Cast: Ted de Corsia

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Sterling Hayden · Coleen Gray · Vince Edwards · Jay C. Flippen

Synopsis Based on Lionel White's crime novel 'Clean Break'. Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) is an ex-con with a plan to steal $2 million from a San Francisco racetrack. He assembles an odd collection of tough guys and moles to participate in...

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Orson Welles · Rita Hayworth · Everett Sloane · Glenn Anders

Synopsis A seaman, Michael O'Hara (Orson Welles), is hired as a crew member on the yacht of the wealthy Arthur Bannister (Everett Sloane). His beautiful but mysterious wife Elsa (Rita Hayworth) has met O'Hara earlier, when he saved her from a...

Direction John Sturges

Cast Burt Lancaster · Kirk Douglas · Rhonda Fleming · Jo Van Fleet

Synopsis Of all the film versions of the famed 1881 gunfight, this one, starring Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday, probably has the highest testosterone quotient. Focusing on the friendship between the forthright, responsible sheriff and...

Direction Bretaigne Windust · Raoul Walsh

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Zero Mostel · Ted de Corsia · Everett Sloane

Synopsis After years of pursuit, Assistant D.A. Martin Ferguson has a good case against Murder, Inc. boss Albert Mendoza. Mendoza is in jail and his lieutenant Joseph Rico is going to testify. But Rico falls to his death and Ferguson must...

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Barry Fitzgerald · Howard Duff · Dorothy Hart · Don Taylor

Synopsis In New York, the model Jean Dexter is found dead in the bathtub of her apartment apparently after committing suicide. However, the coroner realizes that she was actually murdered with a simulation of suicide, and the experienced Homicide Lieutenant Detective...

Direction Joseph H. Lewis

Cast Cornel Wilde · Richard Conte · Brian Donlevy · Jean Wallace

Synopsis Police Lt. Diamond (Cornel Wilde) is told to close his surveillance of suspected mob boss Mr. Brown (Richard Conte) because it's costing the department too much money with no results. Diamond makes one last attempt to uncover evidence against Brown...

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast Kirk Douglas · James Mason · Paul Lukas · Peter Lorre

Synopsis It is the 1860s and the seas are being terrorized by reports of a monster that is destroying shipping. The US government dispatches marine-life specialist Pierre Arronax to investigate aboard the warship Abraham Lincoln. They are about to give up...

Direction André De Toth

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

Synopsis 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, who's paroled, with a new life and lovely wife, and...

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast John Payne · Rhonda Fleming · Arlene Dahl · Kent Taylor

Synopsis Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison in custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" political candidate Frank Jansen. Ben Grace, associate of crime boss Sol Caspar, sees this as a way to smear Jansen's campaign. But after falling...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast William Holden · Edmond O'Brien · Alexis Smith · Tom Tully

Synopsis John Conroy, a crusading district attorney is tasked to crack down on a crime syndicate, which proves more dangerous because the mob has many city officials under their control. He's assisted by a newspaper man, Jerry McKibbon, who doesn't think...

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Steve McQueen · Karl Malden · Brian Keith · Arthur Kennedy

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Eleanor Parker · Patricia Neal · Ruth Roman · Frank Lovejoy

Synopsis A five-year-old-boy survives a plane crash in which his foster parents die. During the search for him, three women turn up, Susan, Phyllis and Ann, each of whom had given up a son to adoption five years earlier and believes...

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Ida Lupino · Martin Balsam · Jerome Cowan · Ted de Corsia

Synopsis The washed up actress Barbara Trenton is a woman stranded in her past, worshiping and watching her movies of twenty-five years ago in her glorious days. Her housemaid Sally is worried with her behavior and she tells to Barbara's friend...

Direction Alan Crosland Jr. · Eddie Davis · Walter Doniger · John Rich

Cast Gene Barry · Allison Hayes · Ken Drake · Troy Melton

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Mickey Rooney · Carolyn Jones · Cedric Hardwicke · Leo Gordon

Synopsis George "Babyface" Nelson becomes one of the most important gangsters of 1920s Chicago by making brutal robberies. In order to compete with Al Capone he allies himself with John Dillinger...

Direction John Farrow

Cast Robert Taylor · Ava Gardner · Howard Keel · Anthony Quinn

Synopsis Although cast totally against his usual image as not only a vicious killer but as the gun slinging subordinate to a character played by a lesser star, Robert Taylor must have welcomed this assignment from his longtime studio MGM. Taylor...

Direction Joseph Pevney

Cast Tony Curtis · Marisa Pavan · Gilbert Roland · Jay C. Flippen

Synopsis Beloved priest Father Thomasino is murdered in a San Francisco alley, and the police have few clues. But traffic cop Joe Martini becomes obsessed with finding the killer; he suspects Sylvio Malatesta. Ordered off the case, Joe turns in his...

Direction Richard Wilson

Cast Robert Mitchum · Jan Sterling · Karen Sharpe · Henry Hull

Synopsis A stranger comes to town looking for his estranged wife. He finds her running the local girls. He also finds a town and sheriff afraid of their own shadow, scared of a landowner they never see who rules through his...

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Ray Milland · Jean Peters · Paul Douglas · Ed Begley

Synopsis A college professor is working on a long term experiment when a baseball comes through the window destroying all his glassware. The resultant fluid causes the baseball to be repelled by wood. Suddenly he realizes the possibilities and takes a...

Direction Gordon Douglas · Henry Levin

Cast Glenn Ford · Evelyn Keyes · John Ireland · Beulah Bondi

Synopsis Just before Christmas, Joe Miracle, a returning WWII war hero, comes home to learn that gangster Barney Teener has taken over his nightclub and murdered Joe's partner. Joe loots the club's safe for $100,000 and then finds sanctuary in a...