Cast: Alexander Scourby

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


The Big Heat

1953 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Glenn Ford · Gloria Grahame · Lee Marvin · Jocelyn Brando

Synopsis Dave Bannion is an upright but unscrupulous cop on the trail of a vicious gang he suspects holds power over the police force. Bannion is tipped off after a colleague's suicide and his fellow officers' suspicious silence lead him to...

8.1

11K votes

8.1

11K votes

Direction William F. Claxton

Cast Kenneth Haigh · Alexander Scourby · Simon Scott · Robert Warwick

Synopsis Trying to find his way home after a dogfight in World War I, Royal Flying Corps Flt. Lt. William Terrance Decker lands at a U.S. Air Force base 42 years into the future. No one believes him when he claims...

6.8

169 votes

6.8

169 votes

Seven Thieves

1960 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Rod Steiger · Joan Collins · Eli Wallach

Synopsis A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull off one last job--the casino vault in Monte Carlo.

6.4

282 votes

6.4

282 votes

Me and the Colonel

1958 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Peter Glenville

Cast Danny Kaye · Curd Jürgens · Nicole Maurey · Françoise Rosay

Synopsis During the invasion of France by Nazi Germany, a shy, intelligent Jewish refugee tries to flee from the Nazis with the aid of an anti-Semitic, autocratic, brave Polish Colonel who is trying to smuggle papers to England. Their dysfunctional partnership...

6.4

70 votes

6.4

70 votes

The Devil at Four O'Clock

1961 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Spencer Tracy · Frank Sinatra · Jean-Pierre Aumont · Kerwin Mathews

Synopsis When a volcano erupts near a children's hospital in the South Pacific, three convicts and a priest must rescue the patients and staff. This forerunner of the volcano disaster pics of 1997 features a solid-gold cast.

6.4

947 votes

6.4

947 votes

Jesus

1979 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction John Krish · Peter Sykes

Cast Brian Deacon · Rivka Neuman · Niko Nitai · Joseph Shiloach

Synopsis Jesus of Nazareth,the son of God raised by a Jewish carpenter. Based on the gospel of Luke in the New Testament, here is the life of Jesus from the miraculous virgin birth to the calling of his disciples, public miracles...

6.3

64 votes

6.3

64 votes

Ransom!

1956 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Alex Segal

Cast Glenn Ford · Donna Reed · Leslie Nielsen · Juano Hernández

Synopsis The Stannard's son is kidnapped for ransom. Plot centres around Ford's (the father) efforts to find him.

6.3

183 votes

6.3

183 votes

Affair in Trinidad

1952 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Rita Hayworth · Glenn Ford · Alexander Scourby · Valerie Bettis

Synopsis When Steve Emery arrives in Trinidad at the urgent request of his brother, he is stunned to find that his brother has not only been murdered, but that his brother's wife Chris is succumbing to the seduction attempts of the...

6.2

494 votes

6.2

494 votes

Sign of the Pagan

1954 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Jeff Chandler · Jack Palance · Ludmilla Tcherina · Rita Gam

Synopsis Roman centurion Marcian is captured by Attila the Hun en route to Constantinople, but escapes. On arrival, he finds the eastern Roman emperor Theodosius plotting with Attila to look the other way while the latter marches against Rome. But Marcian...

5.8

706 votes

5.8

706 votes

Man on a String

1960 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction André De Toth

Cast Ernest Borgnine · Kerwin Mathews · Colleen Dewhurst · Alexander Scourby

Synopsis An unexceptional spy drama by Andre De Toth, Man on a String is based on an autobiography by counterspy Boris Morros, here given the name of Boris Mitrov and played by Ernest Borgnine. Mitrov was born in Russia but had...

5.7

29 votes

5.7

29 votes

The Shaggy Dog

1959 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Charles Barton

Cast Fred MacMurray · Jean Hagen · Tommy Kirk · Annette Funicello

Synopsis After years of on-the-job clashes with cranky canines, mail carrier Wilson Daniels sees man's best friend as his worst enemy. This makes for one hairy situation when a magical ring accidentally transforms his teenage son Wilby into a lumbering sheepdog!...

5.5

66 votes

5.5

66 votes

The Big Fisherman

1959 · Movie · 180 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Howard Keel · Susan Kohner · John Saxon · Martha Hyer

Synopsis The lush romanticism of director Frank Borzage (Seventh Heaven, Street Angel) is subsumed by the plodding reverence of producer Rowland V. Lee's screenplay (co-written with Howard Estabrook), based on the best-selling novel by Lloyd C. Douglas. Howard Keel stars as...

5.5

43 votes

5.5

43 votes

The Redhead from Wyoming

1953 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Lee Sholem

Cast Maureen O'Hara · Alex Nicol · William Bishop · Robert Strauss

Synopsis In Wyoming Territory, a range war is brewing between entrenched cattle barons and new settlers. Cattle king Reece Duncan is opposed by ambitious gambler Jim Averell, who imports his old flame, shapely saloon queen Kate Maxwell, and sets her up...

5.1

91 votes

5.1

91 votes

The Executioner

1970 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sam Wanamaker

Cast George Peppard · Joan Collins · Judy Geeson · Oskar Homolka

Synopsis A British intelligence agent must track down a fellow spy suspected of being a double agent.

5.0

54 votes

5.0

54 votes

The Silver Chalice

1954 · Movie · 142 min. · United States

Direction Victor Saville

Cast Paul Newman · Virginia Mayo · Pier Angeli · Jack Palance

Synopsis A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels to Jerusalem and eventually to Rome to complete the task. Meanwhile, a...

4.6

400 votes

4.6

400 votes

Studio One (TV Series)

1948 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Paul Nickell · Franklin J. Schaffner · Allen Reisner · Robert Mulligan

Cast Al Markim · Alexander Scourby · Arthur Storch · Casey Allen

Synopsis Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. A total of 466 episodes aired on CBS between 1948 and 1958. The program appeared in various time slots before finally settling in on Monday...

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Because of You

1952 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Pevney

Cast Loretta Young · Jeff Chandler · Alex Nicol · Frances Dee

Synopsis Blonde 'doll' Christine Carroll finds too late that her fiancée Mike is a gangster and she's his unwitting accessory. Emerging from prison with dark hair and an interest in nursing, she becomes a nurse's aide in a war hospital where...

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With These Hands

1950 · Documentary · 52 min. · United States

Direction Jack Arnold

Cast Sam Levene · Arlene Francis · Joseph Wiseman · Louis Sorin

Synopsis Film produced by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union -- featuring several well-known Broadway actors -- recreates Triangle Fire of 1913 and compares working conditions of the 1910's with the 1950's.

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Cain's Hundred (TV Series)

1961 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction John Peyser · Tom Gries · Boris Sagal · Robert Gist

Cast Peter Mark Richman · Gene Coogan · Eddie Hice · Gavin MacLeod

Synopsis A former underworld lawyer goes to work for the Federal Government, determined to bring one hundred top criminals to justice.

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