Ray DantonFilmography

Magnum, P.I.: The Great Hawaiian Adventure Co.

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Magnum (Tom Selleck) is anxious to get all his friends involved in his latest venture, a tourist business called The Great Hawaiian Adventure Co. Unfortunately, the detective's pals all have other things on their mind. T.C. (Larry Manetti), for example, is pursuing a romance with Magnum's Read More

Vietnam War Story 1

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Vietnam War Story is a feature-length "omnibus" film culled from the three-episode TV series of the same name. The film consists of a trio of playlets involving members of the American armed forces during the Nam era. In "The Mine," a soldier (Eriq LaSalle) is unable to accept his best friend's Read More

Magnum, P.I.: The Love That Lies

Crew: Director

Synopsis: While assisting Deputy DA Carol Baldwin (Kathleen Lloyd) with her prosecution of a very wealthy and powerful man, Magnum is hired by an elderly woman (Celeste Holm) to locate the birth certificate for the child she'd given up for adoption nearly three decades earlier. What Magnum finds is evidence Read More

The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer

Crew: Director

Actors: Stacy Keach

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer was so named for two reasons. For one, this 1986 production appeared after two previous "Hammer" TV movies and a brief weekly series. For another, star Stacy Keach was returning to American television after a British prison term for Read More

Quincy, M.E.: On Dying High

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In an episode clearly based on a well-documented event in the life of comedian Richard Pryor, Roger Miller guest stars as JJ Chandler, a country-western entertainer whose act is rife with "humorous" drug references. But no one is laughing when, while freebasing cocaine between shows, Chandler sets Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Quincy (Jack Klugman) notices many discrepancies in the "official" evidence when his friend Ted Locke (Rudy Solari) is charged with setting his own business on fire to collect the insurance, killing an employee in the process. Unfortunately, Locke has been hauled before a Federal Grand Jury, and Read More

Quincy, M.E.: A Ghost of a Chance

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After several deaths have occurred during routine surgical procedures, Quincy (Jack Klugman) begins an investigation of eminent surgeon Dr. Stanley Royce (Jose Ferrer), who had allegedly performed the fatal operations. It isn't that Royce has lost his touch--it's simply that he is signing off on Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Sword of Honor, Blade of Death

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When his undercover-detective friend Michael Moroshima is killed in the line of duty, Quincy's assistant Sam (Robert Ito) recognizes the dead man's wound as having being made by a knife commonly used by the Yakuza, the "Japanese Mafia." Sam believes that Moroshima's killing is but the tip of the Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Next Stop, Nowhere

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After a teenager named Zack (Kelly Ward) dies while slam-dancing at a busy disco, it is determined that the cause of death was a stabbing. But Quincy (Jack Klugman) isn't satisfied by this verdict: he claims that the real villain is Punk Rock, whose "suicidal" lyrics have transformed otherwise Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Stain of Guilt

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Quincy (Jack Klugman) is the technical advisor on a movie which is dramatizing an infamous murder case involving onetime socialite Victoria Sawyer (Carolyn Jones). Noticing several discrepancies in the script, Quincy begins to doubt that Victoria was guilty of the murder for which she is currently Read More

Quincy, M.E.: For Want of a Horse

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The owner of the Institute of Equestrian Therapy, a horse farm catering to handicapped youngsters, is brutally murdered--and the only witness is a mute youngster named Gabe (Ronnie Scribner). Quincy (Jack Klugman) is brought on the scene by way of his boss Dr. Astin (John S. Ragin), whose Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Dead Stop

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Quincy (Jack Klugman) performs an autopsy on a truck driver who turns out to have died of hydrogen choloride poisoning. Enlisting the aid of the trucker's widow (Salome Jens), Quincy investigates the likelihood that the victim was involved in the illegal dumping of toxic waste. But he'd better Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Honor thy Elders

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Performing an autopsy on a man in his eighties, Quincy determines (Jack Klugman) that the victim was physically abused before his death--possibly by his own son-in-law. Subseqeuntly, another old person shows up with similar symptoms, suggesting to Quincy that there may be a link between the two Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Diplomatic Immunity

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The hospital where Quincy (Jack Klugman) works is in full security-lockdown mode when President Sarejo (Rudy Solari), a Latin American dictator, is rushed to the emergency room for a serious operation. It soon becomes apparent that a group of radicals has also arrived in Los Angeles, possibly Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Welcome to Paradise Palms

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: While visiting his Native American foster son Chester (Eddie Garcia) at an Arizona Indian reservation, Quincy (Jack Klugman) notices that the boy is showing symptoms of bubonic plague, a devastating illness that has already taken the life of his best friend. Quickly, Quincy alerts the local Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Unhappy Hour

Crew: Director

Synopsis: It's a personal matter for Quincy's boss Dr. Astin (John S. Ragin) when his teenage niece Melody (Karlene Crockett) is charged with vehicular homicide. An alcoholic who suffers from lapses of memory, Melody may have been behind the wheel in the car crash that claimed the life of her best friend. Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Dead Last

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A race horse goes berserk in its stable, trampling a jockey to death. Though it looks like a tragic accident, Quincy (Jack Klugman) suspects a murder has been committed--especially since he'd previously witnessed a heated argument between the victim and another jockey. In a typically unorthodox Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Dark Angel

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Veteran police officer Tommy Bates (Neville Brand) catches Billy Harris (Richard Stanley), a young car thief whose wild behavior indicates that he is high on "angel dust." During the arrest, Harris dies, and his accomplice Steve (Michael Horton) accuses Bates of choking the boy to death. Lt. Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Hot Ice

Crew: Director

Synopsis: An autopsy X-ray reveals that the corpse of a murdered courier contained a sack of diamonds worth $2,000,000, hidden within a pacemaker. Under pressure from a team of U.S. Customs officials, Quincy (Jack Klugman) agrees to go undercove in hopes of flushing out a dangerous gang of international Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Never a Child

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Performing an autopsy on a teenage prostitute who has committed suicide, Quincy (Jack Klugman)characteristically takes a personal interest in the case. It seems that the victim had been killed after seeing "Uncle Harry" (Alan Manson), the man who led her into prostituation, persuading an even Read More

Quincy, M.E.: A Question of Death

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Having solved many a crime in the past, Quincy finds himself in the uneviable position of being accused of criminal behavior. The family of 21-year-old kidney donor Jack Murphy insist that Quincy declared the man dead prematurely in order to harvest his organs. In his efforts to clear his name Read More

Quincy, M.E.: The Depth of Beauty

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After a woman whose face was horribly disfigured in a bungled cosmetic operation commits suicide, Quincy investigates Emile Green (Garnett Smith), the doctor who performed the surgery. Though Green is not a qualified plastic surgeon, the current medical laws allow him to perform such operations Read More

Piedone l'Africano

Synopsis: Flatfoot was also released as The Knock-Out Cop. By any name, this Italian crime meller stars Baldwyn Dakile as Bodo, a tough, no-frills police officer. Determined to bring a gang of drug smugglers to justice, Bodo is ordered to lay off by his superiors. It's not likely that he will obey orders Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Even Odds

Crew: Director

Synopsis: During a shootout between the police and escaped murder suspect Billings (Dennis Madalone), Quincy (Jack Klugman) is caught in the crossfire and seriously wounded. As Quincy hovers between life and death in a hospital bed, his boss Dr. Astin (John S. Ragin) and police lieutenant Frank Monahan Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Requiem for the Living

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Quincy (Jack Klugman) and Sam (Robert Ito) are abducted by the minions of mob boss Vince DiNardi (John Vernon), who makes an offer that our hero can't refuse. DiNaldi has been poisoned, and the doctors have given him only 24 hours to live. With Sam's life being used as a bargaining chip, Quincy is Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Images

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Quincy (Jack Klugman) positively identifies the charred remains of a motel-fire victim as being the body of Jessica Ross (Jessica Walter), the most popular and highest-paid female journalist in the country. Imagine Quincy susprise when, while appearing on a televised press conference to announce Read More

Quincy, M.E.: A Question of Time

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Quincy (Jack Klugman) is under pressure from an insurance company to determine the time of death of a patient who drowned in a bathtub at the Thalep Clinic, an "alternative" health spa. In the course of his investigation, Quincy uncovers evidence of gross medical negligence--and also butts heads Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Last of the Dinosaurs

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Rugged Hollywood movie star Will Preston (Chuck Roberson), a longtime idol of Dr. Quincy (Jack Klugman), is found dead under mysterious circumstances. It might have been murder, and there is no shortage of suspects: prominent among the "possibilities" is a disgruntled stuntman and a pair of Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Main Man

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Quincy (Jack Klugman) investigates when Frank Daniels, star football player for the Arroya Junior College Bears, dies after being tackled. The autopsy determines that Frank succumbed to a brain cyst that was suddenly activated during the tackle--and Quincy is worried that the dead man's brother Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Tissue of Truth

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After burying his victim in an underground box with a limited air supply, a kidnapper rushes to the location where the ransom is to dropped--only to be killed in a car crash. Racing against time, the police desperately seek out clues as to the victim's whereabouts before his oxygen runs out. Read More

Our Man Flint: Dead on Target

Synopsis: Our Man Flint had scored in 1966 as a high-gloss spy movie spoof starring James Coburn as Derek Flint, maverick operative of the Zonal Organization for World Intelligence and Espionage (or Z.O.W.I.E.). When the film spawned its inevitable TV-pilot spin-off, Ray Danton was Derek Flint and the Read More

Psychic Killer

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Paul Burke, Jim Hutton, Julie Adams, Nehemiah Persoff, Neville Brand

Synopsis: In this thriller, an innocent man is wrongfully committed to an asylum for the criminally insane. While there he learns how to tap into his psychic powers and to affect the lives of others via astral projection. These skills come in mighty handy after he is released and he heads out for revenge Read More

The Rockford Files: Chicken Little is a Little Chicken

Synopsis: In this light-hearted (and slightly light-headed) episode, Angel (Stuart Margolin) prevails upon Jim (James Garner) to recover some money from gambler Tom "Chicken" Little. When Little turns up dead, Jim finds out that the man was involved in an elaborate swindle, and that the money Angel had been Read More

Apache Blood

Synopsis: A young Indian brave who survived a massacre of his tribe by the U.S. Army, sets out to avenge their deaths and confronts a cavalry scout in the desolation of the desert. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Six Pack Annie

Actors: Lindsay Bloom, Jana Bellan, Joe Higgins, Larry Mahan

Synopsis: A proud old Southern woman struggles to keep her popular diner afloat in this interesting character study. The little cafe is a popular community meeting place and its closing would create a great hole in the town. Though her devoted daughters assist, their help is not enough. Unfortunately, the Read More

The Centerfold Girls

Synopsis: A psychopathic killer administers a series of death sentences to various pornographic models. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Crypt of the Living Dead

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This meandering, low-budget horror tale explores the vampiric origins of Hannah (Teresa Gimpera), once the wife of Louis VII, who rises from her crypt in the 20th century thanks to the meddling of an archaeologist (Andrew Prine) and his weird son (Mark Damon). Actually, it takes more than an hour Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Before I Die

Synopsis: A decidedly pre-Naked Gun Leslie Neilsen guest stars in this episode as veteran cop John T. Connor. Upon learning that he has a terminal illness, Connor vows to murder the slick racketeer whom he has been unsuccessfully trying to put behind bars for the past eighteen months. Thus are Stone (Karl Read More

Runaway!

Actors: Martin Milner, Ray Danton

Synopsis: Several familiar faces dot the cast of the made-for-TV Runaway! The scene is a treacherous mountainside, where several skiers have come to...well, ski. The mountain can only be reached by train-and that train is the "runaway" of the title. Just so no one would miss the point, the film was retitled Read More

A Very Missing Person

Actors: Eve Arden

Synopsis: Hildegarde Withers, the schoolteacher/sleuth created by Stuart Palmer, was the central character in a series of RKO "B" films of the 1930s. Television tried to revive Hildegarde in the unsold pilot film A Very Missing Person, starring Eve Arden as a distressingly updated Ms. Withers and James Gregory Read More

The Ballad of Billie Blue

Synopsis: After spending some time in prison, a love-lorn country singer finds some heaven-sent help that turns his life around. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Hannah - Queen of the Vampires

Crew: Director

The Deathmaster

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A charismatic long-haired vampire finds himself becoming a guru for a gang of Southern California flower children in this hippie-dippy horror movie. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Sagittarius Mine

Banyon

Actors: Robert Forster, Darren McGavin, José Ferrer, Anjanette Comer, Herb Edelman

Synopsis: Banyon is an A-number-one detective yarn set (very accurately) in the 1930s. Robert Forster, emulating John Garfield in virtually every scene, plays private eye Miles C. Banyon. Right now he's in dutch because a beautiful young woman has been found murdered--and Banyon's gun was the murder weapon. Read More

Triangle

Synopsis: In this drama, a bisexual teacher has an identity crises after he begins working at a private girls' school. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The F.B.I.: The Inheritors

Synopsis: Suzanne Pleshette guest stars as Temple Alexander, a beautiful con artist who has targetted wealthy winery owner Harlan Franciscus (Gene Raymond) as her latest patsy. While romancing Harlan in preparation of fleecing him, Temple ends up genuinely falling in love with the man. This proves Read More

The Last Mercenary

Synopsis: As Brazilian saboteurs attempt to take over a rich industrialist's ore mines, mercenary Ray Danton arms the miners to stop the saboteurs. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Ironside: A Drug on the Market

Synopsis: Judith Coleman (Victoria Shaw), recently widowed friend of Chief Ironside (Raymond Burr), is being plagued by weird phone calls, strange disembodied voices, and mysterious "accidents". Can it be that Judith has been driven insane by her husband's death? Ironside doesn't think so; he is convinced Read More

New York Chiama Super Dragon

Actors: Ray Danton, Marisa Mell, Margaret Lee, Jess Hahn, Carlo D'Angelo

Synopsis: In this espionage adventure, the "Super Dragon," a notorious secret agent, is assigned by the CIA to stop a Venezuelan drug lord from spiking U.S. gum and candy with a powerful hallucinogenic drug in order to take over the United States. The evil czar had already tested it in a Michigan college Read More

Code Name: Jaguar

Actors: Ray Danton, Pascale Petit, Roger Hanin, Wolfgang Preiss, Charles Regnier

Synopsis: An extremely sub-James Bond orientation drives this thriller -- made in Europe but trying to look and sound American -- about a counter-intelligence operative (identified as a "super-agent" by his boss) investigating a leak to the Soviets. Dark, good-looking Ray Danton plays Larson, the Read More

Corrida Pour Un Espion

Actors: Ray Danton, Pascale Petit, Roger Hanin, Horst Frank

Synopsis: Larson (Ray Danton) is a CIA agent who breaks a communist spy ring that has infiltrated key United States agencies in Europe in this routine spy actioner. Pascale Petit is on hand for distaff interest for the hero. The film is one in a long line of Bond-styled thrillers that glutted the market in Read More

Sandokan Against the Leopard of Sarawak

Synopsis: In this adventure, a recently returned leader is attacked by a tyrant's son on the day he celebrates his first year in power. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

FBI Code 98

Actors: Jack Kelly, Ray Danton, Andrew Duggan, Philip Carey, William Reynolds

Synopsis: A full year before the debut of Warner Bros.' TV series The FBI, a pilot of sorts was filmed under the title FBI Code 98. Jack Kelly heads the cast of this Dragnet-style docudrama, wherein the action is underlined by William Woodson's stentorian off-camera narration. The main plot concerns a Read More

Return of the Conqueror

Sandokan Fights Back

Synopsis: In this adventure, a prince fights to get back his stolen throne. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Conqueror and the Empress

Synopsis: In this island adventure, British explorers attempt to take over the island of a courageous native prince who manages to wrest control of his people away from the ruthless invaders. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Longest Day

Actors: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Rod Steiger, Richard Todd

Synopsis: The Longest Day is a mammoth, all-star re-creation of the D-Day invasion, personally orchestrated by Darryl F. Zanuck. Whenever possible, the original locations were utilized, and an all-star international cast impersonates the people involved, from high-ranking officials to ordinary GIs. Each Read More

The Chapman Report

Actors: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda, Claire Bloom, Glynis Johns

Synopsis: George Cukor directed this sanitized version of Irving Wallace's tawdry best-seller concerning a survey of the sexual habits of American women. Psychologist George C. Chapman (Andrew Duggan) arrives in a Los Angeles suburb with his assistant Paul Radford (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) in tow. They are Read More

A Fever in the Blood

Actors: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Angie Dickinson, Jack Kelly, Don Ameche, Ray Danton

Synopsis: In this routine political drama by Vincent Sherman, a murder trial is converted into one piece in the complex interaction between three candidates for governor. Judge Hoffman (Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.) is a solid, anchoring presence in his courtroom, qualities which should stand him in good stead when Read More

The George Raft Story

Actors: Ray Danton, Jayne Mansfield, Julie London, Barrie Chase, Barbara Nichols, Neville Brand

Synopsis: This is an interesting biography of the actor known for his gangster roles in films, and though Ray Danton plays the part of George Raft without looking like him in the least, he is still convincing in his mannerisms. Without getting into any in-depth plumbing of the actor's life, the story begins Read More

Maverick: A State of Siege

Synopsis: This is the second Maverick episode to be based on a story by Robert Louis Stevenson (the first, "The Wrecker", was seen during the series' inaugural season). Bart Maverick (Jack Kelly) finds himself the unwelcome guest of Mexican aristocrat Don Felipe when his "host"'s hacienda is surrounded by Read More

A Majority of One

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Alec Guinness, Ray Danton, Madlyn Rhue, Mae Questel

Synopsis: This standard love story adapted by Leonard Spigelgass from his stage play was acclaimed when it was released for probing into the nature of prejudice. Rosalind Russell plays Mrs. Jacoby, a Jewish widow living in Brooklyn whose daughter Alice (Madlyn Rhue) is married to Jerome (Ray Danton), a U.S. Read More

Portrait of a Mobster

Actors: Vic Morrow, Leslie Parrish, Peter Breck, Norman Alden, Robert McQueeney

Synopsis: Prolific director Joseph Pevney is better known for his next venture -- the Star Trek television series -- than this conventional docudrama on mobster "Dutch" Schultz (played by Vic Morrow). Rather than take the focus of 1997's Hoodlum, in which Schultz's attempt to move into Harlem is thwarted Read More

Ice Palace

Actors: Richard Burton, Robert Ryan, Carolyn Jones, Martha Hyer, Jim Backus

Synopsis: Based on the Edna Ferber novel, this engrossing period piece covers the triumphs, tragedies, loves, and sorrows of a few generations of Alaskan settlers between the first World War and the granting of statehood in 1959. Zeb (Richard Burton) is a local despot whose tough personality dominates the Read More

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond

Actors: Ray Danton, Karen Steele, Elaine Stewart, Jesse White, Simon Oakland

Synopsis: This effective gangster film on the notorious New York mobster Jack "Legs" Diamond is interspersed with moments of comic relief and was released just a few months after The Purple Gang shot their way across the silver screens in the U.S. Ironically, that gang and Diamond met their ends in the same Read More

The Big Operator

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Steve Cochran, Mamie van Doren, Mel Tormé, Ray Danton

Synopsis: Mickey Rooney plays labor racketeer Little Joe Braun in this fast-paced and surprisingly violent drama about one man's determination to clean up his union. Bill Gibson (Steve Cochran) is Little Joe's nemesis and is one of the men who can testify that he saw the labor boss in an incriminating Read More

The Beat Generation

Actors: Steve Cochran, Mamie van Doren, Ray Danton, Fay Spain, Louis Armstrong

Synopsis: Set within the popular bohemian coffee houses of the late '50s where beatniks gathered to recite poetry and perform, this sensationalistic detective drama centers upon the attempts of an insensitive police detective to catch an arrogant serial rapist, a rich young man who believes himself mentally Read More

Yellowstone Kelly

Actors: Clint Walker, Edward Byrnes, John Russell, Ray Danton, Andra Martin, Claude Akins

Synopsis: Based on a book by Clay Fisher, this 1959 western has a cast loaded with television stars of the era. Clint Walker of TV's Cheyenne appears as the title character, a trapper who befriends the American Indian tribes in his hunting territory in 1867. When the U.S. cavalry is attacked by Kelly's Read More

Too Much, Too Soon

Actors: Dorothy Malone, Errol Flynn, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Ray Danton, Neva Patterson

Synopsis: Too Much, Too Soon was adapted from the warts-and-all autobiography of actress Diana Barrymore, the troubled daughter of "great profile" John Barrymore. As played by Dorothy Malone, Diana is a basically decent young lady who suffers mightily from lack of parental love. Her famous father, played Read More

Tarawa Beachhead

Actors: Kerwin Mathews, Julie Adams, Ray Danton, Karen Sharpe, Onslow Stevens

Synopsis: A soldier is expected to never question the actions of his commanding officer, but when a Marine sees his CO breaking the law, he finds himself facing a difficult dilemma in this provocative war drama. The trouble begins when the officer kills another soldier during a battle. The Marine who Read More

Onionhead

Actors: Andy Griffith, Felicia Farr, Walter Matthau, Joe Mantell

Synopsis: In his third starring feature, Onionhead, Andy Griffith plays a character somewhere inbetween the bucolic ingenuousness of Will Stockdale in No Time for Sergeants and the hotheaded truculence of Lonesome Rhodes in A Face in the Crowd. Griffith is cast as Al Woods, a college student majoring in Read More

The Night Runner

Actors: Ray Danton, Colleen Miller, Merry Anders, Willis B. Bouchey, Harry Jackson

Synopsis: In this dark drama, a schizophrenic is forced out of his hospital due to overcrowding, and his doctors tell him to avoid stressful situations. He goes to a beachside motel and likes both the area and the owner's daughter. Her father discovers that he is a mental patient and threatens to have him Read More

Eye of the Storm

Synopsis: A young woman, running from her abusive husband, hides in the home of her sister. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Outside the Law

Actors: Ray Danton, Leigh Snowden, Grant Williams, Onslow Stevens, Raymond Bailey

Synopsis: In this adventure, a man a man is paroled from prison and made to join the army so he can break up an international counterfeiting operation involving an ex- army buddy. they use him to woo the friend's lover and pump her for information. He finds her to be a dry well, but the importing firm she Read More

The Looters

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Julie Adams, Ray Danton, Thomas Gomez, Frank Faylen

Synopsis: Actor Abner Biberman specialized in unpleasant characters; when he turned director in the mid-1950s, he specialized in unpleasant subjects. The Looters is a marked-down variation of the Spencer Tracy film The Mountain. When a plane crashes on Pike's Peak, a group of mercenaries agree to search for Read More

The Spoilers

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Anne Baxter, Jeff Chandler, Ray Danton, Barbara Britton

Synopsis: The Spoilers is the fourth and (very likely) last film version of Rex Beach's rugged Alaskan adventure yarn. Set during the Gold Rush of '98, the film stars Jeff Chandler as mine owner Roy Glennister, cheated out of his claim by gold commissioner Alex McNamara (Rory Calhoun). Though Glennister Read More

Chief Crazy Horse

Actors: Victor Mature, Suzan Ball, John Lund, Ray Danton, Keith Larsen

Synopsis: Reviled in his lifetime as a lunatic insurrectionist, Chief Crazy Horse has in recent years emerged as a Native American hero. In this off-beat western, unusual for its time in that it sympathetically presented the Native American viewpoint, Victor Mature plays the misunderstood Sioux leader while Read More

I'll Cry Tomorrow

Actors: Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Eddie Albert, Jo Van Fleet, Don Taylor

Synopsis: Susan Hayward pulls out all the stops, and then some, in this cinemadaptation of singer Lillian Roth's autobiography I'll Cry Tomorrow. In as harshly realistic a manner as possible in the still censor-dominated Hollywood of 1955, the film recounts Roth's rise to fame, her precipitous fall and her Read More

Shelley Duvall's Tall Tales and Legends: John Henry

Crew: Director

Actors: Danny Glover, Tom Hulce

Synopsis: John Henry was the hero of a popular ballad sung back during the times of the Industrial Revolution. Danny Glover stars as Henry. The rest of the cast includes Tom Hulce, Lou Rawls, Lynn Whitfield and Barry Corbin. As the story goes, John Henry supposedly crushed more rock than a steam drill. Some Read More