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African Manhunt (1955)
Character: Native Guide
Kirby, Davis and Drover escort the wanted criminal Rene Carvel from central Africa to the coast, stopping every so often to watch wild animals attack one another.
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A Sound of Different Drummers (1957)
Character: N/A
A young security police officer in a future totalitarian state is assigned to suppress illegal intellectual activity, including executing book readers. He catches a librarian hiding a banned book and joins her in reading books.
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Legend of the Northwest (1978)
Character: N/A
Set during the old west, Bearheart the dog witnesses his master, an old mountain man being murdered by bandits. Forced into the wilderness to survive on his own he meets a family who gives him friendship and a loving home.
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Anatomy of a Crime (1969)
Character: Lt. Wager
Private detective David Ross has two apparently unconnected cases to investigate in the same day. In the first he is hired by a millionaire who paid a large ransom for his kidnapped daughter twelve years before, but she was never seen again. Now a woman has come forward who claims the young girl she raised is the millionaire's missing daughter. Later, Ross is contacted by a retired burlesque dancer who's about to publish her memoirs and possibly reveal the secrets of some important people, but someone is determined to stop her.
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Blood and Steel (1959)
Character: George
Native girl helps US Seabees free her villagers from Japanese troops.
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The Killing (1956)
Character: Track Parking Attendant
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.
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Men in War (1957)
Character: Sgt. Killian
In Korea, on 6 September 1950, Lieutenant Benson's platoon finds itself isolated in enemy-held territory after a retreat. Soon they are joined by Sergeant Montana, whose overriding concern is caring for his catatonic colonel. Benson and Montana can't stand each other, but together they must get the survivors to Hill 465, where they hope the division is waiting. It's a long, harrowing march, fraught with all the dangers the elusive enemy can summon.
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Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge (1960)
Character: Batt
Texas John Slaughter is a peace-loving family man and successful rancher who values his friendship with the Apaches. But when a vengeful Geronimo initiates a violent campaign against the settlers, Slaughter himself must fight-- to maintain peace and honor among the warring groups.
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The Joe Louis Story (1953)
Character: Jack 'Chappie' Blackburn
The life and career of Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, who held the title for 12 years--longer than any other boxer in history--and who had to not only battle opponents inside the ring and racism outside it.
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The Young Runaways (1968)
Character: Sgt. Collyer
Three unhappy teenagers run away from home, only to discover living on their own isn't as idyllic as they imagined.
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The Phenix City Story (1955)
Character: Zeke Ward
A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.
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Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958)
Character: Futa
Dr. Sturdy is trying to establish a modern hospital in the jungle. His efforts are strongly opposed by Futa, the witch doctor, and Ramo, a native warrior.
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The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Character: Cpl. Allen Melvin
Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.
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Pork Chop Hill (1959)
Character: Cpl. Jurgens
Korean War, April 1953. Lieutenant Clemons, leader of the King company of the United States Infantry, is ordered to recapture Pork Chop Hill, occupied by a powerful Chinese Army force, while, just seventy miles away, at nearby the village of Panmunjom, a tense cease-fire conference is celebrated.
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Bright Victory (1951)
Character: Joe Morgan
A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life.
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Fräulein (1958)
Character: Cpl. Hanks
A Nazi's fiancee helps an escaped U.S. soldier, then meets him in postwar Berlin.
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Home of the Brave (1949)
Character: Private Peter Moss
A sensitive, educated black man's World War II-time problems. This is essentially the duplicate of his peace-time problems which are pointed up in a flashback of his life, and primarily of his war-time adventures with four white soldiers on a dangerous reconnaissance mission on a Japanese-held island.
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Coogan's Bluff (1968)
Character: Sgt. Jackson
Coogan, an Arizona deputy sheriff goes to New York to pick up a prisoner. While escorting the prisoner to the airport, he escapes and Coogan heads into the city to recapture him.
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The Member of the Wedding (1952)
Character: Honey Camden Brown
Tomboy, Frances 'Frankie' Addams, dreams of running away with her brother and new fiancée away from the Deep South.
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Battle Hymn (1957)
Character: Lt. Maples
Dean Hess, who entered the ministry to atone for bombing a German orphanage, decides he’s a failure at preaching. Rejoined to train pilots early in the Korean War, he finds Korean orphans raiding the airbase garbage. With a pretty Korean teacher, he sets up an orphanage for them and others.
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The Set-Up (1949)
Character: Luther Hawkins
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
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Anna Lucasta (1958)
Character: Eddie
The estranged family of a reformed prostitute calls her back home to get her married to an affluent acquaintance out of greed.
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The Steel Helmet (1951)
Character: Corporal Thompson
A ragtag group of American stragglers battles against superior Communist troops in an abandoned Buddhist temple during the Korean War.
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Patton (1970)
Character: Sergeant William George Meeks
"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with Patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.
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Night of the Quarter Moon (1959)
Character: Asa Tully / lawyer
A POW marries a woman he meets in Mexico. Controversy erupts when people find out that she's one-quarter black.
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The Sandpiper (1965)
Character: Larry Brant
A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wedded headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California.
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The Caine Mutiny (1954)
Character: Chief Steward Whittaker
When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.
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Doomsday Voyage (1972)
Character: Coast Guard Officer
A political extremist on the run after assassinating a corrupt politician, poses as a French sailor in hopes of fleeing the country.
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