagon' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Berton Churchill

actor 'Stagecoach' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Robert Clarke

actor 'Outrage' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Chester Clute

actor 'My Dream Is Yours' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ray Collins

actor 'Citizen Kane (archive footage) (uncredited)

Tom Conway

actor 'Cat People' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ben Cooper

actor 'Johnny Guitar' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Miriam Cooper

actress 'Intolerence' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Wendell Corey

actor 'I Walk Alone' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Joseph Cotten

actor 'The Magnificent Ambersons' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Joan Crawford

actress 'Johnny Guitar' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Donald Crisp

actor 'Broken Blossoms' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ken Curtis

actor 'The Searchers' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Tony Curtis

actor 'The Sweet Smell of Success' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Frankie Darro

actor 'Wild Boys of the Road' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Doris Day

actress in 'My Dream Is Yours' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Charles de Rochefort

actor 'The Ten Commandments' (archive footage) (uncredited)

James Dean

actor 'East of Eden' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Frances Dee

actress 'I Walked with a Zombie' (archive footage) (uncredited)

John Dehner

actor 'The Left-Handed Gun' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Cecil B. DeMille

narrator 'Samson and Delilah' (archive voice) (uncredited)

Marlene Dietrich

actress 'The Scarlet Empress' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Richard Dix

actor 'Hell's Dooway' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Kirk Douglas

actor 'I Walk Alone' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Louise Dresser

actress 'The Scarlet Empress' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Keir Dullea

actor '2001: A Space Odyssey' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Douglass Dumbrille

actor 'The Ten Commandments' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Faye Dunaway

actress 'Bonnie and Clyde' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dan Duryea

actor 'Silver Lode' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Charles Farrell

actor 'Seventh Heaven' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Frank Ferguson

actor 'Johnny Guitar' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mel Ferrer

actor 'Fall of the Roman Empire' (archive footage) (uncredited)

John Ford

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Byron Foulger

actor 'Silver Lode' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Samuel Fuller

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Greta Garbo

actress 'Anna Christie' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Judy Garland

actress 'A Star Is Born' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Martin Garralaga

actor 'The Left-Handed Gun' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Howard Gaye

actor 'Intolerance (archive footage) (uncredited)

Janet Gaynor

actress 'Sunrise' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Gladys George

actress 'The Roaring Twenties' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Stathis Giallelis

actor 'America, America' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Lillian Gish

actress 'Broken Blossoms' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ned Glass

actor 'The Bad and the Beautiful' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Thomas Gomez

actor 'The Furies' (archive footage) (uncredited)

C. Henry Gordon

actor 'Hell's Doorway' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Gene Hackman

actor 'Unforgiven' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Porter Hall

actor 'Sullivan's Travels' (archive footage) (uncredited)

George Hamilton

actor 'Two Weeks in Another Town' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Robert Harron

actor 'Intolerence' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Hurd Hatfield

actor 'The Left-Handed Gun' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Howard Hawks

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Sterling Hayden

actor 'Crime Wave' (archive footage) (uncredited)

James Hayter

actor 'Land of the Pharaohs' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Joseph Henabery

actor 'The Birth of a Nation' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Charlton Heston

actor 'The Ten Commandments' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Darryl Hickman

actor 'Leave Her to Heaven' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Peg Hillias

actress 'A Streetcar Named Desire' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Phillips Holmes

actor 'Her Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Jack Holt

actor 'Cat People' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Tim Holt

actor 'The Magnificent Ambersons' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Skip Homeier

actor 'The Tall T' (archive footage) (uncredited)

John Hubbard

actor 'The Tall T' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Rock Hudson

actor 'All That Heaven Allows' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Arthur Hunnicutt

actor 'The Tall T' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Jeffrey Hunter

actor 'The Searchers' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Kim Hunter

actress 'A Streetcar Named Desire' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Walter Huston

actor 'The Furies' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Sam Jaffe

actor 'The Scarlet Empress' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Anthony James

actor 'Unforgiven' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Jennifer Jones

actress 'Duel in the Sun' (archive footage) (uncredited)

James Robertson Justice

actor 'Land of the Pharaohs' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Boris Karloff

actor 'Scarface' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Elia Kazan

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Buster Keaton

actor 'The Caneraman' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Richard Kiley

actor 'The Phenix City Story' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mickey Knox

actor 'I Walk Alone' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Burt Lancaster

actor 'I Walk Alone' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Fritz Lang

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

John Larch

actor 'The Phenix City Story' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Daliah Lavi

actress 'Two Weeks in Another Town' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Marc Lawrence

actor 'I Walk Alone' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Janet Leigh

actress 'The Naked Spur' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Vivien Leigh

actress 'A Streetcar Named Desire' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Margaret Livingston

actress 'Sunrise' (archive footage) (uncredited)

John Lodge

actor 'The Scarlet Empress' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Tilly Losch

actress 'Duel in the Sun' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ida Lupino

actress 'High Sierra' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Jeffrey Lynn

actress 'The Roaring Twenties' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Sue Lyon

actress 'Loloita' (archive footage) (uncredited)

George F. Marion

actor 'Anna Christie' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mae Marsh

actress 'Intolerance' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dean Martin

actor 'Some Came Running' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Lee Marvin

actor 'Point Blank' (archive footage) (uncredited)

James Mason

actor 'Lolita' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Raymond Massey

actor 'East of Eden' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Virginia Mayo

actress 'Colorado Territory' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mercedes McCambridge

actress 'Johnny Guitar' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Joel McCrea

actor 'Colorado Territory' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Frank McHugh

actor 'Footlight Parade' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Frank Middlemass

actor 'Barry Lyndon' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Charles Middleton

actor 'Hell's Doorway' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Lita Milan

actress 'The Left-Handed Gun' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Vera Miles

actress 'The Searchers' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Alexis Minotis

narrator 'Land of the Pharaohs' (archive voice) (uncredited)

Agnes Moorehead

actress 'All That Heaven Allows' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Karen Morley

actress 'Scarface' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Chester Morris

actor 'The Big House' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Paul Muni

actor 'Scarface' (archive footage) (uncredited)

James Murray

actor 'The Crowd' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Gene Nelson

actor 'Crime Wave' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Paul Newman

actor 'The Left-Handed Gun' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Tommy Noonan

actor 'A Star Is Born' (archive footage) (uncredited)

George O'Brien

actor 'Sunrise' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Margaret O'Brien

actress 'Meet Me in St. Louis' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Carroll O'Connor

actor 'Point Blank' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ryan O'Neal

actor 'Barry Lyndon' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Maureen O'Sullivan

actress 'The Tall T' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Christopher Olsen

actor 'Bigger Than Life' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Alfred Paget

actor 'Intolrence' (archive footage) (uncredited)

John Payne

actor 'Silver Lode' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Jean Peters

actress 'Pickup on South Street' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Walter Pidgeon

actor 'The Bad and the Beautiful' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Christopher Plummer

actor 'Fall of the Roman Empire' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Michael J. Pollard

actor 'Bonnie and clyde' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dick Powell

actor 'The Bad and the Beautiful' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mala Powers

actress 'Outrage' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Liselotte Pulver

actress 'One, Two, Three' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Anthony Quayle

actor 'Fall of the Roman Empire' (archive footage) (uncredited)

George Raft

actor 'Scarface' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Jane Randolph

actress 'Cat People' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Nicholas Ray

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

William Reynolds

actor 'Al That Heaven Allows' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Hari Rhodes

actor 'Shock Corridor' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Theodore Roberts

actor 'The Ten Commandments (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dewey Robinson

actor 'I Walk Alone' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Gilbert Roland

actor 'The Furies' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Saul Rubinek

actor 'Unforgiven' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Barbara Rush

actress 'Bigger Than Life' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Robert Ryan

actor 'The Naked Spur' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Eva Marie Saint

actress 'On the Waterfront' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Hugh Sanders

actor 'Silver Lode' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ann Savage

actress 'Detour' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Roy Scheider

actor 'All That Jazz' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Rosanna Schiaffino

actress 'Two Weeks in Another Town' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Lizabeth Scott

actress 'Silver Lode' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Randolph Scott

actor 'The Tall T' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Vito Scotti

actor 'Two Weeks in Another Towwn' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Omar Sharif

actor 'Fall of the Roman Empire' (archive footage) (uncredited)

William Sheer

actor 'Regeneration' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Henry Silva

actor 'The Tall T' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Simone Simon

actress 'Cat People' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Frank Sinatra

actor 'Some Came Running' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Douglas Sirk

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Kent Smith

actor 'Cat People' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Barbara Stanwyck

actress 'The Furies' (archive footage) (uncredited)

James Stewart

actor 'The Naked Spur' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Barry Sullivan

actor 'The Bad and the Beautiful' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Gloria Talbot

actress 'All That Heaven Allows' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dub Taylor

actor 'Bonnie and Clyde' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Gene Tierney

actress 'Leave Her to Heaven' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Claire Trevor

actress 'Stagecoach' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ivan Triesault

actor 'The Bad and the Beautiful' (archive footage) (uncredited)

King Vidor

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Josef von Sternberg

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Erich von Stroheim

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Murvyn Vye

actor 'Pickup on South Street' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Raoul Walsh

actor 'The Birth of a Nation' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Henry B. Walthall

actor 'The Birth of a Nation' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ruth Warrick

actress 'Citizen Kane' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Robert Warwick

actor 'Sullivan's Travels' (archive footage) (uncredited)

John Wayne

actor 'Stagecoach' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Orson Welles

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dorothy Coonan Wellman

actress 'Wild Boys of the Road' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Richard Widmark

actor 'Pickup on South Street' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Henry Wilcoxon

actor 'The Ten Commandments' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Cornel Wilde

actor 'Leave Her to Heaven' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Billy Wilder

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Shelley Winters

actress 'Lolita' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Natalie Wood

actress 'The Searchers' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Edward Woods

actor 'Public Enemy' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Morgan Woodward

actor 'Unforgiven' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Hank Worden

actor 'The Searchers' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Fay Wray

actres 'The Wedding March' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Jane Wyman

actress 'All That Heaven Allows' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

The machine gun spray that comes close to hitting James Cagney as he and EDward Woods turn the corner are real bullets fired by a real machine gun.

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Quotes

Himself (Narrator: There is action only if there is danger. This was ssaid by Howard Hawks, who was an authority on both the Western and the gangster film. To stay alive or die - this is our greatest danger.

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Brian De Palma: In any kind of art form you're creating an illusion for the audience to look at reality through your speciall eye. The camera lies all the time. It lies twenty-four times a second.

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Himself (Narrator: [Quoting Raoul Walsh] The low and high-angled shots turned a good picture into a great one.

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