Cast: Max Showalter
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Max Showalter. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 32
The Twilight Zone: It's a Good Life (TV)
1961 · Movie · 25 min. · United States
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
The Monster That Challenged the World
1957 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Arnold Laven
Cast Tim Holt · Audrey Dalton · Hans Conried · Harlan Warde
5.4
97 votes
5.4
97 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