Soured on America by his experiences as a POW in Vietnam, General Lawrence Dell (Burt Lancaster) hopes that his government...
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1977
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Stacy Keach plays Lou Ford, a deputy sheriff whose brutal childhood experiences have left him emotionally warped. Ford is...
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Howard Hendricks
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1976
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Based on the novella by Harlan Ellison, A Boy and His Dog is set in a post-apocalyptic future where canned goods are used as...
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1975
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Also known as Death and the Maiden, Hawkins on Murder introduced Jimmy Stewart to the TV-detective genre as folksy sleuth...
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1973
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Season Six of Adam-12 begins with the first of several "remote" assigments for LAPD mobile officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord)...
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1973
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Originally seen on March 30, 1973, "Imitation" was the final first-run Mission:Impossible episode to be broadcast on CBS,...
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1973
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The flammable money of the title is of the counterfeit variety. Enterprising prison inmate E. G. Marshall devises a scheme to...
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1973
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The Longest Night is a harrowing made-for-TV movie based on a real-life kidnapping. Sallie Shockley is abducted from the home...
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1972
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Seedy newspaper reporter Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin) is assigned the Las Vegas police beat by his boss Tony Vincenzo...
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1972
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No one in the police department seems to care too much when call girl Wanda Bolen (Tisha Sterling) turns up murdered. All...
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1972
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Capt. Hughes
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1971
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In this murder mystery, a private investigator falls for the former mistress of a racketeer who is slated to be a witness...
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1971
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It's an unhappy birthday for Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) when he forgets to renew his driver's license. As a result,...
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1971
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The notion of combining the western and horror genres was nothing new when The Devil and Miss Sarah was first telecast in...
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1971
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The author of the famous late 1930's antiwar book Johnny Got His Gun wrote and directed this film adaptation. It concerns a...
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1971
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Capt. Hughes
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1971
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David Janssen stars in this Jack Webb production as James O'Hara, a small-town sheriff recruited by the US Treasury's Bureau...
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Agent Joe Flagg
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1971
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After being blacklisted from Hollywood for 21 years, writer/director Abraham Polonsky made a healthy comeback with Tell Them...
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1969
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Before she played Joe Cartwright's ill-fated love interest in the 1972 Bonanza episode "Forever," Bonnie Bedelia...
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1969
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Police Captain Matthews (George Peppard) believes he has successfully pinned a murder and rape conviction on Paul Sanderson...
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Chief Hildebrand
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1969
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1968
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Ex-lawman turned rancher Jed Cooper (Clint Eastwood) is moving a small herd of cattle when a group of nine men on horseback,...
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1968
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Richard Brooks wrote and directed this stark black-and-white (with brilliantly evocative cinematography by Conrad Hall) study...
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1967
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A nosey housewife (Marguerite Viby) takes on extra responsibilities when her husband (Buster Larsen) hurts his back while...
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1967
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The Seaview is ordered into the regular navy as the flagship of Admiral Tobin (Charles McGraw), who has been assigned to hunt...
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1964
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With this all-star Cinerama epic, producer/director Stanley Kramer vowed to make "the comedy that would end all comedies."...
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1963
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The story begins as an innocuous romantic triangle involving wealthy, spoiled Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), handsome Mitch...
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1963
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Holly Westra (Charles McGraw) has been chief "enforcer" for gangster Victor Kurtz (John Anderson) for years, but age and...
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1963
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In one of the few "procedural" dramas presented on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, the health officials and police department of...
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Dr. Oliver
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1963
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While on a cattle drive, the Cartwright men make a stopover in the town of Alkali. The next morning, the Cartwrights are...
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Sheriff Gains
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1962
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This episode is a showcase for stalwart Untouchables supporting player Paul Picerni, here seen in his tradtional role as...
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1962
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Although the talented cast in this uninspired comedy do the best they can with their lines, nothing quite brings The...
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1961
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The Oklahoma land rush of 1889 provides the starting point for this western drama, based on a novel by Edna Ferber. Yancey...
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1960
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1960
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At the behest of Elliot Ness (Robert Stack), "Untouchable" Enrico Rossi (Nick Georgiade) goes undercover to pinpoint the...
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1960
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Although a mood of melancholy or worse pervades this excellent western, it remains an honest and hard-hitting look at the...
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1959
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This undistinguished murder muddle by director Michael Curtis involves an artist and his alcoholic psychologically disturbed...
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Steve Ritter
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1959
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Having double-crossed his mob associates, popular newspaper reporter Jake Lingle (Herb Vigran) is gunned down in a subway....
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1959
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Captain Frank Gibbons
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1958
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Rod Serling's first original screenplay for the Big Screen was the psychological western Saddle the Wind. In one of his best...
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Larry Venables
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1958
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Yancy
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1958
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Though Slaughter on Tenth Avenue's background music relies heavily on the Richard Rodgers composition of the same name, the...
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1957
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1957
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A tall horseman (Jock Mahoney) rides into the small town of Arborville, deserted except for redheaded Jody (Luana Patten),...
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Cal Moore
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1957
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The Cruel Tower is a dog-and-pony variation of a well-worn triangle plot. John Ericson is a handsome young steeplejack,...
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Stretch
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1956
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Based on the novel by Kenneth M. Dodson, Away All Boats stars Jeff Chandler as a tough Navy captain who takes charge of a...
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1956
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This high-flying thriller utilizes exciting footage of the USAF Thunderbirds in action--an interesting and authentic look...
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Col. "Mickey" McKee
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1956
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Bank teller Mike Donovan (Barry Sullivan) takes the first step on the road to Perdition when he fails to report a $49,000...
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Gus Slavin
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1954
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1954
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Randolph Scott is as strong and silent as ever in Thunder Over the Plains. The scene is Texas, in the years just following...
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Ben Westman
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1953
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War Paint stars Robert Stack as a courageous U.S. Cavalry lieutenant, assigned to deliver a peace treaty to a powerful Indian...
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Sgt. Clarke
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1953
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This Korean War drama is essentially a vehicle for RKO's top male star Robert Mitchum. He plays war-weary "Colonel Steve,"...
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Sgt. Baker
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1952
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The Narrow Margin is generally considered a "model" B picture; some film buffs go farther than that, labelling this 1952 RKO...
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Walter Brown
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1952
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An insurance investigator, a dame with a yen for the finer things in life and a mail robbery gone horribly wrong are the...
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Joe Peters
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1951
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His Kind of Woman directed by veteran John Farrow, is a convoluted mystery thriller which tries unsuccessfully to combine...
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Thompson
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1951
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Double Crossbones is an unusually elaborate comedy vehicle for Donald O'Connor. Set in the Carolinas in the 18th century, the...
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1950
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Farley Granger plays a casually larcenous New York City mailman who steals a shipment of money. Granger's excitement over...
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1950
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The title tells all--or at least most--in I Was a Shoplifter. The title character, played by Mona Freeman, is Faye Burton, a...
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1950
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Some auteur critics feel that director Richard O. Fleischer did his best work while laboring in the "B" mills of RKO Radio....
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Lt. Jim Codell
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1950
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The second of Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series, Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town stars, as ever, Marjorie Main and...
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1950
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1949
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Homicidal criminal Charles McGraw busts out of jail, kidnapping the three people responsible for his incarceration. The...
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Kluger
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1949
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As far removed from a "typical" MGM picture as it was possible to get back in 1949, Border Incident is a gritty, realistic...
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1949
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Also known as Reign of Terror, The Black Book is a bold effort by director Anthony Mann to film a French Revolution epic on a...
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1949
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1949
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One of the best "psychological" westerns of the 1940s, RKO Radio's Blood on the Moon stars Robert Mitchum as itinerant cowboy...
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1948
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On a trip from France to Allied-occupied Berlin, a group of travelers -- a mysterious and very secretive European woman...
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1948
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Chronic gambler Ellen Crane (Paulette Goddard) indulges in games of chance to compensate for the loss of her boyfriend during...
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1948
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In this detective story, a private eye must send his fiancee to prison as he truly believes that she was involved in a bank...
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1948
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Based upon the French film Le Jour Se Lève, The Long Night opens in the in the midst of a dire situation: ex-serviceman Joe...
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1947
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When Loretta Young stepped up to accept her Academy Award for The Farmer's Daughter, the ever-youthful leading lady, who'd...
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1947
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Burt Lancaster had one of his first starring roles in this hard-hitting prison drama. Capt. Munsey (Hume Cronyn) is a cruel,...
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1947
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Second-echelon leading man Don Castle (later a TV producer) stars in yet another Sol M. Wurtzel production, Roses Are Red....
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1947
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A star basketball player is assailed by gangsters who want him to throw the Big Game in this drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1947
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The moodily evocative docudrama T-Men stars Dennis O'Keefe as Dennis O'Brien, a treasury agent determined to bring a...
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Moxie
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1947
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Having struck gold with the previous season's Dillinger, the King Brothers returned to Monogram as producers of The Gangster....
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1947
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With the defection of Gene Autry from the Republic lot, Roy Rogers was truly the King of the Singing Cowboys. In On the Old...
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1947
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1946
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Strange Confession was the fourth in Universal's "Inner Sanctum" B-picture series, all of which starred Lon Chaney Jr. Chaney...
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1944
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Randolph Scott was the star of Corvette K-225, a tribute to the World War II corvette escorts which guided Allied convoys...
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1943
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The Mad Ghoul may well be the definitive George Zucco horror melodrama. The star plays Dr. Alfred Morris, a distinguished...
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1943
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In this downbeat drama based on a novel by John Steinbeck (which was also adapted for the stage), German troops invade Norway...
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1943
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In this provocative WW II drama, an American agent sneaks into a Nazi spy ring to learn the identities of certain...
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1943
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Edward G. Robinson portrays a hard-driving, hard-nosed perfectionist who causes dissension aboard the WWII destroyer he...
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1943
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One of two 20th Century-Fox horror melodramas released in 1942 (Dr. Renault's Secret was the second), The Undying Monster is...
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1942
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