Steve BrodieFilmography

Mugsy's Girls

Actors: Ruth Gordon, Laura Branigan, Joanna Dierek, Rebecca Forstadt

Synopsis: Six sorority sisters are desperate for rent money, so, encouraged and trained by their den mother, they enter a mud-wrestling tournament in Las Vegas. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Frankenstein Island

Actors: John Carradine, Cameron Mitchell

Synopsis: This uproariously bad film marks the less-than-glorious return of producer/director Jerry Warren, shameless purveyor of such cinematic abominations as Teenage Zombies, of which this is a remake of sorts. The crazy-quilt story line defies all rational explanation, but essentially begins with a Read More

Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw

Crew: Producer

Actors: Marjoe Gortner, Lynda Carter, Jesse Vint, Merrie Lynn Ross, Belinda Balaski

Synopsis: A young country-star wannabe takes off from her carhop career to join with a young, modern Billy the Kid wannabe for an adventure in theft, murder and mayhem. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Giant Spider Invasion

Actors: Robert Easton

Synopsis: Bill Rebane's backyard wonder is a hilariously hokey throwback to the giant-monster flicks of the 50s, while taking its only pseudo-scientific conceit from the mid-70s trend of popular "black hole" theories, combining these two elements to create pure bad-movie heaven. A tiny, decrepit town in Read More

The Cycle Savages

Actors: Bruce Dern, Chris Robinson, Melody Patterson, Maray Ayres, Karen Ciral

Synopsis: Film editor Bill Brame directed this violent biker film featuring an intense performance by Bruce Dern as Keeg, the sadistic leader of a vicious gang of cyclists. When Keeg's girlfriend Lea (Melody Patterson) poses nude for an artist named Romko (Chris Robinson), the hooligan goes on a drunken Read More

Bonanza: Trouble Town

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Robert J. Wilke

Synopsis: Candy makes good his long-standing promise to quit the Ponderosa to join his longtime sweetheart Lila Holden (Elizabeth MacRae) in the town of River Bend. His dreams of starting life anew are shattered when he is arrested on a trumped-up charge and held without bail. Hoping to help Candy out, the Read More

She Was a Hippy Vampire

The Wild World of Batwoman

Actors: Katherine Victor, George Andre, Steve Brodie, Richard Banks

Synopsis: Batwoman (Katherine Victor) is a costumed crime fighter who leads a gang of beautiful Batgirls in a neverending crusade to "fight against evil with all sincerity." Her arch-enemy, Rat Fink (Richard Banks), sends henchmen to drug one of the Batgirls at a nightclub and hold her for ransom. Rat Fink Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Drysdale's Dog Days

Synopsis: Having been told repeatedly that her share of the Clampett fortune is $11 million, Granny marches over to the Commerce Bank and demands to see her money in cash. While banker Drysdale tries to mollify Granny -- and to prevent her from withdrawing her money -- he must also contend with his Read More

Bonanza: Walter and the Outlaws

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Arthur Hunnicutt

Synopsis: Season Five of Bonanza came to a close on May 24, 1964 with the episode titled "Walter and the Outlaws", a sequel to the previous season's "Any Friend of Walter's" (the scripts for both episodes were written by Lois Hire). Arthur Hunnicutt returns as grizzled prospector Obie, who lives in a Read More

Roustabout

Actors: Elvis Presley, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Freeman, Leif Erickson, Sue Ane Langdon

Synopsis: Charlie Rogers (Elvis Presley) is a coffeehouse singer who joins a financially troubled carnival in Roustabout. He is hired by owner Maggie Morgan (Barbara Stanwyck) and soon catches the eye of his pretty female co-worker Cathy Lean (Joan Freeman). Cathy's irate father Joe (Leif Erickson) clashes Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Witless Witness

Synopsis: The "teaser" opening of this episode shows Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) losing an appeal before Judge Daniel Redmond (Robert Middleton). Later on, however, Redmond is banking on Perry to win in court--in fact, the judge's life depends on it. It seems that Redmond is running for lieutenant governor Read More

Bonanza: Any Friend of Walter's

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Arthur Hunnicutt

Synopsis: One of the best-remembered and best-loved Bonanza episodes, "Any Friend of Walter's" first aired on March 24, 1963. While travelling to visit his sweetie Bessie Sue (Katie Sue), Hoss Cartwright is forced to take shelter in the shack occupied by scroungy prospector Obie (Arthur Hunnicutt) and Read More

Of Love and Desire

Actors: Merle Oberon, Steve Cochran, Curd Jürgens, John Agar, Steve Brodie

Synopsis: Boiling over with sexual shenanigans and general sleaziness the Mexico-set tale centers on a confused socialite who falls in love with an American engineer who was hired by her half- brother to oversee his mining outfit. At first the attraction between the girl and the Yank is purely sexual, but Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Angry Astronaut

Synopsis: Washed out of an upcoming Moon project, civilian astronaut Mitchell Heller (Robert Bray) has plenty of reason to despise the man responsible, Maj. Gen. Addison Brand (a pre-stardom James Coburn). Not only has Heller stolen his job and his girlfriend, but he also may have swiped an invention on Read More

A Girl Named Tamiko

Actors: Laurence Harvey, France Nuyen, Martha Hyer, Gary Merrill, Michael Wilding, Sr.

Synopsis: Certain film historians are perpetually amazed that the doggedly unappetizing Laurence Harvey became a major film star. In Girl Named Tamiko, Harvey is once more the embittered heel, this time playing a Eurasian photographer who pretends to be in love with numerous American ladies. His only true Read More

Maverick: The Devil's Necklace, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Bart (Jack Kelly) and crooked peddler Cannonbaugh (John Dehner) have been captured by the same hostile tribe from whom Cannonbaugh had kidnapped the Indian girl Tawney (Sharon Hugueny). In order to secure his release, the peddler convinces the Indian chief to Read More

Maverick: The Devil's Necklace, Part 1

Synopsis: Season Four of Maverick concludes with the series' only two-part episode. In Part One, Bart (Jack Kelly) purchases a wagonload of merchandise sight unseen from silver-tongued peddler Luther Cannonbaugh (John Dehner). Bart's plan to sell the merchandise at a nearby Army post hits a snag when he Read More

Blue Hawaii

Actors: Elvis Presley, Joan Blackman, Nancy Walters, Roland Winters, Angela Lansbury

Synopsis: One of Elvis Presley's most successful post-Army vehicles, Blue Hawaii casts Elvis as scion to a Hawaiian pineapple fortune. His snooty mother Angela Lansbury wants Presley to take over the management of the family business, but he'd rather make his own way in the world. He lands a job at a Read More

Three Came to Kill

Actors: Cameron Mitchell, John Lupton, Steve Brodie, Lyn Thomas, Paul Langton

Synopsis: A routine story about an attempted assassination of a foreign head of state, Three Came to Kill is one of many action dramas directed by the indefatigable Edward L. Cahn in 1960 and '61. In this instance, the setting is Los Angeles and a gang of hoodlums, for their own reasons, are intent on Read More

Arson for Hire

Actors: Steve Brodie, Lyn Thomas, Frank Scannell, Anthony Carbone, John Merrick

Synopsis: Feeble in the action department, this drama directed by Thor Brooks fizzles before the arsonist gets his due. John (Steve Brodie) is the leader of an arson squad and he does not realize that it is one of his men who is setting the disastrous fires around town. The duplicitous and secretly criminal Read More

Here Come the Jets

Actors: Steve Brodie, Lyn Thomas, Mark Dana, John Doucette, Jean Carson

Synopsis: The creation and testing of jet planes is the focus of this action film. The story centers on a boozy hero from the Korean War who is hired as a test pilot by an aircraft executive on the condition that he sober up for good. It is a long road for the alcoholic aviator, and at one point he almost Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Garrulous Gambler

Synopsis: Perennial loser Larry Benton (Wynn Pearce) is convinced that he has killed a guy named Mike during a poker-game argument. Actually, Larry is the victim of a blackmail scam, perpetrated by a shady customer named Johnny Clay. After Larry forges his brother Steve's name on a check to Johnny, the Read More

The Crooked Circle

Synopsis: A former fighter's younger brother decides that he too wants to enter the squared circle and so leaves his native Maine to try his luck in New York. Things go well until he finds himself entangled with mobsters who try to convince him to throw his fights. Meanwhile, his big brother, who simply Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Death Sentence

Synopsis: Worrywart Norman Frayne (James Best) is so wrapped up with his own problems that he is neglecting his wife, Paula (Katherine Bard). All this changes when Norman's old pal, handsome Al Revenel (Steve Brodie), comes to town. Now Norman has something new to worry about -- namely, that Al is poised to Read More

Sierra Baron

Actors: Brian Keith, Rick Jason, Rita Gam, Mala Powers, Steve Brodie

Synopsis: In this western set in the California territory in the mid-19th century, a rancher tries to protect his Spanish land grant from greedy American landgrabbers. Unfortunately the eastern interlopers bring in a Texas gunfighter to frighten the man. The gunfighter ends up falling in love with the Read More

Spy in the Sky

Actors: Steve Brodie, Sandra Francis, Andrea Domburg, George Coulouris

Synopsis: W. Lee Wilder, the somewhat less prestigious producer-director brother of Billy Wilder, went to Holland to film his 1958 opus Spy in the Sky. Steve Brodie plays Cabot, a U.S. intelligence agent who heads to Vienna (actually Amsterdam) in search of a missing rocket scientist. Cabot's quest is Read More

Gun Duel in Durango

Actors: George Montgomery, Ann Robinson, Steve Brodie, Bobby Clark, Frank Ferguson

Synopsis: Originally released as Gun Duel in Durango, this solid little western stars George Montgomery as reformed outlaw Dan. He falls in love with ranch owner Judy (Ann Robinson), but she won't accept his proposal until she's certain that he's given up his criminal activities. This proves difficult when Read More

Under Fire

Actors: Rex Reason, Henry "Harry" Morgan, Steve Brodie, Peter Walker, Robert Levin

Synopsis: Another "pocket" adventure film from 20th Century-Fox's Regal Films subsidiary, Under Fire is set during WW2. Four American soldiers are charged with desertion and murder. Their counsel (Rex Reason) tries to get to the bottom of his clients' motivations. It turns out that the actual culprits were Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: One More Mile to Go

Synopsis: One of the best of the Alfred Hitchcock Presents half-hours personally directed by Hitchcock himself, "One More Mile to Go" opens with a bitter argument between Sam Jacoby (David Wayne) and his wife Martha (Louise Larabee). Although the viewer is witnessing the quarrel from behind a window and Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Enough Rope for Two

Synopsis: Released from prison, criminal Joe Kedzie (Steven Hill) makes a beeline to an abandoned mine shaft in the desert, where he has hidden 100,000 dollars in stolen money. Hot on Joe's heels are his two cohorts, Maxie (Steve Brodie) and Madge, (Jean Hagen), who hope to claim their share of the dough Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Creeper

Synopsis: A stalwart of the radio anthology circuit, the classic suspense tale "The Creeper" is given its first TV treatment on this episode. The title character is a serial strangler who preys upon helpless women. Terrified at the prospect of being the next victim, Ellen Grant (Constance Ford) locks her Read More

The Cruel Tower

Actors: John Ericson, Mari Blanchard, Charles McGraw, Steve Brodie, Peter Whitney

Synopsis: The Cruel Tower is a dog-and-pony variation of a well-worn triangle plot. John Ericson is a handsome young steeplejack, working side-by-side on a dizzying new structure with brooding partner Charles McGraw. Mari Blanchard is McGraw's beautiful young wife, whose history of illicit romances Read More

The Far Country

Actors: James Stewart, Ruth Roman, Corinne Calvet, Walter Brennan, John McIntire

Synopsis: One of the most entertaining of the Western movies to come out of the 1950s, this is a Stewart vehicle in which he must take on the ruthlessness of the frontier. Set in the Yukon, Stewart and his friends are driving cattle to market from Wyoming to Canada, where the boom towns pay top dollar for Read More

The Caine Mutiny

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray, Robert Francis, May Wynn

Synopsis: Robert Francis is at the center of the story as Willis Keith, a newly-minted ensign assigned to the destroyer/minesweeper U.S.S. Caine during World War II. Soon after his arrival, the ship gets a new captain, Lt. Comdr. Philip Francis Queeg Humphrey Bogart, a tough, no-nonsense veteran officer who Read More

The Charge at Feather River

Actors: Guy Madison, Frank Lovejoy, Helen Westcott, Vera Miles, Dick Wesson

Synopsis: With all those flaming arrows being aimed directly at the audience, it is fairly obvious that Charge of Feather River was originally released in 3D. Fresh from his TV success as Wild Bill Hickok, Guy Madison stars as frontiersman Miles Archer (his character name will be amusing to fans of The Maltese Falcon Read More

White Lightning

Actors: Stanley Clements, Steve Brodie, Gloria Blondell, Barbara Bestar, Lyle Talbot

Synopsis: No relation to the 1973 Burt Reynolds vehicle of the same name, White Lightning is a passable programmer about a champion ice hockey team. Stanley Clements plays Mike, an arrogant young hockey player who immediately alienates his new teammates. Team manager Jack (Steve Brodie) tries to convince Read More

The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms

Actors: Paul Christian, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey, Donald Woods

Synopsis: A longtime "dream" project of production designer-turned-director Eugene Lourie, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms sees the titular beast unleashed on the world via nuclear testing. Making its way from the Arctic Circle, the monster-a carnivorous "rhedosaurus"-begins advancing towards New York. It Read More

Sea of Lost Ships

Actors: John Derek, Wanda Hendrix, Walter Brennan, Richard Jaeckel, Tom Tully

Synopsis: Sea of Lost Ships is partly a tribute to the U.S. Coast Guard, but mostly a typical Republic Pictures melange of action, romance and suspense. John Derek plays Grad Matthews, descended from a long line of Coast Guard officers. Through a misunderstanding, Grad is booted out of the Coast Guard Read More

Donovan's Brain

Actors: Lew Ayres, Gene Evans, Nancy Davis, Steve Brodie, Lisa Howard

Synopsis: Felix E. Feist directed this second adaptation of the novel by Curt Siodmak (filmed previously in 1944 as The Lady and the Monster and later in 1963 as The Brain), which tells the story of a brilliant brain specialist (Lew Ayres) whose attempts to save the life of an accident victim result in the Read More

Army Bound

Actors: Stanley Clements, Karen Sharpe, Steve Brodie, John Fontaine, Harry Hayden

Synopsis: Bantam-weight Stanley Clements is Army Bound in this breezy Monogram programmer. Clements plays midget-car driver Frank Cermak, who upon being drafted discovers that his C.O., Lt. Peters (John Fontaine), is a rival racer, and not a particularly friendly one at that. Complicating matters is the Read More

Three for Bedroom C

Actors: Gloria Swanson, James Warren, Fred Clark, Hans Conried, Steve Brodie

Synopsis: An aging movie star and her precocious daughter hide out in the train berth of a scientist during a cross-country journey from New York to LA in this romantic comedy. The whole mess begins when the actress receives an urgent wire demanding that she immediately return to Hollywood to star in a new Read More

Lady in the Iron Mask

Actors: Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, Judd Holdren, Steve Brodie

Synopsis: As indicated by the title, Lady in the Iron Mask is a distaff version of the famous Alexandre Dumas yarn. D'Artagnan (Louis Hayward) and his fellow musketeers vow to defend France's Princess Anne (Patricia Medina) to the death. It seems that Anne has been thrown into a dungeon with her face Read More

The Story of Will Rogers

Actors: Will Rogers, Jr., Jane Wyman, Carl Benton Reid, Eve Miller, James Gleason

Synopsis: Will Rogers Jr. stars as his own father in this slow, sentimental biopic. The film begins with Rogers' days on his father's ranch in Indian Territory (later Oklahoma). We see Will court his future wife, Betty (Jane Wyman), just before he strikes out on his own as a rodeo performer. Attempting to Read More

Bal Tabarin

Actors: Muriel Lawrence, William Ching, Claire Carleton, Steve Brodie, Steven Geray

Synopsis: The famed Bal Tabarin cabaret in Paris is the gathering spot for this swiftly paced crime melodrama. It all begins when singer Judy Allen (Muriel Lawrence) scampers away to the City of Light to escape the clutches of the villains who murdered her boss. The bad guys not only want to silence Judy Read More

Joe Palooka in Triple Cross

Actors: Joe Kirkwood, Jr., James Gleason, Cathy Downs, John Emery, Steve Brodie

Synopsis: Joe Palooka in Triple Cross, like its predecessors, was based on Ham Fisher's comic strip Joe Palooka. This time around, soft-hearted boxer Joe Palooka (Joe Kirkwood Jr.), his wife Ann (Cathy Downs) and his manager Knobby Walsh (James Gleason) are kidnapped by a trio of goofy escaped convicts. One Read More

Fighting Coast Guard

Actors: Brian Donlevy, Forrest Tucker, John Russell, Richard Jaeckel, William Murphy

Synopsis: The Coast Guard is highlighted in this propaganda drama set during WW II. In addition to the usual blend of romance and military adventure, the film also features an interesting glimpse in to the training of the young Guards as they prepare for war. The story centers around a crew of shipyard Read More

M

Actors: David Wayne, Luther Adler, Howard Da Silva, Martin Gabel, Steve Brodie, Raymond Burr

Synopsis: It took nerve for director Joseph Losey to attempt a remake of Fritz Lang's classic chiller M, but by and large Losey was up to the challenge. David Wayne steps into the old Peter Lorre role as the compulsive child-murderer who is tracked down and then placed on trial by the criminal underworld. Read More

The Steel Helmet

Actors: Gene Evans, Robert Hutton, Richard Loo, Steve Brodie, James Edwards, Sid Melton

Synopsis: Writer and director Samuel Fuller enjoyed his first box-office and critical success with this hard-boiled but human tale of men at war, informed by his own experiences in the armed forces. Zack (Gene Evans) is a gruff U.S. Army sergeant who is the lone survivor of an attack on his outfit in North Read More

The Sword of Monte Cristo

Actors: George Montgomery, Berry Kroeger, William Conrad, Rhys Williams

Synopsis: Sword of Monte Cristo picks up where the Dumas original leaves off. The titular sword is not only valuable in itself, but also provides clues to the whereabouts of the Count of Monte Cristo's missing fortune. The conniving chief minister of France (Berry Kroeger) will stop at nothing to gain Read More

Two Dollar Bettor

Actors: John Litel, Marie Windsor, Steve Brodie, Barbara Logan, Robert Sherwood

Synopsis: Dependable supporting actor John Litel is top-billed in the independently produced Two Dollar Bettor. Litel plays John Hewitt, a respectable widower who takes the first step on the road to depravation when he makes his first-ever bet at the race track. Consumed by gambling fever, Hewitt is reduced Read More

The Admiral Was a Lady

Actors: Edmond O'Brien, Wanda Hendrix, Rudy Vallee, Johnny Sands, Steve Brodie

Synopsis: Wanda Hendrix is awfully cute as a WAVE officer who is endlessly pursued by lascivious men. Ex-airmen Edmond O'Brien, Johnny Sands and Steve Brodie spend most of their time chasing Wanda about, but she manages to keep them at arms' length. You see, she only has eyes for her boyfriend Dick Erdman Read More

It's a Small World

Actors: Paul Dale, Lorraine Miller, Nina Koshetz, Steve Brodie

Synopsis: Obviously designed as an exploitationer, It's a Small World isn't bad within its own limits. Paul Dale, a real-life radio disc jockey, stars as midget Harry Musk, who is met with cruelty and insensitivity wherever he goes because of his small stature. Unable to adjust to the "big" world, Harry Read More

Armored Car Robbery

Actors: Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman, Douglas Fowley, Steve Brodie

Synopsis: Some auteur critics feel that director Richard O. Fleischer did his best work while laboring in the "B" mills of RKO Radio. Fleischer's minimalist noir exercise Armored Car Robbery stars William Talman as the chief crook and Charles McGraw as the detective dogging his trail. A shade Read More

Winchester '73

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

Only the Valiant

Actors: Gregory Peck, Barbara Payton, Ward Bond, Gig Young, Lon Chaney, Jr.

Synopsis: Originally conceived as a Gary Cooper western, Only the Valiant reached the screen with Gregory Peck in the lead. Peck plays Richard Lance, a strictly by-the-book Army captain. Though hated by his men, Lance is respected for his military know-how. This comes in very handy when Lance and a Read More

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

Actors: James Cagney, Barbara Payton, Helena Carter, Ward Bond, Luther Adler

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Horace McCoy (They Shoot Horses, Don't They), Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye offers James Cagney at his nastiest. The star plays career criminal Ralph Cotter, who gets things started by violently busting out of jail, then murdering his partner in crime. Seeking out female companionship Read More

The Great Plane Robbery

Actors: Tom Conway, Margaret Hamilton, Steve Brodie, Lynne Roberts, David Bruce

Synopsis: Taking place during a transcontinental flight, the story of The Great Plane Robbery concerns an airborne robbery (hence the title) and a series of ancillary murders. With no minions of the law on board, it is up to the pilot (Tom Conway) and an eccentric passenger (Margaret Hamilton) to solve the Read More

The Treasure of Monte Cristo

Actors: Glenn Langan, Adele Jergens, Steve Brodie, Robert Jordan, Michael Whalen

Synopsis: Often misidentified as The Treasure of Monte Carlo, this low-budget melodrama is tenuously related to the "Monte Cristo" legend as laid down by novelist Alexandre Dumas. Glenn Langan plays Edmund Dantes, a descendant of the original Count of Monte Cristo. Working as an officer on a freighter Read More

Brothers in the Saddle

Synopsis: The siblings of the title are Tim Holt and Steve Brodie. Holt is the good guy (after all, the film was part of Holt's RKO western series), while younger brother Brodie is the hotheaded troublemaker. The film offers a wealth of fistfights, gun duels and pursuits on horseback, as well as a dash of Read More

Bodyguard

Actors: Lawrence Tierney, Priscilla Lane, Phillip Reed, June Clayworth, Elizabeth Risdon

Synopsis: Granite-jawed Lawrence Tierney is the Bodyguard in this second-echelon noir thriller. Invited to resign from the LA police, short-tempered Mike Carter (Tierney) hires on to protect wealthy dowager Eugenia Dyson (Elizabeth Risdon). Before the film has reached its halfway point, Carter has been Read More

The Rustlers

Actors: Tim Holt, Richard Martin, Martha Hyer, Steve Brodie, Lois Andrews

Synopsis: Another of RKO's profitable Tim Holt western series, Rustlers costars Holt with his popular sidekick Richard Martin (as Chico Rafferty). Holt and Martin are arrested by sheriff Harry Shannon, who accuses them of being members of a vicious rustling gang. Actually Shannon is the head of the Read More

Home of the Brave

Actors: Frank Lovejoy, Douglas Dick, James Edwards, Steve Brodie, Jeff Corey, Lloyd Bridges

Synopsis: Arthur Laurents' play Home of the Brave concerned a paralyzed Jewish war veteran who begins to walk again only when he confronts his fear of forever being an "outsider." The film version of the Laurents play changes the protagonist into an African-American, played by James Edwards. The soldier's Read More

I Cheated the Law

Actors: Tom Conway, Steve Brodie, Robert Osterloh, Barbara Billingsley, Russell Hicks

Synopsis: This independently produced crime caper was picked up for distribution by 20th Century-Fox. Tom Conway stars as criminal attorney John Campbell. After saving Frank Bricolle (Steve Brodie) from a murder charge, Campbell is taunted with revelation that Bricolle is actually guilty. Even more galling Read More

The Big Wheel

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell, Michael O'Shea, Spring Byington, Mary Hatcher

Synopsis: In The Big Wheel, Mickey Rooney plays Billy Coy, a garage mechanic who matriculates into a champion race-car driver. On the way to the top, he steps on friends and foes alike. He even manages to briefly alienate his saintly mother (Spring Byington). The cocky Coy eventually kills another racer Read More

Tough Assignment

Actors: Marjorie Steele, Steve Brodie, Marc Lawrence, Ben Welden

Synopsis: William "One Take" Beaudine warms the director's chair for Lippert Pictures' Tough Assignment. The film is essentially a combination western and contemporary crime yarn, with Don Barry cast as Dan Reilly, a frontier journalist. With the help of his wife Margie (Marjorie Steele), Dan tries to get 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

Rose of the Yukon

Synopsis: The "Rose," we suppose, is Myrna Dell, because it sure as heck ain't leading man Steve Brodie. Brodie plays a US Army officer sent to Alaska to investigate reports of the appearance of a supposedly dead man. Upon arriving in the Great White North, Brodie locates his man (William Wright), a Read More

The Arizona Ranger

Actors: Tim Holt, Jack Holt, Nan Leslie, Richard Martin, Steve Brodie

Synopsis: In this western, a troubled, battle-weary youth must somehow put his life together after he is discharged from Roosevelt's Rough Riders. His father wants him to take over the family ranch, but the son is still too haunted by war's horrors to care. Instead he begins wandering aimlessly until he Read More

Guns of Hate

Actors: Tim Holt, Nan Leslie, Richard Martin, Myrna Dell

Synopsis: Filmed at majestic Lone Pine, CA, this fine B-Western features Tim Holt and sidekick Richard Martin helping an elderly miner, Jason Robards Sr., with an obstinate wagon-wheel. But the two friends become instant suspects when the miner is found murdered for the map to his claim. Although she is Read More

Station West

Actors: Dick Powell, Jane Greer, Agnes Moorehead, Burl Ives, Tom Powers

Synopsis: Station West may look like a western, but it sure sounds like a contemporary film noir. Dick Powell stars as Haven, a government private investigator assigned to investigate the murders of two cavalrymen. Travelling incognito, Haven arrives in a small frontier outpost, where leggy saloon singer Read More

Return of the Bad Men

Actors: Robert Armstrong, Walter S. Baldwin, Lex Barker, Robert Bray, Steve Brodie

Synopsis: The success of 1947's Badman's Territory prompted RKO Radio to assemble another "outlaw rally," Return of the Badmen. Randolph Scott plays US marshal Vance, assigned to rid the Oklahoma Territory of outlaws. This proves to be quite a challenge, inasmuch as virtually every frontier bad guy has Read More

Crossfire

Actors: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame, Paul Kelly

Synopsis: This drama was one of the first major-studio efforts to confront anti-Semitism (beating the Oscar-winning Gentleman's Agreement by several months), and it features a standout performance from Robert Ryan as a bigoted soldier on the run. Monty Montogomery (Ryan) is a violent and unstable soldier Read More

Desperate

Actors: Steve Brodie, Audrey Long, Raymond Burr, Douglas Fowley, William Challee, Jason Robards, Sr.

Synopsis: With 1947's Desperate, a disturbing, noirish twist on traditional moral values, responsibility, and guilt, director Anthony Mann entered the ranks of class-A directors, though he'd still have to spend a few more years in "B" pictures. In his first important role, Steve Brodie plays newlywed Read More

Out of the Past

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Webb

Synopsis: Out of the Past is so perfect a film noir that it is considered practically a textbook example of the genre. In his first starring role (it had previously been offered to John Garfield and Dick Powell), Robert Mitchum plays Jeff Bailey, the friendly but secretive proprietor of a Read More

Trail Street

Actors: Randolph Scott, Robert Ryan, Anne Jeffreys, George "Gabby" Hayes, Madge Meredith

Synopsis: Quick-draw legend Bat Masterson is summoned to Kansas to end a small-town feud between local farmers and criminal ranch owners in this western starring Randolph Scott. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Code of the West

Actors: James Warren, John Laurenz, Steve Brodie, Rita Lynn

Synopsis: The third of western hero James Warren's trio of RKO Radio vehicles, Code of the West was like its predecessors based on a story by Zane Grey. Warren plays Bob Wade, a settler on the Arizona Strip, circa 1880. Representing his fellow settlers, Wade stands up to gambling boss Carter (Raymond Burr) Read More

Thunder Mountain

Actors: Tim Holt, Martha Hyer, Steve Brodie, Virginia Owen, Harry Woods

Synopsis: Based on Zane Grey's 1922 novel To the Last Man, filmed previously by Paramount in 1923 and 1934, this fine RKO Western marked the return to his home lot of Tim Holt after a stint in the Army Air Corps. Returning to his Arizona homestead, Marvin Hayden (Holt) lands in the middle of the age-old Read More

Badman's Territory

Actors: Randolph Scott, Ann Richards, George "Gabby" Hayes, Ray Collins, James Warren

Synopsis: In this is '40s western a U.S. marshal chases a band of big-name bandits into no-man's territory (land outside of U.S. government jurisdiction) as he's trying to locate his little brother. He ends up facing off with none other than the James Boys, the Daltons and other notorious fellows. Badman's Read More

Sunset Pass

Actors: James Warren, Nan Leslie, John Laurenz, Jane Greer, Robert H. Barrat

Synopsis: With Tim Holt still in military service and Robert Mitchum promoted to "A" pictures, RKO Radio attempted to create a new B-western star in the form of James Warren, who starred in three sagebrushers over a three-year period. Warren's second RKO effort was Sunset Pass, a remake of an oft-filmed Read More

Criminal Court

Actors: Tom Conway, Martha O'Driscoll, June Clayworth, Robert Armstrong, Addison Richards

Synopsis: Elevating Criminal Court above the B-picture norm is the inventive direction by Robert Wise and the better-than-usual performances by all concerned. In a break from his heroic "Falcon" role, Tom Conway stars as Steve Barnes, a criminal attorney known for his unorthodox courtroom tactics. After Read More

Young Widow

Actors: Jane Russell, Louis Hayward, Faith Domergue, Marie Wilson, Kent Taylor

Synopsis: With The Outlaw still being withheld from general release, Young Widow represented the first time that most filmgoers ever saw Jane Russell on the screen. Unfortunately, she was hardly at her best in this lachrymose tale of a woman named Joan Kenwood, who can't get over her husband's death in WW Read More

The Falcon's Adventure

Actors: Tony Barrett, Steve Brodie, Edward S. Brophy, Tom Conway, Joseph Crehan

Synopsis: When a scientist discovers a way to create synthetic diamonds, a group of criminals kidnap his daughter Meredith (Louisa Braganza) in an attempt to ransom her for the valuable formula. Rescuing Meredith from her kidnappers, the Falcon (Tom Conway) becomes the prime suspect in a string of Read More

Anchors Aweigh

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, José Iturbi, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: This mammoth musical is at base the story of two sailors on leave in Hollywood. Brash Joseph Brady (Gene Kelly) has promised his shy pal Clarence Doolittle (Frank Sinatra) that he will introduce Clarence to all the glamorous movie starlets whom he allegedly knows so well. Actually, the only Read More

A Walk in the Sun

Actors: Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, John Ireland, Norman Lloyd, George Tyne, Lloyd Bridges, Sterling Holloway

Synopsis: Harry Brown's honest, unsentimental WW2 novel A Walk in the Sun has been effectively adapted for the screen by Robert Rossen. Dana Andrews stars as Sgt. Tyne, a platoon squad leader in Italy who ends up assuming command of his platoon after a series of deaths. As they prepare to attack an isolated Read More

The Crimson Canary

Actors: Noah Beery, Jr., Lois Collier, Danny Morton, John Litel, Claudia Drake

Synopsis: An offbeat Universal murder mystery, Crimson Canary is set in the very special world of jazz musicians. A duplicitous songstress is murdered, and the prime suspects are members of a nightclub jazz combo. John Litel, the detective assigned to the case, is himself a jazz fan and thus takes Read More

This Man's Navy

Actors: Wallace Beery, Tom Drake, James Gleason, Jan Clayton, Selena Royle

Synopsis: Ned Trumpet (Wallace Beery), the chief pilot of a Navy blimp, is given to weaving accounts of the fighting prowess of his non-existent son. His friendship with widow Maude Weaver (Selena Royle) and her son Jess (Tom Drake) in effect sets him up with a real family. Jess enters the service and goes Read More

Ladies Courageous

Actors: Loretta Young, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Diana Barrymore, Anne Gwynne

Synopsis: All but forgotten today, Ladies Courageous was one of the more successful wartime morale-boosters. Loretta Young heads the virtually all-female cast as Robert Harper, no-nonsense executive officer of the original 24 members of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron. Each of the women under her Read More

Follow the Boys

Actors: George Raft, Vera Zorina, Charles Grapewin, George Macready, Charles Butterworth, Regis Toomey, Grace McDonald

Synopsis: Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars making cameo appearances. Tony West (George Raft), his sister Kitty (Grace McDonald), and their father Nick (Charles Grapewin) tour together as The Three Wests, a failing act Read More

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

Actors: Van Johnson, Robert Walker, Phyllis Thaxter, Tim Murdock, Scott McKay, Robert Mitchum

Synopsis: Billed third, Spencer Tracy plays Lt. Col. James P. Doolittle, who led the bombing raid over Tokyo. Most of the footage concerns pilot Ted Lawson (Van Johnson), who loses a leg while escaping from China after the attack; other subplots concern the meticulous preparations for the raid, and the Read More