Cast: Ruth Roman

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


Strangers on a Train

1951 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Farley Granger · Ruth Roman · Robert Walker · Leo G. Carroll

Synopsis En route from Washington D.C., champion tennis player Guy Haines (Farley Granger) meets pushy playboy Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker). What begins as a chance encounter turns into a series of morbid confrontations, as Bruno manipulates his way into Guys life....

7.8

21K votes

7.8

21K votes

The Far Country

1954 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast James Stewart · Ruth Roman · Corinne Calvet · Walter Brennan

Synopsis One of the best Mann/Stewart Westerns of the '50s with a refreshing Yukon setting. Stewart drives cattle north on an arduous trek to Alaska. When he reaches his destination, his pay-off for his trouble is double-cross and violence.

7.5

5K votes

7.5

5K votes

Champion

1949 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Kirk Douglas · Marilyn Maxwell · Arthur Kennedy · Paul Stewart

Synopsis An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up. One of the all-time great boxing movies. Academy Award Nominations: 6, including Actor--Kirk Douglas, Best Screenplay. Academy...

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

7.2

5K votes

Beyond the Forest

1949 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast Bette Davis · Joseph Cotten · David Brian · Ruth Roman

Synopsis Rosa Moline is bored with life in a small town. She loves Chicago industrialist Neil Latimer who has a hunting lodge nearby. Rosa squeezes her husband's patients to pay their bills so she can visit Chicago; her husband's patience is...

6.9

599 votes

6.9

599 votes

The Big Clock

1948 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction John Farrow

Cast Ray Milland · Charles Laughton · Maureen O'Sullivan · George Macready

Synopsis Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its...

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

The Window

1949 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Ted Tetzlaff

Cast Barbara Hale · Bobby Driscoll · Arthur Kennedy · Paul Stewart

Synopsis Young Tommy Woodry gets used to telling fantastic but harmless lies to his family and friends because he's bored. They get used to it. That's unfortunate for Tommy, because almost no one will believe him when he says his neighbours...

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6.9

658 votes

6.9

658 votes

Tomorrow Is Another Day

1951 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Felix E. Feist

Cast Ruth Roman · Steve Cochran · Lurene Tuttle · Ray Teal

Synopsis A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the outside world and escape his lurid past. He gets involved with a cheap dancehall girl, and when her protector is accidentally...

6.8

101 votes

6.8

101 votes

Bitter Victory

1957 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast Richard Burton · Curd Jürgens · Ruth Roman · Raymond Pellegrin

Synopsis Director Nicholas Ray's acclaimed mix of war drama and character study stars Richard Burton as a WWII British army officer sent to North Africa to help major Curt Jurgens and his men execute a raid on Rommel's Libyan headquarters. Complicating...

6.7

533 votes

6.7

533 votes

6.7

667 votes

Blowing Wild

1953 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Fregonese

Cast Gary Cooper · Barbara Stanwyck · Ruth Roman · Anthony Quinn

Synopsis Jeff Dawson (Gary Cooper) is a hapless oil speculator in South America whose misadventures reunite him with an old friend, Ward 'Paco' Conway (Anthony Quinn). Unfortunately for Jeff, Paco's wife is bad-news, man-eating Marina (Barbara Stanwyck), the lover Jeff ran...

6.6

316 votes

6.6

316 votes

Since You Went Away

1944 · Movie · 172 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Claudette Colbert · Jennifer Jones · Joseph Cotten · Shirley Temple

Synopsis While husband Tim is away during World War II, Anne Hilton copes with problems on the homefront. Taking in a lodger, Colonel Smollett, to help make ends meet and dealing with shortages and rationing are minor inconveniences compared to the...

6.6

433 votes

6.6

433 votes

Rebel in Town

1956 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Alfred L. Werker

Cast John Payne · Ruth Roman · J. Carrol Naish · Ben Cooper

Synopsis Ex-Confederate Bedloe Mason and his four sons ride into a small Western town with robbery in mind. Hearing a suspicious "click," Wes Mason whirls and shoots dead a boy playing with a cap pistol. The Mason clan then flees but...

6.5

58 votes

6.5

58 votes

Three Secrets

1950 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Eleanor Parker · Patricia Neal · Ruth Roman · Frank Lovejoy

Synopsis A five-year-old-boy survives a plane crash in which his foster parents die. During the search for him, three women turn up, Susan, Phyllis and Ann, each of whom had given up a son to adoption five years earlier and believes...

6.5

240 votes

6.5

240 votes

The Bottom of the Bottle

1956 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Van Johnson · Joseph Cotten · Ruth Roman · Jack Carson

Synopsis Patrick Martin (Joseph Cotten), known as P.M., is a wealthy attorney and rancher big-man-in-town in the border town of Nogales, Arizona. He returns home to find his brother Donald (Van Johnson) hiding in his garage. A former drunkard, Donald had...

6.5

242 votes

6.5

242 votes

Good Sam

1948 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Gary Cooper · Ann Sheridan · Ray Collins · Edmund Lowe

Synopsis Sam Clayton has a good heart and likes to help out people in need. In fact, he likes to help them out so much that he often finds himself broke and unable to help his own family buy the things...

6.4

181 votes

6.4

181 votes

Down Three Dark Streets

1954 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Arnold Laven

Cast Broderick Crawford · Ruth Roman · Martha Hyer · Marisa Pavan

Synopsis When FBI Agent Zack Stewart is killed, Agent John Ripley takes over the three cases he was working on, hoping one will lead to his killer. The first involves gangster Joe Walpo and Ripley finds his hideout through Joe's girl...

6.2

90 votes

6.2

90 votes

Joe MacBeth

1955 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Ken Hughes

Cast Paul Douglas · Ruth Roman · Bonar Colleano · Grégoire Aslan

Synopsis Shakespeare (more-or-less) in modern gangster setting. Lily MacBeth pushes her husband Joe to rub out the reigning crime boss and become the new "kingpin" himself. Success is short- lived, however, as he confronts Lennie, a mobster whose father and wife...

6.2

31 votes

6.2

31 votes

6.2

184 votes

Dallas

1950 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Heisler

Cast Gary Cooper · Ruth Roman · Steve Cochran · Raymond Massey

Synopsis A former Confederate guerrilla officer (Gary Cooper) arrives in Dallas, Texas, seeking revenge on the three brothers who ravaged his home and lands.

6.0

477 votes

6.0

477 votes