Victor JoryFilmography

Power

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV "roman a clef", Joe Don Baker stars as Tommy Vanda, a Hoffa-esque labor leader. Told in flashback, the film recounts Vanda's humble beginnings on the Chicago docks, where he gains fame and notoreity amongst his coworkers and his bosses by spearheading a wildcat strike. Rising Read More

The Mountain Men

Actors: Charlton Heston, Brian Keith, Victoria Racimo, Stephen Macht, Seymour Cassel, John Glover, Victor Jory

Synopsis: In this subpar western, gratuitous profanity and violence are at odds with the theme of rescuing a Native American from a marriage she does not want. A bearded Charleton Heston (whose son wrote the screenplay) is the fur trader Bill Tyler, out in the remote mountain ranges looking for a legendary Read More

Sodom and Gomorrah

Tower of Babel

Jacob's Challenge

The Story of Esther

Greatest Heroes of the Bible: Daniel and Nebachadnezzar

Synopsis: This program is part of a series that chronicles the stories of some of the great heroes of the Old Testament of the Bible. The colorful stories have made an indelible mark on Western consciousness, as they illustrate great spiritual truths in the plain narratives about ordinary people. This Read More

Greatest Heroes of the Bible: Samson and Delilah

Synopsis: This video provides an excellent lesson about who can be trusted in life and which human values are the most important ones. In this Biblical story, Delilah's greed causes her to repeatedly betray Samson as she seeks to tell his enemies how his great strength can be taken away from him. At first Read More

The Rockford Files: The Attractive Nuisance

Synopsis: Rocky (Noah Beery Jr.) decides to open up a roadside restaurant with a chance acquaintance named Vinnie Whithead (Ken Lynch). From the outset of this enterprise, Rocky can't help but notice that an elderly man is watching every move he and Vinnie make. . .and no sooner has the restaurant opened Read More

Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell

Synopsis: Though not actually a film addressing the evil lure of cream-filled chocolate cakes, this amusingly cheesy made-for-TV opus from director Curtis Harrington pits a relatively normal suburban family against a slavering, demonically-possessed German shepherd whose hunger for human souls far exceeds Read More

Alice: The Indian Taker

Synopsis: Victor Jory guest stars as a wizened old man who claims to be a Navajo Indian. He also claims that Mel's Diner has been built on a sacred Navajo burial ground, and he intends to plant himself on the floor and fast until restitution has been made. While it cannot be said that the ending of this Read More

The Man Who Talks to Whales

Synopsis: Victor Jory assumes the title role in The Man Who Talks to Whales. Jory plays a Hemingwayesque codger who goes on a search for the rare California grey whale. Along the way, he must fend off those short-sided "sportsmen" who would wipe the whales from the face of the earth if given a chance. Read More

Perilous Voyage

Synopsis: In this actioner, a rebel leader hijacks a boat and holds the passengers hostage in the hopes of beginning a coup. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Papillon

Actors: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: The autobiography of Henri Charriere, one of the few people to successfully escape from the notorious French penal colony of Devil's Island, served as the basis for Papillon. Steve McQueen plays the pugnacious Charriere (known as "Papillon," or "butterfly," because of a prominent tatoo) Read More

Frasier the Sensuous Lion

Actors: Michael Callan, Frank de Kova, Victor Jory, Malachi Throne

Synopsis: Frasier the Sensuous Lion would seem to have been conceived as a racy "answer" to Disney's sugary-sweet animal comedies. The talkative title character is befriended by zoologist Marvin Feldman (Michael Callan). When Frasier's loquaciousness becomes public knowledge, Feldman tries to save the lion Read More

Banacek: No Sign of the Cross

Synopsis: A priceless religious relic is transported from Mexico to LA under armed guard. As an added precaution, the case which contains the artifact is handcuffed to the wrist of a priest. Even so, the item vanishes before it reaches its destination. It's up to detective Banacek (George Peppard), a Read More

A Time for Dying

Synopsis: This unique western centers on an innocent farm boy with a talent for handling guns who decides to make it big. He begins as a bounty hunter. Later he encounters a crazed gunslinger and ends up fatally shot. Before the fateful encounter, the young man is visited by a number of mythical western Read More

Flap

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Claude Akins, Tony Bill, Shelley Winters, Victor Jory

Synopsis: Flap is marginally significant as the only western ever directed by Britain's Sir Carol Reed. Anthony Quinn is top-billed as Flapping Eagle, a modern-day Native American stuck on a squalid reservation. Though liquored up most of the time, Flapping Eagle undergoes an eleventh-hour social awakening. Read More

MacKenna's Gold

Actors: Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas, Camilla Sparv, Julie Newmar, Keenan Wynn, Lee J. Cobb, Burgess Meredith, Edward G. Robinson, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Mackenna's Gold is a colorful, action-packed western feature with an all-star cast. Mackenna (Gregory Peck) has committed to memory the map that leads to some hidden Apache gold. The Indians now want the gold to finance their fight against the white men who invade their territory. Mexican bandit Read More

Jigsaw

Actors: Harry Guardino, Bradford Dillman, Hope Lange, Pat Hingle, Diana Hyland

Synopsis: In this thriller, Jonathan Fields (Bradford Dillman) awakens in a strange apartment and finds a dead woman floating in the bathtub after he suffered an LSD-flashback the night before. Finding blood upon his hand, he can only wonder how he is involved in the woman's death. He hires private Read More

Ironside: The Past is Prologue

Synopsis: Once again, Ironside (Raymond Burr) comes to the aid of an old friend, in this case an outwardly solid citizen who faces extradition to New York on a murder charge. Although Wally Stowe (Victor Jory) is a fugitive from justice who has been living under an assumed identity for nearly two decades Read More

Bonanza: Ride the Wind, Part One

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Victor Jory, Noah Beery, Jr., Rod Cameron, Dorothy Green

Synopsis: Written by Paul Schneider, "Ride the Wind" was Bonanza's first two-part story. Ben Cartwright is willing to provide Charles Ludlow (Victor Jory) with money to help finance the new Pony Express service, but isn't keen on allowing his son Joe to join Ludlow's riders. Nor is the Paiute Indian tribe Read More

F Troop: Indian Fever

Synopsis: Agarn (Larry Storch) insists that he has seen a strange Indian wandering around Fort Courage in the dead of night. Since no one else has seen the mysterious visitor, Agarn is diagnosed with "Indian Fever" and ordered to take a few days off. Meanwhile, the local Hekawi tribe are made aware of the Read More

Ride the Wind

Synopsis: This western is the movie-length pilot for the long-running television series Bonanza. The story follows the Cartwright clan as they help keep the nearly bankrupt Pony Express from going under. They also work to keep the angry Paiute Indians at bay. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Change of Address

Actors: Arthur Kennedy, Phyllis Thaxter, Royal Dano, Tisha Sterling, Victor Jory

Synopsis: City dweller Keith Hollands (Arthur Kennedy) rents a dilapidated beach house, much to the dismay of his wife, Elsa (Phyllis Thaxter), who is both disgusted and frightened by the place. Rather than attempt to mollify his wife, Keith helps matters not at all by ardently pursuing a local beach bunny Read More

Cheyenne Autumn

Actors: Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, James Stewart, Edward G. Robinson, Karl Malden

Synopsis: John Ford's last western film, Cheyenne Autumn was allegedly produced to compensate for the hundreds of Native Americans who had bitten the dust in Ford's earlier films (that was the director's story, anyway). Set in 1887, the film recounts the defiant migration of 300 Cheyennes from their Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Death of a Cop

Actors: Victor Jory, Peter Brown, Lawrence Tierney, Paul Hartman, John Marley

Synopsis: Victor Jory stars as veteran police officer Paul Reardon, who vows to avenge the murder of his rookie-cop son, Philip (Peter Brown). Although ordered by the higher-ups to lay off, Paul is determined to bring drug kingpin Herbie Lane (Lawrence Tierney), the man responsible for Peter's death in a Read More

The Miracle Worker

Actors: Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory, Inga Swenson, Andrew Prine

Synopsis: Based on William Gibson's Broadway play and retaining its acclaimed cast, Arthur Penn's The Miracle Worker tells the true story of Helen Keller (Patty Duke), an Alabama girl struck blind and deaf as a baby after an elevated fever. Enter Annie Sullivan (Anne Bancroft), a partially-blind woman Read More

The Untouchables: Element of Danger

Synopsis: In his second Untouchables appearance, Lee Marvin is disturbingly convincing as Victor Rate, a brilliant psychopath in cahoots with narcotics kingpin Arnold Stegler (Victor Jory). A cool customer who gets his kicks by deliberately placing himself in dangerous situations, Rate has no qualms about Read More

The Fugitive Kind

Actors: Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward, Maureen Stapleton, Victor Jory

Synopsis: Fugitive Kind began life as Battle of Angels, a never-produced 1939 play by a young Tennessee Williams. Nearly 20 years later, Williams refined this rough-hewn theatrical effort into Orpheus Descending, which enjoyed a respectable Broadway run. The renamed film version stars Marlon Brando as Read More

The Last Stagecoach West

Synopsis: In this western, a good man becomes an outlaw after his stagecoach mail business falls to the faster railroad mail. To save his livelihood, the fellow literally attempts to derail his competitor. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Man Who Turned to Stone

Actors: Victor Jory, Ann Doran, Charlotte Austin, William Hudson, Paul Cavanagh

Synopsis: The secret to immortality is thus: to rejuvenate tired bones and muscles and retain that youthful feeling forever, simply place nubile young women in a vat filled with chemicals, attach wires to their heads and suck out their life forces Warning: If after the first dosage subsequent treatments are not promptly administered, irreversible petrification will occur in all cases. Read More

Kraft Television Theatre: Flesh and Blood

Actors: Tommy Sands, Victor Jory, Ian Wolfe, Cavada Humphrey

Synopsis: The TV drama anthology Kraft Television Theatre celebrated its tenth year on the air with an original drama written by Anthony Spinner. Tommy Sands plays Vito Serrano, a teenager living in Italy with his grandparents. Though he regards himself as an orphan, Vito still has a father -- if you can Read More

The Still Trumpet

Synopsis: This western is set during the Civil War and chronicles the efforts of a recently paroled Confederate soldier to keep the moving settlers safe from Native-American marauders. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Blackjack Ketchum, Desperado

Actors: Howard Duff, Victor Jory, Maggie Mahoney, Angela Stevens, David Orrick

Synopsis: Blackjack Ketchum, the real-life gunslinger who'd previously been a peripheral character in several westerns, is herein afforded his own feature-length "vehicle". Howard Duff plays the title role, who at the beginning of the film is doing his best to live down his reputation. This proves Read More

Golden Age of Television: Telephone Time

Synopsis: Golden Age of Television: Telephone Time contains four episodes of the fifties television show Telephone Time, a series that featured writer John Nesbitt hosting adaptations of his various works. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Manfish

Actors: John Bromfield, Lon Chaney, Jr., Victor Jory, Barbara Nichols, Tessa Prendergast

Synopsis: Edgar Allan Poe's The Gold Bug and The Tell-Tale Heart were updated and woven together into a single narrative in the ultra-cheap adventure yarn Manfish. John Bromfield, Lon Chaney Jr. and Victor Jory head the cast as three fortune hunters, combing the West Indies in search of buried treasure. The Read More

Death of a Scoundrel

Actors: George Sanders, Yvonne De Carlo, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Victor Jory, Nancy Gates

Synopsis: A contemptuous and self-serving immigrant, Clementi Sabourin (George Sanders) pulls himself up by his bootstraps by instrumenting a series of cons and seductions which bilk several very wealthy persons out of most of their money. Most of the action is related in a series of flashbacks after Read More

Valley of the Kings

Actors: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, Carlos Thompson, Samia Gamal, Kurt Kasznar, Victor Jory

Synopsis: Using the dry historical tome Gods, Graves and Scholars as its source, MGM came up with the rip-roaring adventure film Valley of the Kings. Robert Taylor plays Mark Brandon, an Indiana Jones-style archaeologist who embarks upon an expedition to Egypt. Brandon has agreed to help Ann Mercedes (Eleanor Parker Read More

Sabaka

Actors: Boris Karloff, Lou Krugman, Reginald Denny, June Foray

Synopsis: Filmed on location in India, The Hindu is an outgrowth of the "Gunga Ram" episodes originally seen on TV's Smilin' Ed's Gang (later known as Andy's Gang). Nino Marcel stars as adventurous young mahout Gunga Ram, with Vito Scotti (of all people!) as his timorous sidekick. Top billing is bestowed Read More

Cat Women of the Moon

Actors: Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory, Marie Windsor, Carol Brewster, Susan Morrow, Douglas Fowley, William Phipps

Synopsis: Cat Women of the Moon tells the tale of a group of American space travellers who confront a hostile tribe of females on the border between the light and dark side of the moon. The expedition is led by Laird Grainger (Sonny Tufts), whose polyglot crew--including co-pilot Kip Reissner (Victor Jory) Read More

The Man from the Alamo

Actors: Glenn Ford, Julie Adams, Chill Wills, Hugh O'Brian, Victor Jory

Synopsis: The Man From the Alamo manages to pack a few nuances and surprises in its traditional western plotline. During the siege at the Alamo, John Stroud (Glenn Ford) is chosen by lot to leave the fort and warn the families of the mission's defenders of the impending arrival of General Santa Ana. But Read More

Son of Ali Baba

Actors: Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Susan Cabot, William Reynolds

Synopsis: In this swashbuckling adventure-satire, Kashma Baba's famous father Ali, sends the reluctant youth to military school to prepare him for the troubles ahead. Meanwhile, an evil Caliph kidnaps and enslaves an Arabian princess as part of his plan to steal Ali Baba's fabulous treasure. He then sends Read More

The Toughest Man in Arizona

Actors: Vaughn Monroe, Joan Leslie, Edgar Buchanan, Victor Jory, Jean Parker

Synopsis: In his second and last Western for Republic Pictures, former bandleader Vaughn Monroe plays a marshal returning to Tombstone with a wanted gun-runner (Victor Jory) when he stumbles upon a woman (Joan Leslie) and a couple of children, apparently the only survivors of an Indian raid on a wagon Read More

Flaming Feather

Actors: Sterling Hayden, Forrest Tucker, Barbara Rush, Arleen Whelan, Carol Thurston

Synopsis: Sterling Hayden and Forrest Tucker, two of Hollywood's most rugged leading men, head the cast of Paramount's Flaming Feather. Rancher Tex McCloud (Hayden) and cavalry lieutenant Tom Blaine (Tucker) despise each other at first sight. Even so, McCloud and Blaine are forced to work together to seek Read More

The Highwayman

Actors: Charles Coburn, Wanda Hendrix, Phillip Friend, Cecil Kellaway, Victor Jory

Synopsis: The Highwayman is based on the famous narrative poem by Alfred Noyes. The title character, played by Philip Friend, is a bold masked bandit of 18th-century England, who robs from the rich and gives (a little) to the poor. He is loved by Bess (Wanda Hendrix), the lovely daughter of an innkeeper. Read More

Cave of Outlaws

Actors: MacDonald Carey, Alexis Smith, Edgar Buchanan, Victor Jory, Hugh O'Brian

Synopsis: MacDonald Carey and Alexis Smith star in the heavily plotted western Cave of Outlaws. Carey plays Pete Carver, who has spent 10 years in jail for participating in a train holdup. Upon his release, Pete heads to the huge cave where his cohorts had hidden their loot. Not surprisingly, he is trailed Read More

The Capture

Actors: Lew Ayres, Teresa Wright, Victor Jory, Jacqueline White, Jimmy Hunt

Synopsis: Virtually ignored at the time of its release, Capture has built up a small but enthusiastic following since its lapse into public domain. American oil man Lew Ayres kills a coworker whom he suspects of robbery. Thinking it over, Ayres wonders whether or not the man was innocent. He seeks out his Read More

The Cariboo Trail

Actors: Randolph Scott, Bill Williams, Karin [Katharine] Booth, Victor Jory

Synopsis: Set in British Columbia but filmed in Colorado, Cariboo Trail stars Randolph Scott as a cattle-drive boss from Montana. Crooked Victor Jory and his minions stampede the cattle, causing Scott's partner Bill Williams to lose an arm. Out of a job, Scott gives gold mining a try, but even here he is Read More

Fighting Man of the Plains

Actors: Randolph Scott, Bill Williams, Victor Jory, Jane Nigh, Douglas Kennedy

Synopsis: Randolph Scott plays one of the members of Quantrill's Raiders, staging attacks on Kansas on behalf of the fallen Confederacy in the years following the Civil War. During one raid, Scott kills the man he holds responsible for the death of his brother. The dead man was innocent, and Scott becomes a Read More

A Woman's Secret

Actors: Maureen O'Hara, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Grahame, Bill Williams, Victor Jory

Synopsis: Screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz adopts the same prismatic-flashback technique he'd used so well in Citizen Kane for the 1949 filmic soap opera A Woman's Secret. Based on a novel by Vicki (Grand Hotel) Baum, the film begins with the shooting of nightclub singer Susan Caldwell (Gloria Grahame). Read More

Canadian Pacific

Actors: Randolph Scott, Jane Wyatt, J. Carrol Naish, Victor Jory, Nancy Olson

Synopsis: Filmed on location in the Canadian Rockies, this historical adventure spins a fanciful account of the building of the Canadian Pacific railroad. Randolph Scott heads the cast as Tom Andrews, a rough-and-ready surveyor who meets and conquers all obstacles in the railroad's path. The biggest fly in Read More

South of St. Louis

Actors: Joel McCrea, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Dorothy Malone, Douglas Kennedy

Synopsis: Produced by Milton Sperling's United States Pictures, South of St. Louis was given a widespread release by Warner Bros. The story begins in the last days of the Civil War. Chased off their property by guerillas, ranching partners Kip Davis (Joel McCrea), Charlie Burns (Zachary Scott) and Lee Read More

The Gallant Blade

Actors: Larry Parks, Marguerite Chapman, Victor Jory, George Macready, Edith King

Synopsis: Columbia kept insisting upon placing its hottest new star Larry Parks in swashbucklers, and though Parks wasn't really suited to the genre, he always strived to please. Set in 17th-century France, the film stars Parks as Lt. David Picard, a peace-loving officer who is nevertheless handy with his Read More

The Loves of Carmen

Actors: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Ron Randell, Victor Jory, Luther Adler, Arnold Moss

Synopsis: Perhaps it's just as well that Columbia elected to film Prosper Merimee's Carmen without Georges Bizet's music: after all, Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford weren't exactly Leontyne Price and Robert Merrill. The Loves of Carmen is a reasonably faithful rehash of Merimee's story of the tempestuous gypsy Read More

Hoppy's Holiday

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Victor Jory, Rand Brooks, Andrew Tombes, Leonard Penn

Synopsis: Although Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) agrees to remain at Mesa City for a couple of days so that California (Andy Clyde) and Lucky (Rand Brooks) can partake in various amusements, the stay becomes more of an ordeal than a holiday when the local bank is robbed during a square-dance competition. Read More

Tubby the Tuba

Synopsis: George Pal’s acclaimed and very popular Tubby the Tuba was the last of his puppetoon shorts. Based upon a book by Paul Tripp and an orchestral piece created by George Kleinsinger, Tubby tells the simple story of a young tuba, who is happy and exited to be part of an orchestra but also feels sad Read More

The Unknown Guest

Actors: Victor Jory, Pamela Blake, Harry Hayden, Veda Ann Borg, Nora Cecil

Synopsis: The King Brothers, entrepreneur siblings who parlayed an allegedly ill-gotten fortune into a long movie career, produced Monogram's The Unknown Guest. Victor Jory heads the cast as a young man who (like the producers?) is forced to live down an unsavory past. When his aunt and uncle are murdered Read More

Buckskin Frontier

Actors: Richard Dix, Jane Wyatt, Albert Dekker, Lee J. Cobb, Victor Jory

Synopsis: Originally slated for Paramount release, Buckskin Frontier was ultimately distributed by United Artists. Richard Dix stars as railroad troubleshooter Stephen Bent, assigned to supervise the building of 120 miles of track through the treacherous Santa Fe cutoff. He is opposed in this mission by Read More

Bar-20

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, George Reeves, Victor Jory, Robert Mitchum

Synopsis: At 54 minutes, Bar 20 is the shortest of the 1943 quota of Hopalong Cassidy pictures. William Boyd, Andy Clyde and George Reeves return to their series roles as Hopalong Cassidy, California Carson and Lin Bradley. Also on hand for villainous purposes is Victor Jory, who'd menaced Hoppy and his Read More

Power of the Press

Actors: Guy Kibbee, Gloria Dickson, Lee Tracy, Victor Jory

Synopsis: What happens when "freedom of the press" is abused in wartime? In Power of the Press, the consequences are nearly catastrophic. Otto Kruger plays ruthless newspaper publisher Howard Rankin, who uses his journalistic privileges to destroy his political enemies. When the usual methods of character Read More

Colt Comrades

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jay Kirby, George Reeves, Gayle Lord, Victor Jory

Synopsis: The winning streak of superior Hopalong Cassidy westerns continued with 1943's Colt Comrades. In this one, Hoppy (William Boyd) and his saddle pals California (Andy Clyde) and Johnny (Jay Kirby) use a large amount of reward money to buy their own ranch. But despotic Jebb Hardin (Victor Jory), who Read More

The Leather Burners

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jay Kirby, Victor Jory, George Givot

Synopsis: A superior Hopalong Cassidy Western, The Leather Burners benefits from a good script by Joe Pagano. In trouble with a gang of cattle rustlers who have murdered his neighbor, former Bar 20 ranch hand Johnny Travers (Jay Kirby) sends for old friends Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) and California Read More

Hoppy Serves a Writ

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jay Kirby, Victor Jory, George Reeves

Synopsis: Best known today as Robert Mitchum's screen-acting debut, this fine entry in the long-running Hopalong Cassidy series features the silver-haired hero (William Boyd) as a Texas lawman posing as a gambler in order to track down a gang of highwaymen and cattle rustlers who have found refuge in Read More

The Kansan

Actors: Richard Dix, Jane Wyatt, Albert Dekker, Eugene Pallette, Victor Jory

Synopsis: Like several other Harry Sherman Productions of the 1942-43 season, The Kansan was originally slated for a Paramount release, then redirected to United Artists. Richard Dix and Jane Wyatt, stars of the previous Sherman effort Buckskin Frontier, are reunited herein as western lawman John Bonniwell Read More

Tombstone

Actors: Richard Dix, Kent Taylor, Edgar Buchanan, Don Castle

Synopsis: This Western is set in the Arizona town and centers on former gunslinger Wyatt Earp who has been recently deputized and is helping the sheriff round up all the criminals. Earp becomes a lawman after he sees an outlaw accidentally kill a child during a showdown. Earp's brothers and Doc Holliday Read More

Shut My Big Mouth

Actors: Joe E. Brown, Adele Mara, Victor Jory, Fritz Feld, Don Beddoe

Synopsis: The best of Joe E. Brown's Columbia starring vehicles, Shut My Big Mouth is also one of Joe's funniest efforts since his heyday at Warner Bros. Brown is cast as wealthy easterner Wellington Holmes, who heads to the Wild West in search of peace and quiet (!) When Wellington's stagecoach is held up Read More

Riders of the Timberline

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Brad King, Andy Clyde, Eleanor Stewart

Synopsis: Riders of the Timberline was the 38th entry in the "Hopalong Cassidy" western series. To keep things from getting stale, star William Boyd and producer Harry Sherman began plunking Hoppy into non-western environs in the early 1940s (including, at one point, the Arabian desert!) Timberline takes Read More

Double Identity

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Victor Jory

Synopsis: A fugitive works to clear his name through the use of a dead mountie's identity. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Wide Open Town

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Russell Hayden, Andy Clyde, Evelyn Brent, Victor Jory

Synopsis: A superior B-Western in every way, this Hopalong Cassidy series entry features an especially compelling performance by former silent screen star Evelyn Brent. Along with his sidekicks, Lucky (Russell Hayden) and California (Andy Clyde), Hoppy (William Boyd) is searching for the gang that killed a Read More

Border Vigilantes

Actors: Wally Wales, William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Russell Hayden, Frances Gifford, Victor Jory

Synopsis: Border Vigilantes was the 34th entry in the "Hopalong Cassidy" western series, with 32 more still on the way. William Boyd stars once more as black-clad champion of justice Hopalong Cassidy, while Andy Clyde and Russell Hayden tag along as California Carson and Lucky Jenkins. This time our heroes Read More

Charlie Chan in Rio

Actors: Sidney Toler, Mary Beth Hughes, Cobina Wright, Jr., Ted North, Victor Jory

Synopsis: Charlie Chan in Rio is a remake of 1931's Black Camel, one of the few pre-1934 "Charlie Chan" entries still in existence. While the original film was set in Hawaii, the remake takes place in Brazil, but the basic intrigues remain the same. While vacation in Rio de Janeiro with his son Jimmy (Victor Sen Yung Read More

Secrets of the Lone Wolf

Actors: Warren William, Ruth Ford, Roger Clark, Victor Jory, Eric Blore

Synopsis: Michael Lanyard, the reformed criminal known as the Lone Wolf, is played in this Columbia B picture by the suave Warren William. The script contrives to have Lanyard's faithful butler Jamison (Eric Blore) to be mistaken for his boss by a gang of jewel robbers. They force poor Jamison to Read More

Bad Men of Missouri

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Jane Wyman, Wayne Morris, Arthur Kennedy, Victor Jory

Synopsis: Rather than play famous outlaw Cole Younger in this film, Warner Bros. contract star Humphrey Bogart chose suspension. Ronald Reagan was considered, and so were James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, and George Raft, but, happily, the role eventually went to the more age-appropriate Dennis Morgan, a Read More

The Stork Pays Off

Actors: Victor Jory, Rochelle Hudson, "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, George McKay

Synopsis: In this comedy, a mob of gangsters find themselves in charge of a nursery. The crime boss finds he likes the idea and decides to send his fellow gang members to night school so they can be educated too. His good work in the daycare leads the crime boss to get involved in politics, and this in turn Read More

The Light of Western Stars

Actors: Victor Jory, Jo Ann Sayers, Russell Hayden, Morris Ankrum, Noah Beery, Jr.

Synopsis: Previous filmed three times (most recently in 1930), the 1940 Paramount production Light of Western Stars was the latest in the studio's "Zane Grey" series. Victor Jory earns a rare top-billing slot as Gene Stewart, a hard-drinking Westerner who is reformed through the love of Boston debutante Read More

River's End

Actors: Dennis Morgan, George Tobias, Elizabeth Earl, Victor Jory, James Stephenson

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1920 and 1931, James Oliver Curwood's River's End was given a third go-round by Warner Bros. in 1940. Dennis Morgan plays a dual role as falsely accused murderer John Keith and stalwart Canadian mountie Sgt. Conniston. When Conniston is accidently killed, Keith takes his Read More

Light of the Western Stars

The Green Archer [Serial]

Synopsis: In this 15-episode serial, Detective Spike Holland must solve the mystery of Garr Castle. He does so after he is hired to look into the disappearance of Valerie Howett's sister Elaine. Within the haunted walls of the castle he finds a maze of secret passages, tunnels, trapdoors, and the enigmatic Read More

The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady

Actors: Warren William, Jean Muir, Eric Blore, Victor Jory, Warren Hull

Synopsis: The lady in question in this delightful whodunit is Joan Bradley (Jean Muir), a former secretary who is about to marry her employer's son, Bob Pennison (Warren Hull). Mrs. Pennison (Georgia Caine) graciously lends her future daughter-in-law a priceless necklace, but when Joan returns to her Read More

Girl from Havana

Actors: Dennis O'Keefe, Victor Jory, Steffi Duna, Gordon Jones

Synopsis: No relation to the 1929 Fox talkie of the same name, Republic's The Girl From Havana offers blonde-bombshell Claire Carleton (normally relegated to supporting roles) as the title character. The film charts the exploits of two oil-drilling buddies, Woody Davis (Dennis O'Keefe) and Tex Moore (Victor Read More

Knights of the Range

Actors: Russell Hayden, Victor Jory, Jean Parker, Morris Ankrum, Britt Wood

Synopsis: Paramount's "Zane Grey" series continued rolling into the 1940s with Knights of the Range. Taking a break from the studio's Hopalong Cassidy pictures, Russell Hayden stars as Renn Frayne, a college-educated youth who finds more than he bargained for when he heads westward. After a terrifying Read More

The Shadow [Serial]

Synopsis: Based upon the classic radio series and pulp magazine character, The Shadow is a 15-episode serial in which scientist Lamont Cranston (Victor Jory) dons the garb of The Shadow to track down the elusive -- and indeed, invisible -- villain known only as The Black Tiger. As the serial begins, The Read More

Give Us Wings

Actors: Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly, Bobby Jordan

Synopsis: This "Little Tough Guys" series entry finds the kids gainfully employed building airplane engines. Hoping to get into the air themselves, the boys take jobs with a crooked crop-dusting concern. Carter (Victor Jory), the head of the company, refuses to buy new planes, despite the dangers faced by Read More

The Lady with Red Hair

Actors: Miriam Hopkins, Claude Rains, Richard Ainley, Laura Hope Crewes, Helen Westley

Synopsis: The notoriously temperamental Miriam Hopkins is ideally cast as equally contentious theatrical prima donna Mrs. Leslie Carter in The Lady With Red Hair. As rapidly paced as any Warner Bros. gangster picture, the film charts Caroline Carter's rise to fame on Broadway through the auspices of Read More

Cherokee Strip

Actors: Richard Dix, Florence Rice, Victor Jory, Andy Clyde, George E. Stone

Synopsis: Though not based on a Zane Grey story, The Cherokee Strip fits in thematically with producer Harry Sherman's Grey series. Richard Dix stars as Dave Morrell, the new marshal of Goliath, Oklahoma. Immediately upon arrival, Morrell finds himself at odds with banker Coy Barrett (Victor Jory), who is Read More

Susannah of the Mounties

Actors: Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, Margaret Lockwood, John Farrell MacDonald

Synopsis: The sole survivor of an Indian attack, orphan girl Susannah Sheldon (Shirley Temple) becomes the mascot of the Canadian Mountie outpost headed by Superintendent Standing (Moroni Olsen). Mountie Angus "Monty" Montague (Randolph Scott) and his sweetheart (and Standing's daughter), Vicky (Margaret Lockwood Read More

Call a Messenger

Actors: Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Robert Armstrong, Mary Carlisle, Anne Nagel

Synopsis: Call a Messenger is the second entry in Universal's "Dead End Kids/Little Tough Guys" series. In this one, the Little Tough Guys (Hally Chester, Harris Berger, David Gorcey) cede most of the screen time to Dead Enders Billy Halop (as Jimmy Hogan) and Huntz Hall (as Pig). When he and his pals are Read More

Dodge City

Actors: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ann Sheridan, Bruce Cabot, Frank McHugh

Synopsis: This landmark western -- which, along with Stagecoach, has often been credited with revitalizing what had become a stagnant genre -- stars Errol Flynn as Wade Hatton, a cattle man who arrives in the frontier community of Dodge City, which is overrun by footloose cowboys and outlaws. When Hatton Read More

Each Dawn I Die

Actors: James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan, George Bancroft, Victor Jory, "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom

Synopsis: Otis Ferguson has said of Each Dawn I Die that "the story is of the kind you would have to see to disbelieve." And to be sure, the film is nothing more than a sampler of '30s prison-film conventions. But with the brilliant acting by James Cagney and the fast-paced and hard-edged direction of William Keighley Read More

Women in the Wind

Actors: Kay Francis, William Gargan, Victor Jory, "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, Eddie Foy, Jr.

Synopsis: Kay Francis was anxious to complete her Warner Bros. contract when she agreed to appear in this lower-berth drama. Francis plays a financially strapped aviatrix who enters an air race to pay for her brother's operation. Friendly mechanic William Gargan offers to lend Francis his plane, but Read More

Man of Conquest

Actors: Richard Dix, Gail Patrick, Edward Ellis, Joan Fontaine, Victor Jory

Synopsis: Man of Conquest was the first "super production" from Republic Pictures, a studio not known for its lavish budgets. This time, however, no expense was spared in recreating the career of Texas empire-builder Sam Houston. Richard Dix portrayed Houston, heading a gigantic cast of character players Read More

Men with Whips

Synopsis: As Australian river rights are battled for, the love of a girl is also at stake. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

I Stole a Million

Actors: George Raft, Claire Trevor, Dick Foran, Henry Armetta, Victor Jory

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a grizzled cabbie is scammed out of his life savings by a fake finance company. He tries to no avail to get police assistance. Finally he becomes a wanted criminal and escapes to California where he meets the girl who will become his wife. She helps him go straight by helping Read More

Blackwell's Island

Actors: John Garfield, Rosemary Lane, Dick Purcell, Victor Jory, Stanley Fields

Synopsis: This gangster film is based upon fact as it tells the tale of a determined reporter who has decided to make sure a certain notorious gangster gets his just desserts. It takes a long time, but eventually the reporter succeeds and the gangster is sent up river. Unfortunately, once there, he becomes Read More

Wings of the Navy

Actors: George Brent, Olivia de Havilland, John Payne, Frank McHugh, John Litel

Synopsis: Filmed on-location at the Naval Air Training Stations in San Diego, CA, and Pensacola, FL, this black-and-white Warner Bros. drama was dedicated to the U.S. Naval Aviation Service and probably served as propaganda when it was released in 1939, right before the U.S. involvement in WWII. Submarine Read More

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Actors: Tommy Kelly, Jackie Moran, Ann Gillis, May Robson, Walter Brennan

Synopsis: The 1938 version of Adventures of Tom Sawyer appears to be producer David O. Selznick's dry run for Gone with the Wind, what with its similarities in period, costumes, color scheme and production design (both films shared the services of the great Hollywood art director William Cameron Menzies). Read More

First Lady

Actors: Kay Francis, Anita Louise, Veree Teasdale, Louise Fazenda, Marjorie Rambeau

Synopsis: Based on the 1935 Broadway play by George S. Kaufman and Katharine Dayton, First Lady is not, as might be assumed, the story of the first woman president. The central character, played by Kay Francis, is the granddaughter of a president (though clearly inspired by Teddy Roosevelt's daughter Read More

Glamorous Night

Actors: Mary Ellis, Otto Kruger, Barry Mackay, Victor Jory, Trevor Jones

Synopsis: The popular Ivor Novello musical play Glamorous Night was given a conservative film treatment in 1937--minus much of the Novello score that had made it famous. Opera singer Mary Ellis plays an opera singer (why not?) who falls in with a band of roguish but likeable gypsies. Mary manages to Read More

Rangle River

Actors: Victor Jory, Margaret Dare, Robert Coote, Rita Pauncefort

Synopsis: In this Australian western, a rancher's daughter goes out on a long-distance lark unaware that her father is facing financial dire straits. A new foreman finally contacts the girl so she will come home. The young woman finally comes home, but encounters constant disagreements with foreman. In Read More

Bulldog Drummond at Bay

Actors: John Lodge, Dorothy Mackaill, Victor Jory, Claud Allister, Hugh Miller

Synopsis: After making his first appearance as the title character in Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" series, John Lodge was rushed to England to star in the quota quickie Bulldog Drummond at Bay. Though lacking the polish of Hollywood's Drummond pictures, this one is closer to the original concept of series Read More

Meet Nero Wolfe

Actors: Edward Arnold, Lionel Stander, Joan Perry, Victor Jory, Nana Bryant

Synopsis: Rex Stout's overweight, under-exercised detective Nero Wolfe was first brought to the screen in 1936 in the portly person of Edward Arnold. As brusque and short-tempered as ever, Wolfe tackles the case of a college professor who met his doom while playing golf, a tragedy followed by the seemingly Read More

Hell-Ship Morgan

Actors: George Bancroft, Ann Sothern, Victor Jory, George Regas, Howard Hickman

Synopsis: Hell-Ship Morgan (George Bancroft) is the brawny skipper of a small fishing schooner. Supplying fish for a San Francisco cannery, Morgan works hard and relaxes even harder, boasting not one but several girls in every port. Our hero's roving days come to an end when he marries Mary (Ann Sothern) Read More

The King Steps Out

Actors: Grace Moore, Franchot Tone, Walter Connolly, Raymond Walburn, Victor Jory

Synopsis: Josef Von Sternberg, past directorial master of movie exotica, came down to earth with The King Steps Out, a major studio musical. Set in 19th century Vienna, the plot concerns a sprightly young lady (opera star Grace Moore) who wishes to rescue her sister from marrying their cousin, the "wicked" Read More

Party Wire

Actors: Jean Arthur, Victor Jory, Helen Lowell, Charles Grapewin

Synopsis: In one of his few movie leading roles, Victor Jory plays an unmarried small-town creamery owner. Jory falls in love with Jean Arthur, daughter of the town's favorite citizen (Charley Grapewin). Jean's former boy friend disconsolately leaves town, leaving behind an unbalanced church budget which Read More

Mills of the Gods

Actors: May Robson, Fay Wray, Victor Jory, Raymond Walburn, James "Doc" Blakely

Synopsis: After her success in Lady for a Day, elderly character actress May Robson was starred in a number of features. She's wonderfully irascible in this depression-era drama as widow Mary Hastings, who has been running the family steel business since the death of her husband forty years before. Her Read More

White Lies

Actors: Walter Connolly, Fay Wray, Victor Jory, Leslie Fenton, Irene Hervey

Synopsis: Walter Connolly, Columbia's answer to Edward Arnold, is his usual bombastic self in White Lies. Connolly is cast as powerful publisher John Mitchell, whose pursuit of sensational headlines at the expense of all else takes a personal toll when his daughter Joan (Fay Wray) is implicated in a murder. Read More

Too Tough to Kill

Actors: Victor Jory, Sally O'Neil, Thurston Hall, Johnny Arthur, Robert Gleckler

Synopsis: The construction site of a big tunnel provides the backdrop for this drama. When the project is delayed, the chief engineer is sent to the mountainous site to ensure things go as planned. He is accompanied by a reporter and her photographer. Together they stop the troublemakers before blood is Read More

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Actors: James Cagney, Ian Hunter, Grant Mitchell, Olivia de Havilland, Mickey Rooney, Victor Jory, Ross Alexander, Joe E. Brown, Hobart Cavanaugh, Dick Powell

Synopsis: Max Reinhardt's legendary Hollywood Bowl production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream was transferred to the screen by Warner Bros. in 1935. Like most of Shakespeare's comedies, the story contains several seemingly unrelated plotlines, all tied together by a single unifying event, in this Read More

Streamline Express

Actors: Evelyn Venable, Victor Jory, Esther Ralston, Ralph Forbes, Sidney Blackmer

Synopsis: Grand Hotel meets Twentieth Century in this Mascot feature. Evelyn Venable stars as Patricia Wells, a tempestuous stage actress who impulsively elopes on opening night of her newest play. Wells and her new fiancée Fred Arnold (Ralph Forbes) book adjoining compartments on the Streamline Express Read More

Escape from Devil's Island

Actors: Victor Jory, Florence Rice, Norman Foster, Stanley Andrews, Daniel L. Haynes

Synopsis: Escape from Devil's Island delivers exactly was the title promises...almost. Victor Jory and Norman Foster play two desperate Devil's Island inmates, bitter enemies who pool their resources and work out an escape plan. They bribe those who can be bribed, befriend those willing to be befriended Read More

Madame Du Barry

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Reginald Owen, Victor Jory, Osgood Perkins, Veree Teasdale

Synopsis: No boring historical pageant this, Warner Bros.' Madame DuBarry is a fast-paced, often hilarious romantic romp. Her Mexican accent held in check, the ravishingly beautiful Dolores Del Rio plays 18th-century French courtesan DuBarry like a 20th-century golddigger on the make. Brought to Versailles Read More

He Was Her Man

Actors: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Victor Jory, Frank Craven, Harold Huber

Synopsis: In this crime drama, Flicker Hayes (James Cagney) is a safecracker who has just been released following a stretch in prison; after his last job, his partners Dan Curley (Bradley Page) and Red Deering (Ralf Harolde) set him up, and now Hayes is determined to get revenge. Fooling them into believing Read More

Pursued

Actors: Rosemary Ames, Victor Jory, Pert Kelton, Russell Hardie, George Irving

Synopsis: In this drama, a nice young woman is saving all her money so she can leave her South Seas island home, move to San Francisco and open a tea room. Meanwhile, a hardworking young man has come the island to begin running his uncle's profitable plantation, a piece of property coveted by the island Read More

Murder in Trinidad

Actors: Nigel Bruce, Heather Angel, Victor Jory, Murray Kinnell, Douglas Walton

Synopsis: What a shame that the 1934 Fox crime meller Murder in Trinidad is currently unavailable for viewing. In one of his best performances, Nigel Bruce is cast as Bertram Lynch, a slovenly, sweat-stained detective with a mind like a steel trap. Lumbering his way through a tropical outpost, Lynch Read More

I Believe in You

Actors: Rosemary Ames, Victor Jory, John Boles, Gertrude Michael, George Meeker

Synopsis: In this tepid melodrama, an aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search of good fortune. Unfortunately, the agitator soon finds himself in trouble with the cops. Meanwhile the writer attempts to become a Greenwich Village Bohemian type. She and Read More

The Big Payoff

Actors: Lucien Littlefield, Ralph Ince, Barbara Kent, John Farrell MacDonald, Glenn Tryon

Synopsis: Mascot Films, the feisty precursor to Republic Pictures, was responsible for 1933's The Big Payoff. In a rare top-billed role, chameleon-like character-actor Lucien Littlefield plays an innocent man who has been railroaded to the electric chair. Coming to the rescue is Victor Jory, a disgraced Read More

The Devil's in Love

Actors: Victor Jory, Loretta Young, Vivienne Osborne, David Manners, C. Henry Gordon

Synopsis: The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused of murdering his commander over the love of Loretta Young. Jory escapes prosecution by heading for parts unknown, but when a deadly illness strikes his old fort, he returns Read More

Sailor's Luck

Actors: James Dunn, Sally Eilers, Sammy Cohen, Frank Moran, Victor Jory

Synopsis: While U.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan (James Dunn) is on leave in San Pedro, he unexpectedly falls in love with the beautiful Sally Brent (Sally Eilers. Though Sally (Eilers) promises to be faithful after Jimmy (Dunn) ships out to San Francisco, Jimmy becomes jealous. Furious at the news that Sally has Read More

Trick for Trick

Actors: Ralph Morgan, Victor Jory, Sally Blane, Tom Dugan, Luis Alberni

Smoky

Actors: Victor Jory, Irene Bentley, Frank Campeau, Hank Mann, LeRoy Mason

Synopsis: The 1933 Fox production Smoky was the first of three film adaptations of the classic Will James novel. James himself served as off-screen narrator for this story of bronco buster Clint's (Victor Jory) undying devotion to his horse, and vice versa. Separated early on from Clint, Smoky is sold to a Read More

Second Hand Wife

Actors: Sally Eilers, Ralph Bellamy, Helen Vinson, Clay Clement

Synopsis: Sally Eilers plays Sandra, a secretary who falls for her boss in this passable marital drama from Fox. The attraction is mutual and when Carter Cavendish (Ralph Bellamy) learns that his wife, Betty (Helen Vinson), is having an affair, he divorces her and marries Sandra. But Betty wants sole Read More

Infernal Machine

Actors: Chester Morris, Genevieve Tobin, Victor Jory, Elizabeth Patterson, James Bell

Synopsis: The infernal machine in question is a bomb controlled by a wireless operator and set aboard a New York bound ocean liner. No one knows it is there. Meanwhile the passengers go about their business. One of them, a stowaway pretends to be a classy fellow so he can pitch woo to a sophisticated lady. Read More

I Loved You Wednesday

Actors: Warner Baxter, Elissa Landi, Victor Jory, Miriam Jordan, Laura Hope Crewes

Synopsis: A two sided romantic triangle features Warner Baxter and Victor Jory in love with Elissa Landi and Landi and Jory's wife Miriam Jordan in love with Jory. The love of Baxter wins Landi in the end in this romantic comedy. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

State Fair

Actors: Will Rogers, Janet Gaynor, Lew Ayres, Sally Eilers, Norman Foster

Synopsis: The 1933 State Fair was the first of three film versions of the Phillip Stong bestseller. Some consider it the best of the three because of its stricter adherence to the source material and the presence of star Will Rogers. Rogers plays Abel Frake, patriarch of a family whose individual members Read More

My Woman

Actors: Helen Twelvetrees, Victor Jory, Wallace Ford, Claire Dodd, Warren Hymer

Synopsis: After suffering magnificently in picture after picture at RKO and Paramount, Helen Twelvetrees was subjected to even more agony in Columbia's My Woman. Twelvetrees is cast as Connie, the ever-lovin' wife of vaudeville hoofer Chick (Wallace Ford). After years of tanktowns and two-a-days, Chick Read More

Handle with Care

Actors: James Dunn, Boots Mallory, El Brendel, Buster Phelps, George Ernest

Synopsis: In this children's comedy, a young woman is left in charge of two little hellions when her sister dies. She finally finds love with a handsome assistant district attorney, but the resentful children scare him off. They soon feel bad for their bratty behavior and go to his apartment to apologize. Read More

The Pride of the Legion

Synopsis: In this police drama, a cop, known for being a rock under pressure, endeavors to cope with the aftermath of a psychologically traumatic experience at work. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Renegades

Actors: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Noah Beery, Sr., Gregory Gaye, George Cooper

Synopsis: In this action-adventure opus, Deucalion (Warner Baxter), Machwurth (Noah Beery), Mordiconi (C. Henry Gordon) and Biloxi (George Cooper) are four members of a desert patrol fighting off godless villains amidst the sand dunes. The four soldiers are lured away from their mission by Eleanore (Myrna Read More