Cast: Roddy McDowall

Direction John Ford

Cast Walter Pidgeon · Maureen O'Hara · Roddy McDowall · Donald Crisp

Synopsis This story of a Welsh valley's turn-of-the-century descent from pristine paradise to despoiled coal mining region, is told in flashback form by Huw Morgan, an old man who has decided to leave the valley forever. Huw is the youngest in...

Direction Rod Serling · John Brahm · Douglas Heyes · Buzz Kulik

Cast Rod Serling · Burgess Meredith · Vaughn Taylor · Jack Klugman

Synopsis TV series (1959-1964). 5 Seasons. 156 Episodes. Rod Serling's seminal anthology series focused on ordinary folks who suddenly found themselves in extraordinary, usually supernatural, situations. The stories would typically end with an ironic twist that would see the guilty punished.

Direction Franklin J. Schaffner

Cast Charlton Heston · Roddy McDowall · Kim Hunter · Maurice Evans

Synopsis Complex sociological themes run through this science-fiction classic, about three astronauts marooned on a futuristic planet where apes rule and humans are slaves... The stunned trio discovers that these highly intellectual simians can both walk upright and talk. They have...

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Orson Welles · Jeanette Nolan · Dan O'Herlihy · Roddy McDowall

Synopsis Macbeth, a loyal henchman to his crime boss, Duncan, is told by teenage witches that he will one day assume great power. Driven by their prophecy, he plots with his wife to kill Duncan, and takes the leadership of the...

Direction Ken Annakin · Andrew Marton · Bernhard Wicki

Cast John Wayne · Robert Mitchum · Henry Fonda · Richard Burton

Synopsis England in June 1944. Unseasonal storms. Allied troops are massed ready for the invasion of France, some already on the boats. The Normandy beaches will be their destination while paratroopers are dropped inland to take key towns and bridges. On...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Richard Burton · Rex Harrison · Roddy McDowall

Synopsis In 1963, this colossal and opulent $60 million spectacular was epic in every sense of the word -- an epic investment, an epic in the annals of Hollywood gossip, and, ultimately, an epic flop that nearly dragged 20th Century Fox...

Direction Andrew Eaton

Cast Lindsay Anderson · Harry Carey Jr. · Charles B. Fitzsimons · Dan Ford

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Walter Pidgeon · Joan Bennett · George Sanders · Roddy McDowall

Synopsis British hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gunsight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German agents and aided by a prostitute.

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Gregory Peck · Vincent Price · Thomas Mitchell · Rose Stradner

Synopsis A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area of the world,...

Direction Gene Kelly

Cast Fred Astaire · Gene Kelly · Judy Garland · Mickey Rooney

Synopsis Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.

Direction John Huston

Cast Paul Newman · Ava Gardner · Jacqueline Bisset · Victoria Principal

Synopsis A comic take on the legendary hanging judge, Roy Bean. Told through a series of vignettes, the story covers different stages of Bean's life, from his arrival in the town of Vinegaroon where he sets himself up as judge, through...

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Tyrone Power · Gene Tierney · George Sanders · Frances Farmer

Synopsis Cheated out of his estate by his sadistic uncle, young Benjamin Blake goes to the South Seas to make his fortune so he can return to claim his birthright.

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Angela Lansbury · David Tomlinson · Roddy McDowall · Sam Jaffe

Synopsis When a mail-order apprentice witch (Angela Lansbury) is saddled with three sibling refugees from London during World War II, the outlook is grim. But the kids soon discover her secret and sign on for adventure in the name of England....

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Robert Mitchum · Dean Martin · Roddy McDowall · Inger Stevens

Synopsis Ray Gaulden's novel comes to the screen in this western murder mystery. In a small Colorado town, a man is caught cheating in poker game and is promptly lynched. The town then falls into a panic as the five members...

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Gene Hackman · Ernest Borgnine · Red Buttons · Carol Lynley

Synopsis When an earthquake sends a tidal wave over a luxury liner on New Year's Eve the top-heavy vessel capsizes.

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Roddy McDowall · Susan Oliver · Paul Comi · Byron Morrow

Synopsis Biologist Sam Conrad is scheduled to go on a mission to Mars and is genuinely concerned about what they will find there. The mission commander, Mark Marcusson, tells him there's nothing to worry about as he firmly believes that God...

Direction Boris Sagal · Barry Shear · Steven Spielberg

Cast Joan Crawford · Ossie Davis · Richard Kiley · Roddy McDowall

Synopsis In the pilot of the television series "Night Gallery" (1970), Rod Serling introduces three separate paintings, each with its own story of uncanny vengeance against evil to tell. The first involves a black sheep nephew (Roddy McDowall) who murders his...

Direction Kevin Burns · David Comtois

Cast Roddy McDowall · Charlton Heston · Kim Hunter · Franklin J. Schaffner

Synopsis This documentary was shown as part of the American Movie Classics (AMC) cable TV channel's celebration of the 30th anniversary of the release of The Planet of the Apes. We learn how the original French novel was transformed into the...

Direction Guy Hamilton

Cast Peter Ustinov · Jane Birkin · Colin Blakely · Nicholas Clay

Synopsis Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate a case for an insurance company regarding firstly a dead woman's body found on a moor and then a important diamond sent to the company to be insured turns out to be a...

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Irene Dunne · Alan Marshal · Roddy McDowall · Frank Morgan

Synopsis It tells the story of an American girl who travels abroad to England and falls in love with an English aristocrat. The girl marries the Englishman but their honeymoon is cut short on its first day as World War I...