After a card game Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Read More »
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To Be or Not to Be (1942) Ernst Lubitsch, Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack
In occupied Poland during WWII, a troupe of ham stage actors (led by Joseph Tura and his wife Maria) match wits with the Nazis. Read More »
Badlands of Dakota (1941) Alfred E. Green, Robert Stack, Ann Rutherford, Richard Dix
Up-and-coming Universal leading man Robert Stack made his western-movie debut in Badlands of Dakota. Read More »
House of Bamboo (1955) Samuel Fuller, Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In Tokyo, a ruthless gang starts holding up U.S. ammunition trains, prepared to kill any of their own members wounded during a robbery. Read More »
Sabre Jet (1953) Louis King, Robert Stack, Coleen Gray, Richard Arlen, Drama, War
The story of jet pilots flying over Korea by day, from their Itazuke Air Base in Japan, and of their wives, on station with them, who have dinner ready when they return. Read More »
The Gift of Love (1958) Jean Negulesco, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Evelyn Rudie, Drama, Romance
Physicist Bill Beck meets and marries doctor’s receptionist Julie. Five happy years later, she develops a heart condition. Read More »
Eagle Squadron (1942) Arthur Lubin, Robert Stack, Diana Barrymore, Jon Hall, Drama, War
The Corrupt Ones (1967) James Hill, Robert Stack, Elke Sommer, Nancy Kwan, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Cliff Wilder, a free-lance photographer on assignment in mainland China, is surprised taking unauthorized photographs and narrowly escapes capture. Read More »
The Scarface Mob (1959) Phil Karlson, Robert Stack, Keenan Wynn, Barbara Nichols, Drama, Crime
Special Agent Eliot Ness (Robert Stack) forms The Untouchables, an elite squad of incorruptible lawmen, in order to bring down underworld kingpin Al Capone. Read More »
Conquest of Cochise (1953) William Castle, John Hodiak, Robert Stack, Joy Page, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Its 1853 and the Gadsden Purchase has just brought part of Mexico into the United States. Read More »
First Love (1939) Henry Koster, Deanna Durbin, Robert Stack, Eugene Pallette, Comedy, Musical
In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. Read More »
The Tarnished Angels (1958) Douglas Sirk, Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Drama
In the 1930’s, a First World War flying ace named Roger Schumann is reduced to making appearances on the crash-and-burn circuit of stunt aerobatics.
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Bwana Devil (1952) Arch Oboler, Robert Stack, Barbara Britton, Nigel Bruce, Adventure
British railway workers in Kenya are becoming the favorite snack of two man-eating lions. Head engineer Bob Hayward becomes obsessed with trying to kill the beasts before they maul everyone on his crew.
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The Iron Glove (1954) William Castle, Robert Stack, Ursula Thiess, Richard Wyler, Adventure
Irishman Charles Wogan wields his sword in the cause of James Stuart who seeks to replace George I on the throne of England.
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The Caretakers (1963) Hall Bartlett, Robert Stack, Polly Bergen, Diane McBain, Drama
This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital. Dr. MacLeod (Robert Stack) is a new, optimistic doctor who attempts to start an out-patient program for the women in the ward. His method of treating mentally ill patients without violence or punishment is met with resistance by the head nurse, Lucretia Terry (Joan Crawford). During Dr. MacLeod’s treatment, the phobias and illnesses of the various women in the test group are explored.
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