Cast: Jay Novello

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


Crime Wave

1954 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction André De Toth

Cast Sterling Hayden · Gene Nelson · Phyllis Kirk · Ted de Corsia

Plot Three San Quentin escapees (Penny, Hastings and Morgan) kill a cop in a gas-station holdup. Wounded, Morgan flees through black-shadowed streets to the handiest refuge: with former cellmate Steve Lacey,...

7.0

658 votes

7.0

658 votes

Operation Secret

1952 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Cornel Wilde · Steve Cochran · Phyllis Thaxter · Karl Malden

Plot While under attack by German forces, a French army unit discovers there is a traitor in their midst, feeding the Germans information.

6.4

70 votes

6.4

70 votes

The Mad Magician

1954 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction John Brahm

Cast Vincent Price · Mary Murphy · Eva Gabor · John Emery

Plot Don Gallico is a master at designing magical illusions which are sold by his employer, Mr. Ormond, to famous magicians such as Rinaldi. He is also a master of disguise...

6.2

97 votes

6.2

97 votes

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands

1948 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Norman Foster

Cast Joan Fontaine · Burt Lancaster · Robert Newton · Lewis L. Russell

Plot Bill Saunders, disturbed ex-soldier, kills a man in a postwar London pub brawl. Fleeing, he hides out in the apartment of lonely nurse Jane Wharton. Later, despite misgivings about his...

6.2

281 votes

6.2

281 votes

The Comic

1969 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Carl Reiner

Cast Dick Van Dyke · Michele Lee · Mickey Rooney · Cornel Wilde

Plot A fictionalized account of the rise and fall of a silent film comic, Billy Bright. The movie begins with his funeral, as he speaks from beyond the grave in a...

6.2

35 votes

6.2

35 votes

The Perfect Furlough

1958 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Tony Curtis · Janet Leigh · Linda Cristal · Keenan Wynn

Plot To pacify 104 sex-starved male soldiers building an Arctic radar base, Army psychologist Vicki Loren suggests choosing one by lot to have a "perfect furlough" as selected by the men:...

5.9

333 votes

5.9

333 votes

Escape from Zahrain

1962 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Yul Brynner · Sal Mineo · Jack Warden · Anthony Caruso

Plot The film is set in the fictional state of Zahrain located in the Arabian Peninsula. The main characters are part of a group of condemned prisoners who flee across the...

5.7

60 votes

5.7

60 votes

They Met in Bombay

1941 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Clark Gable · Rosalind Russell · Peter Lorre · Jessie Ralph

Plot The best-laid plans of jewel thief Gable and lady crook Russell fall apart when the thief unintentionally becomes a hero while posing as a British officer.

5.6

31 votes

5.6

31 votes

The Gambler from Natchez

1954 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

5.5

63 votes

5.5

63 votes

The Domino Principle

1977 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Gene Hackman · Candice Bergen · Richard Widmark · Mickey Rooney

Plot Roy Tucker is a chronic underachiever and a loser. A Vietnam war veteran who just can't seem to keep out of trouble, in the years since his discharge. The only...

5.5

243 votes

5.5

243 votes

A Very Special Favor

1965 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

5.4

157 votes

5.4

157 votes

Lisbon

1956 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Ray Milland

Cast Ray Milland · Maureen O'Hara · Claude Rains · Yvonne Furneaux

Plot High stakes battle of wits and morals between gentlemen crooks, set in beautiful Portugal.

5.3

68 votes

5.3

68 votes

The Pride and the Passion

1957 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Cary Grant · Frank Sinatra · Sophia Loren · Theodore Bikel

Plot During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are going to move a big cannon across Spain in order to help the British defeat...

5.3

993 votes

5.3

993 votes

Atlantis, the Lost Continent

1961 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction George Pal

Cast Sal Ponti · Joyce Taylor · John Dall · William Smith

Plot While at sea, the Greek fisherman Dmitrius (Sal Ponti, as Anthony Hall) finds a girl adrift and rescues her. She claims to be Antilea (Joyce Taylor), a Princess of Atlantis....

5.1

142 votes

5.1

142 votes

The Lost World

1960 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Irwin Allen

Cast Michael Rennie · Jill St. John · David Hedison · Claude Rains

Plot Professor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there.

5.0

257 votes

5.0

257 votes

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef

1953 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Robert D. Webb

Cast Robert Wagner · Terry Moore · Gilbert Roland · J. Carrol Naish

Plot Mike and Tony Petrakis are a Greek father and son team who dive for sponges off the coast of Florida. After they are robbed by crooks, Arnold and the Rhys...

5.0

241 votes

5.0

241 votes

The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima

1952 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction John Brahm

Cast Susan Whitney · Sherry Jackson · Carl Milletaire · Sammy Ogg

Plot In 1917, three shepherd children living just outside Fatima, Portugal have visions of a lovely lady in a cloud. The anticlerical government wishes to squelch the Church; reports of religious...

4.9

94 votes

4.9

94 votes

Harum Scarum

1965 · Movie · min. · United States

4.1

61 votes

4.1

61 votes

Smuggler's Island

1951 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Edward Ludwig

Cast Jeff Chandler · Evelyn Keyes · Philip Friend · Marvin Miller

Plot Ex-Navy man Steve Kent, struggling to make a living in Macao, is approached by beautiful Vivian Craig. She wants to hire him and his boat to retrieve some medicine from...

Not rated

Not rated

The Adventures of Smilin' Jack (TV Series)

1943 · Series · 265 min. · United States

Direction Lewis D. Collins · Ray Taylor

Cast Tom Brown · Rose Hobart · Edgar Barrier · Marjorie Lord

Plot Just before World War II, the Chinese and American governments mount a joint operation to prevent the Germans and Japanese from taking over the strategic island of Mandon.

Not rated

Not rated