Vera MilesFilmography

Murder, She Wrote: Thursday's Child

Synopsis: Nancy Landon (Vera Miles) swoops down on Cabot Cove with the announcement that her son Steve (Richard Gilliland) had been fathered by the late husband of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury). With this in mind, Nancy insists that Jessica is obligated to help clear Steve fraud and murder charges Read More

Murder, She Wrote: See You in Court, Baby

Synopsis: This is one of several seventh-season Murder She Wrote episodes introduced by Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) but starring Dennis Stanton (Keith Michell), an ex-jewel thief turned insurance investigator. An unscrupulous divorce lawyer is killed, and the suspect list includes (a) the lawyer's Read More

The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro

Synopsis: In this crime drama, based on the true story of Leon and Marilyn Klinghoffer, from 1985, terrorists attempt to hijack a luxury cruise ship in the Mediterranean. The attempt resulted in the death of a handicapped passenger. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

International Airport

Synopsis: The fact that this made-for-TV movie is derivation of the megahit Airport is obvious by the presence of novelist Arthur Hailey in the credits. Gil Gerard heads the cast as David Montgomery, manager of a huge and extremely busy airport. As David wrestles with personal problems at home and a crisis Read More

Into the Night

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer, Richard Farnsworth, Irene Papas, Kathryn Harrold

Synopsis: Filled with enough cameos to keep film buffs entertained, this otherwise routine action-comedy by John Landis boasts Michelle Pfeiffer as one of its major attractions. She plays Diana, a woman prone to having affairs with some very dangerous men, and Jeff Goldblum is Ed Okin, an aerospace engineer Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Jessica Behind Bars

Synopsis: The scene is the West Barrington Institute for Women, where warden Elizabeth Gates (Vera Miles) invites Jessica (Angela Lansbury) to lecture on creative writing. Of course, wherever Jessica goes, murder follows, and this time the victim is the prison's doctor Irene Matthews (Janet McLachlan). Read More

The Initiation

Actors: Vera Miles, Clu Gulager, Daphne Zuniga, James Read, Marilyn Kagan

Synopsis: The appealing Daphne Zuniga makes her inauspicious debut in this dreary slasher film as a pampered freshman sorority pledge haunted by memory lapses and bizarre, violent dreams involving her parents (Clu Gulager and Vera Miles). Despite some progress in dream-research, her condition becomes Read More

Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues

Actors: Mare Winningham, Blythe Danner, Perry King, Vera Miles, Peter Cushing

Synopsis: This semi-sequel to William Gibson's The Miracle Worker recounts the early adult years of the profoundly handicapped but brilliant Helen Keller. Helen, played by Mare Winningham, enters college, with her friend and mentor Annie Sullivan Macy (Blythe Danner) by her side. As Helen's international Read More

Empty Copper Sea

Synopsis: Empty Copper Sea is the reissue title for the made-for-TV mystery Travis McGee. Sam Elliot stars as Travis McGee, the "been there, done that" private eye created by novelist John McDonald. McGee's assignment this time is personal: he hopes to help clear the name of his old pal, charter boat Read More

Travis McGee

Synopsis: In this detective drama, ultra-macho investigator Travis McGee, based on a character by author John D. MacDonald, looks into the case of a seemingly drowned land developer. Along the way he meets a boozy old sailor, a high-strung pianist, and the dead developer's sister. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Psycho II

Actors: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Meg Tilly, Robert Loggia, Dennis Franz

Synopsis: A sequel to one of the most popular horror films of all time, this psychological thriller received a pleasantly surprised, positive critical reception. Anthony Perkins returns as Norman Bates, who has just been released from an insane asylum after 22 years, having been judged clinically sane by Read More

Brainwaves

Actors: Keir Dullea, Suzanna Love, Vera Miles, Percy Rodrigues, Tony Curtis

Synopsis: When his wife Suzanna Love is seriously injured in a car accident, Keir Dullea agrees to a radical and revolutionary surgical procedure to save the life of the comatose woman. Love undergoes a brain transplant-and, miracle of miracles, survives. Unfortunately, the brain donor was a murdered woman Read More

Mazes and Monsters

Synopsis: Remember that controversial participation game of the 1980s called "Dungeons and Dragons"? Remember how sociologists warned us that the game was potentially dangerous to those who couldn't altogether separate fantasy from reality. This is the premise of Mazes and Monsters, a made-for-TV film based Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Mad Buck Gibson

Synopsis: Darren McGavin plays this episode's title character, a flamboyant and infamously self-destructive novelist. Magnum (Tom Selleck) is hired by Joan Gibson (Vera Miles), ex-wife of "Mad Buck" Gibson, to keep her former husband alive long enough so she can collect back alimony. This task proves Read More

Our Family Business

Actors: Ted Danson, Deborah Carney, Sam Wanamaker

Synopsis: Originally designed as a pilot for a television series, this crime drama tells the tale of two Italian-American brothers trying to survive in the underworld of organized crime. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Roughnecks

Synopsis: One of several syndicated TV miniseries of the 1980s, Roughnecks was part of the same "Golden Circle" project that previously yielded the multipart Wild Times. The title refers to a group of two-fisted oil wildcatters, among them self-made millionaire Paul Marshall (Steve Forrest), his lifelong Read More

Run for the Roses

Actors: Vera Miles, Stuart Whitman, Sam Groom, Panchito Gomez, Theodore Wilson

Synopsis: A lame racehorse is healed with the aid of a youngster's loving care and is able to enter the famed Kentucky Derby. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

And I Alone Survived

Actors: Blair Brown, Maggie Cooper

Synopsis: This TV movie dramatizes a catastrophic event of April 26, 1976. A plane carrying Lauren Elder (Blair Brown), and two other passengers, crashes into Mount Bradley in the Sierra Nevadas.12,000 miles above sea level, the survivors are tortured by their injuries and battered by the elements. Read More

Fire

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Neville Brand, Alex Cord, Vera Miles, Donna Mills

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Fire! is graced with a made-for-TV cast, including Ernest Borgnine, Patty Duke Astin, Vera Miles, Alex Cord and Donna Mills. It all begins when a convict (Neville Brand) escapes from an Oregon road gang. To cover his trail, the fugitive starts a forest fire. Need you be told at Read More

The Thoroughbreds

Twilight's Last Gleaming

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning, Melvyn Douglas, Paul Winfield

Synopsis: Soured on America by his experiences as a POW in Vietnam, General Lawrence Dell (Burt Lancaster) hopes that his government will someday tell the truth about the Southeast Asian debacle, thereby allowing his country to embark upon a healing process. Regarded as a dangerous embarrassment by the Read More

Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys

Synopsis: In 1931, nine young black drifters were arrested in Scottsboro, Alabama on the charge of gang-raping a white woman. Despite the flimsiness of the case and the questionable morals of the plaintiff, eight of the nine were sentenced to death by an all-white jury. The U.S. Supreme Court, sensing that Read More

Smash-Up on Interstate 5

Synopsis: This disaster movies chronicles the many dramas of the people involved in a 39 car smash-up on a California freeway. The wreck occurs on the final day of a holiday weekend. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Men Will Die

Synopsis: A group of rape victims form an organization in hopes of bringing their attackers to justice. At present, the group is fighting legal red tape and procedure to convict the man who raped Nancy Price (Deirdre Lenihan), a close friend of Mike Stone's (Karl Malden) daughter Jeannie (Darleen Carr). Read More

Try to Catch a Saint

Synopsis: This courtroom drama was originally the pilot for the TV series McNaughton's Daughter and centers upon two attorneys, a father and his daughter, as they try a philanthropist charged with murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Underground Man

Synopsis: The Underground Man was the pilot film for a series based on Ross MacDonald's private eye hero Lew Archer (the source of Paul Newman's film appearances as "Lew Harper"). Most of the elements of the factory-approved MacDonald formula are put into effect here: An old flame, a seemingly cut-and-dried Read More

Live Again, Die Again

Synopsis: The science of "cryogenics" forms the basis of the made-for-TV Live Again, Die Again. Donna Mills plays a young woman who dies of rheumatic fever. At her deathbed request, Mills' body is frozen, in hopes of reviving her in the future. Thirty years later, Mills awakens, returning to the not-so-open Read More

The Castaway Cowboy

Actors: Patrick Sullivan Burke, Nephi Hannermann, Kahana, Lee Wood, James Garner, Vera Miles, Robert Culp, Eric Shea, Elizabeth Smith

Synopsis: James Garner stars as a genial cowboy in this wholesome slice of Disney family fare. Garner is Lincoln Costain, a cowboy in the 1850s who finds himself shanghaied and shipwrecked on a Hawaiian island. He runs into luckless widow Henrietta MacAvoy (Vera Miles) and helps her turn her struggling Read More

The Strange and Deadly Occurrence

Synopsis: This made-for-TV horror film stars Robert Stack and Vera Miles as a couple whose new home in the country turns out to be inhabited by evil spirits. Director John Llewellyn Moxey (Horror Hotel) manages to raise his share of small-screen chills in this low-key story co-starring L.Q. Jones and Herb Edelman Read More

Runaway!

Actors: Martin Milner, Ray Danton

Synopsis: Several familiar faces dot the cast of the made-for-TV Runaway! The scene is a treacherous mountainside, where several skiers have come to...well, ski. The mountain can only be reached by train-and that train is the "runaway" of the title. Just so no one would miss the point, the film was retitled Read More

One Little Indian

Actors: James Garner, Vera Miles, Clay O'Brien

Synopsis: In this comical Disney western, a cavalry rider goes AWOL in the midst of a raid to save the lives of a band of Indian women and children. He then takes off across the New Mexican desert astride a camel. En route, he meets a young white boy who was raised by an Indian. The Indian is trying to find Read More

A Great American Tragedy

Synopsis: The Great American Tragedy is a melodrama about an aerospace engineer and his family who struggle to survive after he suddenly loses his job. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Baffled

Actors: Leonard Nimoy, Susan Hampshire, Rachel Roberts, Vera Miles, Jewel Blanch

Synopsis: In this thriller a race-car driver develops mysterious psychic powers that allow him to warn people of impending danger. No one believes him until he meets an understanding parapsychologist who helps race off to warn those he saw in his terrifying vision. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Molly and Lawless John

Actors: Sam Elliott, Vera Miles

Synopsis: After an outlaw (Sam Elliott) is brought to justice, he begins to work on the sheriff's wife (Vera Miles) and eventually gets her to help him escape from prison. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Cannon

Actors: William Conrad

Synopsis: William Conrad stars as corpulent private eye Frank Cannon in this 2-hour pilot for the subsequent Cannon series. He responds to a plea for assistance from ex-flame Vera Miles (an actress who was in practically every pilot film made between 1965 and 1975). She is the prime suspect in the murder of Read More

Ironside: In the Line of Duty

Synopsis: Existing evidence suggests that an elusive and very prolific thief known as the Golden Gate Bandit is responsible for the murder of policeman Jack Campbell (Stuart Randall). But Ironside (Raymond Burr) suspects that someone else is using the thief's crime spree to cover up their own homicidal Read More

The Last Generation

In Search of America

Actors: Vera Miles, Carl Betz, Jeff Bridges, Ruth McDevitt, Renne Jarrett

Synopsis: The producers of In Search of America never declared outright that the made-for-TV film was intended as a series pilot, but there sure are plenty of loose plot ends. Carl Betz and Vera Miles play the parents of shaggy-haired college dropout Jeff Bridges. At the boy's suggestion, Betz and Miles Read More

A Pattern of Morality

Synopsis: Pattern of Morality is the syndicated title of the made-for-TV Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law. Arthur Hill stars as Owen Marshall, a crusading attorney, who defends hippie Bruce Davidson, accused of murdering a wealthy housewife. Though all characters and names are fictitious, the film was Read More

A Howling in the Woods

Synopsis: Although advertised as a "reunion" of former I Dream of Jeannie stars Barbara Eden and Larry Hagman, the made-for-TV A Howling in the Woods is actually a vehicle for Eden, with Hagman contributing a glorified cameo role. The scene is a remote wooded area in Nevada, where disillusioned housewife Read More

Bonanza: A Time to Die

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Vera Miles

Synopsis: Vera Miles guest-stars as Ben Cartwright's longtime friend April Christopher. While visiting the Ponderosa, April is bitten by a rabid wolf. As the story progresses, both April and Ben must come to grips with the agony April is in for-and even more importantly, the woman's daughter Lori (Melissa Read More

Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law

Synopsis: In this courtroom drama, an attorney investigates the murder of a woman and comes up with some very interesting findings. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Jigsaw

Synopsis: While on a missing persons case, a cop becomes entangled in a cover-up and is framed for murder. This film is also known as Man on the Move. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Wild Country

Actors: Frank de Kova, Jack Elam, Steve Forrest, Vera Miles, Ron Howard

Synopsis: Fires and tornados add to the difficulties of the Tanners, a Pittsburgh family of three which has pulled up stakes and moved to what they thought would be a fully functional ranch in Wyoming. Instead they find a broken down ruin. In addition to having to rebuild and battle the elements, they have Read More

Goodbye to Yesteryear

Synopsis: The chief of detectives who is requested to locate the kidnapped daughter of a friend encounters the friend's jealous husband. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Man of the People

Synopsis: Man of the People was first telecast as an episode of the weekly, 90-minute TV adventure series Name of the Game. Series regulars Gene Barry, Robert Stack and Tony Franciosa relinquish the spotlight to guest star Vera Miles, who plays journalist Hilary Vanderman. Jilted by "populist" tycoon Cesar Read More

Ironside: Goodbye to Yesterday, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), Ironside steps up his efforts to locate the kidnapped daughter of his former sweetheart Barbara Richards (Barbara Rush). Complicating the Chief's investigation is Barbara's husband Vic (Philip Carey), who Read More

Ironside: Goodbye to Yesterday, Part 1

Synopsis: In this first half of the two-part sequel to the Season One episode "Barbara Who?" (originally telecast as a single two-hour "special"), Ironside (Raymond Burr) is reunited with Barbara Richards (Barbara Rush), a former amnesiac with whom he had once been in love. Barbara implores the Chief to Read More

The F.B.I.: The Swindler

Synopsis: Embezzler Robert Pollard (Peter Donat) uses his considerable charm to persuade lonely women to assist him in his criminal activities. The FBI is alerted to Pollard's presence when his most recent "dupe", a female bank cashier, turns up murdered. Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) must now race against Read More

It Takes All Kinds

Actors: Robert Lansing, Vera Miles, Barry Sullivan, Penny Sugg

Synopsis: In this drama, a sailor is blackmailed into stealing a valuable panel of stained glass. The trouble begins when the sailor gets into a fight with another and jumps ship in Sydney, Australia. Upon the docks he is knocked out. When he wakes up, he finds himself in a woman's apartment. She is the Read More

Journey to the Unknown

Synopsis: Though local TV outlets have occasionally run a two-hour "movie" under the title Journey to the Unknown, the original TV series bearing this title was only one hour in length; those makeshift movies are thus comprised of two episodes threaded together. Produced in England by longtime Alfred Hitchcock Read More

Sergeant Ryker

Synopsis: It's 1951 in Korea, a time that the United States Army doesn't like to remember. The Communists, led by Chinese forces, are tearing up the battlefield and overrunning American and South Korean positions, and in the midst of it, Sgt. Paul William Ryker (Lee Marvin), decorated World War II hero Read More

Mission Batangas

Actors: Dennis Weaver, Vera Miles, Keith Larsen

Synopsis: An America Air Force pilot (Dennis Weaver) tries to fight the Japanese as they invade the Philippines. Despite his efforts and the help of a jungle nurse (Vera Miles), the country is overrun by the enemy forces as the stronghold of Corregidor falls. Producer-director Keith Larsen plays the role of Read More

Hellfighters

Actors: John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton, Vera Miles, Jay C. Flippen

Synopsis: Chance Buckman (John Wayne) heads a team of international trouble shooters who travel around the world to put out oil fires. The dangerous profession has taken a toll on the marriage between Chance and Madelyn (Vera Miles), who leaves when she can no longer endure the stress of saying goodbye and Read More

Ironside: Barbara Who

Synopsis: The title character in this episode is a female amnesia victim, played by the versatile Vera Miles. While searching for "Barbara"'s true identity, Ironside (Raymond Burr) discovers that somebody is trying to kill the woman. He also realizes that he is falling in love with "Barbara"--and that Read More

Kona Coast

Actors: Richard Boone, Vera Miles, Joan Blondell, Steve Ihnat, Chips Rafferty

Synopsis: Sam Moran (Richard Boone) is a Honolulu charter-boat captain who leads fishing expeditions in the tropical paradise. When his daughter is found murdered at the party of a wealthy young playboy, he seeks the truth about the murder. Convinced the playboy is guilty, he enlists the help of his friend Read More

The Spirit Is Willing

Actors: Sid Caesar, Vera Miles, Barry J. Gordon, John McGiver, Cass Daley

Synopsis: In this spooky comedy, a couple and their adolescent son move into a quiet New England summer cottage. Soon their arrival, a series of strange and increasingly destructive occurrences begin to happen. Not believing in poltergeists, the puzzled parents immediately suspect their son. The real Read More

Gentle Giant

Actors: Dennis Weaver, Vera Miles, Ralph Meeker, Clint Howard, Huntz Hall

Synopsis: The title character is a benign 7-foot-tall grizzly bear (perhaps all grizzlies are benign, but we're not about to get close enough to find out). Little Clint Howard befriends the bear, naming the beast Ben. Clint's wildlife-officer dad Dennis Weaver and mom Vera Miles have some trouble adjusting Read More

One of Our Spies Is Missing

Actors: Leo G. Carroll, David McCallum, Robert Vaughn

Synopsis: One of Our Spies is Missing was cobbled together from a two-part episode of the American TV series Man From UNCLE, then shipped overseas as a feature film. Robert Vaughn and David McCallum head the cast as Napoleon Solo and Ilya Kuryakin, U.N.C.L.E's top agents. The original two-parter, "The Read More

Follow Me, Boys!

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Vera Miles, Lillian Gish, Charlie Ruggles, Elliott Reid, Kurt Russell

Synopsis: Follow Me, Boys!, Disney's paean to the Boys Scouts of America, leaves no cliché unturned: we're even offered the old reliable "kid hanging over cliff by rope" bit. Corny, sentimental and obvious though it may be, the film is a delight to watch, especially whenever Fred MacMurray dominates the Read More

Bonanza: Four Sisters from Boston

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Vera Miles, Lyn Edgington

Synopsis: The title characters in this episode of Bonanza are the Lowell sisters: Ara (Vera Miles, Gabrielle (Lyn Edgington, Lorraine (Madeline Mack) and Heather (Melinda Plowman). Having inherited their uncle's ranch, the ladies arrive in Virginia City to discover that all they've received is a pile of Read More

Those Calloways

Actors: Brian Keith, Vera Miles, Brandon de Wilde, Walter Brennan, Ed Wynn

Synopsis: Originally trade-previewed as Those Crazy Calloways, Disney's Those Calloways is a lengthy, anecdotal film about a highly individualistic New England family. Patriarch Cam Calloway (Brian Keith) is regarded as a crank by the local villagers because of his dream to build a bird sanctuary that will Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Death Scene

Actors: James Farentino, Vera Miles, John Carradine, Leonard York, Virginia Aldridge

Synopsis: Vera Miles, who starred in the very first half-hour episode of Alfred Hitchcock's TV suspense anthology, returns a decade later to headline this hour-long installment. Miles plays Nicky Revere, the daughter of once-famous Hollywood director Gavin Revere (John Carradine). Not long after Nicky takes Read More

I Spy: Affair in T'sen Cha

Synopsis: The presence of guest star Vera Miles is indication enough that "Affair in T'sen Cha" was the pilot episode of the classic espionage series I Spy. The opening scenes of Morton Fine and David Friedkin's teleplay work overtime to establish the characters of Kelly Robinson (Robert Culp) and Alexander Read More

The Outer Limits: The Man Who Was Never Born

Synopsis: The sixth volume in a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series chronicles the time travels of a mutant from the future who goes back to prevent the birth of the mad scientist who is responsible for creating a horrifying virus. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

A Tiger Walks

Actors: Brian Keith, Vera Miles, Pamela Franklin, Sabu, Edward Andrews

Synopsis: After a dangerous tiger turns on its trainer and escapes from the circus, a small town in Texas finds itself in an uproar over its capture. As it is hunted by numerous parties, a young girl begins protesting and starts a nationwide movement to plead for the tiger's safety. As the situation gains Read More

The Outer Limits: The Forms of Things Unknown

Synopsis: In Volume 32 of a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series, a pair of murderous women enlist the aid of a blind man and his eccentric young charge to help them manipulate the space-time continuum in order to raise the dead. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Hanged Man

Synopsis: Don Siegal directed this made-for-TV remake of the western drama Ride The Pink Horse, in which Robert Culp stars as Harry Pace, who has set out to avenge the violent death of a good friend. Pace's search leads him to New Orleans during the Mardi Gras celebration, where he meets a beautiful woman Read More

The Fugitive: Fear in a Desert City

Synopsis: En route to Death Row after being wrongly convicted for the murder of his wife, Dr. Richard Kimble (David Janssen) escapes his captor Lt. Gerard (Barry Morse) in a spectacular train crash. For the next four TV seasons, Kimble will live the life of The Fugitive, travelling from town to town, state Read More

The Outer Limits: The Galaxy Being

Synopsis: Engineer Alan Maxwell (Cliff Robertson) is using his commercial radio station's antenna to probe into deep space in experiments of his own, in the course of which he makes contact with a being (William O. Douglas, Jr.) from the great nebula in the constellation Andromeda. Through an accident, the Read More

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Actors: John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien

Synopsis: Like Pontius Pilate, director John Ford asks "What is truth?" in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance--but unlike Pilate, Ford waits for an answer. The film opens in 1910, with distinguished and influential U.S. senator Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) and his wife Hallie (Vera Miles) returning to the Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Don't Look Behind You

Synopsis: Two young women have been murdered in the woods surrounding the campus of a college, and in each case the victim's body was sliced up in surgical fashion. While the police investigate the possibility that one of the faculty members is the killer, medical student Daphne Grey (Vera Miles) lives in Read More

Back Street

Actors: Susan Hayward, John Gavin, Vera Miles, Charles Drake, Virginia Grey

Synopsis: This third film version of the lachrymose Fannie Hurst novel Back Street stars Susan Hayward as Rae Smith the role previously essayed by Irene Dunne (in 1932) and Margaret Sullavan (in 1941). In both earlier films, Rae Smith sacrifices 28 years of her life to her married lover, who can never get a Read More

Five Branded Women

Actors: Silvana Mangano, Vera Miles, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau, Carla Gravina

Synopsis: Once branded himself by the House Un-American Activities Committee, award-winning director Martin Ritt focuses on the cruel branding of five women in this standard wartime drama. Some of his better-known films (The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Norma Rae) also deal with the question of social and Read More

The Twilight Zone: Mirror Image

Actors: Vera Miles, Martin Milner, Joe Hamilton, Naomi Stevens, Ferris Taylor

Synopsis: While waiting in a lonely bus station, Millicent Barnes (Vera Miles) is startled to discover that everyone in the station seems to know her. She is further amazed when, peering into the window of a passing bus, she spots a young woman who looks exactly like her. Figuring that Millicent is a mental Read More

Psycho

Actors: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam

Synopsis: In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was already famous as the screen's master of suspense (and perhaps the best-known film director in the world) when he released Psycho and forever changed the shape and tone of the screen thriller. From its first scene, in which an unmarried couple balances pleasure and Read More

A Touch of Larceny

Actors: James Mason, George Sanders, Vera Miles, Oliver Johnston, Robert Flemyng

Synopsis: In this British comedy, a formerly rakish submarine captain is transferred to a desk job. His reputation as a hero and playboy precedes him. He meets an old comrade and his gorgeous fiancee, a Yankee widow. His buddy is quite wealthy and the retired captain realizes that he too must make plenty of Read More

Web of Evidence

Actors: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Emlyn Williams, Bernard Lee, Jean Kent

Synopsis: Beyond This Place is a tame murder mystery based on a novel by A. J. Cronin. Van Johnson is cast as an American citizen whose British father has supposedly been dead for years. On a visit to London, Johnson discovers that his father is very much alive, serving a life sentence for murder. Johnson Read More

The FBI Story

Actors: James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton, Larry Pennell, Nick Adams

Synopsis: If Warner Bros.' pageantlike The FBI Story resembles an episode of Jack Webb's Dragnet at times, it's probably because the screenplay was by veteran Dragnet scrivener Richard L. Breen. The film meticulously details the history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, from its formation in 1924 to Read More

The Notorious Mr. Monks

Synopsis: In this dark drama a hapless hitchhiker takes a ride with a drunk driver who takes him to his house. There he meets the driver's wife and murder ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Beau James

Actors: Bob Hope, Vera Miles, Paul Douglas, Alexis Smith, Darren McGavin

Synopsis: New York City is known for choosing colorful characters for its mayors. One its most illustrious was the wisecracking, dancing and singing Mayor James J. Walker (as played by Bob Hope in a rare, serious role) who helmed the Big Apple in the 1920s. This biopic chronicles his surprising rise to Read More

The Searchers

Actors: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood

Synopsis: If John Ford is the greatest Western director, The Searchers is arguably his greatest film, at once a grand outdoor spectacle like such Ford classics as She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) and Rio Grande (1950) and a film about one man's troubling moral codes, a big-screen adventure of the 1950s that Read More

23 Paces to Baker Street

Actors: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker, Patricia Laffan, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: Van Johnson portrays a blind American writer living in London. Blessed with an acute hearing sense, Johnson overhears a kidnapping plot but neither his friends nor the authorities believe him, chalking up his story as the product of a writer's imagination. Disgruntled, Johnson vows to scuttle the Read More

The Wrong Man

Actors: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle, Harold J. Stone, Charles Cooper

Synopsis: Director Alfred Hitchcock lets us know from the outset that The Wrong Man is a painfully true story and not one of his customary fabricated suspense yarns, through the simple expedient of walking before the camera and telling us as much (this introductory appearance replaced his planned cameo role Read More

Autumn Leaves

Actors: Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson, Vera Miles, Lorne Greene, Ruth Donnelly

Synopsis: Few actresses other than Joan Crawford could have successfully pulled off the melodramatic excesses of Autumn Leaves. Though a very attractive fortysomething, Crawford remains aloof from romance until she meets Cliff Robertson, a young man half her age. An ardent and persistent suitor, Robertson Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Revenge

Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock himself directed the first half-hour episode of his long-running suspense anthology. Heading the cast of Revenge is Ralph Meeker as aircraft worker Carl Spann and Vera Miles (The Wrong Man, Psycho) as Carl's ballerina wife Elsa. Having given up his job to care for Elsa after she Read More

Timberjack

Actors: Sterling Hayden, Vera Ralston, David Brian, Adolphe Menjou, Hoagy Carmichael

Synopsis: Republic's Trucolor process is shown off to good advantage in the outdoors actioner Timberjack. Sterling Hayden and David Brian star as Chipman and Brunner, a pair of rugged lumbermen who vie for the attentions of Lynn Tilton (Vera Ralston). The richer and more powerful of the two, Brunner would Read More

Wichita

Actors: Joel McCrea, Vera Miles, Lloyd Bridges, Wallace Ford, Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis: Filmed around the same time as Gunfight at the OK Corral, Wichita is a more modest--and to some, more entertaining--slant on the Wyatt Earp legend. Joel McCrea does his usual smooth, underplayed job as Earp, who aims to bring law and order to the wide-open cow town of Wichita. His least popular Read More

Tarzan's Hidden Jungle

Actors: Gordon Scott, Vera Miles, Peter Van Eyck, Jack Elam, Charles Fredericks

Synopsis: By 1955, the original Tarzan, Johnny Weissmuller, had long since retired, and RKO Pictures tried several replacements. Tarzan's Hidden Jungle was the first of six films starring Gordon Scott as the ape man. It also was the last of 12 Tarzan pictures released by RKO Studios, and other studios Read More

Rookie of the Year

Jubilee Trail

Actors: Vera Ralston, Joan Leslie, Forrest Tucker, John Russell, Ray Middleton, Pat O'Brien

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Gwen Bristow, Jubilee Trail is a sprawling, all-star western from the Republic Studio mills. Despite is vaunted budget, the plot is strictly B-picture material. Ambitious California landowner Charles Hale (Ray Middleton) hopes to add to his riches by marrying off his brother Read More

Medic: The Wild Intruder

Synopsis: A young woman is diagnosed with breast cancer and must undergo immediate surgery. She's a week away from her wedding day, so both her disease and her depression must be treated by her team of physicians. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Pride of the Blue Grass

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Vera Miles, Margaret Sheridan, Arthur Shields, Michael Chapin

Synopsis: When equestrian Linda (Vera Miles) talks her trainer, Jim (Lloyd Bridges), into taking care of Gypsy Prince, her horse, Jim decides to enter the steed in an upcoming race. Tragically, the horse falls mid-race and breaks a leg. Though prospects look bleak, Linda (Miles) refuses to give up on her 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

Fair Wind to Java

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

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

So Big

Actors: Jane Wyman, Sterling Hayden, Nancy Olson, Steve Forrest, Elisabeth Fraser

Synopsis: This 1953 tear-jerker is the third film version of the Edna Ferber novel So Big. Stepping into the role previously essayed by Colleen Moore and Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Wyman plays Selina, a girl of wealth who comes to a Dutch community outside Chicago as a schoolteacher. Here Selina falls in love Read More

The Rose Bowl Story

Actors: Marshall Thompson, Vera Miles, Richard Rober, Natalie Wood, Keith Larsen

Synopsis: Nancy Thorne, 1952's Tournament of Roses queen, makes an extended guest appearances in this Monogram "special." In her first important film role, Vera Miles plays Denny Burke, one of Thorne's attendants, whom stuck-up football hero Steve Davis (Marshall Thompson) mistakes for an heiress. Upon Read More

For Men Only

Actors: Paul Henreid, Robert Sherman, Russell Johnson, Margaret Field, Kathleen Hughes

Synopsis: Also known as The Tall Lie, For Men Only was a hard-hitting if somewhat gratuitous expose of college fraternity "hazing." A young man is rushed by a popular and well-established frat, only to discover that part of the initiation ceremony requires him to kill a puppy. He drops out of the fraternity Read More

The Wild Blue Yonder

Actors: Vera Ralston, Forrest Tucker, Phil Harris, Walter Brennan

Synopsis: Wendell Corey and Forrest Tucker, the Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy of Republic, star as a pair of World War II Army Air Corps officers. In between their battles over the affections of beautiful nurse Vera Hruba Ralston, Corey and Tucker prepare to fly a bombing mission in the South Pacific. Read More

Two Tickets to Broadway

Actors: Tony Martin, Janet Leigh, Gloria de Haven, Eddie Bracken, Ann Miller

Synopsis: Personally supervised by Howard R. Hughes, the RKO Technicolor musical Two Tickets to Broadway stars Janet Leigh as a small-town girl who hopes to make it big in the Big Apple. Moving into a Manhattan boarding house populated by such showbiz hopefuls as Ann Miller, Tony Martin, Gloria De Haven and Barbara Lawrence Read More

When Willie Comes Marching Home

Actors: Dan Dailey, Corinne Calvet, Colleen Townsend, William Demarest, Jimmy Lydon, Mae Marsh

Synopsis: A rare comedy from director John Ford, this story about a WWII soldier trying to gain some respect is based on the published war memoirs of Sy Gomberg. Bill Kluggs (Dan Dailey) is the first man in his small West Virginia town to enlist, and his father Herman (William Demarest) and the locals give Read More

The Plainsman and the Lady

Actors: Don "Red" Barry, Andy Clyde, William B. Davidson, Byron Foulger

Synopsis: The 87-minute running time of Plainsman and the Lady was evidence aplenty that this was no mere Republic B western. William Elliot (formerly and latterly "Wild Bill" Elliot) stars as cattleman Sam Cotten, who offers his services-and his six-guns-to the newly formed Pony Express. Erudite villain Read More