James Craig Filmography

The Child Is Mine

This Child Is Mine

Synopsis: This Child Is Mine, a 90-minute videotaped TV drama written by Richard De Roy, stars two popular soap opera performers: Rosemary Prinz (All My Children) and Robin Strasser (Another World). The scene is a courtroom, where a tense custody battle is in progress. The natural mother and foster mother Read More

The Doomsday Machine

Synopsis: Poorly written, directed and photographed, The Doomsday Machine is one of those cheap sci-fi farragos which rounds up several faded stars and then gives them nothing to work with. Among the trapped former luminaries are Denny Miller, Mala Powers, Bobby Van and Henry Wilcoxon. The plot (for lack of Read More

Big Foot

Actors: John Carradine

Synopsis: This campy oddity -- featuring John Carradine in one of his patented walk-on roles -- pits some silly facsimile of a motorcycle gang against an even sillier stuntman in a deep-pile shag suit who is supposed to be the legendary humanoid lurker of the Northwestern wilderness. It seems Bigfoot has Read More

The Tormentors

Synopsis: When a group of young degenerates rape and kill his family, a vengeful man takes action. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Revenge of Dr. X

Synopsis: Dr. Bragan (James Craig) is a workaholic rocket scientist with NASA who is coming unglued from the stress. A colleague arranges for him to take a much needed holiday in Japan, and Bragan accepts, hoping to use this free time to pursue his first love, botany. He brings a potted Venus Flytrap with Read More

If He Hollers, Let Him Go

Actors: Dana Wynter, Raymond St. Jacques, Kevin McCarthy, Barbara McNair, Arthur O'Connell

Synopsis: James Lake (Raymond St. Jacques) is an escaped black convict imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit. Leslie Whitlock (Kevin McCarthy) offers James money to kill his wife, Ellen (Dana Wynter). He declines and tries to look up his old flame Lily (Barbara McNair), but discovers his own brother is Read More

The Devil's Brigade

Actors: William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards, Andrew Prine, Claude Akins

Synopsis: During the early days of World War II, while the United States was massing its forces for the war, England hastily plans commando raids against the German forces to keep them at bay until America's troops enter the war. As a part of this plan, the Allies create the 1st Special Service Force to Read More

Fort Utah

Actors: John Ireland, Virginia Mayo, Scott Brady, John Russell, Robert Strauss

Synopsis: An insane, renegade cavalryman leads his vicious band of outlaws into a series of brutal raids against settlers and local Indians in this western. Fortunately, a former gunslinger and a brave Indian agent ride up to save the imperiled pioneers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hostile Guns

Actors: George Montgomery, Yvonne De Carlo, Tab Hunter, Brian Donlevy, John Russell

Synopsis: U.S. Marshal Gid McCool (George Montgomery) leads a wagon train of convicted felons to Huntsville prison in this routine western. The only female among the crooks is the dancehall girl Laura Mannon (Yvonne De Carlo), McCool's former flame. When McCool cannot be swayed from completing his lawful Read More

Arizona Bushwackers

Actors: Howard Keel, Yvonne De Carlo, John Ireland, Marilyn Maxwell, Scott Brady

Synopsis: Producer A.C. Lyles managed to do quite well for himself in the 1960s by making low-budget westerns crammed full of familiar faces whose stock in the film industry had slipped a bit. Starring in Arizona Bushwackers were such celebrities of yesteryear as Howard Keel, Yvonne De Carlo, John Ireland, Marilyn Maxwell Read More

Four Fast Guns

Actors: James Craig, Martha Vickers, Edgar Buchanan, Brett Halsey, Paul Richards

Synopsis: Set in a small Arizona town in the 1870s, Four Fast Guns is a subpar Western about Sabin (James Craig), a man who takes on an unlikely tyrant in an effort to restore normal life to the townspeople. Sabin himself has been falsely accused of murder, though misconduct runs in the family -- his Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Birds of a Feather

Synopsis: A dying Colorado town is caught in the middle of a bloody right-of-way battle between two railroads. A man claiming to be the agent of one of the railroads hires Paladin (Richard Boone) to rid the town of the hired gunfighters who have overrun the area. Soon, however, Paladin finds that he has Read More

Man or Gun

Synopsis: Produced at Republic Studios during that western-film factory's twilight years, Man or Gun stars MacDonald Carey as a drifter named Maybe Smith. Before he gets a chance to say "Like sands through the hourglass...", Smith gets mixed up in the lives of several timorous townsfolk, who suffer the 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

Ghost Diver

Actors: James Craig, Audrey Totter, Nico Minardos, Lowell Brown

Synopsis: Roger Bristol (James Craig) is the star of a popular TV adventure series. To further boost his ratings, Bristol promises his viewers that he will locate a sunken treasure off the coasts of South America. True to his word, Bristol, his secretary Anne Stevens (Audrey Totter) and his skindiver son Read More

The Persuader

Actors: William Talman, James Craig, Kristine Miller, Darryl Hickman, Georgia Lee

Synopsis: In one of his rare movie starring assignments, William Talman (Hamilton Burger on TV's Perry Mason) plays a dual role in The Persuader. Talman is seen as gunslinger Matt Bonham and his twin brother, preacher Mark Bonham. When Mark is killed by outlaw leader Bick Justin (James Craig), Matt takes Read More

The Cyclops

Actors: James Craig, Gloria Talbott, Lon Chaney, Jr., Tom Drake, Duncan Parkin

Synopsis: Producer/director Bert I. Gordon began his career-long devotion to movies about giant-sized people and animals with this low-budget chiller, which has a surprisingly strong cast of onetime Hollywood leading men. Gloria Talbott plays Susan Winter, a young American woman who hires soldier-of-fortune 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

Naked in the Sun

Synopsis: A true story about the war between the Osceola and Seminole Indians and a slave trader who turned from selling Africans as slaves to enslaving Seminoles. The Native Americans turn in a bloody revolt. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Massacre

Actors: Dane Clark, James Craig, Martha Roth, Jaime Fernandez

Synopsis: After divesting himself of his own studio and distribution firm, producer Robert L. Lippert Jr. put together a group of low-budget films for 20th Century-Fox release. Filmed in Mexico, Lippert's Massacre stars Dane Clark as a mounted police officer, sent out to find a group of gun smugglers. Time Read More

While the City Sleeps

Actors: Dana Andrews, Ida Lupino, Rhonda Fleming, Sally Forrest, Thomas Mitchell, George Sanders, Vincent Price

Synopsis: When media mogul Amos Kyne (Robert Warwick) dies, his business, which includes a major newspaper, a television station, and a wire news service, is turned over to his sole heir, his foppish, ne'er do well son (Vincent Price). The younger Kyne has no knowledge of how to run the company his father Read More

Last of the Desperadoes

Actors: James Craig, Jim Davis, Barton MacLane, Margia Dean, Donna Martel

Synopsis: James Craig plays Sheriff Pat Garrett, the man who gunned down Billy the Kid. We always thought that was the end of the story, but Last of the Desperados informs us that Garrett was forced to flee from the vengeance of Billy's gang (we also never knew that Billy had a gang). Everywhere he Read More

Code Two

Actors: Ralph Meeker, Sally Forrest, Keenan Wynn, Robert Horton, James Craig

Synopsis: The modest MGM programmer Code Two follows a group of police academy aspirants from the grueling training process to their first days on the job. The plot concentrates on three of these trainees: self-satisfied Chuck O'Flair (Ralph Meeker), bridegroom-to-be Harry Whenlon (Jeff Richards) and Read More

Fort Vengeance

Actors: James Craig, Rita Moreno, Keith Larsen, Reginald Denny, Charles Irwin

Synopsis: Fort Vengeance starts out as a western and ends up as a "northern." Trouble-making brothers Dick (James Craig) and Carey (Keith Larsen) skeedaddle to Canada when things get too hot for them in the states. The brothers join the Royal Canadian Mounties, where their knowledge of Indian activities Read More

Hurricane Smith

Actors: Yvonne De Carlo, John Ireland, James Craig, Forrest Tucker, Lyle Bettger

Synopsis: Surprisingly, the Paramount Technicolor actioner Hurricane Smith was not produced by the studio's Pine-Thomas unit (it sure sounds like one of their efforts), but instead by "outsider" Nat Holt. John Ireland plays the title character, a 19th-century mercenary stranded in the South Seas with his Read More

Drums in the Deep South

Actors: James Craig, Barbara Payton, Guy Madison, Barton MacLane, Craig Stevens

Synopsis: Directed by former set designer William Cameron Menzies, this minor Civil War effort from low-budget producers King Brothers stars James Craig and Guy Madison as former West Point roommates now on opposing sides in the war between the states. Assigned to delay General Sherman's march toward Read More

The Strip

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Sally Forrest, William Demarest, James Craig, Kay Brown

Synopsis: Mickey Rooney returned to his "home" studio MGM, after a three-year absence, in the location-filmed melodrama The Strip. Rooney is cast as Stanley Maxton, an aspiring drummer who has the misfortune to fall within the orbit of bookie Sunny Johnson (James Craig). Out of the goodness of his heart Read More

A Lady without Passport

Actors: Hedy Lamarr, John Hodiak, James Craig, George Macready, Steven Geray

Synopsis: A Lady Without Passport stars Hedy Lamarr in the title role. Lamarr plays Marianne Lorress, a concentration-camp refugee who takes up residence in Cuba while waiting permission to enter the U.S. Immigration agent Pete Karczag (John Hodiak) decides to use Marianne as bait to entrap Palinov (George Macready Read More

Side Street

Actors: Farley Granger, Cathy O'Donnell, James Craig, Paul Kelly, Jean Hagen

Synopsis: Farley Granger plays a casually larcenous New York City mailman who steals a shipment of money. Granger's excitement over this windfall turns to terror when he discovers that the money was part of a transaction between gangsters. Harassed by both crooks and cops, Granger lives to regret his Read More

The Man from Texas

Actors: James Craig, Lynn Bari, Johnny Johnston, Una Merkel, Wallace Ford

Synopsis: Eagle-Lion studios inaugurated its new "big budget" western policy with 1948's The Man From Texas. James Craig stars as the El Paso Kid, who can't make up his mind whether to be an upstanding, decent citizen or a masked bandit. He continues to vacillate all through the picture, much to the dismay Read More

Northwest Stampede

Actors: Joan Leslie, James Craig, Jack Oakie, Chill Wills, Victor Kilian

Synopsis: In this romantic western, the real stars are a mustang and a police dog. The human aspect of the story centers on a rodeo rider whose late father bequeathed him a ranch in Calgary, Canada. The rider really tries to settle down to ranching, but finds himself pining for the rodeo. His forewoman Read More

Dark Delusion

Actors: Warner Anderson, Art Baker, Lionel Barrymore, Marie Blake, Lucille Bremer

Synopsis: After 15 entries, MGM's "Dr. Kildare" series came to a quiet end with Dark Delusion. Although Dr. Leonard Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore), crusty chief surgeon at Blair General Hospital, is officially the leading character, most of the footage is devoted to Gillespie's outspoken protégé, Dr. Tommy Read More

Little Mister Jim

Actors: Butch Jenkins, James Craig, Frances Gifford, Luana Patten, Spring Byington

Synopsis: MGM's newest child star Jackie "Butch" Jenkins--lisp and all--is the title character in this overlong family drama. The setting is a postwar army camp, where returning GIs live in Quonsets with their families. Jenkins' mother dies, whereupon his soldier dad becomes an alcoholic. Both father and Read More

Boys' Ranch

Actors: Butch Jenkins, James Craig, Skip Homeier, Dorothy Patrick, Ray Collins

Synopsis: Boys' Ranch was conceived as a showcase for MGM's newest juvenile star, Jackie "Butch" Jenkins. James Craig is billed second as baseball player Dan Walker, who sets up a Texas ranch for disadvantaged city kids. Jenkins plays Butch, the cutest and most precocious of the boys, while Skip Homeier is Read More

Dangerous Partners

Actors: James Craig, Signe Hasso, Edmund Gwenn, Audrey Totter, Mabel Paige

Synopsis: In this a briefcase containing four wills is found next to the unconscious body of a man. He lies beside a plane crash. Each of the wills is made out to the man. Meanwhile a recent widow and a man work together to get the money her husband died for. They almost get it when they are accosted by the Read More

She Went to the Races

Actors: James Craig, Frances Gifford, Ava Gardner, Edmund Gwenn, Sig Rumann

Synopsis: MGM's newest romantic team of James Craig and Frances Gifford head the cast of the glossy "B"-picture She Went to the Races. Gifford plays beautiful professor Ann Wotters, who develops a scientific method of picking winners at the race track. Craig portrays horsetrainer Steve Confield, who thinks Read More

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, James Craig, Frances Gifford, Agnes Moorehead, Morris Carnovsky

Synopsis: An earnest rural melodrama set among Norwegian immigrants in Wisconsin, Our Vines Have Tender Grapes is a slightly updated version of George Victor Martin's 1940 novel. Edward G. Robinson stars as Martinius Jacobson, a farmer devoted to his wife Bruna (Agnes Moorehead) and precocious Read More

Marriage Is a Private Affair

Actors: Lana Turner, James Craig, John Hodiak, Frances Gifford, Hugh Marlowe

Synopsis: Robert Z. Leonard, who must have taken room and board at MGM, was the directorial hand behind this slight domestic drama. Lana Turner is the bride, John Hodiak the groom. James Craig is the odd man out, who pursues Turner when Hodiak is off fighting the war. Bored by domesticity, Turner welcomes Read More

Kismet

Actors: Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, James Craig, Edward Arnold, Florence Bates, Hugh Herbert

Synopsis: Oriental Dream is the TV title for the 1944 Technicolor version of Kismet. Ronald Colman plays Hadji, "king of beggars" in the days of the Arabian Nights. Posing as a prince, Colman woos Marlene Dietrich, the favorite wife of the evil Wazir (Edward Arnold). Meanwhile, Colman's daughter Joy Ann Page Read More

Lost Angel

Actors: Margaret O'Brien, James Craig, Marsha Hunt, Philip Merivale, Keenan Wynn, Henry O'Neill

Synopsis: Margaret O'Brien, MGM's newest child sensation, was given her first starring vehicle with Lost Angel. O'Brien plays Alpha, who has been groomed to be a genius by a trio of well-meaning but misguided professors (Philip Merivale, Henry O'Neill and Donald Meek). Taking pity on the reluctant prodigy Read More

Gentle Annie

Actors: James Craig, Donna Reed, Marjorie Main, Henry Morgan

Synopsis: Marjorie Main's first solo starring vehicle for MGM finds the formidable character actress cast as a tough-but-tender female outlaw. Living on her tumbledown ranch in Oklahoma territory, Annie Goss (Main) shelters her desperado sons (Henry Morgan, Paul Langton) from the authorities. While planning Read More

Seven Miles from Alcatraz

Actors: James Craig, Bonita Granville, Frank Jenks, Cliff Edwards, George Cleveland

Synopsis: For his first directorial assignment at RKO Radio, Edward Dmytryk was handed the mile-a-minute topical meller Seven Miles From Alcatraz. James Craig and Frank Jenks star as cynical Alcatraz inmates Champ and Jimbo, who manage to escape from the "rock" and then take refuge in the lighthouse Read More

The Human Comedy

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Frank Morgan, Fay Bainter, James Craig, Marsha Hunt, Ray Collins, Van Johnson

Synopsis: Author William Saroyan's corn-shucking brand of sentimentality works wonders in this 1943 filmization of his novel. Narrator Ray Collins is dead before the film begins; thus he is able to provide an all-seeing overview of the tiny community of Ithaca, California. The principal character, played by Mickey Rooney Read More

Freedom Comes High

Actors: James Craig, Barbara Britton, Cecil Kellaway, Donald Cook

Swing Shift Maisie

Actors: Jim Davis, Ann Sothern, James Craig, Jean Rogers, Connie Gilchrist, John Qualen

Synopsis: In her seventh outing as irrepressible vaudeville entertainer Maisie Revere, Ann Sothern aided the war effort by working the swing shift in an airplane factory. Taking in a seemingly suicidal co-worker, Iris (Jean Rogers), Maisie can only watch as the girl steals her beau, handsome pilot James Read More

The Heavenly Body

Actors: William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, James Craig, Fay Bainter, Henry O'Neill

Synopsis: In this light romantic comedy, William B. Whitley (William Powell) is an astronomer who is very excited about his latest discovery, a comet that has been named after him. However, Whitley has been so busy tracking the course of his comet as its path leads straight into the moon that he's been Read More

Valley of the Sun

Actors: Lucille Ball, James Craig, Cedric Hardwicke, Dean Jagger, Peter Whitney

Synopsis: Though officially based on a Saturday Evening Post story by Clarence Buddington Kelland, RKO Radio's Valley of the Sun was obviously inspired by the blockbuster comedy western Destry Rides Again (indeed, both films were directed by George Marshall). James Craig stars as Indian scout Jonathan Read More

Northwest Rangers

Actors: James Craig, William Lundigan, Patricia Dane, Jack Holt

Synopsis: In this North western, Indians orphan two boys who are then raised by a Mountie. The boys are different as night and day: one wants to be a Mountie; the other is drawn to gambler. During one unprofitable outing the gambler swears vengeance upon the crooked proprietor of the local casino. Years Read More

The Omaha Trail

Actors: James Craig, Pamela Blake, Dean Jagger, Edward Ellis, Chill Wills

Synopsis: Having done just fine at the box office with 1942's Apache Trail, MGM turned out another "pocket" western, The Omaha Trail. The story boils down to a battle of wits and sixguns between hero Pat Candel (James Craig) and villain Pipestone Ross (Dean Jagger). The latter is a wagon-train entrepreneur Read More

Friendly Enemies

Actors: Charles Winninger, Charlie Ruggles, James Craig, Nancy Kelly, Otto Kruger

Synopsis: In this remake of the 1925 silent film, the breakup of a lifelong friendship between two German millionaires is chronicled. The trouble begins as WW II erupts. One of the men becomes sympathetic to the U.S. while the other becomes a Nazi sympathizer. They spend most of the film arguing about Read More

The Devil and Daniel Webster

Actors: Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, James Craig, Jane Darwell, Simone Simon, Anne Shirley

Synopsis: This classic fantasy was based on a story by Stephen Vincent Benet. Jabez Stone (James Craig) is a simple New England farmer who has been suffering from a long run of bad luck. One day he mutters that he'd sell his soul for a little money and a decent crop. Moments later, who should appear but The Read More

Unexpected Uncle

Actors: Anne Shirley, James Craig, Charles Coburn, Ernest Truex

Synopsis: From first frame to last, foxy Charles Coburn thoroughly dominates the proceedings in the bubbly RKO Radio comedy Unexpected Uncle. Living in retirement in Florida, ex-tycoon Seton (Charles Coburn) gets bored with sitting around doing nothing, and decides to extend himself to others for the first Read More

Winners of the West [Serial]

Synopsis: The assistant to a railroad president battles an evil empire builder in this 13 chapter adventure serial produced by Henry MacRae for Universal. The Hartford Transcontinental Railroad is advancing the line through Hell's Gate Pass when the project is stalled by an attack of marauding Indians. The Read More

Two-Fisted Rangers

Actors: Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, Bob Nolan, Kenneth MacDonald, Dick Curtis

Synopsis: Two-Fisted Rangers was the first of a handful of Charles Starrett westerns to be lifted from the routine by the camera pyrotechnics of director Joseph H. Lewis. The story is usual one about hero Thad Lawson (Starrett) avenging the death of his brother at the hands of villainous Jack Rand (Kenneth Read More

Zanzibar

Actors: Lola Lane, James Craig, Eduardo Ciannelli, Tom Fadden, Robert C. Fischer

Synopsis: Lola Lane and James Craig play explorers working on behalf of the British government. Lane and Craig have been assigned to venture deep into the wilds of Africa to retrieve the sacred skull of a long-deceased Sultan. Whoever possesses the skull will have total control over the native Read More

Kitty Foyle

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig, Eduardo Ciannelli, Ernest Cossart

Synopsis: Though Ginger Rogers' starring vehicles always turned a profit for RKO Radio, many filmgoers thought of Rogers only in terms of "Fred Astaire's partner." Others considered her a delightful comedienne, but no great shakes as a dramatic actress. Thus it was both a personal and professional triumph Read More

I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now

Actors: Dennis O'Keefe, Constance Moore, Helen Parrish, Lewis Howard, Laura Hope Crewes

Synopsis: In this low-budget musical, two sets of politically ambitious parents attempt to pair up their youngsters who unfortunately despise each other and only pretend to like each other to please their parents. On the nights they are to go out, they sneak out with their respective true loves. It all Read More

Seven Sinners

Actors: Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Broderick Crawford, Mischa Auer, Albert Dekker

Synopsis: Set in the South Seas, Seven Sinners stars Marlene Dietrich as a cabaret singer whose reputation as a troublemaker has gotten her kicked out of one port of call after another. Once more causing a riot, Dietrich takes refuge on the first ship out, together with her underhanded cohorts Broderick Crawford Read More