Cast: Robert F. Simon
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Robert F. Simon. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 37
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962 · Movie · 119 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast John Wayne · James Stewart · Vera Miles · Lee Marvin
Synopsis Congressman Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) returns with his wife Hallie (Vera Miles) to the tiny town of Shinbone to bury an old friend, Tom Doniphon (John Wayne), and tells reporters the truth about how he came to be known as...
8.3
32K votes
8.3
32K votes
Compulsion
1959 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Richard Fleischer
Cast Orson Welles · Diane Varsi · Dean Stockwell · Bradford Dillman
Synopsis It's Chicago and the year is 1924. Two young men are driving recklessly at night, and almost hit a drunken pedestrian. They are wealthy law students, the flamboyant Artie Straus (Bradford Dillman) constantly goading the intensely introverted Judd Steiner (Dean...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
Operation Petticoat
1959 · Movie · 124 min. · United States
Direction Blake Edwards
Cast Cary Grant · Tony Curtis · Joan O'Brien · Dina Merrill
Synopsis A submarine newly commissioned is damaged in the opening days of WW II. A captain, looking for a command insists he can get it to a dockyard and captain it. Going slowly to this site, they find a stranded group...
7.1
3K votes
7.1
3K votes
Bigger than Life
1956 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Nicholas Ray
Cast James Mason · Barbara Rush · Walter Matthau · Robert F. Simon
Synopsis James Mason plays Ed Avery, a small-town, '50s schoolteacher working two jobs and suffering debilitating illness who finds a cure - a new experimental wonder drug that seems to take away his pain and appears to free him from the...
7.0
1K votes
7.0
1K votes
The Catered Affair
1956 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Richard Brooks
Cast Bette Davis · Ernest Borgnine · Debbie Reynolds · Barry Fitzgerald
Synopsis At breakfast, Jane announces that she and Ralph are getting married the next week. All Jane and Ralph want is a small wedding with the immediate family and no reception. This is because Janes parents are poor and Jane and...
6.9
508 votes
6.9
508 votes
Edge of the City
1957 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Martin Ritt
Cast John Cassavetes · Sidney Poitier · Jack Warden · Kathleen Maguire
Synopsis Two New York City longshoremen Axel Nordmann (John Cassavetes), with a mysterious past, and Tommy Tyler (Sidney Poitier), an easy-going freight car loader who's growing friendship is threatened by Charles Malik (Jack Warden), a notably repellent punk.
6.8
399 votes
6.8
399 votes
Gunman's Walk
1958 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Phil Karlson
Cast Van Heflin · Tab Hunter · Kathryn Grant · James Darren
Synopsis Rancher Lee Hackett is one of the old breed, used to making his own laws and settling things with a gun. He has tried to make his two sons in his own image, and with the elder he has more...
6.7
330 votes
6.7
330 votes
Rogue Cop
1954 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Roy Rowland
Cast Robert Taylor · Janet Leigh · George Raft · Steve Forrest
Synopsis Detective Chris Kelvaney has a brother, Eddie, who also is a policeman. He witnessed a murderer running away from the scene of the crime. Chris has contacts with the gangster Beaumonte, who is willing to pay $15,000 if Eddie withdraws...
6.7
177 votes
6.7
177 votes
Alfred Hitchcock presents: Guilty witness (TV)
1955 · Movie · 24 min. · United States
Direction Robert Stevens
Cast Judith Evelyn · Kathleen Maguire · Joe Mantell · Robert F. Simon
6.6
233 votes
6.6
233 votes
Columbo: Forgotten Lady (TV)
1975 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Harvey Hart
Cast Peter Falk · Janet Leigh · Maurice Evans · Sam Jaffe
Synopsis A faded dance star of film and stage murders her husband and makes it look like a suicide; Lt. Columbo doubts her seemingly perfect alibi.
6.6
278 votes
6.6
278 votes
The Twilight Zone: No Time Like the Past (TV)
1963 · Movie · 51 min. · United States
Direction Jus Addiss
Cast Dana Andrews · Patricia Breslin · Malcolm Atterbury · Robert Cornthwaite
Synopsis A scientist attempts to use a time machine to prevent tragedies, both in world history and in his own past.
6.2
48 votes
6.2
48 votes
Captain Newman, M.D.
1963 · Movie · 126 min. · United States
Direction David Miller
Cast Gregory Peck · Tony Curtis · Angie Dickinson · Eddie Albert
Synopsis Dr. Josiah Newman runs the psychiatric unit of a U.S. Military Hospital during WWII. Short of help, Newman coerces newly arrived neurotic orderly Jackson Leibowitz to work in his ward. Leibowitz's scheming & humor quickly turns life inside the ward...
6.2
320 votes
6.2
320 votes
The Benny Goodman Story
1956 · Movie · 116 min. · United States
Direction Valentine Davies
Cast Steve Allen · Donna Reed · Berta Gersten · Barry Truex
Synopsis Bio of swing band leader 'Benny Goodman' from age 10 (1919) to his landmark Carnegie Hall band concert in 1938. Not exactly historically accurate, but great music. Also, guest appearances by many great musicians of the time.
6.2
96 votes
6.2
96 votes
The Buccaneer
1958 · Movie · 119 min. · United States
Direction Anthony Quinn
Cast Yul Brynner · Claire Bloom · Charlton Heston · Charles Boyer
Synopsis During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will arrive with 60 ships and 16,000 men to take the city. In this...
5.9
334 votes
5.9
334 votes
The Rack
1956 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Arnold Laven
Cast Paul Newman · Wendell Corey · Walter Pidgeon · Edmond O'Brien
Synopsis Captain Edward Hall returns to the USA after two years in a prison camp in the korean war. In the camp he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese convince the other prisoners that they were fighting an unjust war. When...
5.8
191 votes
5.8
191 votes
The Facts of Life
1960 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Melvin Frank
Cast Bob Hope · Lucille Ball · Ruth Hussey · Peter Leeds
Synopsis Larry and Kitty are two middle-class suburbanites who find themselves growing bored with their lives and respective marriages. Although each always found the other grating in manner, they find themselves falling in love when thrown together without their spouses on...
5.7
71 votes
5.7
71 votes
Foxfire
1955 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Pevney
Cast Jane Russell · Jeff Chandler · Dan Duryea · Mara Corday
Synopsis Amanda Dartland (Jane Russell) accompanies her half-Apache husband Jonathan (Jeff Chandler) to a mining community where he will supervise the excavation of an almost mythical Apache treasure. His jealous rages and macho attitude cause her much misery, while the excavation...
5.6
59 votes
5.6
59 votes
A New Kind of Love
1963 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Melville Shavelson
Cast Paul Newman · Joanne Woodward · Thelma Ritter · Eva Gabor
Synopsis The fashion industry and Paris provide the setting for a comedy surrounding the mistaken impression that Joanne Woodward is a high-priced call girl. Paul Newman is the journalist interviewing her for insights on her profession.
5.5
196 votes
5.5
196 votes
Wild Women (TV)
1970 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Don Taylor
Cast Hugh O´Brian · Anne Francis · Marilyn Maxwell · Marie Windsor
Synopsis Five female convicts are recruited to secretly transport arms into Mexican-held Texas in 1840.
4.2
38 votes
4.2
38 votes
Spider-Man Strikes Back
1978 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Ron Satlof
Cast Nicholas Hammond · Robert F. Simon · Chip Fields · Robert Alda
Synopsis Upset that their professor has brought a small amount of plutonium onto campus in order to give a class demonstration, three University students decide to steal the plutonium and build a bomb in order to illustrate the dangers of nuclear...
3.6
168 votes
3.6
168 votes