Leif EricksonFilmography

Through the Looking Glass

Synopsis: Another adaption of Lewis Carroll's classic Alice in Wonderland, this animated feature places the young girl in a contemporary setting and features the voices of Phyllis Diller, Jonathon Winters, Mr. T and Leif Erickson. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

WWF: Wrestlemania I

Synopsis: This collection of Wrestlemania matches feature some of the biggest and meanest from the WWF. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

D.C. Cab

Actors: Adam Baldwin, Charlie Barnett, Irene Cara, Anne de Salvo, Max Gail

Synopsis: In this casual, uninvolved comedy running on a low-octane script, a scruffy taxi company is about to be wiped out when its owner Harold (Max Gail) exhorts his cabbies to do what they can to help save the company -- and what they can do turns out to be a surprise to everyone concerned. Saving the Read More

The World's Greatest Photography Course

Rocky III

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Carl Weathers, Mr. T, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: Sylvester Stallone returns to the character which made him famous in this wildly successful sequel. Rocky III starts with the Italian Stallion so famous that his likeness is everywhere, including pinball machines. Fame and complacency soon cause Balboa to lose his title to young thug Clubber Lang (Mr. T Read More

Penitentiary 2

Actors: Leon Isaac Kennedy, Ernie Hudson, Mr. T, Glynn E. Turman, Peggy Blow

Synopsis: A former prison inmate finds he can't leave his violent past behind in this sequel to the cult favorite Penitentiary. After earning his parole by winning the prison boxing tournament, Martel "Too Sweet" Gordone is tired of fighting and wants to move on to a more peaceful life, but as a condition Read More

Wild Times

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV western, sudden pulp-novel fame drives gunslinger High Cardiff (Sam Elliott) to make good use of his new-found notoriety ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Hunter's Moon

Synopsis: When a sheepman's son vows revenge on the killers of his father and 2 brothers, a ghostlike aura begins to surround him. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Rockford Files: Paradise Cove

Synopsis: Season Six of The Rockford Files begins as Jim Rockford (James Garner) faces permanent expulsion from the community of Paradise Cove as the result of a damage suit instigated by vindictive neighbor C.C. Calloway (Leif Erickson). Court-appointed receiver Althea Morgan (Mariette Hartley) shows up at Read More

Lost in Time

Synopsis: The Bermuda Triangle claims more victims when an archaeological expedition disappears and rewakens on an island complete with the past, present and future. (AKA Fantastic Journey) ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Twilight's Last Gleaming

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning, Melvyn Douglas, Paul Winfield

Synopsis: Soured on America by his experiences as a POW in Vietnam, General Lawrence Dell (Burt Lancaster) hopes that his government will someday tell the truth about the Southeast Asian debacle, thereby allowing his country to embark upon a healing process. Regarded as a dangerous embarrassment by the Read More

The Fantastic Journey

Synopsis: This 90-minute pilot for the weekly TV series Fantastic Journey debuted February 3, 1977. A scientific expedition disappears in the Bermuda Triangle. Emerging from an eerie green mist, the crew finds themselves in the Strange New World, where past, present and future coexist. In subsequent Read More

Winterhawk

Actors: Leif Erickson, Woody Strode, Denver Pyle, L.Q. Jones, Michael Dante

Synopsis: This melodramatic adventure follows the exploits of a young Blackfoot Indian who goes to the Anglos for some badly needed smallpox serum. Instead of helping him, they attack. The young man is enraged and retaliates by kidnapping two young people from the unfriendly settlement. He takes them Read More

Abduction

Actors: Judith-Marie Bergan, David Pendleton, Gregory Rozakis, Leif Erickson, Dorothy Malone

Synopsis: If familiar with the Patty Hearst episode, the viewer will likely believe this is a spin-off because it has most of the elements: wealthy white upper-class gal abducted by terrorists and held for big stakes--this time the ransom is the demand that a wealthy-man's palace (a high-rise condominium) Read More

Force Five

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Force Five can be described as "The Dirty Dozen Minus Seven." All that's missing is the WW II backdrop and the murderous impulses of the protagonists. Lt. Roy Kessler (Gerald Gordon) heads a police undercover unit, consisting of former convicts with unique lawbreaking skills (one Read More

Ironside: Class of '40

Synopsis: It is hardly a fond reunion when Ironside (Raymond Burr) is summoned to his home town by a letter from his former high school classmate Alice Schmidt (Fay Spain). Upon his arrival, the Chief learns that Alice never wrote the letter--and that her husband John has been murdered. When another member Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: For the Love of God

Synopsis: Stone (Karl Malden)and Keller (Michael Douglas) spring into action when a priest is killed in his Confessional. It turns out that the victim had attended the same seminary as three other priests who were murdered in similar fashion. To root out the killer, Stone goes undercover, donning the collar Read More

The Daughters of Joshua Cabe

Synopsis: Joshua Cabe (Buddy Ebsen) is a trapper in the old west. He hopes to set up his own homestead, but new government laws won't allow him any land unless he has a family. Cabe's own daughters refuse to come west to live with their dad, so Joshua hires three "shady ladies" (Karen Valentine, Lesley Ann Warren Read More

The Family Rico

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Sal Mineo

Synopsis: Made for television, The Family Rico was adapted from the same Georges Simenon novel that served as the basis of the 1958 Columbia theatrical feature The Brothers Rico. Ben Gazzara plays a powerful mobster put in an embarrassing position by younger brother Sal Mineo. When Mineo refuses to carry Read More

The New Healers

Synopsis: The New Healers was a one-hour pilot film for the unsold series Med-Ex. The "crusty head physician" assignment was given to Leif Erickson, playing the supervisor of a small rural California hospital. Erickson's son, who'd done a tour of duty as a Vietnam medic (and thus is the "sensitive" Read More

Seek and Destroy

Synopsis: In this mystery, detective Dan Farrell runs into many dead ends as he doggedly endeavors to discover why an important scientist suddenly died. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Deadly Dream

Synopsis: Where do dreams end and reality begins? That's the question facing research scientist Lloyd Bridges in the made-for-TV Deadly Dream. Each night, Bridges suffers nightmares, in which he is on trial for his life before a mysterious tribunal. The whys and wherefores of Bridges' torment are revealed Read More

Terror in the Sky

Synopsis: In this airborne disaster movie, a passenger and a flight attendant are forced to fly a commercial jet when the passengers and crew are incapacitated by food poisoning. Later they are rescued by a courageous ex-combat helicopter pilot who helps them land the giant bird. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Man and Boy

Actors: Leif Erickson, Gloria Foster, George Spell, Bill Cosby

Synopsis: This western is notable for having Bill Cosby in a dramatic role in his first feature film. Caleb Rivers (Cosby) is a black Civil War Veteran who just wants to clear out his Arizona homestead and live in peace with his neighbors. Instead, he and his son (George Spell) have to track his stolen Read More

The New Lion of Sonora

Synopsis: This nostalgic video is comprised of two hour-long episodes from the television western series The High Chaparral. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The High Chaparral [TV Series]

Actors: Leif Erickson, Cameron Mitchell, Mark Slade

Branded: Barbed Wire

Synopsis: Leif Erickson and Rod Cameron guest star in this episode as two headstrong men on opposite sides of a bitter range war. Erickson plays Roy Beckwith, a cattleman who hires Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) to string barbed wire around his property. This puts Jason on a blacklist compiled by the local Read More

Mirage

Actors: Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau, Kevin McCarthy, Jack Weston

Synopsis: A dazed man, David Stillwell (Gregory Peck), wanders down the stairs of a New York skyscraper during a power blackout, only vaguely aware of who he is, where he's been, and why he has this nagging feeling that danger lurks all about him. Stillwell does know that many of the people in the building Read More

Bonanza: All Ye His Saints

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Leif Erickson, Clint Howard

Synopsis: Clint Howard is the center of attention on this Bonanza episode as impressionable young Michael Thorpe. When his father Evan (Simon Scott) is seriously wounded, Michael takes literally the words of Ponderosa ranchhand Lijah (Rodolfo Acosta), who mournfully declares that "Only God" can save Evan 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

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Monkey's Paw - A Retelling

Actors: Leif Erickson, Jane Wyatt, Collin Wilcox, Lee Majors, Zolya Talma

Synopsis: W.W. Jacobs' Grand Guignol classic The Monkey's Paw had previously been filmed as a theatrical feature in 1933 when this updated version was presented on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. While on vacation in the Bahamas, Paul and Anne White (Leif Erickson, Jane Wyatt) attend a party where the guests are Read More

Roustabout

Actors: Elvis Presley, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Freeman, Leif Erickson, Sue Ane Langdon

Synopsis: Charlie Rogers (Elvis Presley) is a coffeehouse singer who joins a financially troubled carnival in Roustabout. He is hired by owner Maggie Morgan (Barbara Stanwyck) and soon catches the eye of his pretty female co-worker Cathy Lean (Joan Freeman). Cathy's irate father Joe (Leif Erickson) clashes Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Consider Her Ways

Actors: Barbara Barrie, Gladys Cooper, Leif Erickson, Robert H. Harris, Ellen Corby

Synopsis: A woman named Helen (Barbara Barrie) awakens in a hospital run completely by women, with nary a man in sight. This is off-putting enough, but soon Helen discovers that there is a lot more amiss: seemingly overnight, she has grown hideously obese, and all the staffers fawningly refer to her as Read More

The Carpetbaggers

Actors: George Peppard, Alan Ladd, Martha Hyer, Elizabeth Ashley, Carroll Baker

Synopsis: Edward Dmytryk brings Harold Robbins' trashy, dirt-dishing Hollywood best-seller to the screen with George Peppard starring as Jonas Cord, a rancidly-sketched portrait of Howard Hughes. In 1925, when his father dies of a stroke, Jonas inherits the Cord Chemical factory, a manufacturer of dynamite Read More

Strait-Jacket

Actors: Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson, Howard St. John, John Anthony Hayes, Rochelle Hudson

Synopsis: In this chilling blood-tale in "Psycho" style, Robert Bloch modernizes the Lizzy Borden story. A wife (Joan Crawford) literally axes her cheating husband and his lover, witnessed by her three-year-old daughter. Mom is packed off to the insane asylum for 20 years before reuniting with the daughter (Diane Baker Read More

A Gathering of Eagles

Actors: Rock Hudson, Rod Taylor, Mary Peach, Barry Sullivan, Kevin McCarthy

Synopsis: A Gathering of Eagles stars Rock Hudson as a colonel in the peacetime Strategic Air Command. His devotion to his duty as a wing commander takes a toll on his men, his marriage, and his own well-being. It is to Hudson's credit that he was willing to put his image on the line with this essentially Read More

Shootout at Big Sag

Synopsis: In this western, originally designed as the pilot of a television show that never made it to air, a self-designated preacher desires to control the Big Sag territory of Montana. To do this, he must first force two newly arrived Texans off of their land. Meanwhile, the preacher's wife knows that he Read More

Bonanza: The Rescue

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Leif Erickson

Synopsis: Accusing Josh Tatum (Leif Erickson) of stealing cattle, Ben Cartwright gets into a fight with Tatum, and is seriously injured for his troubles. Ben's sons Joe, Adam and Hoss swear to avenge their father by taking care of Tatum themselves. Unfortunately, the well-intentioned Cartwright boys are not Read More

The Rifleman: The Sharpshooter

Synopsis: Created and written by Sam Peckinpah, the premiere episode of The Rifleman stars Chuck Connors and Johnny Crawford as Lucas and Mark McCain, father and 10-year-old son in search of settling down near North Fork, New Mexico. But when Lucas, a noted crack shot with a rifle, enters the local turkey Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Equalizer

Synopsis: Meek and mild Eldon Marsh (Martin Balsam) has never stood up for himself in his life. But when a bigger guy named Wayne Phillips (Leif Erickson) steals the affection of Eldon's wife Louise (Norma Crane), the time has come for the worm to turn. Realizing that he could never defeat Wayne with muscle Read More

Twilight for the Gods

Actors: Rock Hudson, Cyd Charisse, Arthur Kennedy, Leif Erickson, Charles McGraw

Synopsis: Adapted by Ernest Gann from his own novel, Twilight for the Gods bears traces of Gann's earlier The High and the Mighty. This "psychological adventure" stars Rock Hudson as Captain Bell, who crawls into a bottle after being court-martialed and discharged from the Navy. Reduced to skippering a Read More

Once Upon a Horse

Actors: Robert Livingston, Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, Martha Hyer, Leif Erickson, Nita Talbot, Tom Keene, Kermit Maynard, Bob Steele

Synopsis: Having gained a measure of TV fame by 1958, the nightclub comedy duo of Dan Rowan and Dick Martin decided to give movies a try with Once Upon a Horse. Dan and Dick play Dan Casey and Doc Logan, a pair of nitwitted cowboys who turn to outlawry because they can't make a go at any honest profession. Read More

Kiss Them for Me

Actors: Cary Grant, Suzy Parker, Jayne Mansfield, Leif Erickson, Ray Walston

Synopsis: Luther Davis' racy wartime comedy Kiss Them for Me was expurgated a bit for the 1957 film version. Cary Grant, Ray Walston and Larry Blyden portray three navy war heroes who've been booked on a morale-building "vacation" in San Francisco. Eluding their ulcerated public relations officer (Werner Klemperer Read More

Istanbul

Actors: Errol Flynn, Cornell Borchers, John Bentley, Torin Thatcher, Leif Erickson

Synopsis: In this adventure, a remake of Singapore (1947), a hero finds a bracelet containing 13 precious gems while visiting Istanbul. He soon finds himself pursued by covetous crooks who want those jewels. He is then deported by the Turkish authorities, but not before he has time to hide the bracelet in a Read More

The Vintage

Actors: Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Mel Ferrer, John Kerr, Michèle Morgan, Theodore Bikel

Synopsis: There's a curious, unsettling "feel" to MGM's The Vintage, perhaps because of its curiously selected cast. Mel Ferrer and John Kerr play a couple of Italian brothers, Giancarlo and Ernesto Barandero, who escape to France after Ernesto kills a man. Attaining jobs in a vineyard run by Louis Morel Read More

Star in the Dust

Actors: John Agar, Mamie van Doren, Richard Boone, Coleen Gray, Leif Erickson

Synopsis: In this western, a lawman tries to mediate between irate farmers and angry ranchers who are trying to decide the fate of a captured killer. The killer was hired by the ranchers who want him freed. The farmers, egged on by a schoolteacher, want to see the gunman swing. Meanwhile the real Read More

Tea and Sympathy

Actors: Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, Leif Erickson, Edward Andrews, Darryl Hickman

Synopsis: 1956's Tea and Sympathy is a diluted filmization of Robert Anderson's Broadway play. The original production was considered quite daring in its attitudes towards homosexuality (both actual and alleged) and marital infidelity; the film softpedals these elements, as much by adding to the text as by Read More

The Fastest Gun Alive

Actors: Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain, Broderick Crawford, Russ Tamblyn, Allyn Joslyn

Synopsis: In this western, a pacifistic store owner does all he can to avoid association with his father, a notorious gunfighter. One day he gets drunk and shows off his own considerable skills with a pistol. Unfortunately, this attracts the attention of the man who fancies himself the town's fastest draw Read More

Climax!: The Day They Gave Babies Away

Synopsis: The Christmas, 1955 presentation of the CBS anthology Climax! was based on a true story in the lives of the ancestors of co-scenarists Dale and Katherine Eunson. Set in rural Wisconsin in the 1860s, the story begins on a somber note, as both parents of 12-year-old Robbie Eunson (Brandon De Wilde Read More

On the Waterfront

Actors: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning, Eva Marie Saint

Synopsis: This classic story of Mob informers was based on a number of true stories and filmed on location in and around the docks of New York and New Jersey. Mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) rules the waterfront with an iron fist. The police know that he's been responsible for a Read More

A Perilous Journey

Actors: Vera Ralston, David Brian, Scott Brady, Charles Winninger, Hope Emerson

Synopsis: The much-maligned Vera Ralston turns in an acceptable performance as star of Republic's A Perilous Journey. Though seemingly inspired by MGM's Westward the Women, the film was actually based on The Golden Tide, a novel by Vingie Roe. In the year 1850, a group of 49 young women charter a Read More

Paris Model

Actors: Eva Gabor, Tom Conway, Laurette Luez, Aram Katcher

Synopsis: Paris Model is quickie producer Albert Zugsmith's answer to such multistoried films as Tales of Manhattan. Linking the four stories presented herein is a Paris-original gown, "Nude at Midnight." The gown is first purchased by "good bad girl" Gogo Montaine (Eva Gabor), who hopes to impress her date Read More

Born to the Saddle

Synopsis: William "One Take" Beaudine sat in the director's chair for the independently produced Born to the Saddle. Chuck Courtney plays a young horse trainer who goes to work for the truculent Donald Woods. Courtney believes that Woods was responsible for the death of the boy's father, and hopes to exact Read More

Trouble Along the Way

Actors: John Wayne, Donna Reed, Charles Coburn, Tom Tully, Sherry Jackson

Synopsis: "Winning isn't everything -- it's the only thing." These words were spoken not by Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi but by Steve Williams, the fictional college athletics instructor played by John Wayne in Trouble Along the Way. Recently divorced, Williams has trouble finding a job due to his Read More

Invaders From Mars

Actors: Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, Jimmy Hunt, Leif Erickson, Hillary Brooke

Synopsis: Originating during the science-fiction/Red-Scare boom of the '50s, Invaders From Mars is an entertaining little picture that holds up reasonably well. David MacLean (Jimmy Hunt) is a 12-year-old astronomy buff who is stunned to see a flying saucer landing in the sand pit beyond his backyard. His Read More

Fort Algiers

Actors: Yvonne De Carlo, Carlos Thompson, Raymond Burr, Leif Erickson, Anthony Caruso

Synopsis: In this adventure, set in Algiers, a French cabaret singer tries to expose the identity of an Arab leader who is conspiring to attack the French. She hopes that by cozying up to him in his palace that she will be able to steal his plans and thwart the conspiracy. Unfortunately, she is soon Read More

Captain Scarface

Actors: Barton MacLane

Synopsis: Considering its cast, it's surprising that Captain Scarface isn't better known. Filmed during the waning days of the 1950s "Red Scare", the story concerns a group of enemy agents (read: Communists), who plan to blow up the Panama Canal. The spies abduct a brilliant atomic scientist and force him Read More

Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd

Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Charles Laughton, Hillary Brooke, Bill Shirley

Synopsis: Though out of favor with many Abbott and Costello buffs, Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd is actually a lot of fun, so long as the viewer parks logic and dignity at the door. Captain Kidd is played by no less than Charles Laughton, who reportedly agreed to sign up for this film because he Read More

With a Song in My Heart

Actors: Susan Hayward, Rory Calhoun, David Wayne, Thelma Ritter, Robert Wagner

Synopsis: With a Song in My Heart is the story of popular 1930s songstress Jane Froman, here portrayed by Susan Hayward. We first see Ms. Froman as a humble staff singer at a Cincinnati radio stations, but it doesn't take her long to rise to the uppermost rungs of network radio fame. Jane gratefully marries Read More

Never Wave at a WAC

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Paul Douglas, Marie Wilson, William Ching, Arleen Whelan

Synopsis: Self-centered Washington socialite Rosalind Russell joins the WACS in order to be near her boyfriend William Ching, a GI stationed in Paris. Russell is certain that her DC connections will enable her to get out of the service as easily as she got in. Unfortunately for her, Russell's ex-husband Paul Douglas Read More

My Wife's Best Friend

Actors: Anne Baxter, MacDonald Carey, Cecil Kellaway, Casey Adams, Catherine McLeod

Synopsis: This 20th Century-Fox programmer stars Anne Baxter and Macdonald Carey as husband and wife, both passengers on an airliner. When the plane develops serious engine trouble, it looks like the end for everyone on board. Certain that he's facing an imminent demise, Carey confesses to Baxter that he's Read More

Carbine Williams

Actors: James Stewart, Jean Hagen, Wendell Corey, Carl Benton Reid, Paul Stewart

Synopsis: The tougher postwar screen image of James Stewart is given a good workout in the fact-based Carbine Williams. In 1952, the world at large knew Marsh Williams as the developer of the US Army's M-1 carbine rifle. The film builds up to this event by detailing Williams' previous existence as a Read More

Reunion in Reno

Actors: Mark Stevens, Peggy Dow, Frances Dee, Leif Erickson

Synopsis: Columbia and Universal were the leading purveyors of well-crafted "little" pictures in the 1950s. It was Universal who put together Reunion in Reno, which opens with little Maggie (Gigi Perreau) walking into the offices of divorce-attorney Norman (Mark Stevens), demanding a divorce from her Read More

The Cimarron Kid

Actors: Audie Murphy, Yvette Dugay, Beverly Tyler, John Hudson, James Best

Synopsis: Though director Budd Boetticher is best known to western fans for his collaborative efforts with star Randolph Scott, Boetticher also turned out several worthwhile actioners with other cowboy stars. The Cimarron Kid stars Audie Murphy in the title role. After being falsely accused of a payroll Read More

Sailor Beware

Actors: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Corinne Calvet, Marion Marshall, Robert Strauss

Synopsis: Using elements of two earlier films, The Fleet's In and Lady Be Careful, Paramount came up with the Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis vehicle Sailor Beware. As usual, Jerry Lewis is the helpless goof and Dean Martin the suave ladies' man; this time Lewis is a navy recruit while Martin is his Read More

Show Boat

Actors: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ava Gardner, Joe E. Brown, Marge Champion

Synopsis: The third and (to date) last film version of the Edna Ferber/Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II musical Show Boat falls just short of greatness but is still a whale of a show. Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson are in fine fettle as irresponsible gambler Gaylord Ravenal and showboat ingenue Magnolia Read More

The Tall Target

Actors: Dick Powell, Paula Raymond, Adolphe Menjou, Marshall Thompson, Ruby Dee

Synopsis: The Tall Target is based on a true story: the attempted assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln, even before he was able to assume his duties in Washington. Dick Powell stars as New York detective John Kennedy, who learns of the assassination plot early on. When his superiors refuse to Read More

Hill Number One

Synopsis: Filmed in color, the 60-minute Hill Number One was an episode of the TV religious anthology Family Theatre. Father Patrick Peyton hosts this star-studded Easter special, wherein the story of the Resurrection is told in flashback form at a contemporary family gathering. As always, Fr. Peyton has 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

Dallas

Actors: Gary Cooper, Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Raymond Massey, Leif Erickson, Barbara Payton

Synopsis: With Dallas, Gary Cooper revived his long-dormant association with westerns. Cooper plays ex-Confederate officer Blayde Hollister, who rides into Dallas in search of the men who killed his family and stole his land. Because he is considered to be an outlaw by the authorities, Hollister is Read More

Three Secrets

Actors: Eleanor Parker, Patricia Neal, Ruth Roman, Frank Lovejoy, Leif Erickson

Synopsis: Three Secrets is a darker variation on a theme first explored in A Letter to Three Wives (1949). There's only one survivor when a private plane crashes in the mountains of California. That survivor is a five-year-old boy, who hovers between life and death. As efforts continue to save the boy Read More

Stella

Actors: Ann Sheridan, Victor Mature, David Wayne, Randy Stuart, Marion Marshall

Synopsis: Stella is an out-of-left-field black comedy in which star Anne Sheridan is upstaged by an uproarious supporting cast. At a family picnic, a none too likeable uncle dies from accidentally eating poisoned mushrooms. The other family members don't want to be accused of murder, so they leave it to the Read More

Love That Brute

Actors: Paul Douglas, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Keenan Wynn, Joan Davis

Synopsis: Love That Brute is a remake of the 1942 comedy Tall, Dark and Handsome. In the original, Cesar Romero starred as a soft-hearted 1920s gangster who manages to maintain a reputation as a dangerous character, even though he's never killed anyone in his life. In the remake, Romero is cast as Pretty Read More

Mother Didn't Tell Me

Actors: Dorothy McGuire, William Lundigan, June Havoc, Gary Merrill, Jesse Royce Landis

Synopsis: What mother didn't tell Dorothy McGuire was that it's hard to be a doctor's wife. Marrying physician William Lundigan, Dorothy finds herself home alone most of the time, and also fumes silently as she watches her husband's parade of beautiful female patients. Further problems arise due to Read More

The Lady Gambles

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Preston, Stephen McNally, Edith Barrett, John Hoyt

Synopsis: Barbara Stanwyck plays a woman whose addiction to gambling all but ruins her life. Stanwyck's husband Robert Preston tries to stand by her side, but even he is driven away by her gambling mania. Stanwyck lies, cheats and steals in order to raise capital for her addiction, descending from Read More

Johnny Stool Pigeon

Actors: Howard Duff, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, John McIntire

Synopsis: In Johnny Stool Pigeon, the title character's name is really Johnny Evans (Dan Duryea). Evans is an imprisoned crook whose wife died as a result of a vicious narcotics ring. Federal agent Howard Duff works out a deal with Evans, who agrees to help the agent infiltrate the gang. After making Read More

Miss Tatlock's Millions

Actors: John Lund, Wanda Hendrix, Barry Fitzgerald, Monty Woolley, Robert Stack, Ilka Chase

Synopsis: A woman stands to inherit a fortune if she can get all her brothers and sisters in one place...which is far more complicated than it might sound. When the Tatlocks, a very wealthy couple, suddenly and unexpectedly die, the executor of the estate informs Nan Tatlock (Wanda Hendrix) that their will Read More

Joan of Arc

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

The Gay Intruders

Actors: John Emery, Tamara Geva, Leif Erickson, Roy Roberts, Virginia Gregg

Synopsis: This "B" effort from the 20th Century-Fox stable stars John Emery and Tamara Geva as John Newberry and Maria Ivar, a pair of quarrelsome stage stars. Realizing that their constant bickering is ruining their professional and personal lives, John and Maria separately consult psychiatrists Harold Read More

The Snake Pit

Actors: Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm, Glenn Langan, Helen Craig

Synopsis: "A woman loses her mind and is confined to a mental institution." That's the usual TV-listing encapsulation of The Snake Pit -- and like most such encapsulations, it only scratches the film's surface. Olivia de Havilland stars as an outwardly normal young woman, married to loyal, kindly Mark Stevens Read More

Sorry, Wrong Number

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wendell Corey, Ed Begley, Sr., Harold Vermilyea

Synopsis: When Lucille Fletcher took on the challenge of expanding her classic 30-minute radio suspenser Sorry, Wrong Number into an 89-minute feature film, she opted on the Citizen Kane approach, filling the plotline to the brim with revelatory flashbacks. Barbara Stanwyck stars as bedridden hypochondriac 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

Blonde Savage

Actors: Leif Erickson, Gale Sherwood, Douglas Dumbrille, Frank Jenks, Matt Willis

Synopsis: Blonde Savage was directed by one "S. K. Seeley"-who at closer examination turns out to be Steve Sekely hiding behind an alias. The story is the old saw about a blonde white woman who is raised from infancy by a savage jungle tribe. This time, it's a girl named Meelah (Gale Sherwood) who resides Read More

Are Husbands Necessary?

Actors: Ray Milland, Betty Field, Patricia Morison, Eugene Pallette, Charles Dingle

Synopsis: In providing the "synopsis" for Are Husbands Necessary?, one best-selling film source says merely "And what about this film?" There's more to the story than that, of course--but not much. The film was based on Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, a novel by Frank Davis. Ray Milland and Betty Field play a warring Read More

The Arabian Nights

Actors: Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Leif Erickson, Sabu, Billy Gilbert

Synopsis: In a harem in a Middle Eastern palace, the guardian leads the women he protects in telling the tale of Halroun-Al-Raschid (Jon Hall), the Caliph of Bagdad, who found himself an enemy close to home in the form of his half-brother Kamar (Leif Erickson), who was ineligible for the throne because of Read More

Pardon My Sarong

Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Virginia Bruce, Lionel Atwill, Robert Paige

Synopsis: One of the most often revived of Abbott & Costello's early-1940s films, Pardon My Sarong casts Bud and Lou as Chicago bus drivers Algy Shaw and Wellington Pflug. At the behest of millionaire playboy Tommy Layton (Robert Paige), Algy and Wellington hijack their own bus and speed off to California Read More

Night Monster

Actors: Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Irene Hervey, Ralph Morgan

Synopsis: More than one aficionado of Universal's horror films has cited Night Monster as the weakest of the batch. Part of the complaint lies in the fact that, despite their first and second billing, Bela Lugosi and Lionel Atwill are utterly wasted, with Atwill getting bumped off in the first reel! The Read More

The Fleet's In

Actors: Dorothy Lamour, William Holden, Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Cass Daley

Synopsis: In this, the third screen adaptation of the musical revue Sailor Beware, William Holden plays Casey Kirby, a shy sailor who through a series of misunderstandings develops a reputation as a world-class lady-killer. In order to save face, Casey has to persuade "The Countess of Swingland" (Dorothy Lamour Read More

Eagle Squadron

Actors: Robert Stack, Diana Barrymore, John Loder, Eddie Albert, Nigel Bruce

Synopsis: With America's Air Force not completely mobilized in mid-1942, Universal paid tribute to those foresighted Yankee flyboys who joined England's Royal Air Force before America's entry into WW2 in Eagle Squadron. Robert Stack stars as Chuck Brewer, one of several US flyers participating in RAF Read More

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

Actors: Hedy Lamarr, Robert Young, Ruth Hussey, Charles Coburn, Van Heflin

Synopsis: MGM was doing so well in 1941 that it could afford the occasional "prestige" film with little box-office appeal. Based on the novel by J.P. Marquand, H.M. Pulham, Esq., stars Robert Young as a successful but stuffy Boston businessman. The glimmer of sadness in Young's eyes indicates that his Read More

The Blonde from Singapore

Actors: Florence Rice, Gordon Jones, Don Beddoe, Alex D'Arcy

Synopsis: The Blonde from Singapore was one of several Columbia B-pictures that were presold to exhibitors on the basis of their titles alone. Pilot Terry Prescott (Leif Erickson), forced to resort to poaching pearl beds to keep financially afloat, makes the acquaintance of ex-showgirl Mary Brooke (Florence Rice Read More

Nothing But the Truth

Actors: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Edward Arnold, Glenn Anders

Synopsis: In this version of the oft-filmed stage play by James Montgomery, Nothing But the Truth stars Bob Hope as an up and coming young stockbroker working in Florida. He makes a bet with his coworkers that he can tell nothing but the absolute truth for 24 hours, and the other bettors are determined to Read More

Crisis: A Film of the Nazi Way

Actors: Leif Erickson

Synopsis: A filmed documentary of the last days in free Czechoslovakia before Hitler invaded. The film was not yet complete, or certain parts of it even processed, before German tanks came rolling into Prague. The raw footage was smuggled out piecemeal by the then-refugee filmmakers, who met in New York in Read More

One Third of a Nation

Actors: Sylvia Sidney, Myron McCormick, Sidney Lumet

Synopsis: Adapted from a play which was originally produced by the Federal Theatre Project (part of the WPA), this is a film from the Depression era which shows the disparity between life in the slums and the life of the upper class. When a young man inherits a city block in the ghetto, he begins to meet Read More

Ride a Crooked Mile

Actors: Akim Tamiroff, Frances Farmer, Lynne Overman, John Miljan

Synopsis: A macho Cossack immigrant to the U.S. goes West and joins a ring of rustlers. Later his son follows him to states and he too begins stealing cows. Not knowing his father very well, the youth is anxious to prove himself a manly man and a friendly rivalry develops until the father is captured and Read More

Waikiki Wedding

Actors: Bing Crosby, Martha Raye, Shirley Ross, George Barbier

Synopsis: This happy-go-lucky musical comedy is set in beautiful Hawaii and follows a public relations man who works for a pineapple company (Bing Crosby) and his pal as they escort a beauty contest winner (Shirley Ross) and her loudmouthed friend (Martha Raye) on a tour of the islands. Unfortunately, the Read More

Thrill of a Lifetime

Actors: Yacht Club Boys, Judy Canova, Ben Blue, Eleanore Whitney, Johnny Downs

Synopsis: "Camp Romance," a place for the romantically challenged, provides the setting of this musical. The story centers on a frumpy secretary's crush on her handsome boss, the camp manager. The manager has been working on a musical. Just as he is about to finish it, the secretary gives herself a Read More

The Big Broadcast of 1938

Actors: W.C. Fields, Martha Raye, Dorothy Lamour, Shirley Ross, Lynne Overman, Bob Hope

Synopsis: Paramount's final "Big Broadcast" musical had perhaps the least exciting musical lineup of the series (Tito Guizar, The Shep Fields Orchestra, and opera singer Kirsten Flagstad are hardly household names today), but a slightly stronger storyline than the others, as well as a top-notch comic cast. Read More

Conquest

Actors: Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer, Reginald Owen, Alan Marshal, Henry Stephenson

Synopsis: Conquest was released in England as Marie Waleska, the name of the real-life historical personage portrayed by Greta Garbo. The film begins in 1807, when Marie, a Polish countess, is dispatched by her country to meet with Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (Charles Boyer). Marie has been encouraged to Read More

Nevada

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Kathleen Burke, Sid Saylor, Monte Blue, William Duncan

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1927 with Gary Cooper and Thelma Todd, the Zane Grey story Nevada was remade in 1936 with Buster Crabbe and Kathleen Burke. Crabbe plays Nevada, a cattle-drive trail boss, while Burke is cast as Hettie Ide, who is brought into the story when Nevada rescues her from a runaway Read More

College Holiday

Actors: Jack Benny, Gracie Allen, Mary Boland, Martha Raye

Synopsis: The quaint genetic theories of the 1930s are satirized in College Holiday. Dotty matron Mary Boland runs a ramshackle summer resort, opening her doors to college students of both sexes--but only those collegiates with extra-special physical and mental skills. She hopes to encourage these select Read More

Desert Gold

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Robert Cummings, Marsha Hunt, Tom Keene

Synopsis: Generous stock footage from Paramount's silent Zane Grey series enhances the production values of the entertaining "pocket" western Desert Gold. Though most of the storyline is taken up the romance between young pioneers Dick Gale (Tom Keene) and Jane Belding (Marsha Hunt), the most compelling Read More

Girl of the Ozarks

Actors: Virginia Weidler, Elizabeth Russell, Henrietta Crosman, Janet Young

Synopsis: The Girl of the Ozarks is little Edie Mosely (Virginia Weidler), who's left on her own when her mother dies. Soft-hearted newspaper editor Tom Bolton (Leif Erikson) wants to adopt the little mischief-maker, but before he can do this he must find himself a bride. Edie plays matchmaker between Tom Read More

Drift Fence

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Katherine de Mille, Tom Keene, Ben Baker

Synopsis: Although Larry "Buster" Crabbe earns top billing, the hero of Drift Fence is former Western star Tom Keene as Jim Travis, who, at a rodeo, meets city dweller Jim Traft (Benny Baker), who has come west to erect a fence that will prevent Clay Jackson (Stanley Andrews) from continuing his cattle Read More

Wanderer of the Wasteland

Actors: Dean Jagger, Gail Patrick, Edward Ellis, Ben Baker, Larry "Buster" Crabbe

Synopsis: This Zane Grey adaptation stars Dean Jagger as Adam and Gail Patrick as Ruth, two rugged individuals heading to gold country by riverboat. The couple's burgeoning romance is interrupted when Adam inadvertently gets involved in a murder. On the lam from the authorities, he links up with grizzled Read More