Rock HudsonFilmography

The Vegas Strip War

Actors: Rock Hudson, Sharon Stone

Synopsis: In this drama, a casino owner (Rock Hudson) fights against his double-crossing ex-partners by remodeling the ramshackle joint across from theirs. Soon he has made it the grandest place in Las Vegas. This was Hudson's final film. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Ambassador

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Ellen Burstyn, Rock Hudson, Fabio Testi, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: Robert Mitchum plays as U.S. ambassador to Israel whose efforts at reaching a peace agreement with the Palestinians run afoul of the somewhat questionable ambitions of security advisor Rock Hudson. Meanwhile, Mitchum's wife Ellen Burstyn embarks upon an affair with a PLO leader. When this fact Read More

The Devlin Connection [TV Series]

Actors: Rock Hudson, Jack Scalia, Leigh Taylor-Young, Louis Giambalvo

Synopsis: This NBC detective show premiered about five years after Rock Hudson's hit program McMillan and Wife took its final bows (and on the same network), but experienced a much shorter run. As Hudson's final series, it starred the legendary actor as Brian Devlin, an independently wealthy playboy resting Read More

In Conversation with Rock Hudson

Actors: Paul F. Ryan, Rock Hudson

Synopsis: This program features a 1982 interview with actor Rock Hudson. Hudson discusses his acting career, in which he starred in such films as Giant, Pillow Talk, Magnificent Obsession, A Gathering of Eagles, and Ice Station Zebra. The two converse about the entertainment industry and Hudson's Read More

World War III

Actors: Rock Hudson

Synopsis: World War III is an ambitious if unnecessarily protracted speculative TV movie. Set in a "future December," the film prophesies an American grain embargo levied on Russia. US President Rock Hudson is entreated by the Soviet higher-ups to drop the ban; meanwhile, a group of renegade Russian Read More

The Devlin Connection 3: Love, Sex, Sin, and Death at Point Dume

Actors: Rock Hudson

Synopsis: An episode from the early-'80s TV series Devlin Connection finds a retired detective (Rock Hudson) teaching his son (Jack Scalia) the family business. Their friend (Leigh Taylor-Young) is being hunted by a desperate killer. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Star Maker

Synopsis: The infamous casting couch is the center point of this Hollywood behind-the-scenes drama that chronicles the exploits of a movie mogul and the actresses he turns into stars. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Mirror Crack'd

Actors: Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Edward Fox, Rock Hudson, Geraldine Chaplin

Synopsis: Angela Lansbury takes over the legacy of Margaret Rutherford as Agatha Christie's dogged sleuth Miss Marple in The Mirror Crack'd. The story takes place on a film set in a small British town in the 1950s. Elizabeth Taylor plays a washed-up actress trying to make a comeback but is plagued by a Read More

The Martian Chronicles

Actors: Rock Hudson

Synopsis: Everyone who tuned into The Martian Chronicles during its three-day run in January of 1980 sincerely hoped that it would be the ne plus ultra of televised sci-fi/fantasy. That it fell short of this goal was not the fault of the actors but of the script, which reduced Ray Bradbury's complex Read More

Arthur Hailey's Wheels

Actors: Rock Hudson, Lee Remick, Blair Brown, John Beck, Ralph Bellamy

Synopsis: Another of the many Arthur Hailey literary properties which were transformed into TV miniseries in the 1970s, the five-part, ten-hour Wheels took place in Detroit sometime in the late 1960s. Rock Hudson starred as Adam Trenton, executive in charge of project development at the fictional Read More

Avalanche

Actors: Rock Hudson, Mia Farrow, Robert Forster, Jeanette Nolan, Rick Moses

Synopsis: When an "I'm-just-makin'-money" developer plops his new ski lodge at the foot of a mountain, the locals warn him about snowslides. So it's not too long before a gigantic avalanche buries the lodge and all the snow bunnies in it. Rock Hudson plays the ski lodge owner and Mia Farrow is his Read More

McMillan and Wife: Phillip's Game

Actors: Rock Hudson

Synopsis: In this crime drama, the police commissioner finds his life in jeopardy after he is enraged by an eloquent hit man. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

McMillan and Wife: Have You Heard About Vanessa

Actors: Rock Hudson

Synopsis: After a model commits suicide, Commissioner McMillan looks for clues in the model's lonely, pretentious lifestyle. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

McMillan & Wife: All Bets Off

Synopsis: All Bets Off was the opening episode for the sixth season of the TV series McMillan. Since San Francisco police commissioner McMillan (Rock Hudson) is now a widower, the title of the series no longer includes the tag ..."and Wife". While vacationing in Vegas, McMillan's new girl friend (Jessica Walter Read More

McMillan and Wife: Season 06

Actors: Rock Hudson, John Schuck, Martha Raye, Richard Gilliland, Gloria Stroock

Synopsis: Although it remained a rotating component of The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie (along with Columbo, McCloud, Quincy, M.E., and Lanigan's Rabbi), McMillan and Wife underwent quite a few remarkable changes for its sixth and final season on the air. To begin with, the series' title has been shortened to Read More

Created to Kill

Actors: Rock Hudson, Diane Ladd, Barbara Carrera, Roddy McDowall, Anne Schedeen

Synopsis: In this thriller, a scientist (Rock Hudson) attempts to engineer the perfect woman in a test-tube and ends up not with a beautiful lover, but instead a ruthless killer. The film is also known as Created to Kill. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

McMillan and Wife: Secrets for Sale

Actors: Rock Hudson

Synopsis: Secrets for Sale started out as a 2-hour episode of TV's McMillan and Wife. San Francisco police commissioner McMillan (Rock Hudson) is hot on the trail of a blackmailing ring. The crooks' targets include most of the politicians involved in an upcoming important election. McMillan's wife Sally (Susan St. James Read More

James Dean: The First American Teenager

Synopsis: In this documentary, narrated by Stacy Keach, the tragic screen-icon James Dean is remembered. Footage from early television appearances, stills from his life, and clips from his three Warner Brothers films are interwoven with interviews with his co-workers. The soundtrack includes music from Elton John Read More

McMillan and Wife: Season 05

Actors: Rock Hudson, Susan Saint James, John Schuck, Nancy Walker

Synopsis: As McMillan and Wife launched its fifth season, the series remained a rotating component of The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie, along with Columbo, McCloud, and McCoy. Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James reprise their familiar roles as San Francisco police commissioner "Mac" McMillan and his lovely wife Read More

McMillan and Wife: Requiem for a Bride

Actors: Rock Hudson

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Requiem for a Bride opens with San Francisco police commissioner McMillan (Rock Hudson) congratulating an old friend (Henry Darrow) on the friend's recent marriage. McMillan's words ring hollow when the bride (Susan Sullivan) is murdered. Complicating the issue is the growing Read More

McMillan and Wife: Season 04

Actors: Rock Hudson, Susan Saint James, John Schuck, Nancy Walker

Synopsis: Still a rotating component of The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie (along with Columbo, McCloud and Amy Prentiss) in the fall of 1974, the "domestic detective" series McMillan and Wife offered six new two-hour episodes for its fourth season. The opening episode is "Downshift to Danger," in which San Read More

McMillan and Wife: Two Dollars on Trouble to Win

Actors: Rock Hudson

Synopsis: Two Dollars on Trouble to Win is the cumbersome title of this episode of TV's McMillan and Wife. William Demarest heads the guest cast as a stable owner who happens to be an old friend of San Francisco police- commissioner McMillan (Rock Hudson) and wife Sally (Susan St. James). There've been Read More

McMillan and Wife: Season 03

Actors: Rock Hudson, Susan Saint James, John Schuck, Nancy Walker

Synopsis: Remaining a rotating component of The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie (along with Columbo, McCloud, and Hec Ramsey), the "domestic detective" series McMillan and Wife offered four new 90-minute episodes for its third season. The festivities begin as San Francisco police commissioner Stewart "Mac" Read More

Showdown

Actors: Dan Boydston, Dean Martin, Rock Hudson, Susan Clark

Synopsis: In this Western comedy, Billy (Dean Martin) and Chuck (Rock Hudson) were the best of friends until Chuck married the girl they were both courting. Now they have drifted apart. Chuck has since become a sheriff and must hunt down Billy, now a robber. As the chase proceeds, each of them reminisces Read More

Reunion in Terror

McMillan and Wife: No Hearts, No Flowers

Actors: Rock Hudson

Synopsis: No Hearts, No Flowers is a 90-minute episode of the lighthearted TV detective series McMillan and Wife. San Francisco police commissioner McMillan (Rock Hudson) once more is saddled with a murder case. This time there are four very likely suspects--and the guilty party plans to make McMillan's Read More

McMillan & Wife: The Night of the Wizard

Actors: Rock Hudson

Synopsis: Night of the Wizard was the opening episode of the second season of the TV series McMillan and Wife. Rock Hudson and Susan St. James star as, respectively, Frisco police commissioner McMillan and his socialite wife Sally. The McMillans launch the season with still another murder mystery: this time Read More

McMillan and Wife: Season 02

Actors: Rock Hudson, Susan Saint James, John Schuck, Nancy Walker

Synopsis: Seven 90-minute episodes of McMillan and Wife are served up during the series' second season as a rotating component of The NBC Mystery Movie. For the record, its "companion" series this season included Columbo, McCloud, and Hec Ramsey. In the opener, "The Night of the Wizard," San Francisco Read More

McMillan and Wife: Terror Times Two

Actors: Rock Hudson

Synopsis: Rock Hudson does double duty in this episode of McMillan and Wife. Hudson plays his usual series character of San Francisco police commissioner McMillan, as well as his homicidal underworld look-alike. Abducting the real McMillan, the phony commissioner tries to fool Mac's wife Sally (Susan St. James Read More

McMillan and Wife: Once Upon a Dead Man

Actors: Rock Hudson

Synopsis: Once Upon a Dead Man was the pilot film for the TV series McMillan and Wife. The stars are Rock Hudson as wealthy San Francisco police commissioner Stewart McMillan and Susan Saint James as his inquisitive young wife Sally. The plot at hand starts out with a theft at a charity auction. This Read More

Pretty Maids All in a Row

Actors: Rock Hudson, Angie Dickinson, Telly Savalas, John Carson, Roddy McDowall

Synopsis: Ocean View High is an upscale suburban school in an otherwise unidentified community. It's 1971, the point when the sexual revolution started moving into full swing and even a lot of Middle America, at least on the two coasts, admitted the existence of same revolution. It seems like the guys and Read More

McMillan and Wife: Husbands, Wives and Killers

Actors: Rock Hudson

Synopsis: Husbands, Wives and Killers was originally an episode of the TV detective series McMillan and Wife. In this one, Frisco police commissioner McMillan (Rock Hudson) and his snoopy but very pretty wife Sally (Susan St. James) are entrusted with protection of a valuable necklace. Among those involved Read More

McMillan and Wife: Season 01

Actors: Rock Hudson, Susan Saint James, John Schuck, Nancy Walker

Synopsis: Although McMillan and Wife had been introduced as a two-hour TV movie, Once Upon a Dead Man, on September 17, 1971, the series proper did not get underway under 12 days later, as one of the rotating components (along with McCloud and Columbo) of The NBC Mystery Movie. Having long resisted any sort Read More

The Doris Day Special

Actors: Doris Day

Synopsis: Singer and actress Doris Day performs before both the cameras and an adoring live audience in an Emmy-nominated broadcast that originally aired on CBS as The Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff Special in 1971. With special appearances by singer Perry Como and actor Rock Hudson, as well as a collection of Read More

Darling Lili

Actors: Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson, Jeremy Kemp, Lance Percival, Mike Witney

Synopsis: Julie Andrews made a bid to change her squeaky clean image with this elaborately mounted World War I musical. Lili Smith (Andrews) is a popular British music hall singer who is regarded as a femme fatale and has been known to throw a bit of striptease into her act. However, Lili has a secret Read More

Hornet's Nest

Actors: Rock Hudson, Sylva Koscina, Sergio Fantoni, Jacques Sernas, Mark Colleano

Synopsis: Captain Turner (Rock Hudson) is the American paratrooper who employs Italian children to blow up a strategic dam controlled by the Nazis. He is the only survivor of his unit gunned down during the jump. Rescued by the moppets, he slaps and rapes German medico Bianca (Sylva Koscina), which Read More

A Fine Pair

Actors: Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Tomas Milian, Leon Askin, Ellen Corby

Synopsis: In this 1968 Italian production, Francesco Maselli directs this light-hearted and fast-paced caper comedy with Rock Hudson as New York City police captain Mike Harmon, who becomes involved with sex bomb Esmeralda Marini (Claudia Cardinale). Esmeralda, using the ploy that Harmon was an old friend Read More

The Undefeated

Actors: John Wayne, Rock Hudson, Antonio Aguilar, Roman Gabriel, Marian McCargo

Synopsis: This routine western finds Union Colonel John Henry Thomas (John Wayne) and company attacking Confederate soldiers lead by Colonel James Langdon (Rock Hudson). After a crushing defeat, Langdon torches his plantation rather than have it fall into enemy hands. A group of Southerners accept the Read More

Ice Station Zebra

Actors: Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan, Jim Brown, Tony Bill

Synopsis: A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arctic research encampment called Ice Station Zebra, belonging to the British, which starts sending out distress signals before falling silent. The Read More

Tobruk

Actors: Rock Hudson, George Peppard, Nigel Green, Guy Stockwell, Jack Watson

Synopsis: Arthur Hiller directed this exciting World War II drama starring Rock Hudson as Major Donald Craig of the British North African Army. In 1942, Craig is captured by the Vichy French, rescued by Palestinian Jews, and taken to the headquarters of Col. John Harker (Nigel Green). Harker explains that Read More

Seconds

Actors: Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph, Will Geer, Jeff Corey

Synopsis: Arthur Hamilton ({$John Randolph) is a listless Manhattan businessman who lives with his wife in the New York suburbs. One day, he runs into an old friend (Murray Hamilton) whom he thought had died. The friend leads him to The Company, a secretive operation run by The Old Man (Will Geer). The Read More

Blindfold

Actors: Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Jack Warden, Guy Stockwell, Brad Dexter

Synopsis: In this offbeat mixture of espionage and slapstick comedy, Arthur Vincenti (Alejandro Rey) is a scientist working on secret military projects for the United States government. Vincenti is becoming increasingly unstable as he works in solitude in a backwater swamp; his superiors fear that he might Read More

A Very Special Favor

Actors: Rock Hudson, Leslie Caron, Charles Boyer, Walter Slezak, Dick Shawn

Synopsis: A Very Special Favor stars Rock Hudson as a notorious romeo and Leslie Caron as a prudish psychiatrist. At the urging of Caron's lawyer father Charles Boyer, Hudson begins a seduction campaign. Caron resents this intrusion in her private affairs and builds up a wall of resistance against the Read More

Strange Bedfellows

Actors: Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Gig Young, Edward Judd, Terry-Thomas

Synopsis: This romantic comedy stars Rock Hudson as Carter Harrison, an executive rising through the ranks of a major oil company. When he meets Toni Vincente (Gina Lollobrigida), a beautiful but hot-tempered artist, it's love at first sight and they quickly marry. The bloom is soon off the rose, however Read More

Send Me No Flowers

Actors: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Paul Lynde, Hal March

Synopsis: Light and laugh-filled, Send Me No Flowers is typical Rock Hudson and Doris Day fare. George (Hudson) is a hypochondriac married to Judy (Day) in this marital comedy. When George goes to visit the doctor, he overhears two doctors talking about a diagnosis of a terminally ill patient. George Read More

Marilyn

Actors: Rock Hudson

Synopsis: Rock Hudson narrates this documentary about the film career of Marilyn Monroe. The screen goddess is shown in the 1949 film "A Ticket To Tomahawk" her screen debut, and ends in 1962 with the incompleted "Something's Got To Give" which was under production at the time of her death. Viewers follow Read More

Man's Favorite Sport?

Actors: Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss, Maria Perschy, John McGiver, Charlene Holt

Synopsis: Roger Willoughby (Rock Hudson) is a super salesman of sporting goods who sells fishing equipment but knows nothing about the sport. Roger's boss Cadwalader (John McGiver) gets an idea from publicity director Abigail (Paula Prentiss) to enter him in a fishing contest, and the inept angler has a Read More

A Gathering of Eagles

Actors: Rock Hudson, Rod Taylor, Mary Peach, Barry Sullivan, Kevin McCarthy

Synopsis: A Gathering of Eagles stars Rock Hudson as a colonel in the peacetime Strategic Air Command. His devotion to his duty as a wing commander takes a toll on his men, his marriage, and his own well-being. It is to Hudson's credit that he was willing to put his image on the line with this essentially Read More

The Spiral Road

Actors: Rock Hudson, Burl Ives, Gena Rowlands, Geoffrey Keen, Neva Patterson

Synopsis: Since it was released in the same year as his masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), it is ironic that this drama was probably the least liked of director Robert Mulligan's films. A stiff adaptation of a novel by Dutch author Jan DeHartog, the film stars Rock Hudson as Dr. Anton Drager, an Read More

Come September

Actors: Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin, Walter Slezak

Synopsis: Rock Hudson stars in this frothy romantic comedy as filthy-rich American Robert Talbot. Talbot owns an Italian villa, where he traditionally stays only one month out of the year (September), but when Talbot suddenly decides to show up in July, Talbot's major overseer Maurice (Walter Slezak) is Read More

The Last Sunset

Actors: Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, Dorothy Malone, Joseph Cotten, Carol Lynley

Synopsis: Scripted by Dalton Trumbo and directed by Robert Aldrich, this off-beat, almost eclectic film could be hailed as a thinking person's western. It is the dark cat-and-mouse tale of a sherrif's hunt for a philosophy-spouting criminal in the midst of a great cattle drive. The outlaw killed the Read More

Lover Come Back

Actors: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Edie Adams, Jack Oakie

Synopsis: Although not as well known as Pillow Talk (1959), this romantic-comedy pairing of stars Rock Hudson and Doris Day earned an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay. Hudson stars as Jerry Webster, a Madison Avenue advertising executive who has achieved success not through hard work or intelligence but Read More

Pillow Talk

Actors: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter, Nick Adams

Synopsis: The fabulously successful Pillow Talk was essentially Shop Around the Corner for the 1950s. Playboy composer Rock Hudson and interior-decorator Doris Day are obliged to share a telephone party line. Naturally, their calls overlap at the least opportune times, and just as naturally, this leads to Read More

This Earth Is Mine

Actors: Rock Hudson, Jean Simmons, Dorothy McGuire, Claude Rains, Kent Smith

Synopsis: Based on the novel The Cup and the Sword by Alice Tisdale Hobart, this drama examines the trials and tribulations of three generations of French-American California vineyard owners. It's set during the Prohibition era, when wine makers were financially challenged and had to decide whether or not Read More

Twilight for the Gods

Actors: Rock Hudson, Cyd Charisse, Arthur Kennedy, Leif Erickson, Charles McGraw

Synopsis: Adapted by Ernest Gann from his own novel, Twilight for the Gods bears traces of Gann's earlier The High and the Mighty. This "psychological adventure" stars Rock Hudson as Captain Bell, who crawls into a bottle after being court-martialed and discharged from the Navy. Reduced to skippering a Read More

Something of Value

Actors: Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Sidney Poitier, Wendy Hiller, Juano Hernandez

Synopsis: The literalism of writer-director Richard Brooks serves him well in this meticulously faithful adaptation of the Robert Ruark novel Something of Value. Filmed on location in Africa, this is the story of the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya, as seen through the eyes of a handful of protagonists. Virtually Read More

The Tarnished Angels

Actors: Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson, Robert Middleton

Synopsis: William Faulkner's novel Pylon was optioned by Universal producer Albert Zugsmith, who used it as the source for his 1957 production The Tarnished Angels. Robert Stack is a disillusioned World War One ace eking out a living as a barnstorming pilot/parachutist during the early 1930s. New Orleans Read More

A Farewell to Arms

Actors: Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi, Kurt Kasznar, Mercedes McCambridge

Synopsis: Farewell to Arms is the second film version of Ernest Hemingway's World War One novel--and also the last film produced by David O. Selznick (Gone with the Wind). Rock Hudson plays an American serving in the Italian Army during the "War to End All Wars". Jennifer Jones is his lover, a Red cross Read More

Written on the Wind

Actors: Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Robert Keith

Synopsis: Perhaps the definitive Douglas Sirk production, Written on the Wind is based on the novel by Robert Wilder. The story revolves around the Hadleys, a wealthy but thoroughly debauched family of Texas oil millionaires. Robert Stack is self-destructive alcoholic Kyle Hadley, while Dorothy Malone won Read More

Four Girls in Town

Actors: George Nader, Julie Adams, Sydney Chaplin, Marianne Cook, Elsa Martinelli, Gia Scala, Helene Stanton

Synopsis: Four Girls in Town is essentially an excuse by Universal-International to test out several of their newer contractees. The plot is motivated by a worldwide movie talent hunt, which naturally arouses the attentions of a bevy of pretty young aspiring actresses. The four girls of the title are Kathy Read More

Giant

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker, Mercedes McCambridge, Jane Withers

Synopsis: George Stevens' sprawling adaptation of Edna Ferber's best-selling novel successfully walks a fine line between potboiler and serious drama for its 210-minute running time, making it one of the few epics of its era that continues to hold up as engrossing entertainment across the decades. Giant Read More

Battle Hymn

Actors: Rock Hudson, Anna Kashfi, Dan Duryea, Don DeFore, Martha Hyer

Synopsis: Battle Hymn was inspired by the true story of American minister Dean Hess, played here with rare sensitivity by Rock Hudson. A bomber pilot during World War II, Hess inadvertently releases a bomb which destroys a German orphanage. Tortured by guilt, Hess relocates in Korea after the war to offer Read More

Never Say Goodbye

Actors: Rock Hudson, Cornell Borchers, George Sanders, Ray Collins, David Janssen

Synopsis: This emotional drama concerns a WWII medic who marries a German woman but leaves her in a jealous rage, taking their baby with him. They lose touch after she is arrested behind the Iron Curtain after the war. Eight years later, she sees him in a Chicago cafe, rushes across the street to see him Read More

I Love Lucy: In Palm Springs

Actors: Rock Hudson, Kathryn Card, Joe Mayer, Mike Mayer

Synopsis: Rock Hudson makes a rare pre-McMillan and Wife TV appearance in this episode, in which Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Ethel (Vivian Vance) take a trip to Palm Springs without Ricky (Desi Arnaz) and Fred (William Frawley). This is part of a strategy to avoid the "boredom" of too much marital togetherness Read More

All That Heaven Allows

Actors: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Grey

Synopsis: One of director Douglas Sirk's best and most successful romantic soapers of the 1950s, All That Heaven Allows is predicated on a May-December romance. The difference here is that the woman, attractive widow Cary Scott (Jane Wyman), is considerably older than the man, handsome gardener-landscaper Read More

Captain Lightfoot

Actors: Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Jeff Morrow, Kathleen Ryan, Finlay Currie

Synopsis: Rock Hudson stars as Michael Martin, a naive and impetuous young would-be rebel in 1815 Ireland, who turns to robbery in his desire to support the cause against England. Now wanted by the British and forced into hiding, he crosses paths with the renowned rebel leader Captain Thunderbolt aka John Read More

One Desire

Actors: Anne Baxter, Rock Hudson, Julie Adams, Natalie Wood, Barry Curtis

Synopsis: The "one desire" of ex-gamblers Rock Hudson and Anne Baxter is to escape their shady former lives and settle down to respectability. Rock and Baxter move to a small town, with Hudson's younger brother (Barry Curtis) and an orphaned girl (Natalie Wood) in tow. Julie Adams, daughter of the town Read More

Bengal Brigade

Actors: Rock Hudson, Arlene Dahl, Ursula Thiess, Torin Thatcher, Arnold Moss

Synopsis: The muscular physique of Rock Hudson is given plenty of screen exposure in the British-India actioner Bengal Brigade. Adapted from a novel by Hall Hunter, the film casts Hudson as Captain Jeffrey Claybourne of Her Majesty's Service, who is severely disciplined after defying orders. Feeling Read More

Magnificent Obsession

Actors: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Agnes Moorehead, Otto Kruger

Synopsis: This second film version of Lloyd C. Douglas' spiritual novel Magnificent Obsession is in its own way as successful as the first (filmed in 1935) in glossing over the plot holes and logic gaps in the original novel. Rock Hudson plays Bob Merrick, a reckless playboy who is indirectly responsible Read More

Taza, Son of Cochise

Actors: Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Gregg Palmer, Bart Roberts, Morris Ankrum

Synopsis: In this unusual Western directed by Douglas Sirk, Rock Hudson stars as Taza, whose legendary father Cochise (Jeff Chandler) is on his deathbed. Taza promises his father that he will keep the tribe -- which Cochise united and ruled -- at peace. But Taza's brother wants the tribe to join with Read More

The Golden Blade

Actors: Rock Hudson, Piper Laurie, Gene Evans, Edgar Barrier, George Macready, Kathleen Hughes, Alice Kelley

Synopsis: Universal's Technicolor cameras this time tell the story of Harun El Raschid (Rock Hudson), who innocently comes into possession of the magical Sword of Damascus. Sword in hand, our hero gains entrance to the court, tames the haughty, but socially aware, Princess Khairuzan (Piper Laurie) and finds Read More

Back to God's Country

Actors: Rock Hudson, Marcia Henderson, Steve Cochran, Hugh O'Brian, Chubby Johnson

Synopsis: The oft-filmed James Oliver Curwood yarn Back to God's Country is given the Technicolor treatment in this 1953 cinemadaptation. Set in the Great White North, the story concerns a romantic triangle consisting of sea captain Peter Keith (Rock Hudson), his wife Dolores (Marcia Henderson), and his Read More

Gun Fury

Actors: Rock Hudson, Donna Reed, Philip Carey

Synopsis: Originally shot in 3-D, Gun Fury opens with wealthy rancher Ben Warren (Rock Hudson) and his fiancée Jennifer Ballard (Donna Reed) aboard a stagecoach bound for California. Having recently fought in the Civil War, Ben is looking forward to returning to a peaceful life with his soon-to-be wife. Read More

Sea Devils

Actors: Yvonne De Carlo, Rock Hudson, Maxwell Reed, Denis O'Dea, Michael Goodliffe

Synopsis: Victor Hugo's Toilers of the Sea was none too faithfully adapted for the screen as Sea Devils. The hero is Guernsey-Island smuggler Gilliat (Rock Hudson); the heroine is glamorous British spy Drouette (Yvonne de Carlo). Set during the Napoleonic wars, the plot finds Gilliat and Drouette trying to Read More

Seminole

Actors: Rock Hudson, Barbara Hale, Anthony Quinn, Richard Carlson, Hugh O'Brian

Synopsis: Rock Hudson stars in Seminole as 19th-century army officer Lance Caldwell. Born and raised in Florida, Caldwell is assigned to Fort King in the Everglades. Immediately clashing with his commanding officer Major Dade (Richard Carlson), Caldwell opposes Dade's plans to wipe out the Seminole Indians. Read More

Bend of the River

Actors: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Julie Adams, Rock Hudson, Lori Nelson

Synopsis: Another of the collaborations between actor James Stewart and director Anthony Mann, Bend of the River casts Stewart as a former outlaw, now working as trail guide for a group of Oregon-bound farmers. He is aided in this endeavor by Arthur Kennedy, a far-from-reformed horse thief. Upon arriving in Read More

Scarlet Angel

Actors: Yvonne De Carlo, Rock Hudson, Richard Denning, Bodil Miller, Whitfield Connor, Amanda Blake

Synopsis: Nineteenth-century saloon gal Roxy McClanahan (Yvonne DeCarlo) manages to inveigle herself into the uppermost rungs of polite New Orleans society. But Roxy has not reckoned with her old friendly nemesis, merchant seaman Frank Truscott (Rock Hudson), whose bankroll Roxy had lifted back in her Read More

Here Come the Nelsons

Actors: Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, David Nelson, Ricky Nelson, Rock Hudson

Synopsis: Fresh from radio and TV, "America's Favorite Family" stars in Here Come the Nelsons. That's right: this harmless little comedy is purely a vehicle for Ozzie, Harriet, David and Ricky. Since there must be a plot, the scriptwriters contrive to have Harriet uncharacteristically express jealousy over Read More

The Lawless Breed

Actors: Rock Hudson, Julie Adams, Mary Castle, John McIntire, Hugh O'Brian

Synopsis: The Lawless Breed is based on the exploits of Texas bad man John Wesley Hardin, played here quite convincingly by Rock Hudson. The film takes the Cecil B. DeMille approach of condemning evil by showing as much evil as the censor will allow. After nearly an hour of unrepentant perfidy, Hardin Read More

Has Anybody Seen My Gal?

Actors: Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Charles Coburn, Lynn Bari

Synopsis: Douglas Sirk directed this frothy musical comedy set in the 1920s starring Charles Coburn as Samuel Fulton, an elderly man with a multi-million dollar fortune. With no family of his own to whom he can leave his money, Fulton is pondering what to do with his estate. Years ago, he was in love with a 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

The Fat Man

Actors: Jack Smart, Julie London, Rock Hudson, Clinton Sundberg, Jayne Meadows

Synopsis: The popular radio detective series The Fat Man was brought to the screen in 1951, with the series' original star J. Scott Smart retained in the title role. Smart plays porcine sleuth Brad Runyon, who tackles the mystery surrounding the murder of a Los Angeles dentist. With the assistance of Read More

The Iron Man

Actors: Jeff Chandler, Evelyn Keyes, Stephen McNally, Rock Hudson, Joyce Holden

Synopsis: A remake of the 1931 film of the same name, Iron Man stars Jeff Chandler as up-and-coming boxer Cokie Martin. A relatively pleasant fellow outside the ring, Martin turns into a monster whenever he dons boxing gloves and trunks. As a result, he becomes "the man you love to hate" so far as the fans Read More

Air Cadet

Actors: Stephen McNally, Gail Russell, Alex Nicol, Charles Drake

Synopsis: Universal's Air Cadet stars Stephen McNally as the obligatory tough topkick, here assigned to whip a bunch of green pilots into shape. McNally's hard-nosed attitude is rooted in his past: he still feels guilty over having lost so many buddies in World War 2. A climactic crash-and-rescue sequence Read More

Tomahawk

Actors: Van Heflin, Yvonne De Carlo, Alex Nicol, Preston S. Foster, Jack Oakie

Synopsis: Tomahawk takes place during the Great Sioux Uprising of the 1860s. Van Heflin stars as famed frontier scout Jim Bridger, who labors valiantly and vainly to orchestrate peace between Indians and whites. Much of the action takes place at Fort Phil Kearney, the scene of one of the bloodiest battles 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

Winchester '73

Actors: James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally, Rock Hudson, Charles Drake, Millard Mitchell

Synopsis: Lin McAdam (James Stewart) and his friend High-Spade (Millard Mitchell) arrive in Dodge City for a shooting contest, in which the prize is a perfectly manufactured Winchester repeating rifle, referred to as "One of a Thousand" -- a gun so fine that Winchester won't sell it. Lin runs across Dutch Read More

The Desert Hawk

Actors: Yvonne De Carlo, Richard Greene, Jackie Gleason, George Macready, Rock Hudson

Synopsis: The Desert Hawk deserves to be seen on the basis of its cast alone. No more believable than any of Universal's other sword-and-sand epics, this one stars Yvonne de Carlo as Princess Shaharazade (sic) and Richard Greene as Omar, aka the Desert Hawk. By day a humble blacksmith, the Desert Hawk Read More

Peggy

Actors: Diana Lynn, Charles Coburn, Charlotte Greenwood, Barbara Lawrence, Charles Drake

Synopsis: Peggy Brookfield (Diana Lynn) is one of many aspirants for the position of Queen of the annual Tournament of Roses in Pasadena, Calfornia. Also competing is Peggy's sister Susan (Barbara Lawrence). Both girls make the trek from Ohio to Pasadena in the company of their father (Charles Coburn), a Read More

Shakedown

Actors: Howard Duff, Brian Donlevy, Peggy Dow, Lawrence Tierney, Bruce Bennett

Synopsis: Two-bit photographer Howard Duff wins a big newspaper assignment by romancing his lady boss (Peggy Dow). Duff is sent to take a picture of criminal Brian Donlevy, who doesn't like to be captured on celluloid. Donlevy takes a liking to Duff and asks him to frame one of the crook's less cooperative Read More

One Way Street

Actors: Märta Torén, Dan Duryea, William Conrad, King Donovan

Synopsis: One Way Street stars James Mason in a variation of his Odd Man Out role. Mason plays Doc Matson, a gangland physician who has stolen $200,000 from powerful mob boss Wheeler (Dan Duryea). Forced to go on the lam, Matson takes Wheeler's girl Laura (Marta Toren) along. Knowing he is doomed from the Read More

I Was a Shoplifter

Actors: Scott Brady, Mona Freeman, Andrea King, Charles Drake

Synopsis: The title tells all--or at least most--in I Was a Shoplifter. The title character, played by Mona Freeman, is Faye Burton, a well-off socialite suffering from kleptomania. Faye falls into the hands of a professional shoplifting ring headed by Herb Claxton (Charles Drake) and Ina Perdue (Andrea King Read More

Undertow

Actors: Scott Brady, John Russell, Dorothy Hart, Peggy Dow, Bruce Bennett

Synopsis: Undertow stars Scott Brady as a gambler just out of wartime military service. No longer interested in wagers and speculations, Brady wants only to open up a mountain vacation lodge. Before this can take place, Brady is framed for murder, and forced to hide out in the home of Peggy Dow. With the Read More

Fighter Squadron

Actors: Edmond O'Brien, Robert Stack, John Rodney, Tom D'Andrea, Henry Hull

Synopsis: Excellent Technicolor photography, principally in the aerial scenes, is the main asset of the cliché-ridden Fighter Squadron. Set in the months just prior to D-Day, the plot zeroes in on Marjor Ed Hardin (Edmond O'Brien) leader of a squadron of fearless combat pilots. In keeping with the Read More