 | Blackboard Jungle
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $5.74 (1955) The first movie I saw Sidney in it was obvious he was destined for great things. Sidney plays a thug along with Vic Morrow as they harass their teacher Glenn Ford. Although this was Sidney's sixth movie, he truly started to show promise in this one.
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 | The Defiant Ones
Buy used from: $2.72 (1958) Sidney's co-star Tony Curtis also made a good career of acting after they played convicts escaping together.
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 | A Raisin in the Sun
Buy new: $21.49 / Used from: $14.47 (1961) Sidney is part of an African American family struggling to get by. An excellent drama.
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 | Pressure Point
Buy used from: $3.79 (1962) Sidney is a psychiatrist trying to find out what makes a homicidal rascist, played by Bobby Darin, tick.
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 | Lilies of the Field
Buy used from: $17.66 (1963) Sidney does a remarkable job as a good natured laborer bullied by a mother superior into helping some nuns build a chapel. Excellent movie that will bring a smile to your face.
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 | The Long Ships
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $9.95 (1964) Sidney plays a moorish Prince invaded by norsemen. Includes Richard Widmark and Russ Tamblyn. Highly inacurate, but fun and sometimes bloody epic Viking adventure.
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 | The Bedford Incident
Buy new: $15.49 / Used from: $27.48 (1965) Sidney is a reporter along with a Captain played by Richard Widmark, and a doctor played by Martin Balsam aboard the USS Bedford. It is a sub chasing destroyer, in the Arctic searching for a Russian sub. If they find it the outcome could be WWIII. A good drama made at the height of the Cold War.
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 | A Patch of Blue
Buy used from: $22.48 (1965) A young black man is surprised by a white blind womans lack of attitude about his race. At the time this was considered groundbreaking.
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 | In the Heat of the Night (40th Anniversary Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $9.93 (1967) Sidney plays a black homicide detective sent to a small Southern town in the early 1960s, long before civil rights were observed. Cast includes Rod Steiger and Warren Oates. Steiger was brilliant as the Sheriff.
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 | To Sir, With Love
Buy used from: $34.98 (1967) Sidney is an amazing teacher that is able to bring a tough bunch of students into the realm of learning.
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 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $3.05 (1967) Sidney as a black man engaged to a white woman long before it was acceptable to many parents of that era.
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 | They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $2.41 (1970) Sequel to "Heat in the Night", he reprises his role as Tibbs to investigate another murder.
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 | The Organization
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.69 (1971) For the last time Sidney reprises his role as Tibbs the detective to solve a murder.
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 | Buck and the Preacher
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $38.75 (1972) Sidney plays Buck and directs in this sometimes comical Western. Includes Harry Belafonte and Cicely Tyson.
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 | Uptown Saturday Night
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $4.39 (1974) Sidney is one of a group of schemers looking for a way to get rich in this comedy. Includes Bill Cosby and Harry Belafonte. You may find even the clothes and music laughable now.
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 | The Wilby Conspiracy
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.94 (1975) Apartheid is the backdrop of this, with a conspiracy at the heart. Sidney, Michael Caine, and Nicol Williamson do a fine job.
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 | Stir Crazy
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $3.55 (1980) Sidney directed this funny comedy about two convicts trying to excape prison. The convicts are well played by Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor.
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 | Shoot to Kill
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.99 (1988) Excellent thriller with Sidney as aging FBI agent tracking a killer, Tom Berenger as his younger mountain guide, and Kirstie Alley as a fishing guide taken hostage. This is one of my all time favorites. The chemistry Sidney and Tom have is great and there are some truly funny and thrilling moments. Beautiful location shots.
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 | Little Nikita
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $3.98 (1988) Sidney was quite good at playing FBI and CIA operatives. Here he portrays one trying to rescue a young man from a Russian hit squad. Includes River Phoenix.
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 | Separate But Equal
Buy used from: $75.00 (1991) Sidney plays attorney Thurgood Marshall, Burt Lancaster as John W. Davis, and Richard Kiley as Earl Warren. Excellent courtroom drama.
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 | Sneakers (Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $5.98 / Used from: $1.71 (1992) Retired FBI agent Sidney gets mixed up with a group trying to get their hands on a black box that controls all computers. Includes Robert Redford, Dan Akyroyd, Ben Kingsley, Mary McDonnel, River Phoenix, and David Strathairn. This one is thrilling and funny.
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 | The Jackal - Collector's Edition
Buy used from: $0.74 (1997) Sidney as a FBI deputy chief tracking the notorious assassin "The Jackal". Great story, cast, and action. Includes Bruce Willis and Richard Gere. Ignore the critics as this is good thriller with good acting, directing, effects, and music.
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 | The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $6.96 (1999) Sidney plays a young looking elderly woodworking craftsman that has supported a rural town all his life, now that a developer is trying to take his land it is time the town took a stand.
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 | The Last Brickmaker In America
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $10.05 (2001) Sidney as an elderly hardworking bricklayer. He finds a young boy to mentor and keep him going.
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