Rock Hudson
Actor
Actor
Roy Harold Scherer, Jr., later Roy Harold Fitzgerald (November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985), known professionally as Rock Hudson, was an American film and television actor, recognized as a romantic leading man during the 1950s and 1960s, most notably in several romantic comedies with Doris Day. Hudson was voted "Star of the Year", "Favorite Leading Man", and similar titles by numerous movie magazines. The 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) tall actor was one of the most popular and well-known movie stars of the time. He completed nearly 70 motion pictures and starred in several television productions during a career that spanned over four decades. Hudson was also one of the first major Hollywood celebrities to die from an AIDS-related illness.
As: Himself (archive footage)
In the 1950s, Tab Hunter was number one at the box office and number one on the music charts and was Hollywood’s most sought-after young star. Natalie Wood, Debbie Reynolds and Sophia Loren were just a few of the actresses he was romantically linked to. He was America’s Boy Next Door and nothing, it seemed, could damage Tab Hunter’s career. Nothing, that is, except for the fact that Tab ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Jeffrey Schwarz | Jeffrey Schwarz
Stars: Debbie Reynolds | Debbie Reynolds | Tab Hunter | Tab Hunter
As: Himself (archive footage)
Twenty five years after the death of Rock Hudson, friends, acquaintances, colleagues, biographers and movie historians discuss his career, his personal life and his death, all especially in relation to his closeted homosexuality. Born Roy Fitzgerald, Hudson treated who was known as "Rock Hudson" as being a studio creation that was somewhat outside himself. However, ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: André Schäfer | Andrew Davies
Stars: Tom Santopietro | Armistead Maupin | Yanou Collart | Sean O. Strub | Stockton Briggle
As: Himself (archive footage)
Documentary of the brief but memorable career of the now iconic James Dean. Narrated by Martin Sheen, the film focuses much attention on his early work for television, and utilizes a variety of archival footage in order to tell the story of the young man who gained immortality with only three feature films to his credit.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Michael J. Sheridan
Stars: Martin Sheen | Elizabeth Taylor | Marilyn Monroe | Corey Allen | James Dean
A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one time seeming innocent, have revealed, after decades, to have homosexual overtones.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Mark Rappaport | Mark Rappaport
Stars: Don Ameche | Don Ameche | Dan Butler | Dan Butler
As: HImself
Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: George Stevens Jr.
Stars: Warren Beatty | Fred Astaire | Rock Hudson | Hermes Pan | Pandro S. Berman
As: Frank Stevenson
An Amerian ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East, but his efforts are hampered when his wife has an affair with a PLO leader. Robert Mitchum plays a controversial U.S. ambassador to Israel who tries to solve the Palestinian question while being criticized by all factions, which takes a turn when his wife begins having an affair with a PLO chief. Rock Hudson (in his last theatrical ...
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: Ellen Burstyn | Fabio Testi | Robert Mitchum | Donald Pleasence | Rock Hudson
As: Neil Chaine
Rock Hudson (in his last made-for-TV-movie role) plays Neil Chaine, a charming Las Vegas hotel/casino owner who tries to turn his decaying building into The Strip's top attraction to avenge his outting by his former partners who run a more fancy hotel/casino just across the street.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: George Englund
Stars: Robert Costanzo | Madison Mason | Sharon Stone | Dennis Holahan | Rock Hudson
As: Jason Rudd
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Guy Hamilton
Stars: Geraldine Chaplin | Edward Fox | Tony Curtis | Rock Hudson | Angela Lansbury
As: David Shelby
The vacationers at a winter wonderland struggle to survive after an avalanche of snow crashes into their ski resort. Their holiday then turns into a game of survival.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Corey Allen | Lewis Teague
Stars: Robert Forster | Mia Farrow | Jeanette Nolan | Rock Hudson | Rick Moses
As: Dr. Paul Holliston
A scientist doing experiments on a human fetus discovers a method to accelerate the fetus into a mature adult in just a few days.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Ralph Nelson
Stars: Diane Ladd | Roddy McDowall | Barbara Carrera | Rock Hudson | Anne Schedeen
As: Himself (voice)
Peter Lawford hosts this documentary taking a look at the life and films of James Dean.
Runtime: 67 min.
Directed by: Jack Haley Jr.
Stars: Peter Lawford | Natalie Wood | Sal Mineo | Sammy Davis, Jr. | Leonard Rosenman
As: Chuck Jarvis
Two men who have been friends since childhood find themselves on opposite ends of the law.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: George Seaton
Stars: Donald Moffat | John McLiam | Susan Clark | Dean Martin | Rock Hudson
As: Michael 'Tiger' McDrew
In a California high school, a married teacher is the athletic coach and faculty advisor. He starts to have sex flings with his female students and eventually has to kill several of the girls to keep them quiet.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Roger Vadim
Stars: Angie Dickinson | Roddy McDowall | Telly Savalas | John David Carson | Rock Hudson
As: Turner
An American commando who's the sole survivor of a parachute jump into WWII-era Italy leads a group of children in a campaign of sabotage against the Nazis.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Phil Karlson
Stars: Giacomo Rossi-Stuart | Sylva Koscina | Sergio Fantoni | Rock Hudson | Jacques Sernas
As: Major William Larrabee
Set in Paris during World War I. Lili Smith/Schmidt is a German spy being requested to go under cover to help Germany during the war, to try and find out their plans. Her "uncle" wishes her to fulfill the operation, whereas one of his colleagues believed she is not capable of performing such an operation as she is British. She soon finds herself following Major William Larrabee's every move and ...
Runtime: 136 min.
Directed by: Blake Edwards
Stars: Julie Andrews | Jeremy Kemp | Rock Hudson | Lance Percival | Michael Witney
As: Colonel James Langdon
After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and company are bringing horses to the unpopular Mexican government for $35 a head while Langdon is leading a contingent of displaced southerners, who are looking for a new life in Mexico after losing their property to ...
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: John Wayne | Rock Hudson | Marian McCargo | Antonio Aguilar | Roman Gabriel
As: Capt. Mike Harmon
A detective gets involved with the beautiful daughter of an old friend. The daughter turns out to be a jewel thief, who in turn gets the detective involved in a caper in Austria.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Francesco Maselli
Stars: Claudia Cardinale | Leon Askin | Rock Hudson | Ellen Corby | Tomás Milián
As: Cdr. James Ferraday
A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arctic research encampment called Ice Station Zebra, belonging to the British, which starts sending out distress signals before falling silent. The atomic submarine Tigerfish, commanded by Cmdr. James Ferraday (Rock Hudson), is dispatched to save them.
Runtime: 148 min.
Directed by: John Sturges
Stars: Patrick McGoohan | Ernest Borgnine | Tony Bill | Jim Brown | Rock Hudson
As: Major Donald Craig
In September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which the fuel dumps at Tobruk are a critical impediment. In order to aid the attack, a group of British commandos and German Jews make their way undercover through 800 miles of desert, to destroy the fuel dumps starving the Germans of fuel.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Arthur Hiller
Stars: Jack Watson | Guy Stockwell | George Peppard | Nigel Green | Rock Hudson
As: Antiochus 'Tony' Wilson
A secret organisation offers wealthy people a second chance at life. The customer picks out someone they want to be and the organisation surgically alters the customer to look like the intended person, stages the customer's death, gets rid of the intended person and the customer takes on a new life.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: John Frankenheimer
Stars: Jeff Corey | Will Geer | John Randolph | Rock Hudson | Salome Jens
As: Dr. Bartholomew Snow
A patient being psychoanalyzed by Dr. Snow is a government scientist. General Pratt hides him in a secret place known as "Base X," forcing Dr. Snow to wear a blindfold whenever he is taken there ...
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Philip Dunne
Stars: Claudia Cardinale | Jack Warden | Guy Stockwell | Rock Hudson | Anne Seymour
As: Paul Chadwick
The long-lost father (Charles Boyer) of a frigid, uptight Freudian psychologist (Leslie Caron) contracts a wealthy American playboy who owes him a favor to woo his daughter.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Michael Gordon
Stars: Charles Boyer | Rock Hudson | Walter Slezak | Leslie Caron | Dick Shawn
A short film containing a collection of clips from various Hollywood movies.
Runtime: 35 min.
Directed by: Gianfranco Baruchello | Alberto Grifi
Stars: Daniel Gélin | Rossano Brazzi | Clark Gable | Susan Hayward | Marcel Duchamp
As: Carter
In London, stuffy statesman Carter Harrison meets Toni, a Bohemian artist with a hot Italian temper. The two impulsively marry and then find that they disagree on everything. Shortly afterward they separate. We then meet them five years later on the eve before their divorce becomes final. After seeing each other again, sparks are reignited and they spend the night together. Reality sets in when morning ...
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Melvin Frank
Stars: Joseph Sirola | Gig Young | Gina Lollobrigida | Edward Judd | Rock Hudson
As: George Kimball
At one of his many visits to his doctor, hypochondriac George Kimball mistakes a dying man's diagnosis for his own and believes he only has about two more weeks to live. Wanting to take care of his wife Judy, he doesn't tell her and tries to find her a new husband. When he finally does tell her, she quickly finds out he's not dying at all (while he doesn't) and she believes it's just a lame excuse to ...
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Norman Jewison
Stars: Tony Randall | Rock Hudson | Doris Day | Patricia Barry | Clint Walker
As: Roger Willoughby
Rock Hudson is Roger Willoughby, a renowned fishing expert, who, unbeknownst to his friends, co-workers, or boss, has never cast a line in his life. One day, he crosses paths with Abigail Paige (Paula Prentiss), a sweetly annoying girl who has just badgered his boss into signing Roger up for an annual fishing tournament.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Howard Hawks
Stars: John McGiver | Paula Prentiss | Maria Perschy | Rock Hudson | Charlene Holt
As: Col. Jim Caldwell
Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52 commander who must shape up his men to pass a grueling inspection that the previous commander had failed, and had been fired for. He is also recently married, and as a tough commanding officer doing whatever he has to do to shape his men up, his wife sees a side to him that she hadn't seen before.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Delbert Mann
Stars: Kevin McCarthy | Barry Sullivan | Rod Taylor | Rock Hudson | Mary Peach
As: Host / Narrator
This 1963 documentary, released less than a year after Marilyn Monroe's death, showcases the star in memorable scenes from her 20th Century Fox films, including wardrobe tests and clips from her last, uncompleted project, "Something's Got To Give". Hosted and narrated by Rock Hudson.
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: Harold Medford
Stars: Rock Hudson
As: Dr. Anton Drager
A selfish and prideful young Dutch doctor, through a series of circumstances, comes to learn that he does indeed "need" a higher spiritual being and other people.
Runtime: 139 min.
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
Stars: Gena Rowlands | Rock Hudson | Geoffrey Keen | Burl Ives | Philip Abbott
As: Jerry Webster
Rock Hudson and Doris Day are together again! Jerry Webster (Hudson) and Carol Templeton (Day) are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods. After he steals a client out from under her cute little nose, revenge prompts her to infiltrate his secret "VIP" campaign in order to persuade the mystery product’s scientist to switch to her firm.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Delbert Mann
Stars: Tony Randall | Jack Oakie | Rock Hudson | Doris Day | Edie Adams
As: Dana Stribling
Brendan O'Malley arrives at the Mexican home of old flame Belle Breckenridge to find her married to a drunkard getting ready for a cattle drive to Texas. Hot on O'Malley's heels is lawman Dana Stribling who has a personal reason for getting him back into his jurisdiction. Both men join Breckenridge and his wife on the drive. As they near Texas tensions mount, not least because Stribling is starting ...
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Robert Aldrich
Stars: Kirk Douglas | Joseph Cotten | Carol Lynley | Dorothy Malone | Rock Hudson
As: Robert L. Talbot
Robert Talbot, an American millionaire, arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Italian villa. His long-time girlfriend Lisa has given up waiting for him and has decided to marry another man. Meanwhile, his sneaky business associate Maurice secretly misappropriates the villa as a hotel while Talbot is away. The current guests of the "hotel" are a group of young American girls.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
Stars: Gina Lollobrigida | Bobby Darin | Rock Hudson | Walter Slezak | Sandra Dee
As: Brad Allen
A man and woman share a telephone line and despise each other, but then he has fun by romancing her with his voice disguised.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Michael Gordon
Stars: Tony Randall | Rock Hudson | Thelma Ritter | Doris Day | Nick Adams
As: John Rambeau
Set during the Prohibition era, when wine makers were financially challenged and had to decide whether or not they wanted to cooperate with bootleggers to survive.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Henry King
Stars: Kent Smith | Dorothy McGuire | Rock Hudson | Jean Simmons | Claude Rains
As: Captain David Bell
The great best seller by the author of 'The High and the Mighty' storms across the motion picture screen!
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Joseph Pevney
Stars: Leif Erickson | Arthur Kennedy | Charles McGraw | Rock Hudson | Cyd Charisse
As: Lieutenant Frédéric Henry
A Farewell to Arms is a 1957 American drama film directed by Charles Vidor. The screenplay by Ben Hecht, based in part on a 1930 play by Laurence Stallings, was the second feature film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's 1929 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. It was the last film produced by David O. Selznick.
Runtime: 152 min.
Directed by: Charles Vidor
Stars: Vittorio De Sica | Jennifer Jones | Rock Hudson | Luigi Barzini | Georges Brehat
As: Burke Devlin
Story of a friendship between an eccentric journalist and a daredevil barnstorming pilot.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Douglas Sirk
Stars: Robert Middleton | Dorothy Malone | Robert Stack | Rock Hudson | Jack Carson
As: himself
Released two years after James Dean's death, this documentary chronicles his short life and career via black-and-white still photographs, interviews with the aunt and uncle who raised him, his paternal grandparents, a New York City cabdriver friend, the owner of his favorite Los Angeles restaurant, outtakes from East of Eden, footage of the opening night of Giant, and Dean's ironic PSA for safe driving.
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: George W. George | Robert Altman
Stars: Martin Gabel | James Dean | Lew Bracker | Marvin Carter | Patsy D'Amore
As: Peter McKenzie
As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British colonist, find themselves on opposite sides of the struggle in this provocative drama. Though each is devoted to his cause, both wish for a more moderate path -- but their hopes for a peaceful resolution are thwarted by rage, colonial arrogance and escalating ...
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Richard Brooks
Stars: William Marshall | Sidney Poitier | Rock Hudson | Juano Hernández | Dana Wynter
As: le colonel Dean Hess
Battle Hymn was inspired by the true story of American minister Dean Hess, played here with rare sensitivity by Rock Hudson. A bomber pilot during World War II, Hess inadvertently releases a bomb which destroys a German orphanage. Tortured by guilt, Hess relocates in Korea after the war to offer his services as a missionary. Combining the best elements of Christianity and Eastern spiritualism, Hess ...
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Douglas Sirk
Stars: Dan Duryea | Rock Hudson | Martha Hyer | Don DeFore | Anna Kashfi
As: Mitch Wayne
Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jared, works hard to establish the family business, his irresponsible son, Kyle, is an alcoholic playboy, and his daughter, Marylee, is the town tramp. Mitch harbors a secret love for Kyle's unsatisfied wife, Lucy -- a fact that leaves him exposed when the jealous Marylee accuses him of murder.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Douglas Sirk
Stars: Lauren Bacall | Dorothy Malone | Robert Stack | Rock Hudson | Robert Keith
As: Jordan "Bick" Benedict Jr.
Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.
Runtime: 201 min.
Directed by: George Stevens
Stars: Elizabeth Taylor | Carroll Baker | Rock Hudson | Jane Withers | James Dean
As: Dr. Michael Parker
In present-day U.S., Dr. Michael Parker, a prominent surgeon, unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife whom he thought was dead. Victor, an artist and his "dead" wife's now boyfriend, berates Dr. Parker for "killing" her. The bulk of the story flashes back to Austria during World War II as we learn how Dr. Parker met and married his wife, and the one mistake that may have cost him his family.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Jerry Hopper
Stars: Ray Collins | Rock Hudson | Cornell Borchers | George Sanders | Shelley Fabares
As: Ron Kirby
Predicated on a May-December romance. The difference here is that the woman, attractive widow Cary Scott, is considerably older than the man, handsome gardener-landscaper Ron Kirby. Throwing conventional behavior to the winds and facing social ostracism, Cary pursues her romance with Ron, who is unjustly perceived as a fortune-hunter by Cary's friends and family -- especially her priggish brother Ned.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Douglas Sirk
Stars: Agnes Moorehead | Rock Hudson | Jane Wyman | Virginia Grey | Conrad Nagel
As: Clint Saunders
The "one desire" of ex-gambler Clint Saunders and bar woman Tacey Cromwell is to escape their shady former lives and settle down to respectability. With Clint's younger brother and an orphaned girl in tow, the couple moves to a Colorado mining town where their love is tested by Judith Watrous, daughter of the town banker, who has her sights on Clint.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Jerry Hopper
Stars: Julie Adams | Carl Benton Reid | Natalie Wood | Rock Hudson | Anne Baxter
As: Michael « Mike » Martin
A boggy swashbuckler of Irish freedom-fighter Michael Martin.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Douglas Sirk
Stars: Rock Hudson | Finlay Currie | Kathleen Ryan | Barbara Rush | Jeff Morrow
As: Capt. Jeffrey Claybourne
Year 1856, British India. Capt. Jeffrey Claybourne is severely punished after disobeying an order. Feeling unworthy of his fiancée Vivian Morrow, the daughter of his superior officer, Claybourne leaves the army until he could regain his reputation. When the Rajah Karam launches an attack on the British forces in India, Claybourne finds a chance at redemption.
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: László Benedek
Stars: Arnold Moss | Rock Hudson | Torin Thatcher | Arlene Dahl | Ursula Thiess
As: Bob Merrick
When churlish, spoiled rich man Bob Merrick foolishly wrecks his speed boat, the rescue team resuscitates him with equipment that's therefore unavailable to aid a local hero, Dr. Wayne Phillips, who dies as a result. Phillips had helped many people, and when Merrick learns Phillips' secret, to give selflessly and in secret, he tries it in a ham-handed way.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Douglas Sirk
Stars: Agnes Moorehead | Rock Hudson | Jane Wyman | Otto Kruger | Barbara Rush
As: Taza
Three years after the end of the Apache wars, peacemaking chief Cochise dies. His elder son Taza shares his ideas, but brother Naiche yearns for war...and for Taza's betrothed, Oona. Naiche loses no time in starting trouble which, thanks to a bigoted cavalry officer, ends with the proud Chiricahua Apaches on a reservation, where they are soon joined by the captured renegade Geronimo, who is all it takes to ...
Runtime: 79 min.
Directed by: Douglas Sirk
Stars: Gregg Palmer | Morris Ankrum | Rock Hudson | Barbara Rush | Rex Reason
As: Peter Keith
In a small village in the icy wilderness of Alaska Captain Peter Keith has to defend himself against two especially mean villains, who are after his wife Dolores and a boatload of precious hides.
Runtime: 78 min.
Directed by: Joseph Pevney
Stars: Rock Hudson | Hugh O'Brian | Chubby Johnson | Steve Cochran | Marcia Henderson
As: Ben Warren
After a stagecoach holdup, Frank Slayton's notorious gang leave Ben Warren for dead and head off with his fiancée. Warren follows, and although none of the townspeople he comes across are prepared to help, he recruits two others who have sworn revenge on the ruthless Slayton.
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Stars: Lee Marvin | Rock Hudson | Philip Carey | Donna Reed | Roberta Haynes
As: Harun
Harum is a fearless man of the people who comes to Bagdad to avenge the murder of his father and meets Krairuzan, a princess disguised as a commoner, working against a plot by a band of evil schemers trying to do away with her father, the Caliph. She gives Harum a golden sword which, in his hands, makes him invincible. Harum uses the sword in the name of justice and is doing quite ...
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: Nathan H. Juran
Stars: Gene Evans | Kathleen Hughes | Piper Laurie | Rock Hudson
As: Gilliatt
Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells him she hopes to rescue her brother from the guillotine. Gilliatt finds himself falling in love and so feels betrayed when he later learns this woman is a countess helping Napoleon plan an invasion of England. In reality, however, the "countess" is ...
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Stars: Michael Goodliffe | Rock Hudson | Maxwell Reed | Yvonne De Carlo | Denis O'Dea
As: Lance Caldwell
19th-century army officer Lance Caldwell is assigned to Fort King in the Everglades. Immediately clashing with his commanding officer Major Dade, Caldwell opposes Dade's plans to wipe out the Seminole Indians. The fact that Caldwell was the boyhood chum of Seminole chief Osceola is all the more reason to resist Dade's genocidal policies. After a deadly confrontation which costs dozens of lives on ...
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Budd Boetticher
Stars: Anthony Quinn | Barbara Hale | Richard Carlson | Rock Hudson | Hugh O'Brian
As: John Wesley Hardin
After being released from prison, ex-gunfighter John Wesley Hardin hopes to have his autobiography published in order to rehabilitate his tarnished reputation.
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Stars: Julie Adams | John McIntire | Lee Van Cleef | Rock Hudson | Mary Castle
As: Neil Hammond
Brothers Dan and Neil Hammond return to Texas after the Civil War. Ambitious Dan turns to rustling and then shady land deals to build an empire. Being held for a murder, he is rescued from a lynch mob by Neil, who is now the Marshal, but there is eventually a falling out between the brothers, good triumphing over evil.
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: Budd Boetticher
Stars: Julie Adams | John McIntire | Robert Ryan | Rock Hudson | Judith Braun
As: Dan Stebbins
When a 1920s millionaire tests the fiber of his Vermont family, a young lady and her boyfriend feel the repercussions.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Douglas Sirk
Stars: Charles Coburn | Piper Laurie | Gigi Perreau | Rock Hudson | Lynn Bari
As: Frank Truscott
After robbing a sea captain in New Orleans, a beautiful saloon girl flees and assumes a dead woman's identity.
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: Sidney Salkow
Stars: Richard Denning | Rock Hudson | Amanda Blake | Yvonne De Carlo | Whitfield Connor
As: Charlie Jones
The homespun Nelson family must deal with various comical situations, including an encounter with gangsters.
Runtime: 75 min.
Directed by: Frederick de Cordova
Stars: Rock Hudson | Ozzie Nelson | Harriet Hilliard | David Nelson | Ricky Nelson
As: Trey Wilson
Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory...
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Anthony Mann
Stars: James Stewart | Julie Adams | Arthur Kennedy | Jay C. Flippen | Rock Hudson
As: Tommy 'Speed' O'Keefe aka Kosco
In Coaltown, Pennsylvania, miner Coke Mason hopes to better himself, buy a radio store, and marry Rose Warren. His gambler brother George thinks Coke can be more successful as a boxer, knowing that when he fights he's consumed with a murderous rage that makes him an "iron man." Seeing dollar signs in Rose's eyes, Coke reluctantly agrees, though he's fearful of the "killer instinct" that makes him a ...
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: Joseph Pevney
Stars: Stephen McNally | Rock Hudson | Jeff Chandler | Evelyn Keyes | Joyce Holden
As: Dudek
A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life. Director Mark Robson's 1951 drama stars Arthur Kennedy (Academy Award nomination, Best Actor, for his performance), Peggy Dow, James Edwards, Will Geer, Nana Bryant, Julie Adams, Jim Backus, Richard Egan and Murray Hamilton.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Mark Robson
Stars: Julie Adams | Will Geer | Arthur Kennedy | Peggy Dow | James Edwards
As: Roy Clark
A seemingly innocent dentist is murdered, the only apparent motive to steal a set of dental x-rays. To the police it looks like an accident, but massive private eye Brad Runyan thinks there's more to it. Based on a radio drama.
Runtime: 78 min.
Directed by: William Castle
Stars: Jayne Meadows | Clinton Sundberg | Rock Hudson | Julie London | J. Scott Smart
As: Upper Classman
A group of cadets have assorted problems at the U.S. Air Force Pilot Training Academy.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Joseph Pevney
Stars: Richard Long | Charles Drake | Stephen McNally | Gail Russell | Alex Nicol
As: Burt Hanna
In 1866, a new gold discovery and an inconclusive conference force the U.S. Army to build a road and fort in territory ceded by previous treaty to the Sioux...to the disgust of frontier scout Jim Bridger, whose Cheyenne wife led him to see the conflict from both sides. The powder-keg situation needs only a spark to bring war, and violent bigots like Lieut. Rob Dancy are all too likely ...
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: George Sherman
Stars: Jack Oakie | Yvonne De Carlo | Alex Nicol | Van Heflin | Preston Foster
As: Ted, the Night Club Doorman
In "Shakedown," Howard Duff plays a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss (Brian Donlevy) into allowing himself to be photographed. Donlevy takes him under his wing, but Duff decides to ...
Runtime: 80 min.
Directed by: Joseph Pevney
Stars: Lawrence Tierney | Bruce Bennett | Brian Donlevy | Howard Duff | Peggy Dow
As: Captain Ras
A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph's daughter.
Runtime: 77 min.
Directed by: Frederick de Cordova
Stars: Rock Hudson | Richard Greene | George Macready | Yvonne De Carlo | Jackie Gleason
As: Young Bull
Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Anthony Mann
Stars: Shelley Winters | James Stewart | Millard Mitchell | Stephen McNally | Dan Duryea
As: Johnny "Scat" Mitchell
Professor Brookfield along with daughters Peggy and Susan move to small town Pasadena, California. Their new neighbor Mrs. Fielding helps them move in, and urges the girls to participate in the annual Rose Bowl beauty pageant. Meanwhile Mrs. Fielding's son Tom makes eyes at Peggy but she's smitten with a famous football star so she tries to redirect his interest to Susan.
Runtime: 76 min.
Directed by: Frederick de Cordova
Stars: Charles Coburn | Charles Drake | Diana Lynn | Barbara Lawrence | Charlotte Greenwood
As: Store Detective
A police detective uses any means possible to trap a gang of shoplifters.
Runtime: 74 min.
Directed by: Charles Lamont
Stars: Tony Curtis | Andrea King | Scott Brady | Charles Drake | Mona Freeman
As: Detective (as Roc Hudson)
Undertow stars Scott Brady as a gambler just out of wartime military service. No longer interested in wagers and speculations, Brady wants only to open up a mountain vacation lodge. Before this can take place, Brady is framed for murder, and forced to hide out in the home of Peggy Dow. With the help of Dow and a policeman friend, Brady searches for the real murderer. Watch carefully in Undertow and ...
Runtime: 71 min.
Directed by: William Castle
Stars: Scott Brady | Bruce Bennett | Dorothy Hart | John Russell | Peggy Dow
As: 2nd Lt
During World War II, an insubordinate fighter pilot finds the shoe on the other foot when he's promoted.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Stars: Edmond O'Brien | Tom D'Andrea | Robert Stack | Rock Hudson | Henry Hull