Cast: Frank DeKova

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


The Man from Laramie

1955 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast James Stewart · Arthur Kennedy · Donald Crisp · Aline MacMahon

Plot Mysterious Will Lockhart delivers supplies to storekeeper Barbara Waggoman at Coronado, an isolated town in Apache country. Before long, he's tangled with Dave Waggoman, vicious son of autocratic rancher Alec...

7.5

4K votes

7.5

4K votes

Reprisal!

1956 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction George Sherman

Cast Guy Madison · Felicia Farr · Kathryn Grant · Michael Pate

Plot New ranch owner Frank Madden, half Indian but posing as white, arrives just as an all white jury finds the three white Shipley brothers who lynched three Indians innocent. There...

7.4

55 votes

7.4

55 votes

The Ten Commandments

1956 · Movie · 219 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Charlton Heston · Yul Brynner · Anne Baxter · Edward G. Robinson

Plot To escape the edict of Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, condemning all first-born Hebrew males, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the...

7.3

17K votes

7.3

17K votes

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond

1960 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Budd Boetticher

Cast Ray Danton · Karen Steele · Elaine Stewart · Jesse White

Plot Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewellery thieves. After a spell in jail the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from...

7.2

660 votes

7.2

660 votes

The Brothers Karamazov

1958 · Movie · 146 min. · United States

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Yul Brynner · Claire Bloom · Maria Schell · Lee J. Cobb

Plot This epic 19th-century Russian tale is based on the critically acclaimed novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Four very different brothers growing up in a rural village in tsarist Russia plot against...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Split Second

1953 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Dick Powell

Cast Stephen McNally · Alexis Smith · Jan Sterling · Keith Andes

Plot Sam Hurley, "Nation's No. 1 killer" with a cold contempt for "heroes," escapes prison with two companions and takes a mixed bag of hostages to Nevada ghost town Lost Hope...

6.5

34 votes

6.5

34 votes

Cowboy

1958 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Delmer Daves

Cast Glenn Ford · Jack Lemmon · Brian Donlevy · Anna Kashfi

Plot Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece...

6.3

648 votes

6.3

648 votes

Run of the Arrow

1957 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Samuel Fuller

Cast Rod Steiger · Sara Montiel · Brian Keith · Ralph Meeker

Plot When the South loses the war, Confederate veteran O'Meara goes West, joins the Sioux, takes a wife and refuses to be an American but he must choose a side when...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

King of the Khyber Rifles

1953 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

6.1

277 votes

6.1

277 votes

Passion

1954 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

5.9

206 votes

5.9

206 votes

The Mechanic

1972 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Michael Winner

Cast Charles Bronson · Jan-Michael Vincent · Keenan Wynn · Jill Ireland

Plot Arthur Bishop (Charles Bronson) is the mechanic, a hit man hired by the Organization (a Mafia-life firm) as its own assassin. Bishop's contact to the Organization is Harry, a long...

5.8

904 votes

5.8

904 votes

Drum Beat

1954 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Delmer Daves

Cast Alan Ladd · Audrey Dalton · Marisa Pavan · Robert Keith

Plot President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and southern Oregon. On the way he must escort Nancy Meek to the home of her...

5.8

506 votes

5.8

506 votes

Strange Lady in Town

1955 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

5.8

83 votes

5.8

83 votes

Machine Gun Kelly

1958 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Roger Corman

Cast Charles Bronson · Susan Cabot · Morey Amsterdam · Richard Devon

Plot Machine-Gun Kelly, the famous bank robber, seldom without his Thompson machine gun. The story opens with great jazzy music and a murder shown in shadows. His moll is the driving...

5.7

114 votes

5.7

114 votes

The Jayhawkers!

1959 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Melvin Frank

Cast Jeff Chandler · Fess Parker · Nicole Maurey · Henry Silva

Plot In the maelstrom of Pre-Civil War Kansas, a government agent infiltrates the vigilante group called the Jayhawks.

5.6

89 votes

5.6

89 votes

The Lone Ranger

1956 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Heisler

Cast Clayton Moore · Jay Silverheels · Lyle Bettger · Bonita Granville

Plot The Kilgore's start a mining company on Indian territory, and the Indians aren't happy about it. The Lone Ranger must fight the savages and find away to make peace in...

5.6

94 votes

5.6

94 votes

They Rode West

1954 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast Robert Francis · Donna Reed · May Wynn · Phil Carey

Plot Dr. Allen Seward is assigned to a western cavalry post where his predecessors had been drunks and slackers. The post doesn't take kindly to him either, especially after he disregards...

5.3

87 votes

5.3

87 votes

Teenage Cave Man

1958 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Roger Corman

Cast Robert Vaughn · Darah Marshall · Leslie Bradley · Charles P. Thompson

Plot Robert Vaughn stars as a white 35 year old teenage caveman with styled hair who seeks to discover what is in the uncharted jungles beyond his tribe's campsite. It is...

5.1

340 votes

5.1

340 votes

Atlantis, the Lost Continent

1961 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction George Pal

Cast Sal Ponti · Joyce Taylor · John Dall · William Smith

Plot While at sea, the Greek fisherman Dmitrius (Sal Ponti, as Anthony Hall) finds a girl adrift and rescues her. She claims to be Antilea (Joyce Taylor), a Princess of Atlantis....

5.1

142 votes

5.1

142 votes

Raiders of the Seven Seas

1953 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Salkow

Cast John Payne · Donna Reed · Gerald Mohr · Lon Chaney Jr.

Plot Barbarossa, a pirate, frees a group of Spanish prisoners and makes them his crew. On a raid, he takes as a prize a Spanish countess, Alida. He has fallen in...

4.8

67 votes

4.8

67 votes