Cast: Howard Petrie

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


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

5.6

108 votes

5.6

108 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

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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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated