Tab Hunter Filmography

50 Years: The Best of Hollywood

Synopsis: Tab Hunter narrates this collection of clips from classic films. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

Actors: Alec Baldwin

Synopsis: Directed by the acclaimed Walter Hill and narrated by actor Alec Baldwin, this documentary profiles the adventurous, contentious, and very talented director William Wellman (1896-1975). Ambulance driver for the French Foreign Legion and decorated American pilot in World War I, Wellman later became Read More

Dark Horse

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Ed Begley, Jr., Mimi Rogers, Ari Meyers, Donovan Leitch, Samantha Eggar, Tab Hunter

Synopsis: A troubled teen girl finds friendship with a cast-aside horse, in this made-for-television family fare. Ari Meyers (from TV's Kate & Allie) stars as Allison Mills, a young girl who gets herself into trouble after the death of her mother. Sent to a horse farm as part of a community service Read More

Out of the Dark

Actors: Cameron Dye, Karen Black, Bud Cort, Lynn Danielson, Starr Andreeff

Synopsis: In this suspense thriller with a few humorous touches, an employee of a phone-sex service (Lynn Danielson) is being stalked by a clown-masked psychotic killer (Cameron Dye) who has already murdered a number of her colleagues. ~ Yuri German, All Movie Guide Read More

Hollywood on Horses

Cameron's Closet

Actors: Cotter Smith, Mel Harris, Scott Curtis, Chuck McCann, Leigh McCloskey

Synopsis: Director Armand Mastroianni's last horror feature before building a more solid reputation as a director of TV movies and series, Cameron's Closet tells the tale of a bright young boy with innate telekinetic powers whose gifts were exploited by his father (Tab Hunter) in a series of controlled Read More

Grotesque

Actors: Linda Blair, Tab Hunter, Donna Wilkes, Brad Wilson, Nels Van Patten

Synopsis: Somewhere amid the filmmakers' attempts to disorient the viewers of this film with the old movie-within-a-movie trick, it would seem they also got themselves completely lost in the process. The story opens with a false start, depicting an elderly woman being stalked by a faceless maniac (actually Read More

Lust in the Dust

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tab Hunter, Divine, Lainie Kazan, Geoffrey Lewis, Henry Silva

Synopsis: A controversial spoof on the Spaghetti western (some love it, some hate it), Lust in the Dust features the 300-pound Divine as the inimitable Rosie Velez, riding into view in full drag on a poor donkey as solemn commentary muddles on about the passions that enslave men and women -- and then Rosie Read More

Grease 2

Actors: Maxwell Caulfield, Michelle Pfeiffer, Adrian Zmed, Christopher McDonald, Peter Frechette

Synopsis: Given the runaway success of Grease, which became the biggest-grossing movie musical of all time, it was all but inevitable that there would be a sequel, and four years later this follow-up brought a new group of kids back to Rydell High. It's 1961, and Stephanie Zinone (Michelle Pfeiffer) is the Read More

Pandemonium

Actors: Tom Smothers, Carol Kane, Miles Chapin, Debra Scott, Marc McClure

Synopsis: Tom Smothers and Carol Kane co-star with Paul Reubens and Judge Reinhold in this uneven comedy spoof of slasher films. Sergeant Cooper (Smothers) is a Canadian Mountie who investigates the death of cheerleaders attending a summer camp at Indiana's It Had To Be University. Cameo appearances by Eve Arden Read More

Polyester

Actors: Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey, Mink Stole, David Samson

Synopsis: After making a name for himself with such underground gross-out epics as Pink Flamingos and Desperate Living, director John Waters made a bid for somewhat wider acceptance with this black comedy, which is sedate only by the standards of his previous work. Francine Fishpaw (Divine) is a housewife Read More

Shotgun

The Kid from Left Field

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV remake of the 1953 comedy, the wisdom of a young batboy (Gary Coleman) leads the San Diego Padres from worst to first and an eventual berth in the World Series. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold

Actors: Kim Basinger

Synopsis: Kim Basinger was best known as a model when she starred in the made-for-TV Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold. She plays a green-as-grass Texas teenager who wins a beauty contest. Armed with nothing more than delusions, Basinger heads to Hollywood to become a star. As given away by the film's title, Ms. Basinger 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

The Big Push

Synopsis: When a couple of ruthless businessmen threaten her logging camp, a defenseless widow is aided by a group of Alaskan lumberjacks. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

Actors: Alfred G. Bosnos, Fred Brookfield, Karen Carr, Dolores Clark, Margo Epper, Barbara J. Longo, Lee Meza, Paul Newman, Victoria Principal, Anthony Perkins, Ned Beatty, Jacqueline Bisset, Tab Hunter, John Huston

Synopsis: Paul Newman plays the title role in John Huston's surreal, revisionist western as the infamous Texas hanging judge. In a tiny West Texas town, Roy Bean is an imperious, self-appointed judge whose intimidation keeps the local residents living in fear. The townspeople finally manage to tie him to Read More

Hacksaw

Synopsis: A wild stallion is tamed and taught to pull in a harness by a modern cowboy who then enters the horse in the Calgary Stampede chuck wagon race. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

San Francisco International

Synopsis: San Francisco International is a multiplotted drama set at the titular air transport center. Several storylines intersect at various junctures: A $3,000,000 cargo plane robbery, a teenaged boy commandeering an aircraft, and a violent confrontation between a nasty businessman and a an airheaded Read More

The Arousers

Actors: Isabel Jewell, Tab Hunter

Synopsis: The Arousers was also shipped out as Sweet Kill and A Kiss From Eddie. Former teen heartthrob Tab Hunter stars as a sex-obsessed serial killer. Hunter can't seem to convince the women he meets that he's worth loving and caring about, so he murders them. Based on an actual case history, the film is Read More

Quel Maledetto Ponte Sull'elba

The Last Chance

Synopsis: An international crime syndicate is threatened by the information given to American journalist Tab Hunter and sets out to kill him. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Fickle Finger of Fate

Actors: Tab Hunter, Luis Prendes, Gustavo Rojo, Fernando Hilbeck, Ralph Brown

Synopsis: The "Fickle Finger of Fate" is one of a pair of priceless religious art icons. This comedy centers around an American engineer who is just about ready to leave Madrid when it is discovered that his suitcase contains one of the missing fingers. The authorities suspect that his suitcase was Read More

Rey de Africa

Actors: Ty Hardin, Anna Maria Pier Angeli

Synopsis: Set in the wilds of South Africa, this Italian adventure chronicles the travails of three fugitive killers who search the jungle for a fabulous gold mine. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hostile Guns

Actors: George Montgomery, Yvonne De Carlo, Tab Hunter, Brian Donlevy, John Russell

Synopsis: U.S. Marshal Gid McCool (George Montgomery) leads a wagon train of convicted felons to Huntsville prison in this routine western. The only female among the crooks is the dancehall girl Laura Mannon (Yvonne De Carlo), McCool's former flame. When McCool cannot be swayed from completing his lawful Read More

Birds Do It

Actors: Soupy Sales, Tab Hunter, Arthur O'Connell, Edward Andrews, Doris Dowling

Synopsis: Comedian Soupy Sales makes his feature film debut in this silly outing as a janitor cleaning up at Cape Kennedy. He has been specially assigned to make sure that none of the nuclear warheads there get dusty. It's not easy because spies run around spreading dust. One day the janitor stumbles into Read More

War Gods of the Deep

Actors: Vincent Price, Tab Hunter, Susan Hart, David Tomlinson, John Le Mesurier

Synopsis: This sci-fi fantasy film was supposedly inspired by a line from an Edgar Allen Poe poem. It is also the last film made by distinguished director Jacques Tourneur. The adventure begins when the widowed ruler of a sub-oceanic kingdom spies a woman on the land who closely resembles his late wife. Read More

More Best of the Soupy Sales Show

Synopsis: Frank Sinatra guests on two episodes of The Soupy Sales Show, with spots in color and black-and-white. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Loved One

Actors: Robert Morse, Anjanette Comer, Jonathan Winters, Rod Steiger, James Coburn, Dana Andrews

Synopsis: The satire in Evelyn Waugh's darkly comic novel The Loved One was originally double-edged. The book was not only an attack on the Southern California funeral industry but also a lampoon of Hollywood's "British colony," those clannish, cricket-playing English actors of years gone by who bemoaned Read More

Man with Two Faces

Ride the Wild Surf

Actors: Fabian, Shelley Fabares, Tab Hunter, Barbara Eden, Peter Brown

Synopsis: Fabian, Tab Hunter, and Peter Brown star as three surfers--Jody, Steamer and Chase--who make a pilgrimage from California to the north shore of Oahu for a vacation. Surfers from all over gather here every winter to compete with each other for the title of "the last ride" champion. While surfing Read More

Operation Bikini

Actors: Tab Hunter, Frankie Avalon, Scott Brady, Jim Backus, Gary Crosby

Synopsis: This conventional wartime drama is comprised of an inexplicable mix of moods and genres as a U.S. submarine in World War II heads out to the island of Bikini in the South Pacific to destroy the remains of a sunken sister ship. The ruined ship has some delicate radar equipment on board that cannot Read More

Combat!: The Celebrity

Synopsis: Tab Hunter guest stars as Del Packer, a famous baseball pitcher who has joined King Company as a draftee. Sgt. Saunders (Vic Morrow) is the only member of the platoon who isn't starstruck by the celebrity in their midst, grimly demanding that Packer be treated just like any other GI. But this Read More

La Freccia d'Oro

Actors: Tab Hunter, Rossana Podestà, Umberto Melnati, Giustino Durano, Mario Feliciani

Synopsis: Filmed in Egypt, The Golden Arrow stars yesteryear's beefcake Tab Hunter as a bold Arabian Nights bandit. He discovers that he's actually the son of a Sultan, and that his kingdom is in danger. In order to save his people and restore his throne, the Tabmeister must locate a magic golden arrow. Or Read More

The Pleasure of His Company

Actors: Fred Astaire, Debbie Reynolds, Lilli Palmer, Tab Hunter, Gary Merrill

Synopsis: Based on a play by Samuel Taylor and Cornelia Otis Skinner, The Pleasure of His Company is an old-fashioned romantic comedy. Fred Astaire plays Biddeford "Pogo" Poole, the long-absent prodigal father of Jessica Poole (Debbie Reynolds), who is just about to be married. Much to the dismay of his Read More

They Came to Cordura

Actors: Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth, Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Richard Conte, Michael Callan

Synopsis: Gary Cooper stars in one of his final roles in They Came To Cordura, Robert Rossen's moody study of the thin dividing line between heroism and cowardice. Cooper plays Major Thomas Thorn, a U.S. Army officer in the expedition into Mexico against Pancho Villa. Because he hesitated during a moment of Read More

That Kind of Woman

Actors: Sophia Loren, Tab Hunter, Jack Warden, Barbara Nichols, Keenan Wynn, George Sanders

Synopsis: That Kind of Woman stars Sophia Loren as an Italian girl, Kay, who enjoys a brief wartime romance with American paratrooper Red (Tab Hunter). But Kay is already the property of a suave millionaire (George Sanders) known only as "The Man." When next we see her, Kay is living Hollywood's concept of Read More

Gunman's Walk

Actors: Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Kathryn Grant, James Darren, Mickey Shaughnessy

Synopsis: The highly variable Tab Hunter delivers his best film performance in the grim western Gunman's Walk. Hunter plays Ed Hackett, the son of gunslinger-turned-land baron Lee Hackett (Van Heflin). Out of respect (and fear) of his father, the hotheaded Ed is given a wide berth by the resentful Read More

Lafayette Escadrille

Actors: Tab Hunter, Etchika Choureau, William Wellman, Jr., Jody McCrea, Dennis Devine

Synopsis: Though director William Wellman was attached to the Lafayette Flying Corps during WW1, many people believed that he was actually with the celebrated Lafayette Escadrille, and this 1958 actioner does little to dispel that belief. The film concentrates on a group of courageous young American Read More

Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates

Actors: Tab Hunter, Peggy King, Basil Rathbone, Jarmila Novotna, Carmen Mathews

Synopsis: Adapted by Sally Benson (Meet Me in St. Louis) from the novel by Mary Mapes Dodge, this dazzling musical version of Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates) stars 1950s Hollywood heartthrob Tab Hunter in the title role (as Hans, not the Skates). Living in a small Dutch village, Hans yearns to compete Read More

Damn Yankees

Actors: Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, Russ Brown, Shannon Bolin

Synopsis: Damn Yankees is a frothy, faithful adaptation of the 1956 Broadway hit. In an amusing slant on the "Faust" legend, aging baseball fan Joe Boyd (Robert Schafer) is given an opportunity to lead his beloved Washington Senators to victory by a devilish gent named Applegate (Ray Walston). Boyd is Read More

The Girl He Left Behind

Actors: Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, Jesse Royce Landis, Jim Backus, Henry Jones

Synopsis: The peacetime draft is given the teen-idol treatment in The Girl He Left Behind. Hollywood hunk Tab Hunter is starred as a spoiled young man who is whipped into shape--and humility--by his two years of compulsory military service. Natalie Wood plays the girl who...well, look at the title. Read More

The Burning Hills

Actors: Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, Skip Homeier, Eduard Franz, Earl Holliman

Synopsis: The plot of The Burning Hills is motivated by revenge, which only a few years earlier had been on the Motion Picture Code's no-no list. Cattleman Trace Jordan (Tab Hunter) seeks retribution for the murder of his brother, killed at the behest of cattle baron Joe Sutton (Ray Teal). Before long Read More

Battle Cry

Actors: Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman, Nancy Olson, James Whitmore, Tab Hunter

Synopsis: Adapted by Leon Uris from his own novel, the film follows a group of World War II marines, from Basic Training to Battlefield. Major Van Heflin knows that his men are spoiling for a real fight, but must make do with the desultory skirmishes assigned them by the Brass. All this changes with an Read More

The Sea Chase

Actors: John Wayne, Lana Turner, David Farrar, Lyle Bettger, Tab Hunter

Synopsis: John Wayne plays anti-Nazi Prussian sea captain Karl Erlich in Sea Chase, one of the many film commentaries released post WWII. Though staunchly opposed to the Nazi regime, Karl (Wayne) feels it would nevertheless be unpatriotic should he refuse to save his ship from destruction. His ship--an old Read More

Track of the Cat

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Diana Lynn, Tab Hunter, Beulah Bondi

Synopsis: In this experimental 1954 Western, director William Wellman uses black-and-white backgrounds with occasional splatches of color on certain characters' bodies and clothes. On a snowbound ranch in northern California, the Bridges family is trapped by winter weather and its own internal conflicts. It Read More

Return to Treasure Island

Actors: Tab Hunter, Dawn Addams, Porter Hall, James Seay, Harry Lauter

Synopsis: Famed German filmmaker E. A. Dupont, who in his peak years was responsible for such classics as Variety, merely goes through the motions in this updated sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. Instead of Jim Hawkins, the film offers Jim's beautiful female descendant Jamesina (Dawn Addams Read More

The Steel Lady

Actors: Rod Cameron, Tab Hunter, John Dehner, Richard Erdman, John Abbott

Synopsis: The Steel Lady in this crazy-quilt actioner is the armored tank commandeered by star Rod Cameron. Marooned in the Sahara desert, airplane pilot Mike Monohan (Cameron) and his melting-pot crew (including a young Tab Hunter) come across a deserted Afrika Korps tank. As they roll across the burning Read More

Gun Belt

Actors: George Montgomery, Tab Hunter, Helen Westcott, John Dehner, William Bishop

Synopsis: Technically a "B" western, Gun Belt is a notch or two above the norm. George Montgomery stars as former outlaw Billy Ringo, whose bank-robbing brother Matt (John Dehner) implicates him in a recent holdup. When Matt is killed in a shootout, Matt's son Chip (Tab Hunter) holds Billy responsible. When Read More

Island of Desire

Actors: Linda Darnell, Tab Hunter, Donald Gray, John Laurie, Sheila Chong

Synopsis: During World War II, an injured pilot, his nurse and a Marine, all marooned on a desert island, fall into a love triangle in this film also known as Saturday's Island. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Lawless

Actors: MacDonald Carey, Gail Russell, Lalo Rios, Johnny Sands, John Hoyt, Lee Patrick

Synopsis: The Lawless was director Joseph Losey's second feature-length film. The story concerns a group of Mexican-American migrant workers who are subjected to all sorts of abuse and intolerance by their California bosses. A violent clash between whites and Latinos at a dance results in a torrent of Read More