Henry Rowland Filmography

Diamonds Are Forever

Actors: Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Charles Gray, Lana Wood, Jimmy Dean

Synopsis: After George Lazenby portrayed James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Sean Connery returned to the tux, gimmicks, and catchphrases of Secret Agent 007 in his penultimate Bond outing, Diamonds Are Forever. Fragments of Ian Fleming's original 1954 novel remain, including the characters of Read More

The Seven Minutes

Actors: Robert Moloney, John Sarno, Wayne Maunder, Marianne McAndrew, Philip Carey, Edy Williams, Jay C. Flippen

Synopsis: Russ Meyer followed-up his delirious Beyond the Valley of the Dolls with this surprisingly straighforward drama, which offered little of Meyer's traditional tongue-in-cheek humor or remarkably proportioned women in favor of a serious message about the evils of censorship. A bookstore sells a copy Read More

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Actors: Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John La Zar, Michael Blodgett

Synopsis: After nearly a decade as one of America's most successful independent filmmakers, legendary sexploitation auteur Russ Meyer first reached out for the brass ring of major studio success with this frantic cult favorite, once described by Meyer and screenwriter Roger Ebert as "the first Read More

Morituri

Actors: Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Janet Margolin, Trevor Howard, Marlin Beneath

Synopsis: Bernhard Wicki directed this hard-hitting World War II espionage drama. Marlon Brando plays Robert Crain, a German deserter who is coerced by British Intelligence officer Colonel Statter (Trevor Howard) to impersonate a Gestapo officer in order to get aboard a German blockade runner that is Read More

36 Hours

Actors: James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Taylor, Werner Peters, Russell Thorson, John Banner

Synopsis: In 1950, Maj. Jefferson Pike (James Garner), an Army intelligence agent who served with distinction in World War II, awakens in a hospital with severe amnesia. He isn't sure where he is, how he got there, or even who the woman at his side is, even though the doctor tells him that her name is Anna (Eva Marie Saint Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lover's Leap

Synopsis: Not long after divorcing his wife Valerie (Julie Adams), Roy Comstock (John Conte) apparently commits suicide. In truth, both the divorce and the phony suicide are part of an elaborate scheme to swindle Comstock's partner Peter Brent (Carleton Carpenter). When Comstock turns up dead for real, it Read More

Combat!: Reunion

Synopsis: When the Americans capture the village of Beauville, Saunders (Vince Morrow) grants permission to Pvt. Paul Villers (Chris Robinson) to search for his father, whom he hasn't seen since childhood. Catching up with the elder Villers (Will Kuluva), Paul finds that his dad is the town's physician. He Read More

The Young Lions

Actors: Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Hope Lange, May Britt, Barbara Rush

Synopsis: Though several concessions to the censors and the box-office were made in adapting Irwin Shaw's bestseller The Young Lions to the screen, the end result is generally effective and satisfying. Set during World War 2, the film concentrates on three individuals, one German, two American. Marlon Brando Read More

Wolf Larsen

Actors: Barry Sullivan, Peter Graves, Gita Hall, Thayer David, John Alderson

Synopsis: Legend of the Sea Wolf is the alternate title of two separate film versions of Jack London's allegorical The Sea Wolf. The first of the two, released in 1958, was originally titled Wolf Larsen. Barry Sullivan stars as the brutal captain of a scavenger ship, who rides his men mercilessly and Read More

Street of Darkness

Synopsis: In this adventurous yarn, a group of former Army buddies have a reunion in New Orleans and decide to go looking for buried treasure. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Girl in the Kremlin

Actors: Lex Barker, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Jeffrey Stone, Maurice Manson

Synopsis: Zsa Zsa Gabor plays twin sisters in this campy Red Scare espionage thriller from the late 1950s. She plays the nurse to Joseph Stalin, who didn't die in 1953 after all. The death was all a nefarious scam in which the leader faked his death, had his face surgically rearranged and then moved to Read More

Gun Duel in Durango

Actors: George Montgomery, Ann Robinson, Steve Brodie, Bobby Clark, Frank Ferguson

Synopsis: Originally released as Gun Duel in Durango, this solid little western stars George Montgomery as reformed outlaw Dan. He falls in love with ranch owner Judy (Ann Robinson), but she won't accept his proposal until she's certain that he's given up his criminal activities. This proves difficult when Read More

Chicago Confidential

Actors: Brian Keith, Beverly Garland, Dick Foran, Beverly Tyler, Elisha Cook, Jr., Paul Langton, Douglas Kennedy, Jack Lambert, Phyllis Coates

Synopsis: Chicago Confidential may not have been the best of the late-1950s "expose" films, but it certainly boasted one of the most impressive casts. Based on the factual best-seller by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, the film stars Brian Keith as a State Attorney who vows to bring corrupt Chicago union Read More

Looking for Danger

Synopsis: In this episode of the long-running "Bowery Boys" series, Sach reminisces about the time he and the gang spent helping the Allies in North Africa during WW II. The boys were working as spies and were assigned to bring in "The Hawk" a key member of the African underground. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend

Actors: Randolph Scott, James Craig, Angie Dickinson, Dani Crayne, James Garner

Synopsis: A bizarre western that at times veers dangerously close to outright burlesque, Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend concluded Randolph Scott's long-term contract with Warner Bros. and sat on the shelf for nearly two years before being dumped on the double-bill market in 1957. Scott and two fellow cavalry Read More

The Women of Pitcairn Island

Actors: James Craig, Lynn Bari, John Smith, Sue England

Synopsis: Original slated for release through United Artists, the Wisberg-Yarborough production Women of Pitcairn Island was ultimately distributed by 20th Century-Fox. The film purports to detail the aftermath of the mutiny on the Bounty in the late 18th century. When the last of the male mutineers dies Read More

Hell on Devil's Island

Actors: Helmut Dantine, William Talman, Donna Martell, Jean Willes, Rex Ingram

Synopsis: Journalist Helmut Dantine, having spent eight years as a convict on Devil's Island, devotes his energies to exposing the horrible conditions at the notorious penal colony. The governor of French Guinea is sympathetic but helpless, since the Devil's Island overseer (William Talman) has technically Read More

Friendly Persuasion

Actors: Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins, Marjorie Main, Robert Middleton, Richard Eyer

Synopsis: Adapted from the best-selling novel by Jessamyn West, Friendly Persuasion is set in Southern Indiana in the early days of the Civil War. Gary Cooper plays Jess Birdwell, patriarch of a Quaker family which does not believe in warfare. Birdwell's son Josh (Anthony Perkins) wishes to adhere to his Read More

Uranium Boom

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Patricia Medina, William Talman, Tina Carver, Philip Van Zandt

Synopsis: In this drama, two prospectors search the Colorado Territory for precious radioactive metal. They find large deposits and become rich men. Unfortunately, their friendship almost disintegrates after they fall in love with the same sexy woman. She pits them against each other. Fortunately, their Read More

Hot Shots

Synopsis: This is one of the last episodes of the long-running Bowery Boys film series. This time the trouble begins when a spoiled child television star swipes their car. They go to get it back and in so doing teach the kid a lesson or two. TV executives, frustrated from trying to deal with the youth on Read More

Attack

Actors: Jack Palance, Eddie Albert, Lee Marvin, Robert Strauss, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: It is easy to see why the US Army refused to cooperate in the production of Attack. Based on the Norman Brooks play The Fragile Fox, this searing war film is a powerful indictment against a military system which protects even its most incompetent of officers. Eddie Albert plays a posturing but Read More

The Adventures of Superman: The Phantom Ring

Synopsis: A criminal mastermind named Spectre (Peter Brocco) uses special coins to render himself and his henchmen invisible while committing crimes. Hoping to trap the crooks, Clark Kent (George Reeves) pretends that he'd like to join their gang. When Clark's true motives are discovered, he is thrown out Read More

Wyoming Renegades

Actors: Philip Carey, Gene Evans, Martha Hyer, William Bishop, Douglas Kennedy

Synopsis: Phil Carey is his usual rough-and-tumble self in the Columbia western programmer Wyoming Renegade. Carey plays Brady Sutton, a former outlaw who wants to go straight. Trouble is, everyone is convinced that Sutton is still a no-good -- everyone, that is, except heroine Nancy Warren (Martha Hyer). Read More

Illegal

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch, Hugh Marlowe, Jayne Mansfield, Albert Dekker

Synopsis: Once again Edward G. Robinson takes a script from the trash bin and makes it into a palatable movie. A remake of The Mouthpiece, this is the story of a district attorney with a conscience. When he discovers that a man he's sent to the electric chair was innocent, he takes to the bottle. His Read More

Kiss of Fire

Actors: Jack Palance, Barbara Rush, Rex Reason, Martha Hyer, Leslie E. Bradley

Synopsis: Barbara Rush is at her most exotically beautiful in the lush costumer Kiss of Fire. Based on Jonreed Lauritzen's novel The Rose and the Flame, the film stars Ms. Rush as Lucia, princess of Spain, who while residing in New Mexico discovers that the king is dying and that she must return home Read More

Alamein

Synopsis: In this action war drama, set in the African desert during WW II, a civilian is hired to deliver tanks to the British soldiers at the front. Trouble ensues when he gets trapped at an oasis being used as a fuel dump by the Afrika Korps with a small band of men. Together, they keep the Germans at Read More

Two Guns and a Badge

Actors: Wayne Morris, Morris Ankrum, Beverly Garland, Roy Barcroft, William Phipps

Synopsis: In the last of his four western programmers for Allied Artists, Wayne Morris plays frontiersman Jim Bisby. Mistaken for a notorious gunslinger, Jim is appointed deputy sheriff of a wide-open cattle town. Playing along, our hero gets down to business -- and by the time his true identity is Read More

Return to Treasure Island

Actors: Tab Hunter, Dawn Addams, Porter Hall, James Seay, Harry Lauter

Synopsis: Famed German filmmaker E. A. Dupont, who in his peak years was responsible for such classics as Variety, merely goes through the motions in this updated sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. Instead of Jim Hawkins, the film offers Jim's beautiful female descendant Jamesina (Dawn Addams Read More

Prince of Pirates

Actors: John Derek, Barbara Rush, Carla Balenda, Whitfield Connor, Edgar Barrier

Synopsis: Prince of Pirates is fairly elaborate for a Sam Katzman production, though its low budget does betray itself in the closing scenes. Utilizing plenty of stock footage from Joan of Arc (as he'd previously done in Thief of Damascus), producer Katzman offers the viewer a 16th-century swashbuckler Read More

Rebel City

Actors: William "Wild Bill" Elliott, Marjorie Lord, Robert Kent, Keith Richards, I. Stanford Jolley

Synopsis: Rebel City is a "B" western with "A" aspirations. Wild Bill Elliot plays gambler Frank Graham, who heads to Kansas in search of his father's murderer. This being 1864, the local military presence is more preoccupied with keeping Southern sympathizers out of the state to worry about Graham's Read More

Captain John Smith and Pocahontas

Actors: Anthony Dexter, Jody Lawrance, Robert Clarke, Stuart Randall

Synopsis: Whether true or not (evidence indicates "not"), the legend of Captain John Smith and Pochahontas is one of history's great romantic stories. This 1953 filmization of the story was made on a near-nonexistent budget. Anthony Dexter, who two seasons earlier had starred in the unsuccessful biopic Valentino Read More

All the Brothers Were Valiant

Actors: Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Ann Blyth, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: Previously adapted to film in 1923, Ben Ames Williams' rousing sea adventure All the Brothers Were Valiant was given the prestige MGM treatment in 1953. Robert Taylor and Stewart Granger star as seafaring siblings Joel and Mark Shore. When Mark disappears during a whaling expedition, Joel and his Read More

Jungle Drums of Africa [Serial]

Synopsis: In this adventure, an intrepid explorer and a missionary's daughter embark upon a perilous journey through Africa in order to get the rights to a uranium mine. En route they encounter spies, angry natives, lion attacks, and a brush with voodoo. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Topeka

Synopsis: Bill Elliot emulates his idol William S. Hart in the superior western Topeka. Elliot plays the archetypal Good Bad Man, hired to kick the crooked element out of a small town. A hard-drinking, hard-living man, Elliot entertains thoughts of taking over the town himself for the benefit of his own Read More

Vigilante Terror

Synopsis: Vigilante Terror was one of the last of the "Wild Bill" Elliot westerns for Columbia. This time, Elliot comes to rescue an imperiled storekeeper. A band of masked vigilantes is laying waste to the countryside, and the storekeeper is blamed. Wild Bill saves the day by going undercover -- or under Read More

Wagon Team

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Gail Davis, Dick Jones, Gordon Jones

Synopsis: Gene Autry goes undercover once again in this rather pedestrian western from Columbia Pictures. Suspecting jailed youth Dave Weldon (Dick Jones) of complicity in an army payroll heist, special investigator Autry has himself jailed. He quickly discovers that there is more to the case than meets the Read More

Wyoming Roundup

Synopsis: Whip Wilson and Tommy Farrell star in this Western as a pair of cowboys who are new in town. When they break up a brawl in the neighborhood saloon, they're made town marshals, but they have little time to bask in their glory before they have to help settle a range war between a group of ranchers. Read More

Operation Secret

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Steve Cochran, Phyllis Thaxter, Karl Malden, Paul Picerni

Synopsis: Loosely based on the true story of Lieutenant Colonel Peter Ortiz, this mystery centers on an American WW II veteran who heroically served as both an officer and a member of the French Foreign Legionnaire. During the war he had been instrumental in assisting in the French Resistance. With such a Read More

Hired Gun

Ten Tall Men

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Jody Lawrance, Gilbert Roland, Kieron Moore, George Tobias

Synopsis: For his initial effort from his own Norma Productions, Burt Lancaster picked a winner in Ten Tall Men. Lancaster stars as "Sergeant Mike," a two-fisted Foreign Legionnaire presiding over a lovable band of mercenaries, sneak thieves and cutthroats. While sitting in the stockade for the umpteenth Read More

Sealed Cargo

Actors: Dana Andrews, Claude Rains, Carla Balenda, Philip Dorn, Onslow Stevens

Synopsis: Sealed Cargo was based on The Gaunt Woman, a novel by Edmund Gilligan. Dana Andrews stars as Pat Bannon, a Newfoundland fishing-boat captain during WW II. Coming to the rescue of an endangered vessel, Bannon finds himself in the middle of a nest of Nazi spies. Reasoning that he'll never be able to Read More

The House on Telegraph Hill

Actors: Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, William Lundigan, Fay Baker, Gordon Geberl, Steven Geray

Synopsis: After surviving the hell of a Nazi death camp, a refugee faces even greater dangers in America in this tale of murder, deceit, and assumed identities. Victoria Kopwelska (Valentina Cortese) is a Polish woman imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp near the end of World War II. Desperate to Read More

The Asphalt Jungle

Actors: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, James Whitmore, Jean Hagen, Sam Jaffe

Synopsis: The Asphalt Jungle is a brilliantly conceived and executed anatomy of a crime -- or, as director John Huston and scripter Ben Maddow put it, "a left-handed form of human endeavor." Recently paroled master criminal Erwin "Doc" Riedenschneider (Sam Jaffe), with funding from crooked attorney Emmerich Read More

The Showdown

Actors: William "Wild Bill" Elliott, Marie Windsor, Walter Brennan, Henry Morgan, Rhys Williams

Synopsis: Showdown is the story of a trail boss named Shad Jones (Bill Elliott) whose younger brother is murdered. Knowing that a member of a wagon train is responsible for the killing, Shad joins the train in attempt to discover who the guilty man is. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

King Solomon's Mines

Actors: Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Richard Carlson, Hugo Haas, Lowell Gilmore

Synopsis: MGM's expensive remake of the 1937 British adventure film King Solomon's Mines stars Stewart Granger as fearless-explorer Alan Quartermaine, and Deborah Kerr as the spunky Irish lass who hires him on to locate her husband. Kerr's spouse has disappeared somewhere in Africa while attempting to Read More

Port of New York

Actors: Scott Brady, Richard Rober, K.T. Stevens, Yul Brynner, Arthur Blake

Synopsis: The location-filmed Port of New York might have been forgotten had it not been for one of its leading players. In his first film role, Yul Brynner plays an erudite narcotics smuggler named Paul Vicola. Using a phony yacht club as a front, Vicola conducts a brisk drug trade, making certain that no Read More

To the Victor

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Viveca Lindfors, Victor Francen, Bruce Bennett, Dorothy Malone

Synopsis: To the Victor is one of the first Hollywood films to touch upon the subject of war guilt. There are no high-ranking Nazis or gas ovens here; the people on trial are French citizens, accused of collaboration. This being a Warner Bros. production, the cast includes such authentic Frenchpersons as Dennis Morgan Read More

I, Jane Doe

Actors: Ruth Hussey, John Carroll, Vera Ralston, John Howard, Gene Lockhart

Synopsis: In this courtroom drama, a French girl stands trial for murder. Flashbacks tell the grim story of how, during the Great War she got involved with a wealthy soldier and married him. He disappeared after the war. She then came to the U.S. There she finds him married to another woman. To cover Read More

Rogues' Regiment

Actors: Dick Powell, Märta Torén, Stephen McNally, Vincent Price, Edgar Barrier

Synopsis: Even when decked out in a Foreign Legion uniform, Dick Powell looked, talked and acted like an urban private eye. In Rogues' Regiment, American secret agent Whit Corbett (Dick Powell) joins the Legion in order to track down Nazi war criminal Carl Reicher (Stephen McNally) in French Indo-China. Read More

Golden Earrings

Actors: Ray Milland, Marlene Dietrich, Murvyn Vye, Dennis Hoey

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Yolanda Foldes, this confusing romantic adventure concerns a love affair and international espionage. Told in flashback, British officer Ralph Denistoun (Ray Milland) recounts the story to American journalist Quentin Reynolds. Before WWII, British Intelligence officers Ralph Read More

13 Rue Madeleine

Actors: James Cagney, Annabella, Roland Belanger, Richard Conte, Frank Latimore, Walter Abel

Synopsis: This film is not only a revealing glimpse into the workings of the O.S.S. (Office of Strategic Services) during WW II, but it is also a full-fledged spy thriller. An excellent cast includes James Cagney, Karl Malden, E.G. Marshall, and Red Buttons. Cagney stars as an O.S.S. training officer, bent Read More

Gallant Journey

Actors: Fernando Alvarado, Conrad Binyon, Paul E. Burns, Tommy Cook

Synopsis: Producer/director William A. Wellman also co-scripted this biopic devoted to John J. Montgomery (Glenn Ford), the unsung 19th-century innovator of glider design. Montgomery's invention of a gold separator proves lucrative, but he pours its profits into financing his legal battles over patent Read More

Dangerous Millions

Actors: Kent Taylor, Dona Drake, Tala Birell, Leonard Strong, Rex Evans

Synopsis: In this mystery, a millionaire shipping tycoon commands that eight of his relatives come to his Chinese mountain retreat upon his death. There each will be entitled to an equal share of his fortune. He dies, and the eight go to China. Trouble ensues in the remote cabin when two relatives are Read More

Rendezvous 24

Actors: William Gargan, Pat O'Moore, David Leonard, Maria Palmer, John Bleifer

Synopsis: Two secret agents must somehow prevent a group of post WW II Nazis hiding in the Hartz mountains from successfully making an atomic bomb as they plan to use the weapon on large Allied cities to help the Germans again rise to power. The two good agents find themselves entangled with beautiful Read More

The Searching Wind

Actors: Robert Young, Sylvia Sidney, Ann Richards, Dudley Digges, Douglas Dick, Albert Basserman

Synopsis: The troublesome years "between the wars" provide the backdrop for the romantic drama The Searching Wind. Adapted by Lillian Hellman from her own stage play, the film stars Robert Young as Alex Hazen, an idealistic but incredibly naïve US ambassador who fails to heed the warning signals when Read More

Winged Victory

Actors: Mark Daniels, Lon McCallister, Don Taylor, Jo Carroll Dennison, Red Buttons, Edmond O'Brien, Geraldine Wall

Synopsis: Moss Hart's hit Broadway play Winged Victory was brought to the screen in 1944, with most of its original cast intact. The story, concerning regular Joes from all walks of life joining the Army Air Force, is secondary to such theatrical setpieces as a camp show wherein several virile Hollywood Read More

Paris After Dark

Actors: George Sanders, Philip Dorn, Brenda Marshall, Madeleine Le Beau, Marcel Dalio

Synopsis: This French Underground melodrama stars George Sanders as a seemingly apolitical Parisian doctor who is actually a resistance leader. Sanders' nurse (Brenda Marshall) is likewise a French patriot--less so the nurse's husband (Philip Dorn), who has become disillusioned after two years in a POW Read More

Edge of Darkness

Actors: Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston, Tom Fadden, Judith Anderson, Nancy Coleman, Helmut Dantine

Synopsis: The Norwegian resistance to the Nazi occupation of their country inspired several wartime films from Hollywood, including this Warner Bros. production, filmed in and around Monterey, California. In October 1942, a German observation airplane discovers a seaside village named Trollness where the Read More

The Moon Is Down

Actors: Cedric Hardwicke, Henry Travers, Lee J. Cobb, Peter Van Eyck, Doris Bowden, Margaret Wycherly

Synopsis: In this downbeat drama based on a novel by John Steinbeck (which was also adapted for the stage), German troops invade Norway during WWII, and Nazi forces occupy a small town. Col.