This filmed episode of The Red Skelton Show stars Frank Lovejoy as a gangster boss. Hiding from the cops, Lovejoy takes...
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Gangster Boss
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1959
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Frank Lovejoy plays the title role in Cole Younger, Gunfighter. The scene is post-Civil War Texas, when the state was under...
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Younger
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1958
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Adapted from his own TV play by Reginald Rose, Dino stars Sal Mineo (who also appeared in the TV version) in the title role....
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1957
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The only thing genuinely brave about Three Brave Men is the second word in the title. The film is based on the true story of...
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Capt. Winfield
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1957
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The Country Husband is one of a handful of episodes from the classic TV anthology Playhouse 90 that was filmed, rather than...
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1956
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Cornell Woolrich, whose written works have served as the basis for many an Alfred Hitchcock production, was the author of...
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1956
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Julie is most enjoyable if one doesn't take it too seriously. Doris Day plays Julie Benton, whose off-the-coop musician...
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Detective Capt. Pringle
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1956
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Director Harold D. Schuster, heretofore more at home with "outdoor" fare, does a nice job with the film noir trappings of...
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Casey Martin
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1955
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The title refers not to James Cagney's curtain line in White Heat but to Northern Alaska, where this film is set....
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Maj. Cantrell
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1955
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In this downbeat exploitation drama, a vengeful father vents his wrath on the teenage terrors who bashed his baby's head...
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1955
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It is all but impossible to dislike this ultra-cheap "Cold War paranoia" melodrama. Virtually the entire picture takes place...
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Professor
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1955
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Inspired in part by the true story of baseball great Ted Williams, who after serving in World War II was drafted to serve in...
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Gen. Ennis C. Hawkes
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1955
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In this melodrama, an American soldier finds himself by two private eyes hired by the wealthy German father of the man he...
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Stan Fabian
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1955
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Leave it to MGM to turn the Korean War into a splashy, big-budget, all-star extravaganza. Men of the Fighting Lady is set on...
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1954
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The Americano is Glenn Ford, a north-of-the-border cowboy working in Brazil. Ford has been assigned to deliver a cargo of...
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Bento Hermanny
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1954
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Set in the Philippines during WWII, this suspenseful and realistic war drama chronicles the courage of a unit of US Marines...
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Sgt. Fletcher
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1954
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Lt. Tom Brennan
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1953
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Daniel Mainwaring took this story right out of the headlines of the day, penning this true story of a mass murderer who was...
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Gilbert Bowen
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1953
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With all those flaming arrows being aimed directly at the audience, it is fairly obvious that Charge of Feather River was...
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Sgt. Baker
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1953
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John Webber
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1953
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The System was one of several "exposé" films inspired by the Kefauver crime committee. The title refers to the manner in...
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John Merrick
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1953
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Retreat, Hell! is out of favor with most disciples of director Joseph H. Lewis, partly because it was a major-studio release,...
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Capt. Steve Corbett
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1952
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Ronald Reagan delivers one of his best screen performances as baseball great Grover Cleveland Alexander in The Winning Team....
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Rogers Hornsby
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1952
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Based on a play by Fay Kanin, this comedy drama follows a successful congresswoman's emotional journey back to her alma...
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Matt Cole
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1951
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The real Matt Cvetic was a borderline alcoholic with a nasty disposition (he once allegedly beat his sister-in-law so badly...
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Matt Cvetic
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1951
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Maj. Blackford
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1951
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Starlift was Warner Bros' attempt to revive the "all-star patriotic musical" format which had worked so well during WW II....
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1951
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The ultra-sentimental I'll See You in My Dreams is based on the life and work of composer Gus Kahn. The story is told from...
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Walter Donaldson
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1951
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A haunting work of stark confessionalism disguised as a taut noir thriller, In a Lonely Place -- Nicholas Ray's bleak,...
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Brub Nicolai
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1950
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1950
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Three Secrets is a darker variation on a theme first explored in A Letter to Three Wives (1949). There's only one survivor...
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Bob Duffy
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1950
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Filmed with the full cooperation of the U.S. Army, Breakthrough is a lean, no-nonsense war film set during the 1944 invasion...
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Sgt. Bell
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1950
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The Sound of Fury is better known by its general release title, Try and Get Me. Based on Jo Pagano's novel The Condemned, the...
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Howard Tyler
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1950
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Mike Barnett (1956)
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1949
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Arthur Laurents' play Home of the Brave concerned a paralyzed Jewish war veteran who begins to walk again only when he...
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Mingo
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1949
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Worthless from a historical aspect, Black Bart is nonetheless an enjoyable fabrication about the fabled Western outlaw....
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1948
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