Rory CalhounFilmography

Roller Blade Warriors: Taken by Force

Actors: Kathleen Kinmont

Synopsis: In this sci-fi adventure, beautiful women don in-line skates to thwart the plans of a malicious mutant. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Bad Jim

Actors: James Brolin, Richard Roundtree, John Clark Gable, Harry Carey, Jr., Rory Calhoun

Synopsis: Veteran Hollywood screenwriter Clyde Ware handled the directing chores in Bad Jim. The film is worth noting as the cinematic debut of John Clark Gable, the son of guess who. Gable, James Brolin, and Richard Roundtree play three soft-hearted bandits who purchase a horse from Billy the Kid. They use Read More

Hell Comes to Frogtown

Actors: Roddy Piper, Sandahl Bergman, Cec Verrell, Brian Frank, William Smith, Rory Calhoun

Synopsis: The great nuclear holocaust has come and gone, and humanity is hanging on a string. Women rule what's left, and the world is filled with giant mutant humanoid frogs who have started their own communities. Fertile human males have become one of the rarest things on Earth. This really low-budget Read More

Half-Nelson

Actors: Morgan Brittany

Synopsis: Half-Nelson was a very brief TV cop series which made its bow on March 24, 1985, with a two-hour "special". Joe Pesci, sporting lots and lots of hair, stars as ex-Manhattan cop Rocky Nelson, nicknamed "Half" Nelson because he stands well under six feet. Nelson is now a Beverly Hills security guard Read More

Avenging Angel

Actors: Betsy Russell, Rory Calhoun, Robert F. Lyons, Susan Tyrrell, Ossie Davis, Barry Pearl

Synopsis: Betsy Russell takes over as part-time prostitute Molly Stewart in this disappointing sequel to the surprisingly good Angel (1984). Old pals Rory Calhoun and Susan Tyrrell are along for the search for the killer of the cop who saved Molly's life in the first film, joined by street magician Johnny Read More

Angel

Actors: Cliff Gorman, Susan Tyrrell, Dick Shawn, Rory Calhoun, John Diehl

Synopsis: The original "honor student by day, hooker by night" melodrama, Angel stars Donna Wilkes in the title role. During the daylight hours, the 15-year-old Angel is known as Molly, a model prep school student. Devoid of parents, Molly must find some way to keep up the cash flow, so she hits the Read More

Running Hot

Actors: Monica Carrico, Eric Stoltz, Stuart Margolin, Virgil Frye, Richard Bradford

Synopsis: Convicted of murdering his father, 17-year-old Eric Stoltz is sentenced to death. While in prison, Stoltz begins a pen-pal correspondence with fortysomething prostitute Monica Carrico. A long distance romance results, culminating in Carrico helping Stoltz escape from death row. When he finally Read More

The Blue and the Gray

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Colleen Dewhurst, Stacy Keach, Gregory Peck, Robert Vaughn

Synopsis: Originally networkcast in three installments, the 8-hour Blue and the Gray is a sprawling adaptation of a story concept by Civil War historian Bruce Catton. The drama begins in 1859, with young war correspondent-to-be John Hammond meeting future Union officer Stacy Keach at the trial of Read More

Motel Hell

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Paul Linke, Nancy Parsons, Nina Axelrod, Wolfman Jack

Synopsis: People come from far and wide to sample Farmer Vincent's distinctively flavored dried, smoked sausages, but one might well ask why there are so few people staying at his nearby motel. This horror comedy provides the graphic answer. It seems that the good farmer only uses the highest quality Read More

Smokey and the Judge

Actors: Gene Price

Synopsis: Smokey (Gene Price) is the good guy (sort of) in this low-budget chasefest. Our law-officer hero copes as best he can with three larcenous young lasses. Whenever the action lags, the audience has plenty of exposed female epidermis to gape at. Featured in the cast of Smokey and the Judge is veteran Read More

The Main Event

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Paul Sand, Patti D'Arbanville, Whitman Mayo, Rory Calhoun

Synopsis: Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal attempt to recapture the screwball spark of What's Up, Doc? in the labored farce The Main Event. Streisand plays Hillary Kramer, a bankrupt perfume executive who discovers that one of her tax write-offs from more prosperous times was the ownership of prizefighter Read More

The Rebels

Synopsis: The Rebels was the second "Operation Prime Time" miniseries to be based on author John Jakes' Kent Family Chronicles (the first was The Bastard). The saga of Philip Kent (Andrew Stevens), illegitimate son of a British blueblood, picks up with Kent fighting in the Continental Army during the Read More

Flatbed Annie & Sweetiepie: Lady Truckers

Actors: Kim Darby, Fred Willard

Synopsis: Flatbed Annie is played by Annie Potts; her sidekick Sweetiepie, aka Ginny La Rosa, is played by Kim Darby. Annie is a hard-bitten veteran, Sweetiepie a starry-eyed novice. Harry Dean Stanton co-stars as a mean, nasty, awful bad guy who wants to repossess the girls' truck. The plot is further Read More

Love and the Midnight Auto Supply

Actors: Michael Parks, Linda Cristal, Scott Jacoby, Bill Adler, Colleen Camp

Synopsis: An auto-theft ring decides to help out migrant workers from Mexico with the proceeds from their racket. The film is also known as Love and the Midnight Auto Supply. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The West Is Still Wild

Mule Feathers

Synopsis: It's likely that not even Don Knotts' most fervent fans have ever heard of this obscure Western comedy. Knotts plays a talking mule, and a cache of hidden gold figures into the story. This PG-rated indie was apparently completed in 1977, then held in abeyance until it was telecast over the Read More

Flight to Holocaust

Actors: Paul Williams

Synopsis: Though not readily apparent, Flight to Holocaust is the feature-length pilot film for a potential TV series. Crashing into the side of a high-rise building, an airplane is precariously wedged in the structure's 20th floor. Dispatched to rescue the survivors are a team of acrobatic troubleshooters 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

Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood

Actors: Bruce Dern, Madeline Kahn, Art Carney, Phil Silvers, Ron Leibman

Synopsis: This spoof makes fun of a certain famous German shepherd movie star from the 1920s. The mayhem begins when the head honcho of a financially struggling studio turns a lost dog into a legend. The story features a number of old stars making cameo appearances. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Night of the Lepus

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, DeForest Kelley

Synopsis: Giant Flesh-Eating Rabbits Ravage American Southwest After Scientist Slips Up! Such is the plot of this unintentionally campy horror outing. The trouble begins when a researcher's experiment to use hormone injections to control Arizona's burgeoning rabbit population goes terribly awry, causing the Read More

Operation Cross Eagles

Synopsis: In this thrilling war drama set during WW II, a pair of courageous commandos endeavor to kidnap an important German general. The film is also known as American Cross Eagles. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

American Cross Eagles

Synopsis: This internationally produced war flick represents actor Richard Conte's only directorial effort. Conte casts himself as the leader of a band of Yugoslav partisans. He links up with American officer Rory Calhoun, ostensibly for the purpose of setting up an exchange of prisoners. When it becomes Read More

Dayton's Devils

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Leslie Nielsen, Lainie Kazan, Hans Gudegast, Barry Sadler

Synopsis: Frank Dayton (Leslie Nielsen) leads a group of crooks in a caper to steal one and a half million dollars from an Air Force base. Dayton is the tough-guy military leader who recruits Mike (Rory Calhoun), ex-Nazi Max (Hans Gudegast), sadistic killer Barney Barry (Barry Sadler), and failed French Read More

The Girl of the Nile

The Emerald of Artatama

Synopsis: Rory Calhoun is the one box-office name in the forgotten actioner Emerald of Artama. The titular emerald carries a curse. No, Shecky, the curse isn't Mrs. Artama. Whosoever comes into possession of the emerald dies a horrible death. Rugged adventurer Calhoun doesn't believe this at first, but he Read More

Gilligan's Island: The Hunter

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Harold Sakata

Synopsis: In this elaborate spoof of "The Most Dangerous Game", Rory Calhoun guest stars as celebrated big game hunter Jonathan Kincaid. Bored with merely tracking down animals, Kincaid has arrived on the island in hopes of bagging the "biggest game" of all--specifically, he wants to add a human being to Read More

Our Men in Baghdad

Synopsis: An espionage saga as a secret agent tries to infiltrate a spy ring in the Middle East, this one holds no real surprises. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Operation Delilah

Synopsis: In this political satire, a bearded Marxist takes over a Caribbean island, and the rest of the democratic world wants him ousted. To do this, they assign the owner of a razor company to lead a covert operation. He enlists the aide of a sexy stripper. Their mission is to shave the leader's beard so Read More

Apache Uprising

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Corinne Calvet, John Russell, Lon Chaney, Jr., Gene Evans

Synopsis: Jim Walker Rory Calhoun is a hero who fights Indians and crooks who plan a series of stagecoach robberies in this routine western. He defends the honor of a woman (Corinne Calvet) wrongly accused of having a bad reputation. Johnny Mack Brown plays the local Sheriff Ben Hall, with Lon Chaney, Jr. Read More

Black Spurs

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Linda Darnell, Scott Brady, Lon Chaney, Jr., Bruce Cabot

Synopsis: In this western, a world-weary bounty hunter begins working for an avaricious crook who wants to destroy the good name of a little town so that the railroad will be built across his land. To enact his plan he brings a notorious gambler to town. He also establishes a brothel in the saloon. The Read More

Finger on the Trigger

Actors: Rory Calhoun, James Philbrook, Todd Martin, Silvia Solar, Brud Talbot

Synopsis: The Yankees and the Rebels must stop fighting over a stolen gold shipment and join forces to save a New Mexico fort from a major Indian attack in this western. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Young Fury

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Virginia Mayo, Lon Chaney, Jr., Richard Arlen, John Agar

Synopsis: In this western, a gunslinger runs from the Dawson gang and decides to return home to the wife he abandoned many years before. There he finds that his infant son has grown into a thuggish hellion who has been lead to believe that his mother is dead. He also hates the father who left him. The Read More

Bonanza: Thanks for Everything, Friend

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Rory Calhoun

Synopsis: Adam Cartwright is rescued from drowning by Tom Wilson (Rory Calhoun), a man as lucky at cards as he is at love. Though grateful to Tom, Adam looks askance when Tom moves in on Matilda (Barbara Wilkin), the girlfriend of a man named Jerry (Tom Skerritt). When Tom is accused of killing Matilda's Read More

The Gun Hawk

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Rod Cameron, Ruta Lee, Rod Lauren, Morgan Woodward

Synopsis: Allied Artists' Gun Hawk puts Rory Calhoun through his usual paces as an aging gunman. Calhoun has pretty much retired from shoot outs, and now runs a small town populated by outlaws. He befriends hotheaded fast gun Rod Lauren, who behaves as impulsively as Calhoun had in his earlier days. When Read More

A Face in the Rain

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Marina Berti, Massimo Giuliani

Synopsis: In this melodrama, set in German-occupied Italy during WW II, a Yankee spy is concealed in the attic of an underground contact's house. The contact's wife does not want him there as she is having an affair with the German Officer who is looking for him. He remains in the attic, hidden by the Read More

The Young and the Brave

Actors: Rory Calhoun, William Bendix, Richard Jaeckel, John Agar, Manuel Padilla

Synopsis: In this Korean War drama, three POWs escape the North Koreans and try to make it safely across enemy lines. During their flight, the soldiers encounter a young boy and his German Shepherd. The boy hates the communists because they killed his parents for sheltering American soldiers, and he offers Read More

Marco Polo

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Yoko Tani, Camillo Pilotto, Pierre Cressoy

Synopsis: In this epic, a medieval adventurer heads to China and winds up saving the Grand Khan's daughter from bandits. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Requiem for a Heavyweight

Actors: Muhammad Ali, Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Julie Harris, Stanley Adams

Synopsis: One of the most memorable sports dramas because of its strong character development, Requiem for a Heavyweight is carried by Anthony Quinn as the washed-up boxer Mountain Rivera, and Jackie Gleason as his sleazy manager, Maish Rennick. In the opening scenes, Cassius Clay -- before he became Muhammad Ali Read More

Il Colosso di Rodi

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari, Georges Marchal, Jorge Rigaud, Conrado SanMartin, Angel Aranda

Synopsis: Sergio Leone's first solo directorial effort was this colorful sword-and-sandal epic set in ancient Greece. Rory Calhoun stars as Dario, a captain in the Greek army who must travel to the island of Rhodes to destroy the huge bronze statue of Colossus, which hurls molten lead at its attackers. Read More

The Secret of Monte Cristo

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Patricia Bredin, John Gregson, Peter Arne, Sam Kydd

Synopsis: In this romantic adventure set in Italy around 1815, a courageous soldier endeavors to find a hidden treasure on the island of Monte Cristo. He then escorts the daughter of a murdered explorer on a quest to find the map they need to locate the loot. The daughter doesn't trust the soldier, but Read More

The Treasure of Monte Cristo

Synopsis: In this adventure, a variation of the classic Dumas story, a band of 19th-century treasure seekers put together a map and go off to the Italian coast to find a fabulous treasure. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Thunder in Carolina

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Alan Hale, Jr., Connie Hines, John Gentry, Ed McGrath

Synopsis: Hard Drivin' is a lively precursor to all those "on the road" flicks of the 1970s. Rory Calhoun, John Gentry and Alan Hale Jr. star as three hellraising Southern stock car drivers. The racing scenes themselves are well photographed, with the stars apparently doing a lot of their own stunts. These Read More

The Texan: Season 02

Actors: Rory Calhoun

Apache Territory

Crew: Producer

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Barbara Bates, John Dehner, Carolyn Craig, Thomas Pittman

Synopsis: A wandering cowboy endeavors to save a wagon train from an Apache attack in this western that is based upon a Louis L'Amour novel. The settlers are frightened and flee. They all end up dead, but for one little girl, whom the cowboy saves. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Texan: Season 01

Actors: Rory Calhoun

The Saga of Hemp Brown

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Beverly Garland, John Larch, Russell Johnson, Fortunio Bonanova

Synopsis: Saga of Hemp Brown gets under way when the title character (Rory Calhoun) is court-martialed and booted from the Cavalry. Brown is accused of permitting his men to walk into a deadly ambush; he knows he's innocent, and he spends the rest of the picture tracking down the real culprit. Joining a Read More

Ride out for Revenge

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Gloria Grahame, Lloyd Bridges, Joanne Gilbert, Frank de Kova

Synopsis: In this revisionist western, Captain George (Lloyd Bridges) is a cavalry officer of dubious principles who is given the assignment of escorting a tribe of Cheyenne Indians from the land of their birth to a government reservation. However, as the Cheyenne are en route to their new home, gold is Read More

Utah Blaine

Actors: Susan Cummings, Angela Stevens, Max Baer, Paul Langton

Synopsis: Rory Calhoun is Utah Blaine in this pinch-penny Sam Katzman-produced western. Adapted from a novel by Louis L'Amour, the story concerns the efforts of gunslinger Blaine to save a group of ranchers from an outlaw gang. When one the ranchers is killed, Utah finds himself half-owner of a valuable Read More

The Domino Kid

Crew: Producer

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Kristine Miller, Andrew Duggan, Yvette Dugay, Peter Whitney

Synopsis: Rory Calhoun both starred in and put up the money for the Columbia oater The Domino Kid. As the title character, Calhoun's mission in life is to rid the earth of the five outlaws who destroyed his ranch and killed his father. Before the film is ten minutes old, the Domino Kid has killed four of Read More

The Big Caper

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Mary Costa, James Gregory, Robert H. Harris, Roxanne Arlen

Synopsis: Obviously inspired by such films as The Asphalt Jungle and The Killing, The Big Caper takes place in a small town with a large bank. James Gregory plays the leader of a gang of thieves who intends to knock over the bank--but not without meticulous pre-planning. In the months prior to the holdup Read More

The Hired Gun

Crew: Producer

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Anne Francis, Vince Edwards, John Litel, Chuck Connors

Synopsis: Rory Calhoun is the star of this minor oater, playing a roving gunman for hire. His latest mission is to track down a murderer and bring the killer back dead or alive. Calhoun's quarry turns out to be the alluring Anne Francis, who insists she didn't murder her husband as charged. After the usual Read More

Red Sundown

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Martha Hyer, Dean Jagger, Robert Middleton, Grant Williams

Synopsis: Strong acting and direction overcomes the more cliched aspects of Red Sundown. It all begins when gunslinger Alec Longmire (Rory Calhoun), weary of living up to his reputation, decides to hang up his firearms and start life anew as a cowpuncher. Before long, however, Alec is obliged to strap on Read More

Flight to Hong Kong

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Barbara Rush, Dolores Donlon, Soo Yong, Patrick Conway

Synopsis: Tony Dumont (Rory Calhoun) is none too trustworthy at the beginning of Flight to Hong Kong. A dealer in contraband goods, Dumont is the bane of his girlfriend Jean Blake's (Dolores Donlon) existence. She wants him to go straight, but the other woman in his life, novelist Pamela Vincent (Barbara Rush Read More

Raw Edge

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Yvonne De Carlo, Mara Corday, Neville Brand, Rex Reason

Synopsis: Raw Edge is a modest Universal western from the peak of the double-feature era. Rory Calhoun plays a rancher whose "equal opportunity" hiring policies backfire. Calhoun learns that several of his ranch hands plan to kill him and take over the property. The treacherous employees further intend Read More

Ain't Misbehavin'

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Piper Laurie, Jack Carson, Mamie van Doren, Reginald Gardiner

Synopsis: In this lively musical a chorine hooks a successful businessman and becomes the snob she thinks he expects her to be. This is a problem, because he fell in love with her because she was so earthy and fun. Now that she has become refined and aloof, he is bored. Fortunately, just as he is leaving Read More

The Treasure of Pancho Villa

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Shelley Winters, Gilbert Roland, Joseph Calleia

Synopsis: Filmed on location, Treasure of Pancho Villa stars Rory Calhoun as a mercenary at large during Mexico's civil war. Though he'll sell his services to the highest bidder, Calhoun is eventually won over to Pancho Villa's cause by patriot Gilbert Roland and former aristocrat Shelley Winters. Before Read More

Shotgun

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Yvonne De Carlo, Sterling Hayden, Zachary Scott, Guy Prescott

Synopsis: While John Ford and Howard Hawks received all the critical plaudits, Lesley Selander quietly went about his business directing some of the best westerns of the 1950s. In Selander's Shotgun, deputy sheriff Clay (Sterling Hayden) embarks upon a long, vengeful journey to track down Thompson (Guy Read More

The Spoilers

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Anne Baxter, Jeff Chandler, Ray Danton, Barbara Britton

Synopsis: The Spoilers is the fourth and (very likely) last film version of Rex Beach's rugged Alaskan adventure yarn. Set during the Gold Rush of '98, the film stars Jeff Chandler as mine owner Roy Glennister, cheated out of his claim by gold commissioner Alex McNamara (Rory Calhoun). Though Glennister Read More

The Looters

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Julie Adams, Ray Danton, Thomas Gomez, Frank Faylen

Synopsis: Actor Abner Biberman specialized in unpleasant characters; when he turned director in the mid-1950s, he specialized in unpleasant subjects. The Looters is a marked-down variation of the Spencer Tracy film The Mountain. When a plane crashes on Pike's Peak, a group of mercenaries agree to search for Read More

River of No Return

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, Rory Calhoun, Tommy Rettig, Murvyn Vye

Synopsis: Director Otto Preminger's only western, River of No Return is set in Canada during the 19th century Gold Rush. Farmer Matt Calder (Robert Mitchum) is released from prison after serving a sentence for shooting a man in the back to protect a friend. He arrives in a small town to retrieve his young Read More

Four Guns to the Border

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Colleen Miller, George Nader, Walter Brennan, Nina Foch

Synopsis: Actor Richard Carlson learned how to direct while starring in his popular TV series I Led Three Lives, then extended his directorial expertise to such theatrical second features as Four Guns to the Border. Rory Calhoun, George Nader, and Jay "Tonto" Silverheels play three desperate bank robbers Read More

A Bullet Is Waiting

Actors: Jean Simmons, Rory Calhoun, Stephen McNally, Brian Aherne

Synopsis: A young woman (Jean Simmons) manages a remote California sheep ranch with her father (Brian Aherne). A plane carrying a sheriff (Stephen McNally) and a man indicted for manslaughter (Rory Calhoun) crashes nearby. Both men are cared for by the girl, who doesn't know at first which is the cop and Read More

The Yellow Tomahawk

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Peggie Castle, Noah Beery, Jr., Warner Anderson, Peter Graves

Synopsis: The Yellow Tomahawk stars Rory Calhoun as a Wyoming Indian scout who forms a strong friendship with Cheyenne warrior Lee Van Cleef. Their relationship is sorely tested when martinet army major Warner Anderson inaugurates a vicious anti-Indian policy, targetted at the Cheyenne women and children. Read More

Dawn at Socorro

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Piper Laurie, David Brian, Kathleen Hughes, Alex Nicol

Synopsis: Rory Calhoun stars as veteran gunfighter Brett Wade in Dawn at Socorro. In a lengthy flashback, the audience learns why Wade has hung up his guns and turned to gambling. Upon meeting dance-hall girl Rannah Hayes (Piper Laurie), he vows to take her out of the shady saloon run by Dick Braden (David Brian Read More

Powder River

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Corinne Calvet, Cameron Mitchell, Penny Edwards, Carl Betz

Synopsis: A climactic donnybrook between hero Allan Lane and ace Republic villain Roy Barcroft is the highlight of this otherwise routine B-Western effort directed by John Ford's nephew Philip Ford. The railroad is coming to El Dorado on the Powder River and a phony agent, Devereaux (Douglas Evans) Read More

How to Marry a Millionaire

Actors: Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, David Wayne, Rory Calhoun

Synopsis: A remake of 1933's The Greeks Had a Word for Them, as well as a retread of 20th Century-Fox's favorite plotline, How to Marry a Millionaire was the first Hollywood comedy to be lensed in Cinemascope. Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe play three models of modest means who rent an Read More

The Silver Whip

Actors: Dale Robertson, Rory Calhoun, Robert Wagner, Kathleen Crowley, James Millican

Synopsis: The Silver Whip stars Dale Robertson as Race Crim, the guard on a stage coach driven by his best friend, young Jess Harker (Robert Wagner). Wounded during a holdup, Crim vows to get even with bandit Slater (John Kellogg). Meanwhile, Harker, fired from his job as driver, manages to become the Read More

With a Song in My Heart

Actors: Susan Hayward, Rory Calhoun, David Wayne, Thelma Ritter, Robert Wagner

Synopsis: With a Song in My Heart is the story of popular 1930s songstress Jane Froman, here portrayed by Susan Hayward. We first see Ms. Froman as a humble staff singer at a Cincinnati radio stations, but it doesn't take her long to rise to the uppermost rungs of network radio fame. Jane gratefully marries 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

Rogue River

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Peter Graves, Frank Fenton, Ralph Sanford, George Stern

Synopsis: Rogue River stars Rory Calhoun as Ownie Rodgers, the nephew of crooked Oregon police chief Joe Dandridge (Frank Fenton). A $70,000 windfall, bequeathed to Dandridge by a man he'd once framed on a bank robbery charge, unleashes innumerable family skeletons. Ownie is obliged to solve the long-ago Read More

Meet Me After the Show

Actors: Betty Grable, MacDonald Carey, Rory Calhoun, Eddie Albert, Fred Clark

Synopsis: Delilah and Jeff (Betty Grable and MacDonald Carey) are a successful show-business team, but less successful as husband and wife. Finding that her producer hubby is unfaithful, musical-comedy star Delilah walks out on him, heading for Miami, where she got her start. In the process, Delilah feigns Read More

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain

Actors: Susan Hayward, William Lundigan, Rory Calhoun, Barbara Bates, Gene Lockhart

Synopsis: In this inspiring drama, William Thompson (William Lundigan) is a minister from the deep South who has recently married Mary Elizabeth (Susan Hayward), a woman from the city. William is assigned a new parish and moves with Mary Elizabeth to a small town in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where he Read More

A Ticket to Tomahawk

Actors: Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter, Rory Calhoun, Walter Brennan, Charles Kemper

Synopsis: A Ticket to Tomahawk has sometimes been described as a musical western satire, but in fact is more "straight" western than anything else--not that there's anything wrong with that, of course. Dan Dailey plays a travelling medicine show entrepreneur who comes to the aid of fast-shootin' Anne Read More

Return of the Frontiersman

Actors: Gordon MacRae, Julie London, Rory Calhoun, Jack Holt, Fred Clark

Synopsis: With Return of the Frontiersman, Warner Bros. continued to test the acting abilities of their singing star Gordon MacRae. While he does get to warble two songs, MacRae plays it straight for the most part in his role as Logan Barrett, the son of hard-bitten sheriff Sam Barrett (Jack Holt). Villain Read More

County Fair

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Jane Nigh, Florence Bates, Warren Douglas, Raymond Hatton

Synopsis: County Fair is an amiable racetrack drama starring Rory Calhoun. A veteran horse trainer, Calhoun has developed a somewhat unsavory reputation. He redeems himself by arranging for near-impoverished matron Florence Bates to win an important race. It's all for the love of a good woman--in this case, Bates Read More

Sand

Actors: Mark Stevens, Coleen Gray, Rory Calhoun, Charles Grapewin

Synopsis: Novelist Will James, a specialist in horse stories, wrote the yarn upon which 20th Century-Fox's Sand was based. Mark Stevens plays horse breeder Jeff Keane, who loses his prize stallion in a train accident. While the stallion roams wild and free, Keane enlists the aid of rancher Joan Hartley (Coleen Gray Read More

Massacre River

Actors: Guy Madison, Rory Calhoun, Carole Mathews, Cathy Downs, Johnny Sands

Synopsis: Guy Madison and Rory Calhoun, both of whom went on to star in their own TV western series, head the cast of the Monogram sagebrusher Massacre River. Madison and Calhoun play Larry Knight and Phil Acton, fellow Army officers and rivals for the attentions of colonel's daughter Kitty Reid (Cathy Downs Read More

Miraculous Journey

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Audrey Long, George Cleveland, Jim Bannon, June Storey

Synopsis: In this psychological drama, a group of people are stranded in a remote jungle after a plane crash. The disparate reactions of each are chronicled through out the story as they learn to survive in their new jungle home. Fortunately, they are helped by a man who was similarly stranded several years Read More

The Red House

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Judith Anderson, Allene Roberts, Julie London

Synopsis: Delmer Daves directs the noirish thriller The Red House, based on the novel by George Agnew Chamberlain. Edward G. Robinson plays Pete Morgan, a farmer who harbors dark secrets and refuses to let anyone near the red house in the woods behind the house. In order to fend off trespassers, he hires Read More

Adventure Island

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Rhonda Fleming, Paul Kelly, John Abbott, Alan Napier

Synopsis: Adventure Island is a shorter and less satisfying remake of the 1937 Paramount actioner Ebb Tide. Rory Calhoun, Paul Kelly and John Abbott star as Herrick, Lochlin and Hulsh, three mercenary seamen involved in illegal activities in the South Seas. Hired to pilot a schooner to Australia, the Read More

That Hagen Girl

Actors: Shirley Temple, Ronald Reagan, Dorothy Peterson, Rory Calhoun, Charles Kemper

Synopsis: A young girl is adopted into a small town family, but instead of finding happiness, she finds her life a living nightmare due to neighbors' constant speculation as to he father's identity. The scuttlebutt is that she is the illegitimate daughter of a prominent lawyer and former resident (Ronald Read More

The Bullfighters

Actors: Richard Lane, Carol Andrews, Diosa Costello

Synopsis: Laurel & Hardy's last American film is a marked improvement over their previous 20th Century-Fox features, though still not in the same league as their 1930s classics. Stan and Ollie play a couple of detectives from Peoria, Illinois, who fly to Mexico City to arrest the notorious Larceny Nell (Carol Andrews Read More

Nob Hill

Actors: George Raft, Joan Bennett, Vivian Blaine, Peggy Ann Garner

Synopsis: The bland performance of star George Raft is the only drawback of this splashy 20th Century-Fox musical. Set in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, the film casts Raft as Barbary Coast saloonkeeper Tony Angel, who endears himself to patrons and pedestrians alike by tossing out silver dollars at the Read More

The Great John L.

Actors: Greg McClure, Linda Darnell, Barbara Britton, J.M. Kerrigan, Lee Sullivan, Otto Kruger

Synopsis: Greg McClure stars as legendary boxer John L. Sullivan in this screen biography of the famous fighter. Known as "The Boston Strong Boy," Sullivan was a bare-knuckle brawler who rose from humble circumstances to become the world's heavyweight champion from 1882 to 1892. While Sullivan was a skilled Read More

Something for the Boys

Actors: Carmen Miranda, Michael O'Shea, Vivian Blaine, Phil Silvers, Perry Como, Sheila Ryan

Synopsis: The Cole Porter Broadway musical Something for the Boys was brought to the screen by 20th Century Fox with three new non-Porter tunes thrown in. The dated libretto (by Herbert and Dorothy Fields) involves a crumbling Southern plantation which is converted into a home for servicemen's wives. Read More

Sundown

Actors: Bruce Cabot, Gene Tierney, George Sanders, Cedric Hardwicke, Harry Carey, Joseph Calleia

Synopsis: Adapted by Barre Lyndon from his own Saturday Evening Post short story, Sundown takes place in Africa during WW2. British army major Coombes (George Sanders) cannot abide the local Arab population, and he has even less time for district commissioner Crawford (Bruce Cabot), who has befriended the Read More