Cast: Tom Powers

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Tom Powers. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Double Indemnity

1944 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Fred MacMurray · Barbara Stanwyck · Edward G. Robinson · Tom Powers

Synopsis Unsuspecting Mr. Dietrichson becomes increasingly accident prone after his icily calculating wife (Barbara Stanwyck) encourages him to sign a double indemnity policy proposed by a smooth-talking insurance agent (Fred MacMurray). Against a backdrop of distinctly California settings, the partners in...

8.4

32K votes

8.4

32K votes

Scene of the Crime

1949 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Van Johnson · Arlene Dahl · Gloria DeHaven · Tom Drake

Synopsis Homicide detective Mike Conovan investigates the shooting of fellow detective Monigan...who apparrently was moonlighting as guard for a bookie. He finds that all the bookies in town are being robbed, most upsetting to the racket bosses who can't get normal...

6.9

40 votes

6.9

40 votes

They Won't Believe Me

1947 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Irving Pichel

Cast Susan Hayward · Robert Young · Jane Greer · Rita Johnson

Synopsis On trial for murder, Larry Ballantyne regurgitates an unbelievable story. He recounts how he philanders to other women while his rich loving wife Gretta tries to keep him in line. According to Larry, his girlfriend Verna dies accidentally in a...

6.7

235 votes

6.7

235 votes

The Steel Trap

1952 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Andrew L. Stone

Cast Joseph Cotten · Teresa Wright · Jonathan Hale · Walter Sande

Synopsis A Bank officer discovers a flaw in the U.S. extradition treaty with Brazil and decides to take advantage of it. On Friday, he steals a million dollars from the bank, knowing it won't be missed until the bank opens on...

6.7

74 votes

6.7

74 votes

The Farmer's Daughter

1947 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction H.C. Potter

Cast Loretta Young · Joseph Cotten · Ethel Barrymore · Charles Bickford

Synopsis Swedish-American farmer's daughter Katrin 'Katie' Holstrom leaves the farm to study nursing in the big, wicked city. Thanks to a chiseling acquaintance, her tuition and expense money disappears the first day, and she's forced to get a job...as a domestic...

6.5

201 votes

6.5

201 votes

The Blue Dahlia

1946 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Alan Ladd · Veronica Lake · William Bendix · Howard Da Silva

Synopsis When Johnny comes home from the navy he finds his wife Helen kissing her substitute boyfriend Eddie, the owner of the Blue Dahlia nightclub. Helen admits her drunkenness caused their son's death. He pulls a gun on her but decides...

6.5

797 votes

6.5

797 votes

Two Years Before the Mast

1946 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction John Farrow

Cast Alan Ladd · Brian Donlevy · William Bendix · Barry Fitzgerald

Synopsis The playboy son of a wealthy shipping magnate discovers at first hand the desperate privations suffered by the crew of one of his fathers ships when he is unwillingly pressganged aboard.

6.2

24 votes

6.2

24 votes

Chicago Deadline

1949 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Allen

Cast Alan Ladd · Donna Reed · June Havoc · Irene Hervey

Synopsis On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Ames comes to know...

6.0

52 votes

6.0

52 votes

5.9

128 votes

Angel and the Badman

1947 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction James Edward Grant

Cast John Wayne · Gail Russell · Harry Carey · Bruce Cabot

Synopsis Quirt Evans (John Wayne) an all round bad guy is nursed back to health and sought after by Penelope Worth ((Gail Russell) a quaker girl. He eventually finds himself having to choose from his world or the world from which...

5.8

553 votes

5.8

553 votes

Destination Moon

1950 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Irving Pichel

Cast John Archer · Warner Anderson · Tom Powers · Dick Wesson

Synopsis A private businessman arranges for an expedition to the moon before the Russians get there first. The American astronauts fly there, establish a base, but are not certain they have enough fuel to return to Earth.

5.7

390 votes

5.7

390 votes

Station West

1948 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

5.6

96 votes

5.6

96 votes

Right Cross

1950 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction John Sturges

Cast June Allyson · Dick Powell · Ricardo Montalban · Lionel Barrymore

Synopsis Prizefighter Johnny is in love with his promoter O'Malley's daughter Pat. His best friend, sports reporter Rick, is also in love with her but knows that she loves Johnny. Lonely Rick takes up drinking and women (including Marilyn Monroe in...

5.4

22 votes

5.4

22 votes

The Nevadan

1950 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast Randolph Scott · Dorothy Malone · Forrest Tucker · Frank Faylen

Synopsis A U.S. Marshall tries to recover stolen gold.

5.4

100 votes

5.4

100 votes

Denver and Rio Grande

1952 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Byron Haskin

Cast Sterling Hayden · Edmond O'Brien · Dean Jagger · Laura Elliott

Synopsis Edmond O'Brien and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less...

5.3

143 votes

5.3

143 votes

The Americano

1955 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction William Castle

Cast Glenn Ford · Frank Lovejoy · Cesar Romero · Ursula Thiess

Synopsis Glenn Ford stars in this lush and unusual "south-western" as Sam Dent, a rancher who travels to South America to deliver a shipment of bulls to a Brazilian ranch owner. The troubles are many for this brave Yankee as he...

5.1

165 votes

5.1

165 votes

Ten Wanted Men

1955 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast Randolph Scott · Jocelyn Brando · Richard Boone · Alfonso Bedoya

Synopsis Randolph Scott is tall in the saddle once more in the Scott-Brown production Ten Wanted Men. The star is cast as John Stewart, who attempts to establish law and order on his vast Arizona spread without resorting to violence. Less...

5.1

183 votes

5.1

183 votes

Daisy Doodad's Dial (S)

1914 · Movie · 9 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Laurence Trimble

Cast Florence Turner · Tom Powers

Synopsis Daisy enters a face-pulling competition, but on the big day she falls victim to toothache. When her husband returns from the contest triumphant, the distinctly unladylike Daisy vows revenge in the next competition. But her impromptu rehearsal on a train...

5.0

37 votes

5.0

37 votes

A Cure for Pokeritis (S)

1912 · Movie · 13 min. · United States

Direction Laurence Trimble

Cast John Bunny · Flora Finch · Leah Baird · Charles Eldridge

Synopsis Mr. Brown loves to play poker, but he usually loses. After another losing night of cards, he promises his wife that he'll never play again, but then one of his friends helps him pretend that he is just going to...

4.8

29 votes

4.8

29 votes

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