Richard BooneFilmography

Winter Kills

Actors: Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins, Sterling Hayden, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Based on a novel by the iconoclastic Richard Condon (of Manchurian Candidate and Prizzi's Honor fame), Winter Kills was one of the vanguard efforts in the "JFK conspiracy" school of literature. Jeff Bridges stars as Nick Kegan, the scion of a powerful Kennedyesque family, who has done his best to Read More

The Big Sleep

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone, Candy Clark, Joan Collins

Synopsis: Robert Mitchum reprises his role as Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe from Farewell, My Lovely, in this misconceived remake of Howard Hawks's classic 1946 film -- transferring the setting from 1940s California to 1970s London. Marlowe is hired by a rich and dying General Sternwood (James Stewart) Read More

The Hobbit

Synopsis: J.R.R. Tolkien's classic book about the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins and his unexpected adventures came to life in this animated, televised adaptation by Rankin-Bass Productions. Enthusiasts of Tolkien's lengthy and more demanding Lord of the Rings trilogy, as well as adult readers of The Hobbit, may be Read More

The Last Dinosaur

Synopsis: In this Japanese fantasy, the world's wealthiest man enters a time warp to a prehistoric world to hunt a Tyrannosaurus Rex. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Shootist

Actors: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, Bill McKinney, James Stewart

Synopsis: About ten minutes into The Shootist, Doctor Hostetler (James Stewart) tells aging Western gunfighter John Bernard Books (John Wayne), "You have a cancer." Knowing that his death will be painful and lingering, Books is determined to be shot in the line of "duty." In his remaining two months, Books Read More

Against a Crooked Sky

Actors: Richard Boone, Stewart Petersen, Geoffrey Land, Jewel Blanch, Gordon Hanson

Synopsis: Against a Crooked Sky is a remake of John Ford's landmark western The Searchers. Richard Boone appears in the John Wayne role, playing an ageing trapper obsessed with rescuing a white girl from her Indian captors. Another movie veteran, Henry Wilcoxon, is the ruthless yet honorable Indian chief. Read More

God's Gun

Actors: Leif Garrett, Sybil Danning, Lee Van Cleef, Jack Palance, Richard Boone

Synopsis: One of two 1976 Italian-Israeli co-productions starring Lee Van Cleef and Leif Garrett (Joseph Manduke's Kid Vengeance was the other), this spaghetti Western stars Van Cleef in a dual role as twin brothers. One of the brothers, Father John, is gunned down by the ruthless Sam Clayton (Jack Read More

The Great Niagara

Synopsis: "Stubborn old patriarch" TV movies can rise or fall depending on the leading man. Richard Boone is the star who makes Great Niagara tolerable, even in its most irritatingly macho passages. Boone plays an ill-tempered old codger who has been crippled by attempting to go over Niagara Falls in a Read More

The Detroit Connection

Synopsis: Clues come from a beautiful woman on the supposedly accidental death of an oil wildcatter which Hec Ramsey is attempting to solve. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Century Turns

Synopsis: The Century Turns is the syndication title of the 2-hour pilot for the Hec Ramsey television series. Richard Boone stars as Ramsey, an old-fashioned western lawman coming to grips with the "modern technology" of the 20th century. Ramsey teams up with college-educated criminologist Oliver Stamp (Rick Lenz Read More

Hec Ramsey [TV Series]

Synopsis: A college-educated sheriff takes on an older crimefighter as his deputy in this western. (AKA Century Turns) ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Goodnight, My Love

Actors: Barbara Bain, Richard Boone, Victor Buono, Michael Dunn

Synopsis: A made-for-TV mystery, Goodnight, My Love is bolstered by a top-flight cast and a clever script. The plot revolves around a pair of down-and-out detectives: tall and disheveled Richard Boone, and short and immaculate Michael Dunn. Boone and Dunn are hired by icy blonde Barbara Bain to locate her Read More

Deadly Harvest

Actors: Murray Hamilton

Synopsis: Richard Boone stars as Anton Solca, an Iron Curtain defector living contentedly in California's Napa Valley. Now a successful wine grower, Solca finds himself targetted by a mysterious assailant. Someone from his East European past wants him dead, and by mid-film we find out why. Patty Duke Read More

The Green Feather Mystery

Synopsis: A tribe of Indians is suspected of killing a family when a sacred Indian medicine bag is located at the scene of the crime. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Hangman's Wages

Synopsis: A killer attempts to assist his friend get out of prison by threatening to kill one person each day until the friend is released. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

In Broad Daylight

Synopsis: "Broad" is right. This gloriously overacted TV movie stars Richard Boone as a movie star who suffers an accident, leaving him totally blind. Boone's wife (Suzanne Pleshette) takes advantage of hubby's infirmity to plot an illicit romance with a local stud (Fred Beir). But remember that Boone's an Read More

Big Jake

Actors: John Wayne, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne, Christopher Mitchum

Synopsis: When his grandson (played by real-life son Ethan Wayne) is kidnapped by scurrilous baddie Richard Boone, Big Jake (John Wayne) sets out to deliver the $1 million ransom. On the off-chance that there'll be gunplay, Jake brings along his sons Patrick Wayne and Chris Mitchum. Maureen O'Hara plays Read More

The Kremlin Letter

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Richard Boone, Nigel Green, Dean Jagger, Lila Kedrova

Synopsis: When American agents in Moscow try to recover a stolen letter implicating America in an anti-Red China plot, they discover a hornet's nest of treason, double agents, murder, and betrayal. The plot has as many switchbacks as a Formula One racetrack, and a pad and paper to keep track of the agents Read More

Madron

Actors: Richard Boone, Leslie Caron, Chaim Banai, Paul L. Smith, Aharon Ipalé

Synopsis: Sister Mary (Leslie Caron) is a nun who enlists the help of Madron (Richard Boone) after she is the only survivor of an Apache massacre. A trio of lecherous bandits try to force themselves on the nun, and Madron shoots two of them to death. The third is made to swear allegiance to Sister Mary in Read More

The Arrangement

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Faye Dunaway, Deborah Kerr, Richard Boone, Hume Cronyn

Synopsis: Kirk Douglas has an extreme case of mid-life crisis in Elia Kazan's turgid melodrama (adapted from his best-selling novel). Douglas plays successful advertising executive Eddie Anderson, who cracks under the strain of the morning rush hour in Los Angeles and plows his sports car into a truck. Read More

The Night of the Following Day

Actors: Marlon Brando, Richard Boone, Rita Moreno, Pamela Franklin, Jess Hahn

Synopsis: A pair of desperate men plan to kidnap a wealthy heiress upon her arrival in France. Bud (Marlon Brando) and Leer (Richard Boone) grab the gorgeous girl (Pamela Franklin) at the airport in Paris. The limousine is driven down a deserted country road where the airplane's stewardess Vi (Rita Moreno) Read More

Kona Coast

Crew: Producer

Actors: Richard Boone, Vera Miles, Joan Blondell, Steve Ihnat, Chips Rafferty

Synopsis: Sam Moran (Richard Boone) is a Honolulu charter-boat captain who leads fishing expeditions in the tropical paradise. When his daughter is found murdered at the party of a wealthy young playboy, he seeks the truth about the murder. Convinced the playboy is guilty, he enlists the help of his friend Read More

Cimarron Strip: The Roarer

Actors: Stuart Whitman

Hombre

Actors: Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone, Diane Cilento, Cameron Mitchell

Synopsis: Yes, Paul Newman is a blue-eyed Indian in Hombre, but this apparent ethnic error is carefully justified in the body of the story. Newman plays a white man who was raised by the Apaches, and ever since has straddled two worlds, feeling truly comfortable in neither. While riding a stagecoach, Newman Read More

The War Lord

Actors: Charlton Heston, Richard Boone, Rosemary Forsyth, Maurice Evans, Guy Stockwell

Synopsis: The painstakingly accurate historical drama The War Lord is predicated on the old practice of le droit du seigneur. Norman knight Charlton Heston, in charge of an 11th century Druid community, exercises his right to claim bride Rosemary Forsyth on the night of her wedding to James Farentino. Read More

Rio Conchos

Actors: Richard Boone, Stuart Whitman, Anthony Franciosa, Wende Wagner, Warner Anderson

Synopsis: A huge shipment of rifles are stolen in Texas sometime shortly following the close of the Civil War. It turns out the rifles are going to Apaches who are being recruited by a disgruntled Rebel officer (Edmond O'Brian) who wishes to resurrect the war. Richard Boone and company are sent to reclaim Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Walking Years

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this Western spin on the existentialist drama "No Exit", Paladin (Richard Boone) collapses after being slipped a drugged drink in a Barbary Coast saloon. Upon awakening, he finds himself in chains in a dark, abandoned warehouse. Likewise imprisoned are a pretty but burned-out alcoholic named Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Sweet Lady of the Moon

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Though irrefutably guilty of murder, Carl Soddenberg (Crahan Denton) escaped the hangman's noose when he was declared insane. Now "cured", Soddenberg is release from a mental institution in the custody of Dr. Weiser (Richard Shannon). Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired to escort patient and doctor Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Lady of the Fifth Moon

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Bethel Leslie plays a dual role in this episode, as elderly Chinese dowager Jin Ho and her young grandaughter Kim Sing. Jin Ho asks Paladin (Richard Boone) to protect Kim Sing while the girl waits for a ship to take her back to her homeland. This proves difficult in that the girl has been targeted Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Be Not Forgetful to Strangers

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Riding into a wild-and-wooly frontier town on Christmas Eve, Paladin (Richard Boone) befriends a young cowboy and pregnant woman who need his help. It seems that the couple cannot find anyone willing or able to provide them lodging for the night; in fact, the only available space is a squalid Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Dream Girl

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Stuntman and future film director Hal Needham plays a sizeable role in this episode as Buddy Webster, a tough but incredibly naïve gold miner. Now that he has struck it rich, Buddy wants to fulfill a lifelong dream: to marry a beautiful saloon girl named Ginger (Peggy Ann Garner), whom he met Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Genesis

Synopsis: The sixth and final season of Have Gun, Will Travel opens with the series' long-overdue "origins" episode, explaining how soldier-of-fortune Paladin came to be...Paladin (though we still don't learn his real name). Richard Boone plays three roles, as the "contemporary" Paladin, his younger self Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Season 06

Actors: Richard Boone

Synopsis: It is somehow fitting that the sixth and final season of the adult Western Have Gun, Will Travel was launched with the series' long-overdue origins episode. In "Genesis," a flashback reveals how a man called Paladin (Richard Boone) became a professional gunslinger, after killing a dangerous Read More

A Thunder of Drums

Actors: Richard Boone, George Hamilton, Luana Patten, Arthur O'Connell, Charles Bronson

Synopsis: In this western, an idealistic and naive rookie cavalry officer is assigned to work with a cruel captain. He immediately gets on the crabby captain's bad side by trying to restart an affair with his ex-sweetheart. The woman is engaged to another who ends up getting killed by the Indians. This Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Tax Gatherer

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The town of Bad Dog, Oregon is populated by wealthy ranchers who refuse to pay their cattle taxes. Actually, it goes beyond a mere refusal: Three tax collectors have already been killed in their efforts to get the cattlemen to pay up. You guessed it: Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired as Collector Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Hanging of Aaron Gibbs

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Popular African American folksinger Odetta guest stars as Sarah Gibbs, the wife of a man condemned to be executed. Hoping to bid one last goodbye to her husband Aaron (Rupert Crosse), and to claim the body after the hanging, Sarah hires Paladin (Richard Boone) to help her carry out her wishes. Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Broken Image

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Tim Decker (Kenneth Tobey) enjoys a home-town reputation as being extraordinarily quick on the trigger. With this in mind, the townsfolk cannot understand why Tim is reluctant to give chase when a gang of outlaws rob the local bank. It is up to Paladin (Richard Boone) to coerce Tim into joining a Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Season 05

Actors: Richard Boone

Synopsis: Although the TV Western craze of the late '50s was running out of gas by the early '60s, several of the best Westerns remained firmly entrenched on network television. One of these was the "thinking man's Western," Have Gun, Will Travel, which launched its fifth season on CBS in the fall of 1961. Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Fandango

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Slated to be hanged for murder, Texas teenagers Bobby Olson (Andrew Prine) and James Horton (Jerry Summers) manage to escape. After an unexpected confrontation with Olson in the desert, Paladin (Richard Boone) offers to help Sheriff Backwater (Robert Gist) bring the two young fugitives in. What Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Squatter's Rights

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Bound by a debt of honor dating back to the Civil War, Paladin (Richard Boone) offers his gun in service to ruthless land baron Costigan (Warren Stevens). A family of squatters led by a hothead named Clemenceau (Robert Stevenson) has settled on Costigan's land, and refuses to be moved--backing up Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Princess and the Gunfighter

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Ubiquitous 1960s TV actress Arlene Martel (herein billed as Arline Sax) guest stars as Serafina, the princess of a tiny European kingdom. While on a tour of the United States, Serafina disappears, and her aides suspect she has been kidnapped. Hired to locate the Princess, Paladin finds--as he Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Shooting of Jesse May

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Seeking revenge against those who lynched his Rebel father during the Civil War, young gun Jesse May Turnbow (Robert Blake) has cut a violent swath throughout the frontier, killing ten men in cold blood. Hired to bring Turnbow to justice, Paladin (Richard Boone) conducts a search which ends up in Read More

The Alamo

Actors: John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Frankie Avalon, Richard Boone, Patrick Wayne

Synopsis: John Wayne's directorial debut The Alamo is set in 1836: Wayne plays Col. Davy Crockett, who, together with Colonels Jim Bowie (Richard Widmark) and William Travis (Laurence Harvey) and 184 hardy Americans and Texicans, defends the Alamo mission against the troops of Mexican general Santa Ana. Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Calf

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This episode is a showcase for character actor Parker Fennelly, best remembered as the dour "Titus Moody" on radio's Fred Allen Show. Fenelly plays Abraham Lee, an elderly farmer who owns a tiny patch of land bordering the property of wealthy and powerful rancher George Advent (Denver Pyle). Upset Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Ambush

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Arriving at a ferryboat station with a prisoner (Michael Ferris) in tow, Paladin (Richard Boone) is waylaid by a crazed Frenchman named Devereaux (Alan Dexter), who holds Paladin at gunpoint and orders him to "wait." Soon thereafter, Devereaux takes three more people hostage, likewise telling them Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Marshal's Boy

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Reluctant to bring in his own son Billy (Andrew Prine) on a murder charge, a town marshal (Ken Lynch) hires Paladin (Richard Boone) to do the job. Venturing into treacherous mountain country, Paladin seeks out Billy in hopes of persuading the young man into surrending peacefully and standing Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Season 04

Actors: Richard Boone

Synopsis: Season four of Have Gun, Will Travel opens with an episode in which erudite gunman Paladin (Richard Boone) comes to the aid of a Jewish immigrant who is being victimized by a young killer -- played with fulminating fervor by 27-year-old Robert Blake. A few episodes later, Paladin is hired to Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Black Sheep

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Pat Wayne, the real-life son of John Wayne, is cast as Ben Huttner, the illegitimate offspring of a wealthy Virginia colonel. The good news is that Huttner has fallen heir to the colonel's $5,000,000 estate. The bad news is that Huttner is on the lam from the law, charged with robbery and Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Ransom

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Hired to locate a missing Mexican colonel named Celine (Denver Pyle), Paladin (Richard Boone) regards the assignment as a dull one: after all, his only responsibility is to make sure that Celine signs a financial document. But when a beautiful woman named Secura likewise expresses an interest in Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Campaign of Billy Banjo

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Billy Banjo (Jacques Aubuchon), an old friend of Paladin (Richard Boone), is currently running for the Wyoming State Senate. Billy's wife Elise (Rita Lynn) is so devoted to her husband that she is willing to do anything--anything!--to assure his victory. As a result, a nervous Billy hires Paladin Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Search

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired by a mortally woman named Mrs. Kilmer (Lillian Bronson), who wants to learn the whereabouts of her long-long son before she dies. The trail of clues leads Paladin to Harper City, a town held in the grip of the wealthy--and psychotic--Fred Harper (Charles Aidman). Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Fight at Abobe Wells

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired to protect the somewhat disreputable Commodore Guilder (Ken Lynch), who must venture into Indian country to promote his latest get-rich-quick scheme. Travelling by stagecoach, Paladin, Guilder and Guilder's wife Juliana (Miranda Jones) are attacked by a Commanche Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Out at the Old Ballpark

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Paladin (Richard Boone) has been summoned to the town of Whiskey Slide, where a baseball game has been going on for days and days. Unfortunately, the makeshift ballpark has become a battleground due to long-standing feuds amongst the local players and their professional out-of-town rivals; in Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Night the Town Died

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Released from prison after eight years, Aaron Bell (Barry Cahill) heads to the town where his brother was lynched during the Civil War. Fearing that Bell craves revenge, the nervous townsfolk hire Paladin (Richard Boone) for protection. As it turns out, however, Paladin must protect Bell from the Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Season 03

Actors: Richard Boone

Synopsis: Not only was Have Gun, Will Travel America's third most popular series during the 1959-60 season, but the series had also spawned a spin-off radio program -- thereby reversing the usual procedure, in which a successful radio show was brought to television (à la Gunsmoke). But while John Dehner was Read More

I Bury the Living

Actors: Richard Boone, Theodore Bikel, Peggy Maurer, Howard I. Smith

Synopsis: Unjustly ignored by many books on the horror film, I Bury the Living is a bone-chilling little mood piece, almost completed dominated by Richard Boone. Expertly avoiding the obvious throughout the film, Boone gives a thoroughly credible performance of a troubled man who labors under the Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Season 02

Actors: Richard Boone

Synopsis: The second season of the popular CBS Western Have Gun, Will Travel marks the first appearance of "The Ballad of Paladin"," the song performed by Johnny Western during the opening credits of each episode. However, things remain the same at the beginning of each episode: the ominous chords of Bernard Herrmann Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Season 01

Actors: Richard Boone

Synopsis: The first season of the "thinking man's Western," Have Gun, Will Travel begins as erudite gun-for-hire Paladin (Richard Boone) accepts 1,000 dollars to rescue a rancher's daughter from her outlaw lover (played by Jack Lord) in "Three Bells to Perdido." Charles Bronson guest stars as the title Read More

Lizzie

Actors: Eleanor Parker, Richard Boone, Joan Blondell, Hugo Haas, Ric Roman

Synopsis: Though his staunchest supporters may disagree, Lizzie is arguably director Hugo Haas' best film. Adapted from Shirley Jackson's The Bird's Nest, the film is a tour de force for Eleanor Parker, who plays the schizophrenic title character. Depending on the circumstances, Lizzie adopts one of three Read More

The Tall T

Actors: Randolph Scott, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Sullivan, Arthur Hunnicutt, Skip Homeier

Synopsis: Perhaps the grittiest and grimmest of the Randolph Scott-Budd Boetticher collaborations, The Tall T was adapted by Burt Kennedy from the Elmore Leonard short story The Captive. Scott plays a former ranch foreman who, along with newlyweds Maureen O'Sullivan and John Hubbard, is held hostage at a Read More

The Garment Jungle

Actors: Gia Scala, Lee J. Cobb, Kerwin Mathews, Richard Boone, Valerie French, Robert Loggia

Synopsis: Vincent Sherman replaced an uncredited Robert Aldrich as director of this noirish and atypically pro-union film from the 1950's. Tulio Renata (Robert Loggia), an organizer for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, campaigns to unionize the employees of dress factory owner Walter Mitchell Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel [TV Series]

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: One of the best and most fondly remembered of the classic black-and-white adult Westerns, Have Gun, Will Travel starred Richard Boone as a gunslinger for hire who traveled under the name of Paladin. Headquartered at the Hotel Carlton in San Francisco, the college-educated Paladin spent his leisure Read More

Battle Stations

Actors: John Lund, William Bendix, Keefe Brasselle, Richard Boone, William Leslie

Synopsis: Produced by low-budget maven Bryan Foy, Battle Stations is a standard wartime melodrama with the usual assortment of cliches. John Lund plays Father Joe McIntyre, who is assigned as chaplain of an Essex-class aircraft carrier. Father Joe finds himself in conflict with the carrier's Captain (Richard Boone Read More

Star in the Dust

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

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

Away All Boats

Actors: Jeff Chandler, George Nader, Julie Adams, Lex Barker, Keith Andes

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Kenneth M. Dodson, Away All Boats stars Jeff Chandler as a tough Navy captain who takes charge of a group of raw, undisciplined sailors during World War 2. To keep his men from getting on each other's nerves, Chandler makes himself the target of their excess hatred by Read More

The Big Knife

Actors: Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey, Rod Steiger, Shelley Winters

Synopsis: Robert Aldrich's screen adaptation of Clifford Odets' stage play reflects the quandary of the writer's later career; the golden boy of the Group Theater in the '30s, when his plays were the toast of Broadway, his talent seemed to wither after a number of years in the screenwriting trenches, and a Read More

Robbers' Roost

Actors: George Montgomery, Richard Boone, Sylvia Findley, Bruce Bennett, Peter Graves

Synopsis: The 1955 western Robbers' Roost was the second film version of the venerable Zane Grey yarn. George Montgomery stars as a taciturn outlaw who lands an honest job on the spread managed by physically disabled Bruce Bennett. When Bennett's sister Sylvia Findley is kidnapped by crooked Richard Boone Read More

Man Without a Star

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, William Campbell, Claire Trevor, Richard Boone

Synopsis: In this deceptively titled and paced Western, Kirk Douglas shines in the hyper-macho role of Dempsey Rae, a good-natured drifter with a mysterious past up from Texas, a top hand with a gun, a horse, or a herd, who can even play the banjo and sing. He rides into a Wyoming town in a freight car, in Read More

Medic: Season 02

Actors: Richard Boone

Synopsis: The fifth volume of episodes from the gripping '50s TV program includes "Long Tomorrow" and "The Storm." ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Medic: Season 01

Actors: Richard Boone

Ten Wanted Men

Actors: Randolph Scott, Jocelyn Brando, Richard Boone, Alfonso Bedoya, Donna Martell

Synopsis: Randolph Scott is tall in the saddle once more in the Scott-Brown production Ten Wanted Men. The star is cast as John Stewart, who attempts to establish law and order on his vast Arizona spread without resorting to violence. Less peacefully inclined is Stewart's chief rival Wick Campbell (Richard Read More

The Raid

Actors: Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Lee Marvin, Richard Boone, Tommy Rettig

Synopsis: Based on a true story from the Civil War, this drama follows a band of Confederate POWS who escape from a New England prison head for Canada and begin planning to distract Union forces by looting and pillaging a Vermont town. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Siege at Red River

Actors: Van Johnson, Joanne Dru, Richard Boone, Milburn Stone, Jeff Morrow

Synopsis: Siege of Red River stars Van Johnson as a Confederate officer, who "appropriates" a shipment of gatling guns from the Northern troops in the waning days of the Civil War. Posing as a medicine show entrepreneur, Johnson smuggles the guns through enemy lines in his wagon. Renegade rebel Richard Boone Read More

Dragnet

Actors: Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Richard Boone, Ann Robinson, Stacy Harris

Synopsis: At the height of the popularity of his Dragnet TV series, producer/director/star Jack Webb struck a deal with Warner Bros. to direct several feature films--the first of which, but of course, was 1954's Dragnet. This time around, the "true story" in which "only the names are changed to protect the Read More

Vicki

Actors: Jeanne Crain, Jean Peters, Elliott Reid, Richard Boone, Casey Adams

Synopsis: Although a few character names and minor details are different, Vicki is a fairly faithful remake of the 1941 murder melodrama I Wake Up Screaming. The title character, Vicki Lynn, played by Jean Peters, is a waitress who is transformed into a top fashion model by press agent Steve Christopher (Elliot Reid Read More

The Robe

Actors: Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Michael Rennie, Jay Robinson

Synopsis: Historically important as the first CinemaScope feature film, 20th Century-Fox's The Robe is fine dramatic entertainment in its own right. Based on the best-selling novel by Lloyd C. Douglas, the film stars Richard Burton as the wastrelly Roman tribune who is assigned by a weary Pontius Pilate (Richard Boone Read More

Man on a Tightrope

Actors: Fredric March, Terry Moore, Gloria Grahame, Cameron Mitchell, Adolphe Menjou

Synopsis: Elia Kazan directed this drama inspired by a true story. Karel Cernik (Fredric March) is the leader of a troupe of Czechoslovakian circus performers who have been plying their trade in Eastern Europe for years. When Czechoslovakia falls under Communist rule, the proud and independent Cernik finds Read More

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef

Actors: Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Gilbert Roland, J. Carrol Naish, Richard Boone

Synopsis: At the time of its release, Beneath the 12-Mile Reef was considered more notable for its technical achievements than its artistic virtues, a judgment that is still valid, up to a point. It wasn't the most earth-shattering drama ever made, though the performances seem better than they were probably Read More

City of Bad Men

Actors: Jeanne Crain, Dale Robertson, Richard Boone, Lloyd Bridges, Carole Mathews

Synopsis: Unlike many westerns, City of Bad Men is placed within a specific historical time frame. The scene is Carson City, Nevada, in the year 1897. As the city prepares itself for the much-ballyhooed prizefight between Gentleman Jim Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons, soldier-of-fortune Brett Stanton (Dale Robertson Read More

Kangaroo

Actors: Maureen O'Hara, Peter Lawford, Finlay Currie, Richard Boone, Chips Rafferty

Synopsis: Besotted by alcohol, Australian cattle-station owner Michael McGuire (Finlay Currie) is led to believe that crooked gambler Richard Connor (Peter Lawford) is his long-lost son. Connor and his partner-in-crime Gamble (Richard Boone) go along with the gag, convincing McGuire's daughter Dell (Maureen O'Hara Read More

Red Skies of Montana

Actors: Richard Widmark, Constance Smith, Jeffrey Hunter, Richard Boone, Warren Stevens, Richard Crenna

Synopsis: Richard Widmark plays a firefighter for the US Forestry Service, a brave man who nevertheless does not believe in taking foolish risks. Widmark is branded a coward by a rookie fireman (Jeffrey Hunter) who holds Widmark responsible for the forest-fire death of the rookie's father. All passions are Read More

Return of the Texan

Actors: Dale Robertson, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan, Richard Boone, Tom Tully

Synopsis: Dale Robertson stars as Sam Crockett, a widowed rancher trying to make a go of his small spread with his father (Walter Brennan) and his two small sons. Financially strapped, Crockett is forced to go to work for nasty neighboring rancher Rod (Richard Boone). When Rod's sister-in-law Ann (Joanne Dru Read More

Way of a Gaucho

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Gene Tierney, Richard Boone, Hugh Marlowe, Everett Sloane

Synopsis: Producer/writer Philip Dunne adapted the screenplay of Way of a Gaucho from the novel by Herbert Childs. Largely filmed on location in Argentina, this is the story of Martin (Rory Calhoun), a freewheeling gaucho of the 1870s. Resenting the incursions of civilization, Martin accidentally kills a Read More

Call Me Mister

Actors: Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Danny Thomas, Dale Robertson, Benay Venuta, Richard Boone

Synopsis: The original Broadway musical Call Me Mister was a plotless revue. By the time the property made it to the screen, however, a storyline was grafted on and much of the revue's funnier (and dirtier) material was weeded out. Betty Grable stars as an American USO entertainer Kay Hudson, touring the Read More

The Desert Fox

Actors: James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy, Luther Adler, Everett Sloane

Synopsis: The Desert Fox is a superb filmed biography of German general Erwin Rommel, concentrating on the period between his retreat from North Africa and his government-decreed death. A brilliant tactician, Rommel earns the respect not only of his own men but of the enemy. Unfortunately, Adolph Hitler (Luther Adler Read More

Halls of Montezuma

Actors: Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Jack Webb, Reginald Gardiner, Richard Hylton

Synopsis: In Halls of Montezuma, Richard Widmark stars as Lt. Carl Anderson, a former schoolteacher who serves as a no-nonsense Marine officer during WW II. Anderson leads his patrol to a Japanese-controlled island, where the enemy has set up an experimental rocket base. The patrol's mission is to capture Read More