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Synopsis: In one of his final performances, Oscar-winning character actor Victor McLaglen is cast as Mike O'Hare, the two-fisted engineer overseeing the construction of a new dam. Insisting that the dam will seriously endanger the local water supply, wealthy landowner Henry Ritchie (Herbert Rudley) hires Read More
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 that shameless scenery-chewer Orson Welles. Introducing Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Actors: Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Rosemary Ames, Mary Carlisle, Henry O'N