Cast: Basil Ruysdael

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


Colorado Territory

1949 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Joel McCrea · Virginia Mayo · Dorothy Malone · Henry Hull

Synopsis Outlaw Wes McQueen is sprung from jail to help pull one last railroad job. He doesn't like his new partners - except dance-hall girl Colorado - and anyway fancies Julie Ann newly arrived from the east to set up home...

7.6

2K votes

7.6

2K votes

Carrie

1952 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Laurence Olivier · Jennifer Jones · Miriam Hopkins · Eddie Albert

Synopsis When Carrie steps onto the train that will take her to Chicago, she regards the trip as a grand adventure. But her glorious dreams of the big city quickly die, for all that awaits Carrie there is a bleak life...

7.2

703 votes

7.2

703 votes

Broken Arrow

1950 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Delmer Daves

Cast James Stewart · Jeff Chandler · Debra Paget · Will Geer

Synopsis By 1870, there has been 10 years of cruel war between settlers and Cochise's Apaches. Ex-soldier Tom Jeffords saves the life of an Apache boy and starts to wonder if Indians are human, after all; soon, he determines to use...

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

The File on Thelma Jordon

1949 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Wendell Corey · Paul Kelly · Joan Tetzel

Synopsis Thelma Jordon, late one night, shows up in the office of married Assistant DA Cleve Marshall. Before Cleve can stop himself, he and Thelma are involved in an illicit affair. But Thelma is a mysterious woman, and Cleve can't help...

6.9

511 votes

6.9

511 votes

Jubal

1956 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Delmer Daves

Cast Glenn Ford · Ernest Borgnine · Rod Steiger · Valerie French

Synopsis Ford plays a drifter who is rescued, then hired as ramrod, by rancher Ernest Borgnine, thereby stimulating the erotic interest of Borgnine's sexy young wife (Valerie French) and the Iago-like resentment of the former top hand (Rod Steiger).

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

People Will Talk

1951 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Cary Grant · Jeanne Crain · Finlay Currie · Hume Cronyn

Synopsis Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius's unorthodox medical views and also questions his relationship with the mysterious, ever-present Mr. Shunderson. Fuel is added to the...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

The Violent Men

1955 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Rudolph Maté

Cast Glenn Ford · Barbara Stanwyck · Edward G. Robinson · Dianne Foster

Synopsis Crippled cattle baron Lew Wilkison causes nothing but trouble for the peaceful landowners living in his valley. Wilkison wants every spot in the region for himself and he'll do anything to drive away all the newcomers, who include John Parrish....

6.7

692 votes

6.7

692 votes

The Cocoanuts

1929 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Santley · Robert Florey

Cast The Marx Brothers · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx

Synopsis Mr. Hammer runs a bankrupt Florida hotel. He'll try anything to make money, even make love to rich Mrs. Potter. But his main scheme, selling real estate, is in danger of sabotage from zanies Chico and Harpo, who also reduce...

6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

My Forbidden Past

1951 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Robert Mitchum · Ava Gardner · Melvyn Douglas · Lucile Watson

Synopsis Barbara Beaurevel lives with her aunt and cousin in New Orleans in the late 1800's. In love with Mark Lucas, a research doctor at Tulane University, her plans to marry him are thwarted. Barbara's family is of the high society...

6.2

289 votes

6.2

289 votes

One Way Street

1950 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Fregonese

Cast James Mason · Märta Torén · Dan Duryea · Basil Ruysdael

Synopsis After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico.

6.2

48 votes

6.2

48 votes

Boots Malone

1952 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast William Holden · Stanley Clements · Basil Ruysdael · Carl Benton Reid

Synopsis Boots Malone is jockey's agent and a bit of a wheeler-dealer who went from living at the Ritz to living in a room at the stables when his star jockey was killed in an accident. After nearly three years, he...

6.1

21 votes

6.1

21 votes

Come to the Stable

1949 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Loretta Young · Celeste Holm · Hugh Marlowe · Elsa Lanchester

Synopsis Two nuns from a French convent arrive in a small New England town with a plan to build a children's hospital. They enlist the help of several colorful characters in achieving their dream including a struggling artist, a popular composer,...

6.0

62 votes

6.0

62 votes

The Scarf

1951 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Ewald André Dupont

Cast John Ireland · Mercedes McCambridge · James Barton · Emlyn Williams

Synopsis An escaped mental patient tries to prove he's not a serial killer.

5.9

28 votes

5.9

28 votes

Gambling House

1950 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Ted Tetzlaff

Cast Victor Mature · Terry Moore · William Bendix · Zachary Charles

Synopsis Small time racketeer Marc Fury agrees to plead self-defense for a murder committed by gang boss Joe Farrow in exchange for Farrow's I.O.U. for $50,000. He is acquitted but is ordered deported by immigration authorities unless he can convince the...

5.8

71 votes

5.8

71 votes

Direction Norman Foster

Cast Fess Parker · Buddy Ebsen · Basil Ruysdael · Hans Conried

Synopsis Legends (and myths) from the life of famed American frontiersman Davey Crockett are depicted in this feature film edited from television episodes. Crockett and his friend George Russell fight in the Creek Indian War. Then Crockett is elected to Congress...

5.2

66 votes

5.2

66 votes

Pearl of the South Pacific

1955 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Virginia Mayo · Dennis Morgan · David Farrar · Murvyn Vye

Synopsis Phony missionary Virginia Mayo, in cahoots with crooks Dennis Morgan and David Farrar, plan to steal a fortune in black pearls from the unsuspecting islanders. They soon discover these pearls rest in an underwater shrine guarded by a giant octopus,...

5.2

142 votes

5.2

142 votes

The Shanghai Story

1954 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Ruth Roman · Edmond O'Brien · Richard Jaeckel · Barry Kelley

Synopsis Too many years in the Orient have made a bitter man of Dr. Dan Maynard (Edmond O'Brien), an American surgeon, and too little emotional stability has tarnished the Tangier-born Rita King (Ruth Roman). They meet when a night-raid by Shanghai's...

5.0

43 votes

5.0

43 votes

The Doctor and the Girl

1949 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Glenn Ford · Charles Coburn · Gloria DeHaven · Janet Leigh

Synopsis Dr. Michael Corday, a recent graduate of the Harvard Medical School, is the son of Dr. John Corday, an eminent New York City surgeon who has a tendency to continue to direct the lives of his grown children. The daughter,...

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Half Angel

1951 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Richard Sale

Cast Loretta Young · Joseph Cotten · Cecil Kellaway · Basil Ruysdael

Synopsis Nora Gilpin is a demure nurse, who has just become engaged to her long-time beau, Tim. She is also secretly fighting her attraction to attorney, John Raymond, whom she insists she dislikes. However, at night, she sleepwalks and adopts a...

Not rated

Not rated

These Wilder Years

1956 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast James Cagney · Barbara Stanwyck · Walter Pidgeon · Betty Lou Keim

Synopsis Successful middle-aged businessman Steve Bradford returns to the town where he attended college many years previously. His conscience has been bothering him since whilst a student, he fathered an illegitimate son who was given away to the local orphanage. He...

Not rated

Not rated