Earl HollimanFilmography

Bad City Blues

Actors: Michael Massee, Michael McGrady, Judith Hoag, Jim Metzler, Simon Billig

Synopsis: Director Michael Stevens debuts with this two-fisted ultra-violent crime drama about redemption and revenge. Adapted from British author Tim Willocks' 1991 novel, the movie weaves together four stories resulting from a botched bank robbery. Callilou (Judith Hoag), the wounded girlfriend of the Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Roadkill

Synopsis: In Texas, a member of a truck-hijacking ring turns up murdered. The evidence points to Rob Platt (Patrick Cassidy), the son of Wayne Platt (Earl Holliman), owner of a small trucking firm that was being victimized by the crooks. Inasmuch as Wayne is an old friend of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Read More

The Larry Sanders Show: Hey Now

Synopsis: Facing increasing stress, Larry (Garry Shandling) finally loses it altogether when Hank (Jeffrey Tambor) falls asleep during the live show. The final episode of the first season, this installment of HBO's popular late-night talk show parody The Larry Sanders Show features special guest stars Ray Combs Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Who Killed J.B. Fletcher?

Synopsis: Imagine the astonishment of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) when she picks up a newspaper and reads that she has been killed in a Texas car accident! In truth, the dead woman was Marge Allen (Jane Withers), arguably the most obsessive member of the Jessica Fletcher Fan Club. While impersonating Read More

American Harvest

Actors: Wayne Rogers

Synopsis: Made for television, American Harvest is set in the heartland of Kansas. Two proud, stubborn families have not spoken to one another because of an incident in the distant past. Wayne Rogers, the patriarch of one of the families, is in danger of losing his wheat farm. He knows that his land will be Read More

Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge

Actors: Steve Forrest, James Arness, Amanda Blake, Buck Taylor

Synopsis: James Arness returns to the role of US marshal Matt Dillon after a twelve-year absence in the made-for-TV Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge. Amanda Blake is also back as Miss Kitty, "hostess" of Dodge City's Long Branch saloon. The plot involves Dillon's reunion with Kitty in a Dodge City festooned with Read More

Shattered: If Your Kid's on Drugs

The Thorn Birds

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck, Christopher Plummer, Bryan Brown

Synopsis: This mammoth TV miniseries, based on the best-selling novel by Colleen McCullough, proved to be a ratings bonanza; indeed, its viewership was surpassed only by the 1978 blockbuster Roots. Set in Australia, the story covers 42 years in the life of Ralph de Bricassart (Richard Chamberlain), a Roman Read More

The Solitary Man

Synopsis: This drama chronicles the destruction of a family from the viewpoint of a blue-collar husband. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Country Gold

Synopsis: In this musical drama a famed country singer and her newest competitor, a rising star, compete to become female vocalist of the year. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Sharky's Machine

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Vittorio Gassman, Rachel Ward, Bernie Casey, Brian Keith

Synopsis: A William Diehl novel was the source of the noirish nailbiter Sharky's Machine. Sharky (Burt Reynolds) is an undercover cop who fouls up an assignment and is kicked downstairs to the vice squad -- a rough-shod bunch of hellraisers who make life miserable. Soon, however, Sharky's life does a 180 Read More

Where the Ladies Go

Actors: Lisa Hartman

Synopsis: Where the Ladies Go is a TV movie set in a white-bread Oklahoma town, where most of the housewives suffer from terminal boredom. Good ol' boy Earl Holliman comes to the rescue by establishing the El Fidel, a bar which is open from 9 AM to 3 PM, or "ladies' hours." Karen Black, Candy Clark and Lisa Hartman Read More

Police Woman: Season 04

Actors: Angie Dickinson, Earl Holliman, Charles Dierkop, Ed Bernard

Synopsis: Gorgeous LAPD undercover cop Pepper Anderson (Angie Dickinson) continues to put her life on the line while wearing some of the sexiest outfits of the 1970s in the fourth and final season of Police Woman. In the opener, Pepper foregoes assuming a false identity as she and her superior officer Lt. Read More

Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn

Actors: Eve Plumb

Synopsis: First telecast May 16, 1977, Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn is the gender-switch follow-up to the 1976 TV movie Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway. While Dawn concentrated on the sordid descent of a young girl into crime and prostitution, Alexander devotes its time to the exploits of a Read More

Police Woman: Season 03

Actors: Angie Dickinson, Earl Holliman, Charles Dierkop, Ed Bernard

Synopsis: Season Three of the slick and sometimes sexy cop drama Police Woman finds undercover LAPD cop Pepper Anderson (Angie Dickinson) navigating the bizarre world of high-class prostitution in order to get the goods on a blackmailing madam (Dorothy Malone). Later on, a curious case of reverse sexism Read More

Police Woman: Season 02

Actors: Angie Dickinson, Earl Holliman, Charles Dierkop, Ed Bernard

Synopsis: Season Two of Police Woman finds sexy undercover cop Pepper Anderson (Angie Dickinson) adopting a whole new slew of false identities and gorgeous costumes in the line of duty. In the course of the season, Pepper assumes such guises as a fashion consultant, a drug addict, a traffic cop, a Vegas Read More

Police Woman: Season 01

Actors: Angie Dickinson, Earl Holliman, Charles Dierkop, Ed Bernard

Synopsis: Sexy LAPD undercover officer Sgt. Pepper Anderson (Angie Dickinson) assumes a variety of identities and dons an exhausting array of stunning outfits during Season One of the iconic 1970s cop series Police Woman. In the first episode, however, Pepper must "dress down" a bit as a dowdy bank employee Read More

Cry Panic

Actors: John Forsythe, Norman Alden

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, a driver is involved in a hit-and-run accident. By the time the guilt-ridden fellow returns to the accident scene, the body has mysteriously disappeared. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: The Stamp of Death

Synopsis: Earl Holliman plays one of two disreputable insurance agents involved in a deadly scam. A wealthy philatelist has been murdered, an 1850 Guyana stamp worth $300,000 has been stolen, and the crooks are trying to turn a huge profit on a counterfeit of the missing stamp. Also prominent in the Read More

I Love You... Goodbye

Actors: Hope Lange, Earl Holliman, Michael Murphy, Patricia Smith, Mary Murphy

Synopsis: Hope Lange plays Karen Chandler, a 36-year-old wife and mother. After living in quiet desperation for several years, she suddenly decides to leave her family to seek a new life in the cutthroat world of big business. Part of Karen's "liberation" involves (surprise!) a new romance. Earl Holliman Read More

The F.B.I.: The Pay-Off

Synopsis: Earl Holliman guest stars as Frank Otten, a Federal witness in a Mob trial. When the hired thugs representing the defendant offer Frank a bribe to vote "Not Guilty", he jumps at the opportunity to finance a new start in life--and, he hopes, to repair his fractured relationship with his family. Read More

Trapped

Actors: James Brolin

Synopsis: Trapped stars James Brolin as an casual shopper who is mugged in the men's room of a huge department store. Rendered unconscious, Brolin awakens late at night, long after the store has closed. That's when he discovers himself at the mercy of six vicious guard dogs, trained to tear apart any and Read More

The Boy and the Bronc Buster

Synopsis: Earl Holliman and Vincent Van Patten star in the made-for-TV Disney movie The Boy and the Bronc Buster. Van Patten plays a farm kid of the 1880s who joins cowboy Holliman on the rodeo circuit. The plot thickens when the boy discovers that his mentor is a fugitive from justice, wanted for murder. Read More

Tomorrow's Champion

The Biscuit Eater

Actors: Earl Holliman, Lew Ayres, Godfrey Cambridge, Pat Crowley, Beah Richards

Synopsis: In this touching adventure, a remake of the popular 1940 film, two Georgia boys ignore their racial differences to team up and befriend a feral bird dog, whom they train to participate in a fence-jumping contest. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Desperate Mission

Synopsis: Ricardo Montalban is well cast as legendary Mexican bandit Joaquin Murietta in Desperate Mission. As in most previous filmed adaptations of the life of this controversial character, Murietta is depicted as a South of the Border Robin Hood, more sinned against than sinning. The storyline is Read More

The F.B.I.: Dynasty of Hate

Synopsis: Rancher Drake Farron (Earl Holliman) has always considered his younger brother James (Bryan Montgomery) to be a thorn in his side. With this in mind, it is only natural that Drake should hire two-bit thug Lee Chard (Henry Silva) to murder his brother. When this scheme goes awry, Chard opts for a Read More

Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff

Actors: Anne Heywood, Donald Pleasence, Robert Vaughn, Carolyn Jones, Dorothy Malone

Synopsis: Based on a novel by William Inge, this drama follows the attempts of two doctors to help a 35-year-old educator deal with a brutal rape. The incident is complicated by the fact that she was a virgin when it happened and that her attacker was a man she had been trying to help. The racial Read More

Cannon

Actors: William Conrad

Synopsis: William Conrad stars as corpulent private eye Frank Cannon in this 2-hour pilot for the subsequent Cannon series. He responds to a plea for assistance from ex-flame Vera Miles (an actress who was in practically every pilot film made between 1965 and 1975). She is the prime suspect in the murder of Read More

Alias Smith and Jones

Actors: Ben Murphy, Roger Davis

Synopsis: First telecast January 5, 1971, Alias Smith and Jones was the pilot for the popular TV series of the same name. This genial rip-off of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid stars Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Kid Curry, two notorious Western bandits who have become folk heroes because Read More

The Day They Hanged Kid Curry

Synopsis: The Day They Hanged Kid Curry is the syndication title for the 90-minute second-season opener of the TV series Alias Smith and Jones. This Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid derivation stars Peter Deuel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Kid Curry, a pair of handsome and lovable old-west bandits Read More

Ironside: The Target

Synopsis: Ex-convict Gordy Brokaw (Earl Holliman), a demolitions expert, is being strongarmed into helping a gang of revolutionaries steal a huge cache of dynamite and assemble a time bomb. To bind the bargain, the rebels kidnap Gordy's young son (Vincent Van Patten). Though Ironside (Raymond Burr) is able Read More

The F.B.I.: The Quest

Synopsis: Though he has been accused of killing his wife, mental patient Walter Carr (Earl Holliman)--who has no memory of the crime--is certain that she is still alive and that he has been framed for her murder. Escaping custody, Walter goes on a tortuous odyssey to find the truth, committing various small Read More

Tribes

Synopsis: The TV movie Tribes struck a responsive chord with young TV hounds of the early 1970s. Jan-Michael Vincent plays a long-haired hippie who, despite his anti-war sentiments, ends up in the Marines. Though forced to endure the torture of a buzz-cut, Vincent remains flippant and rebellious. Nail-hard Read More

Smoke

Actors: Jacqueline Scott, Ron Howard

Synopsis: Smoke stars Ron Howard as a sullen farm youth who resents the fact that his widowed mother (Jacqueline Scott) has remarried. Earl Holliman costars as Howard's new stepfather, a sheep rancher, who'd give anything to gain Ron's love and respect. Nursing an injured German shepherd back to health, the Read More

Anzio

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, Earl Holliman, Mark Damon, Arthur Kennedy, Robert Ryan

Synopsis: This Dino De Laurentiis-produced re-creation of the decisive Italian military operation top-bills Robert Mitchum as a battle-weary war correspondent. Robert Ryan and Arthur Kennedy play generals, Peter Falk is the lovable Brooklynese corporal, and Earl Holliman is the country-boy sergeant. Anzio Read More

The Power

Actors: George Hamilton, Suzanne Pleshette, Richard Carlson, Yvonne De Carlo, Earl Holliman

Synopsis: A team of research scientists believe they have discovered a superior intelligence. Jim Tanner (George Hamilton) and his pretty partner Margery Lansing (Susan Pleshette) have discovered the entity through their work on human endurance. The Power is able to control the minds of others, but Jim Read More

The F.B.I.: Special Delivery

Synopsis: Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) is assigned to capture escaped bank robber-murderer Robert Charles Porter (Earl Holliman). Going undercover, Erskine quickly learns that Porter is the latest client of a gang that specialize in smuggling criminals out of the US. In the episode's thrilling Read More

A Covenant with Death

Actors: George Maharis, Laura Devon, Katy Jurado, Earl Holliman, Arthur O'Connell

Synopsis: In this courtroom drama, a Mexican American judge must preside over the case of the town ne'er-do-well, who is accused of killing his wife. The film is set during the 1920s in the Southwest. The murderer is convicted and sentenced to hang, but on execution day, he has a fight and kills the Read More

The Fugitive: The Good Guys and the Bad Guys

Synopsis: Managing to elude another police dragnet, Kimble (David Janssen) ends up being arrested in the Montana town of Drover City. Actually, it's supposed to be all in fun: Drover City is staging its annual carnival-rodeo, and the locals are being offered prizes to "arrest" anyone who is not dressed in Read More

Bonanza: The Flannel-Mouth Gun

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Earl Holliman

Synopsis: Held in thrall by a gang of rustlers, the local cattleman's association hires a professional gunman named Simmons (Robert Wilke) to deal with the outlaws. The Cartwrights vote against engaging the services of Simmons, fearing that he will cause more harm than good. Their predictions apparently Read More

The Sons of Katie Elder

Actors: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Martha Hyer, Michael Anderson, Jr., Earl Holliman

Synopsis: Henry Hathaway directs the 1965 psychological Western The Sons of Katie Elder. Four sons reunite in their Texas hometown to attend their mother's funeral. John (John Wayne) is the gunfighter, Tom (Dean Martin) is the gambler, Matt (Earl Holliman) is the quiet one, and Bud (Michael Anderson Jr.) is Read More

Summer and Smoke

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Geraldine Page, John McIntire, Una Merkel, Rita Moreno, Malcolm Atterbury

Synopsis: Tennessee Williams' Broadway play Summer and Smoke (expanded from his one-act piece Eccentricities of a Nightingale) was brought to the screen by adaptors James Poe and Meade Roberts and director Peter Glenville. Geraldine Page repeats her stage role as minister's daughter Alma Winemiller, who Read More

Armored Command

Actors: Howard Keel, Tina Louise, Warner Anderson, Earl Holliman, Carleton Young, Burt Reynolds

Synopsis: In December of 1944, while the Battle of the Bulge rages in the Ardennes, the American 7th Army settles in to what most of its officers and men figure to be a routine and peaceful occupation of the Vosges-Alsace area. The region is mountainous and treacherous, and there are still German forces Read More

Visit to a Small Planet

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Joan Blackman, Fred Clark, John Williams

Synopsis: When a space alien's fascination with Earthlings gets the better of him, he breaks one of his planet's laws and speeds off to visit the blue planet. Once there the alien (Jerry Lewis) encounters a nice family who kindly take him in. The father is a news commentator. Ironically, just prior to Read More

Last Train From Gun Hill

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones, Earl Holliman, Brad Dexter

Synopsis: Just outside the small town of Pauley, a Native American woman is attacked by two riders on horseback, raped, and killed. Her husband, Matt Morgan (Kirk Douglas), the town marshal, has only two clues to their identity, a fancy saddle with the initials "C.B." that one of the men left behind, and Read More

The Trap

Actors: Richard Widmark, Lee J. Cobb, Tina Louise, Earl Holliman, Carl Benton Reid

Synopsis: This is a routine, sometimes unintentionally funny drama about a man whose moral backbone straightens up as he sets his sights on capturing a gangster -- his own boss. Richard Widmark is Ralph Anderson, the petty criminal who returns to his hometown with his mob boss Victor Massonetti (Lee J. Read More

The Twilight Zone: Where is Everybody?

Actors: Earl Holliman, James Gregory, Jay Overholts, John Conwell, Paul Langton

Synopsis: Mike Ferris (Earl Holliman) doesn't know where he's been or where he's going, but he has a rough idea of where he is -- in a typical small American town. This is all well and good, except for one detail: the town is utterly devoid of people. The explanation is more "logical" than one might Read More

Hot Spell

Actors: Shirley Booth, Anthony Quinn, Shirley MacLaine, Earl Holliman, Eileen Heckart, Valerie Allen

Synopsis: Anthony Quinn and Shirley Booth play a married couple who cling and claw like cats in a bathtub in this sudsy melodrama set in steamy New Orleans. Booth does most of the clinging as a neglected wife struggling to reassemble her battered marriage to Quinn who plays a faithless husband in love with Read More

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Jo Van Fleet, John Ireland

Synopsis: Of the many filmed versions of the October 26, 1881, O.K. Corral shootout in Tombstone, Arizona, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was one of the most elaborate and star-studded. Burt Lancaster plays Wyatt Earp, the renowned lawman, while Kirk Douglas is consumptive gambler (and gunfighter) Doc Holliday Read More

Don't Go Near the Water

Actors: Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Anne Francis, Earl Holliman, Keenan Wynn, Fred Clark

Synopsis: Obviously inspired by such service comedies as Mister Roberts and Operation Mad Ball, Don't Go Near the Water is a tribute to those "unsung heroes" of WW2: the men and women of the Navy's Public Relations Department. Thousands of miles away from the shooting war, Lt. Max Siegel (Glenn Ford) and Read More

Trooper Hook

Actors: Joel McCrea, Barbara Stanwyck, Earl Holliman, Edward Andrews, John Dehner

Synopsis: Trooper Hook is played by Joel McCrea, but top billing goes to Barbara Stanwyck in this multilayered western. McCrea plays a Cavalry officer sent to rescue Stanwyck, who had been captured by Indians years earlier. Upon reaching the Indian village, McCrea discovers that Stanwyck, forced into Read More

The Rainmaker

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn, Wendell Corey, Lloyd Bridges, Earl Holliman

Synopsis: N. Richard Nash's play The Rainmaker has always attracted the most flamboyant of performers, and this 1956 film version is no exception. Burt Lancaster all but bursts from the screen with his arm-waving portrayal of a confidence artist who works the drought-ridden Southwest, promising to bring Read More

Westward Ho, the Wagons!

Actors: Fess Parker, Kathleen Crowley, Jeff York, David Stollery, Sebastian Cabot, George Reeves, Cubby O'Brien

Synopsis: Disney's Westward Ho, the Wagons is a leisurely paced western which seems more like a collection of anecdotes than a unified whole. Fess "Davy Crockett" Parker stars as head wagon scout Doc Grayson, who shepherds a group of travellers through hostile Indian territory. Preferring to use brains Read More

The Burning Hills

Actors: Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, Skip Homeier, Eduard Franz, Earl Holliman

Synopsis: The plot of The Burning Hills is motivated by revenge, which only a few years earlier had been on the Motion Picture Code's no-no list. Cattleman Trace Jordan (Tab Hunter) seeks retribution for the murder of his brother, killed at the behest of cattle baron Joe Sutton (Ray Teal). Before long Read More

Giant

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker, Mercedes McCambridge, Jane Withers

Synopsis: George Stevens' sprawling adaptation of Edna Ferber's best-selling novel successfully walks a fine line between potboiler and serious drama for its 210-minute running time, making it one of the few epics of its era that continues to hold up as engrossing entertainment across the decades. Giant Read More

Forbidden Planet

Actors: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Jack Kelly

Synopsis: MGM's first big-budget science fiction film, Forbidden Planet, combined state-of-the-art special effects with a storyline based on Shakespeare's The Tempest. In the 23rd century, Cmdr. J.J. Adams (Leslie Nielsen) guides United Planets cruiser C-57-D on a rescue mission to faraway planet Read More

I Died a Thousand Times

Actors: Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lori Nelson, Lee Marvin

Synopsis: I Died a Thousand Times is a scene-by-scene remake of the 1941 crime-drama classic High Sierra. Jack Palance steps into the old Humphrey Bogart role as Roy "Mad Dog" Earle, the ageing bank robber who intends to pull off one last heist before retiring. Sprung from prison by likeable crime boss Big Read More

Escape to Burma

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, David Farrar, Murvyn Vye, Lisa Montell

Synopsis: In this production from Benedict Bogeaus and RKO Radio, Robert Ryan stars as a fugitive from justice who hides out in the Far Eastern teak plantation managed by Barbara Stanwyck. As the two fall in love, Stanwyck comes to believe in Ryan's innocence. Upon the arrival of doggedly determined Read More

The Big Combo

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy, Jean Wallace, Robert Middleton

Synopsis: Police Lt. Leonard Diamond (Cornel Wilde) is criticized by his superior Capt. Peterson (Robert Middleton) for his obsessive but fruitless investigation of organized crime boss Mr. Brown (Richard Conte). Peterson calls it a waste of the taxpayers' money motivated by Diamond's love for Brown's Read More

Strange Lady in Town

Actors: Greer Garson, Dana Andrews, Cameron Mitchell, Lois Smith, Walter Hampden

Synopsis: Greer Garson's first non-MGM starring vehicle was the stylish western Strange Lady in Town. That lady is Julia (Garson), who arrives in 1880 New Mexico to set up practice as a doctor. The townsfolk are not only resistant to the notion of a lady sawbones, but they become downright hostile when Read More

The Bridges at Toko-Ri

Actors: William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney, Robert Strauss, Earl Holliman

Synopsis: Based on the novel by James Michener, this film stars William Holden as Harry Brubaker, a former military pilot who served in World War II. When he's called back into duty during the Korean conflict, Brubaker is angry, believing he's already served his country and needs to devote himself to his Read More

Broken Lance

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters, Richard Widmark, Katy Jurado

Synopsis: In this Western with curiously Shakespearean undertones, Matt Devereaux (Spencer Tracy) is a ranch owner who has tried to raise his sons to carry on the fierce, hard-working spirit that helped make him a success. However, as a consequence, he never learned to show them affection and treats his Read More

Tennessee Champ

Actors: Charles Bronson, Shelley Winters, Keenan Wynn, Dewey Martin, Earl Holliman, Dave "Tex" O'Brien

Synopsis: Rescuing Daniel Norton (Dewey Martin) from a watery grave, two-bit fight promoter Willy Wurble (Keenan Wynn) senses potential in his new "find". Willy builds Daniel into a boxing champ, a fact that Daniel chalks up to good luck and the good Lord. The boy is in for quite a letdown when the Read More

Secret of the Incas

Actors: Charlton Heston, Robert Young, Nicole Maurey, Yma Sumac, Thomas Mitchell

Synopsis: Before Indiana Jones there was Harry Steele (Charlton Heston), an idealistic archaeologist determined to return an ancient Incan mask to the society from which it came. A greedy con-artist (Robert Young) has other ideas, though, and the two men race to fund an expedition to find the treasure Read More

Devil's Canyon

Actors: Virginia Mayo, Dale Robertson, Stephen McNally, Arthur Hunnicutt, Robert Keith

Synopsis: RKO Radio's second 3D production, Devil's Canyon is a combination western and jail-break picture. The scene is Arizona Territorial Prison, wherein 500 desperate men are incarcerated. The inmates become even more desperate when female outlaw Abby Nixon (Virginia Mayo) is likewise locked up. As the Read More

Destination Gobi

Actors: Richard Widmark, Don Taylor, Casey Adams, Murvyn Vye, Darryl Hickman

Synopsis: An offbeat blend of World War II drama and "Arabian Nights" escapism, Destination Gobi is all the more odd in that it is allegedly based on fact. Richard Widmark heads a group of US Navy men, sent to Mongolia for weather observation. Widmark must lead his men across the treacherous Gobi desert to Read More

East of Sumatra

Actors: Jeff Chandler, Marilyn Maxwell, Anthony Quinn, Suzan Ball, John Sutton

Synopsis: Director Budd Boetticher moves out of his traditional western surroundings for the Technicolor programmer East of Sumatra. Jeff Chandler stars as an American miner, who journeys east of Sumatra in search of tin ore. He runs afoul of Anthony Quinn, a local despot who rules the Pacific island which Chandler Read More

Scared Stiff

Actors: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Lizabeth Scott, Carmen Miranda, Dorothy Malone, George Dolenz

Synopsis: Scared Stiff is the 1953 remake of the 1940 Bob Hope-Paulette Goddard vehicle The Ghost Breakers, reupholstered for the talents of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. While Martin handles the straight plot scenes, just as Hope did in the earlier film, the Hope-like wisecracks are fairly evenly divided Read More