Search results for "Phil Karlson"
The Secret Ways

The Secret Ways

The Secret Ways
IMDb: 6.2
112

Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Michael Reynolds is hired to help a threatened Hungarian scientist escape from Budapest.

Ladies of the Chorus

Ladies of the Chorus

Ladies of the Chorus
IMDb: 6.1
61

Former burlesque star May and her daughter Peggy dance in the chorus. When May has a fight with featured dancer Bubbles, Bubbles leaves the show and Peggy takes her place….

Genre: Music, Romance
Key Witness

Key Witness

Key Witness
IMDb: 6.1
82

An average Los Angeles citizen witnesses a gang murder when he stops to use a telephone. When he presents himself to the LAPD as the only person willing to identify…

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Texas Rangers

The Texas Rangers

The Texas Rangers
IMDb: 6.1
74

It’s 1874 and the Texas Rangers have been reorganized. But Sam Bass has assembled a group of notorious outlaws into a gang the Rangers are unable to cope with. So…

Genre: Western
The Brigand

The Brigand

The Brigand
IMDb: 6
94

Carlos Delargo, the banished son of a royal princess of Mandorra, is returned to the kingdom to be tried for a murder change. However, he is freed by King Lorenzo,…

Kid Galahad

Kid Galahad

Kid Galahad
IMDb: 6.1
95

After completing his military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter—and takes…

Genre: Drama, Music
Ben

Ben

Ben
IMDb: 5.3
94

A lonely boy becomes good friends with Ben, a rat. This rat is also the leader of a pack of vicious killer rats, killing lots of people.

Genre: Horror, Thriller
Kansas City Confidential

Kansas City Confidential

Kansas City Confidential
IMDb: 7.3
99

A down-on-his-luck ex-GI finds himself framed for an armored car robbery. When he’s finally released for lack of evidence–after having been beaten up and tortured by the police–he sets out…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
99 River Street

99 River Street

99 River Street
IMDb: 7.4
83

A former boxer –now taxi driver– gets mixed up with jewel thieves.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Scandal Sheet

Scandal Sheet

Scandal Sheet
IMDb: 7.4
82

A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.

Genre: Thriller
5 Against the House

5 Against the House

5 Against the House
IMDb: 5.8
84

Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.

Bowery Bombshell

Bowery Bombshell

Bowery Bombshell
IMDb: 6.3
65

Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Bobby (Bobby Jordan), Whitey (William Benedict) and Chuck (David Gorcey) unsuccessfully try to sell a dilapidated car to a street cleaner for a fabulous…

Genre: Comedy
The Shanghai Cobra

The Shanghai Cobra

The Shanghai Cobra
IMDb: 6.4
64

Someone is attempting to steal radium stored in a bank. Death by cobra venom connects a number of murders. Charlie Chan investigates.

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
The Scarface Mob

The Scarface Mob

The Scarface Mob
IMDb: 7.2
102

Story of how a group of incorruptible federal lawmen helped put 1920s’ Chicago gangster Al Capone in prison.

Genre: Crime
Live Wires

Live Wires

Live Wires
IMDb: 6.2
65

Slip gets fired from his job at a construction company for decking his boss. His sister, who got him a job at the company, is angry with him. Slip manages…

Genre: Action, Thriller
Wife Wanted

Wife Wanted

Wife Wanted
IMDb: 5.6
73

Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell. Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed, Caldwell runs a matrimonial bureau and, with the aid…

Genre: Crime, Drama
A Time for Killing

A Time for Killing

A Time for Killing
IMDb: 5.4
88

During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison and head for the Mexican border. Along the way, they kill a Union courier bearing the news that the…

Genre: Western
Walking Tall

Walking Tall

Walking Tall
IMDb: 6.9
125

Buford Pusser’s a wrestler, whose wife wants him to settle down, so they go to his home town in Tennessee, where he plans to get into business with his father….

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Hornets’ Nest

Hornets’ Nest

Hornets’ Nest
IMDb: 5.7
110

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.

Genre: Action, Drama, War
The Silencers

The Silencers

The Silencers
IMDb: 5.9
102

Matt Helm is called out of retirement to stop the evil Big O organization who plan to explode an atomic bomb over Alamagordo, NM, and start WW III.

The Wrecking Crew

The Wrecking Crew

The Wrecking Crew
IMDb: 5.4
105

When Count Contini attempts to destroy the world’s economy by masterminding the theft of $1 billion in U.S. gold, ICE chief MacDonald summons secret agent Matt Helm to stop him.

Genre: Action, Comedy
The Phenix City Story

The Phenix City Story

The Phenix City Story
IMDb: 7.2
100

Phil Karlson’s docudrama based on the notorious Phenix City — a city known for its gambling, crime and prostitution rackets.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Hell to Eternity

Hell to Eternity

Hell to Eternity
IMDb: 6.9
131

Based on the story about Guy Gabaldon, a Los Angeles Hispanic boy raised in the 1930s by a Japanese-American foster family. After Pearl Harbor, his foster family is interned at…

Genre: Drama, War
Tight Spot

Tight Spot

Tight Spot
IMDb: 6.6
97

A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious gangster. She is put under protective watch by the District Attorney in a…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Flame of New Orleans

The Flame of New Orleans

The Flame of New Orleans
IMDb: 6.6
79

In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Seven Sinners

Seven Sinners

Seven Sinners
IMDb: 6.6
87

Beautiful chanteuse ‘Bijou’ (Marlene Dietrich) cascades through Malaysia’s ports of call eventually landing in a handsome lieutenant’s lap. As Bijou ‘drifts through the standards’, the fleet’s Admiral reckons the US…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
It Started with Eve

It Started with Eve

It Started with Eve
IMDb: 7.6
90

A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father’s last moments happy. However, the old man’s health takes a…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Rampage

Rampage

Rampage
IMDb: 5.5
98

In colonial Malaysia, British big game-hunter Otto Abbot and American trapper Harry Stanton clash over the ethics of catching versus killing animals and over Abbot’s mistress, Anna.

Genre: Adventure
Framed

Framed

Framed
IMDb: 6.3
106

Joe Don Baker plays a gambler who is framed for a crime he did not commit. A corrupt legal system leads him into a plea bargain and four years behind…

Kilroy Was Here

Kilroy Was Here

Kilroy Was Here
IMDb: 6.5
70

“Kilroy Was Here” was a popular expression during World War II, but it’s not much fun to John J. Kilroy, who has to try to live with all the jokes…

Genre: Comedy
Ride the Wild Surf

Ride the Wild Surf

Ride the Wild Surf
IMDb: 5.8
101

A group of friends go to Hawaii during the height of surfing season, to compete with other surf bums and find girlfriends along the way.

Genre: Comedy
The Brothers Rico

The Brothers Rico

The Brothers Rico
IMDb: 6.8
92

Eddie Rico, the erstwhile bookkeeper for a big Mafia boss, is now making a living as an honest merchant in Florida with his family. Things go sour when the police…

Swing Parade of 1946

Swing Parade of 1946

Swing Parade of 1946
IMDb: 5.2
74

The Three Stooges help an aspiring singer, Carol Lawrence, and a nightclub owner, Danny Warren, find love. It features dizzy dishwashers Moe, Larry, and Curly, and musical numbers by Connee…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
They Rode West

They Rode West

They Rode West
IMDb: 5.9
84

Dr. Allen Seward is assigned to a western cavalry post where his predecessors had been drunks and slackers. The post doesn’t take kindly to him either, especially after he disregards…

Genre: Action, Western
Black Gold

Black Gold

Black Gold
IMDb: 6.1
89

A Native American man trains a horse for the Kentucky Derby.

Genre: Drama, Western
Gunman’s Walk

Gunman’s Walk

Gunman’s Walk
IMDb: 7
97

A powerful rancher always protects his wild adult son by paying for damages and bribing witnesses, until his crimes become too serious to rectify.

Genre: Western