Richard EganFilmography

The Sweet Creek County War

Actors: Richard Egan, Albert Salmi, Nita Talbot, Slim Pickens, Robert J. Wilke

Synopsis: In this western, a sheriff gets tired of upholding the law and retires to a quiet ranch. Unfortunately, he ends up saving his homesteader neighbors from a corrupt Wyoming land grabber. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Kino, the Padre on Horseback

Synopsis: A California mission priest encounters many trials in the Old West. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Mission to Glory: A True Story

Synopsis: This adventure is based upon the true life exploits of 17th-century missionary, Father Francisco "Kino" Kin who was instrumental in developing the Southwest and fought hard to keep the murderous conquistadors from slaughtering the Apaches. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Amsterdam Kill

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Bradford Dillman, Richard Egan, Leslie Nielsen, Keye Luke

Synopsis: Robert Mitchum seems more aloof and detached than usual in the Hong Kong-produced crime caper Amsterdam Kill. Mitchum plays a washed-up police officer, hired by DEA agent Bradford Dillman to help plug up a security leak. Someone is blabbing the name of the department's contacts in Hong Kong, and Read More

Throw Out the Anchor

Synopsis: In this comedy, a jobless public relations specialist goes to get some much-needed rest in sunny Florida and discovers a whole new set of troubles. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Shootout in a One-Dog Town

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Shootout in a One-Dog Town is a rare foray into straight-faced adventure by "comedy western" specialist Burt Kennedy. Richard Crenna stars as a banker in a heat-parched Southwestern town. Richard Egan and his gang mosey into town with the barely concealed intention of relieving the Read More

Day of the Wolves

Synopsis: Another perfect crime is committed in this crime drama. This time, a tiny town finds itself terrorized and completely sealed off by seven strangely bearded men, who promptly begin stealing everything in sight. The only one who can save the town is the former sheriff. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: The Unicorn

Synopsis: Richard Egan guest stars as waterfront priest Father Joe Scarne, who hinders a robbery investigation by refusing to reveal the whereabouts of the main suspect to Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas). An essential ingredient to the outcome of the case is a stolen crate of cobra venom Read More

The Left Hand of Gemini

Moonfire

Actors: Sonny Liston

Synopsis: Moonfire was shot almost entirely out of doors, which was supposed to enhance the realism but which makes the film look all the more like a home movie. Charles Napier plays a trucker who is sucked into a blackmail plot by sinister forces. Ex-boxer Sonny Liston is given special billing as "The Read More

The House That Would Not Die

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck

Synopsis: Barbara Stanwyck made her TV movie debut in 1970's The House That Would Not Die. The setting is an old house in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Stanwyck moves after inheriting the house, but has cause to rethink her decision. Built during the Revolutionary era, the house is said to be haunted by the Read More

The Big Cube

Actors: Lana Turner, George Chakiris, Richard Egan, Dan O'Herlihy, Pamela Rodgers

Synopsis: “The Big Cube” of the title is slang for a sugar cube dipped in LSD, which is omnipresent throughout the movie. Adriana Roman (Lana Turner) is a famous actress who is retiring from the stage to marry wealthy Charles Winthrop (Dan O’Herlihy), a situation that displeases Winthrop’s daughter Lisa. Read More

Chubasco

Actors: Richard Egan, Christopher Jones, Susan Strasberg, Simon Oakland

Synopsis: Chubasco (Christopher Jones) is a wayward youth who is given a choice by the presiding judge. His choices are go to jail or take an honest job on a fishing boat. He chooses to set sail, leaving behind his girl Bunny (Susan Strasberg) and her father Sebastian (Richard Egan), who obviously has it Read More

The Destructors

Actors: Richard Egan, Patricia Owens, John Ericson, Michael Ansara, Joan Blackman

Synopsis: National Intelligence Agent Dan Street (Richard Egan) is on the trail of some stolen laser rubies. It is assumed the agents will come after the raygun itself for their evil purposes. Count Romano (Michael Ansara) is the swimsuit-import mogul who tries to keep his head from going under while Read More

Valley of Mystery

Actors: Richard Egan, Harry Guardino, Joby Baker, Lois Nettleton

Synopsis: In this adventure, a commercial plane crashes in a remote South American jungle. All but one of the passengers survive. Unfortunately, he was the sheriff in charge of taking a dangerous criminal to the executioner. During the excitement of the crash, the prisoner killed the lawman. Among the other Read More

Fanfare for a Death Scene

Synopsis: Fanfare for a Death Scene was one of a handful of TV dramas originally presented on NBC's Kraft Suspense Theatre, then reedited for European theatrical release. Richard Egan stars as an American secret agent, on the trail of a vanished scientist. Egan must recover the scientist's Read More

The 300 Spartans

Actors: Richard Egan, Ralph Richardson, Diane Baker, Barry Coe, David Farrar

Synopsis: A colorful action film about the Battle Of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. in which the Spartans defend themselves for a Persian invasion against overwhelming odds. King Leodinas (Richard Egan) rallies the locals to stop the attack of thousands of plundering Persian invaders led by evil King Xerxes (David Read More

Esther and the King

Actors: Joan Collins, Richard Egan, Denis O'Dea, Sergio Fantoni

Synopsis: Just over a decade before she would gain fame and some fortune as Alexis Carrington in television's Dynasty series, Joan Collins starred as Esther in this melodramatic, routine Biblical story. The setting is Persia in the 4th century BC, as Esther comes to the attention of the recently widowed Read More

Pollyanna

Actors: Jane Wyman, Hayley Mills, Richard Egan, Karl Malden, Nancy Olson, Adolphe Menjou

Synopsis: Eleanor H. Porter's story of Pollyanna, "The Glad Girl," was first filmed in 1920 by Mary Pickford. While entertaining, the Pickford version tended to reduce the supporting characters to stereotypes. Disney's 1960 remake of Pollyanna wisely offers three-dimensional characterizations, enhancing the Read More

A Summer Place

Actors: Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee, Arthur Kennedy, Troy Donahue

Synopsis: The Jorgensons are a wealthy family spending the summer on a resort island. Ken (Richard Egan), Helen (Constance Ford) and daughter Molly (Sandra Dee) settle in to a beach house on the island where Ken was a young lifeguard twenty years ago. He rediscovers Sylvia (Dorothy McGuire), with whom he Read More

These Thousand Hills

Actors: Don Murray, Richard Egan, Lee Remick, Stuart Whitman, Albert Dekker

Synopsis: Don Murray stars as a humble cowboy with aspirations for bigger things. He borrows money from his dance-hall girlfriend Lee Remick to buy a ranch, then dumps Remick in favor of banker's daughter Patricia Owens. Murray runs for political office, and in so doing is compelled to join a posse in Read More

The Hunters

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Robert Wagner, Richard Egan, May Britt, Lee Philips

Synopsis: Directed with crisp efficiency by Dick Powell, The Hunters is a romantic melodrama with an aviation angle. Robert Mitchum plays veteran Air Force pilot Maj. Cleve Saville, in charge of a group of young flyboys in 1952 Korea. Among the men under Saville's command are cocksure Lt. Ed Peil (Robert Read More

The Voice in the Mirror

Actors: Richard Egan, Julie London, Arthur O'Connell, Walter Matthau, Troy Donahue

Synopsis: In this sensitive drama, a commercial artist is devastated by his tiny daughter's death and takes to drinking to numb the terrible pain. Soon he has become a full-blown alcoholic. His loving wife and caring doctor are unable to help. He wants to stop drinking, but he simply cannot until he meets Read More

Slaughter on Tenth Avenue

Actors: Richard Egan, Jan Sterling, Dan Duryea, Julie Adams, Walter Matthau

Synopsis: Though Slaughter on Tenth Avenue's background music relies heavily on the Richard Rodgers composition of the same name, the film itself bears no relation to the ten-minute ballet for which Rodgers wrote the piece. Instead, this Albert Zugsmith-produced crime meller attempts to expose waterfront Read More

The Revolt of Mamie Stover

Actors: Jane Russell, Richard Egan, Joan Leslie, Agnes Moorehead, Jorja Curtright

Synopsis: Set in the early '40s and directed by Raoul Walsh, The Revolt of Mamie Stover stars Jane Russell as Mamie, a San Francisco prostitute who is run out of town just as the second world war has begun to intensify. Mamie (Russell) settles down in Hawaii, hoping to start a new life. Though her prospects Read More

Tension at Table Rock

Actors: Richard Egan, Dorothy Malone, Cameron Mitchell, Billy Chapin, Royal Dano

Synopsis: In this typical 1950s Western, cowboy Wes Tancred (Richard Egan) is publicly vilified after killing a famous gunslinger who was a public hero. In fact, the hero was a villain, and Tancred killed him in self-defense, but Tancred is so scorned for his act that there is a mean-spirited ballad sung Read More

Love Me Tender

Actors: Richard Egan, Debra Paget, Elvis Presley, Robert Middleton, William Campbell

Synopsis: Elvis Presley made his motion picture debut in the Civil War drama Love Me Tender. Elvis, however, is not the star of the proceedings: that honor goes jointly to Richard Egan and Debra Paget. The story concerns three brothers--Egan, William Campbell and James Drury--who steal a Union payroll on Read More

Underwater!

Actors: Jane Russell, Gilbert Roland, Richard Egan, Lori Nelson, Robert Keith

Synopsis: Both Jane Russell and her uncredited stunt double look great in skimpy swimwear throughout the Technicolor and SuperScope romantic adventure Underwater. Ms. Russell is cast as the wife of fortune-chasing Richard Egan, who takes her along to the Caribbean on a treasure hunt. The couple is Read More

Seven Cities of Gold

Actors: Richard Egan, Anthony Quinn, Michael Rennie, Jeffrey Hunter, Rita Moreno

Synopsis: Seven Cities of Gold is the story of Father Junipero Serra (Michael Rennie), the 18th century Jesuit priest who founded the first missions in California. Based on the novel by Isabelle Gibson Ziegler, the film adds a dash of intrigue and adventure to the story in the person of a Spanish military Read More

The View from Pompey's Head

Actors: Richard Egan, Dana Wynter, Cameron Mitchell, Sidney Blackmer, Marjorie Rambeau

Synopsis: Miscegenation, that old reliable bugaboo of many a Southern-based novel, is at the center of Hamilton Basso's The View from Pompey's Head. The film version stars Richard Egan as a New York lawyer who returns to his Southern home town to investigate an embezzlement charge. The victim is an ageing Read More

Untamed

Actors: Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Richard Egan, John Justin, Agnes Moorehead

Synopsis: Tyrone Power is a Dutchman, and Susan Hayward is an Irish lass. If you believe that, then the rest of Untamed will go down a lot easier. Power is a Boer calvary commander attempting to bring peace to his South African homeland. He has an affair with Hayward, a married woman whose husband is killed Read More

Violent Saturday

Actors: Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Stephen McNally, Virginia Leith, Lee Marvin, Tommy Noonan

Synopsis: Three bank robbers (J. Carroll Naish, Lee Marvin, Stephen McNally) case a small Arizona mining town prior to pulling a holdup. The audience get to know the various townsfolk as they're scrutinized by the crooks. Victor Mature plays a man who is a disappointment to his son because he didn't serve Read More

Gog

Actors: Richard Egan, Constance Dowling, Herbert Marshall, John Wengraf, Philip Van Zandt

Synopsis: When two scientists at a top-secret government installation devoted to space research are killed -- in their own test chamber, seemingly by an experiment gone awry -- Dr. David Sheppard (Richard Egan) is sent out from Washington to investigate. Sheppard mixes easily enough with the somewhat Read More

Demetrius and the Gladiators

Actors: Victor Mature, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Anne Bancroft

Synopsis: Demetrius and the Gladiators was the sequel to The Robe, and though they were released several months apart, the films were shot at the same time. Based on characters originally conceived by Lloyd C. Douglas, the film stars Victor Mature as the title character, an ex-slave who embraced 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

Wicked Woman

Actors: Beverly Michaels, Richard Egan, Percy Helton, Evelyn Scott, Robert Osterloh

Synopsis: Though Wicked Woman may look like one of those heavy-breathing Hugo Haas-directed melodramas, the film was in fact directed by screenwriter Russell Rouse. The title character, played by Beverly Michaels, is a trashy blonde who swivels into a small California town. Here she weaves her seductive web Read More

The Kid from Left Field

Actors: Dan Dailey, Anne Bancroft, Billy Chapin, Lloyd Bridges, Ray Collins

Synopsis: Despite the lighthearted promotional campaign mounted by 20th Century-Fox when the film was first released, The Kid from Left Field is not a comedy. The title character is young Christy Mathewson Cooper (Billy Chapin), the son of former big-league ballplayer Larry Cooper (Dan Dailey), who is now Read More

Split Second

Actors: Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling, Keith Andes, Arthur Hunnicutt

Synopsis: Actor Dick Powell made an impressive film debut with the taut atomic-age suspenser Split Second. Convicts Stephen McNally, Paul Kelly and Frank DeKova escape to a ghost town in the Nevada desert. Only it isn't exactly a ghost town, but a "dummy village" constructed for the purpose of A-bomb Read More

The Glory Brigade

Actors: Victor Mature, Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin, Richard Egan, Nick Dennis

Synopsis: The Glory Brigade is a standard Korean War combat drama with a few interesting plot wrinkles. Victor Mature stars as Lt. Sam Prior, an American of Greek extraction. While trying to cross a bridge into Red territory, Prior loses most of his men, a fact he attributes to the seeming cowardice of the Read More

The Devil Makes Three

Actors: Gene Kelly, Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Richard Rober, Richard Egan, Claus Clausen

Synopsis: Gene Kelly tackles a rare non-singing or dancing role in this post-war drama. Kelly plays Capt. Jeff Eliot, whose life was saved during World War II when a German family rescued him after his plane was shot down over Munich. In 1948, Eliot travels to Germany to thank the Lehrt Family for their Read More

Blackbeard the Pirate

Actors: Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix, Keith Andes, Torin Thatcher

Synopsis: Robert Newton exhibits absolutely no shame in his portrayal of the title character in Blackbeard the Pirate. If you thought that Newton's "Arr, matey"s got out of hand in Treasure Island, wait til you see this one. The plot concerns the efforts of the British admirality to bring Blackbeard to Read More

One Minute to Zero

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Ann Blyth, William Talman, Charles McGraw, Margaret Sheridan

Synopsis: This Korean War drama is essentially a vehicle for RKO's top male star Robert Mitchum. He plays war-weary "Colonel Steve," obliged to contend with the North Korean forces while keeping troublesome UN official Linda Day (Ann Blyth) at arm's length. Some authentic Korean combat footage is Read More

The Battle at Apache Pass

Actors: John Lund, Jeff Chandler, Beverly Tyler, Bruce Cowling, Susan Cabot

Synopsis: Two of the cast members from the 1950 western Broken Arrow, Jeff Chandler and Jay Silverheels, recreate their earlier roles in 1952's Battle at Apache Pass. Chandler plays temperate Indian leader Cochise, while Silverheels is the more explosive Geronimo. The film takes place several years before Read More

Cripple Creek

Actors: George Montgomery, Karin [Katharine] Booth, Jerome Courtland, William Bishop, Richard Egan

Synopsis: Cripple Creek is an excellent example of Columbia's "A-minus/B-plus" Technicolor westerns of the 1950s. Government agent Bret Ivers (George Montgomery) goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of gold smugglers. Ivers and his two partners (Jerome Courtland and Richard Egan) face exposure and sudden Read More

Up Front

Actors: David Wayne, Tom Ewell, Marina Berti, Jeffrey Lynn, Richard Egan

Synopsis: Up Front is based on the wartime newspaper cartoons by Stars and Stripes contributor Bill Mauldin. Tom Ewell and David Wayne play Willie and Joe, the mud-caked, unshaven, war-weary protagonists of Mauldin's classic panels. The film is on the right track whenever using direct quotes from the Read More

Bright Victory

Actors: Arthur Kennedy, Peggy Dow, Julie Adams, John Hudson, James Edwards

Synopsis: Arthur Kennedy stars as a blinded war veteran struggling to adjust to his affliction in peacetime. He must overcome his pugnacious attitude towards any problem he can't think his way out of--and he must learn to temper his inbred racial prejudices. Peggy Dow plays the woman who loves Kennedy Read More

The Golden Horde

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

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

Flame of Araby

Actors: Maureen O'Hara, Jeff Chandler, Maxwell Reed, Susan Cabot, Lon Chaney, Jr.

Synopsis: The aggressively Irish Maureen O'Hara and the staunchly American Jeff Chandler are cast as Arabian Nights types in Flame of Araby. Chandler plays Tamerlaine, a Bedouin chief who is engaged in a hunt for a legendary black stallion. Also coveting the prize steed is Tunisian princess Tanya (O'Hara) Read More

Hollywood Story

Actors: Richard Conte, Julie Adams, Richard Egan, Henry Hull, Fred Clark

Synopsis: Economically utilizing the Universal Studio itself as a "set," Hollywood Story is a murder mystery centered in the film capital. The story concerns a long-unsolved homicide case involving several silent-film stars (an echo of the William Desmond Taylor scandal of 1922). Producer Richard Conte Read More

The Killer That Stalked New York

Actors: Evelyn Keyes, Charles Korvin, William Bishop, Dorothy Malone, Lola Albright

Synopsis: A married team of diamond smugglers enter New York to fence their purloined gems unaware that the wife is carrying the highly contagious, deadly smallpox virus. The crooks ensconce themselves in a hotel without realizing that the wife's every move is being monitored by a Treasury agent. The Read More

The Damned Don't Cry

Actors: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran, Kent Smith, Hugh Sanders

Synopsis: A woman's desire to rise above her drab lower middle-class life take her down the road to destruction in this gripping crime melodrama. The story opens as she cowers insider her old home, fearing the inevitable arrival of the murderous gangsters pursuing her. Her tragic tale unfolds via flashback. Read More

Highway 301

Actors: Steve Cochran, Virginia Grey, Gaby André, Edmon Ryan, Robert Webber

Synopsis: Filmmaker Andrew Stone was always a staunch believer in realism at all costs. Thus it was that much of Highway 301 was lensed on a genuine (and very busy) interstate highway. Based on fact, the film recounts the bloody exploits of the notorious "Tri-State Gang," which preyed upon truck drivers. Read More

Undercover Girl

Actors: Alexis Smith, Scott Brady, Richard Egan, Gladys George, Edmon Ryan, Royal Dano

Synopsis: Undercover Girl was leading-lady Alexis Smith's least-favorite film, though she is professional enough to give it her all. Per the title, the film casts Smith as rookie policewoman Christine Miller, who volunteers to go undercover to avenge her father's death. Posing as a drug dealer, Christine Read More

The Good Humor Man

Actors: Jack Carson, Lola Albright, Jean Wallace, George Reeves, Gerald Perreau-Saissine

Synopsis: In the tradition of Red Skelton's The Fuller Brush Man and The Yellow Cab Man comes The Good Humor Man, with Jack Carson subbing for Skelton this time out. Carson plays Biff Jones, who when not peddling Good Humor ice cream carries on a romance with perky Margie Bellew (Lola Albright). Through a Read More

Kansas Raiders

Actors: Audie Murphy, Brian Donlevy, Marguerite Chapman, Scott Brady, Tony Curtis

Synopsis: Having previously played Billy the Kid, Audie Murphy assumes the role of Jesse James in Kansas Raiders. The plot finds Jesse and his brother Frank (Richard Long), together with the Younger Brothers (James Best, John Kellogg and Tony Curtis -- yes, Tony Curtis) joining Quantrill's Raiders. Read More

Wyoming Mail

Actors: Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Howard Da Silva, Ed Begley, Sr., Dan Riss

Synopsis: Wyoming Mail stars Stephen McNally as frontier postal inspector Steve Davis. Assigned to break up a gang of outlaws who prey upon mail trains, Davis goes undercover, posing first as a fugitive from justice. Joining the bandit gang run by the ruthless Cavanaugh (Howard da Silva), Davis discovers Read More