Cast: Edward Platt

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


North by Northwest

1959 · Movie · 136 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Cary Grant · Eva Marie Saint · James Mason · Martin Landau

Plot Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Suddenly, the hapless businessman is targeted as an American intelligence agent and set up as a...

8.3

68K votes

8.3

68K votes

Cape Fear

1962 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast Gregory Peck · Robert Mitchum · Polly Bergen · Lori Martin

Plot Small-town lawyer Sam Bowden's life becomes torturous when Max Cady re-enters his life. Cady went to jail for 8 years after Bowden testified that Cady attacked a young woman. Now...

7.5

8K votes

7.5

8K 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

Designing Woman

1957 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Gregory Peck · Lauren Bacall · Dolores Gray · Tom Helmore

Plot On a vacation, sports journalist Mike meets designer Marilla. They fall in love and marry right away. However back at home they realize that they're living in different worlds and...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

I Was a Male War Bride

1949 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Cary Grant · Ann Sheridan · Marion Marshall · Randy Stuart

Plot Captain Henri Rochard (Cary Grant) is a French officer assigned to work with Lieut. Catherine Gates (Ann Sheridan). Through a wacky series of misadventures, they fall in love and marry....

7.0

3K votes

7.0

3K votes

Rebel Without a Cause

1955 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast James Dean · Natalie Wood · Sal Mineo · Jim Backus

Plot Jim Stark's family has just moved to the suburbs of Los Angeles. He meets Plato, and Judy, whom he likes. He somehow gets mixed up with some tough guys who...

7.0

18K votes

7.0

18K votes

Get Smart (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 20 min. · United States

Direction Buck Henry · Mel Brooks · Gary Nelson · Bruce Bilson

Cast Don Adams · Barbara Feldon · Edward Platt · Robert Karvelas

Plot TV Series (1965-1970). 5 Seasons. 138 Episodes. Mel Brooks and Buck Henry created this show as a spoof of James Bond and the many TV imitators that followed in 007's...

6.9

9K votes

6.9

9K votes

Gunman's Walk

1958 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast Van Heflin · Tab Hunter · Kathryn Grant · James Darren

Plot Rancher Lee Hackett is one of the old breed, used to making his own laws and settling things with a gun. He has tried to make his two sons in...

6.7

330 votes

6.7

330 votes

Illegal

1955 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Allen

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Nina Foch · Hugh Marlowe · Jayne Mansfield

Plot After an overly aggressive district attorney unknowingly sends an innocent man to the chair, he resigns, turns to drink, and acquires a criminal clientele. Remake of "The Man Who Talked...

6.7

269 votes

6.7

269 votes

The Twilight Zone: A Hundred Yards Over the Rim (TV)

1961 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Buzz Kulik

Cast Cliff Robertson · John Crawford · Evans Evans · Edward Platt

Plot A pioneer from a wagon train in 1847 sets off to find something for his ill son and stumbles into present day New Mexico.

6.6

88 votes

6.6

88 votes

Storm Center

1956 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Daniel Taradash

Cast Bette Davis · Brian Keith · Kim Hunter · Paul Kelly

Plot A small-town librarian is branded as a Communist by local politicians when she refuses to withdraw a controversial book from the library's shelves.

6.5

128 votes

6.5

128 votes

The Proud Ones

1956 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Robert D. Webb

Cast Robert Ryan · Virginia Mayo · Jeffrey Hunter · Robert Middleton

Plot Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a...

6.4

298 votes

6.4

298 votes

Backlash

1956 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction John Sturges

Cast Richard Widmark · Donna Reed · William Campbell · John McIntire

Plot Jim Slater's father (whom he never knew) died in the Apache ambush at Gila Valley, and Jim is searching for the one survivor, who supposedly went for help but disappeared...

6.4

609 votes

6.4

609 votes

The Tattered Dress

1957 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Jack Arnold

Cast Jeff Chandler · Jeanne Crain · Jack Carson · Gail Russell

Plot After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen (Elaine Stewart) comes home with her ripe young body barely concealed by a dress in rags; she claims being sexually...

6.4

45 votes

6.4

45 votes

The Unguarded Moment

1956 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Harry Keller

Cast Esther Williams · George Nader · John Saxon · Edward Andrews

Plot A woman has recently been murdered. A teacher at the nearby high school receives threatening notes from a student. Detective Graham is the only one who believes that she is...

6.3

31 votes

6.3

31 votes

House of Numbers

1957 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Russell Rouse

Cast Jack Palance · Harold J. Stone · Edward Platt · Barbara Lang

Plot Arnie Judlow, an inmate at San Quentin prison serving a life sentence for murder, devises a daring plan with his wife and his brother Bill to help him escape, part...

6.2

38 votes

6.2

38 votes

Pollyanna

1960 · Movie · 134 min. · United States

Direction David Swift

Cast Hayley Mills · Jane Wyman · Richard Egan · Karl Malden

Plot A little girl comes to a town that is embattled by feuds and intimidated by her aunt. By the time she must leave, she has transformed the community with her...

6.2

444 votes

6.2

444 votes

The Helen Morgan Story

1957 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Ann Blyth · Paul Newman · Richard Carlson · Gene Evans

Plot The 1920's and 30's career of singer Helen Morgan is followed from her early days singing outdoors in a carnival, through her speak-easy and chorus-girl days, to her stardom on...

6.1

159 votes

6.1

159 votes

The Last of the Fast Guns

1958 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction George Sherman

Cast Jock Mahoney · Gilbert Roland · Linda Cristal · Eduard Franz

Plot On a mission to find a missing man in Mexico, gunfighter Brad Ellison learns that life is not as simple as it used to be.

6.1

138 votes

6.1

138 votes

The Gift of Love

1958 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Lauren Bacall · Robert Stack · Evelyn Rudie · Lorne Greene

Plot Physicist Bill Beck meets and marries doctor's receptionist Julie. Five happy years later, she develops a heart condition. Afraid of leaving Bill alone by her premature demise, Julie adopts a...

5.6

90 votes

5.6

90 votes