Cast: Jan Merlin

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


Take the Money and Run

1969 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Woody Allen · Janet Margolin · Marcel Hillaire · Jacqueline Hyde

Synopsis Based on a series of interviews with those who knew him, the movie takes us through the life of incompetent petty criminal Virgil Starkwell, who was destined to delinquency from very early on. Following a childhood at the mercy of...

7.2

20K votes

7.2

20K votes

Illegal

1955 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Allen

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

Synopsis 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 Too Much".

6.7

269 votes

6.7

269 votes

Hell Bent for Leather

1960 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction George Sherman

Cast Audie Murphy · Felicia Farr · Stephen McNally · Robert Middleton

Synopsis When Clay Santell (Audie Murphy) stops in the town of Sutterville after having his horse stolen, he is mistaken by townspeople for a murderer named Travers. The townspeople capture Santell, and turn him over to lawman Harry Deckett. Deckett, who...

5.8

109 votes

5.8

109 votes

Six Bridges to Cross

1955 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Pevney

Cast Tony Curtis · George Nader · Julie Adams · Jay C. Flippen

Synopsis Youth gang leader Jerry Florea is shot fleeing from a crime scene by rookie cop Ed Gallagher. Result: "he'll never have children of his own." Ed and Jerry develop a mutually beneficial friendship: Jerry gets the benefit of the doubt,...

5.8

32 votes

5.8

32 votes

A Day of Fury

1956 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Harmon Jones

Cast Dale Robertson · Mara Corday · Jock Mahoney · Carl Benton Reid

Synopsis While on a manhunt the Marshal is saved by a passing gunslinger named Jagade. It is a time when law is coming to the west and when the gunslinger shows up in the Marshals' town the Marshal is caught between...

5.1

59 votes

5.1

59 votes

Cole Younger, Gunfighter

1958 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

5.0

46 votes

5.0

46 votes

Guns of Diablo

1965 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

4.9

50 votes

4.9

50 votes

Gunfight at Comanche Creek

1963 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Frank McDonald

Cast Audie Murphy · Ben Cooper · Colleen Miller · DeForest Kelley

Synopsis Comanche Creek, Colorado, 1875: Prisoner Jack Mason is broken out of jail by a gang of strangers. They use him in a robbery, then when the dead-or-alive reward is high enough, they shoot him and collect. The National Detective Agency,...

4.6

79 votes

4.6

79 votes

The Twilight People

1972 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Eddie Romero

Cast Charles Macaulay · John Ashley · Mona Morena · Pam Grier

Synopsis A kidnapped diver is taken to an island inhabited by a mad scientist and his half-animal, half-human creations.

3.7

24 votes

3.7

24 votes

Strategy of Terror

1969 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Jack Smight

Cast Hugh O´Brian · Barbara Rush · Neil Hamilton · Frederick O'Neal

Synopsis A reporter and a New York City cop team up to find out who is trying to assassinate a UN leader.

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Direction Ralph Ward · George Gould

Cast Frankie Thomas · Al Markim · Jan Merlin · Jack Grimes

Synopsis Four centuries into the future, Cadets Tom Corbett, Roger Manning and Astro are training to become Solar Guards. Their ship, the "Polaris" took them to numerous adventures, usually natural catastrophes rather than villains.

Not rated

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Direction Boris Sagal · Walter Doniger · Fred Jackman Jr. · Ted Post

Cast Dan O'Herlihy · Kurt Russell · Mark Allen · Meg Wyllie

Synopsis Twelve-year-old Jamie McPheeters, along with his ne'er-do-well father and a ragtag group of pioneers, travel westward from Paducah, Kentucky to the California gold fields in 1849.

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Silk 2

1989 · Movie · 85 min. · Philippines

Direction Cirio H. Santiago

Cast Monique Gabrielle · Peter Nelson · Jan Merlin · Maria Claire

Synopsis Silk, the smoothest, toughest, and sexiest cop in Honolulu is hot on the trail of ruthless art smugglers who are after a priceless Asian Scroll. Silk will stop at nothing to get her man, even if it means blowing up...

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The Rough Riders (TV Series)

1958 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Eddie Davis · Franklin Adreon · Walter Doniger · Otto Lang

Cast Kent Taylor · Jan Merlin · Peter Whitney · Bill Catching

Synopsis After the Civil War, two former Union soldiers and an ex-Confederate team up to travel the West.

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Cain's Hundred (TV Series)

1961 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction John Peyser · Tom Gries · Boris Sagal · Robert Gist

Cast Peter Mark Richman · Gene Coogan · Eddie Hice · Gavin MacLeod

Synopsis A former underworld lawyer goes to work for the Federal Government, determined to bring one hundred top criminals to justice.

Not rated

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Running Wild

1955 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Abner Biberman

Cast William Campbell · Mamie Van Doren · Keenan Wynn · Kathleen Case

Synopsis A young rookie cop goes undercover to bust up an auto theft ring run by juvenile delinquents.

Not rated

Not rated

Casey Jones (TV Series)

1957 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction George Blair · Lew Landers · Abby Berlin · Sidney Salkow

Cast Alan Hale Jr. · Eddy Waller · Dub Taylor · Bobby Clark

Synopsis Television version of the classic train story of Casey Jones, the engineer of the steam-engine powered "Cannonball Express".

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A Strange Adventure

1956 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction William Witney

Cast Joan Evans · Ben Cooper · Marla English · Jan Merlin

Synopsis A trio of thieves make their getaway by kidnapping a young hot-rodder, and take over a mountain cabin for a hideout after overpowering its occupants.

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Time Trackers

1989 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Howard R. Cohen

Cast Wil Shriner · Ned Beatty · Kathleen Beller · Bridget Hoffman

Synopsis When an evil scientist steals his colleague's time machine, his colleague's beautiful, brilliant daughter, aided by an L.A. cop and a hapless admirer (Wil Shriner), pursues him back to twelfth century England, where, disguised as a damsel in distress, she...

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The Covenant

1985 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Walter Grauman

Cast Jane Badler · Michelle Phillips · Kevin Conroy · José Ferrer

Synopsis The Nobles are an enormously wealthy family that hides a secret: their fortune is steeped in blood and is due to the fact that they made a pact with the devil. When they begin to prepare their youngest virgin to...

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