Search results for "Alan Ladd"
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid

Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid

Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid
IMDb: 6.8
89

Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
The Carpetbaggers

The Carpetbaggers

The Carpetbaggers
IMDb: 6.5
150

When playboy Jonas inherits his father’s industrial empire, he expands it by acquiring an aircraft factory and movie studio. His rise to power is ruthless. He marries and then quickly…

Genre: Drama
13 West Street

13 West Street

13 West Street
IMDb: 6.3
80

Walt Sherill is attacked and beat down by a group of juvenile delinquents on his way home from work one night. The boys who attacked him are not previously known…

Genre: Crime, Drama
One Foot in Hell

One Foot in Hell

One Foot in Hell
IMDb: 6.2
90

Mitch Barrett becomes embittered because his wife is allowed to die when he can’t pay for the medicine she needs. The remorseful townspeople hire Mitch to be a deputy sheriff,…

Genre: Western
Guns of the Timberland

Guns of the Timberland

Guns of the Timberland
IMDb: 5.5
91

Logger Jim Hadley and his lumberjack crew are looking for new forest to cut. They locate a prime prospect outside the town of Deep Wells. The residents of Deep Wells…

Genre: Western
All the Young Men

All the Young Men

All the Young Men
IMDb: 6.2
83

During the Korean War, the lieutenant in charge of a Marine rifle platoon is killed in battle. Before he dies, he places the platoon’s sergeant, who’s black, in charge. The…

The Man in the Net

The Man in the Net

The Man in the Net
IMDb: 6.1
98

An artist living in a quiet Connecticut town is the main suspect in the disappearance of his shrew wife. Things turn ugly when the townsfolk attempt to take the law…

The Proud Rebel

The Proud Rebel

The Proud Rebel
IMDb: 6.9
103

Searching for a doctor who can help him get his son to speak again–the boy hadn’t uttered a word since he saw his mother die in the fire that burned…

Genre: Drama, Western
The Badlanders

The Badlanders

The Badlanders
IMDb: 6.4
85

Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, The Dutchman, is out to get both gold and revenge from certain people in a small…

The Deep Six

The Deep Six

The Deep Six
IMDb: 6
105

The conflict between duty and conscience is explored in the WWII drama The Deep Six. Alan Ladd stars as Naval gunnery officer Alec Austin, a Quaker whose sincere pacifist sentiments…

Genre: Drama, War
Boy on a Dolphin

Boy on a Dolphin

Boy on a Dolphin
IMDb: 6.2
111

Phaedra is a poor sponge diver on the lovely Greek isle of Hydra. While diving, she discovers an ancient brass and gold statue of a boy riding a dolphin, which…

The Big Land

The Big Land

The Big Land
IMDb: 6.3
92

Back home in Texas following the Civil War, former Confederate officer Chad Morgan (Alan Ladd) leads a cattle drive to Missouri, assuring fellow ranchers that their stock will bring $10…

Genre: Romance, Western
Santiago

Santiago

Santiago
IMDb: 6
93

Two American gun runners at odds with each other and looking to sell guns to the rebels during the Cuban War of Independence navigate a boat to Cuba. Along for…

Genre: Action, Adventure
The McConnell Story

The McConnell Story

The McConnell Story
IMDb: 6.3
106

Joe McConnell was sure that he was meant to be a pilot, but was stuck as a restless army private. It seemed that his ambition was blocked at every step.

Genre: Drama, History, War
Hell on Frisco Bay

Hell on Frisco Bay

Hell on Frisco Bay
IMDb: 6.4
98

A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob racketeers who are responsible.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan
IMDb: 6.3
87

Story of blood brothers whose bonds are tested when marauding Sioux Indians cross the border to enlist the peaceful Cree in a battle against the Great White Father.

Hell Below Zero

Hell Below Zero

Hell Below Zero
IMDb: 5.9
90

Duncan Craig signs on a whaling ship, partly because his own business deal has fallen through, partly to help Judie Nordhall find her father. Rumor has it that her father…

Genre: Action, Adventure
Drum Beat

Drum Beat

Drum Beat
IMDb: 6.3
111

President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and southern Oregon. On the way he must escort Nancy Meek to the home of her…

Genre: Western
The Black Knight

The Black Knight

The Black Knight
IMDb: 5.2
85

John, a blacksmith and swordsmith, is tutored at Camelot. As a commoner, he can’t hope to win the hand of Lady Linet, daughter of the Earl of Yeoniland, so he…

Genre: Action, Adventure
Thunder in the East

Thunder in the East

Thunder in the East
IMDb: 6.3
97

During India’s first years of independence from Britain, Steve Gibbs lands his armaments loaded plane in Ghandahar province hoping to get rich. Pacifist Prime Minister Singh hopes to reach an…

Genre: Drama, War
Shane

Shane

Shane
IMDb: 7.6
118

A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.

Genre: Drama, Western
The Red Beret

The Red Beret

The Red Beret
IMDb: 5.9
88

Steve MacKendrick resigns from the US Army after causing the needless death of a fellow officer. Wanting to serve in the war, he enlists as a Canadian in the British…

Genre: Drama, War
Desert Legion

Desert Legion

Desert Legion
IMDb: 5.5
86

A commander in the Foreign Legion romances a mysterious and exotic princess.

Botany Bay

Botany Bay

Botany Bay
IMDb: 6.1
93

Based on the story of the start of Australia’s colonisation. An American medical student is falsely convicted of robbery, with his sentence involving the torturous voyage with other prisoners to…

The Iron Mistress

The Iron Mistress

The Iron Mistress
IMDb: 6.2
110

In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge Narcisse’s murder, but Judalon takes…

Red Mountain

Red Mountain

Red Mountain
IMDb: 6.1
84

Towards the end of the American Civil War, a rebel captain flees to Colorado to join a band of Southern mercenaries. He drags an innocent gold prospecting couple into trouble…

Genre: Western
Appointment with Danger

Appointment with Danger

Appointment with Danger
IMDb: 6.5
89

Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who’ve allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Captain Carey, U.S.A.

Captain Carey, U.S.A.

Captain Carey, U.S.A.
IMDb: 6.4
82

Near the end of World War II, a secret American raid on an enemy transportation hub goes very wrong when a turncoat warns the enemy. Led by Capt. Webster Carey,…

Genre: Mystery, Thriller, War
Branded

Branded

Branded
IMDb: 6.7
104

A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as child.

Genre: Western
The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
IMDb: 6.5
91

Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifetyle of his landlord, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is…

Genre: Drama
Chicago Deadline

Chicago Deadline

Chicago Deadline
IMDb: 6.3
86

On Chicago’s South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Whispering Smith

Whispering Smith

Whispering Smith
IMDb: 6.6
89

Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him. He also seems to…

Genre: Western
Saigon

Saigon

Saigon
IMDb: 6.2
93

After World War II Larry learns that his flying buddy Mike will only live a short time despite the efforts of the doctors. He takes on a profitable flying job…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Calcutta

Calcutta

Calcutta
IMDb: 6.4
83

Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill’s fiancĂ©e Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Two Years Before the Mast

Two Years Before the Mast

Two Years Before the Mast
IMDb: 6.9
98

In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father’s own ships. He embarks upon a long,…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
O.S.S.

O.S.S.

O.S.S.
IMDb: 6.7
107

The (O)ffice of (S)trategic (S)ervices’ Cmdr. Brady (Patric Knowles) forms Operation “Applejack” (based on a composite of actual incidents during WWII) and sends Lt. (j.g.) Philip Masson, U.S.N.R. aka John…

The Blue Dahlia

The Blue Dahlia

The Blue Dahlia
IMDb: 7.1
96

Soon after a veteran’s return from war his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.

Genre: Crime, Mystery
And Now Tomorrow

And Now Tomorrow

And Now Tomorrow
IMDb: 6.8
86

Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum to cure deafness which he tries on Emily. It doesn’t work….

Genre: Drama, Romance
China

China

China
IMDb: 6.6
79

Shortly before Pearl Harbor, American opportunist Jones and partner Johnny are in China to sell oil to the invading Japanese army. Cynical about the sufferings of the Chinese, Jones meets…

Genre: Drama, War
This Gun for Hire

This Gun for Hire

This Gun for Hire
IMDb: 7.4
81

Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates’…