Cast: Max Showalter

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


Direction James Sheldon

Cast Bill Mumy · John Larch · Cloris Leachman · Don Keefer

Synopsis On an isolated family farm, a young boy with vast mental powers, but lacking emotional development, holds his terrified family in thrall to his every juvenile wish.

7.4

143 votes

7.4

143 votes

Niagara

1953 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Marilyn Monroe · Joseph Cotten · Jean Peters · Denis O'Dea

Synopsis George and Rose Loomis are honeymooning at a Niagara Falls motel. She plots with Ted Patrick to do him in, but all does not go smoothly. For one thing, after Loomis is reported missing Polly Cutler spies him at the...

7.0

5K votes

7.0

5K votes

Dangerous Crossing

1953 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Joseph M. Newman

Cast Jeanne Crain · Michael Rennie · Max Showalter · Carl Betz

Synopsis A young bride is set to begin her honeymoon aboard a luxury liner. Her happiness does not last when she finds that her husband has disappeared. Trouble is, no one else ever saw him board the ship with her and...

6.5

115 votes

6.5

115 votes

Summer and Smoke

1961 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Peter Glenville

Cast Laurence Harvey · Geraldine Page · Rita Moreno · Una Merkel

Synopsis In this adaptation of Tennessee Williams' novel, Alma Winemiller (Geraldine Page) is the fragile, lonely, and oversensitive daughter of a minister in a small Mississippi town shortly before the first World War. From childhood she has harbored an almost spiritual...

6.4

239 votes

6.4

239 votes

Bus Stop

1956 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Joshua Logan

Cast Marilyn Monroe · Don Murray · Arthur O'Connell · Betty Field

Synopsis Innocent rodeo cowboy Bo falls in love with cafe singer Cherie in Phoenix. She tries to run away to Los Angeles but he finds her and forces her to board the bus to his home in Montana. When the bus...

6.4

3K votes

6.4

3K votes

Racing With the Moon

1984 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Richard Benjamin

Cast Sean Penn · Elizabeth McGovern · Nicolas Cage · John Karlen

Synopsis Henry and Nicky are small town pals from blue collar families with only a short time before they ship off to World War II. Henry begins romancing new-to-town Caddie Winger, believing her to be wealthy. Mischievious and irresponsible, Nicky gets...

6.4

824 votes

6.4

824 votes

Vicki

1953 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Harry Horner

Cast Jeanne Crain · Jean Peters · Richard Boone · Elliott Reid

Synopsis The untimely murder of a New York glamor-girl sparks an investigation with an emotionally driven detective at the helm.

6.3

34 votes

6.3

34 votes

Down Three Dark Streets

1954 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Arnold Laven

Cast Broderick Crawford · Ruth Roman · Martha Hyer · Marisa Pavan

Synopsis When FBI Agent Zack Stewart is killed, Agent John Ripley takes over the three cases he was working on, hoping one will lead to his killer. The first involves gangster Joe Walpo and Ripley finds his hideout through Joe's girl...

6.2

90 votes

6.2

90 votes

Naked Alibi

1954 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Hopper

Cast Sterling Hayden · Gloria Grahame · Gene Barry · Marcia Henderson

Synopsis Questioned by the police, a drunk Al Willis attacks his police questioners. He gets beaten, and swears vengeance against them. Next night, Lieut. Parks is murdered; Willis is the only suspect in the eyes of tough Chief Conroy, who pursues...

6.2

85 votes

6.2

85 votes

Fate Is the Hunter

1964 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Ralph Nelson

Cast Glenn Ford · Nancy Kwan · Rod Taylor · Suzanne Pleshette

Synopsis Airliner crashes near Los Angeles due to unusual string of coincidences. Stewardess, who is sole survivor, joins airline executives in discovering the causes of the crash.

6.2

123 votes

6.2

123 votes

What Price Glory

1952 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast James Cagney · Corinne Calvet · Dan Dailey · William Demarest

Synopsis James Cagney signed on to play Captain Flagg in 20th Century Fox's 1952 remake of the 1926 classic What Price Glory after being told that the old property was being converted into a musical. By the time Cagney learned that...

6.0

507 votes

6.0

507 votes

16 Candles

1984 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction John Hughes

Cast Molly Ringwald · Justin Henry · Michael Schoeffling · Haviland Morris

Synopsis A teen movie about the obstacles and embarrassments a teen girl faces on her birthday.

6.0

4K votes

6.0

4K votes

Night People

1954 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Nunnally Johnson

Cast Gregory Peck · Broderick Crawford · Anita Björk · Rita Gam

Synopsis Post WWII yarn about a young GI abducted by the Soviets in West Berlin and hauled off to the East. His recovery gets complicated as Colonel Steve Van Dyke (Peck) tries to sort out the usefulness of informants, spies, bureaucrats,...

5.9

165 votes

5.9

165 votes

It Happened to Jane

1959 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Richard Quine

Cast Jack Lemmon · Doris Day · Ernie Kovacs · Steve Forrest

Synopsis Jane Osgood is trying to support her two young children by running a lobster business. After one of her shipments is ruined by inattention at the railroad station, Jane decides to take on Harry Foster Malone, director of the line...

5.8

417 votes

5.8

417 votes

Lord Love a Duck

1966 · Movie · 105 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction George Axelrod

Cast Roddy McDowall · Tuesday Weld · Lola Albright · Martin West

Synopsis High-school senior Barbara Ann Greene has a lot to overcome to reach her dreams to be popular, get a job, find a husband, and maybe even be a movie star: she's poor, her parents are divorced, and her mother is...

5.7

24 votes

5.7

24 votes

The Moonshine War

1970 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Richard Quine

Cast Patrick McGoohan · Richard Widmark · Alan Alda · Melodie Johnson

Synopsis 1932: The Moonshine War. The 18th amendment prohibited drinking. It didn't say a word about killing, double-crossing or blowing things up.

5.5

70 votes

5.5

70 votes

Destination Gobi

1953 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Richard Widmark · Don Taylor · Max Showalter · Murvyn Vye

Synopsis A group of US Navy weathermen taking measurements in the Gobi desert in World War II are forced to seek the help of Mongol nomads to regain their ship while under attack from the Japanese air force. The Mongols are...

5.5

181 votes

5.5

181 votes

Dragoon Wells Massacre

1957 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Harold D. Schuster

Cast Barry Sullivan · Dennis O'Keefe · Mona Freeman · Katy Jurado

Synopsis A cavalry officer, the sole survivor of an Indian attack, and a wagon load of prisoners travel through hostile Indian country.

5.1

62 votes

5.1

62 votes

10

1979 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Dudley Moore · Bo Derek · Julie Andrews · Robert Webber

Synopsis On the night of his 42nd birthday, George Webber, a popular songwriter, begins showing symptoms of "middle-age crisis." Over the succeeding weeks, he finds himself continually staring at young girls on the street, and he begins envying his high-living neighbor,...

5.1

4K votes

5.1

4K votes