Author, actor, and historian Ricky Jay first worked with director David Mamet on House of Games. They have since collaborated often, including on seven films, the TV show The Unit, the one-man Broadway show Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants, and Redbelt.
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The List
1
The 39 Steps
Alfred Hitchcock
1935
86 min
2
Children of Paradise
Marcel Carné
1945
190 min
3
F for Fake
Orson Welles
1975
89 min
4
Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa
1954
207 min
5
The Lady Eve
UnavailablePreston Sturges
1941
97 min
6
Secret Honor
Robert Altman
1984
90 min
7
Oliver Twist
David Lean
1948
121 min
8
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Hiroshi Inagaki
1954
93 min
9
I Know Where I’m Going!
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
1945
91 min
10
Night and the City
UnavailableJules Dassin
1950
95 min