Direction: Phil Karlson

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast Preston Foster · Mary Stuart · William Bishop

Synopsis Texas rancher Scotty Mason goes into the Mexican desert-country in search of a wild horse, and takes his young wife, Margarita and his hired-hand, The Kid, whose life Scotty had saved a few years earlier. The Kid falls in love...

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast Broderick Crawford · Donna Reed · John Derek · Rosemary DeCamp

Synopsis A newspaper man takes over an ailing New York daily newspaper and revives it as a scandal sheet by staging a number of publicity stunts. The man's wife, whom he left penniless years ago, resurfaces and threatens to blackmail him....

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast John McIntire · Richard Kiley · Kathryn Grant · Edward Andrews

Synopsis Based on actual events, The Phenix City Story tells the tale of a wide-open "Sin City" in Alabama where gambling, prostitution, and any number of other vices were tolerated openly by the law, most of it centered on the main...

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast John Payne · Evelyn Keyes · Brad Dexter · Frank Faylen

Synopsis Having lost his heavyweight championship match, boxer Ernie Driscoll now drives a taxi for a living and earns the scorn of his nagging wife, Pauline, who blames him for her lack of social status. She's seeing Vic Rawlins, a career...

Direction Walter Grauman · Stuart Rosenberg · Paul Wendkos · John Peyser

Cast Robert Stack · Nicholas Georgiade · Abel Fernandez · Paul Picerni

Synopsis TV Series (1959-1963). 4 Seasons. 119 Episodes. Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptable agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast John Payne · Preston Foster · Lee Van Cleef · Coleen Gray

Synopsis Phil Karlson's low budget, B-grade film noir, opens on a Kansas City armored-car robbery perpetrated by cynical, corrupt ex-policeman Timothy Foster. He devises an outrageous scheme: he will recruit three of the most vicious and unrelenting criminals he can find...

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast Van Heflin · Tab Hunter · Kathryn Grant · James Darren

Synopsis Rancher Lee Hackett is one of the old breed, used to making his own laws and settling things with a gun. He has tried to make his two sons in his own image, and with the elder he has more...

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast Richard Conte · Dianne Foster · Kathryn Grant · Larry Gates

Synopsis A reformed mob accountant tries to get to his gangster brother before the criminals can.

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast Ginger Rogers · Edward G. Robinson · Brian Keith · Lucy Marlow

Synopsis Sherry Conley, a street tough and cynical woman with an unhappy family background, is taken from prison to a hotel, where the DA tries to convince her to testify against a mobster. Sherry is reluctant because the last witness was...

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast Robert Stack · Keenan Wynn · Barbara Nichols · Pat Crowley

Synopsis Special Agent Eliot Ness (Robert Stack) forms The Untouchables, an elite squad of incorruptible lawmen, in order to bring down underworld kingpin Al Capone. First televised as a two-part episode of the Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse in April 1959, The Untouchables...

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast Joe Don Baker · Conny Van Dyke · Gabriel Dell · John Marley

Synopsis Gambler Ron Lewis wins the jackpot but is ambushed later on the street outside. In self defense he kills a cop and is sentenced to four years of prison. He vows to make a bloody revenge on the mayor and...

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast Jeffrey Hunter · Pat Crowley · Dennis Hopper · Joby Baker

Synopsis An average Los Angeles citizen witnesses a gang murder when he stops to use a telephone. Aware that he is the only witness against them, the gang members seek out his identity and terrorize him and his family to keep...

Direction Phil Karlson · Richard Widmark

Cast Richard Widmark · Sonja Ziemann · Charles Régnier · Walter Rilla

Synopsis Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Mike Reynolds is hired to help a threatened Hungarian scientist (Prof. Jansci) escape from Budapest. He and Julia, the professor's daughter, cross the boulder posing as journalists, but they encounter...

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast John Payne · Mary Murphy · Francis L. Sullivan · Eduardo Noriega

Synopsis Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's disappearance, is his ex-girlfriend.

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast Jeffrey Hunter · David Janssen · Vic Damone · Patricia Owens

Synopsis When his adoptive Japanese-American family is sent to Manzanar after Pearl Harbor, a young Chicano enlists in the marines to become a hero in the Battle of Saipan.

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast Joe Don Baker · Elizabeth Hartman · Gene Evans · Noah Beery Jr.

Synopsis Based on the life of Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser whom almost single-handily cleaned up his small town of crime and corruption, but at a personal cost of his family life and nearly his own life.

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast Lee Montgomery · Joseph Campanella · Arthur O'Connell · Rosemary Murphy

Synopsis This sequel to the rampaging-rodent chiller Willard (1971) stars Lee H. Montgomery as young Danny Garrison, a neglected kid who finds a new little friend in Ben -- an intelligent rat whose furry minions managed to slaughter most of the...

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast Lon McCallister · Peggy Ann Garner · Preston Foster · Forrest Tucker

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast Adele Jergens · Marilyn Monroe · Rand Brooks · Nana Bryant

Synopsis Former burlesque star May and her daughter Peggy dance in the chorus. When May has a fight with featured dancer Bubbles, Bubbles leaves the show and Peggy takes her place. When Peggy falls in love with wealthy Randy, May fears...

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast Anthony Quinn · Katherine DeMille · Raymond Hatton · Thurston Hall

Synopsis In the early 1920s, in the desert near the Texas-Mexico border, Charley Eagle (Anthony Quinn), is Indian who owns a small, hardscrabble ranch and is training a horse, "Black Hope,". He thinks that the horse is capable of running in,...