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The Transformers: The Movie

The Transformers: The Movie (1986) more movies like this

directed by Nelson Shin
featuring Leonard Nimoy, Robert Stack, Judd Nelson, Eric Idle, Orson Welles

In this theatrically released chapter of the 1984-1987 syndicated animated series, the struggle between the heroic Autobots and evil Decepticons is taken twenty years into the future as both sides must deal with a world-devouring being called Unicron (voiced by Orson Welles). Set in 2005, The Transformers: The Movie serves as a bridge between the ...

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The High and the Mighty

The High and the Mighty (1954) more movies like this

directed by William Wellman
featuring John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day, Robert Stack, Jan Sterling

For The High and the Mighty, director William Wellman made a point of using Cinemascope to heighten the dramatic content of a confined screen space -- in this instance, the cockpit of a plane in flight. Copilot Dan Roman (John Wayne) seems a lot more in control of things than Captain John Sullivan (Robert Stack) when the plane loses an engine ...

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Joe Versus the Volcano

Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) more movies like this

directed by John Patrick Shanley
featuring Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Abe Vigoda, Dan Hedaya

Academy Award-winning screenwriter John Patrick Shanley's first foray into the director's chair is a quirky romantic fantasy, featuring Bo Welch's signature production design. Tom Hanks plays Joe Banks, a man who hates his job, thinks the overhead fluorescent lights are making him sick, and quakes at the presence of his boorish boss Frank Watori ...

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Airplane!

Airplane! (1980) more movies like this

directed by David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams
featuring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack

This spoof of the Airport series of disaster movies relies on ridiculous sight gags, groan-inducing dialogue, and deadpan acting -- a comedy style that would be imitated for the next 20 years. Airplane! pulls out all the clichés as alcoholic pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays), who's developed a fear of flying due to wartime trauma, boards a jumbo jet ...

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Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996) more movies like this

directed by Chris Prynoski, Kim Jae Joong, Kim Jong-Ho, Mike Judge, Park Jun Nam, Yvette Kaplan
featuring Mike Judge, Cloris Leachman, Robert Stack, Eric Bogosian, Richard Linklater

This is a full-length cartoon movie featuring the dim-witted obnoxious loser teens, Beavis and Butt-head. They are obsessed with sex, TV, heavy-metal rock 'n roll, sex, coolness and sex, in that order. The trouble begins when the couch-potato duo's beloved television disappears (they assume it was stolen). In the course of trying to get another TV ...

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Uncommon Valor

Uncommon Valor (1983) more movies like this

directed by Ted Kotcheff
featuring Gene Hackman, Robert Stack, Fred Ward, Reb Brown, Randall "Tex" Cobb

Ted Kotcheff continues his First Blood fervor with Uncommon Valor. Gene Hackman stars as Cal Rhodes, a former Marine Colonel who has been getting the run-around for ten years from the government concerning the disappearance of his son and his buddies - all Marines who enlisted years prior and served in Vietnam. Rhodes' son was last seen in Laos, ...

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A Date with Judy

A Date with Judy (1948) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Leon Ames, Wallace Beery, Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor, Carmen Miranda, George Cleveland, Lloyd Corrigan, Robert Stack, Scotty Beckett

In this lightweight musical comedy, Judy Foster (Jane Powell) and Carol Pringle (Elizabeth Taylor) are teenagers and best friends who find their loyalties tested when they both fall for the same good-looking older man, Stephen Andrews (Robert Stack). This situation is particularly troublesome for Judy, who already has a boyfriend, "Oogie" Pringle ...

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Caddyshack II

Caddyshack II (1988) more movies like this

directed by Allan Arkush
featuring Jackie Mason, Dyan Cannon, Robert Stack, Dina Merrill, Chevy Chase

This comedy returns to the exclusive but crazy country club golf course seen in the original Caddyshack. This time its the blue-bloods against the blue collars as a loud, vulgar self-made millionaire tries to join the stuffy upper-crust club after his daughter falls in love with the son of one of the members. Naturally, the boisterous millionaire ...

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Big Trouble

Big Trouble (1985) more movies like this

directed by John Cassavetes
featuring Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Beverly D'Angelo, Charles Durning, Paul Dooley, Robert Stack

It took nearly two years after its completion for Big Trouble to reach the big screen. Peter Falk and Alan Arkin are respectively cast as a shady wheeler-dealer and an uptight family man. Strapped for the cash necessary to send his son to Yale, Arkin reluctantly enters into a murder scheme with Beverly D'Angelo. She is married to Falk, who, though ...

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House of Bamboo

House of Bamboo (1955) more movies like this

directed by Samuel Fuller
featuring Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi, Cameron Mitchell, Brad Dexter

Samuel Fuller directed and cowrote this typically hard-boiled drama set in Japan following World War II. Eddie Kenner (Robert Stack) is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson (Robert Ryan), a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals who use their muscle to take over Tokyo's ...

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The Mortal Storm (1940) more movies like this

directed by Frank Borzage
featuring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Robert Young, Frank Morgan, Robert Stack

The Nazi Party's rise to power has disastrous consequences for a German family in this drama. Victor Roth (Frank Morgan) is a college professor teaching in Germany in 1933 who leads a peaceful and contented life with his wife Emelie (Irene Rich), son Rudi (Gene Reynolds), daughter Freya (Margaret Sullavan), and stepsons Otto (Robert Stack) and ...

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The Return of Eliot Ness (1991) more movies like this

directed by James A. Contner
featuring Robert Stack

Nearly three decades after the cancellation of the original Untouchables TV series, Robert Stack reprises his role as gangbuster Eliot Ness, who returns from retirement to hunt for the killer of a former colleague and finds himself caught in a war between rival mob kingpins in 1947 Chicago. Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide

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Killer Bud (2000) more movies like this

directed by Karl T. Hirsch
featuring Corin Nemec, David Faustino, Caroline Keenan, Danielle Harris, Robert Stack

Karl Hirsch directs this irrepressibly dumb buddy flick about pot, farts, and the CIA. Waylon (Corin Nemec) and Buzz (David Faustino) are a lifelong pals and lifelong losers; at the film's outset, they are canned from yet another job. After deciding to inaugurate their newly-unemployed status by looking for some women, they run into a couple of ...

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The Untouchables: The Scarface Mob (1959) more movies like this

directed by Phil Karlson
featuring Robert Stack, Neville Brand, Bruce Gordon, Walter Winchell, Abel Fernandez, Barbara Nichols, John Beradino, Keenan Wynn, Pat Crowley, Paul Picerni

The 1962 theatrical release of The Scarface Mob was created from the first two episodes of the famously popular 1959 TV series, The Untouchables. It stars Robert Stack as the courageous agent whose job is to corral the powerful mobster Al Capone. Nevill Brand plays Capone and Walter Winchell adds flavor as the Dragnet-style narrator. All Movie ...

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Written on the Wind (1956) more movies like this

directed by Douglas Sirk
featuring Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Robert Keith

Perhaps the definitive Douglas Sirk production, Written on the Wind is based on the novel by Robert Wilder. The story revolves around the Hadleys, a wealthy but thoroughly debauched family of Texas oil millionaires. Robert Stack is self-destructive alcoholic Kyle Hadley, while Dorothy Malone won an Oscar for her equally vivid potrayal of Kyle's ...

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The Last Voyage (1960) more movies like this

directed by Andrew L. Stone
featuring Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, George Sanders, Edmond O'Brien

Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone are Cliff and Laurie Henderson, a married couple on a vacation with their young daughter (Tammy Marihugh), taking their first sea voyage aboard the aging ocean liner Claridon. All is well for them, but not for the ship below decks, where a fire has broken out. The engine room crew, led by Chief Engineer Steven ...

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First Love (1939) more movies like this

directed by Henry Koster
featuring Deanna Durbin, Robert Stack, Eugene Pallette, Helen Parrish, Lewis Howard

Best remembered as the film in which 17-year-old Deanna Durbin receives her first screen kiss, First Love is a modernized variation of the Cinderella legend (there's even "six white mice" in the form of a sextet of motorcycle policemen!). The film casts Durbin as Constance Harding, the poor relation of wealthy tycoon James Clinton (Eugene Pallette ...

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Dangerous Curves (1988) more movies like this

directed by David Lewis
featuring Tate Donovan, Danielle von Zerneck, Grant Heslov, Valeri Breiman, Robert Stack

This direct to video, youth-oriented comedy is about Chuck (Tate Donovan) and Wally (Grant Heslov), friends in their senior year at college. Graduation is fast approaching. A wealthy industrialist (Robert Stack) offfers them jobs after graduation if they'll do him a favor and deliver a car to the his daughter in Lake Tahoe. The car, a red Porsche ...

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Mr. Music (1950) more movies like this

directed by Richard Haydn
featuring Bing Crosby, Nancy Olson, Charles Coburn, Ruth Hussey, Robert Stack, Peggy Lee

Bing Crosby stars as Paul Merrick, an irresponsible songwriter in Mr. Music. Merrick's improvidence and prodigality has made him persona non grata in show business, so his secretary Katherine Holbrook (Nancy Olson) takes it upon herself to rehabilitate her boss. Meanwhile, producer Alex Conway (Charles Coburn) desperately needs a hit show to ...

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Miss Tatlock's Millions (1948) more movies like this

directed by Richard Haydn
featuring John Lund, Wanda Hendrix, Barry Fitzgerald, Monty Woolley, Ilka Chase, Robert Stack

A woman stands to inherit a fortune if she can get all her brothers and sisters in one place...which is far more complicated than it might sound. When the Tatlocks, a very wealthy couple, suddenly and unexpectedly die, the executor of the estate informs Nan Tatlock (Wanda Hendrix) that their will stipulates that all members of the immediate family ...

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The Iron Glove (1954) more movies like this

directed by William Castle
featuring Robert Stack, Ursula Thiess, Richard Stapley, Charles Irwin, Alan Hale, Jr.

Robert Stack stars with Ursula Theiss (the wife of Robert Taylor) in the Columbia costumer The Iron Glove. Stack, an 18th century Scots adventurer, swashes and buckles on behalf of self-styled Prince James (Richard Stapley). Our hero insinuates himself into the court of King George I, the better to install the man known as "The Old Pretender" ...

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To Be or Not to Be (1942) more movies like this

directed by Ernst Lubitsch
featuring Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill

Ernst Lubitsch directs the 1942 political satire classic To Be or Not to Be, which marked the final screen appearance of comedienne Carole Lombard. In Warsaw at the beginning of WWII, Maria Tura (Lombard) and husband Joseph (Jack Benny) perform anti-Nazi plays with their theater troupe until they are forced to switch to Shakespeare's Hamlet. Lt. ...

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Great Day in the Morning (1956) more movies like this

directed by Jacques Tourneur
featuring Virginia Mayo, Robert Stack, Ruth Roman, Alex Nicol, Raymond Burr

When gold is discovered in the Colorado Territory at the start of the Civil War, Confederate Owen Pentecost (Robert Stack) and Union agent Stephen Kirby (Alex Nicol) battle with each other in a struggle to obtain the most gold to give to their respective armies. Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide

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Conquest of Cochise (1953) more movies like this

directed by William Castle
featuring John Hodiak, Joy Page, Robert Stack, Rico Alaniz

Cashing in on the popularity of such pro-Native American films as Broken Arrow, Columbia's resident quickiemeister Sam Katzman came up with Conquest of Cochise. John Hodiak plays the eponymous Apache leader, who at the beginning of the film is seen conducting raids on the U.S.-Mexican border in the company of the Comanches. Eventually realizing ...

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The Bullfighter and the Lady (1950) more movies like this

directed by Budd Boetticher
featuring Robert Stack, Joy Page, Gilbert Roland, Virginia Grey, John Hubbard

Director Budd Boetticher's love of bullfighting comes to the fore in this film drama, directed and co-written by Boetticher (and produced by John Wayne). Robert Stack plays the cocky American Chuck Regan, who travels to Mexico and falls in love with the sultry Anita de la Vega (Joy Page). In order to impress her with his prowess, he convinces the ...

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