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Shane

Shane (1953) more movies like this

directed by George Stevens
featuring Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon de Wilde, Jack Palance

The simple story of a Wyoming range war is elevated to near-mythical status in producer/director George Stevens' Western classic Shane. Alan Ladd plays the title character, a mysterious drifter who rides into a tiny homesteading community and accepts the hospitality of a farming family. Patriarch Joe Starrett (Van Heflin) is impressed by the way ...

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The Blue Dahlia

The Blue Dahlia (1946) more movies like this

directed by George Marshall
featuring Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling

This neat, fast-paced perfectly cast film noir reflects the hard-boiled, grim wit of the author of its screenplay, Raymond Chandler. Johnny Morrison (Alan Ladd) returns from the war to find his wife Helen (Doris Dowling) having a party and in the arms of another man. Johnny and Helen have a terrible fight, and later Helen is found dead. Johnny ...

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This Gun for Hire

This Gun for Hire (1942) more movies like this

directed by Frank Tuttle
featuring Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Alan Ladd, Tully Marshall

Though billed fourth in This Gun For Hire, Alan Ladd was catapulted to stardom in the role of Phillip Raven, a ruthless professional killer with a long-suppressed streak of decency. After successfully pulling off his latest murder, Raven reports to his boss, effeminate fifth columnist Willard Gates (Laird Cregar). He collects his $1000 fee, only ...

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Whispering Smith

Whispering Smith (1948) more movies like this

directed by Leslie Fenton, Mel Epstein
featuring Alan Ladd, Brenda Marshall, Robert Preston, Donald Crisp, William Demarest

This fact -based western follows a soft-spoken railroad detective (Alan Ladd) as he brings a murderous ring of robbers to justice and rekindles an old flame. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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The Glass Key

The Glass Key (1942) more movies like this

directed by Stuart Heisler
featuring Brian Donlevy, Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, Bonita Granville, Richard Denning, William Bendix

Dashiel Hammett's The Glass Key, a tale of big-city political corruption, was first filmed in 1935, with Edward Arnold as a duplicitous political boss and George Raft as his loyal lieutenant. This 1942 remake improves on the original, especially in replacing the stolid Raft with the charismatic Alan Ladd. Brian Donlevy essays the role of the boss, ...

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The Proud Rebel

The Proud Rebel (1958) more movies like this

directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Alan Ladd, Olivia de Havilland, Dean Jagger, David Ladd, Cecil Kellaway

A gentler but no less resourceful Alan Ladd stars in The Proud Rebel. Ladd is cast as civil war veteran John Chandler, while the star's son David (who grew up to become a powerful Hollywood producer) plays Chandler's emotionally disturbed son David. Since suffering a traumatic shock during the war, David has not spoken a single word. With his son ...

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O.S.S.

O.S.S. (1946) more movies like this

directed by Irving Pichel
featuring Alan Ladd, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Patric Knowles, Richard Benedict, Richard Webb

Set during WWII, this taut and suspenseful espionage outing chronicles the courage of a brand-new cadre of specially trained American O.S.S. agents who parachute into France to destroy the vital Corbett Mallon tunnel to stop the German invaders from shipping supplies to their troops. One of the spies is a woman, and this bothers the group leader, ...

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Branded

Branded (1950) more movies like this

directed by Rudolph Maté
featuring Alan Ladd, Mona Freeman, Charles Bickford, Robert Keith, Joseph Calleia

Rancher Charles Bickford comes to believe that drifter Alan Ladd is his long-lost son. In truth, Ladd is a crook, in league with Brian Keith to con Bickford out of his fortune. Intending to go through with the scheme, Ladd has second thoughts when Bickford and his "mother" Selena Royle shower him with the familial affection that he has lacked all ...

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China

China (1943) more movies like this

directed by John Farrow
featuring Loretta Young, Alan Ladd, William Bendix, Philip Ahn, Iris Wong

Set in Japanese-occupied China shortly before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, this action/drama stars Alan Ladd as Mr. Jones, a cynically materialistic American who has no qualms about selling oil to the enemy; as far as he's concerned, their money spends as well as anyone's. Against the advice of his friend and partner Johnny Sparrow (William Bendix ...

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Botany Bay

Botany Bay (1953) more movies like this

directed by John Farrow
featuring Alan Ladd, James Mason, Patricia Medina, Cedric Hardwicke, Murray Matheson

Framed for robbery, 18th century medical student Alan Ladd is sentenced to a New South Wales penal colony. En route to the prison, Ladd is tormented by sadistic ship's captain James Mason, while Mason's beloved Patricia Medina takes a fancy to the new prisoner. Once at the colony, Ladd is befriended by governor Sir Cedric Hardwicke, since the ...

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The Badlanders (1958) more movies like this

directed by Delmer Daves
featuring Alan Ladd, Ernest Borgnine, Katy Jurado, Claire Kelly, Nehemiah Persoff, Kent Smith

Alan Ladd stars in The Badlanders as Peter Van Hook, the mastermind of a gold robbery. The victim-to-be is Cyril Lounsberry (Kent Smith), whose perjured testimony had sent the innocent Van Hook and John McBain (Ernest Borgnine) to prison. Van Hook and McBain conspire with "sporting woman" Anita (Katy Jurado) to rob Lounsberry of his ill-gotten ...

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Two Years Before the Mast (1946) more movies like this

directed by John Farrow
featuring Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, Roman Bohnen, William Bendix, Barry Fitzgerald, George Bruggeman, Howard Da Silva, James Burke

Based on a famous book by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., this grueling saga of shipboard oppression is set in the mid-19th century. Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the wealthy son of a Boston shipowner, is hijacked by Amazeen (William Bendix), the first mate on a ship bound for California. Francis Thompson (Howard Da Silva) is the tyrannical captain of the ...

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All the Young Men (1960) more movies like this

directed by Hall Bartlett
featuring Alan Ladd, Sidney Poitier, James Darren, Glenn Corbett, Mort Sahl

Set right near the 38th Parallel, the dividing line between North and South Korea, this conventional wartime tale focuses on the relationships of some GI's caught without reinforcements in an old farmhouse. Although the house offers some protection, the men are outnumbered and little by little, casualties mount. After the lieutenant dies, black ...

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The Deep Six (1958) more movies like this

directed by Rudolph Maté
featuring Alan Ladd, William Bendix, James Whitmore, Dianne Foster, Keenan Wynn

The conflict between duty and conscience is explored in the WWII drama The Deep Six. Alan Ladd stars as Naval gunnery officer Alec Austin, a Quaker whose sincere pacifist sentiments do not sit well with his crew members. When he refuses to fire upon an unidentified plane, the word spreads that Austin cannot be relied upon in battle (never mind ...

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Duffy's Tavern (1945) more movies like this

directed by Hal Walker
featuring Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton, Paulette Goddard, Alan Ladd, Dorothy Lamour

Several of Paramount Pictures brightest stars make cameo appearances in this comedy set in "Duffy's Tavern," a favorite watering hole from old time radio shows. The trouble begins when the neighborhood bar is in danger of closing. The trouble begins when the proprietor, Archie, discovers that one of his regulars, Michael O'Malley, owner of a ...

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Saskatchewan (1954) more movies like this

directed by Raoul Walsh
featuring Alan Ladd, Shelley Winters, Robert Douglas, J. Carrol Naish, Hugh O'Brian

Saskatchewan is a "northern" starring Alan Ladd as tight-lipped Canadian Mountie Sgt. Thomas O'Rourke. He rescues Grace Markey (Shelley Winters), sole survivor of a Sioux uprising, and the two of them set out across the treacherous Saskatchewan terrain to safety. To keep himself and his companion alive, O'Rourke must rely on his own knowledge of ...

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Hitler -- Beast of Berlin (1939) more movies like this

directed by Sherman Scott
featuring Roland Drew, Steffi Duna, Greta Granstedt, Alan Ladd, Lucien Prival

Also known as Beasts of Berlin and Hitler: Beast of Berlin, this was the inagural effort of Producers Distributing Corporation-later to become famous (or infamous) as PRC Pictures. Set in Germany, the story concerned a dedicated group of anti-Nazis devoted to circulating propaganda literature. The leaders of the group are Roland Drew and his wife ...

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