Cast: Dorothy Adams

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


The Best Years of Our Lives

1946 · Movie · 170 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Dana Andrews · Fredric March · Myrna Loy · Harold Russell

Plot After the Second World War, the soldiers who survived, some of them with physical problems, came back to the United States. Initially, they were treated as heroes, but afterwards they...

8.2

8K votes

8.2

8K votes

Laura

1944 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Gene Tierney · Dana Andrews · Clifton Webb · Judith Anderson

Plot Beautiful Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney) is found shot to death in her apartment. Hard nosed Lieutenant Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) is assigned as the lead investigator for the case. As...

8.1

17K votes

8.1

17K votes

The Big Country

1958 · Movie · 159 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Gregory Peck · Jean Simmons · Charlton Heston · Burl Ives

Plot In a dry, parched canyon located in the southwest, a rich rancher battles it out with a poor counterpart for water rights. Yet in fact, neither man has control of...

8.0

12K votes

8.0

12K votes

The Killing

1956 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Sterling Hayden · Coleen Gray · Vince Edwards · Jay C. Flippen

Plot Based on Lionel White's crime novel 'Clean Break'. Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) is an ex-con with a plan to steal $2 million from a San Francisco racetrack. He assembles an...

7.9

25K votes

7.9

25K votes

Fallen Angel

1945 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Dana Andrews · Alice Faye · Linda Darnell · Charles Bickford

Plot Eric Stanton (Dana Andrews), thrown off a bus for not having the fare, begins to frequent a diner called "Pop's Eats", whose main attraction is a beautiful waitress by the...

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

Not Wanted

1949 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

6.8

71 votes

6.8

71 votes

Penny Serenade

1941 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction George Stevens

Cast Cary Grant · Irene Dunne · Edgar Buchanan · Ann Doran

Plot While listening to a recording of "Penny Serenade," Julie Gardiner Adams (Irene Dunne) begins reflecting on her past. She recalls her near-impulsive marriage to newspaper reporter Roger Adams (Cary Grant),...

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

That's My Man

1947 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Don Ameche · Catherine McLeod · Roscoe Karns · John Ridgely

Plot A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight of...

6.2

44 votes

6.2

44 votes

So Proudly We Hail!

1943 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Claudette Colbert · Paulette Goddard · Veronica Lake · George Reeves

Plot A group of U.S. Army nurses leaves San Francisco for their tour of duty in Hawaii in December 1941. The attack on Pearl Harbor changes their destination, and their lives....

6.2

115 votes

6.2

115 votes

Bloom (TV Series)

2019 · Series · 60 min. · Australia

Direction Glen Dolman · John Curran · Mat King · Sian Davies

Cast Bryan Brown · Phoebe Tonkin · Ryan Corr · Nikki Shiels

Plot A year after a devastating flood has killed five locals in an idyllic country town, a mysterious new plant appears. The plant's phenomenal ability to restore youth is so formidable...

5.9

24 votes

5.9

24 votes

The Devil Commands

1941 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Boris Karloff · Richard Fiske · Amanda Duff · Anne Revere

Plot Dr. Julian Blair is engaged in unconventional research on human brain waves when his wife is tragically killed in a freak auto accident. The grief-stricken scientist becomes obsessed with redirecting...

5.4

75 votes

5.4

75 votes

The Cariboo Trail

1950 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast Randolph Scott · George 'Gabby' Hayes · Victor Jory · Bill Williams

Plot While the gold fever is sweeping the Cariboo Region, extending from Kamloops to Prince George, of British Columbia in western Canada, a man heads up into the region with his...

5.2

129 votes

5.2

129 votes

Peeper

1975 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Peter Hyams

Cast Michael Caine · Natalie Wood · Kitty Winn · Michael Constantine

Plot Back in '47, a gun was a roscoe, a private-eye was a Peeper, and murder was okay as long as nobody got hurt. In fact, anything was okay with this...

5.2

137 votes

5.2

137 votes

Fort Osage

1952 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Lesley Selander

Cast Rod Cameron · Jane Nigh · Morris Ankrum · Douglas Kennedy

Plot A greedy businessman is charging outrageous prices to homesteaders who wish to join a wagon train he's organizing to travel from Missouri to California. Meanwhile, he has broken the treaty...

4.8

53 votes

4.8

53 votes

Johnny Concho

1956 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

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Hot Rod Rumble

1957 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Leslie H. Martinson

Cast Leigh Snowden · Richard Hartunian · Wright King · Joey Forman

Plot Hot rodder Richard Hartunian storms off after a spat with girlfriend Leigh Snowden. Shortly afterward, the car in which Leigh is driving is involved in a crack-up, injuring her and...

Not rated

Not rated

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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Not rated

A Boy and His Dog (S)

1946 · Movie · 21 min. · United States

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Not rated

Phantoms, Inc. (S)

1945 · Movie · 17 min. · United States

Direction Harold Young

Cast Dorothy Adams · King Baggot · Wally Cassell · Ralph Dunn

Plot This Crime Does Not Pay short subject tells the lesson of how confidence men pray on emotions and insecurities with the story of the mother of a missing soldier who...

Not rated

Not rated

My Life Is Murder (TV Series)

2019 · Series · 60 min. · Australia

Direction Mat King · Ben C. Lucas · Jovita O'Shaughnessy · Leah Purcell

Cast Lucy Lawless · Bernard Curry · Ebony Vagulans · Todd River

Plot My Life is Murder follows the adventures of fearless private investigator Alexa Crowe, who solves the most baffling crimes as well as coping with the frustrations of everyday life.

Not rated

Not rated