Onion Jack has bought a piece of land on which to settle, but the property is still in possession of the orphans of the original owner and is coveted by the local oil baron. Read More »
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The Outsider (1979) Tony Luraschi, Craig Wasson, Sterling Hayden, Patricia Quinn
Idealistic Vietnam veteran Michael Flaherty (Wasson), enthralled by the stories told to him by his grandfather (Hayden) and disillusioned by the lack of a clear cut cause in Vietnam Read More »
Virginia (1941) Edward H. Griffith, Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray, Sterling Hayden, Drama, Romance
A New York chorus girl (Madeleine Carroll) comes home to claim her family plantation and must choose between two men (Fred MacMurray, Sterling Hayden), one rich, one not. Read More »
Suddenly (1954) Lewis Allen, Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw’s unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can’t abide guns and those who use them. Read More »
Johnny Guitar (1954) Nicholas Ray, Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Drama, Western
Vienna has built a saloon outside of town, and she hopes to build her own town once the railroad is put through, but the townsfolk want her gone. Read More »
Gun Battle at Monterey (1957) Sidney Franklin Jr., Carl K. Hittleman, Sterling Hayden, Pamela Duncan, Ted de Corsia, Romance, Western
Reno and Turner are partners who robbed the express in Monterey. But when Turner wants to leave the partnership, Reno shoots him and leaves him for dead. Read More »
Naked Alibi (1954) Jerry Hopper, Sterling Hayden, Gloria Grahame, Gene Barry, Film-Noir, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Questioned as a murder suspect, solid (but drunk) citizen Al Willis attacks his police questioners, is beaten, and swears vengeance against them. Read More »
The Golden Hawk (1952) Sidney Salkow, Rhonda Fleming, Sterling Hayden, Helena Carter, Action, Adventure, History, Romance, War
Kit Gerardo, also known as The Hawk, is one of Frances’s most daring privateers, rescues Rouge from a Spanish ship. Read More »
Take Me to Town (1953) Douglas Sirk, Ann Sheridan, Sterling Hayden, Phillip Reed, Comedy, Western
Saloon entertainer Vermilion O’Toole and her former partner in crime Newt Cole escape from a train ride to prison and hide out in logging town Timberline. Read More »
Terror in a Texas Town (1958) Joseph H. Lewis, Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot, Carol Kelly, Western
Sven Hanson is one of a number of farmers whom Ed McNeil wants to run off their land (because he knows there’s oil on it). Read More »
Manhandled (1949) Lewis R. Foster, Dan Duryea, Dorothy Lamour, Sterling Hayden, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Merle Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a private eye and former cop. Read More »
Crime Wave (1954) André De Toth, Gene Nelson, Sterling Hayden, Phyllis Kirk, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Three San Quentin escapees (Penny, Hastings and Morgan) kill a cop in a gas-station holdup. Read More »
The Long Goodbye (1973) Robert Altman, Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In the middle of the night, private eye Philip Marlowe drives his friend Terry Lennox to the Mexican border. Read More »
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Stanley Kubrick, Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Comedy
U.S. Air Force General Jack Ripper goes completely and utterly mad, and sends his bomber wing to destroy the U.S.S.R. Read More »
Flat Top (1952) Lesley Selander, Sterling Hayden, Richard Carlson, William Phipps, War, Drama
Group Commander Dan Collier, on an aircraft carrier in Korean waters during the Korean War, starts to think back to the rough days of the air-war against Japan during World War II, when he was in the same squadron.
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