Raymond BurrFilmography

The Return of Ironside

Actors: Raymond Burr, Don Galloway, Barbara Anderson, Don Mitchell, Elizabeth Baur

Synopsis: In this feature-length reprise of the popular '70s police drama Ironside Raymond Burr returns as the wheelchair-bound police chief. This time, he is drawn out of retirement by a puzzling murder and the San Francisco police department's need to find a new chief. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo

Actors: Raymond Burr, Amy Steel

Synopsis: Television fans fed up with the state of TV talk shows might get a kick from the 1992 Perry Mason TV movie The Case of the Reckless Romeo. The title character, a video personality who's just written a tell-all autobiography, is played by none other than Geraldo Rivera. When the future O.J. Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Framing

Synopsis: When the invincible Perry Mason takes on the case of a photographer who is accused of murdering a famous artist, he discovers the case is complicated by forgery. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride

Actors: Diane Baker, Linda Blair, Raymond Burr, Ronny Cox, Stephen Stills, Heather McAdam

Synopsis: The first "Perry Mason" TV movie of the 1992-93 season, The Case of the Heartbroken Bride was the 23rd such production. The wedding of pop star Heather McAdam is disrupted by a drunken interloper. When the party crasher is murdered, Heather is nabbed for the killing. Among the special guest Read More

Grass Roots

Actors: Corbin Bernsen, Mel Harris, Reginald VelJohnson, John Glover, Katherine Helmond

Synopsis: A made for TV, two-part series, this is the story of a Southern attorney who suddenly finds himself embroiled in politics, a particularly controversial murder trial and a public battle with a vindictive journalist -- all at the same time. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Delirious

Actors: John Candy, Mariel Hemingway, Emma Samms, Raymond Burr, Robert Wagner, Dylan Baker

Synopsis: John Candy plays Jack Gable, a soap-opera writer who finds himself trapped inside his own television program with a magic typewriter in this toothless comedy. Jack finds himself embroiled in protecting his beloved Laura (Emma Samms), an actress who plays Rachel Hedison in Jack's show -- "Beyond Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruthless Reporter

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason takes the case for a TV reporter falsely accused of killing the station's ego-maniacal anchorman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Maligned Mobster

Actors: Raymond Burr, Paul Anka, Mike Nader, Mason Adams, Barbara Hale

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason must reevaluate his legal principles when an old buddy asks him to represent the gangster suspected of murdering his wife. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason proves that a famous illusionist is innocent of deliberately killing his assistant during a spectacular stage stunt. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Showdown at Williams Creek

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Showdown at Williams Creek is about a British soldier named John Brown (Tom Burlinson), who moves to America's Wild West, settling in the Montana territory with the hopes of making a fortune. However, things don't go entirely as planned in America, as he has to survive not Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fashion

Actors: Scott Baio, Raymond Burr, Valerie Harper, Diana Muldaur

Synopsis: Raymond Burr once more takes on a murder case and once more reveals the genuine killer at the very last moment in Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fashion. The setting is the world of high fashion, but that doesn't stop the writers from throwing in a few mobsters for good measure. The victim Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason begins representing an author who is accused of killing her conniving ex-husband at a mystery writers convention. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason represents a Marine Officer who is accused of killing a Nazi war criminal. He is the prime suspect because the Nazi had treated his mother terribly at a concentration camp. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason listens to the pleas of a 13-year-old girl and helps her father who was falsely accused of murdering a gambler. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason represents a former student who is accused of murdering a singing star. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Defense Never Rests

Synopsis: Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) comes to the defense of his secretary friend in this made-for-TV production. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason and his assistant help a stage manager who is the prime suspect in the murder of the director who recently fired him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason has a conflict with an old friend after he begins representing the law student who is the prime suspect in the murder of his friend's son. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the All-Star Assassin

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason must help a wounded hockey star who has been accused of killing an important sports figure. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake

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

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

Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason must prove that the man whose murder conviction he upheld when he was an Appellate Court judge is really innocent. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason takes the case of a publisher implicated in the strange murder of a horror novelist. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love

Actors: Gene Barry, Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Katt, Jean Simmons

Synopsis: The Case of the Lost Love was the fourth of the Perry Mason TV movies of the 1980s. Raymond Burr plays Mason (you're surprised?), who while out of town at a lawyer's conference is reunited with Jean Simmons, his lady friend of 30 years past. Simmons has come up in the world, and is about to be Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason begins representing a friend of Della's after he is accused of murdering an old madam who is also his wife. As the intrepid attorney investigates, he soon exposes a multi-million dollar banking fraud. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel

Actors: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Katt, David Ogden Stiers, Susan Wilder

Synopsis: The last of the four Perry Mason movies telecast in 1987, The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel rounds up veterans Raymond Burr (as Mason) and Barbara Hale (as Della Street), with comparative newcomers William Katt (as Paul Drake Jr.) and David Ogden Stiers (as the "Hamilton Burger"-style Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star

Actors: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, Joe Penny, William Katt, Ron Glass

Synopsis: Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) is once more dragged out of retirement to defend a murder suspect. This time the defendant is an obnoxious actor (Joe Penny) who was seen by an audience of millions in the act of shooting a vitriolic TV talk show host (Allan Thicke). The actor claims the shooting was a Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun

Actors: Raymond Burr, William Katt

Synopsis: Following the excellent ratings response to the 1985 "reunion" special Perry Mason Returns, producers Fred Silverman and Dean Hargrove quickly assembled a second two-hour Mason TV movie in 1986. Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun finds Mason (Raymond Burr), now a judge, briefly stepping Read More

Perry Mason Returns

Actors: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale

Synopsis: In the first of a series of made-for-TV films shot two decades after the original Perry Mason television series ended in 1966, Mason (Raymond Burr), now an Appellate Court Judge, must step down from the bench in order to defend his longtime secretary Della Street (Barbara Hale) against murder Read More

Godzilla 1985: The Legend is Reborn

Synopsis: Nearly ten years after his last screen appearance (in 1975's Terror of Mecha-Godzilla), the Tokyo Terror stomps again -- albeit awkwardly -- in Toho Studios' highly-publicized bid to reestablish the Green Guy's popularity in Japan and overseas. More a remake of the 1956 classic Godzilla: King of the Monsters Read More

Airplane II: The Sequel

Actors: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, William Shatner

Synopsis: With the Jerry Zucker-Jim Abrahams-David Zucker team absent, this sequel to the cash-cow 1980 spoof Airplane once again finds garrulous man-with-a-past Ted Striker (Robert Hays) compelled to take over the controls of crippled aircraft, all the while trying to patch up his relationship with Read More

Out of the Blue

Actors: Linda Manz, Sharon Farrell, Dennis Hopper, Raymond Burr, Don Gordon

Synopsis: Out of the Blue captures the turbulence of youth culture of the early '80s by presenting a three-person nuclear family that is about to implode. In a prologue, Don Barnes (Dennis Hopper), a school bus driver, is drunkenly distracted one day behind the wheel, resulting in a horrible accident. He Read More

Peter and Paul

Actors: Robert Foxworth, Anthony Hopkins

Synopsis: This 1981 motion picture follows in the footsteps of the first Christians, led by Peter and Paul, during three decades of evangelizing in the Mediterranean region. The 195-minute version of the original TV miniseries begins in Jerusalem four years after the death of Jesus Christ when Stephen, a Read More

The Return

Actors: Neville Brand, Raymond Burr, Jan-Michael Vincent, Cybill Shepherd, Martin Landau

Synopsis: The bottom-drawer science fiction cheapie was originally released as The Return. In a dusty New Mexico town, two children and an old man witness the arrival (via poor special effects) of an alien spacecraft. The phenomenon has such a profound effect on the lives of the witnesses that they Read More

The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

Synopsis: Originally made for television, the film centers on an Egyptian archaeological expedition, and the discovery of the tomb of the famed Pharaoh. After it is opened, disturbing events mark the trip. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Night the City Screamed

Actors: Raymond Burr, Robert Culp, Georg Stanford Brown

Synopsis: A big-city blackout galvanizes the plot of the made-for-TV The Night the City Screamed. Recreating recent events in New York City, the film details a crime spree that runs unchecked throughout the darkened metropolis. Mayor Raymond Burr tries to stem the tide of robberies and rapes, even as he Read More

Love's Savage Fury

Synopsis: A made-for-TV drama clearly inspired by Gone With the Wind, Love's Savage Fury is an account of a Southern belle and two Union prison escapees who vie for a hidden treasure. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Disaster on the Coastliner

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Robert Fuller, Pat Hingle, Yvette Mimieux, William Shatner

Synopsis: It's Airplane on the rails in the made-for-TV Disaster on the Coastliner. A crazed engineer holds his employers responsible for the deaths of his wife and daughter. He gets even by setting two passenger trains on an irrevocable collision course. Salvation comes from a most unexpected corner in Read More

Never Look Down

Synopsis: This compelling video chronicles the life of Jim Fortner who was born without legs below the knees and went on to become a successful high school football coach. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Jordan Chance

Synopsis: Raymond Burr attempted a return to weekly television in this feature-length pilot for the proposed series The Jordan Chance. Having spent seven years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, attorney Frank Jordan (Burr) dedicates his life to defending others who have been falsely accused. To this Read More

The Bastard

Synopsis: Produced for the syndicated "Operation Prime Time" series, The Bastard is the first of John Jakes' "Kent Family Chronicles" (followed by The Rebels and The Seekers). Presented in two parts, the story begins in 1771, with 17-year-old French commoner Philippe Charboneau (Andrew Stevens) discovering Read More

Centennial

Actors: William Atherton, Raymond Burr, Richard Chamberlain, Timothy Dalton, Alex Karras, Robert Conrad

Synopsis: The longest (26-1/2 hours), most expensive ($25 million) and most complicated (four directors, five producers, five cinematographers, almost 100 speaking parts, several hundred extras) project made for television up to that time, Centennial was shown in two- and three-hour installments over a Read More

The Amazing World of Psychic Phenomena

Synopsis: Raymond Burr narrates this documentary that examines unexplained mysteries involving the power of the mind. The film explores psychic healing and acupuncture and looks at the life of famed psychic Edgar Cayce. Interviewed are mentalist Uri Geller and psychic/astrologer Jeanne Dixon. ~ Brian Gusse Read More

79 Park Avenue

Actors: Barbara Barrie

Synopsis: The formal title for this TV mini-series was Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue, just in case you might mistake it for William Makepeace Thackeray's 79 Park Avenue. Originally presented in three parts, this adaptation of the Robbins best-seller stars Lesley Ann Warren as Marja Fludjicki, a Read More

Tomorrow Never Comes

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

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

Aliens from Spaceship Earth

Synopsis: Aliens from Spaceship Earth is a "four-waller" documentary from the Chariot of the Gods? school of speculative filmmaking. Are there, or have their ever been, extraterrestrials in our midst? This program speculates that there are, and that such aliens have taken distinctly human form - that of Read More

Mallory

Synopsis: Raymond Burr stars again as a lawyer, this time named Arthur Mallory. No Perry Mason he, Mallory has been on the outs since being falsely accused of perjury. Eventually cleared, Mallory lives hand to mouth as a public defender, with a heightened sense of fair play when it comes to the downtrodden. Read More

Incircumstantial Evidence

Kingston: The Power Play

Synopsis: This TV film stars Raymond Burr as R. B. Kingston, a fiercely independent free-lance journalist. Kingston's boss, publishing mogul Lenka Peterson, asks him to find out why the editorial policy of one of her newspapers has changed so radically. Kingston agrees to do Ms. Peterson's legwork--but only Read More

Ironside: Season 08

Synopsis: The eighth and final season of Ironside finds wheelchair-bound detective Robert T. Ironside (Raymond Burr) continuing to purge San Francisco of criminals and murderers with the help of his assistants Sgt. Ed Brown (Don Galloway), policewoman Fran Belding (Elizabeth Baur) and aspiring lawyer Mark Read More

Ironside: Season 07

Synopsis: Wheelchair-bound detective Robert T. Ironside shows no signs of slowing down his battle against crime, corruption and persecution in Season Seven of Ironside. Likewise not slacking in their duties are the members of Ironside's team: police sergeant Ed Brown (Don Galloway), aspiring lawyer Mark Read More

Survival of Spaceship Earth

Ironside: Nightmare Trip

Crew: Director

Synopsis: En route to Los Angeles to pick up a prisoner, Sgt. Ed Brown (Don Galloway) runs into trouble in a small town. Losing his temper with a pair of hostile local cops, Ed ends up booked on a misdemeanor, thrown into jail, and subjected to some rough treatment at the hands of the local constabulary. Read More

Ironside: Achilles' Heel

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Ironside star Raymond Burr makes his TV directorial debut in this episode, in which Chief Ironside comes to the aid of a troubled Federal judge and the judge's son. Slated to preside over a well-publicized fraud case, Judge Van Buren (William Windom) is approached by "certain parties" and told to Read More

Ironside: Season 06

Synopsis: Season Six of Ironside opens with the two-part "Five Days in the Death of Sgt. Brown, in which the title character (played by Don Galloway) is felled by a sniper's bullet and faces the same fate--permanent confinement in a wheelchair--as his boss, private detective Robert T. Ironside (Raymond Read More

Ironside: Death by the Numbers

Synopsis: Raymond Burr tackles what amounts to a triple role in this episode, in which Chief Ironside investigates a series of murders that share a common bond. Each of four victims had in his possession a numbered disk: the current holder of Disk Number Five is none other than the police commissioner (Gene Read More

The Priest Killer

Actors: George Kennedy

Synopsis: The Priest Killer was the second TV pilot film starring George Kennedy as Sarge, a cop-turned-priest-turned-amateur-cop (the first was The Badge or the Cross). This second effort served as the first 2-hour episode of the Sarge series proper on September 14, 1971. The case at hand: an unknown Read More

Ironside: Season 05

Synopsis: Season Five of Ironside opens with the two-hour "The Priest Killer", which is actually the pilot for the George Kennedy TV vehicle Sarge, and as such is not included in the current Ironside syndication package. Otherwise, it's business as usual for wheelchair-bound detective Robert T. Ironside Read More

Goodbye to Yesteryear

Synopsis: The chief of detectives who is requested to locate the kidnapped daughter of a friend encounters the friend's jealous husband. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Split Second to an Epitaph

Synopsis: In this drama, the second in the "Ironside" series, the Chief becomes marked for murder after he witnesses the execution of hospital security guard. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ironside: Season 04

Synopsis: Season Four of Ironside finds the titular wheelchair-bound detective (Raymond Burr) continuing to hunt down criminals and help those who can't help themselves, assisted by his bodyguard (and now law student) Mark Sanger (Don Mitchell) and police sergeant Ed Brown (Don Galloway). Likewise very much Read More

Ironside: Season 03

Synopsis: Wheelchair-bound detective Robert T. Ironside (Raymond Burr) continues to round up miscreants and champion the underdog in season three of the TV cop series bearing his name. Likewise still in harness are the members of Ironside's support team: his loyal bodyguard-aide Mark Sanger (Don Mitchell) Read More

Ironside: Season 02

Synopsis: Drug pushers, thrill killers, civil-rights militants, college activists, illegal abortionists, phony psychics, and good cops gone bad--these are but a few of the story elements in the second season of Ironside. Though confined to a wheelchair, former San Francisco police chief turned private Read More

P.J.

Actors: George Peppard, Raymond Burr, Gayle Hunnicutt, Brock Peters, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Synopsis: In this detective drama, a struggling private detective is hired to protect a millionaire's mistress. After repeated attempts on her life, the PI moves her, the tycoon, and his family to the Bahamas. There, another attempt is made to kill the mistress, but this time the detective kills the Read More

Ironside: Season 01

Synopsis: It was a decided advantage for Ironside that the two-hour TV movie which launched the series in March of 1967 was so popular. This enabled the series to begin its first season without resorting to long-winded explanations as to how Robert Ironside (Raymond Burr), chief of detectives for the San Read More

Ironside

Actors: Raymond Burr, Wally Cox, Don Galloway, Barbara Anderson

Synopsis: In this 2-hour "NBC World Premiere" pilot film for the TV series Ironside, we learn how San Francisco chief-of-detectives Robert Ironside (Raymond Burr) came to be confined to a wheelchair. Felled by a sniper's bullet, Ironside is retained by the force as a special officer for the Frisco Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Dead Ringer

Synopsis: Raymond Burr essays a dual role in this offbeat episode, appearing as both Perry Mason and Mason's evil lookalike, a scurrilous merchant seaman named Grimes. It seems that someone has hired Grimes to pose as Mason in order to discredit the lawyer's testimony in a hearing over a million-dollar Read More

Perry Mason: Season 09

Synopsis: Show business is full of ironies. Back in 1961, the NBC western Bonanza was moved from a Saturday to a Sunday slot to avoid the heavy competiton of the popular CBS legal drama Perry Mason. By 1965, Bonanza was riding high in the ratings and the nine-year-old Perry Mason was slowly withering. Thus Read More

Perry Mason: Season 08

Synopsis: Perry Mason may have slipped out of the "Top Thirty" TV series during its seventh season on the air, but CBS decided to renew it for an eighth year all the same, acknowledging the fact that the series still had a loyal cotillion of fans and strong sponsor support. That Raymond Burr was growing Read More

Perry Mason: Season 07

Synopsis: Although Perry Mason was showing signs of fatigue as the series entered its seventh season, the producers were able to stir up a great deal of publicity and audience interest with the announcement that, in the season's fourth episode "The Case of the Deadly Verdict", the unthinkable would happen Read More

Perry Mason: Season 06

Synopsis: As a move to bolster up CBS' sagging Thursday-night schedule, the network's evergreen legal drama Perry Mason was moved from its traditional Saturday night slot in the fall of 1962, going head-to-head with ABC's popular sitcom lineup and the NBC hit Doctor Kildare. Unfortunately, to paraphrase the Read More

Perry Mason: Season 05

Synopsis: Season Five of Perry Mason marked the series' last stand in its traditional Saturday-night timeslot. Though ratings were quite good (the series ended the season in the Top Five), the CBS executives thought that the show would be more valuable on Thursdays, where the network had been Read More

Desire in the Dust

Actors: Raymond Burr, Martha Hyer, Joan Bennett, Ken Scott, Brett Halsey

Synopsis: Raymond Burr was already three years into Perry Mason when he decided to return to his movie-villain roots with Desire in the Dust. Burr, playing the patriarch of a Southern family, befriends the ex-convict (Ken Scott) who'd supposedly killed Burr's son in an auto accident. Actually the accident Read More

Perry Mason: Season 04

Synopsis: Several of the episodes in Perry Mason's fourth season did without the services of costar William Talman (aka luckless prosecutor Hamilton Burger), who as a result of a wild and highly publicized party at his home was fired from the series by CBS. Raymond Burr, who of course headed the cast as Read More

Perry Mason: Season 03

Synopsis: By the time Perry Mason rolled into its third season in the fall of 1959, the series was the 10th most popular program in America, and the uncontested leader in its Saturday night timeslot--despite formidable competition from the upstart NBC western Bonanza. Ironically, Perry Mason would Read More

Star Gazing

Synopsis: This video contains a star-studded broadcast of the 1959 Emmy Awards Ceremony. It also contains a lively comedy short from 1931. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Big Hello / The Wild Bunch

Synopsis: "The Big Hello" and "The Wild Bunch" originated as 25-minute episodes of the TV anthology Four Star Playhouse. Linking the two short films is the starring presence of Natalie Wood, who did quite a lot of TV work between 1950 and 1955. Supporting Wood in these dramatic playlets are such dependables Read More

Perry Mason: Season 02

Synopsis: Despite a less than spectacular showing during its first season, the marathon courtroom series Perry Mason quickly built up an enthuastic following, and by Season Two the series was ranked 19th in TV's "Top 25", just one notch below the western Cheyenne. Joining stars Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale Read More

Affair in Havana

Actors: John Cassavetes, Raymond Burr, Sara Shane, Lilia Lazo, Sergio Pena

Synopsis: In this suspenseful crime drama the trouble begins when the healthy wife of a crippled plantation owner prepares to leave with her handsome lover. Just before she does, her ailing husband tells her that he will only live a few months more, and if she remains with him she will inherit $20 million. Read More

Perry Mason: Season 01

Synopsis: Here's one for the "Trivial Pursuit" crowd: What was the title of the first episode of Perry Mason, and who was Mason's first client? The answer: "The Case of the Restless Redhead", based on Erle Stanley Gardner's 1954 novel of the same name; and Evelyn Bagby, played by Whitney Blake,the mother of Read More

Crime of Passion

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr, Fay Wray, Royal Dano, Virginia Grey

Synopsis: Kathy Ferguson (Barbara Stanwyck) is a cynical newspaper columnist in San Francisco, handling women's advice -- by chance one day, the paper's city editor assigns her to cover the woman's angle on the arrival of a pair of L.A. police detectives, Capt. Manny Alidos (Royal Dano) and Lt. Bill Doyle (Sterling Hayden Read More

Godzilla, King of the Monsters

Actors: Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimura, Momoko Kochi, Akira Takarada, Akihiko Hirata

Synopsis: Filmed in 1954 as Gojira, this grandaddy of all Japanese giant-reptile epics was picked up for American distribution two years later, at which time several newly filmed inserts, featuring Raymond Burr as reporter Steve Martin, were rabetted into the original footage. In both the Japanese and Read More

Please Murder Me

Synopsis: In this thriller, an amorous attorney is appalled to realize that the lovely client (with whom he was smitten) he acquitted is indeed guilty of killing her husband. Now he too feels guilty for being so gullible and so arranges for the woman to murder him so she will get caught. The woman, now Read More

Great Day in the Morning

Actors: Virginia Mayo, Robert Stack, Ruth Roman, Alex Nicol, Raymond Burr

Synopsis: When gold is discovered in the Colorado Territory at the start of the Civil War, Confederate Owen Pentecost (Robert Stack) and Union agent Stephen Kirby (Alex Nicol) battle with each other in a struggle to obtain the most gold to give to their respective armies. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

A Cry in the Night

Actors: Edmond O'Brien, Brian Donlevy, Natalie Wood, Raymond Burr, Richard Anderson, Carol Veazie, Mary Lawrence

Synopsis: Natalie Wood plays what was touted as her first "grown up" role in the tense melodrama A Cry in the Night. Based loosely on the Caryl Chessman case, the film showcases Raymond Burr as a psycho who stalks and attacks young couples on Lover's Lane. Overpowering Wood's boyfriend, Burr kidnaps the Read More

The Secret of Treasure Mountain

Actors: Valerie French, Raymond Burr, William Prince, Lance Fuller, Susan Cummings

Synopsis: Extensive stock footage from 1949's Lust for Gold is used to flesh out the Columbia potboiler Secret of Treasure Mountain. The producers went so far as to hire one of the actors of the earlier film, William Prince, in order to match the old footage with the new. The plot is set in motion some 200 Read More

The Brass Legend

Actors: Hugh O'Brian, Nancy Gates, Raymond Burr, Reba Tassell

Synopsis: During the summer lay-off of the TV series Wyatt Earp, Hugh O'Brian found time to star in the superior sagebrusher The Brass Legend. O'Brien plays a sheriff who takes full credit for the arrest of dangerous outlaw Raymond Burr. In fact, young Donald McDonald, the brother of O'Brien's fiancee Nancy Gates Read More

Ride the High Iron

Actors: Don Taylor, Sally Forrest, Raymond Burr, Lisa Golm, Otto Waldis

Synopsis: Ride the High Iron originated as the 74-minute pilot episode of the proposed TV anthology Command Performance. When the series failed to sell, the film was released theatrically by Columbia Pictures. Don Taylor stars as Hugo Danielchick, the son of poor but proud railroad worker Yanusz Danielchick Read More

A Man Alone

Actors: Ray Milland, Mary Murphy, Ward Bond, Raymond Burr, Lee Van Cleef, Arthur Space

Synopsis: Ray Milland made his directorial debut with the Republic western A Man Alone. Milland also starred in the film, playing fugitive gunslinger Wes Steele. While escaping a lynch mob, Steele stumbles onto an Arizona ranch that has been quarantined due to Yellow Fever. During his enforced stay, he Read More

Count Three and Pray

Actors: Van Heflin, Joanne Woodward, Philip Carey, Raymond Burr, Allison Hayes

Synopsis: This laid-back western manages to deliver a full quota of action, an agreeable dash of sentiment, and quite a few three-dimensional characterizations. Van Heflin plays Luke Fargo, a Civil War veteran who returns to his Southern homeland to find his house destroyed, his crops burned out, and the Read More

You're Never Too Young

Actors: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Diana Lynn, Nina Foch, Raymond Burr

Synopsis: You're Never Too Young is a slapstick-with-songs remake of the 1944 Ray Milland/Ginger Rogers vehicle The Major and the Minor. Dean Martin plays the Milland part, while Ginger's shoes are filled by...Jerry Lewis? Lewis plays an apprentice barber who inadvertently crosses a homicidal jewel thief (Raymond Burr Read More

The Ox-Bow Incident

Synopsis: Made-for-television adaptation of the Walter Van Tilburg Clark novel about a lynch mob that pounces on three men whom they think are cattle rustlers and murderers. (Alternate title: Lynch Mob) ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide Read More

Thunder Pass

Synopsis: A U.S. Army cavalry officer (Dane Clark) leads westward-bound settlers through Indian territory. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Khyber Patrol

Actors: Richard Egan, Dawn Addams, Raymond Burr, Patric Knowles, Paul Cavanagh

Synopsis: This Kiplingesque adventure yarn stars Richard Egan as a captain in the British lancers. Together with his regiment, Egan is assigned to put down an Arab rebellion in Afghanistan, stirred up by rival tribal leaders Raymond Burr and Donald Randolph. When not defending the British Empire from Read More

Party Girls for Sale

Synopsis: In this thriller, the trouble begins when the corpse of a young girl is found on the Rio de Janeiro beach. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Rear Window

Actors: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr

Synopsis: Laid up with a broken leg, photojournalist L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart) is confined to his tiny, sweltering courtyard apartment. To pass the time between visits from his nurse (Thelma Ritter) and his fashion model girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly), the binocular-wielding Jeffries stares through the Read More

Gorilla at Large

Actors: Cameron Mitchell, Anne Bancroft, Lee J. Cobb, Raymond Burr, Charlotte Austin

Synopsis: Whenever Mel Brooks wanted to get a rise out of wife Anne Bancroft during their joint talk-show appearances of the 1970s, Brooks would bring up the subject of Gorilla at Large. Easily the low point of Ms. Bancroft's movie career, the film is good for a few chuckles if one's in the proper mood. The Read More

Mannequin für Rio

Actors: Scott Brady, Raymond Burr, Johanna Matz, Ingrid Stenn

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Rio De Janeiro, They Were So Young is a tawdry "white slavery" melodrama, elevated by a first-rate cast and excellent production values. Innocent young Johanna Metz is hired for a modelling job in South America. Upon her arrival, she finds herself broke, stranded and at the Read More

Passion

Actors: Yvonne De Carlo, Cornel Wilde, Raymond Burr, Lon Chaney, Jr., Rodopho (Rudy) Acosta

Synopsis: The winning combination of producer Benedict Bogeaus and director Allan Dwan once more struck box-office gold with Passion. Set in 19th century California, the film stars Cornel Wilde as a young rancher seeking vengeance for the murders of his wife Yvonne de Carlo and his parents. The guilty Read More

Casanova's Big Night

Actors: Bob Hope, Joan Fontaine, Basil Rathbone, Audrey Dalton, Hugh Marlowe

Synopsis: Bob Hope tries to capture the comic magic of his 1946 costume farce Monsieur Beaucaire with the splashy Technicolor romp Casanova's Big Night (filmed in 1952, released in 1954). Set in 18th century Venice, the film casts Hope as Pippo, the humble tailor of notorious ladies' man Casanova (an Read More

The Bandits of Corsica

Actors: Richard Greene, Paula Raymond, Raymond Burr, Dona Drake, Raymond Greenleaf

Synopsis: Bandits of Corsica was also released as The Return of the Corsican Brothers. Bearing only the faintest resemblance to the Alexandre Dumas original, the film stars Richard Greene in the dual role of good brother Mario and his evil twin Lucien. Mario leads his fellow Corsicans in a revolt against Read More

Serpent of the Nile

Actors: Rhonda Fleming, William Lundigan, Raymond Burr, Jean Byron, Michael Ansara

Synopsis: Filmed on sets left over from the Columbia superfeature Salome (and also using generous chunks of stock footage from that film), Serpent of the Nile is a quickie retelling of the Cleopatra-Mark Antony story. The Queen of Egypt is played by Rhonda Fleming, while Antony is essayed by Raymond Burr. Read More

The Blue Gardenia

Actors: Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern, Raymond Burr, Jeff Donnell

Synopsis: After learning that her boyfriend, a GI in Korea, has found someone else, Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter) impulsively agrees to meet womanizer Harry Prebble (Raymond Burr) for dinner. Norah allows herself to get drunk and accept Prebble's invitation to his apartment. When he tries to force himself on Read More

Tarzan and the She-Devil

Actors: Lex Barker, Joyce MacKenzie, Raymond Burr, Monique Van Vooren, Tom Conway

Synopsis: The title characters of Tarzan and the She-Devil are played by Lex Barker and Monique Van Vooren. He, of course, is the loin-clothed Lord of the Jungle; she is the beautiful-but-deadly Lyra, head of a gang of ivory thieves. To expedite her crooked operation, Lyra has managed to enslave an East 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

Horizons West

Actors: Robert Ryan, Julie Adams, Rock Hudson, John McIntire, Judith Braun, Raymond Burr

Synopsis: Set in the years following the Civil War, Horizons West stars Robert Ryan as Dan Hammond, one of three Texans who decide to return home after the cessation of hostilities. While his brother Neal (Rock Hudson) and his friend Tiny (James Arness) decide to become ranchers, Dan opts for a more Read More

Mara Maru

Actors: Errol Flynn, Ruth Roman, Raymond Burr, Paul Picerni, Richard Webb

Synopsis: A very tired-looking Errol Flynn heads the cast of Maru Maru. Flynn plays deep-sea diver Gregory Mason, who is hired to locate a sunken PT boat bearing a diamond-encrusted religious icon. Mason's employer on this mission is the disreputable Brock Benedict (Raymond Burr), a firm believer in the old Read More

Meet Danny Wilson

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Shelley Winters, Raymond Burr, Tommy Farrell

Synopsis: Some observers have suggested that Meet Danny Wilson could just as well have been titled Meet Frank Sinatra. A star vehicle if ever there was one, the film casts Sinatra as Danny, a would-be singer, playing cheap saloons while waiting for the Big Break. Danny and his buddy Mike Ryan (Alex Nicol) Read More

Dragnet: The Human Bomb

Synopsis: The television saga of Jack Webb's Dragnet (the original, black and white version, that is) began on December 16, 1951, with a film adaptation of a radio episode first heard on July 21, 1949. Sgt. Joe Friday (Webb) and his partner Ben Romero (Barton Yarborough) are summoned to Los Angeles City Read More

A Place in the Sun

Actors: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Keefe Brasselle, Anne Revere, Fred Clark

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was remade in 1951 by George Stevens as A Place in the Sun. Montgomery Clift stars as George Eastman, a handsome and charming but basically aimless young man who goes to work in a Read More

Bride of the Gorilla

Actors: Barbara Payton, Lon Chaney, Jr., Raymond Burr, Tom Conway, Paul Cavanagh

Synopsis: This silly, stagebound but entertaining little monster-mash from Universal horror writer/director Curt Siodmak stars burly Raymond Burr as a steward on a rubber plantation whose romantic tryst with the boss' wife (Barbara Payton) eventually leads to the employer's murder. When one of the Read More

FBI Girl

Actors: Cesar Romero, George Brent, Audrey Totter, Tom Drake, Raymond Burr

Synopsis: Audrey Totter plays an FBI clerk who is pressed into more active duties by her bosses Cesar Romero and George Brent. Audrey's job is to uncover the criminal past of above-reproach politician Raymond Greenleaf. A pre-Perry Mason Raymond Burr plays a hulking hoodlum who suspects that Audrey is Read More

His Kind of Woman

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price, Tim Holt, Charles McGraw

Synopsis: His Kind of Woman directed by veteran John Farrow, is a convoluted mystery thriller which tries unsuccessfully to combine slapstick comedy with excessive violence, resulting in a film that depends more on stereotypes than on plot development. Nick (Raymond Burr), is a deported gang boss who needs Read More

M

Actors: David Wayne, Luther Adler, Howard Da Silva, Martin Gabel, Steve Brodie, Raymond Burr

Synopsis: It took nerve for director Joseph Losey to attempt a remake of Fritz Lang's classic chiller M, but by and large Losey was up to the challenge. David Wayne steps into the old Peter Lorre role as the compulsive child-murderer who is tracked down and then placed on trial by the criminal underworld. Read More

The Whip Hand

Actors: Carla Balenda, Elliott Reid, Edgar Barrier, Raymond Burr, Otto Waldis

Synopsis: In this anti-Communist film, a journalist goes on vacation to a small town and is surprised by the coldness of the residents. This makes him curious. His resulting investigation reveals the commies are planning to use the town as the launch pad for a biological warfare campaign. ~ Sandra Brennan Read More

New Mexico

Actors: Lew Ayres, Marilyn Maxwell, Robert Hutton, Andy Devine, Raymond Burr

Synopsis: Filmed in Ansco Color (a fancy name for Eastmancolor), New Mexico stars Lew Ayres as Capt. Hunt, a U.S. Cavalry Captain stationed in Indian territory. Sympathetic to the plight of the long-suffering Native Americans, Hunt sets out to sign a peace treaty with the local chief (Ted de Corsia). En Read More

The Magic Carpet

Actors: Lucille Ball, John Agar, Patricia Medina, George Tobias, Raymond Burr

Synopsis: Hoping to force Lucille Ball into breaking her contract, Columbia Pictures chieftain Harry Cohn assigned her to the low-budget Arabian Nights escapade The Magic Carpet. Much to Cohn's amazement, the plucky Ball agreed to appear in the film, forcing Columbia to pay her salary until her option ran Read More

Borderline

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Claire Trevor, Raymond Burr, Roy Roberts, José Torvay

Synopsis: This crime melodrama with humorous undertones involves the investigation of dope smugglers on the Mexican border. Americans Fred MacMurray and Claire Trevor enter the scene and find themselves embroiled in the illicit activities. Both are government agents, but each one thinks the other is a Read More

Unmasked

Actors: Robert Rockwell, Barbara Fuller, Raymond Burr, Hillary Brooke, Paul Harvey

Synopsis: Raymond Burr stars as Roger Lewis, the ruthless publisher of a Confidential-style scandal magazine. For a fee, Lewis will keep certain names out of his rag. From blackmail it is one short step to murder: after killing his mistress, Lewis uses his magazine to frame the woman's husband for the Read More

Key to the City

Actors: Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Marilyn Maxwell, Frank Morgan, Raymond Burr

Synopsis: George Sidney directs this pleasant romantic comedy concerning mayoral love. During a convention of mayors in San Francisco, Clarissa Standish (Loretta Young), the mayor of a small town in Maine, meets Steve Fisk (Clark Gable), the down-to-earth leader of a tiny northern California community. Read More

The Adventures of Don Juan

Actors: Errol Flynn, Viveca Lindfors, Robert Douglas, Raymond Burr, Romney Brent, Alan Hale

Synopsis: Though Errol Flynn was well past his prime (and obviously well lubricated in certain scenes), he rises to the occasion of The Adventures of Don Juan with a spirited, athletic performance. As fabled Spanish swashbuckler/lover Don Juan, Flynn spends the early portions of the film romancing willing Read More

Black Magic

Actors: Orson Welles, Nancy Guild, Akim Tamiroff, Frank Latimore

Synopsis: Gregory Ratoff is listed as sole director of the 1949 Orson Welles starrer Black Magic, but it is now common knowledge that Welles directed most of this lavish costumer himself. Told in flashback, the film recounts the life and times of notorious 18th-century hypnotist/magician/scam artist Read More

Red Light

Actors: George Raft, Virginia Mayo, Raymond Burr, Gene Lockhart, Barton MacLane

Synopsis: Infused with religious themes, this crime drama is considered a minor example of film noir. Set in Los Angeles, it tells the grim story of vengeful embezzler Nick Cherney, who plots murderous revenge after he is fired from Johnny Torno's freight company. He gets it by killing Johnny's Read More

Love Happy

Actors: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Ilona Massey, Vera-Ellen

Synopsis: The Marx Brothers' final starring feature Love Happy began life as a solo vehicle for Harpo. The financiers wouldn't go for this, insisting that all three Marx boys appear on screen. Thus, Chico was hastily written into the proceedings, while Groucho made what amounted to a guest appearance as Read More

Abandoned

Actors: Dennis O'Keefe, Gale Storm, Jeff Chandler, Meg Randall, Raymond Burr

Synopsis: Viewers who know Gale Storm only through her chaotic comic performances on TV's My Little Margie and Oh Susanna will be surprised by her subdued dramatic performance in Abandoned. Storm plays Paula Consodine, who comes to Los Angeles in search of her missing sister. Newspaperman Mark Sitko (Dennis O'Keefe Read More

Bride of Vengeance

Actors: Paulette Goddard, John Lund, MacDonald Carey, Albert Dekker, Raymond Burr, John Sutton

Synopsis: After Ray Milland turned down the leading role in Bride of Vengeance, Paramount contractee John Lund stepped into the role of Alfonso D'Este, second husband of the notorious Lucrezia Borgia. The ruthlessly ambitious Lucrezia is played by Paulette Goddard, who seems ill at ease in the role. MacDonald Carey Read More

Station West

Actors: Dick Powell, Jane Greer, Agnes Moorehead, Burl Ives, Tom Powers

Synopsis: Station West may look like a western, but it sure sounds like a contemporary film noir. Dick Powell stars as Haven, a government private investigator assigned to investigate the murders of two cavalrymen. Travelling incognito, Haven arrives in a small frontier outpost, where leggy saloon singer Read More

Walk a Crooked Mile

Actors: Louis Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe, Louise Allbritton, Raymond Burr, Carl Esmond

Synopsis: Filmed almost entirely on location, Walk a Crooked Mile was Columbia Pictures' "answer" to 20th Century-Fox's late-1940s cycle of documentary-style crime dramas. FBI agent Dan O'Hara (Dennis O'Keefe) and Scotland Yard operative Philip Grayson (Louis Hayward) team up to investigate a security leak Read More

Fighting Father Dunne

Actors: Pat O'Brien, Griff Barnett, Gene Collins, Billy Cummings, Myrna Dell, Ruth Donnelly, Darryl Hickman

Synopsis: "Boys Town" goes to turn-of-the-century St. Louis in this moving drama that chronicles the love of a determined priest struggling to turn around the lives of a street-wise gang of newsboys living at his homeless shelter. The good father has little money and must use his wits and ability to Read More

Pitfall

Actors: Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt, Raymond Burr, Jimmy Hunt

Synopsis: The darker side of the American dream is explored in the fascinating film noir Pitfall. Dick Powell stars as John Forbes, a successful insurance man with a trophy wife named Sue (Jane Wyatt) and a model child named Tommy (Jimmy Hunt). Despite all that he's achieved in life, Forbes feels somehow Read More

Sleep, My Love

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings, Don Ameche, Hazel Brooks, Rita Johnson, George Coulouris

Synopsis: This noir mystery thriller was produced by Mary Pickford and her husband Buddy Rogers, and directed by Douglas Sirk. Claudette Colbert stars as Alison Courtland, a wealthy New York socialite who awakens on a Boston-bound train with no memory of how she got there. A kindly older woman, Mrs. Read More

Ruthless

Actors: Zachary Scott, Joyce Arling, Louis Hayward, Diana Lynn, Edith Barrett, Sydney Greenstreet, Lucille Bremer, Raymond Burr

Synopsis: Sharkishly handsome Zachary Scott is right in his element in the Eagle-Lion melodrama Ruthless. Told in flashback, this is the story of the rise and fall of unscrupulous financier Horace Vendig (Scott). Hiding behind a veneer of respectability, Vendig steps on and rolls over anyone who stands in Read More

Raw Deal

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

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

Desperate

Actors: Steve Brodie, Audrey Long, Raymond Burr, Douglas Fowley, William Challee, Jason Robards, Sr.

Synopsis: With 1947's Desperate, a disturbing, noirish twist on traditional moral values, responsibility, and guilt, director Anthony Mann entered the ranks of class-A directors, though he'd still have to spend a few more years in "B" pictures. In his first important role, Steve Brodie plays newlywed Read More

Code of the West

Actors: James Warren, John Laurenz, Steve Brodie, Rita Lynn

Synopsis: The third of western hero James Warren's trio of RKO Radio vehicles, Code of the West was like its predecessors based on a story by Zane Grey. Warren plays Bob Wade, a settler on the Arizona Strip, circa 1880. Representing his fellow settlers, Wade stands up to gambling boss Carter (Raymond Burr) Read More

I Love Trouble

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

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

Without Reservations

Actors: Claudette Colbert, John Wayne, Don DeFore, Dona Drake, Anne Triola, Louella Parsons, Phil Brown

Synopsis: Without Reservations has to be the least typical John Wayne picture of the postwar era. Top billing is bestowed upon Claudette Colbert as Kit, a best-selling novelist heading westward to oversee the film version of her latest novel. Taking it upon herself to select the man who should portray the Read More

San Quentin

Actors: Lawrence Tierney, Barton MacLane, Harry Shannon, Marian Carr, Carol Forman

Synopsis: This prison reform-minded melodrama from B-movie director Gordon Douglas opens with an introduction from Lewis F. Lawes, the real-life prison warden turned author of 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932). Lawrence Tierney stars as Jim Roland, one of the founding members of the Inmate's Welfare League Read More