Henry Pecket keeps a land-bound, home-made sloop in the backyard of his boarding house ran by widow Sara March, who is tolerant of the fancied trips around the world taken by her “ancient mariner” boarder. Read More »
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Kid Nightingale (1939) George Amy, John Payne, Jane Wyman, Walter Catlett
A singing waiter gets into an argument with some obnoxious customers and winds up knocking them out. Read More »
Remember the Day (1941) Henry King, Claudette Colbert, John Payne, Shepperd Strudwick
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost. Read More »
The Vanquished (1953) Edward Ludwig, John Payne, Jan Sterling, Coleen Gray, Western, Romance
A Southern States official returns home after the Civil War and has to see that in his village the law is in the hands of a few scrupoulos people. Read More »
Larceny (1948) George Sherman, John Payne, Joan Caulfield, Dan Duryea, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A con man sets out to swindle a widow out of the money she’s received to build a memorial to her war-hero husband, but winds up falling in love with her instead. Read More »
The Razor’s Edge (1946) Edmund Goulding, Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Drama, Romance
Santa Fe Passage (1955) William Witney, John Payne, Faith Domergue, Rod Cameron, Western
Scout and wagon-train guide Kirby Randolph hates all Indians, particularly Kiowa Chief Satank, whose massacre of an entire wagon-train of settlers led by Kirby, has led to his ostracism and neither he nor his pal Sam Beekman can get jobs. Read More »
Rebel in Town (1956) Alfred L. Werker, John Payne, Ruth Roman, J. Carrol Naish, Western
Ex-Confederate Bedloe Mason and his four sons ride into a small Western town with robbery in mind. Read More »
Hidden Fear (1957) André De Toth, John Payne, Alexander Knox, Conrad Nagel, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
American policeman Mike Brent (John Payne) arrives in Denmark to help clear his sister of a murder rap in which her partner/boyfriend has been killed Read More »
Week-End in Havana (1941) Walter Lang, Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, John Payne, Comedy, Musical, Romance
A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is stuck on a reef off of the coast. He obtains waivers from all of the passengers with the exception of Nan Spencer, a department store salesgirl who wants her vacation NOW, not later. Jay is instructed to take Nan to Havana and set her up in the best hotel and keep her entertained. She visits a night club where the star attraction is Rosita Rivas, and meets Rosita’s worthless manager, Monte Blanca, who makes a play for her. Trouble also comes in the form of Jay’s fiancée, Terry McCracken, when a romance develops between Nan and Jay.
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Hells Island (1955) Phil Karlson, John Payne, Mary Murphy, Francis L. Sullivan
Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby’s disappearance, is his ex-girlfriend.
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