Direction: Frederick de Cordova

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Frederick de Cordova. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Buccaneer's Girl

1950 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Frederick de Cordova

Cast Yvonne De Carlo · Philip Friend · Robert Douglas · Elsa Lanchester

Plot Robin Hood-like pirate Baptiste takes only the ships of rich but wicked trader Narbonne. Fun loving Debbie, a passenger from his latest prize, stows away on the pirate ship and...

5.6

108 votes

5.6

108 votes

The Desert Hawk

1950 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Frederick de Cordova

Cast Yvonne De Carlo · Richard Greene · Jackie Gleason · George Macready

Plot "2000 years ago" desert guerilla Omar, with henchmen Aladdin and Sinbad, opposes tyrannical Prince Murad. To prevent Murad from marrying caliph's daughter Schaharazade, disguised Omar marries her himself. When the...

5.3

109 votes

5.3

109 votes

Column South

1953 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Frederick de Cordova

Cast Audie Murphy · Joan Evans · Robert Sterling · Ray Collins

Plot As Lt. Jed Sayre struggles to prevent pre-Civil War tensions and a racist commanding officer from triggering war between the U.S. Cavalry and Navajo Indians, he finds his efforts are...

5.2

67 votes

5.2

67 votes

The Gal Who Took the West

1949 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Frederick de Cordova

Cast Yvonne De Carlo · Charles Coburn · Scott Brady · John Russell

Plot In order to gain passage to the West, Linda Marlow (Yvonne De Carlo) poses as an opera singer, and causes a feud between two brothers.

5.2

81 votes

5.2

81 votes

Bedtime for Bonzo

1951 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

4.7

24 votes

4.7

24 votes

Frankie and Johnny

1966 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Frederick de Cordova

Cast Elvis Presley · Donna Douglas · Sue Ane Langdon · Harry Morgan

Plot Johnny (Elvis Presley) is a riverboat singer who is also one of the worst gamblers in the world, which gets him into major debt and grief to his partner Frankie...

4.7

255 votes

4.7

255 votes

Yankee Buccaneer

1952 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Frederick de Cordova

Cast Jeff Chandler · Scott Brady · Suzan Ball · Joseph Calleia

Plot A United States Navy ship in the first half of the 19th century, under the command of Captain David Porter, is expecting to put ashore after a year on the...

4.6

50 votes

4.6

50 votes

I'll Take Sweden

1965 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Frederick de Cordova

Cast Bob Hope · Tuesday Weld · Frankie Avalon · Dina Merrill

Plot Single father Bob Holcomb, dissatisfied with his daughter JoJo's choice of partner, seizes an unexpected opportunity to bring her on a trip to Sweden in order for her to forget...

4.6

27 votes

4.6

27 votes

Love and Learn

1947 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Frederick de Cordova

Cast Jack Carson · Robert Hutton · Martha Vickers · Janis Paige

Plot A wealthy socialite bored with her life meets and falls in love with a struggling songwriter on the verge of leaving New York and quitting the music business.

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Here Come the Nelsons

1952 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Frederick de Cordova

Cast Ozzie Nelson · Harriet Hilliard · David Nelson · Ricky Nelson

Plot Ozzie works as an ad writer who must devise a brilliant campaign for a foundation garment company. Trouble is, his mind is on a misunderstanding leading him to think Harriet...

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December Bride (TV Series)

1954 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Thorpe · Frederick de Cordova · William Asher

Cast Spring Byington · Frances Rafferty · Dean Miller · Harry Morgan

Plot TV Series (1954-1959). Charming and wise Lily Ruskin lives with her daughter and son-in-law who, along with her close friend Hilda Crocker, are always trying to find suitable older marriageable...

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That Way with Women

1947 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

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Wallflower

1948 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Frederick de Cordova

Cast Robert Hutton · Janis Paige · Joyce Reynolds · Edward Arnold

Plot Two stepsisters (Reynolds and Paige) vie for the same love.

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Finders Keepers

1952 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Frederick de Cordova

Cast Tom Ewell · Julie Adams · Evelyn Varden · Dusty Henley

Plot Ewell and Varden enliven proceedings about a little boy who comes home with a cartful of money.

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The Jack Benny Program (TV Series)

1950 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Frederick de Cordova · Ralph Levy · Norman Abbott · Seymour Berns

Cast Jack Benny · Mary Livingstone · Eddie "Rochester" Anderson · Phil Harris

Plot The Jack Benny Program evolved from a variety show blending sketch comedy and musical interludes into the situation comedy form we know even now, crafting particular situations and scenarios from...

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To Rome with Love (TV Series)

1969 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Joan O'Brien · Earl Bellamy · Charles Barton · Frederick de Cordova

Cast John Forsythe · Joyce Menges · Susan Neher · Melanie Fullerton

Plot After his wife dies, Michael Endicott leaves Iowa with his three daughters to accept a teaching position at the American Overseas School in Rome, Italy. His sister, Harriet Endicott also...

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Illegal Entry

1949 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Frederick de Cordova

Cast Howard Duff · Märta Torén · George Brent · Gar Moore

Plot A former pilot goes undercover to help break up a smuggling ring.

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Always Together

1947 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Frederick de Cordova

Cast Robert Hutton · Joyce Reynolds · Cecil Kellaway · Ernest Truex

Plot Millionaire Turner, on his deathbed, leaves a million to Jane Barker. A movie addict who believes life is like the movies, marries Donn without telling him about the bequest. Turner...

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Too Young to Know

1945 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

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The Countess of Monte Cristo

1948 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Frederick de Cordova

Cast Sonja Henie · Olga San Juan · Dorothy Hart · Michael Kirby

Plot This musical tells the tales of two movie extras who abscond to an expensive resort with their costumes and pretend to be aristocrats. Included in the film are ice skating...

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