Cast: Jason Robards Sr.

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Jason Robards Sr.. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Merry Widow

1934 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Maurice Chevalier · Jeanette MacDonald · Edward Everett Horton · Una Merkel

Synopsis Sonia is an immensely wealthy widow from Marshovia, a small country where she controls half the wealth. The country depends on her spending her money there and when she moves to Paris in the quest to find a husband, the...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Desperate

1947 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Steve Brodie · Audrey Long · Raymond Burr · Douglas Fowley

Synopsis When mobster Walt Radak tries to trick independent trucker Steve Randall into transporting stolen furs, Steve alerts the police, and Walt's young brother Al is caught and held for a cop-killing. When ruthless Radak tries to extort Steve's help in...

6.6

231 votes

6.6

231 votes

The Conquerors

1932 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

6.6

28 votes

6.6

28 votes

Direction H.C. Potter

Cast Cary Grant · Myrna Loy · Melvyn Douglas · Reginald Denny

Synopsis In Manhattan, the American middle class Jim Blandings lives with his wife Muriel and two teenage daughters in a four bedroom and one bathroom only leased apartment. Jim works in an advertising agency raising US$ 15,000.00 a year and feels...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

Abraham Lincoln

1930 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Walter Huston · Una Merkel · William L. Thorne · Lucille La Verne

Synopsis D.W. Griffith's first talking movie is the biography of Lincoln from his birth in a log cabin to his entry into politics and his years of power before his assassination in Ford's Theatre. It is sincere and straightforward as it...

6.5

478 votes

6.5

478 votes

Broadway Bill

1934 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Warner Baxter · Myrna Loy · Walter Connolly · Helen Vinson

Synopsis This comedy-drama was directed, and then -- over twenty years later -- remade, by Frank Capra. Dan Brooks cares more about his thoroughbred Broadway Bill than for his wife Margaret or his job at father-in-law J. L. Higgins's business. When...

6.5

294 votes

6.5

294 votes

Riffraff

1947 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Ted Tetzlaff

Cast Pat O'Brien · Anne Jeffreys · Walter Slezak · Percy Kilbride

Synopsis A plane takes off from Peru (in a long no-dialogue scene) in a storm with two passengers; it lands in Panama with one. The missing man had valuable oil-location maps; everyone who is after them must deal with Dan Hammer,...

6.3

31 votes

6.3

31 votes

Bedlam

1946 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Boris Karloff · Anna Lee · Billy House · Richard Fraser

Synopsis London, 18thcentury. Nell Bowen, the spirited protege of rich Lord Mortimer, becomes interested in the conditions of notorious St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum (Bedlam). Encouraged by the Quaker Hannay, she tries to bring support to reforming Bedlam, but the cruel...

6.2

516 votes

6.2

516 votes

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Simone Simon · John Emery · Kurt Kreuger · Alan Napier

Synopsis In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors. But when a Prussian officer holds the coach over, social standings are leveled and integrity and spirit are...

6.1

85 votes

6.1

85 votes

Isle of the Dead

1945 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Boris Karloff · Ellen Drew · Marc Cramer · Katherine Emery

Synopsis On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people, a superstitious old peasant woman, suspects one young girl of being a vampiric kind...

6.0

397 votes

6.0

397 votes

The Adventures of Marco Polo

1938 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Gary Cooper · Sigrid Gurie · Basil Rathbone · George Barbier

Synopsis Marco Polo travels from Venice to Peking, where he quickly discovers spaghetti and gunpowder and falls in love with the Emperor's daughter. The Emperor Kublai Khan is a kindly fellow, but his evil aide Ahmed wants to get rid of...

5.8

416 votes

5.8

416 votes

The Fatal Hour

1940 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction William Nigh

Cast Boris Karloff · Marjorie Reynolds · Grant Withers · Charles Trowbridge

Synopsis When Captain Street's best friend Dan O'Grady is murdered, Street enlists the help of Chinese detective James Lee Wong. Mr. Wong uncovers a smuggling ring on the waterfront of San Francisco and unmasks the killer, though not until several more...

5.6

26 votes

5.6

26 votes

Step by Step

1946 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Phil Rosen

Cast Lawrence Tierney · Anne Jeffreys · Lowell Gilmore · Myrna Dell

Synopsis Johnny, an ex-Marine, and Evelyn, a chance acquaintance, find themselves caught up in a plot involving Nazi spies in California.

5.1

51 votes

5.1

51 votes

The Bamboo Blonde

1946 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Frances Langford · Ralph Edwards · Russell Wade · Iris Adrian

Synopsis A nightclub singer is promoted when a likeness of her face is painted on a WWII bomber that goes on to sink Japanese battleships and down several enemy planes.

4.9

71 votes

4.9

71 votes

Damaged Lives

1933 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast Diane Sinclair · Lyman Williams · Harry Myers · Marceline Day

Synopsis An extramarital affair leads to a young couple contracting venereal disease.

4.8

21 votes

4.8

21 votes

Mystery Plane

1939 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction George Waggner

Cast John Trent · Marjorie Reynolds · Milburn Stone · Jason Robards Sr.

Synopsis An American pilot with a top-secret invention is kidnapped by foreign agents.

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Alaska Patrol

1949 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Jack Bernhard

Cast Richard Travis · Helen Westcott · Emory Parnell · Richard Fraser

Synopsis Spotted after he microfilms secret U.S. Navy documents, foreign agent Rattick is killed when he tries to make a getaway. Naval Intelligence officer Captain Wright and Operative Dale are assigned to investigate and determine who is behind the spy syndicate...

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Discarded Lovers

1932 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Fred C. Newmeyer

Cast Natalie Moorhead · Russell Hopton · J. Farrell MacDonald · Barbara Weeks

Synopsis In this murder mystery, sexy blonde film star Irma Gladden is found dead in her car after shooting the last scene in her film, "Falling Star," at Eminent Studios. The suspects are numerous due to her free-and-easy lifestyle and messy...

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Code of the West

1947 · Movie · 57 min. · United States

Direction William Berke

Cast James Warren · Debra Alden · John Laurenz · Steve Brodie

Synopsis Knowing the railroad is coming, Carter is after the rancher's land. Bob and Chito return just in time to save Banker Stockton and his money from Carter's men. When Stockton then lends the ranchers money, Carter has them burned out....

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