Cast: Alan Ladd
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Alan Ladd. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Citizen Kane
1941 · Movie · 119 min. · United States
Direction Orson Welles
Cast Orson Welles · Joseph Cotten · Everett Sloane · George Coulouris
Plot The story charts the rise and fall of a newpaper publisher whose wealth and power ultimately isolate him in his castle-like refuge. The last word he utters before his death...
8.2
77K votes
8.2
77K votes
Shane
1953 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction George Stevens
Cast Alan Ladd · Jean Arthur · Van Heflin · Brandon De Wilde
Plot George Stevens' classic Western, adaptated from the Jack Schaefer novel, stars Alan Ladd in the title role. Riding the ranges of Wyoming's Grand Tetons, Shane stops at the farm of...
7.7
11K votes
7.7
11K votes
This Gun for Hire
1942 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Frank Tuttle
Cast Alan Ladd · Veronica Lake · Robert Preston · Laird Cregar
Plot Hit man Philip Raven, who's kind to children and cats, kills a blackmailer and is paid off by traitor Willard Gates in "hot" money. Meanwhile, pert entertainer Ellen Graham, girlfriend...
6.9
1K votes
6.9
1K votes
The Carpetbaggers
1963 · Movie · 150 min. · United States
Direction Edward Dmytryk
Cast George Peppard · Carroll Baker · Alan Ladd · Robert Cummings
Plot George Peppard plays a hard-driven industrialist more than a little reminiscent of Howard Hughes. While he builds airplanes, directs movies and breaks hearts, his friends and lovers try to reach...
6.6
419 votes
6.6
419 votes
Souls at Sea
1937 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Henry Hathaway
Cast Gary Cooper · George Raft · Frances Dee · Henry Wilcoxon
Plot Cooper and Raft save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about slave trade on the high seas in 1842.
6.6
391 votes
6.6
391 votes
The Blue Dahlia
1946 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction George Marshall
Cast Alan Ladd · Veronica Lake · William Bendix · Howard Da Silva
Plot 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...
6.5
797 votes
6.5
797 votes
The Glass Key
1942 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Stuart Heisler
Cast Brian Donlevy · Veronica Lake · Alan Ladd · Bonita Granville
Plot Dashiel Hammett's The Glass Key, a tale of big-city political corruption, was first filmed in 1935, with Edward Arnold as a duplicitous political boss and George Raft as his loyal...
6.4
618 votes
6.4
618 votes
And Now Tomorrow
1944 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Irving Pichel
Cast Alan Ladd · Loretta Young · Susan Hayward · Barry Sullivan
Plot Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum to cure deafness which he tries on Emily. It doesn't work....
6.4
22 votes
6.4
22 votes
The Proud Rebel
1958 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast Alan Ladd · Olivia de Havilland · Dean Jagger · David Ladd
Plot Just after the Civil War, proud rebel Alan Ladd doggedly wanders the land looking for a doctor who can cure his mute son. The warmth of a father's love and...
6.3
610 votes
6.3
610 votes
Saigon
1948 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Leslie Fenton
Cast Alan Ladd · Veronica Lake · Douglas Dick · Wally Cassell
Plot After World War II Larry learns that his flying buddy Mike will only live a short time despite the efforts of the doctors. He takes on a profitable flying job...
6.3
33 votes
6.3
33 votes
One Foot in Hell
1960 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction James B. Clark
Cast Alan Ladd · Don Murray · Dan O'Herlihy · Dolores Michaels
Plot Mitch Garrett becomes embittered because his wife is allowed to die when he can't pay for the medicine she needs. The remorseful townspeople hire Mitch to be a deputy sheriff,...
6.2
173 votes
6.2
173 votes
Saskatchewan
1954 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast Alan Ladd · Shelley Winters · Jay Silverheels · Robert Douglas
6.2
588 votes
6.2
588 votes
Joan of Paris
1942 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Robert Stevenson
Cast Michèle Morgan · Paul Henreid · Thomas Mitchell · Laird Cregar
Plot An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers get to Paris in spite of the fact that the youngest, Baby, is injured. He must be hidden and...
6.2
67 votes
6.2
67 votes
Two Years Before the Mast
1946 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction John Farrow
Cast Alan Ladd · Brian Donlevy · William Bendix · Barry Fitzgerald
Plot 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...
6.2
24 votes
6.2
24 votes
Branded
1950 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Rudolph Maté
Cast Alan Ladd · Mona Freeman · Charles Bickford · Robert Keith
Plot Ladd plays Choya, a bandit who poses as the long-lost son of a wealthy Texas rancher. Shamed by the kindness of his new family and attracted to his lovely "sister,"...
6.1
318 votes
6.1
318 votes
The Badlanders
1958 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Delmer Daves
Cast Alan Ladd · Ernest Borgnine · Katy Jurado · Anthony Caruso
Plot Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, the Dutchman, is out to get both gold and revenge from the people of a small...
6.1
453 votes
6.1
453 votes
Thunder in the East
1952 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Charles Vidor
Cast Alan Ladd · Deborah Kerr · Charles Boyer · Corinne Calvet
Plot During India's first years of independence from Britain, Steve Gibbs lands his armaments loaded plane in Ghandahar province hoping to get rich. Pacifist Prime Minister Singh hopes to reach an...
6.1
43 votes
6.1
43 votes
Captain Carey, U.S.A.
1950 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Alan Ladd · Wanda Hendrix · Francis Lederer · Joseph Calleia
Plot Webb Carey returns to Orta, near Milan, to find out who betrayed his World War II O.S.S. team and caused the death of several villagers. His old love Julie, whom...
6.1
119 votes
6.1
119 votes
Botany Bay
1952 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction John Farrow
Cast Alan Ladd · James Mason · Patricia Medina · Cedric Hardwicke
6.1
159 votes
6.1
159 votes
The Black Cat
1941 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Albert S. Rogell
Cast Basil Rathbone · Hugh Herbert · Broderick Crawford · Bela Lugosi
Plot Greedy heirs gather to wait for the death of Henrietta Winslow. Murder, thunder claps, howling cats, gun shots, screams in the night, hidden passages -- all the proper ingredients.
6.1
129 votes
6.1
129 votes