Cast: Phyllis Thaxter

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


Act of Violence

1949 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Van Heflin · Robert Ryan · Janet Leigh · Mary Astor

Synopsis War veteran Frank Enley seems to be a happily married small-town citizen until he realises Joe Parkson is in town. It seems Parkson is out for revenge because of something that happened in a German POW camp, and when a...

7.2

450 votes

7.2

450 votes

No Man of Her Own

1950 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · John Lund · Jane Cowl · Phyllis Thaxter

Synopsis Helen Ferguson (Stanwyck) is a pregnant girl who assumes a new identity and whose past catches up with her in blackmail and murder.

7.2

519 votes

7.2

519 votes

6.9

377 votes

Superman: The Movie

1978 · Movie · 143 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Donner

Cast Christopher Reeve · Marlon Brando · Gene Hackman · Margot Kidder

Synopsis Chronicles the origins of Superman - rocketed from the dying planet Krypton by his scientist father Jor-El, Kal-El arrives on Earth and is taken in by the Kents. After his adopted father dies, Kal-El (named Clark) discovers his origins and...

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6.7

79K votes

6.7

79K votes

Come Fill the Cup

1951 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast James Cagney · Phyllis Thaxter · Raymond Massey · James Gleason

Synopsis Alcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley Dolan. After six years on the wagon he gets his job back and devotes himself to other recovering alcoholics. His boss enlists his help to sober...

6.6

48 votes

6.6

48 votes

The Sea of Grass

1947 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Spencer Tracy · Katharine Hepburn · Robert Walker · Melvyn Douglas

Synopsis Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy star as a husband and wife on America's frontier; cattlemen in a "sea of grass". The wife has an affair which produces a child, and she is ostracized from the community. Meanwhile, the farmers watch...

6.6

687 votes

6.6

687 votes

Springfield Rifle

1952 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction André De Toth

Cast Gary Cooper · Phyllis Thaxter · David Brian · Paul Kelly

Synopsis Major Lex Kearney, dishonorably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, has actually volunteered to go undercover to try to prevent raids against shipments of horses desperately needed for the Union war effort.

6.5

917 votes

6.5

917 votes

Direction John Meredyth Lucas

Cast Ralph Meeker · Phyllis Thaxter · Ralph Clanton · Vinton Hayworth

Synopsis Marital discord between writer Carl Borden and his wife Annette intensifies when poison is found in his food.

6.4

23 votes

6.4

23 votes

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Burt Lancaster · Charles Bickford · Steve Cochran · Phyllis Thaxter

Synopsis True story of Native American Jim Thorpe, who rose from an Oklahoma reservation to become a collegiate, Olympic, and professional star. After his medals are stripped on a technicality and his dream of coaching is shattered, Thorpe's life begins to...

6.4

147 votes

6.4

147 votes

Operation Secret

1952 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

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

Synopsis 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

Direction John Brahm

Cast Phyllis Thaxter · Alex Nicol · Wallace Rooney · Helen Brown

Synopsis Newlywed Alex Walker finds himself being pulled back to his childhood and back to his widowed mother in the house where he grew up.

6.3

61 votes

6.3

61 votes

Blood on the Moon

1948 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Robert Mitchum · Barbara Bel Geddes · Robert Preston · Walter Brennan

Synopsis When a shady-looking stranger rides into town to join his old friend it is assumed he is a hired gun. But as the new man comes to realise the unlawful nature of his buddy's business and the way the homesteaders...

6.3

425 votes

6.3

425 votes

Thirty Seconds over Tokyo

1944 · Movie · 138 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Spencer Tracy · Van Johnson · Robert Walker · Robert Mitchum

Synopsis This is the story of the famed raid over Tokyo in April 1942 led by Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle. The film concentrates on Lt. Ted Lawson the commander of a B25, the 'Ruptured Duck', and its crew. Having accepted the...

6.3

574 votes

6.3

574 votes

Women's Prison

1955 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Ida Lupino · Jan Sterling · Cleo Moore · Audrey Totter

Synopsis A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.

5.9

34 votes

5.9

34 votes

Direction Robert Stevens

Cast Phyllis Thaxter · Louise Allbritton · Warren Stevens · Jack Mullaney

Synopsis Karen Stewart has once again broken her promise not to drink anymore, and now she is in a strange bed, injured, with no memory of what happened the night before.

5.9

74 votes

5.9

74 votes

Direction Herschel Daugherty

Cast Alfred Hitchcock · Phyllis Thaxter · Paul Langton · George Grizzard

Synopsis When her husband goes away on a business trip, Mary Summers is all alone in her house--and gripped with a nameless fear. Then an escaped mental patient breaks in.

5.7

23 votes

5.7

23 votes

Week-End at the Waldorf

1945 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Ginger Rogers · Lana Turner · Walter Pidgeon · Van Johnson

Synopsis Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one...

5.7

42 votes

5.7

42 votes

Living in a Big Way

1947 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Gregory La Cava

Cast Gene Kelly · Marie McDonald · Charles Winninger · Phyllis Thaxter

Synopsis Leo Gogarty marries Margaud Morgan after a whirlwind romance just before shipping out to war. When he returns he is surprised to discover not only that his bride is not what she led him to believe, but also that she...

5.4

32 votes

5.4

32 votes

The World of Henry Orient

1964 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction George Roy Hill

Cast Peter Sellers · Paula Prentiss · Angela Lansbury · Tom Bosley

Synopsis In New York City, adolescent friends Gil and Val follow pianist Henry Orient all over town, while he tries to seduce Stella, a married woman. When Val's parents arrive for Christmas holidays, the two girls are forced to grow up...

5.4

495 votes

5.4

495 votes