Cast: Howard Petrie
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Howard Petrie. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 22
Bend of the River
1952 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Anthony Mann
Cast James Stewart · Arthur Kennedy · Rock Hudson · Julie Adams
Synopsis Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory. They establish a settlement outside of Portland and as winter nears, it is necessary for McLyntock and...
7.6
8K votes
7.6
8K votes
The Tin Star
1957 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Anthony Mann
Cast Henry Fonda · Anthony Perkins · Betsy Palmer · Michel Ray
Synopsis Anthony Mann made some of the greatest Westerns of the 1950s, all in partnership with James Stewart. Perhaps needing to prove himself as his own man, in 1957 Mann dropped out of Night Passage to do this film. It's a...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
Walk Softly, Stranger
1950 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Robert Stevenson
Cast Joseph Cotten · Alida Valli · Spring Byington · Paul Stewart
Synopsis A charming, smooth-talking gambler calling himself Chris Hale arrives in Ashton, home of the Corelli shoe factory. Claiming to have lived there as a boy, he soon ingratiates himself with the townspeople... including attractive heiress Elaine Corelli, wheelchair-bound since a...
6.5
226 votes
6.5
226 votes
Rocky Mountain
1950 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction William Keighley
Cast Errol Flynn · Patrice Wymore · Scott Forbes · Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Synopsis A Confederate troop, led by Captain Lafe Barstow, is prowling the far ranges of California and Nevada in a last desperate attempt to build up an army in the West for the faltering Confederacy. Because the patrol saves a stagecoach,...
6.3
99 votes
6.3
99 votes
A Kiss Before Dying
1956 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Gerd Oswald
Cast Robert Wagner · Jeffrey Hunter · Virginia Leith · Joanne Woodward
Synopsis Bud Corliss is an ambitious college student with big plans for himself and an heiress, Dorothy Kingship. But then Dorothy goes and gets herself pregnant. It's his child, too, of course; but this ruins everything. Her moralistic father will disown...
6.2
459 votes
6.2
459 votes
The Wild North
1952 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Andrew Marton
Cast Stewart Granger · Wendell Corey · Cyd Charisse · Morgan Farley
Synopsis In the Canadian mountains, a trapper goes on the run accused of a crime, and is pursued by a rugged and determined lawman.
6.2
207 votes
6.2
207 votes
The Bounty Hunter
1954 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction André De Toth
Cast Randolph Scott · Dolores Dorn · Marie Windsor · Howard Petrie
Synopsis A year after a violent train robbery the Pinkerton detective agency hires a bounty hunter to find the three remaining killers. He tracks them to Twin Forks but has no clue to their identity. Tensions surface as just his presence...
6.1
327 votes
6.1
327 votes
The Maverick Queen
1956 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Kane
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Barry Sullivan · Scott Brady · Mary Murphy
Synopsis A Pinkerton detective goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of thieves whose boss is a feisty lady saloonkeeper. Complications ensue.
5.7
111 votes
5.7
111 votes
Border River
1954 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction George Sherman
Cast Joel McCrea · Yvonne De Carlo · Pedro Armendáriz · Howard Petrie
Synopsis Zona Libre is a small enclave across the river from America. Despotically ruled by General Calleja, it offers sanctuary to outlaws, at a price. Newly arrived is Clete Mattson who has $2million in gold to buy guns for the Confederacy....
5.6
132 votes
5.6
132 votes
Cattle Drive
1951 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Kurt Neumann
Cast Joel McCrea · Dean Stockwell · Chill Wills · Leon Ames
5.6
108 votes
5.6
108 votes
Pony Soldier
1952 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Joseph M. Newman
Cast Tyrone Power · Cameron Mitchell · Thomas Gomez · Penny Edwards
5.3
193 votes
5.3
193 votes
Timberjack
1955 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Kane
Cast Sterling Hayden · Vera Ralston · David Brian · Adolphe Menjou
Synopsis Tim Shipman returns to his father's logging company only to find his father has been killed, money is owed, and Croft Brunner controls the railroad used to haul out the logs. But he learns the Government restriction on his valuable...
5.1
22 votes
5.1
22 votes
The Golden Horde
1951 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction George Sherman
Cast Ann Blyth · David Farrar · George Macready · Henry Brandon
Synopsis In 1220, a small band of English crusaders arrives at Samarkand in Central Asia, just as the city and its ruling princess are threatened by the hordes of Genghis Khan. Lovely Princess Shalimar hopes to thwart the conqueror by guile,...
5.0
97 votes
5.0
97 votes
Rage At Dawn
1955 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Tim Whelan
Cast Randolph Scott · Forrest Tucker · Mala Powers · J. Carrol Naish
Synopsis Terrorizing 1866 Indiana, the Reno brothers gang uses the town of Seymour as a safe haven, paying off three crooked town officials. Sent in to clean up the gang is Peterson Detective Agency operative James Barlow, who poses as an...
4.9
196 votes
4.9
196 votes
Fort Ti
1953 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction William Castle
Cast George Montgomery · Joan Vohs · Irving Bacon · James Seay
Synopsis Set against the backdrop of the French and Indian war in colonial America, the British soldiers attempt to route the French Army from Fort Ticonderoga.
4.5
25 votes
4.5
25 votes
Johnny Concho
1956 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Don McGuire
Cast Frank Sinatra · Keenan Wynn · William Conrad · Phyllis Kirk
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The Return of Jack Slade
1955 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Harold D. Schuster
Cast John Ericson · Mari Blanchard · Neville Brand · Max Showalter
Synopsis Jack Slade, son of the famed lawman and man-hunter, is hired by a Pinkerton detective, Joseph Ryan, to help wipe out a gang of outlaws and train robbers, Billy Wilcox, Hary Sutton and Little Blue Raven, and their women, Texas...
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The Bob Mathias Story
1954 · Movie · United States
Direction Francis D. Lyon
Cast Bob Mathias · Ward Bond · Melba Mathias · Howard Petrie
Synopsis California school boy and Stanford University student Bob Mathias was the first man to win two Olympic Gold Medals in the Decathlon in the 1948 and 1952 Olympics. The film begins with him as a 17-year-old schoolboy in Tulare, California...
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No Questions Asked
1951 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Harold F. Kress
Cast Barry Sullivan · Arlene Dahl · George Murphy · Jean Hagen
Synopsis Steve Keiver, young lawyer working for an insurance company, hears his boss remark that he'd pay a large sum "no questions asked" for return of stolen property to avoid paying a much larger claim. On his own initiative, Steve arranges...
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The Veils of Bagdad
1953 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction George Sherman
Cast Victor Mature · Mari Blanchard · Virginia Field · Guy Rolfe
Synopsis Antar is sent by Suleiman, head of the Ottoman Empire, to Bagdad to prevent Hammam, Pasha of Bagdad, from purchasing the services of local leader Mustapha to unite the hill tribes and overthrow the emperor. The intrigue mounts as Antar...
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