Cast: Elisha Cook Jr.

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Elisha Cook Jr.. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Big Sleep

1946 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Lauren Bacall · John Ridgely · Martha Vickers

Plot It tells the story of private detective Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart), hired by General Sternwood (Charles Waldron) to deal with a blackmailer. The General has two daughters. One, Vivian (Lauren...

8.1

23K votes

8.1

23K votes

The Maltese Falcon

1941 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Mary Astor · Gladys George · Peter Lorre

Plot Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) is a private eye who gets involved in the hunt for a statuette while searching for the murderer of his partner, Miles Archer (Jerome Cowan). His...

8.0

32K votes

8.0

32K votes

Ball of Fire

1941 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Gary Cooper · Barbara Stanwyck · Oskar Homolka · Henry Travers

Plot 8 Professors are in the 9th year of a 12 year encyclopedia writing project. The youngest is Bertram Potts who specializes in language and grammar. When Professor Potts discovers that...

7.9

6K votes

7.9

6K votes

The Killing

1956 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Sterling Hayden · Coleen Gray · Vince Edwards · Jay C. Flippen

Plot Based on Lionel White's crime novel 'Clean Break'. Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) is an ex-con with a plan to steal $2 million from a San Francisco racetrack. He assembles an...

7.9

25K votes

7.9

25K votes

Rosemary's Baby

1968 · Movie · 136 min. · United States

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Mia Farrow · John Cassavetes · Ruth Gordon · Ralph Bellamy

Plot Actor Guy Woodhouse and his wife Rosemary move into a new apartment. In no time they befriend their neighbours, the aging Castevets. Rosemary soon becomes pregnant. But when her obstetrician...

7.7

61K votes

7.7

61K 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

Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid

1973 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Sam Peckinpah

Cast James Coburn · Kris Kristofferson · Jason Robards · L.Q. Jones

Plot 1909. Bushwhackers from the politically corrupt Santa Fe Ring gun down New Mexico rancher Pat Garrett (James Coburn) on his own land. 1881. Pat is a friend to and former...

7.6

8K votes

7.6

8K votes

They Won't Forget

1937 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Claude Rains · Gloria Dickson · Edward Norris · Otto Kruger

Plot A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his...

7.4

294 votes

7.4

294 votes

Sergeant York

1941 · Movie · 134 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Gary Cooper · Walter Brennan · George Tobias · Joan Leslie

Plot True story of the farm boy who made the transition from religious pacifist to World War I hero. The Valley of the 3 Forks of the Wolf, located in the...

7.3

3K votes

7.3

3K votes

Emperor of the North Pole

1973 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Lee Marvin · Ernest Borgnine · Keith Carradine · Charles Tyner

Plot It is during the great depression in the US, and the land is full of people who are now homeless. Those people, commonly called "hobos", are truly hated by Shack...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

One-Eyed Jacks

1961 · Movie · 141 min. · United States

Direction Marlon Brando

Cast Marlon Brando · Karl Malden · Pina Pellicer · Katy Jurado

Plot Marlon Brando's only directorial effort. It's the Old West of 1880, and Brando stars as Kid Rio, who along with his partner, Dad Longworth (Karl Malden) are bank robbers who...

7.1

5K votes

7.1

5K votes

Phantom Lady

1944 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Franchot Tone · Ella Raines · Alan Curtis · Aurora Miranda

Plot This noir thriller follows an innocent man blamed for the murder of his wife and unable to find the woman with whom he passed the evening in question. When he's...

7.0

945 votes

7.0

945 votes

Day of the Outlaw

1959 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction André De Toth

Cast Robert Ryan · Burl Ives · Tina Louise · Nehemiah Persoff

Plot Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is...

7.0

740 votes

7.0

740 votes

Hellzapoppin'

1941 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction H.C. Potter

Cast Ole Olsen · Chic Johnson · Martha Raye · Hugh Herbert

Plot Ole and Chick are making a movie, but the director is not satisfied. So he brings them to a young writer, who outlines them an absurd story. They have to...

6.8

362 votes

6.8

362 votes

Born to Kill

1947 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Claire Trevor · Lawrence Tierney · Walter Slezak · Phillip Terry

Plot In Reno a man kills a girl he likes and her boyfriend out of jealousy. A woman whose divorce has just come through finds the bodies but says nothing to...

6.7

611 votes

6.7

611 votes

I Wake Up Screaming

1941 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast Betty Grable · Victor Mature · Carole Landis · Laird Cregar

Plot When chanteuse Vicky Lynn is found murdered the police bring in promoter Frankie Christopher for questioning. Frankie had been organising Vicky's career until she suddenly took a Hollywood offer just...

6.6

210 votes

6.6

210 votes

Love Crazy

1941 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Jack Conway

Cast William Powell · Myrna Loy · Gail Patrick · Jack Carson

Plot Steve and Susan Ireland find nothing but trouble as they get ready to celebrate their fourth wedding anniversary. Susan catches Steve with his old girlfriend and mistakenly believes he is...

6.6

97 votes

6.6

97 votes

Dillinger

1945 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Max Nosseck

Cast Lawrence Tierney · Edmund Lowe · Anne Jeffreys · Eduardo Ciannelli

Plot The rise of John Dillinger from petty criminal (including, unforgiveably, holding up a cinema) via prison and bank robbery with his new convict associates to the accolade of Public Enemy...

6.6

296 votes

6.6

296 votes

The Outfit

1973 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

6.6

240 votes

6.6

240 votes

Love Is News

1937 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Tyrone Power · Loretta Young · Don Ameche · Slim Summerville

Plot When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that she's engaged to him...

6.6

68 votes

6.6

68 votes