Cast: John Alvin

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


Irma la Douce

1963 · Movie · 142 min. · United States

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Jack Lemmon · Shirley MacLaine · Lou Jacobi · Bruce Yarnell

Synopsis The film version of Irma La Douce (which means "Irma the Sweet") tells the story of Nestor Patou (Jack Lemmon), an honest policeman who finds a street full of prostitutes in a popular area in Paris. After reporting the ladies...

7.9

33K votes

7.9

33K votes

Objective Burma!

1945 · Movie · 142 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Errol Flynn · James Brown · William Prince · George Tobias

Synopsis A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken...

7.2

9K votes

7.2

9K votes

The Sullivans

1944 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Anne Baxter · Thomas Mitchell · Selena Royle · Edward Ryan

Synopsis The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and of World War II and their eventual deaths in action in the Pacific theater are chronicled in this film based...

6.6

53 votes

6.6

53 votes

Somewhere in Time

1980 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Jeannot Szwarc

Cast Christopher Reeve · Christopher Plummer · Jane Seymour · Teresa Wright

Synopsis Richard Collier (Reeve) is a playwright from the late 1970s who is approached by a strange old woman. Lovingly and reverently, she places a gold pocketwatch into Richard's hand and utters four cryptic words: "Come back to me," before she...

6.4

2K votes

6.4

2K votes

The Beast with Five Fingers

1946 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Peter Lorre · Robert Alda · Andrea King · Victor Francen

Synopsis Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where several murders have taken place. The alleged killer: the pianist's severed hand.

6.3

237 votes

6.3

237 votes

Direction Lesli Linka Glatter

Cast Leo Penn · Joyce Van Patten · Nicholas Pryor · John Alvin

Synopsis An elderly college janitor amazes himself, his wife and the scientific community when his brain turns into a sponge that soaks up more and more incredible knowledge of every subject taught at the school - until a shocking event changes...

5.7

218 votes

5.7

218 votes

San Antonio

1945 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction David Butler

Cast Errol Flynn · Alexis Smith · Paul Kelly · S.Z. Sakall

Synopsis Tough dance hall girl working for the local villain falls for a cowboy trying to clean up the town.

5.7

314 votes

5.7

314 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

Love and Learn

1947 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Frederick de Cordova

Cast Jack Carson · Robert Hutton · Martha Vickers · Janis Paige

Synopsis A wealthy socialite bored with her life meets and falls in love with a struggling songwriter on the verge of leaving New York and quitting the music business.

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Torpedo Alley

1952 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Lew Landers

Cast Mark Stevens · Dorothy Malone · Charles Winninger · Bill Williams

Synopsis Carrier pilot Lieutenant Bob Bingham (Mark Stevens) is rescued at sea by a submarine after he freezes at the controls and crashes, killing his two crewmen. He returns to civilian life but soon afterwards, looking for redemption, applies for submarine...

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The Couch

1962 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Owen Crump

Cast Grant Williams · Shirley Knight · Onslow Stevens · William Leslie

Synopsis While undergoing therapy for his problem, a serial killer continues his murderous sprees.

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Your Favorite Story (TV Series)

1953 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Eddie Davis · Lewis Allen · Leon Benson · Sobey Martin

Cast Adolphe Menjou · Billy Halop · Steve Darrell · John Alvin

Synopsis Your Favorite Story is the title of a TV comedy anthology series that aired from 1953 through 1955. It premiered in December 1954 with the title Your Favorite Playhouse. This program was adapted from the radio show Favorite Story which...

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Direction Doug Rogers

Cast Victor DiMattia · William Windom · Patricia Estrin · Jim Jansen

Synopsis This movie puts Henk Ketcham's comic figure 'Dennis' into real life: While digging in his front garden, Dennis finds a big bone. To prove it's from a dinosaur, he persudades his father to invite an old buddy of him, Bowen...

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Rocky

1948 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast Roddy McDowall · Edgar Barrier · Nita Hunter · Gale Sherwood

Synopsis Out fishing one day, painter John Hammond and his son Chris come across Bert Hillman, the foreman of a local ranch. He and his ranch hand are searching for a wild dog that killed one of their sheep. They find...

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The Whistler (TV Series)

1954 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Will Jason · William F. Claxton · Joel Malone · Charles F. Haas

Cast William Forman · Danni Sue Nolan · Dorothy Green · Arthur Franz

Synopsis Crime anthology series with twist endings. Based on the popular radio drama and several B-movies.

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Open Secret

1948 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction John Reinhardt

Cast John Ireland · Jane Randolph · Sheldon Leonard · Roman Bohnen

Synopsis Newlyweds come to visit groom's friend, only to discover him missing; and their investigation uncovers evidence of a ring of anti-semites terrorizing the neighborhood.

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Shadow of a Woman

1946 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Santley

Cast Helmut Dantine · Andrea King · William Prince · John Alvin

Synopsis A young bride's marital bliss is replaced by shades of suspicion when she suspects that her husband is trying to starve his young son to death in order to claim an inheritance the boy is entitled to.

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Kentucky Rifle

1955 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Carl K. Hittleman

Cast Chill Wills · Lance Fuller · Cathy Downs · Sterling Holloway

Synopsis While the wagon train forges ahead, a few people stay behind to repair a disabled rifle-filled wagon but they have to contend with one another's ego and with aggressive Comanches who demand the rifles as payment for safe passage.

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Train to Alcatraz

1948 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Philip Ford

Cast Don 'Red' Barry · Janet Martin · William Phipps · Roy Barcroft

Synopsis The last car of a transcontinental train streaking through desolate desert country is filled with convicts headed for Alcatraz. Each is filled but with one thought---escape! Mobster Bart Kanin has an escape angle that "can't miss"---providing there's a fall guy....

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