Cast: James Burke
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring James Burke. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Connections (TV Series)
1978 · Documentary · 50 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Mick Jackson
Cast James Burke
Plot Connections is a ten-episode documentary television series created, written and presented by science historian James Burke. The series was produced and directed by Mick Jackson of the BBC Science &...
8.1
32 votes
8.1
32 votes
Ruggles of Red Gap
1935 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Leo McCarey
Cast Charles Laughton · Mary Boland · Charles Ruggles · ZaSu Pitts
Plot While visiting Paris in 1908, upper class Lord Burnstead loses his butler playing poker. Egbert and Effie Floud bring Ruggles back to Red Gap, Washington. Effie wants to take advantage...
6.9
294 votes
6.9
294 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
Great Guy
1936 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction John G. Blystone
Cast James Cagney · Mae Clarke · James Burke · Edward Brophy
Plot It's the New York Department of Weights and Measures vs. a systematic effort to cheat the public by giving them less product than they pay for...organized by crooked city alderman...
6.1
462 votes
6.1
462 votes
June Bride
1948 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Bretaigne Windust
Cast Bette Davis · Robert Montgomery · Fay Bainter · Betty Lynn
Plot Foreign correspondent Carey Jackson is offered a job on Home Life, a "women's" magazine; he accepts when he finds the editor is his old flame Linda Gilman. Verbal pyrotechnics fly...
6.1
79 votes
6.1
79 votes
Down to Earth
1947 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Alexander Hall
Cast Rita Hayworth · Larry Parks · Marc Platt · Roland Culver
Plot Upset about a new Broadway musical's mockery of Greek mythology, the goddess Terpsichore comes down to earth and lands a part in the show. She works her charms on the...
6.0
148 votes
6.0
148 votes
Lone Star
1952 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Vincent Sherman
Cast Clark Gable · Ava Gardner · Broderick Crawford · Lionel Barrymore
Plot Rip-roaring big star, big budget semi-historical story about cattle baron Devereaux Burke, who is enlisted by an aging Andrew Jackson to dissuade Sam Houston from establishing Texas as a republic....
6.0
235 votes
6.0
235 votes
Pot o' Gold
1941 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction George Marshall
Cast James Stewart · Paulette Goddard · Horace Heidt · Charles Winninger
Plot It's rare to see a musical comedy which allows an actor of Jimmy Stewart's caliber to exploit his charismatic screen persona, but POT O' GOLD fits this bill. Stewart plays...
5.8
371 votes
5.8
371 votes
Copper Canyon
1950 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction John Farrow
Cast Ray Milland · Hedy Lamarr · Macdonald Carey · Mona Freeman
Plot Johnny Carter, performing sharpshooter, is asked to help a beleaguered group of copper A group of copper miners, Southern veterans, are terrorized by local rebel-haters, led by deputy Lane Travis....
5.6
156 votes
5.6
156 votes
The Saint Strikes Back
1939 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction John Farrow
Cast George Sanders · Wendy Barrie · Jonathan Hale · Jerome Cowan
Plot Simon Templar, the Saint, travels to San Fransisco to solve crime mysteries within the police department.
5.5
45 votes
5.5
45 votes
The Saint Takes Over
1940 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Jack B. Hively
Cast George Sanders · Wendy Barrie · Jonathan Hale · Paul Guilfoyle
Plot The Saint plays a "modern-day Robin Hood" in order to clear his friend, Henry Fernack, who was framed by mobsters. They run into a series of murders.
5.4
25 votes
5.4
25 votes
Denver and Rio Grande
1952 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Byron Haskin
Cast Sterling Hayden · Edmond O'Brien · Dean Jagger · Laura Elliott
Plot Edmond O'Brien and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less...
5.3
143 votes
5.3
143 votes
The Perfect Specimen
1937 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast Errol Flynn · Joan Blondell · May Robson · Edward Everett Horton
5.2
26 votes
5.2
26 votes
Tomorrow's World (TV Series)
1965 · Documentary · 30 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter R. Smith · Barbara Altounyan · Michael Robinson
Cast Judith Hann · Raymond Baxter · Michael Rodd · Howard Stableford
Plot Long running BBC TV series looking at what's new in science and technology.
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Double Alibi
1940 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Phil Rosen
Cast Wayne Morris · Margaret Lindsay · William Gargan · Roscoe Karns
Plot A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
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Easy Come, Easy Go
1947 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction John Farrow
Cast Barry Fitzgerald · Diana Lynn · Sonny Tufts · Dick Foran
Plot Martin Donovan's compulsive gambling leaves him constantly broke and under arrest from a gambling-house raid. He also places bets for tenants of his boardinghouse, who lose their money and ability...
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Rhythm on the Range
1936 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Bing Crosby · Frances Farmer · Bob Burns · Martha Raye
Plot Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm...
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The Affairs of Annabel
1938 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Benjamin Stoloff · Lew Landers
Cast Jack Oakie · Lucille Ball · Ruth Donnelly · Bradley Page
Plot Wonder Pictures' seedy publicity man Lanny Morgan has put the studio's biggest star, Annabel Allison, in one crazy stunt after another. His latest scheme has Annabel pretending to be a...
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Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
1941 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction James P. Hogan
Cast Ralph Bellamy · Margaret Lindsay · Charley Grapewin · Mona Barrie
Plot Ellery and his police-inspector father (Charley Grapewin) are summoned to a private hospital by its owner, philanthropist Mrs. Stack (Blanche Yurka). There’ve been some very weird goings-on at the hospital...
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No Place for a Lady
1943 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction James P. Hogan
Cast William Gargan · Margaret Lindsay · Phyllis Brooks · Dick Purcell
Plot Gargan is a private eye. He uncovers the murder of a wealthy widow and returns some stolen car tires as well.
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