Deadbeat dads be damned. Patrick Swayze plays a con man who tries to live up to the ideals of "family values" by kidnapping...
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Stunts
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1993
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When a wealthy man dies, everyone seems to be out to steal his money from the woman chosen as heiress. ~ Iotis Erlewine, Rovi...
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1989
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Season Seven of Quincy, M.E. begins at a crowded job fair, where guest lecturer Quincy (Jack Klugman) ends up rushing to the...
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1981
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Filmed on location at Alcatraz Island, this two-part "whole story" actually concentrates on a handful of the denizens behind...
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1980
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This made-for-television biography spans the life of boxer Rocky Marciano, the only heavyweight to remain undefeated during...
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1979
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The original British version of Escape to Athena ran 125 minutes; American prints were judiciously cut to 101 minutes,...
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1979
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1979
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1979
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1978
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Travelling to Las Vegas to pick up a criminal suspect for extradition, Crocker (Kevin Dobson), his prisoner, and sexy...
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1978
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Based on a true story, Something for Joey is about Heisman Trophy-winner Jon Cappelletti and his close relationship with his...
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1977
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Paul Picerni guest stars as Vinny Randazzo, a lifelong friend of widowed waitress Alice Hyatt (Linda Lavin). When Vinny shows...
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1976
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Series star Telly Savalas makes his directorial debut in this episode, which features a surprising characterization by the...
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1974
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Shelley Winters is appropriately cast as Big Rose, a rough 'n' tough private detective. Nobody messes with Big Rose, least of...
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1974
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Officer Jim Reed (Kent McCord) suffers torture beyond endurance when he goes on his rounds while suffering from a severe...
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1974
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While performing with a street-theater troupe, Ironside's goddaughter Peggy Lynch (Kathleen Quinlan) witnesses a murder....
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1974
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The Rampart emergency staff can't understand why Federal agents are so closely hovering over one of their patients (Hedley...
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1973
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For his only directorial effort, Jack Lemmon selected his old friend and habitual co-star Walter Matthau to play the central...
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1971
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1971
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Airport had enough plot and enough star power in its cast for three feature films, and it only encompassed about half of the...
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1970
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Officers Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) break up a racket conducted by an elderly astrologer who...
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1970
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Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) is puzzled when Mary Cochella (Zohra Lampert), a woman of very modest means, is kidnapped. It...
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1970
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In this pseudo-biography of the legendary Cuban revolutionary -- played by Omar Sharif -- Che Guevara takes up the cause as a...
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1969
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Vince Carden (Telly Savalas) is the violent Apache-hating landowner obsessed with driving the Indians from the region in this...
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1969
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For his third feature outing, director Sydney Pollack helmed this comedic western starring (Burt Lancaster) as fur trapper...
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1968
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The FBI launches a search for Curtis Stone (Roy Poole), a sleazy extortionist who preys upon the families of servicemen....
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1968
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Paul Picerni guest stars as Jack Williams, an opportunistic -- and treacherous -- American POW. In exchange for his own...
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1967
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On furlough in London, Saunders (Vic Morrow) delivers a $300 bequest to a local orphanage. The hard-bitten sergeant ends up...
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1966
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Pat Hingle guest stars as Mike Decker, a Chicago newspaper columnist who has always believed in the innocence of accused...
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1963
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Eula Johnson (Diana Millay), the bored young bride of rancher Grover Johnson (Rod Cameron), begs her husband to sell his...
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1963
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In hopes of breathing life into the series' dormant ratings, ABC moved The Untouchables from the Thursday to Tuesday...
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1962
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Earning its highest-ever ratings during its second season, The Untouchables rapidly spiralled downhill during Season Three,...
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1961
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Sexual misconduct in white-collar suburbia is the topic of this routine melodrama involving two neighboring couples....
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1960
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Perhaps inevitably, the more popular the ABC crime drama The Untouchables became, the louder the series' detractors...
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1960
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Patricia Medina guest-stars as Rosita Morales, a former cabaret dancer. A pair of con artists, Luga (Sebastian Cabot) and...
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1960
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Something of an urbanized, upscale version of Peyton Place, Vincent Sherman's
The Young Philadelphians is a glossy...
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1959
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The 1962 theatrical release of The Scarface Mob was created from the first two episodes of the famously popular 1959 TV...
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Tony Liguri
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1959
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Perry (Raymond Burr) receives an envelope containing $500 from Marian Fargo (played by a redheaded Angie Dickinson), who...
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1958
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Bret (James Garner) is offered $6000 by the American authorities to bring back accused murderer Steve Corbett (Gerald Mohr),...
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1958
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Although Army major Frank Lessing (John Archer) left behind a suicide note before his death, Sgt. Joseph Dexter (Paul...
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1958
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Marjorie Morgenstern (Natalie Wood) is an 18-year-old, middle-class, Jewish girl from New York who wants nothing more than to...
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1958
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In this drama, a singer finds herself implicated in the fatal immolation of her husband. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1958
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In the psychological WW2 drama Torpedo Run, Glenn Ford plays submarine commander Barney Doyle, who is obsessed with sinking...
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1958
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In this western, a convict escapes from prison to search for the considerable loot he and his gang had stolen off a stage...
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1958
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Elderly actor Charles Gresham (Claude Rains) spends more of his time in barrooms than backstage, but he is always on the...
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1957
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Petty thief Steve Morgan (Rip Torn) uses a toy gun to hold up a candy store. Later on, the cops make the necessary...
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1957
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In this frantic service comedy, a group of bored-to-tears American GI's stationed at a medical facility in France would like...
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1957
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1957
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Musical comedy star Betty Garrett goes dramatic big-time in the hostage drama Shadow on the Window. Betty plays Linda Atlas,...
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1957
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The Rico brothers are mobsters in the employ of syndicate head Sid Kubick. Richard Conte plays the one Rico brother who has...
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1957
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Frank Freeman Jr., son of the longtime head of Paramount Pictures, made his debut as producer with the opulent but empty Omar...
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1957
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In this convoluted thriller a manipulative woman gets entangled in her own web of deceit. The story is set in Mexico, where...
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1956
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Tony Dumont (Rory Calhoun) is none too trustworthy at the beginning of Flight to Hong Kong. A dealer in contraband goods,...
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1956
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Also known as Wiretapper and The Jim Vaus Story, this low-budget production begins as a crime melodrama, then bumpily segues...
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1956
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The fate that brings lovers together can easily tear them apart as can be seen in this sentimental tragedy that centers on an...
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1956
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This suspense film revolves around the crime of child abduction. The parents of the missing child undertake a feverish...
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1955
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Phil Karlson, well-regarded by film buffs for his tough, no-nonsense crime dramas, directed this adventure story shot...
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1955
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1955
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This jungle adventure is the final entry in the "Bomba the Jungle Boy" series. This time Bomba (played by 24-year-old Johnny...
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1955
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In this thriller, a mentally unstable ex-GI escapes from the mental ward and goes searching for his ex-wife who only...
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Roper
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1955
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The highly variable Audie Murphy delivers his best screen performance as "himself" in Universal's To Hell and Back. Based on...
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1955
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Auto mechanic and wannabe race-car driver Eddie Shannon (Mickey Rooney) allows himself to be led perilously astray in Drive a...
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1954
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In this western, a shotgun rider on a stagecoach must clear his reputation after some outlaws accuse him of being a crook....
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1954
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Two bank robbers get away with 250,000 dollars in unmarked, unrecorded bills, murdering a guard in the process. The police...
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1954
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In the 1950s, historical spectaculars set in the Far or Middle East became the repository for exploitive tales of eroticism,...
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Nur-El-Din
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1954
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Produced and directed by the prestigious Frank Lloyd, The Shanghai Story was promoted as a "class" production by the...
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1954
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Randolph Scott once more contributes mightily to Warner Bros.' annual box-office gross in the well-mounted western...
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1954
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There's no obvious motive when a police officer is killed in a drive-by shooting on the steps of his own house. But after...
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1953
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1953
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Scott Andrews
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1953
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The System was one of several "exposé" films inspired by the Kefauver crime committee. The title refers to the manner in...
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David Wiley
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1953
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1953
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Loosely based on the true story of Lieutenant Colonel Peter Ortiz, this mystery centers on an American WW II veteran who...
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Armand
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1952
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Like its spiritual predecessor Song of Bernadette, Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima is based on a true story. The year is 1917:...
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1952
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Cattle Town is a rare low-budget western from the Warner Bros. mills. Dennis Morgan plays Mike McGann, a troubleshooter sent...
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Pepe
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1952
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A very tired-looking Errol Flynn heads the cast of Maru Maru. Flynn plays deep-sea diver Gregory Mason, who is hired to...
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Steven Ranier
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1952
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A prison guard at one of California's most notoriously brutal correctional facilities during the 1920s attempts to enact more...
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1951
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The real Matt Cvetic was a borderline alcoholic with a nasty disposition (he once allegedly beat his sister-in-law so badly...
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1951
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1951
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Actual combat footage is deftly blended in with dramatized re-enactments in The Tanks Are Coming. Steve Cochran stars as...
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Danny
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1951
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Set during WW II, this film casts John Wayne as Duke Gifford, two-fisted submarine commander. Patricia Neal co-stars as Mary...
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1951
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Fort Worth stars Randolph Scott as gunfighter-turned-newspaperman Ned Britt. Setting up shop in the eponymous Texas town,...
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1951
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Filmed with the full cooperation of the U.S. Army, Breakthrough is a lean, no-nonsense war film set during the 1944 invasion...
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Pvt. Ed Rojeck
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1950
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1950
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The Secret Fury works best if one is willing to suspend one's disbelief from the outset. Claudette Colbert stars as Ellen, a...
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1950
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1950
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