Peggie CastleFilmography

Hell's Crossroads

Actors: Stephen McNally, Peggie Castle, Robert Vaughn, Barton MacLane, Harry Shannon

Synopsis: This wide-screen Republic western is yet another retelling of the James Brothers saga--albeit one with a few unexpected twists. This time, Jesse (Henry Brandon) and Frank (Douglas Kennedy) are supporting characters, while the film's dramatic weight is carried by Jesse's (fictional) friend and Read More

The Counterfeit Plan

Actors: Zachary Scott, Peggie Castle, Mervyn Johns, Sydney Tafler, Lee Patterson

Synopsis: Filmed in England, The Counterfeit Plan was distributed in the US by Warner Bros. Zachary Scott is right in his element as Max, a sociopathic killer who sets up a counterfeiting ring in the home of country squire Louie (Mervyn Johns). Max forces Louie to participate in his racket by threatening to Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Negligent Nymph

Synopsis: While on a fishing trip, Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) and Paul Drake (William Hopper) reel in a most unusual "catch": a beautiful girl named Sally Fenner (Peggy Castle), who had jumped into the ocean while fleeing a pack of guard dogs on the island estate of George Alder (David Lewis). Naturally Read More

Gunsmoke: Chester's Murder

Synopsis: After arguing with gambler Ned Pickard (Tom Pickard) over a girl named Nita Tucker (Peggie Castle), Chester (Dennis Weaver) must take Ned into custody and escort him to jail. En route, Ned ends up shot to death in an alley--and the townsfolk suspect that Chester has committed murder. Though he Read More

Beginning of the End

Actors: Peter Graves, Peggie Castle, Morris Ankrum, Richard Benedict, James Seay

Synopsis: Produced by Bert I. Gordon, The Beginning of the End a menacing onslaught of giant-sized grasshoppers. Department of Agriculture functionary Peter Graves and photojournalist Peggie Castle discover that the huge grasshoppers are the product of a gone-awry experiment in radioactivity. Before the Read More

Back from the Dead

Actors: Peggie Castle, Arthur Franz, Marsha Hunt, Don Haggerty, Marianne Stewart

Synopsis: In this routine possession potboiler, Peggie Castle plays a suburban housewife being slowly driven mad by the intrusive, restless spirit of her husband's first wife, whose soul has been tainted by her participation in a Satanic cult headed by high priest Father Renall (Otto Reichow). The woman's Read More

Miracle in the Rain

Actors: Jane Wyman, Van Johnson, Eileen Heckart, Fred Clark, Peggie Castle

Synopsis: The fate that brings lovers together can easily tear them apart as can be seen in this sentimental tragedy that centers on an ordinary-looking secretary's (Jane Wyman) lonely life. Other than working and spending some free time with a spinster (Eileen Heckart), who is her best friend, the woman Read More

Quincannon, Frontier Scout

Actors: Tony Martin, Peggie Castle, John Bromfield, John Smith, Ron Randell

Synopsis: Singer Tony Martin plays the non-musical title role in United Artists' Quinannon, Frontier Scout. Sent on a top-secret mission by the government, Quincannon tries to find out who's been selling repeating rifles to the Indians. The culprit turns out to be an old friend of the hero--and, for plot Read More

Two-Gun Lady

Actors: Peggie Castle, William Talman, Marie Windsor, Earle Lyon, Joe Besser

Synopsis: Peggie Castle is the Two-Gun Lady in this no-frills western. Castle plays Kate Masters, whose prowess with a gun earns her both fame and notoriety throughout the West. She returns to her hometown, intending to avenge the murder of her parents. Aiding and abetting Kate is U.S. marshal Dan Corbin (William Talman Read More

The Oklahoma Woman

Actors: Richard Denning, Peggie Castle, Tudor Owen, Martin Kingsley, Cathy Downs

Synopsis: In this western, a gunfighter is finally released from prison and returns to his hometown only to discover that it is being torn apart by conflicting forces. He is even more upset to discover that his girl has become the leader of the "evil" side of town and is completely committed to achieving a Read More

Tall Man Riding

Actors: Randolph Scott, Dorothy Malone, Peggie Castle, John Baragrey

Synopsis: Who else but Randolph Scott could be the Tall Man Riding in this rugged western? Forced to lay low for several years after being forced out of town by land baron Tucker Ordway (Robert Barrett), Larry Madden (Randolph Scott) returns to wreak vengeance against Ordway and claim the land that is Read More

Target Zero

Actors: Richard Conte, Peggie Castle, Charles Bronson, Richard Stapley, L.Q. Jones

Synopsis: Apparently as a reward for his excellent performance in the 1954 western Drum Beat, Charles Bronson was given a leading role in this Warner Bros. programmer. The action takes place during the Korean War: a melting-pot unit of American soldiers, together with three British troopers, find themselves Read More

The Finger Man

Actors: Frank Lovejoy, Forrest Tucker, Peggie Castle, Timothy Carey, John Cliff

Synopsis: Director Harold D. Schuster, heretofore more at home with "outdoor" fare, does a nice job with the film noir trappings of Finger Man. Frank Lovejoy plays the title character, a career criminal named Casey Martin. In exchange for immunity from prosecution, Martin agrees to help the Feds net a 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 White Orchid

Actors: William Lundigan, Peggie Castle, Armando Silvestre, Rosenda Monteros, George Trevino

Synopsis: This romantic adventure takes place in the jungles of Southern Mexico and centers upon an archaeologist and a photographer who have come to find a lost Toltec civilization. Their handsome guide takes them deeper and deeper into the jungle. As they progress, both the archaeologist and the guide Read More

The Long Wait

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Charles Coburn, Gene Evans, Peggie Castle, Mary Ellen Kay

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Mickey Spillane, The Long Wait stars Anthony Quinn as an amnesiac who may or may not have committed a murder. Picking up the pieces of his life, Quinn wanders into a hotbed of small-town intrigue and corruption. Characters essentially to the action are highly respectable bank Read More

The Yellow Tomahawk

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Peggie Castle, Noah Beery, Jr., Warner Anderson, Peter Graves

Synopsis: The Yellow Tomahawk stars Rory Calhoun as a Wyoming Indian scout who forms a strong friendship with Cheyenne warrior Lee Van Cleef. Their relationship is sorely tested when martinet army major Warner Anderson inaugurates a vicious anti-Indian policy, targetted at the Cheyenne women and children. Read More

Jesse James' Women

Actors: Lita Baron

Synopsis: Moving up ever so slightly from Lippert Pictures to United Artists, Donald Barry is both star and director of Jesse James' Women. According to D. D. Beauchamp's screenplay, there were four women in Jesse's life. One was saloonkeeper Waco Gans (Peggie Castle); the second was singer Delta (Lita Baron Read More

Cow Country

Actors: Edmond O'Brien, Helen Westcott, Bob Lowry, Barton MacLane, Peggie Castle

Synopsis: A "big" western by Allied Artists standards, Cow Country is directed with his usual panache by horse-opera expert Lesley Selander. Adapted from a novel by Curtis Bishop, the film stars Edmond O'Brien as Ben Anthony, an adventurer-for-hire who casts his lot with Texas cattleman Walt Garnet (Robert H. Barrat Read More

Son of Belle Starr

Actors: Keith Larsen, Dona Drake, Peggie Castle, Regis Toomey, James Seay

Synopsis: A heretofore unexplored chapter in the saga of female western desperado Belle Starr is detailed in this fanciful sagebrusher. Keith Larsen plays the title character, a young man forced into a life of crime because of his mom's reputation and because he's been framed on a holdup charge. Hoping that Read More

I, the Jury

Actors: Jack Stang, Biff Elliot, Preston S. Foster, Peggie Castle, Margaret Sheridan, Alan Reed, Sr.

Synopsis: Mike Hammer, author Mickey Spillane's brutal-but-eloquent private eye, made his screen debut in this cleaned-up cinemadaptation of the Mickey Spillane best-seller I, the Jury. Galvanized into action by the murder of a friend, Hammer (Biff Elliot) barges into the rarefied worlds of art collecting Read More

99 River Street

Actors: John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, Brad Dexter, Frank Faylen, Peggie Castle

Synopsis: Ernie Driscoll (John Payne) is an ex-fighter who came within seconds of winning the world championship. He's now forced to eke out a living driving a cab. A basically decent guy, he has lots of people who care about him, including Linda James (Evelyn Keyes), a slightly ditsy actress friend -- but Read More

Harem Girl

Actors: Joan Davis, Peggie Castle, Arthur Blake, Paul Marion, Don Randolph

Synopsis: Joan Davis' cinematic swan song was the slapstick farce Harem Girl. Davis plays Susie Perkins, the secretary-travelling companion of Arabian Nights princess Shareen (Peggie Castle). Evil sheik Jamal (Donald Randolph) hopes to murder Shareem and claim her oil-rich country, but Susie does her best Read More

Invasion USA

Actors: Gerald Mohr, Peggie Castle, Dan O'Herlihy, Robert Bice, Tom Kennedy

Synopsis: A handful of strangers are suddenly thrown together as America goes face-to-face against the Communist threat in this curious example of Cold War exploitation. A few people are enjoying drinks in a Manhattan cocktail lounge - television reporter Vince Potter (Gerald Mohr), vacationing tractor Read More

Wagons West

Actors: Rod Cameron, Noah Beery, Jr., Peggie Castle, Michael Chapin, Henry Brandon

Synopsis: Rod Cameron's western vehicles for Monogram were always worth watching, even when Cameron was better than the scripts. In Wagons West, the star plays wagonmaster Jeff Curtis, who guides a group of Easterners to California in the 1870s. Trouble looms in the form of a Cheyenne tribe who is being Read More

The Golden Horde

Actors: Ann Blyth, David Farrar, George Macready, Henry Brandon, Howard Petrie

Synopsis: There's stock footage galore in The Golden Horde, a second-feature recreation of the Arabian Nights era. Sir Guy (David Farrar) defends Christianity by lopping off heads in Samarkand. Ann Blyth is the non-distressed princess who uses strategy to save her city from invasion--and to keep Sir Guy at Read More

Air Cadet

Actors: Stephen McNally, Gail Russell, Alex Nicol, Charles Drake

Synopsis: Universal's Air Cadet stars Stephen McNally as the obligatory tough topkick, here assigned to whip a bunch of green pilots into shape. McNally's hard-nosed attitude is rooted in his past: he still feels guilty over having lost so many buddies in World War 2. A climactic crash-and-rescue sequence Read More

Payment on Demand

Actors: Bette Davis, Barry Sullivan, Jane Cowl, Kent Taylor, Betty Lynn, Frances Dee

Synopsis: Just before filming All About Eve, Bette Davis starred in the marital melodrama Payment on Demand. Davis plays the wife of Barry Sullivan, who one fine morning demands a divorce. Most of the film is in flashback, recounting the events leading up to the marital schism. After Sullivan takes up with Frances Dee Read More

Overland Pacific

Actors: Jock Mahoney, Peggie Castle, Adele Jergens, William Bishop, Walter Sande

Synopsis: Billed "Jack Mahoney" for the occasion, former stunt man Jock Mahoney steps up to the plate as a leading man in this average Western originally released in an inexpensive color process. Mahoney plays Ross Granger, a railroad agent masquerading as a telegrapher and looking into a series of Comanche Read More

The Prince Who Was a Thief

Actors: Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Everett Sloane, Jeff Corey, Betty Garde

Synopsis: Universal's newest "heartthrobs" Tony Curtis and Piper Laurie were first teamed in this lavish adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's The Prince Who Was a Thief. Curtis stars as Julna, the rightful heir to a Middle Eastern throne. Kidnapped in infancy, Julna is raised as a thief by the roguish Yussef (Everett Sloane Read More

I Was a Shoplifter

Actors: Scott Brady, Mona Freeman, Andrea King, Charles Drake

Synopsis: The title tells all--or at least most--in I Was a Shoplifter. The title character, played by Mona Freeman, is Faye Burton, a well-off socialite suffering from kleptomania. Faye falls into the hands of a professional shoplifting ring headed by Herb Claxton (Charles Drake) and Ina Perdue (Andrea King Read More

Buccaneer's Girl

Actors: Yvonne De Carlo, Phillip Friend, Robert Douglas, Elsa Lanchester, Andrea King

Synopsis: The Buccaneer's Girl of the title, played by Yvonne de Carlo, is Deborah McCoy, an entertainer who's been around a bit. While visiting New Orleans, Deborah falls in love with aristocratic Frederick Baptiste (Philip Friend), who turns out to be a pirate. Baptiste is basically a decent fellow: his Read More

Shakedown

Actors: Howard Duff, Brian Donlevy, Peggy Dow, Lawrence Tierney, Bruce Bennett

Synopsis: Two-bit photographer Howard Duff wins a big newspaper assignment by romancing his lady boss (Peggy Dow). Duff is sent to take a picture of criminal Brian Donlevy, who doesn't like to be captured on celluloid. Donlevy takes a liking to Duff and asks him to frame one of the crook's less cooperative Read More

Mr. Belvedere Goes to College

Actors: Clifton Webb, Shirley Temple, Tom Drake, Alan Young

Synopsis: Clifton Webb recreates his Sitting Pretty role as Mr. Lynn Belvedere, the World's Greatest Genius. Belvedere discovers that he is ineligible for an honorary award because he never attended college. So he enrolls as a freshman in a major university, becoming the target for "hazing" from obnoxious Read More

Woman in Hiding

Actors: Ida Lupino, Howard Duff, Stephen McNally, John Litel, Taylor Holmes

Synopsis: So far as the rest of the world is concerned, Deborah Chandler Clark (Ida Lupino) is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too well. Having discovered a horrible truth about her new husband (Stephen McNally), Deborah had intended to commit suicide. Now she is the Read More

Bury Me Dead

Actors: Cathy O'Donnell, June Lockhart, Hugh Beaumont, Mark Daniels, Greg McClure

Synopsis: Two icons of 1950s television, June Lockhart and Hugh Beaumont, appear in uncharacteristic roles in the 1947 B-plus melodrama Bury Me Dead. It begins when Barbara Carlin (Lockhart) shows up amongst the mourners at a funeral. Thing of it is, it's her funeral-or at least it's supposed to be. With Read More