List of the best Burl Ives movies: Those Fantastic Flying Fools(1967), Day of the Outlaw(1959), Our Man in Havana(1960), Ensign Pulver(1964), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof(1958), White Dog(1982), Desire Under the Elms(1958), Uphill All the Way(1985), Station West(1948), Two Moon Junction(1988), Sierra(1950), Rock Hudson's Home Movies(1992) ... ...
Comedy
UK
1967
95 Minutes
Burl Ives Troy Donahue Gert Froebe Hermione Gingold Lionel Jeffries Daliah Lavi Dennis Price Stratford Johns Graham Stark Terry-Thomas Jimmy Clitheroe
circus manager young man spy fiancée inventor airy amusing charming hilarious heartwarming inspiring england circus hot air balloon moon inventions moon debt kidnapping friendship
In Victorian England, an American showman uses a wealthy Frenchman's finances to build a German explosives expert's giant cannon designed to fire a people-filled projectile to the Moon but spies and saboteurs endanger the project.
Western
USA
1959
91 Minutes
Jack Bruhn
Robert Ryan Burl Ives Tina Louise Alan Marshal Nehemiah Persoff Venetia Stevenson Donald Elson Helen Westcott Robert Cornthwaite Jack Lambert
cattleman farmer cavalry captain wife foreman brutal confident gripping tense bitters, wyo. mountain ranch feud bank heist outlaws hostage situation small-town life rivalry sacrifice transformation
Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder keg waiting to blow.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
UK
1960
107 Minutes
Alec Guinness Burl Ives Maureen O'Hara Ernie Kovacs Noel Coward Ralph Richardson Jo Morrow Paul Rogers Gregoire Aslan Jose Prieto Duncan Macrae
expatriate secret agent double agent director secretary salesman cool amusing suspenseful havana, cuba london city apartment government offices store city espionage communism father/daughter relationship patriotism deception
Jim Wormold, who is a vacuum cleaner salesman, participates as an Agent in the British Secret Service. But he soon realizes that his plans by lying are going to get him into trouble.
Comedy
USA
1964
104 Minutes
Robert Walker Burl Ives Walter Matthau Tommy Sands Millie Perkins Kay Medford Larry Hagman Gerald S. O'Loughlin Sal Papa Al Freeman Jr. James Farentino
Life becomes so harried after Ensign Pulver's prank, he and the Captain are swept off deck during a storm, ending up on a tropical island, a group of ship wrecked nurses, dancing natives, and one very big case of appendicitis.
Drama
USA
1958
108 Minutes
Harvey "Big Daddy" Pollitt
Elizabeth Taylor Paul Newman Burl Ives Jack Carson Judith Anderson Madeleine Thornton-Sherwood Larry Gates Vaughn Taylor Patty Ann Gerrity Robert "Rusty" Stevens Brian Corcoran
alcoholic wife father brother mother sister-in-law sultry melodramatic mississippi family home marriage family love money rivalry quest 1950s
Brick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. A reunion with his terminal father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Horror, Drama
USA
1982
90 Minutes
Carruthers
A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that's been raised to attack black people.
Drama
USA
1958
114 Minutes
Ephriam Cabot
Sophia Loren Anthony Perkins Burl Ives Frank Overton Pernell Roberts Rebecca Welles Jean Willes Anne Seymour Roy Fant
widower farmer wife slave gripping fascinating melodramatic new england farm california slavery farming money affair illegitimate child discovery forbidden love transformation 1950s
Desperation and secret passions on a family farm lead to tragedy.
Western
1985
86 Minutes
Sheriff John Catledge
Roy Clark Mel Tillis Burl Ives Glen Campbell Trish Van Devere Richard Paul Burt Reynolds Elaine Joyce Frank Gorshin Sheb Wooley
Western
USA
1948
92 Minutes
Hotel Clerk
Dick Powell Jane Greer Agnes Moorehead Burl Ives Tom Powers Gordon Oliver Steve Brodie Guinn "Big Boy" Williams Raymond Burr Regis Toomey Olin Howland
secret agent captain mine owner financier lawyer partner gritty dark saloon outpost mine hotel stagecoach mill undercover operations theft gold murder business romance
When two US cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, US Army Intelligence investigator John Haven goes undercover to a mining and logging town to find the killers.
Romance
USA
1988
104 Minutes
Sheriff Earl Hawkins
Sherilyn Fenn Richard Tyson Louise Fletcher Burl Ives Kristy McNichol Millie Perkins Don Galloway Herve Villechaize Dabbs Greer Screamin' Jay Hawkins
A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugged drifter who works at a local carnival.
Western
1950
83 Minutes
Lonesome
Wanda Hendrix Audie Murphy Dean Jagger Burl Ives Richard Rober Tony Curtis Houseley Stevenson Elliott Reid Griff Barnett Elisabeth Risdon Roy Roberts
father son murder suspect lawyer engaging gripping spirited suspenseful wild west mountain wrongful conviction innocence murder case outlaws race against time adventure discovery quest unknown era
A tomboy frontier lawyer (Wanda Hendrix) finds an outlaw (Dean Jagger) and his son (Audie Murphy) hiding out from a false charge of murder.
Documentary, Biography
1992
63 Minutes
Dr. Brits Jansen
actor actress gay man john wayne brash crafty unrestrained hollywood, calif. movie set hollywood homosexuality prejudice fame secret rock hudson discovery forbidden love pursuit 1980s
Filmmaker Mark Rappaport parallels the man and his screen persona within a context of 1950s sexuality.
Western
USA
1958
165 Minutes
Rufus Hannassey
Gregory Peck Jean Simmons Carroll Baker Charlton Heston Burl Ives Charles Bickford Alfonso Bedoya Chuck Connors Chuck Hayward Buff Brady Dorothy Adams
captain fiancée family patriarch land owner rancher son rousing gutsy thrilling spirited american west ranch land ownership american west harassment land wars family feud honor revenge rivalry
A New Englander arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between two families over a valuable patch of land.
Drama
USA
1955
115 Minutes
Sam the Sheriff
James Dean Julie Harris Raymond Massey Jo Van Fleet Burl Ives Richard Davalos Albert Van Dekker Lois Smith Harold Gordon Nick Dennis Rose Plumer
son brother father mother girlfriend emotional intense california farm carnival brothel jealousy family farming world war i love triangle relationships rivalry quest love
Two brothers struggle to maintain their strict, Bible-toting father's favor.
Western
USA
1946
87 Minutes
Willie
Fred MacMurray Anne Baxter Bruce Cabot Esther Dale Burl Ives Roy Roberts J. Farrell MacDonald
cowboy rancher horse brother heartwarming charming ranch cattle rustling horse breaking theft dark secrets horses pursuit rescue 1940s
Drama about the strong bond between a cowpoke and a wild bronco set during the 1940s.
Drama
USA
1948
89 Minutes
Gus
Peggy Cummins Charles Coburn Bob Arthur Lloyd Nolan Burl Ives Geraldine Wall Robert Adler Will Wright Herbert Heywood Richard Garrick Charles Tannen
niece rancher son stallion mare heartwarming uplifting wyoming ranch racetrack young love horse racing human-animal friendship wild animals adventure love rivalry 1940s
In Wyoming, several ranchers have their prized mares stolen by a big wild white stallion and must recover them before the Governor's Stake trotting race day.