John IrelandFilmography

Waxwork II: Lost in Time

Actors: Zach Galligan, Alexander Godunov, Sophie Ward, Monika Schnarre, Martin Kemp, Bruce Campbell, Patrick Macnee

Synopsis: In the sequel to Waxwork, young Mark Loftmore (Zach Galligan) and his girlfriend Sarah (Monika Schnarre) manage to escape the deadly wax museum before it is destroyed. However, one deadly wax hand escapes destruction and follows Sarah home, murdering her stepfather before she manages to destroy Read More

White Light

Actors: Martin Kove, Martha Henry, Heidi von Palleske, James Purcell, Bruce Boa

Synopsis: When police officer Sean Craig (Martin Kove) is shot while on the job, he is pronounced dead, but remarkably comes back to life. When he is haunted by the strange dream he experienced while he was clinically dead, he sets out to find the mysterious woman who appears in the visions. With the help Read More

Graveyard Story

Actors: John Ireland, Adrian Paul

Synopsis: The death of a child exposes a mystery as a lonely doctor investigates the death in this drama. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Christine Cromwell: In Vino Veritas

Synopsis: In this episode of the series, Cromwell proves that the owner of a California winery did not murder his brother who also owned the company and with whom he was always feuding. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Sundown

Actors: David Carradine, Jim Metzler, Morgan Brittany, Maxwell Caulfield, M. Emmet Walsh, Bruce Campbell

Synopsis: Director Anthony Hickox (Waxwork) crafted this entertaining bit of horror-western fusion about the vampiric residents of a remote, dusty desert town who have chosen to derive their sustenance from a plasma-manufacturing plant in an attempt to put aside their monstrous nature and peacefully Read More

Messenger of Death

Actors: Charles Bronson, Trish VanDevere, Laurence Luckinbill, Daniel Benzali, Marilyn Hassett

Synopsis: Even though Charles Bronson doesn't carry a gun in this feature, there are still plenty of the fights, car chases, and explosions -- all hallmarks of Bronson's action films. Bronson plays Denver Tribune crime reporter Garrett Smith, who investigates the murder mystery of a Mormon family. Smith Read More

Bonanza: The Next Generation

Synopsis: Bonanza: The Movie originally went out as Bonanza: The Next Generation. That title accurately reflected the film's content: death and previous commitments prevented the cast of the original Bonanza TV series of 1959-1973, thus the talent roster of The Next Generation was brand-new. John Ireland Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake

Actors: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, David Hasselhoff, William Katt

Synopsis: Raymond Burr, as ever, stars in this TV-movie continuation of the Perry Mason saga. Once more pulled out of semi-retirement, Perry takes on the case of a wealthy man (David Hasselhoff) accused of murdering his heiress wife. Of course, this has nothing to do with the Klaus von Bulow affair. As was Read More

Terror Night

Synopsis: The final directorial effort from the late filmmaker Andre De Toth, Terror Night is a schlocky horror flick featuring such B-list performers as Alan Hale Jr. of Gilligan's Island and Dan Haggerty of Grizzly Adams. Set in a creepy mansion, the film follows a cast of characters as each one enters Read More

Thunder Run

Actors: Forrest Tucker, John Ireland, Jill Whitlow, Wally Ward

Synopsis: In this Road Warrior clone, an aging trucker spends his retirement mining an old cobalt mine with the assistance of his devoted grandson. A good friend lures the trucker out of retirement by offering him a quarter of a million dollars to drive some plutonium from Nevada to a high-security Read More

Flying from the Hawk

Synopsis: In this film, the friends and families of a small boy begin to disappear after he is witness to a strange event. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Miami Golem

Synopsis: The bacteria experiments of an American scientist are stolen by criminals who are intent on exploiting the discoveries for their own good. The Italian film has been dubbed into English. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Martin's Day

Actors: Richard Harris, Lindsay Wagner, James Coburn, Justin Henry, Karen Black

Synopsis: This is a tepid film aimed at youngsters and focusing on the warped Martin Steckert (Richard Harris), an escaped convict, and little Martin (Justin Henry), the boy he takes hostage. Steckert uses a ruse to escape from prison when his parole is denied, and once safely on the outside, he kidnaps Read More

Greed

Synopsis: Greed was originally released as Treasure of the Amazon, the literal translation of its Spanish-language title. Ostensibly based on a true story, the film stars Stuart Whitman as Gringo, an aging but still virile soldier of fortune. Right now, Gringo is foraging deep into headhunter country in Read More

The Treasure of the Amazon

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Emilio Fernández, Donald Pleasence, Bradford Dillman, John Ireland

Synopsis: An action adventure about a group of fortune hunters who search for gold and jewels in the jungles of South America. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Ransom

Synopsis: A killer dresses as an Indian and, with bow and arrow, starts de-populating the citizenry of an Arizona town in an outright ransom attempt (he's demanding $4 million). The town rich guy finds a hired gun to eliminate the assassin. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Diary of a Rebel

Synopsis: The titular rebel is Cuban political insurgent Che Guevara, whose life previously given less than stellar treatment in 1969's Che. This time, the "diary" serves as an expository gimmick, tracing Che's life, his involvement with the Castro rebellion, and death in Bolivia with an even mixture of Read More

Seasons in the Sun

Actors: Terry Jacks

The Incubus

Actors: John Cassavetes, Kerrie Keane, Helen Hughes, Erin Flannery, Duncan McIntosh

Synopsis: A series of brutal rapes and murders have begun occurring in a small town. Teenager, Tim (Duncan McIntosh), has had horrible dreams and fears he is the murderer, especially since many of his friends have been victims. The town doctor, Sam Cordell (John Cassavetes), and the sheriff, Hank (John Read More

Quincy, M.E.: To Kill in Plain Sight

Synopsis: The authorities are placed on high alert when Lane Garrison (Blake Marison), advance man for a notorious assassin, is accidentally killed in an explosion a few days before a major political convention in Los Angeles. Among those monitoring the situation is medical examiner Quincy (Jack Klugman) Read More

Tales of the Klondike: Race for Number One

Synopsis: In this Gold Rush adventure, two men race their sleds and dogs across the frozen North in hopes of being the first to reach a parcel of land filled with gold. The tale is based on a Jack London story. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Magnum, P.I.: The Black Orchid

Synopsis: Magnum (Tom Selleck) is hired by wealthy Christine DeBolt (Kathryn Leigh Scott) to act out the "movie detective" fantasies of her surfeited sister Louise (Judith Chapman). At first, Magnum enjoys making like Bogart in a fabricated film-noir world, but the fun is nullified by the ever-looming Read More

Kavik the Wolf Dog

Synopsis: This made-for-TV adventure is an account of a sled dog's 2,000-mile trek through Alaska to find the boy he loves. Also known as Kavik and The Courage of Kavik, the Wolf Dog. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Tourist

Synopsis: In this drama, an American tourist visits some of the world's most glamorous capitals. The tale is based on a Gerald Green novel. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Marilyn: The Untold Story

Actors: Richard Basehart, Catherine Hicks

Synopsis: The title of this made-for-TV biopic is faintly risible: is there anything about Marilyn Monroe that we don't know by now? Pleasingly enough, the story is told in a straightforward, nonexploitive manner (the affair with JFK warrants no more than a throwaway line). Emmy-nominated Catherine Hicks Read More

Guyana, Cult of the Damned

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Gene Barry, John Ireland, Joseph Cotten, Bradford Dillman

Synopsis: "Names have been changed to protect the innocent" in this infamous fictionalization of the tragic mass suicide of 914 followers of Jim Jones' "People's Temple" in Guyana in the fall of 1978. Rev. James Johnson (Stuart Whitman) is a charismatic but deeply paranoid man of the cloth who moves his Read More

On the Air Live with Captain Midnight

Synopsis: In this low-budget adventure a teen-aged dweeb becomes a success when he starts up a subversive rolling radio station and plays music banned by the FCC. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Bordello

Synopsis: A houseful of prostitutes and a few cowboys have some fun in this made-for-TV spoof on westerns. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Crossbar

Actors: Brent Carver, Kim Cattrall, Kate Reid, John Ireland

Synopsis: Adapted from a true story, a pole-vaulter (Aaron Kornylo) attempts to overcome the lack of a leg during the Olympic trials. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Shape of Things to Come

Actors: Jack Palance, Carol Lynley, John Ireland, Barry Morse, Nicholas Campbell

Synopsis: This is a remake of a 1936 sci-fi, future dystopia tale by H.G. Wells, but the drama, as interpreted by director George McCowan and scripter Martin Lager is not altered to accommodate today's more demanding audiences. As a result, the story, characters, and dialogue are a little weak. After a Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Murder by S.O.P.

Synopsis: While being held in a small-town jail for a minor traffic infraction, Qiuincy (Jack Klugman barely escapes with his life when the jail catches fire--but four other prisoners aren't so lucky. Though Quincy's autopsy indicates that at least one of the four dead inmates was the victim of foul play Read More

Amen

Synopsis: When a man's family is killed, he sets out to bring the murderers to justice for their senseless crime. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Love and the Midnight Auto Supply

Actors: Michael Parks, Linda Cristal, Scott Jacoby, Bill Adler, Colleen Camp

Synopsis: An auto-theft ring decides to help out migrant workers from Mexico with the proceeds from their racket. The film is also known as Love and the Midnight Auto Supply. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Millionaire

Actors: Ralph Bellamy, Jane Wyatt

Synopsis: The original TV series The Millionaire ran from 1955 through 1960. Marvin Miller starred as Michael Anthony, general factotum to "the late, fabulously wealthy" John Beresford Tipton, whose hobby was to anonymously dole out million-dollar checks to people he'd never met. The 1978 TV-movie revival Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Winoka Warriors

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Among the students at the school for the blind where Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) works is Tom Carlin (Brad Wilkin), whose taciturn (and sighted) farmer father, Frank (John Ireland), has given Tom up as a total loss. Hoping to build Tom's self-confidence, Mary arranges for Tom to play with the Read More

Kino, the Padre on Horseback

Synopsis: A California mission priest encounters many trials in the Old West. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Swiss Conspiracy

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Zurich, Switzerland, The Swiss Conspiracy is concerned with a Swiss bank that discovers some of its clients are becoming the victim of a brilliant blackmailer. The bank's president (Ray Milland) contacts David Christopher (played by David Janssen), a former agent with the Read More

Taste of Death

Synopsis: After a group of bandits terrorize his town, a boy finds courage to confront them. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Satan's Cheerleaders

Synopsis: The cheerleaders of Benedict High are a rowdy, randy bunch with little regard for rules, decorum, or anything that gets in the way of a good time with the stud football players they date. The big game against Baker High is coming up, and the intense rivalry between the schools leads to spirited Read More

Tomorrow Never Comes

Actors: Oliver Reed, Susan George, Raymond Burr, John Ireland, Stephen McHattie

Synopsis: This police melodrama is set in a coastal resort where a young man becomes insanely jealous after learning that his girl has been with another. He takes her hostage in the town hotel and threatens to kill her. Now a hot-tempered police chief and his peace-loving lieutenant must somehow team-up to Read More

The Perfect Killer

Synopsis: A nearly burned-out Mafia assassin finds himself hunted after his own girl friend and his best pal pull a double cross. The film is also known as Satanic Mechanic. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Maniac

Actors: Stuart Whitman

Synopsis: A maniacal Vietnam veteran begins killing people in an Arizona town, and then holds the entire city ransom unless a millionaire (Stuart Whitman) delivers with the money. The 1977 film is also known as Ransom. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Mission to Glory: A True Story

Synopsis: This adventure is based upon the true life exploits of 17th-century missionary, Father Francisco "Kino" Kin who was instrumental in developing the Southwest and fought hard to keep the murderous conquistadors from slaughtering the Apaches. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Let Me Light the Way

Synopsis: There is a rapist on the loose in Los Angeles, and Quincy (Jack Klugman) is fairly certain of the man's identity. Unfortunately, some potentially damning evidence has been destroyed while the most recent victim was being treated at an E.R. Even so, Quincy turns up the heat on the most likely Read More

Delta Fox

Actors: Richard Lynch, Priscilla Barnes, Stuart Whitman, John Ireland, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: In this "B" grade film noir wannabe, the U.S. government releases David Fox (Richard Lynch) from prison on the condition that he help them trap a tax-shelter specialist working for the mob. Armed with $1,000,000 in hot money, Fox is chased all over Miami and back as he vacillates between Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Little Girl Lost

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) are outraged when their little sister, Carrie (played by twin actresses Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush), lets loose a collection of bugs that the girls have been gathering for a classroom project. But their anger gives way to terror when, while Read More

Noi Non Siamo Angeli

Farewell, My Lovely

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvia Miles, Jack O'Halloran

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1942 as The Falcon Takes Over and in 1944 as Murder, My Sweet, Raymond Chandler's Farewell My Lovely was given its third cinematic go-round under its original title in 1975. Spouting the Chandlerish prose as if it were second nature, Robert Mitchum stars as 1940s private eye Read More

Stacco

The Girl on the Late, Late Show

Actors: Van Johnson, Cameron Mitchell, John Ireland

Synopsis: Don Murray stars as slick network news producer William Martin in The Girl on the Late, Late Show. In addition to his administrative duties, Martin is a news reporter, and it is in this capacity that he investigates a series of Hollywood murders. The unifying link between the killings would seem Read More

The Phantom of Hollywood

Synopsis: In this thriller, an enigmatic phantom lives in the dank tunnels running beneath the ramshackle back lot of a former movie lot. When prospective buyers endeavor to purchase the property, the furious phantom goes on the rampage. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Welcome to Arrow Beach

Synopsis: The consumption of human flesh is the main course of this off-beat horror movie that centers on a war veteran who returns to California a cannibal. His sister likes peopleburgers too. The trouble begins when a gentle hippie chick encounters the hungry duo enthusiastically eating their latest meal. Read More

The House of Seven Corpses

Actors: John Carradine, Faith Domergue, John Ireland

Synopsis: A filmmaker and his crew get more than they bargained for in this low-budget haunted house film directed by Paul Harrison. Director Eric Hartman (John Ireland) chooses the old Beal mansion for the setting to his latest horror outing, taking little heed of the house's eerie past. As shooting Read More

Mission: Impossible: Kidnap

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, John Ireland

Synopsis: This departure from the usual Mission:Impossible formula is a neat twist on the series' first-season episode "The Ransom." It all begins when IMF agent Jim Phelps is kidnapped by Syndicate boss Andrew Metzger (John Ireland). If his fellow agents ever want to see Phelps again, they must break into Read More

Escape to the Sun

Actors: Josephine Chaplin

Synopsis: The ongoing plight of Russian Jewry serves as the backdrop for the Golan-Globus effort Escape to the Sun (Habricha el Hashemesh). Laurence Harvey is cast against type as Major Kirsanov, a nasty KGB officer who refuses to allow Soviet Jews Nina Kaplan (Josephine Chaplin, Charlie's daughter and Geraldine Read More

Northeast of Seoul

Synopsis: A trio of disparate thieves attempt to steal a precious Korean sword in this caper adventure. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Mad Butcher

Actors: Victor Buono

Synopsis: An ex-butcher (Victor Buono) escapes from an institution and wreaks havoc with a varied array of meat cutters. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

War Devils

Synopsis: In this WW II adventure, an American officer is captured by the Nazis in North Africa. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Adventurers

Actors: Bekim Fehmiu, Charles Aznavour, Alan Badel, Candice Bergen, Tommy Berggren

Synopsis: Based on Harold Robbins' bestseller, The Adventurers stars Yugoslav heartthrob Bekim Fehmiu as Porfirio Rubirosa clone Dax Xenos. Having suffered mightily as a child in a fictional South American country due to the political activities of his parents, Xenos grows up to become a sleazy, sexually Read More

Les Colts Brillent Au Soleil

Actors: Raymond Pellegrin, Mireille Granelli, John Ireland

Zenabel

Una Sull'altra

Synopsis: Filmed in English, this Italian mystery thriller/melodrama explores the murder of a doctor's wife. The doctor himself (Jean Morel) has long since taken up with a mistress. His wife begged out of engagements as an asthmatic, all the while actually entertaining herself with her part-time job as a Read More

The Power

Synopsis: Power originated as an episode of the weekly, 90-minute TV adventure series Name of the Game. Robert Stack, in his usual role of Crime magazine senior editor Dan Farrell, sets about to investigate corruption on the waterfront. Farrell finds himself in the middle of a power struggle between Read More

The Challenge of the McKennas

Actors: John Ireland

Synopsis: Hollywood's John Ireland tops the cast of the Italian spaghetti western The Challenge of the McKennas. The hero is a former priest, who feels he has lost the calling. Enmeshed in a range war, the priest sees the light again and tries to quell the hostilities. Most of the deadly sins are trotted Read More

Run, Man, Run!

Actors: Tomas Milian

Synopsis: A skillful thief with a penchant for knives attempts to outwit a slew of bloodthirsty treasure hunters in this brutal Italian Western from director Sergio Sollima. The gold they seek may be enough to finance the Mexican Revolution -- depending on who gets to it first and what they intend to do Read More

Tutto Per Tutto

Synopsis: This is a standard Spaghetti Western, an Italian-Spanish co-production about a bounty hunter (John Ireland) hired to find outlaw Mark Damon (who, of course, is really a good guy at heart). There's hidden treasure, a cast full of genre veterans (including Armando Calvo, Monica Randall, and Eduardo Read More

Caxambu

Synopsis: We pity the poor historian who has to catalog all the films of ubiquitous leading man John Ireland. Just when such a list seems to be complete, along comes an obscurity like Caxambu. Lensed on location in the Amazon, the film casts Ireland as a member of a diamond hijacking gang. Once they've Read More

Quel caldo maledetto giorno di fuoco

Actors: Robert Woods, John Ireland, Evelyn Stewart

Synopsis: A condemned cowboy races to clear his name and become a hero to the Union by rescuing the creator of the rapid-firing Gatling Gun from the greedy kidnapper who's holding him for ransom. Disgraced after being convicted of participating in the so-called "Gatling Affair," Captain Chris Tanner (Robert Read More

Una Pistola Per Cento Bare

Actors: Eduardo Fajardo, Peter Lee Lawrence, Piero Lulli, John Ireland

Synopsis: Cult filmmaker Umberto Lenzi directed this peculiar, horror-tinged spaghetti western starring Peter Lee Lawrence as The Kid, who is imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. Upon his release, The Kid must attempt to clear his name but is betrayed at every turn by Garff (John Ireland), his former Read More

T'ammazzo!... Raccomandati a Dio

Synopsis: Hollywood's John Ireland made an appearance in this typical "Spaghetti" Western about a military officer, a huckster, and a mysterious femme fatale who team up once again to search for the loot from an old bank heist. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide Read More

Bloody Che Contra

Synopsis: A Bolivian rebel-force leader attempts to survive in the mountains as he must escape from governmental military troops. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

El Sabor Del Odio

Synopsis: When a band of outlaws terrorizing a small Texas town kill the sheriff, a fast-drawing preacher and a vengeful stranger set out to rid the town of the bandits. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Villa Rides

Actors: Yul Brynner, Robert Mitchum, Maria Grazia Buccella, Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Robert Viharo

Synopsis: Yul Brynner stars as the legendary Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa in this 1968 epic that was originally written by Sam Peckinpah, who hoped to direct it. But studio bosses instead hired Buzz Kulik and cut the script. Villa is commanded by General Huerta (Herbert Lom) and assisted by the Read More

Dalle Ardenne All'Inferno

Actors: Faida Nicols

Synopsis: Set near the end of World War II in the Netherlands, Dirty Heroes concerns a group of ex-convicts recruited into the U.S. Army to recover Dutch jewels originally stolen by the Nazis as well as confiscated Allied plans. Ennio Morricone contributed the score music. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Vendetta Per Vendetta

Hate for Hate

Actors: Antonio Sabato, Fernando Sancho

Synopsis: In this spaghetti western, a bank robber becomes friends with the enigmatic Sabato by giving him back the money that he had just put into the bank. Trouble ensues when the robber discovers his murdered wife. He immediately suspects that Sabato did it, and rides off to get revenge. Sabato is Read More

Bonanza: Judgement at Red Creek

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, John Ireland, Harry Carey, Jr.

Synopsis: Joe Cartwright joins a posse led by Sheriff Rimbau (John Ireland) to capture two robbery/murder suspects. For Rimbau, it is personal: His own brother Jack (James B. Sikking) was killed by the outlaws. Before long, Joe realizes that Rimbau intends to be judge, jury and executioner, thoroughly 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

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

C'mon, Let's Live a Little

Actors: Bobby Vee, Jackie De Shannon, Eddie Hodges, Suzie Kaye, Patsy Kelly

Synopsis: This drama centers on life in a small college. The hero is a folk singer from the backwoods. Because he saved the dean's daughter from a car accident, he received a scholarship. The school rebel uses the folk singer to entice students into attending his rally on free speech. The folk singer Read More

Branded: Cowards Die Many Times

Synopsis: Lola Albright returns in the role of crusading frontier newspaperwoman Ann Williams. Once again, Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) comes to Ann's aid in her efforts to break an important news story. This makes Jason a very busy man: He has already hired on as surveyor for a railroad, thus also making Read More

I Saw What You Did

Actors: Joan Crawford, John Ireland, Leif Erickson, Sarah Lane, Andi Garrett

Synopsis: With true William Castle-style flamboyance the advertisements for I Saw What You Did intrigued non-etymologically inclined audiences by warning them that this suspenseful thriller was about uxoricide. He then had some of the theaters where the film was shown equipped with seat belts so frightened Read More

Branded: Leap Upon Mountains...

Synopsis: Film favorite Joan Leslie appears in this episode as Mrs. Cooper, a Quaker widow who hires Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) as a ranch hand. It soon develops that Jason will also have to act as Mrs. Cooper's bodyguard, thanks to vengeful one-armed rancher Renger (John Ireland). Embittered over the Read More

Day of the Nightmare

Synopsis: The wife of a commercial artist risks her life to discover the truth about her husband after he is accused of killing a woman. She believes that he could have committed the crime and sets out to prove it after the police are unable to locate a corpus delicti. First she visits her husband's father Read More

The Fall of the Roman Empire

Actors: Alec Guinness, Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, James Mason, Christopher Plummer

Synopsis: Though Fall of the Roman Empire is now infamous as the epic which destroyed the cinematic "empire" of producer Samuel Bronston, the film is actually an above-average historical drama, attempting to make sense of the political intrigues which resulted in the dissolution of the Glory That Was Rome. Read More

55 Days at Peking

Actors: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson, John Ireland

Synopsis: Samuel Bronston produced this extravagant blockbuster, shot in Super Technirama 70. Nominally directed by Nicholas Ray (who makes a brief appearance as the U.S. ambassador), Ray was taken off the film and replaced by the more pliable directorial touches of Andrew Marton. Charlton Heston stars as Read More

The Ceremony

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Sarah Miles, Robert Walker, Jr., John Ireland, Ross Martin

Synopsis: Actor Lawrence Harvey made his debut as a writer and director with this downbeat drama. Sean McKenna (Harvey) is awaiting execution in a prison in Tangiers after being convicted of murder. McKenna was trying to prevent the crime in question but was instead made the scapegoat. With his life hanging Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Matched Pearl

Synopsis: Jeweler DuBois (Emile Genest) short-changes Captain McCabe (John Ireland) by selling a 5,000-dollar black pearl for a huge profit, returning a pittance to McCabe and pocketing the rest. Then Hubert Wilkens (Ernest Truex), the man who bought the pearl, demands to buy its match. Now DuBois must deal Read More

Return of a Stranger

Synopsis: In this spooky thriller, a young couple is harassed by a vengeful mental patient who has recently been released from the hospital. The psychopathic fellow is out for revenge against the woman whom he attacked years before when she was a school girl. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Brushfire

Actors: John Ireland, Everett Sloane, Jo Morrow, Al Avalon, Carl Esmond

Synopsis: Presaging the upcoming Vietnam War without knowing it, this routine drama directed by Jack Warner, Jr. (his only directorial effort) is set in Vietnam where the recent battles with the French have concluded and two soldiers have remained in the country to set up their own plantation. Their lives Read More

No Time to Kill

Synopsis: A vengeful ex-con, framed and sentenced to eight years on for arson, heads to Sweden to look for the real guilty party. This Swedish drama his search. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Wild in the Country

Actors: Elvis Presley, Hope Lange, Tuesday Weld, Millie Perkins, Rafer Johnson, John Ireland

Synopsis: Rock 'n roll king Elvis Presley stars as Glenn Talbot, a country boy with a problem temper and a yen for literary greatness in this typical Presley vehicle directed by Philip Dunne. After Glenn is sent packing by his father for mixing it up one too many times with his brother, the court makes him Read More

Faces in the Dark

Actors: John Gregson, Mai Zetterling, John Ireland, Tony Wright

Synopsis: Although there may be a few minor gaps here and there in the storyline, Faces in the Dark is a suspenseful drama by director David Eady. Richard Hammond (John Gregson) owns a factory, and on the very day his wife Christine (Mai Zetterling ) is coming to his office to tell him she wants a divorce Read More

Spartacus

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov

Synopsis: Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) is a rebellious slave purchased by Lentulus Batiatus (Peter Ustinov), owner of a school for gladiators. For the entertainment of corrupt Roman senator Marcus Licinius Crassus (Laurence Olivier), Batiatus' gladiators are to stage a fight to the death. On the night before Read More

No Place to Land

Synopsis: This romantic melodrama centers on a love triangle shaped by the restless, dissatisfied girl friend of a crop-duster who refuses to marry her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Party Girl

Actors: Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb, John Ireland, Kent Smith

Synopsis: Vicki Gaye (Cyd Charisse) is a dancer at a night club in early 1930's Chicago. A healthy cynic who still possesses some ideals, she entertains no illusions about the "invitation" (or the $100 that goes with it) that she gets to a party hosted by mob kingpin Rico Angelo (Lee J. Cobb) -- but she 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

The Gunslinger

Actors: John Ireland, Beverly Garland, Allison Hayes, Martin Kingsley, Jonathan Haze

Synopsis: Produced by Roger Corman, Gunslinger stars Corman's then-sweetheart Beverly Garland as tough lady-marshal Rose Hood. Dance-hall girl Erica Page (Allison Hayes), Rose's bitterest enemy, hires gunslinger Cane Miro (John Ireland) to bump off the marshal. When he falls in love with Rose, Cane is faced Read More

Black Tide

Actors: John Ireland, Derek Bond, Leslie Dwyer, Maureen Connell, Sheldon Lawrence

Synopsis: After a brief fling at Hollywood stardom, John Ireland set up camp in England and Europe. It was in England that Ireland was top-billed in Black Tide, aka Stormy Crossing. The bulk of the film's storyline is carried by villain Derek Bond. After murdering his lover, cross-channel swimmer Joy Webster Read More

Queen Bee

Actors: Joan Crawford, Barry Sullivan, Betsy Palmer, John Ireland, Lucy Marlow

Synopsis: Queen Bee offers a stinging portrait of a mad, manipulative woman and chronicles her downfall and that of those around her in this dark drama. On first meeting, Eva Phillips (portrayed with delicious viciousness by Joan Crawford) is the epitome of Southern graciousness and charm. She and her Read More

The Glass Tomb

Synopsis: A carnival freak show provides the setting for this murder mystery. The trouble begins when the "Starving Man" the world's longest survivor of a fast is found dead inside his glass cage. It is later learned that he was killed because he had witnessed the murder of an extortionist. ~ Sandra Read More

Hell's Horizon

Actors: John Ireland, Marla English, Bill Williams, Hugh Beaumont, Larry Pennell

Synopsis: Set in 1952, at a point when the United States was bogged down in the "police action," Hell's Horizon focuses on one crew of a B-29, given the unenviable assignment of knocking out a bridge vital to the enemy over the Yalu River. To do this, and avoid violating Chinese airspace, they must make Read More

The Good Die Young

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Gloria Grahame, Richard Basehart, Joan Collins, John Ireland

Synopsis: The Good Die Young is a psychological crime yarn, exploring the motivations of four participants in an armed robbery. American ex-GI Joe (Richard Basehart) hopes to use his share of the haul to bring his British wife to the US. Professional boxer Mike (Stanley Baker) finds himself unable to work Read More

Security Risk

Actors: John Ireland, Dorothy Malone, Keith Larsen, Dolores Donlon, John Craven

Synopsis: In this espionage drama, an FBI agent heads to California's Big Bear resort for R&R and ends up stopping the evil communists from carrying through with their plot to steal important documents from a recently murdered nuclear physicist. The scientist was killed by his own assistant. Later, the FBI Read More

Southwest Passage

Actors: Joanne Dru, Rod Cameron, John Ireland, John Dehner

Synopsis: In this western, a forward thinking hero joins in on the promotion of camels as the perfect desert pack animals. He embarks upon a journey with a group of others. Among them is a fugitive bankrobber and his girl friend who are trying to outfox a posse. One of the hero's men recognizes the Read More

The Fast and the Furious

Crew: Director

Actors: John Ireland, Dorothy Malone, Bruce Carlisle, Marshall Bradford, Jean Howell

Synopsis: Frank Webster (John Ireland) is a man on the run. Newly broken out of prison, the former truck driver and convicted murderer takes Connie Adair (Dorothy Malone) hostage at a lonely roadside diner and commandeers her car, a racing job than she intended to drive in a rally. At first Connie is as Read More

The Steel Cage

Actors: Paul Kelly, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Ireland, Lawrence Tierney, Arthur Franz

Synopsis: Like its predecessor Duffy of San Quentin, The Steel Cage is made up of episodes from a never-telecast TV series based on the career of progressive prison warden Clinton T. Duffy. Paul Kelly plays Duffy, while his wife is portrayed by Maureen O'Sullivan. Divided into three separate playlets, the Read More

Combat Squad

Actors: John Ireland, Lon McCallister, Hal March, George E. Stone, Norman Leavitt

Synopsis: Jack Broder Productions sidestepped its usual distributor United Artists to release Combat Squad through Columbia. Set in Korea, the film focuses on the strained relationship between WW II veteran Sgt. Fletcher (John Ireland) and inexperienced, terrified Private Martin (Lon McAllister). Only after Read More

The 49th Man

Actors: John Ireland, Richard Denning, Suzanne Dalbert, Robert Foulk

Synopsis: U.S. security agent John Ireland suspects that someone is smuggling atomic devices into America. When he makes his report, Ireland is assured by his superiors that nothing untoward is going on. In fact, the higher-ups have had the wool pulled over their eyes by a clever Communist saboteur, who is Read More

Outlaw Territory

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: MacDonald Carey, Joanne Dru, John Ireland, Don Haggerty, Peter Ireland

Synopsis: Another entry in the 3D sweepstakes, Hannah Lee is all but forgotten today. That's too bad, because the film at least has historical interest, representing one of the few forays into directing by actor John Ireland, who co-stars in the film with his then-wife Joanne Dru. MacDonald Carey heads the 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

The Bushwackers

Actors: John Ireland, Wayne Morris, Lawrence Tierney, Dorothy Malone, Lon Chaney, Jr.

Synopsis: Also known as The Rebel, The Bushwackers was coscripted by director Rodney Amateau and actor Tom Gries (later the director of such big-budgeters as Will Penny). Tired of senseless bloodshed, civil war veteran John Ireland vows never to use a gun again. This proves difficult when Ireland runs afoul Read More

Little Big Horn

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, John Ireland, Marie Windsor, Reed Hadley, Jim Davis

Synopsis: Ninety per cent of Little Big Horn takes place before Custer's Last Stand; thus, the emphasis is on character and suspense rather than spectacle (just as well, since spectacle was well out of the range of parsimonious Lippert Studios). Lloyd Bridges heads a small band of cavalrymen who desperately Read More

The Basketball Fix

Actors: John Ireland, Marshall Thompson, Vanessa Brown, William Bishop, Hazel Brooks

Synopsis: The title tells all in Realart's Basketball Fix. Talented young basketball star Johnny Long (Marshall Thompson) allows success to go to his head. To keep on living in the manner to which he is accustomed, Johnny agrees to shave a few points here and there at the behest of gambling boss Mike Taft (William Bishop Read More

Red Mountain

Actors: Alan Ladd, Lizabeth Scott, Arthur Kennedy, John Ireland, Jeff Corey

Synopsis: The rugged Colorado Territory provides the setting for this epic Civil War-era western chronicle of a Southern rebel who sets off to join Captain Quantrill's raiders. Along the way, the rebel kills a Union supporter who had stolen the rebel's land. Unfortunately, he leaves a different Confederate Read More

Vengeance Valley

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Robert Walker, Joanne Dru, Sally Forrest, John Ireland

Synopsis: The old "Cain and Abel" plot device is redefined within Western terms in MGM's Vengeance Valley. Burt Lancaster stars as ranch-hand Owen Daybright, who has been raised as a son by rancher Arch Stroble (Ray Collins). Stroble's natural son Lee (Robert Walker) has always been envious of Owen, who in Read More

The Scarf

Actors: John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge, Emlyn Williams, James Barton, Lloyd Gough

Synopsis: Mercedes McCambridge plays a singing waitress named Cash-and-Carry Connie in The Scarf. This alone should be enough to keep the viewer's interest, but in fact the film has much to please the eye and ear. John Ireland stars as John Barrington, an escapee from a institution for the criminally Read More

The Return of Jesse James

Actors: John Ireland, Ann Dvorak, Henry Hull, Hugh O'Brian, Reed Hadley

Synopsis: Return of Jesse James is an excellent example of how to get full value for money from an attenuated budget. John Ireland plays Johnny, a bank robber who closely resembles the late Jesse James. As Johnny's crime spree spreads, so do rumors that Jesse is still alive. This forces Jesse's brother Read More

Cargo to Capetown

Actors: Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Ellen Drew, Edgar Buchanan, Ted de Corsia

Synopsis: Oscar or no Oscar, Broderick Crawford was obliged to star in whatever property his home studio Columbia threw his way. In Cargo to Capetown, Crawford plays Johnny Phelan, first mate on a rundown oil tanker captained by his pal Steve Conway (John Ireland). Johnny is willing to look the other way Read More

Mr. Soft Touch

Actors: Glenn Ford, Evelyn Keyes, John Ireland, Beulah Bondi, Percy Kilbride

Synopsis: Returning from WW II, gambler Joe Miracle (Glenn Ford) discovers that his partner is dead, his gaming house has been sold, and his fortune has been claimed by others. Forced to steal back money which is rightfully his, Joe takes refuge in a settlement house run by social worker Jenny Jones (Evelyn Keyes Read More

The Undercover Man

Actors: Glenn Ford, Nina Foch, James Whitmore, Barry Kelley, David Wolfe

Synopsis: Eliot Ness may have gotten lots of publicity (especially long after the fact) for breaking the Capone mob, but as Joseph H. Lewis' The Undercover Man reminds us, it was the accountants and the numbers-crunchers that brought down Capone and his mob. Frank Warren (Glenn Ford) started out as an Read More

The Doolins of Oklahoma

Actors: Randolph Scott, George Macready, Louise Allbritton, John Ireland, Virginia Huston

Synopsis: Randolph Scott both co-produced and starred in this above average Western chronicling the career of one of the last of the legendary Western outlaws. When the Dalton gang is ambushed by U.S. Marshals, Bill Doolin (Scott), the last surviving member, forms his own group of bank robbers that includes Read More

Roughshod

Actors: Robert Sterling, Gloria Grahame, Claude Jarman, Jr., John Ireland, Jeff Donnell

Synopsis: Hovering somewhere between an "A" and "B" production, RKO's Roughshod is an expert blend of western and film noir. Robert Sterling and Claude Jarman Jr. star as young cattleman Clay Phillips and his kid brother Steve. Stalked across the Sonora Pass by an ex-con who has vowed to kill Clay, the Read More

All the King's Men

Actors: Broderick Crawford, John Derek, Joanne Dru, John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge

Synopsis: Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men is a roman à clef inspired by the career of Louisiana governor Huey Long. Broderick Crawford won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Willie Stark, a backwoods Southern lawyer who wins the hearts of his Read More

The Walking Hills

Actors: Randolph Scott, Ella Raines, Arthur Kennedy, John Ireland, William Bishop, Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis: The Walking Hills stars Randolph Scott as a Westerner named Jim Carey. He is one of several people searching for a lost gold mine. Carey's cohorts in this treasure hunt include at least one convicted murderer and several potential killers, so it's a source of wonder who'll survive till fade-out Read More

I Shot Jesse James

Actors: Preston S. Foster, Barbara Britton, John Ireland, Reed Hadley, J. Edward Bromberg

Synopsis: This dark, gloomy Western chronicles the shame and self-destruction of Bob Ford, the real-life James Gang member that murdered Jesse James for the reward money. In this fictionalized account, James (Reed Hadley) tends to Ford (John Ireland) after he is wounded during a heist. When Ford's longtime Read More

Anna Lucasta

Actors: Paulette Goddard, William Bishop, Oscar Homolka, John Ireland, Broderick Crawford

Synopsis: Philip Yordan's stage hit Anna Lucasta posed two problems to Hollywood in 1949. For one thing, the story concerned a prostitute who is exploited by her greedy family. For another, the characters were black, thereby cutting the box-office potential in half in those racially divisive times. In Read More

A Southern Yankee

Actors: Red Skelton, Brian Donlevy, Arlene Dahl, George Coulouris, Lloyd Gough

Synopsis: Hot on the heels of Columbia's The Fuller Brush Man, MGM released another Red Skelton gagfest, A Southern Yankee. Set during the Civil War, the film casts Skelton as bumbling bellboy Aubrey Filmore. Yearning to help the Northern cause by becoming an undercover spy, Aubrey succeeds beyond his Read More

Joan of Arc

Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Selena Royle, José Ferrer, Ward Bond, Robert H. Barrat, Francis L. Sullivan, Jimmy Lydon, Cecil Kellaway, Rand Brooks

Synopsis: Director Victor Fleming's final film features Ingrid Bergman as a vivid and luminous Joan of Arc, the 15th-century French peasant girl who led the French in battle against the invading English, becoming a national hero. When she was captured, tortured, and ultimately executed by the English, she Read More

Raw Deal

Actors: Dennis O'Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt, John Ireland, Raymond Burr

Synopsis: Violent and viscerally sexual, Anthony Mann's muscular low-budget noir tells the tale of a framed gangster's quest for vengeance after he busts out of prison. Once freed, gangster Joe Sullivan Dennis O'Keefe) and his girl friend Pat (Claier Trevor) set off to find the mobster who set him up. The Read More

Open Secret

Actors: John Ireland, Jane Randolph, Roman Bohnen, Sheldon Leonard, George Tyne

Synopsis: Photographer Paul Lester (John Ireland) and his wife, Nancy (Jane Randolph), are invited to share an apartment with Paul's ex-army buddy Ed Stevens. They arrive to find Stevens gone, and a mysterious phone call gets Paul to the other end of town. While he's away, Nancy is assaulted by a would-be Read More

Red River

Actors: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan, Coleen Gray

Synopsis: John Wayne -- showing off a darker side to his screen persona than we'd previously seen -- portrays Thomas Dunson, a frontiersman who, with his longtime partner Nadine Groot (Walter Brennan), leaves abandons a westbound wagon train in 1851 to make his future as a rancher in Texas. Doing so forces Read More

Railroaded

Actors: John Ireland, Sheila Ryan, Hugh Beaumont, Jane Randolph, Ed Kelly

Synopsis: One of director Anthony Mann's earlier films, Railroaded features John Ireland as Duke Martin, a seedy criminal looking to skim off of his boss' money. Instead of making the extra cash by his usual means--a small gambling operation run by beautician Clara Cahhoun (Jane Randolph)--Duke (Ireland) Read More

Repeat Performance

Actors: Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Richard Basehart, Virginia Field, Tom Conway

Synopsis: On New Year's Eve, Joan Leslie runs desperately out of a penthouse apartment and into the Times Square crowd. She has reason to flee--she has just shot and killed her husband. Through a freakish wrinkle in time, Leslie is transported back to the last New Year's and is allowed to relive the past Read More

I Love Trouble

Actors: Franchot Tone, Janet Blair, Janis Carter, Adele Jergens, Glenda Farrell

Synopsis: Private detective Franchot Tone is hired by a prominent politician (Tom Powers) to run a background check on the politician's wife (Lynn Merrick). Meanwhile, another client (Janet Blair) engages Tone to locate her missing sister-in-law. The two assignments merge into one before long, and Tone is Read More

The Gangster

Actors: Barry Sullivan, Belita, Joan Lorring, Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis: Having struck gold with the previous season's Dillinger, the King Brothers returned to Monogram as producers of The Gangster. Adapted by Daniel Fuchs from his own novel Low Company, the film stars Barry Sullivan as flint-faced racketeer Shubunka. Shown to be a product of the slums, Shubunka spends Read More

Wake up and Dream

Actors: John Payne, June Haver, John Ireland, Connie Marshall, Clem Bevans, Charlotte Greenwood

Synopsis: In this adventure, a young woman travels across Europe in search of her brother who was listed as missing in action during WW II. He had earlier told her that should he ever disappear, he could be found on a certain tiny island. She and her brother's girl friend head off and meet a strange old Read More

Behind Green Lights

Actors: Carole Landis, William Gargan, Richard Crane, Mary Anderson, John Ireland

Synopsis: In this police drama, a busy precinct is thrown into chaos when the murdered corpse of a local detective is found in an abandoned car. Now the press is demanding to learn details. Meanwhile, an ambitious officer finds himself sorely tempted to use dishonest means to advance his political career. Read More

My Darling Clementine

Actors: Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Jane Darwell, Walter Brennan, Cathy Downs, Ward Bond

Synopsis: One of the greatest movie Westerns, John Ford's My Darling Clementine is hardly the most accurate film version of the Wyatt Earp legend, but it is still one of the most entertaining. Henry Fonda stars as former lawman Wyatt Earp, who, after cleaning up Dodge City, arrives in the outskirts of Read More

Somewhere in the Night

Actors: Charles Arnt, Richard Benedict, Whit Bissell, Richard Conte, Clancy Cooper

Synopsis: George Taylor (John Hodiak) is a war veteran suffering from amnesia with only two clues to his past: the bitter letter from a woman who hates him and another mysterious letter signed "Larry Cravat." Taylor goes to Los Angeles to meet Cravat. It turns out that Cravat is wanted for murder and the Read More

A Walk in the Sun

Actors: Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, John Ireland, Norman Lloyd, George Tyne, Lloyd Bridges, Sterling Holloway

Synopsis: Harry Brown's honest, unsentimental WW2 novel A Walk in the Sun has been effectively adapted for the screen by Robert Rossen. Dana Andrews stars as Sgt. Tyne, a platoon squad leader in Italy who ends up assuming command of his platoon after a series of deaths. As they prepare to attack an isolated Read More

It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog

Actors: Carole Landis, Allyn Joslyn, Margo Woode, Henry Morgan, Jean Wallace, Reed Hadley

Synopsis: This 20th Century-Fox cheapie stars Carole Landis as a pretty detective and Allyn Joslyn as a fast-talking reporter ever on the verge of losing his job. Landis is entrusted with a large, troublesome Doberman pinscher named Rodney, who is docile only around her. After numerous Disney-like Read More