Robert Douglas Filmography

Born:
November 9, 1909 in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Occupation:
Actor, Director
Biography:
After two years' study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, British actor Robert Douglas ascended to leading-man status on the London stage. Among his earliest film appearances was a co-starring stint with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon in the Technicolor Alexander Korda production Over the Moon...Read More

  • Quincy, M.E.: Double Death

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Acting with more speed than usual, Dr. Astin (John S. Ragin) files an autopsy report declaring that a body found in the ruins of a fire was murdered. But Quincy subsequently discovers that the dead man suffered from a bad heart, which might have brought about his demise. This revelation gets Astin Read More

    1978

  • Baretta: Why Me?

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: A murder has been committed, and a woman named Linda (Anne Scheeden) is the only witness. When undercover cop Tony Baretta (Robert Blake) tries to get some information from Linda, he finds that she is in a virtual state of shock; it seems that just before the murder occurred, the woman had been Read More

    1978

  • 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

    1978

  • Baretta: Runaway Cowboy

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Robert Blake, Edward Grover, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

    Synopsis: Geraldine Brooks guest stars as Judge Anna Gavin, who years ago straightened out the life of an aimless teenage punk named Tony Baretta. Now all grown up, Baretta (Robert Blake) is an undercover cop, eternally grateful to the dedicated female jurist who directed him toward the straight and narrow. Read More

    1976

  • Baretta: Dear Tony

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Robert Blake, Edward Grover, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

    Synopsis: Most of this episode is related in flashbacks, as undercover cop Tony Baretta (Robert Blake) reads a suicide note left behind by a close friend. The bulk of the story concerns policewoman Pat Harley (Anjanette Comer), who had teamed up with Baretta to investigate the death of her husband, likewise Read More

    1976

  • Baretta: Can't Win for Losin'...

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Robert Blake, Edward Grover, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

    Synopsis: Sanford and Son regular Whitman Mayo guest stars as John Rich, a ghetto father whose son is "on the junk." Witnessing the murder of the dope pusher who hooked his son, John takes credit for the killing, thereby becoming a neighborhood hero. He also becomes the next target of the pusher's real Read More

    1976

  • The Streets of San Francisco: Asylum

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: A mental hospital is the scene of several strange and unexplained deaths. Hoping to determine the reason for the carnage--and to flush out a possible murderer--Steve Keller (Mike Douglas) goes undercover as a mental patient, after police doctor Murchison (Fred Sadoff) administers a drug that will Read More

    1975

  • The F.B.I.: The Two Million Dollar Hit

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Taking time off from his villainous duties as "Wo Fat" on Hawaii Five-O, Khigh Deigh is no less sinister in this episode as a Hong-Kong based "fence" named John Chong. After a gang of hijackers led by Stan Chasen (Henry Silva) goes to a lot of trouble--including attempted murder--to steal an Read More

    1974

  • The Questor Tapes

    Synopsis: This sci-fi film chronicles the exploits of an incredibly strong android that is totally devoid of emotion. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1973

  • The F.B.I.: Night of the Long Knives

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) poses as a caterer for a Syndicate wedding. In this capacity, Erskine hopes to gather information about a bloody internal power play instigated by Mob functionary Ed Haynes (Alex Cord). But the wedding may never come off--certainly not if Haynes is able to Read More

    1973

  • The Streets of San Francisco: Legion of the Lost

    Crew: Director

    1973

  • The Streets of San Francisco: In the Midst of Strangers

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: This is the first of several episodes of The Streets of San Francisco in which the viewers bear witness to crimes in progress and are provided all the evidence virtually from the outset, placing them several steps ahead of Detectives Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas). In this case Read More

    1972

  • The Streets of San Francisco: Timelock

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Several years before achieving stardom in the TV miniseries Rich Man--Poor Man, Peter Strauss is cast in this episode as temporarily paroled convict Bobby Jepson. Ordered to find a job during a 36-hour-pass or return to prison, Jepson runs headlong into a stone wall of prejudice and hostility Read More

    1972

  • The F.B.I.: Death Watch

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The Feds are hot on the trail of Arthur Blaisdell (Frank Hotchkiss) and Timothy Gage (Solomon Sturges), a pair of gunruners who break into a National Guard armory and steal several M1 rifles. The criminals' next move is to sell the weapons to a gang of extremists--but for what ultimate purpose? Read More

    1971

  • The F.B.I.: The Turnabout

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Warren Oates guest stars as Richie Billings, a professional thief who ends up the only survivor of a bloody armored car robbery. As he escapes to Canada with $50,000 in stolen money, Billings undergoes a radical personality change--and it may not be for the better. It is up to the FBI's Inspector Read More

    1971

  • The F.B.I.: The Diamond Millstone

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: With the "inside" help of misguided maid Maria Montoya (Pilar Seurat), a gang of thieves steals a 33-carat diamond from wealthy Everlyn Harcourt (June Vincent). The FBI enters the scene after one of the crooks is killed during the heist and the rest scatter to the four winds. Athough the gang's Read More

    1970

  • Adam-12: Log 34: Astro

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: "One Adam-12. One Adam 12". That's the call which summons Officers Reed (Kent McCord) and Malloy (Martin Milner) to a daunting array of tense situations in tonight's episode. The case load ranges from freeing an elderly couple from a wall safe, to pursuing a gang of robbers--a task that finds the Read More

    1970

  • Adam-12: Log 24: A Rare Occasion

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and his date Ruth (Carla Borelli) hope to enjoy some quality "down time" at a backyard barbecue held by Pete's partner Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and his wife Jean (Mikki Jamison). But the evening is ruined when the party is crashed by a neighborhood youngster who is Read More

    1970

  • Adam-12: Log 153: Find Me a Needle

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) are among those involved in the search for the "Mulholland Mauler." This savage serial killer preys upon young women, and has been most active in a heavily wooded "lover's lane" district. The problem facing Jim and Pete is to locate Read More

    1969

  • Adam-12: Log 52: Good Cop: Handle with Care

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Freelance photojournalists Gurney (Carl Reindel) and Bowen (Paul Darby) are determined to do an expose of police brutality. To this end, they dog the trail of Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner), hoping to catch the two cops in the act of exceeding their authority--and Read More

    1969

  • Adam-12: Log 83: A Different Thing

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Officers Malloy (Martin Milner) and Reed (Kent McCord) swing into action when suspicions arise that a hit-and-run accident was actually a case of cold-blooded murderer. Witnesses insist that a young man had a violent quarrel with the female "accident" victim on the night before the tragedy. The Read More

    1969

  • Adam-12: Log 142: As High as You Are

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In their efforts to arrest an injured burglary suspect, Officers Malloy (Martin Milner) and Reed (Kent McCord) encounter resistance in the form of a rampaging street gang. Elsewhere, the two cops are summoned to an apartment house, where the residents are up in arms over a rather unusual family Read More

    1969

  • The F.B.I.: The Young Warriors

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The FBI is summoned when a murder occurs on an Indian reservation. A local band of young Native American activists have accused a group of miners of ordering the killing, so that the miners can seize full control of the land. But Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) suspects the presence of a third party Read More

    1969

  • The F.B.I.: The Attorney

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In a situation drenched with irony, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) must prevent the murder of attorney Richard Bender, who at present is defending Arnold Toby (Linden Chiles), a mob boss whom the FBI has been trying to nail for five years. Bender's would-be assassin is Dennis Holland, who Read More

    1969

  • The F.B.I.: A Life in the Balance

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: A young James Caan heads the guest cast in this episode, wherein the heir to a plastics fortune is kidnapped. Investigating, the FBI finds blood stains at the suspected abduction site, but their labs are unable to determine whose blood it is. In order to solve this mystery--and by extension, save Read More

    1969

  • The F.B.I.: Crisis Ground

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: A murder occurs near a controversial job-training center, but the FBI does not arrest the primary suspect due to lack of evidence. This doesn't matter at all to the local citizens who have long resented the presence of the center and its "undesirable" trainees. Several of them have already found Read More

    1968

  • The F.B.I.: The Flaw

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: It was supposed to look like a suicide, but the death of a government contractor on a ski-lift near Denver was actually the handiwork of enemy spy Glen Parmenter (Barry Morse). In order to ensnare Parmenter, Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) poses as drug-addicted government employee, willing to be Read More

    1968

  • The F.B.I.: The Dynasty

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The FBI launches a search for the thieves who stripped the abandoned car owned by wealthy kidnap victim John Graham (Jim McMullan). Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) hopes that the thieves may have witnessed the crime and will be able to identify the abductor. Meanwhile, efforts to negotiate Read More

    1968

  • Secret Ceremony

    Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow, Robert Mitchum, Peggy Ashcroft, Pamela Brown

    Synopsis: Secret Ceremony was based on a prize-winning short story by Argentine civil servant Marco Denevi. Elizabeth Taylor plays Leonora, an aging prostitute who becomes convinced that Cenci (Mia Farrow) is her daughter -- who supposedly died in infancy. Cenci knows that she is in fact Leonora's niece Read More

    1968

  • Lost in Space: The Toymaker

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Here's the obligatory Irwin Allen "mad toymaker" episode, which begins when the Celestial Department Store ordering Machine malfunctions (again!) and Dr. Smith (Jonathan Harris) is turned into a toy clown. Disaster will befall everyone else unless John (Jonathan Harris) and the Robot can rescue Read More

    1967

  • Mission: Impossible: The Diamond

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

    Synopsis: Having gained control of the African nation of Lombuanda, despotic Henrik Durvard (John Van Dreelen) has compounded this outrage by confiscating a 27,000-carat diamond. He intends to sell the diamond to the highest bidder in order to finance the invasion of his neighboring nations. The IMF's Read More

    1967

  • The F.B.I.: Traitor

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: A vague clue provided by a dying spy prompts Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) to investigate the possibility of espionage within the hierachy of corporate America. The villain of this piece is Steve Ramsey (Andrew Duggan), a veteran Communist agent posing as a top-ranking CEO. Also figuring Read More

    1967

  • The F.B.I.: A Sleeper Wakes

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: After the seemingly random murder of a civil servant, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) follows the trail of clues to a Communist-funded news service based in Mexico City. What follows is a maelstrom of intrigue involving a possible defector, an eccentric collector of antiques, and a "mole" Read More

    1967

  • The Fugitive: Second Sight

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In one of those bizarre twists of fate so beloved by the writers of The Fugitive, both Richard Kimble (David Janssen) and the elusive "one-armed man" Fred Johnson (Bill Raisch) are seriously injured in an explosion--and both end up in the same hospital. Temporarily blinded in the blast, Kimble Read More

    1966

  • The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Sign of Satan

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Christopher Lee, Gia Scala, Gilbert Green, Adam Roarke, Myron Healey

    Synopsis: Christopher Lee is sublimely typecast as Karl Jorla, a European horror film star who has arrived in Hollywood to make his first American picture. But Jorla has no intention of drawing attention to himself; he not only keeps his production schedule secret, but he also refuses to let anyone know Read More

    1964

  • Night Train to Paris

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: A retired spy agrees to help his former boss by helping another agent get some tapes containing defense information to Paris. When his boss is killed, he must stay ahead of the rival agents, eventually learning that the female agent he is helping is one of them. He is able to defeat her and get Read More

    1964

  • The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Behind the Locked Door

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Gloria Swanson, James MacArthur, Lynn Loring, Whit Bissell

    Synopsis: Wealthy Mrs. Daniels (Gloria Swanson) is convinced that Dave Snowden (James MacArthur), the current boyfriend of her daughter, Bonnie (Lynn Loring), is just another fortune hunter, even though Dave insists upon marrying Bonnie after Mrs. Daniels disinherits her. But when Dave runs out of money, he Read More

    1964

  • The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Long Silence

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Michael Rennie, Phyllis Thaxter, Natalie Trundy, Jim McMullan, Connie Gilchrist

    Synopsis: Fortune hunter Ralph Manson (Michael Rennie) persuades wealthy widow Nora Cory (Phyllis Thaxter) to marry him, only to run afoul of Nora's son from a previous marriage. Manson tries to solve this problem by killing the boy, but Nora witnesses the crime -- whereupon she suffers a stroke which Read More

    1963

  • The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: You'll Be the Death of Me

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Robert Loggia, Pilar Seurat, Carmen Phillips, Kathleen Freeman, Sondra Kerr

    Synopsis: Betty Rose (Carmen Phillips) is ticked off when her boyfriend, Dandy Arthur (Robert Loggia), returns from military service with a young wife named Mieko (Pilar Seurat) in tow. After "helpfully" warning Mieko that Dandy has a homicidal streak, Betty confronts her ex-beau, resulting in a violent Read More

    1963

  • Maverick: Dutchman's Gold

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Beau (Roger Moore) wins part ownership in the Blue Bell Saloon, a heavily-in-debt enterprise managed by Charlotte Simmons (Mala Powers). Despairing over the prospect of having a losing proposition on their hands, Beau and Charlotte have their spirits lifted somewhat when they make the acquaintance Read More

    1961

  • Maverick: Kiz

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: When scatterbrained millionairess Kiz Bouchet (Kathleen Crowley) insists that somebody is trying to murder her, Beau Maverick (Roger Moore) is convinced that the girl is out of her mind. But he soon comes to believe Kiz's story--and in so doing, he tries to thwart a scheme hatched by the girl's Read More

    1960

  • The Swamp Fox: A Case of Treason

    Synopsis: In the sixth episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, 18th century American guerilla leader Francis Marion (Leslie Nielsen) has again succeeded in thwarting the plans of Redcoat officer Col. Tarleton (John Sutton). Escaping from Marion's men, Tarleton takes refuge in the home Read More

    1960

  • The Lawbreakers

    Actors: Jack Warden, Robert Douglas

    Synopsis: In this crime drama, Jack Warden stars as a police detective who makes it his business to track down wrongdoers who have been able to escape punishment. Vera Miles also appears as a secretary employed by a corrupt attorney; she teams up with Warden to bring her boss and his clients to justice. Read More

    1960

  • One Step Beyond: Encounter

    Synopsis: While surveying the dense woodlands of the Northwest, a pilot reports seeing strange visions in the sky--just before his radio cuts off in mid-sentence. Days later, the same pilot is found wandering in the desert thousands of miles away, babbling incoherently. When the wreckage of the plane is Read More

    1960

  • The Swamp Fox: Redcoat Strategy

    Synopsis: In the fifth episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, the guerilla forces under the leadership of Francis Marion (Leslie Nielsen) have succeeded in capturing British officer Col. Townes (Henry Daniell). Unfortunately, Marion's longtime enemy Col. Tarleton (John Sutton) has, at Read More

    1960

  • One Step Beyond: The Secret

    Synopsis: Left home alone on her birthday by her insensitive, domineering husband Harrison (Robert Douglas), Sylvia Ackroyd (Maria Palmer) "invents" a secret admirer by guiding her fingers to certain letters on a ouija board. Much to her amazement, Sylvia finds that her dream lover Jeremy (Albert Carrier) Read More

    1959

  • Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Arthur

    Synopsis: Season five of Alfred Hitchcock Presents gets under way with a darkly humorous character piece, directed by Hitchcock himself. Laurence Harvey heads the cast as Arthur Williams, a fairly prosperous New Zealand poultry farmer. Ever since he was jilted by his sweetheart, Helen (Hazel Court), Arthur Read More

    1959

  • Maverick: Bundle from Britain

    Synopsis: The fourth season of Maverick gets under way minus the series' popular star James Garner, who'd vacated the role of frontier gambler Bret Maverick after a contract dispute with Warner Bros.. Garner's costar Jack Kelly is still on hand as Bret's brother Bart Maverick, along with a newcomer to these Read More

    1959

  • Tarzan, the Ape Man

    Actors: Denny Miller, Robert Douglas, Joanna Barnes, Thomas Yangha

    Synopsis: This was the second Tarzan movie in 1959, and it includes footage from MGM's King Solomon's Mines and other films, telling a visually patchworked story of how Jane found Tarzan, or vice-versa. The English woman Jane Parker (Joanna Barnes) travels to Africa with her father (Robert Douglas) to look Read More

    1959

  • The Young Philadelphians

    Actors: Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Alexis Smith, Brian Keith, Diane Brewster

    Synopsis: Something of an urbanized, upscale version of Peyton Place, Vincent Sherman's
    The Young Philadelphians is a glossy adaptation of Richard Powell's bestselling novel
    The Philadelphians that revels in melodrama. The film opens strongly, with a lengthy 1924 prologue. Socialite Kate Lawrence Read More

    1959

  • Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Impromptu Murder

    Synopsis: The year is 1916; the place, a small English town. During the dedication ceremony for a new bridge, the townsfolk are shocked to see the body of a woman floating in the river. Well, technically speaking, not everyone is shocked. Henry Dow (Hume Cronyn), the mayor of the town, assumes that the body Read More

    1958

  • The Scarlet Coat

    Actors: Cornel Wilde, Michael Wilding, Sr., Anne Francis, George Sanders, Robert Douglas

    Synopsis: The infamous Benedict Arnold affair is the basis of the lively MGM costumer The Scarlet Coat. Arnold is played with suitably subtle menace by Robert Douglas, while his principal co-conspirator, Major John Andre, is essayed by Michael Wilding. The largely speculative storyline concerns the efforts Read More

    1955

  • The Virgin Queen

    Actors: Bette Davis, Richard Todd, Joan Collins, Jay Robinson, Herbert Marshall, Dan O'Herlihy

    Synopsis: Having previously portrayed England's Queen Elizabeth I in 1939's The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, Bette Davis reprises the role in the Technicolor-and-Cinescope costumer The Virgin Queen. Harry Brown and Mindret Lord's screenplay proposes that Elizabeth's relationship with adventurer Sir Read More

    1955

  • Good Morning, Miss Dove

    Actors: Jerry Paris, Jennifer Jones, Robert Stack, Kipp Hamilton, Robert Douglas, Peggy Knudsen, Chuck Connors

    Synopsis: This distaff variation of the Goodbye Mr. Chips theme is based on a novel by Frances Gray Patton. While confined to a sickbed, ageing New England schoolteacher Miss Dove (Jennifer Jones) recalls the many students who passed through her classroom. Among her now-grown-up prize pupils are surgeon Tom Read More

    1955

  • Helen of Troy

    Actors: Rossana Podestà, Jacques Sernas, Cedric Hardwicke, Stanley Baker, Niall MacGinnis

    Synopsis: Rossana Podesta may not quite possess the face that would launch a thousand ships, but she is otherwise convincing in the title role of Helen of Troy. Filmed in Italy, this super-epic costars Jacques Sernas as Paris of Troy, who sails to Sparta to secure a peace treaty between the two powerful Read More

    1955

  • King Richard and the Crusaders

    Actors: Rex Harrison, Virginia Mayo, George Sanders, Laurence Harvey, Robert Douglas

    Synopsis: Roundly panned when it was first released, this CinemaScope film version of Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman can now be enjoyed on a "high camp" level. George Sanders plays King Richard the Lionhearted, while his arch-foe Saladin is over-acted by Rex Harrison. One of Richard's objectives during the Read More

    1954

  • Saskatchewan

    Actors: Alan Ladd, Shelley Winters, Robert Douglas, J. Carrol Naish, Hugh O'Brian

    Synopsis: Saskatchewan is a "northern" starring Alan Ladd as tight-lipped Canadian Mountie Sgt. Thomas O'Rourke. He rescues Grace Markey (Shelley Winters), sole survivor of a Sioux uprising, and the two of them set out across the treacherous Saskatchewan terrain to safety. To keep himself and his companion Read More

    1954

  • Flight to Tangier

    Actors: Joan Fontaine, Jack Palance, Corinne Calvet, Robert Douglas, Marcel Dalio

    Synopsis: In this suspense drama, a group of strangers becomes acquainted as they wait for a plane to arrive at an airport in Tangier. Among those awaiting the flight are Susan (Joan Fontaine), an American who is dating the pilot; Gil Walker (Jack Palance), an expatriate who received the Congressional Medal Read More

    1953

  • Fair Wind to Java

    Actors: Fred MacMurray, Vera Ralston, Robert Douglas, Victor McLaglen, John Russell

    Synopsis: Republic Pictures' notion of an "epic", Fair Wind to Java manages to pack in enough entertainment value to send the adventure fans home happy. Tough South Seas skipper Fred MacMurray goes hunting for pearls on a forbidden Javanese island. Native girl Vera Ralston (never mind her Czech accent) Read More

    1953

  • The Desert Rats

    Actors: Richard Burton, Robert Newton, Robert Douglas, James Mason, Torin Thatcher, Chips Rafferty

    Synopsis: The Desert Rats was a quickly assembled follow-up to 20th Century-Fox's successful war film The Desert Fox. Richard Burton plays an officer in the British Eighth Army, battling Rommel's forces in defense of Tobruk. Put in charge of an Australian unit, Burton rides his men ruthlessly, with Read More

    1953

  • Ivanhoe

    Actors: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Emlyn Williams

    Synopsis: Produced by MGM's British facilities, the Technicolor Ivanhoe starred Robert Taylor in the title role. Returning to England from the Third Crusades, Ivanhoe is given a cool but cordial reception by his estranged father Cedric (Finlay Currie), a Saxon who despises the Norman king Richard the Read More

    1952

  • The Prisoner of Zenda

    Actors: Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, James Mason, Louis Calhern, Jane Greer, Lewis Stone

    Synopsis: Mistaken identity and underhanded dealings set the stage for this adventure story based on Anthony Hope's classic novel. Rudolph Rassendyll (Stewart Granger) is a British tourist visiting the nation of Ruritania in the Balkans. A number of people comment upon Rassendyll's remarkable resemblance to Read More

    1952

  • Thunder on the Hill

    Actors: Claudette Colbert, Ann Blyth, Robert Douglas, Anne Crawford, Phillip Friend

    Synopsis: Charlotte Hastings' West End stage hit Bonaventure was adroitly translated to the American screen as Thunder on the Hill. The bulk of the action takes place at convent, presided over by Sister Mary (Claudette Colbert). Circumstances -- namely, a dangerous rainstorm and raging flood -- dictate that Read More

    1951

  • At Sword's Point

    Actors: Cornel Wilde, Maureen O'Hara, Dan O'Herlihy, Robert Douglas, Gladys Cooper, June Clayworth

    Synopsis: At Sword's Point is about the sons of Dumas' Three Musketeers--one of those "sons" being of the female persuasion, played by Maureen O'Hara. As the swash-buckling daughter of Athos, O'Hara joins the offspring of Aramis and Porthos, portrayed respectively by Dan O'Herlihy and Alan Hale Jr., as well Read More

    1951

  • Target Unknown

    Actors: Mark Stevens, Alex Nicol, Robert Douglas, Don Taylor, Gig Young

    Synopsis: Set during WW II, Target Unknown follows the exploits of a group of American flyers who crash behind enemy lines. Captured by the Germans, the flyers are interrogated separately. The Nazi higher-ups are eventually convinced that they've gleaned enough information to know where and when the next Read More

    1951

  • Buccaneer's Girl

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

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

    1950

  • Barricade

    Actors: Ruth Roman, Dane Clark, Raymond Massey, Robert Douglas, Morgan Farley

    Synopsis: Gold-mine operator "Boss" Kruger (Raymond Massey) has certainly earned his nickname. A frontier dictator, Kruger runs his mine like a prison colony; indeed, most of the workers are fugitives from justice, given dubious "protection" by Kruger. Two of the laborers are Judith Burns (Ruth Roman) and Read More

    1950