Victor McLaglenFilmography

Sea Fury

Actors: Stanley Baker, Victor McLaglen, Luciana Paluzzi, Gregoire Aslan, Francis de Wolff

Synopsis: Victor McLaglen made his last film appearance in the British Sea Fury. McLaglen plays the brawny captain of a salvage vessel, while Stanley Baker is his second in command. The two men battle over the affections of South American beauty Luciana Paluzzi. Baker has the advantage, but Luciana's father Read More

The Abductors

Synopsis: Andrew V. McLaglen directs his actor father Victor McLaglen in The Abductors. The elder McLaglen plays a 19th century ex-convict, who hopes to spring a master counterfeiter from jail. To this end, McLaglen and his partner George MacReady kidnap the daughter (Fay Spain) of the prison warden, but Read More

Gunsmoke: Wrong Man

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Riding into town with a corpse in the back of his wagon, Sam Rickers (Don Keefer) claims to have killed fugitive outlaw Bob Hulbert, and demands the $1000 reward. When Matt (James Arness) examines the body, he notices two things: the dead man was shot in the back--and he doesn't look anything like Read More

Gunsmoke: Bloody Hands

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After a bloody shootout in which three members of an outlaw gang are killed, Marshall Matt Dillon (James Arness) brings in the sole surviving outlaw, Jack Brand (Lawrence Dobkin), who claims that Matt never gave the others a chance. When he is forced to shoot Brand as well, Matt is confronted by Read More

Around the World in 80 Days

Actors: David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton, Shirley MacLaine, Charles Boyer

Synopsis: Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel Around the World in 80 Days, the second film to be lensed in the wide-screen Todd-AO production. Nearly as fascinating as the finished product are the many in-production Read More

City of Shadows

Actors: Victor McLaglen, John Baer, Kathleen Crowley, Anthony Caruso, June Vincent

Synopsis: After several years of supporting parts, Victor McLaglen once more landed a leading role in Republic's City of Shadows. McLaglen plays Big Tim Channing, an ageing but powerful gangster who raises young newsboy Dan Mason as his own son. Upon reaching adulthood, Mason (John Baer) becomes a law Read More

Bengazi

Actors: Richard Conte, Victor McLaglen, Richard Carlson, Mala Powers, Richard Erdman

Synopsis: Richard Conte plays the obligatory Man With a Past in RKO's Bengazi. Joining up with disreputable Irishman Victor McLaglen and army deserter Richard Erdman, Conte heads into the African desert in search of hidden Arab gold. They in turn are pursued by British police inspector Richard Carlson and Read More

Many Rivers to Cross

Actors: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, Victor McLaglen, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn

Synopsis: Packaged and sold as an outdoor actioner, Many Rivers to Cross is as much a comedy as anything else. Robert Taylor stars as 18th century trapper Bushrod Gentry, who is himself entrapped into marriage by the spunky Mary Stuart Cherne (Eleanor Parker). Escaping his marital responsibilities (which Read More

Lady Godiva

Actors: Maureen O'Hara, George Nader, Victor McLaglen, Rex Reason, Torin Thatcher

Synopsis: To say that Lady Godiva is historically inaccurate is a moot point, since most historians agree that the whole Lady Godiva story never happened. At any rate, Maureen O'Hara stars in the title role, as the rebellious Saxon wife of a Norman nobleman. To show her fidelity to her people, and to Read More

Trouble in the Glen

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles, Victor McLaglen, John McCallum, Janet Barrow

Synopsis: Trouble in the Glen was one of several felicitous collaborations between Hollywood's Republic Pictures and England's Herbert Wilcox-Anna Neagle productions. Curiously, Ms. Neagle does not appear--just as well, since the film is dominated by Orson Welles. Introducing himself with a typically Read More

Prince Valiant

Actors: James Mason, Janet Leigh, Robert Wagner, Debra Paget, Sterling Hayden

Synopsis: Hal Foster's Sunday-comics saga of a young Viking prince in the service of King Arthur is brought to the screen in CinemaScope and Technicolor in Prince Valiant. Despite the fact that he sports a dutch bob that makes him look like actress Phyllis Kirk, Robert Wagner is quite virile and convincing 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

The Quiet Man

Actors: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond

Synopsis: Returning to the Ireland of his birth, director John Ford fashions a irresistable valentine to the "Auld Sod" in The Quiet Man. Irish-American boxer John Wayne, recovering from the trauma of having accidentally killed a man in the ring, arrives in the Irish village where he was born. Hoping to Read More

Rio Grande

Actors: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Ben Johnson, Claude Jarman, Jr., Harry Carey, Jr.

Synopsis: John Wayne stars as Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke, whose devotion to duty has cost him his marriage to his beloved Kathleen (Maureen O'Hara). Yorke gets word that his son, Jeff (Claude Jarman Jr.) -- whom he hasn't seen in 15 years -- has been dropped as a cadet from West Point, and that he lied about his Read More

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

Actors: John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson, Victor McLaglen

Synopsis: The second of John Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy", She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is the only one of the three to be lensed in Technicolor. In an Oscar-calibre performance, 42-year old John Wayne plays sixtyish Cavalry Captain Nathan Brittles. In his last days before his compulsory retirement, Brittles must 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

Fort Apache

Actors: John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Ward Bond, Shirley Temple, John Agar, Pedro Armendáriz, Dick Foran

Synopsis: The first of John Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy", Fort Apache stars John Wayne as captain Kirby York and Henry Fonda as Custer clone Lt. Col. Owen Thursday. Resentful of his loss in rank and transfer to the West after serving gallantly in the Civil War, the vainglorious Thursday insists upon imposing Read More

The Michigan Kid

Actors: Jon Hall, Victor McLaglen, Rita Johnson, Andy Devine, Byron Foulger

Synopsis: Jon Hall, Universal's beefcake kid, usually comported himself in South Seas or Arabian nights outfits. In Michigan Kid (based on a novel by Rex Beach), he's decked out in ten-gallon hat, levis and six-guns. Hall and his cohort Andy Devine are among the many characters searching for a treasure Read More

The Foxes of Harrow

Actors: Renee Beard, Rex Harrison, Maureen O'Hara, Richard Haydn, Vanessa Brown, Victor McLaglen, Patricia Medina, Hugo Haas

Synopsis: Frank Yerby's Foxes of Harrow was one of those long historical novels so popular in the 1940s. 20th Century-Fox boiled the novel down into 118 minutes' worth of essentials for this film version. In antebellum New Orleans, roguish Irish gambler Rex Harrison buys his way into society--something he Read More

Calendar Girl

Actors: Charles Arnt, Jane Frazee, William Marshall, James Ellison, Gail Patrick, Kenny Baker, Janet Martin, Victor McLaglen

Synopsis: In this Republic musical, all heck breaks loose when the girlfriend of an aspiring composer becomes a model for the starving artist who lives next door. The story takes place at the turn of the 19th century and is set in Miss Rich's boardinghouse, the temporary home of many young artists and Read More

Whistle Stop

Actors: George Raft, Ava Gardner, Victor McLaglen, Tom Conway, Jorja Curtright

Synopsis: In this drama, Mary (Ava Gardner) returns to her small town after she becomes a success in the city. Meeting up with her old love, Kenny (George Raft), she discovers that he is still the unambitious, lazy man he was when she left, and she begins an affair with nightclub owner Lew Lentz (Tom Read More

Undercurrent

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Edmund Gwenn, Marjorie Main

Synopsis: A change of pace for both director Vincente Minnelli and star Katharine Hepburn, this taut drama features the latter as Ann Hamilton, the daughter of a scientist (Edmund Gwenn), who after a whirlwind romance marries handsome but slightly mysterious inventor turned businessman Alan Garroway (Robert Read More

Love, Honor and Goodbye

Actors: Virginia Bruce, Edward Ashley, Victor McLaglen, Nils Asther, Helen Broderick

Synopsis: The trouble begins when glamorous Broadway actress Roberta Baxter (Virginia Bruce) signs for her latest play. She proceeds to spend far too much time at rehearsals, and far too little time with her attorney husband William (Edward Ashley). Even so, it is Roberta who eventually walks out on Read More

Rough, Tough and Ready

Actors: Chester Morris, Victor McLaglen, Jean Rogers, Amelita Ward

Synopsis: Rough, Tough, and Ready looks a great deal like all those Victor McLaglen - Edmund Lowe "friendly enemy" actionfests of the 1920s and 1930s. Indeed, McLaglen stars in the film as Owen McCarey, though the "Edmund Lowe" part, Brad Crowder, goes to Chester Morris. The story is the old bromide about Read More

Roger Touhy, Gangster!

Actors: Preston S. Foster, Victor McLaglen, Lois Andrews, Kent Taylor, Anthony Quinn

Synopsis: Melodramatic gangster action characterizes this tough and freely fictionalized biography of notorious, murderous Chicago mobster Roger Touhy. Set during Prohibition, it centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by that of Al Read More

Tampico

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Lynn Bari, Victor McLaglen, Robert Bailey, Marc Lawrence

Synopsis: Not to be confused with the 1971 film of the same name, this World War II espionage drama was the second to last film from German director Lothar Mendes and stars Edward G. Robinson as oil tanker captain Bart Manson. When Manson rescues the survivors of a torpedoed ship in the Gulf of Mexico, he Read More

The Princess and the Pirate

Actors: Bob Hope, Virginia Mayo, Walter Brennan, Walter Slezak, Victor McLaglen

Synopsis: In his second film for producer Sam Goldwyn, Bob Hope is felicitously teamed with luscious Goldwyn contractee Virginia Mayo. Hope plays Sylvester the Great, a two-bit entertainer "touring" the West Indies in the 18th century. Mayo is Princess Margaret, who is kidnapped by a rough, tough buccaneer Read More

Forever and a Day

Actors: Brian Aherne, Merle Oberon, Ida Lupino, Gladys Cooper, C. Aubrey Smith, Claude Rains, Robert Cummings, Anna Neagle, Roland Young

Synopsis: The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people turned over their salaries to British war relief -- a point driven home during the lengthy opening credits by an unseen narrator. The true star of the film is a stately old Read More

Powder Town

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Edmond O'Brien, June Havoc, Dorothy Lovett, Eddie Foy, Jr.

Synopsis: RKO Radio's Powder Town has the makings of an A picture, but the budget and approach is strictly "B" grade. Adapted by Vicki Baum from a novl by Max Brand, the story is largely set in a wartime munitions plant. Targetted for abduction or murder by Nazi agents, eccentric scientist Pennant (Edmond O'Brien Read More

China Girl

Actors: Gene Tierney, George Montgomery, Lynn Bari, Victor McLaglen, Alan Baxter

Synopsis: China Girl charts the exploits of two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams (George Montgomery), stationed in Burma and China in the early stage of WW II. Captured by the Japanese, he escapes from a concentration camp with the aid of beautiful, enigmatic "China Girl" Miss Young (Gene Tierney Read More

Call out the Marines

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Binnie Barnes, Paul Kelly, Robert Smith

Synopsis: This RKO Radio programmer reunites Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen in an enjoyable rehash of their earlier Quirt-and-Flagg antics in What Price Glory. The two venerable action stars are respectively cast as Curtis and McGinnis, who after several years' hiatus rejoin the Marines as sergeants. While Read More

Broadway Limited

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Marjorie Woodworth, Dennis O'Keefe, Patsy Kelly, ZaSu Pitts

Synopsis: Two of Hal Roach's short-subject stalwarts, Patsy Kelly and ZaSu Pitts, are teamed in the Roach-produced feature Broadway Limited. The whole story unfolds on a Chicago-to-Manhattan express train; among the passengers are Hollywood starlet April (Marjorie Woodworth), her producer Ivan (Leonid Kinskey Read More

South of Pago Pago

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Jon Hall, Frances Farmer, Olympe Bradna, Gene Lockhart

Synopsis: Beefcake star Jon Hall shows off his sleek physique in the exotic melodrama South of Pago Pago. The son of an island chieftan, young Kehane (Hall) defiantly opposes the efforts by crooked pearl hunter Bucko Larson (Victor McLaglen) to invade his domain. Larson and his minions hope to dissuade our Read More

Diamond Frontier

Actors: Victor McLaglen, John Loder, Anne Nagel, Philip Dorn, Cecil Kellaway

Synopsis: Characterized by some critics as a "South African western", Diamond Frontier stars Victor McLaglen as ruthless diamond hunter Regan. The villain's reign of terror as he searches for the precious gems is checked by Charles Clayton (John Loder), freshly escaped from a brutal penal colony. A wild Read More

Full Confession

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Sally Eilers, Joseph Calleia, Barry Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Risdon

Synopsis: In this thriller, a man is brutally murdered and an innocent man takes the rap. The real murderer later confesses his crime to his priest. The priest strongly urges the killer to tell the police, but he steadfastly refuses. At the end, the killer attacks and mortally wounds the priest. The Read More

Ex-Champ

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Tom Brown, Nan Grey, William Frawley, Constance Moore

Synopsis: In this boxing drama, an ex-champ finds himself working as a doorman at a nightclub. His son aspires to a high caliber career on Wall Street; he is getting ready to marry a banker's daughter. When not working at the club, the boxer trains a welterweight with championship potential. Later the son Read More

Rio

Actors: Basil Rathbone, Victor McLaglen, Sigrid Gurie, Robert Cummings, Leo Carrillo

Synopsis: Though running a mere 75 minutes, Rio has enough plot for ten movies. Basil Rathbone and Sigrid Gurie, previously teamed in The Adventures of Marco Polo, head the cast as crooked French financier Paul Reynard and his wife Irene. Sentenced to a ten-year term in a French penal colony for bank fraud Read More

Pacific Liner

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Chester Morris, Wendy Barrie, Alan Hale, Barry Fitzgerald

Synopsis: An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to San Francisco, chief engineer Crusher McKay (Victor McLaglen) and shipboard doctor Tony Craig (Chester Morris) become rivals for the attention of nurse Ann Grayson (Wendy Read More

Let Freedom Ring

Actors: Nelson Eddy, Virginia Bruce, Victor McLaglen, Lionel Barrymore, Edward Arnold

Synopsis: Originally filmed in Sepiatone, Let Freedom Ring is a satisfying Nelson Eddy musical with patriotic overtones. Set in the years following the Civil War, the story focuses on the battle of wills between Harvard-educated idealist Steve Logan (Eddy) and bullying railroad magnate Jim Knox (Edward Arnold Read More

Gunga Din

Actors: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Sam Jaffe, Eduardo Ciannelli, Joan Fontaine

Synopsis: Though Rudyard Kipling's poem Gunga Din makes a swell recital piece, it cannot be said to have much of a plot. It's simply a crude cockney soldier's tribute to a native Indian water boy who remains at his job even after being mortally wounded. Hardly the sort of material upon which to build 118 Read More

The Big Guy

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Jackie Cooper, Edward S. Brophy, Peggy Moran, Ona Munson

Synopsis: In this melodrama, the acting warden at a correctional facility must make a difficult choice when he comes across some ill-gotten loot after averting a prison break. At first he keeps it for himself, but then one of the recently recaptured inmates gets blamed for the crime. During the attempted Read More

Captain Fury

Actors: Brian Aherne, Victor McLaglen, Paul Lukas, June Lang, John Carradine

Synopsis: This exciting adventure is set in the rugged Australian outback back when the continent was used as a giant penal colony for criminals of the British empire, and tells the story of a fugitive leader and his band who like Robin of old try to prevent a greedy governor from stealing rancher's land. Read More

The Devil's Party

Actors: Victor McLaglen, William Gargan, Paul Kelly, Beatrice Roberts, Frank Jenks

Synopsis: This melodrama chronicles the enduring friendship between four boys in New York's Hell's Kitchen. As boys, the made a pact that they would meet annually to renew their friendship. Trouble ensues when one of the boys accidently sets fire to a building. Another boy took the blame. He went to reform Read More

We're Going to Be Rich

Actors: Gracie Fields, Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy, Coral Browne, Ted Smith

Synopsis: This musical features many popular ballads from the 1880s as it tells the tale of a cabaret singer and her boozy husband who travel to the South African gold fields to seek their fortune. They choose an empty mine, and while her husband hopefully works in the mine, the woman gets a singing job in Read More

Battle of Broadway

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy, Raymond Walburn

Synopsis: The titular battle is the one that noisily rages between American legionnaires Big Ben Wheeler (Victor McLaglen) and Chesty Webb (Brian Donlevy). While attending a convention in New York, the two friendly enemies are ordered by their boss Homer C. Bundy (Raymond Walburn) to break up the romance Read More

Saratoga

Actors: Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Lionel Barrymore, Frank Morgan, Walter Pidgeon

Synopsis: Jean Harlow offers her final screen performance in this witty and -- in retrospect -- quite moving racetrack comedy-drama co-starring Clark Gable and Walter Pidgeon. When her father dies shortly after losing his horse farm to Duke Bradley (Gable), Carol Clayton (Harlow) refuses the handsome Read More

Sea Devils

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Preston S. Foster, Ida Lupino, Donald Woods

Synopsis: In this actioner, a tough Coast Guard officer endeavors to marry his lovely daughter to a handsome sailor. The trouble is, she is already in love with another rambunctious and contentious Coast Guardian. To stop the romance, the officer transfers the young man to his command and hopes that he will Read More

Nancy Steele Is Missing!

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Walter Connolly, Peter Lorre, June Lang, Robert Kent

Synopsis: Nancy Steele was the baby daughter of a munitions tycoon who was kidnapped by an antiwar activist who did it to protest the magnate's support of WW I. This drama provides a sympathetic portrait of the kidnapper who leaves the baby with two close friend who assume it's his and raise her. The Read More

Wee Willie Winkie

Actors: Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen, C. Aubrey Smith, June Lang, Michael Whalen

Synopsis: In this lovely John Ford film, Joyce Williams (June Lang) and her young daughter, Priscilla (Shirley Temple), travel to India to live on a British Army base with Joyce's father, Colonel Williams, Aubrey C. Smith). Once there, sweet, young Priscilla manages to win the love and affection of the Read More

This is My Affair

Actors: Robert Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy, Sidney Blackmer

Synopsis: Based on fact, this turn-of-the-century crime drama stars Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck (husband and wife at the time). Taylor plays a seemingly disreputable young man who joins a gang of murderous bank robbers, headed by Victor McLaglen. Stanwyck is a beer-hall entertainer, who disapproves Read More

Professional Soldier

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Freddie Bartholomew, Gloria Stuart, Michael Whalen

Synopsis: Adventurer-for-hire Victor McLaglen is hired by a political faction in a mythical European kingdom. McLaglen's job is to kidnap the young prince (Freddie Bartholomew) so that his employers can take over the government. The prince enjoys the experience because it releases him from the confines of Read More

The Magnificent Brute

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Binnie Barnes, William Hall, Jean Dixon, Henry Armetta

Synopsis: A love triangle forms the basis of this drama. It all begins in a steel mill when a steel worker ignores the besotted gazes of his landlady at the boarding house and falls in love with a gold-digger. His best friend also finds himself smitten by the seductive young woman. But when the one of the Read More

Klondike Annie

Actors: Mae West, Victor McLaglen, Phillip Reed, Harold Huber, Lucille Gleason

Synopsis: Mae West butts heads with Victor McLaglen in Raoul Walsh's Klondike Annie, but the real victor was the Legion of Decency, whose censorship strictures transformed a saucy and spicy gumbo into something closer to chicken noodle soup. West plays Rose Carlton, the kept woman of Chan Lo (Harold Huber) Read More

Under Two Flags

Actors: Ronald Colman, Claudette Colbert, Victor McLaglen, Rosalind Russell, Gregory Ratoff

Synopsis: Two silent film versions preceded this 1936 Hollywood adaptation of the 19th century novel by the writer Ouida Bergere. It is set in Saharan Africa but was filmed in the Arizona desert. Ronald Colman is Corporal Victor, a man who has taken the rap for a crime committed by his younger brother. Read More

Under Pressure

Actors: Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Florence Rice, Marjorie Rambeau, Charles Bickford

Synopsis: Directed by Raoul Walsh, Under Pressure tells of the competition between the crews employed to excavate a complex network of tunnels ranging from Brooklyn to Manhattan. Shocker (Edmund Lowe) and Jumbo (Victor McLaglen) are two such rivals, and the trouble really begins when they both fall for the Read More

The Great Hotel Murder

Actors: Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Rosemary Ames, Mary Carlisle, Henry O'Neill

Synopsis: A writer of mysteries helps a house detective solve a murder in this murder mystery. The murder occurs in the hotel in which the writer is staying. It is a mystery because, though the corpse was found in a hotel room, it was not the room he had registered for. One of the suspects claims that the Read More

The Informer

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston S. Foster, Margot Grahame, Wallace Ford

Synopsis: The Informer, Liam O'Flaherty's novel of the the Irish "troubles" of the early 1920s, was first filmed in England in 1929, with Cyril McLaglen in the lead. When director John Ford remade The Informer in 1935, the role of the tragic Irish roisterer Gypo Nolan went to Cyril's brother Victor Read More

The Captain Hates the Sea

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Helen Vinson, John Gilbert, Alison Skipworth, Wynne Gibson

Synopsis: It's Grand Hotel on the high seas, with a remarkable cast -- particularly for the usually parsimonious Columbia Pictures. As irascible captain Helquist (Walter Connolly) pilots his boat along the Atlantic, an assortment of subplots involving a vast array of characters play themselves out. Among Read More

Murder at the Vanities

Actors: Carl Brisson, Victor McLaglen, Jack Oakie, Kitty Carlisle, Dorothy Stickney, Gertrude Michael

Synopsis: The Earl Carroll Vanities, a popular Broadway revue of the 1930s and '40s, is the setting for this murder mystery interspersed with an assortment of variety acts, including Duke Ellington performing "Ebony Rhapsody" and a novelty number called "Marijuana." Victor McLaglen stars as Bill Murdock, a Read More

The Lost Patrol

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford, Reginald Denny, J.M. Kerrigan

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1929, Philip MacDonald's novel Patrol was lensed by director John Ford as The Lost Patrol in 1934. Sergeant Victor McLaglen is in charge of a World War I-era British cavalry regiment, stranded somewhere in the Mesopotamian desert. McLaglen hasn't asked for the responsibility Read More

The Wharf Angel

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Dell, Preston S. Foster, Alison Skipworth

Synopsis: Adapted from an earlier European film, Wharf Angel stars Dorothy Dell as Toy, a golden-hearted prostitute stranded in San Francisco. Toy finds hope for redemption when she falls in love with Como (Preston S. Foster), a sailor on the lam from a murder charge. In Madame Butterfly fashion, the Read More

No More Women

Actors: Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Sally Blane, Minna Gombell

Synopsis: The rivalry between two deep-sea diver is chronicled in this adventure. The trouble begins when a young woman inherits one of the diver's boats and promptly hires his rival to help out. At first they swear to stay away from her, but they cannot and many arguments ensue culminating in a fistfight Read More

Hot Pepper

Actors: Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Lupe Velez, El Brendel, Boothe Howard

Synopsis: In this comedy, a pair of ex-Marines team up and get involved in a nightclub.Trouble ensues when they both fall in love with a feisty woman and begin fighting over her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Laughing at Life

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Conchita Montenegro, Lois Wilson, Henry B. Walthall

Synopsis: At first concentrating exclusively on westerns and serials, up-and-coming Mascot Pictures began branching out in the early 1930s with such lavish star vehicles as Laughing at Life. Victor McLaglen is in his element as a devil-may-care globetrotting adventurer named McHale. After risking his neck Read More

Dick Turpin

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Jane Carr, Frank Vosper, Gillian Lind, Gibb McLaughlin

Synopsis: The exploits of 18th-century British highwayman Dick Turpin have been immortalized in scores of poems, ballads, novels, plays and films. This particular version was adapted from Rockwood, a novel by Harrison Ainsworth. Victor McLaglen stars as Turpin, and while he might be a bit thick of beam for Read More

Guilty As Hell

Actors: Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Richard Arlen, Ralph Ince, Adrienne Ames

Synopsis: Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe carry their pugnacious Quirt-and-Flagg relationship into the murder mystery genre in Paramount's Guilty as Hell. Actually, there's very little mystery involved, since the audience is informed at the outset that dignified Dr. Tindall (Henry Stephenson) is responsible Read More

Rackety Rax

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Greta Nissen, Nell O'Day, Arthur Pierson, Alan Dinehart

Synopsis: College football is satirized in this comedy that begins as racketeer "Knucks" McGoin buys Canarsie College and fills it with hoods and professional wrestlers posing as students. When football season comes, these "students" beat the tar out of their rivals during the games. Naturally the stands Read More

The Gay Caballero

Actors: George O'Brien, Conchita Montenegro, Linda Watkins, C. Henry Gordon

Synopsis: In this western, an eastern football star inherits the cattle ranch that paid his way through college. Unfortunately, he discovers that much of the fortune has been squandered by an avaricious cattle baron attempting to build an empire of his own. He is stopped by the masked outlaw, El Coyote, who Read More

Devil's Lottery

Actors: Elissa Landi, Victor McLaglen, Alexander Kirkland, Paul Cavanagh, Ralph Morgan

Synopsis: The Calcutta Sweepstakes is the unifying factor of The Devil's Lottery. Among the winners of the sweepstakes are Evelyn (Elissa Landi), the mistress of suave cardsharp Major Hugo Beresford (Paul Cavanaugh), and roughneck ex-boxer Lem Meech (Victor McLaglen), whose mother (Beryl Mercer) insists Read More

While Paris Sleeps

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Helen Mack, William Bakewell, Jack LaRue, Rita La Roy

Synopsis: While Paris Sleeps is a grim expose of the European white slave trade. To save his daughter Manon (Helen Mack) from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard (Victor McLaglen) escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are twofold: he must keep Manon from being abducted Read More

The Stolen Jools

Women of All Nations

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Greta Nissen, El Brendel

Synopsis: Flagg and Quirt, the eternally bickering "friendly enemies" introduced in Lawrence Stallings' WWI play What Price Glory, were at it again in 1931's Women of All Nations. Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe reprise their screen characterizations as pugnacious, girl-crazy marine sergeants Flagg and Read More

Three Rogues

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Fay Wray, Lew Cody, Eddie Gribbon, Robert Warwick

Synopsis: In this western, three disreputable cowboys begin pursuing a beautiful lady because she possesses a map to a valuable gold mine. All three compete to win her hand because by law a wife must share all her belongings with her spouse. Despite their efforts, the woman falls in love with a decent Read More

Wicked

Actors: Elissa Landi, Victor McLaglen, Theodore Von Eltz, Una Merkel, Alan Dinehart

Synopsis: Wicked stars Elissa Landi as Margot Rande, a basically decent woman led down the path to perdition by her bank-robber husband Tony (Theodore Von Eltz). When Tony is cornered by the police, Margot tries to protect him, shooting a policeman in the process. Sentenced to a 20-year prison term, the Read More

Annabelle's Affairs

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Jeanette MacDonald, Roland Young, Sam Hardy, William Collier, Sr.

Synopsis: In this screwball comedy, Annabelle Leigh (Jeanette MacDonald) happily spends the $5,000 sent her each month by her husband, whom she hasn't seen since eleven hours after they were married. She explains to friends that while in Montana, she was injured and cared for by a burly, bearded miner Read More

Dishonored

Actors: Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Lew Cody, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Warner Oland

Synopsis: Contemporary viewers who go into Dishonored expecting a musty, dated espionage melodrama will be in for a surprise. Marlene Dietrich delivers a subtle and witty performance as a Viennese prostitute who offers her services as a spy during WWI. As "Agent X-27" our heroine proves invaluable to her Read More

Hot for Paris

Actors: Victor McLaglen, El Brendel, Polly Moran, Lennox Pawle

Synopsis: In this romance, a none-too-bright sailor (Victor McLaglen) takes a trip to Paris, not realizing he had just won the multi-million dollar prize in a horse lottery. The lotto officials send an agent (Ed Brendel) to find the young sailor and deliver his prize, but he runs away believing he was Read More

Happy Days

Synopsis: Filmed in "Fox Grandeur," an early widescreen process, Happy Days was the immediate follow-up to Fox Studios' Movietone Follies of 1929. Most of the film takes place on the showboat of Mississippi entrepreneur Colonel Billy Batcher (Charles E. Evans). When the Colonel faces foreclosure after Read More

On the Level

Actors: Victor McLaglen, William Harrigan, Lilyan Tashman, Arthur Stone

Synopsis: In this drama, a macho ironworker and his equally tough friend decide to leave New Orleans to work as beam-walkers on a New York City skyscraper. This arouses the ire of his Cajun girlfriend who promptly shoots at him as he walks away and then follows him to the Big Apple where she becomes a Read More

A Devil with Women

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Mona Maris, Humphrey Bogart, Luana Alcaniz, Michael Vavitch

Synopsis: A Devil with Women is the best way to describe soldier-of-fortune Jerry Maxton (Victor McLaglen). At large in South America, Maxton romances anything in skirts, though he seems most attached to fair senorita Rosita (Mona Maris). Unfortunately for his libido, Maxton must contend with a band of Read More

Strong Boy

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Leatrice Joy, John Farrell MacDonald, Clyde Cook, Kent Sanderson

Synopsis: In this comedy drama, an enormous baggage handler earns the reputation of being an all-'round good joe and soon gets promoted. He is in love with Joy, a pretty newsstand girl. Despite his good work, which includes stopping a train robbery, she realizes that her lovable lug will never rise to Read More

The Cock-Eyed World

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Lili Damita, Lelia Karnelly, El Brendel

Synopsis: This sequel to the enormously successful silent film What Price Glory reunites director Raoul Walsh with stars Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe. As in the earlier film, McLaglen and Lowe are cast respectively as Flagg and Quirt, those ever-brawling U.S. Marine sergeants. With WWI but a dim memory Read More

Captain Lash

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Claire Windsor, Arthur Stone, Albert Conti, Clyde Cook

Synopsis: Virile Victor McLaglen goes shirtless throughout most of the late silent Captain Lash. After rescuing wealthy ship's passenger Cora Nevins (Claire Windsor) from a nasty accident in the engine room, Captain Lash -- who despite his "title" is actually the head stoker -- agrees to help Cora smuggle Read More

The Black Watch

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Myrna Loy, David Rollins, Roy D'Arcy, Lumsden Hare, Walter Long

Synopsis: In this early talkie from director John Ford, a Scottish captain and his regiment are sent to India during WW I and assigned to quell a native uprising in the Northern mountains. Unfortunately, soon after arriving, he gets drunk and seemingly kills another officer during a barroom fight. He Read More

The River Pirate

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Lois Moran, Nick Stuart, Earl Foxe, Donald Crisp

Synopsis: One of the first talkies, this film concerns a youth torn between his fatherly gangland mentor and the beautiful, virtuous daughter of a police detective. This film was recently remastered complete with its long-absent talking sequence finale. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

Mother Machree

Actors: Belle Bennett, Philippe DeLacy, Neil Hamilton, Victor McLaglen, Ted McNamara

Synopsis: Technically, Mother Machree was director John Ford's first sound film -- even though the sound was limited to a Fox Movietone musical score and sound-effects track. The story begins in a tiny Irish village at the turn of the century. Having lost her husband to a lightning storm, Ellen McHugh (Belle Bennett Read More

Hangman's House

Actors: Victor McLaglen, June Collyer, Larry Kent, Earl Foxe, Hobart Bosworth

Synopsis: Long believed lost, this fascinating John Ford-directed silent film was rediscovered and restored in the early 1970s. Based on the 1926 novel by Donn Byrne, the film stars Hobart Bosworth as Irish "hanging judge" James O'Brien. Even on his deathbed, O'Brien cannot stop meddling in the affairs of Read More

A Girl in Every Port

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Robert Armstrong, Louise Brooks, Maria Casajuana, Dorothy Mathews, Natalie Joyce, Sally Rand

Synopsis: The rampant male chauvinism in A Girl in Every Port might be hard for contemporary audiences to stomach, but fans of director Howard Hawks will be delighted. Victor McLaglen and Robert Armstrong play Spike and Salami, two sailors who become close pals but only after dukeing it out over a dame. Read More

Loves of Carmen

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Don Alvarado, Victor McLaglen, Nancy Nash

Synopsis: Dolores Del Rio and director Raoul Walsh took on Prosper Mérimée with this sumptuous silent film produced by William Fox and originally tinted lavender. Del Rio was, of course, the gypsy cigar factory worker caught between two men: the bullfighter Escamillo (Victor McLaglen) and the soldier Don Read More

Men of Steel

Actors: Milton Sills, Doris Kenyon, May Allison, Victor McLaglen, Frank Currier

Synopsis: Men of Steel was the last of Milton Sills' four starring films in 1926. Sills plays Jan Bokak, a self-educated steelworker who finds himself in the middle of a romantic triangle. Two different girls -- wealthy socialite Claire Pitt (May Allison) and blue-collar worker Mary Berwick (Doris Kenyon) Read More

The Isle of Retribution

Synopsis: Victor McLaglen (then billed as Victor M'Laglen) easily stole this drama away from its star, Robert Frazer. Frazer's character, Ned Cornet, isn't a particularly attractive hero; he's the weak-willed son of a wealthy man, Godfrey Cornet (David Torrence). The father sends his son northwards to Read More

Beau Geste

Actors: Ronald Colman, Neil Hamilton, Ralph Forbes, Alice Joyce, Mary Brian

Synopsis: Ronald Colman plays the title role in the first of several screen adaptations of Christopher Wren's tale of adventure in the foreign legion. Beau is the youngest of three brothers who fall into an ethical dilemma when their aunt resorts to stealing valuable jewelry from the family's collection to Read More

What Price Glory?

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Dolores Del Rio, William V. Mong, Phyllis Haver

Synopsis: From the minute it opened on Broadway in 1924, Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson's gritty WWI comedy-drama What Price Glory? was a center of controversy. Prudes and blue-noses condemned the play for its explicit language, while a group of politicians tried to bring about a federal action to Read More

Percy

Actors: Don Marion, Louise Dresser, Joseph Kilgour, Charles Ray

Synopsis: Early silent-screen star Charles Ray's career was in a dramatic decline when he starred in this average western melodrama about a sheltered youth who makes his way out West by playing the fiddle. Like so many before and after him, Ray proves his true manliness by foiling the nefarious plans of a Read More

Winds of Chance

Actors: Anna Q. Nilsson, Ben Lyon, Viola Dana, Hobart Bosworth, Victor McLaglen

Synopsis: Frank Lloyd, who directed The Sea Beast, tried to create another epic with this Rex Beach tale of the 1897 gold rush. The story, however, isn't all that interesting, and there are too many important characters that muddy the plot. Pierce Phillips (a miscast Ben Lyon) loses his stake in a shell Read More

The Unholy Three

Actors: Lon Chaney, Mae Busch, Matt Moore, Victor McLaglen, Harry Earles

Synopsis: Although Lon Chaney and director Tod Browning had made a couple of films together earlier in their careers, this unique melodrama marked the beginning of a string of chilling, macabre silent films, which included West of Zanzibar, The Unknown, and The Black Bird. Chaney is Echo, a sideshow Read More

Beloved Brute

Actors: Marguerite de la Motte, William Russell, Mary Alden, Stuart Holmes, Frank Brownlee

Synopsis: English-born character star Victor McLaglen made his Hollywood debut in this highly successful Western melodrama about brothers, separated in early childhood, who wound up as opponents in a side-show wrestling match. There is a dance-hall girl (Marguerite de la Motte) and the usual Western Read More

The Gay Corinthian

Synopsis: A daring young pugilist saves a woman from a terrible fate at the hands of gypsies in this silent British adventure. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Fighting Heart

Synopsis: Track star Frank Merrill stars as Jack Melford in this hackneyed melodrama. Jack wins the track meet at the local college before being notified his father is on his deathbed. He arrives to find his father has died and left all his money to Dr. Delhi (Alphonse Martell), the shady physician who was Read More

Heartstrings

Synopsis: Victor McLaglen plays Frank Wilson, who early in the film is lost at sea. Declared legally dead, Wilson nonetheless returns to his home port after many years. He discovers that his "widow" Norah (Gertrude McCoy) has married a wealthy merchant in order to provide a father for her physically Read More

In the Blood

Synopsis: In this silent British boxing drama, a conniving woman frames her stepson into entering the squared circle in place of his manager father's best fighter. Real life heavyweight champ Victor McLagien plays the title role. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Crimson Circle

Synopsis: In this star-studded British mystery, the title refers to a band of blackmailers who have marked a group of important people for murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Sport of Kings

Synopsis: In this British silent film, future Hollywood star {$Victor McLaglen played a jockey whose winnings pay for a young woman's (Phyllis Shannaw) charity work among the poor. The film was produced by Granger-Davidson, a company that also released programmers featuring Anglo-Chilean actor Adelqui Read More

Carnival

Actors: Matheson Lang, Ivor Novello, Clifford Gray

Synopsis: Silvio Steno (Matheson Lang) is an actor who also manages the theater company that includes his wife Simonetta (Hilda Bayley). While Silvio buries himself in his work, his wife feels neglected. Silvio's best friend Andrea (Ivor Novello) takes a liking to the lonely wife, but Simonetta only wishes Read More

Great Adventure

Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Diana Manners, Gerald Lawrence, Octavia Broske, Alice Crawford, Cecil Humphreys, Doris Rankin, William Luff, Ivo Dawson

Synopsis: Comedy was not the forte of great character actor Lionel Barrymore, and this picture, based on the novel by Arnold Bennett, suffers as a result. When his valet, Henry Leek (Thomas Braidon) dies, famed English artist Priam Farll (Barrymore) takes on his identity to escape the grasping romantic Read More

The Glorious Adventure

Synopsis: Color cinematography was in its very early infancy when filmmaker J. Stuart Blackton made this period drama with an all-British cast. The process used at the time was Prizma, and while the effect was stunning -- primarily because it was such a novelty -- it had a lot of flaws. Red and green Read More