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
Direction Henry Levin
Cast Dale Robertson · Debra Paget · Thomas Gomez · Lisa Daniels
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
Direction Michael Gordon
Cast Rock Hudson · Leslie Caron · Charles Boyer · Walter Slezak
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
Direction Gene Nelson
Cast Elvis Presley · Mary Ann Mobley · Frank Jeffries · Michael Ansara
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...
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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.
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