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Five in Judgement (1955)
Character: Bill - Diner Proprietor
When two brothers traveling across country stop in a small town diner to escape a storm, they are taken to be murderers by the locals.
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The Name of the Game Is Kill (1968)
Character: Symcha Lipa
A desert family offers a traveling stranger its hospitality, but the stranger doesn't realize exactly what they have in store for him.
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M Station: Hawaii (1980)
Character: Adm. Henderson
In this unsold pilot, the US government hires a salvage team to recover a sunken Russian submarine, heightening Cold War tensions.
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Cocoon (1968)
Character: Det. Steve McGarrett
In this pilot film to the "Hawaii Five-0" television series, special law officer Steve McGarrett tracks down Red Chinese operatives and their spy ring in Honolulu.
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Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot (1957)
Character: John Fry
Williamsburg: the Story of a Patriot tells the story of Virginia's role in American Independence (up to the point of voting to propose independence at the Second Continental Congress), from the point of view of John Fry (played by a young Jack Lord), a fictional Virginia planter elected to the House of Burgesses.
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The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
Character: Lt. Cmdr. Zachary 'Zack' Lansdowne
A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.
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The Counterfeit Killer (1968)
Character: Don Owens
A Secret Service agent poses as a waterfront hit man to infiltrate a global ring of counterfeiters.
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The Doomsday Flight (1966)
Character: Special Agent Frank Thompson
A bomb on board an airliner has an altitude-sensitive trigger. Unless a ransom is paid, it will explode when the plane descends to land.
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God's Little Acre (1958)
Character: Buck Walden
In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their grandfather but problems related to poverty, marital infidelity, unemployment and booze threaten to destroy their family.
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Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957)
Character: Jimmy Heldon
Broke and about to divorce his wife, a pilot joins a smuggling scheme in postwar Madrid.
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The Tattooed Stranger (1950)
Character: Det. Deke Del Vecchio
Detectives investigate the Central Park murder of a young woman with a Marine Corps tattoo.
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The Hangman (1959)
Character: Johnny Bishop
A marshal nicknamed "The Hangman" because of his track record in hunting down and capturing wanted criminals traces a robbery suspect to a small town. However, the man is known and liked in the town, and the citizens band together to try to help him avoid capture.
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Dr. No (1962)
Character: Felix Leiter
Agent 007 battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder, to confront a megalomaniacal villain in his massive island headquarters.
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Man of the West (1958)
Character: Coaley
Heading east to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher for his frontier town home, Link Jones is stranded with singer Billie Ellis and gambler Sam Beasley when their train is held up. For shelter, Jones leads them to his nearby former home, where he was brought up an outlaw. Finding the gang still living in the shack, Jones pretends to be ready to return to a life crime.
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Project X (1949)
Character: John Bates
Project X was one of a cycle of anti-Red films produced in the late 1940s. Keith Andes plays an ex-Communist who is strongarmed into cooperating with the Feds. Pretending to become a "comrade" again, Andes rejoins the local Communist cell. Moving about freely, he is able to track down a gang of spies who are smuggling atomic secrets. Filmed on location in New York, Project X has the surface "feel" of a documentary, though the dialogue is strictly from the funny papers. Keep an eye out for a very young Jack Lord.
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Cry Murder (1950)
Character: Tommy Warren
A young actress has retired from films to marry the son of a prominent and rich politician in New York City. The father objects strongly to the marriage. The actress is being blackmailed by a second-rate artist who has stolen some letters from her that could be misconstrued. During the payoff, she is knocked unconscious, and awakens to find herself involved in a murder and the police have her marked as the number-one suspect.
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The True Story of Lynn Stuart (1958)
Character: Willie Down
When the nephews of Phyllis Carter are killed in an automobile crash while under the influence of narcotics, she persuades Police Lieutenant Jim Hahan to use her as an undercover agent.
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The Vagabond King (1956)
Character: Ferrebouc
Louis XI of France drafts Paris's popular "king" of criminals as Provost Marshal in his fight against usurper Charles of Burgundy and the traitorous nobles who rally around him.
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Walk Like a Dragon (1960)
Character: Lincoln 'Linc' Bartlett
California, 1870s. The cowboy Lincoln 'Linc' Bartlett finds out there's a slave auction of Chinese women in San Francisco and he intervenes and purchases the Chinese Kim Sung from the auction with the intent of setting her free. But it doesn't occur to Linc that setting her free isn't enough. Where is she going to go? Kim doesn't speak English and she's just going to be exploited by somebody else. Linc takes Kim home to serve as a housekeeper. Ma Bartlett Linc's mother, is not happy that a Chinese girl is living in her home, and even less happy when Kim and her son fall in love. Their affair also arouses the jealousy of Cheng Lu, a Chinese immigrant.
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