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

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

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