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

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

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

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

4.4

476 votes

4.4

476 votes