Direction: Roy Rowland

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Roy Rowland. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Our Vines Have Tender Grapes

1945 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Margaret O'Brien · James Craig · Agnes Moorehead

Synopsis An earnest rural melodrama set among Norwegian immigrants in Wisconsin, Our Vines Have Tender Grapes is a slightly updated version of George Victor Martin's 1940 novel. Edward G. Robinson stars as Martinius Jacobson, a farmer devoted to his wife Bruna...

6.9

100 votes

6.9

100 votes

Scene of the Crime

1949 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Van Johnson · Arlene Dahl · Gloria DeHaven · Tom Drake

Synopsis Homicide detective Mike Conovan investigates the shooting of fellow detective Monigan...who apparrently was moonlighting as guard for a bookie. He finds that all the bookies in town are being robbed, most upsetting to the racket bosses who can't get normal...

6.9

40 votes

6.9

40 votes

Rogue Cop

1954 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Robert Taylor · Janet Leigh · George Raft · Steve Forrest

Synopsis Detective Chris Kelvaney has a brother, Eddie, who also is a policeman. He witnessed a murderer running away from the scene of the crime. Chris has contacts with the gangster Beaumonte, who is willing to pay $15,000 if Eddie withdraws...

6.7

177 votes

6.7

177 votes

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.

1953 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Peter Lind Hayes · Mary Healy · Hans Conried · Tommy Rettig

Synopsis Ted Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, wrote and helped design this eccentric fantasy about a young boy named Bart (Tommy Rettig) who, like most young boys, doesn't enjoy his piano lessons with the mean-spirited Dr. Terwilliker (Hans Conried). He...

6.5

466 votes

6.5

466 votes

Witness to Murder

1954 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · George Sanders · Gary Merrill · Jesse White

Synopsis Cheryl Draper (Barbara Stanwyck) sees a murder through her bedroom window, but no one will believe her. She is stalked by the suave killer ('George Sanders'), who first takes steps to convince police she is crazy, but she has ally...

6.3

294 votes

6.3

294 votes

Many Rivers to Cross

1955 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Robert Taylor · Eleanor Parker · Victor McLaglen · Jeff Richards

Synopsis A coonskin-hat-wearing, fur-trapping frontiersmen (Robert Taylor) is set on making his fortune in the Northwest Territory. But that's easier said the done, especially when he passes through Barren River, Kentucky, and meets Mary Stuart Cherne (Eleanor Parker). She's a beautiful...

6.0

322 votes

6.0

322 votes

Gun Glory

1957 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Stewart Granger · Rhonda Fleming · Chill Wills · Steve Rowland

Synopsis Granger plays a gallant gunslinger whose town is endangered when cattlemen threaten to run a large herd through its farmlands.

5.9

319 votes

5.9

319 votes

Bugles in the Afternoon

1952 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Ray Milland · Helena Carter · Hugh Marlowe · Forrest Tucker

Synopsis Kern Shafter arrives at a Dakota army post to find it commanded by his old nemesis Edward Garnett. Shafter and Garnett despise each other, and the antagonism ripens in a competition for the affections of Josephine Russell, a beautiful young...

5.8

49 votes

5.8

49 votes

Meet Me in Las Vegas

1956 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Dan Dailey · Cyd Charisse · Agnes Moorehead · Lili Darvas

Synopsis Chuck Redwell is a gambling cowboy who discovers that he's lucky at the roulette wheel if he holds hands with dancer Marie. However, Marie doesn't like to hold hands with him, at least not in the beginning...

5.7

66 votes

5.7

66 votes

Affair with a Stranger

1953 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Jean Simmons · Victor Mature · Mary Jo Tarola · Monica Lewis

Synopsis When a TV gossip columnist wrongly announces that the marriage between now successful playwright William Blakeley and his wife Carolyn is breaking up, New York friends variously reminisce about how the two met and married.

5.5

48 votes

5.5

48 votes

The Outriders

1950 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Joel McCrea · Arlene Dahl · Barry Sullivan · Claude Jarman Jr.

Synopsis Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. They soon fall into the hands of pro-Confederate raiders, who force them to act as "outriders" (escorts) for a civilian wagon train that will...

5.4

105 votes

5.4

105 votes

The Girl Hunters

1963 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Mickey Spillane · Shirley Eaton · Scott Peters · Guy Kingsley

Synopsis Hammer has spent seven years in an alcoholic funk after the supposed death of his secretary, Velda. He is brought back to the land of the living by his old friendly enemy, police lieutenant Pat Chambers, who wants Hammer to...

5.0

54 votes

5.0

54 votes

4.4

51 votes

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Götz · Helmut Schmid · Alexandra Stewart · Daniel Martín

Synopsis A group of outlaws take over a small frontier town and plan to stay awhile. A gunslinger arrives and decides to help the citizens take their community back, but the gang refuses to give up easily.

4.1

45 votes

4.1

45 votes

Boys' Ranch

1946 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

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Sucker List (S)

1941 · Movie · 19 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Lynne Carver · Noel Madison · John Archer · George Cleveland

Synopsis The subject of this Crime Does Not Pay series entry is fraudulent racetrack touts. One method they use is distributing phony tip sheets of yesterday's winners at a local track. They also "accidentally" call people who are deep in debt...

Not rated

Not rated

The Romance of Rosy Ridge

1947 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Van Johnson · Thomas Mitchell · Janet Leigh · Marshall Thompson

Synopsis Janet Leigh makes an impressive debut alongside Van Johnson in this historical romance in which a farmer's daughter falls in love with a man who fought against her family in the Civil War. Into a Missouri farming community living in...

Not rated

Not rated

Hit the Deck

1955 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Jane Powell · Tony Martin · Debbie Reynolds · Walter Pidgeon

Synopsis Sailor Danny Xavier Smith and two other gobs try to save his sister Susan's virtue. She wants to get a role in the show "Hit the Deck". After wrecking the producers hotel suite, they land in the brig. But Danny's...

Not rated

Not rated