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Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) more movies like this

directed by Robert Stevenson
featuring Ian Weighall, Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall, Sam Jaffe, John Ericson

Bedknobs and Broomsticks was produced several years after Walt Disney's death and released in the fall of 1971. As it turned out, Bedknobs was frequently compared to Mary Poppins -- probably thanks to several striking similarities between the two productions, notably the presence in the cast of David Tomlinson, the use of two cockney children as ...

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Cleopatra

Cleopatra (1963) more movies like this

directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown, Roddy McDowall, George Cole, Martin Landau

In 1963, this colossal and opulent $60 million spectacular was epic in every sense of the word -- an epic investment, an epic in the annals of Hollywood gossip, and, ultimately, an epic flop that nearly dragged 20th Century Fox down the Nile along with Cleopatra's barge. Handsomely mounted by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who replaced Rouben Mamoulian as ...

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How Green Was My Valley

How Green Was My Valley (1941) more movies like this

directed by John Ford
featuring Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Donald Crisp, Roddy McDowall, Barry Fitzgerald, Anna Lee

Spanning 50 years, director John Ford's How Green Was My Valley revolves around the life of the Morgans, a Welsh mining family, as told through the eyes of its youngest child Huw (Roddy McDowall). Over the years, the family struggles to survive through unionization, strikes, and child abuse. As they do so, their hometown and its culture begins to ...

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Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes (1968) more movies like this

directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
featuring Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore

Originally intended as a project for Blake Edwards, the film version of Pierre Boule's semisatiric sci-fi novel came to the screen in 1968 under the directorial guidance of Franklin J. Schaffner. Charlton Heston is George Taylor, one of several astronauts on a long, long space mission whose spaceship crash-lands on a remote planet, seemingly ...

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That Darn Cat

That Darn Cat (1965) more movies like this

directed by Robert Stevenson
featuring Hayley Mills, Dean Jones, Dorothy Provine, Roddy McDowall, Neville Brand

Though overlong even for a Hayley Mills vehicle, That Darn Cat is an expert blend of laughs and suspense. The eponymous feline is D.C., a Siamese belonging to sisters Hayley Mills and Dorothy Provine. One evening, D.C. comes flouncing home with a lady's wristwatch attached to her neck. The watch contains an unfinished plea for help scribbled on ...

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The Keys of the Kingdom

The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) more movies like this

directed by John M. Stahl
featuring Gregory Peck, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, Roddy McDowall, Rosa Stradner, Edmund Gwenn

Based on the novel by A.J. Cronin, The Keys of the Kingdom was the first big-budget effort of movie-newcomer Gregory Peck. This is the 137-minute chronicle of a Scottish priest (Peck), who is assigned a mission in China. Never very focused in his life or work, the priest finds plenty to keep his mind occupied in his new post; when he isn't coping ...

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Lassie Come Home

Lassie Come Home (1943) more movies like this

directed by Fred Wilcox
featuring Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Dame May Whitty, Edmund Gwenn, Elsa Lanchester, Nigel Bruce

Female dogs tend to shed while in heat; this is why all the collies who've played doggy heroine Lassie in the movies have actually been well-disguised males. A magnificent animal named Pal was the screen's first Lassie in 1943's Lassie Come Home. Set in Yorkshire during the first World War, the film gets under way when the poverty-stricken parents ...

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The Cat from Outer Space

The Cat from Outer Space (1978) more movies like this

directed by Norman Tokar
featuring Ken Berry, Sandy Duncan, Harry Morgan, Roddy McDowall, McLean Stevenson

Zunar J5/90 Doric 4-7, also known as Jake, is an alien cat who crash-lands on earth. He heads off to the nearest scientist to find gold ($120,000 worth!) in order to repair his spaceship. Jake reveals that he can predict the winners in sporting events and soon the military is trying to track him down. The plot becomes more complicated when a wacky ...

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The Poseidon Adventure

The Poseidon Adventure (1972) more movies like this

directed by Ronald Neame
featuring Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Carol Lynley, Roddy McDowall

The Poseidon , an ocean liner larger than the Queens Elizabeth and Mary combined, is charting its course on New Year's Eve. Just after midnight, Captain Harrison (Leslie Nielsen) spots the mother of all tidal waves. It is the last thing that Harrison and practically everyone else onboard sees before drowning -- the Poseidon is turned upside ...

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Hello Down There

Hello Down There (1969) more movies like this

directed by Jack Arnold, Ricou Browning
featuring Tony Randall, Janet Leigh, Roddy McDowall, Jim Backus, Ken Berry

When irascible boss T.R. Hollister (Jim Backus) threatens to pull the plug on an underwater environmental living project, employee Fred Miller (Tony Randall) and his wife, Vivian (Janet Leigh), take their family down in the deep to live for 30 days. With all the modern conveniences of a home on land, the family even invites a rock & roll band to ...

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Unlikely Angel (1996) more movies like this

directed by Michael Switzer
featuring Dolly Parton, Roddy McDowall

Dolly Parton stars in this light-hearted story as Ruby Diamond, a singer who unexpectedly dies in an auto wreck and finds herself meeting the man at the pearly gates. Ruby discovers she did not rack up enough good deed points to enter the kingdom of Heaven, but she's given a second chance to come back to Earth and help others in hopes of proving ...

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Second Jungle Book: Mowgli and Baloo (1997) more movies like this

directed by Duncan McLachlan
featuring Bill Williams, Jamie Williams, Bill Campbell, Roddy McDowall, David Paul Francis, Gulshan Grover

A prequel to The Jungle Book, this live-action kids' film follows the young wild boy Mowgli (Jamie Williams) as he's pursued through the late 19th century Indian jungle by a variety of "civilized" men, each seeking him for their own nefarious purposes. When Mowgli is spotted by the passengers on a train, Harrison (Bill Campbell), an employee of P ...

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My Friend Flicka (1943) more movies like this

directed by Harold D. Schuster
featuring Roddy McDowall, Preston S. Foster, Rita Johnson, Jeff Corey, James Bell

An utterly enchanting Technicolor filmization of Mary O'Hara's novel, My Friend Flicka is the story of a beautiful colt and the boy (Roddy McDowell) who loves her. The boy's rancher father (Preston S. Foster) isn't keen on the horse that his son chooses to train: Flicka, the offspring of a tempestuous mare that has shown traces of madness. The ...

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Fright Night (1985) more movies like this

directed by Tom Holland
featuring Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale, Amanda Bearse, Roddy McDowall, Stephen Geoffreys

A teenage horror film addict is shocked to discover that his new next-door neighbor is a vampire in this delightful mix of horror and comedy. The problems only grow for young Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) when he expresses his thoughts about fanged new neighbor Jerry Dandridge (Chris Sarandon). His girlfriend, Amy (Amanda Bearse), thinks ...

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Circle of Iron (1978) more movies like this

directed by Richard Moore
featuring David Carradine, Jeff Cooper, Roddy McDowall, Eli Wallach, Erica Creer

This symbol-laden drama explores the inner mythology of martial arts practice and is based on a Bruce Lee story idea. The original screenplay was written by Bruce Lee, with help from actor James Coburn and screenwriter Stirling Silliphant. Lee was to take on the four-in-one role of guide in his film, leaving the hero's role to someone else. ...

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Inside Daisy Clover (1965) more movies like this

directed by Robert Mulligan
featuring Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford, Roddy McDowall, Ruth Gordon

Daisy Clover (Natalie Wood) goes from teenage girl to movie star practically overnight when her demented mother enters her voice in a talent-search contest. From a broken-down carnival on the Santa Monica Pier, in no time at all she is attending glamorous Hollywood parties. But Daisy soon learns that misery and pain go hand-in-hand with fame and ...

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Funny Lady (1975) more movies like this

directed by Herbert Ross
featuring Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif, Roddy McDowall, Ben Vereen

Funny Lady, the follow-up to the 1968 Funny Girl which made a movie star of Barbra Streisand, picks up the character of Fanny Brice in the 1930s. Although she is a tremendously famous Broadway star, she has suffered from the stock market crash and needs to boost her finances. Even Ziegfeld, who soon will pass away, is having a hard time raising ...

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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) more movies like this

directed by J. Lee Thompson
featuring Roddy McDowall, Don Murray, Ricardo Montalban, Natalie Trundy, Hari (Harry) Rhodes

The fourth Planet of the Apes film is set in 1991, 20 years since the assassination of talking, time-traveling apes Cornelius and Zira at the end of Escape From the Planet of the Apes. The couple's infant son, Caesar (Roddy McDowall), has grown to adulthood in the care of kindly circus owner Armando (Ricardo Montalban). Meanwhile, a plague has ...

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The Legend of Hell House (1973) more movies like this

directed by John Hough
featuring Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill, Gayle Hunnicutt, Roland Culver

Richard Matheson adapted the screenplay of The Legend of Hell House from his own novel. In the tradition of Shirley Jackson's Haunting of Hill House, four people with alleged extrasensory powers are called upon to spend a weekend in a supposedly haunted house, to either prove or disprove the presence of ghosts. Roddy McDowall has been in the house ...

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Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) more movies like this

directed by Don Taylor
featuring Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter

Escape From the Planet of the Apes is the third in the series of films based upon the Planet of the Apes characters created by novelist Pierre Boulle. At the end of the second film, the centuries-in-the-future world colonized by simians was destroyed, but apes Cornelius (Roddy McDowall) and Zira (Kim Hunter) were able to escape in the space vessel ...

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The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1966) more movies like this

directed by James Neilson
featuring Roddy McDowall, Suzanne Pleshette, Karl Malden, Harry Guardino, Bryan Russell, Richard Haydn

This rambunctious Disney comedy was based on the novel By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleischman. Roddy McDowall plays Griffin, the very proper butler of Bostonian Bryan Russell. When Russell runs off to California during the 1849 gold rush, Griffin dutifully tags along. Master and butler team up with Shakespearean actor Richard Haydn, who owns a ...

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Son of Fury (1942) more movies like this

directed by John Cromwell
featuring Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, George Sanders, Frances Farmer, Roddy McDowall

This period swashbuckler film is based on the adventure novel Benjamin Blake by Edison Marshall, who also wrote The Vikings (1958). When his brother dies, scheming Arthur Blake (George Sanders) kidnaps his own nephew, Benjamin (played as a youth by Roddy McDowall and as an adult by Tyrone Power). Arthur's purpose is to claim his brother's dukedom ...

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Dead of Winter (1987) more movies like this

directed by Arthur Penn
featuring Mary Steenburgen, Roddy McDowall, Jan Rubes, William Russ, Mark Malone

Despite its relative failure at the box office, this is a worthwhile thriller from the director of Bonnie and Clyde. Mary Steenburgen stars as an actress, Katie McGovern, lured to the upstate New York cabin of crazy Dr. Joseph Lewis (Jan Rubes), a diabolical crippled shrink playing a blackmail game with the ruthless sister of a recently murdered ...

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Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) more movies like this

directed by J. Lee Thompson
featuring Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy, Severn Darden, Lew Ayres, John Huston

The fifth and last of the original series of motion pictures based upon author Pierre Boulle's imaginative novel Monkey Planet, this science fiction film was the least-liked by the series' legion of fans. Roddy McDowall returns as Caesar, the rebellious intelligent chimp of the previous film, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972). Caesar led ...

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Macbeth (1948) more movies like this

directed by Orson Welles
featuring Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O'Herlihy, Roddy McDowall, Edgar Barrier

Shakespeare's tragic tale of the rise and fall of ambitious 12th-century Scottish warrior MacBeth has proven irresistible to filmmakers. Orson Welles was so anxious to transfer the play to the screen that he acceded to the demands of his parent studio, Republic pictures, that he shoot his version of MacBeth in 23 days on standing B-western sets. ...

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