Direction: Richard Thorpe
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Richard Thorpe. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
The Great Caruso
1951 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Mario Lanza · Ann Blyth · Dorothy Kirsten · Jarmila Novotna
Plot Loosely traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). He loves Musetta, in his home town of Naples, and then Dorothy, the daughter of one of the Metropolitan Opera's patrons....
5.8
216 votes
5.8
216 votes
Tarzan's Secret Treasure
1941 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Johnny Weissmuller · Maureen O'Sullivan · Johnny Sheffield · Reginald Owen
Plot A scientific expedition happens to discover that gold exits on Tarzan's escarpment. The villainous Medford and Vandermeer kidnap Jane and Boy to extort from Tarzan the location of the gold....
5.8
891 votes
5.8
891 votes
Her Highness and the Bellboy
1945 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Hedy Lamarr · Robert Walker · June Allyson · Carl Esmond
Plot A hotel bellboy is the unlikely choice to escort a visiting princess, over the protests of his invalid girlfriend.
5.8
30 votes
5.8
30 votes
Malaya
1949 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Spencer Tracy · James Stewart · Sydney Greenstreet · Valentina Cortese
Plot Newspaperman Royer convinces government officials of a plan to obtain rubber by stealing it out from under the Japanese. Carnahan is let out of prison to help. While taking out...
5.8
140 votes
5.8
140 votes
Vengeance Valley
1951 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Burt Lancaster · Robert Walker · Joanne Dru · Ray Collins
Plot An honest rancher tries to block his evil brother''s plots while keeping them from their father.
5.7
748 votes
5.7
748 votes
The Last Challenge
1967 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Glenn Ford · Angie Dickinson · Chad Everett · Gary Merrill
Plot Marshal Dan Blaine (Glenn Ford), a former gunslinger, now works on the side of law and order defending his Western town. Now, a young troublemaker, Lot McGuire (Chad Everett), rides...
5.6
464 votes
5.6
464 votes
The Crowd Roars
1938 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Robert Taylor · Edward Arnold · Frank Morgan · Maureen O'Sullivan
Plot A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy does for a living.
5.6
45 votes
5.6
45 votes
The Prodigal
1955 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Lana Turner · Edmund Purdom · Louis Calhern · Audrey Dalton
Plot A young Hebrew named Micah, unsatisfied with his father's rural life, demands his inheritance so he can try his luck in the city. Once in the city he falls under...
5.6
91 votes
5.6
91 votes
Jailhouse Rock
1957 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Elvis Presley · Judy Tyler · Mickey Shaughnessy · Vaughn Taylor
Plot Vince Everett is serving a one-year jail sentence for manslaughter. While in the big house, his cellmate, a former country singer, introduces him to the record business. Everett takes to...
5.6
1K votes
5.6
1K votes
Killers of Kilimanjaro
1959 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Robert Taylor · Anthony Newley · Anne Aubrey · Grégoire Aslan
Plot An engineer must overcome local tribesmen, Arab slave traders and wild animals to build the first East African railway
5.5
134 votes
5.5
134 votes
It's a Big Country
1951 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown · Don Hartman · John Sturges · Richard Thorpe
Cast Ethel Barrymore · Keefe Brasselle · Gary Cooper · Nancy Reagan
Plot The story, told in eight episodes, covers different facets of the American Spirit, from racial and religious tolerance to the dangers of self-centeredness and myopic reasoning.
5.3
34 votes
5.3
34 votes
The Tartars
1961 · Movie · 83 min. · Italy
Direction Richard Thorpe · Ferdinando Baldi
Cast Orson Welles · Victor Mature · Liana Orfei · Arnoldo Foà
5.2
28 votes
5.2
28 votes
The Student Prince
1954 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Ann Blyth · Edmund Purdom · John Ericson · Louis Calhern
Plot A young Prince, Karl, from a small sub-kingdom of the German Empire near the turn of the 20th century is sent off to get a university education in Heidelberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg....
5.1
45 votes
5.1
45 votes
On an Island with You
1948 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Esther Williams · Peter Lawford · Ricardo Montalban · Jimmy Durante
Plot A young navy lieutenant is brought in as techninical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being made by screen star Rosalind Reynolds. Having once done a number with her - and...
5.1
44 votes
5.1
44 votes
A Date with Judy
1948 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Wallace Beery · Jane Powell · Elizabeth Taylor · Carmen Miranda
Plot Developed from a radio program which began in 1941, hyperactive teenager Judy challenges and is challeged by her overly proper parents, pest of a brother Randolph and boyfriend Oogie
5.1
79 votes
5.1
79 votes
Tip on a Dead Jockey
1957 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Robert Taylor · Dorothy Malone · Marcel Dalio · Martin Gabel
5.0
29 votes
5.0
29 votes
That Funny Feeling
1965 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Sandra Dee · Bobby Darin · Donald O´Connor · Nita Talbot
Plot Love happens in the most unexpected places. Sandra Dee stars as a struggling actress who is embarrassed of where her and her room-mate live, so instead of allowing the man...
4.8
54 votes
4.8
54 votes
Fiesta
1947 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Esther Williams · Akim Tamiroff · Ricardo Montalban · John Carroll
4.7
39 votes
4.7
39 votes
The Truth About Spring
1965 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Hayley Mills · John Mills · James MacArthur · Lionel Jeffries
Plot Tommy Tyler a lazy Caribbean sailor and his tom-boy daughter, Spring are out to search for a buried treasure. Tommy brings aboard William Ashton, a young lawyer to help with...
4.7
39 votes
4.7
39 votes
Fun in Acapulco
1963 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Elvis Presley · Ursula Andress · Paul Lukas · Alejandro Rey
4.4
476 votes
4.4
476 votes