Cast: Luis van Rooten
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Luis van Rooten. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 23
Champion
1949 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Mark Robson
Cast Kirk Douglas · Marilyn Maxwell · Arthur Kennedy · Paul Stewart
Plot An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up. One of the all-time great boxing movies....
7.3
2K votes
7.3
2K votes
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
1948 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction John Farrow
Cast Edward G. Robinson · Gail Russell · John Lund · Virginia Bruce
Plot When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship to John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true...
6.6
185 votes
6.6
185 votes
To the Ends of the Earth
1948 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Robert Stevenson
Cast Dick Powell · Signe Hasso · Harry J. Anslinger · Maylia
Plot A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.
6.5
63 votes
6.5
63 votes
Two Years Before the Mast
1946 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction John Farrow
Cast Alan Ladd · Brian Donlevy · William Bendix · Barry Fitzgerald
Plot The playboy son of a wealthy shipping magnate discovers at first hand the desperate privations suffered by the crew of one of his fathers ships when he is unwillingly pressganged...
6.2
24 votes
6.2
24 votes
The Sea Chase
1955 · Movie · 117 min. · United States
Direction John Farrow
Cast John Wayne · Lana Turner · David Farrar · Lyle Bettger
Plot As World War II begins, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich tries to get his ship back to Germany through a gantlet of Allied warships.
6.1
540 votes
6.1
540 votes
Fräulein
1958 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Henry Koster
Cast Dana Wynter · Mel Ferrer · Dolores Michaels · Margaret Hayes
Plot A Nazi's fiancee helps an escaped U.S. soldier, then meets him in postwar Berlin.
6.1
25 votes
6.1
25 votes
Lydia Bailey
1952 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Jean Negulesco
Cast Dale Robertson · Anne Francis · Charles Korvin · William Marshall
Plot A young Boston lawyer, Albron Hamlin, goes to Haiti in 1802 to find Lydia Bailey, whose estate he must settle. The island is war-torn in the strife between Toussaing L'Overture,...
5.8
98 votes
5.8
98 votes
My Favorite Spy
1951 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Norman Z. McLeod
Cast Bob Hope · Hedy Lamarr · Francis L. Sullivan · Arnold Moss
Plot Peanuts White, a burlesque comic, is recruited by U.S. agents to impersonate international spy Eric Augustine (whom White resembles) in a mission to purchase a million-dollar microfilm in mysterious, exotic...
4.9
35 votes
4.9
35 votes
Curse of the Faceless Man
1958 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Edward L. Cahn
Cast Richard Anderson · Elaine Edwards · Adele Mara · Luis van Rooten
Plot In the excavation of Pompeii, a stone-encrusted body is found with a bronze medallion bearing a strange Etruscan inscription. Carlo Fiorillo, Italian archaeologist, speculates the robust body may hold some...
4.3
96 votes
4.3
96 votes
The Secret of St. Ives
1949 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Phil Rosen
Cast Richard Ney · Vanessa Brown · Henry Daniell · Edgar Barrier
Plot Anatole de Keroual is captured by the British in the Napoleonic war and imprisoned in the dungeon of Edinburgh Castle with six companions. Floria Gilchrist, coveted by the fortress commander,...
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Operation Eichmann
1961 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction R.G. Springsteen
Cast Werner Klemperer · Ruta Lee · Donald Buka · Luis van Rooten
Plot With the defeat of Germany that ends World War II in Europe, the Allies discover the true horror of more than six million Jews slaughtered by the Nazis - and...
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Suspicion (TV Series)
1957 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Don Medford · James Neilson · Robert Stevens · John Brahm
Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Clark Howat · Marian Seldes · Jack Klugman
Plot TV Series (1957-1958). 1 season. 41 episodes. An anthology television mystery drama series. The executive producer was film director Alfred Hitchcock.
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The Alcoa Hour (TV Series)
1955 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Lumet · Robert Mulligan · Norman Felton · Herbert Hirschman
Cast Luis van Rooten · Loïs Bolton · Robert Emhardt · Robert Dryden
Plot TV Series (1955-1957). 2 seasons. 51 episodes. An anthology television series.
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City Across the River
1949 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Maxwell Shane
Cast Stephen McNally · Thelma Ritter · Luis van Rooten · Jeff Corey
Plot Brooklyn youth Frank Cusack, good son and brother by day, is a gang member by night. The Dukes, seemingly likable dead-end-kids, are dangerously involved with racketeer Gaggsy Steens. Despite the...
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The Gentleman from Nowhere
1948 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction William Castle
Cast Warner Baxter · Fay Baker · Luis van Rooten · Charles Lane
Plot Late one night, at the Ninth Street Storage Co., in New York City, security guard Earl Donovan is injured in a gun battle with thieves trying to steal some valuable...
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One Step Beyond: The Mask
1960 · Movie · 30 min. · United States
Direction John Newland
Cast Wesley Lau · Luis van Rooten · Stephen Bekassy · Joan Elan
Plot During World War II, Lt. Wilenski bails out of a crippled plane over the Sahara Desert, but the harsh and unrelenting conditions in the desert almost result in his death....
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The Unholy Wife
1957 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction John Farrow
Cast Diana Dors · Rod Steiger · Tom Tryon · Beulah Bondi
Plot Wealthy vintner Paul Hochen meets blonde bombshell Phyllis in a bar...and marries her. In due course, Phyllis is bored by Paul, and finds an exciting new lover in rodeo rider...
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Beyond Glory
1948 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction John Farrow
Cast Alan Ladd · Donna Reed · George Macready · Audie Murphy
Plot Cadet Captain Rockwell "Rocky" Gilman faces charges before an investigating committee at West Point that threatens to destroy him and discredit the school. The investigation was instigated by financier Raymond...
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The Hitler Gang
1944 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction John Farrow
Cast Robert Watson · Roman Bohnen · Martin Kosleck · Victor Varconi
Plot This movie shows us the rise of Adolf Hitler from a small radical political adventurer to the dictator of Germany in the way of a gangster film. Exept for some...
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Alfred Hitchcock presents: The Return of the Hero (TV)
1958 · Movie · 25 min. · United States
Direction Herschel Daugherty
Cast Alfred Hitchcock · Jacques Bergerac · Susan Kohner · Marcel Dalio
Plot Sgt. Andre is a returning veteran from the French-Algerian war. He heads home to his estate with his crippled friend Marcel. Marcel lost his leg saving Andre's life. Along the...
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