List of the best David Leonard movies: Don Ricardo Returns(1946), Bells of San Fernando(1947), The Robe(1953), Captain Carey, U.S.A.(1950), The Unsuspected(1947), Say One for Me(1959), Somebody Up There Likes Me(1956) ... ...
Western
USA
1946
63 Minutes
Fred Coby Lita Baron Martin Garralaga Anthony Warde Paul Newlan David Leonard
man fiancée childhood friend cousin priest overseer charming suspenseful emotional monterey, calif. port cantina ranch mission land wars assumed identity friendship deception corruption marriage
After being shanghaied in a plot to have him declared dead and take over his ranchero and other properties, Don Ricardo, disguised as a peon, returns to Old California, and begins the fight... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1947
74 Minutes
Donald Woods Gloria Warren Shirley O'Hara Byron Foulger Paul Newlan Anthony Warde Monte Blue Claire DuBrey David Leonard Gordon Clark Gilbert Galvan
crime boss governor girlfriend father priest frontiersman melodramatic suspenseful thrilling small town house wagon mine paradise valley crime forced marriage gold old west law and order escape
Mendoza ruthlessly controls the valley of San Fernando and his men guard the only entrance. When Mendoza announces he will marry Michael's girl friend Maria, Michael plans an escape. He ... See full summary »
Drama, History
USA
1953
135 Minutes
Richard Burton Jean Simmons Victor Mature Michael Rennie Jay Robinson Dean Jagger Torin Thatcher Richard Boone Betta St. John Jeff Morrow Ernest Thesiger
jesus roman slave father disciple christian inspiring powerful rome judea galilee jerusalem crucifixion guilt religious conversion religious persecution faith transformation sacrifice quest
In the Roman province of Judea during the 1st century, Roman tribune Marcellus Gallio is ordered to crucify Jesus of Nazareth but is tormented by his guilty conscience afterwards.
Drama
USA
1950
83 Minutes
Alan Ladd Wanda Hendrix Francis Lederer Celia Lovsky Angela Clarke Richard Avonde Joseph Calleia Roland Winters Frank Puglia Luis Alberni Jane Nigh
captain secret agent young man traitor love interest young woman intense gutsy patriotic milan small town battlefield family home world war ii secret mission betrayal reunion war crime military quest
A group of agents in the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (forerunner of the C.I.A.) are sent to Italy during World War II to spy on the Germans. Most of them are killed because of an ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1947
103 Minutes
Claude Rains Joan Caulfield Audrey Totter Constance Bennett Hurd Hatfield Ted North Fred Clark Harry Lewis Jack Lambert Ray Walker Nana Bryant
radio host fiancé niece husband police detective brooding intricate suspenseful mansion office car dump art imitating life serial murders suicide memory loss marriage radio transformation mystery
The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1959
119 Minutes
Bing Crosby Debbie Reynolds Robert Wagner Ray Walston Les Tremayne Connie Gilchrist Frank McHugh Joe Besser Alena Murray Stella Stevens Nina Shipman
Father Conroy (Crosby) has a parish which serves the acting and performance community. When one of his parishoners gets too sick to work, his daughter Holly (Reynolds) finds a job working ... See full summary »
Biography
1956
113 Minutes
Paul Newman Pier Angeli Everett Sloane Eileen Heckart Sal Mineo Harold J. Stone Joseph Buloff Sammy White Arch Johnson Robert Lieb Theodore Newton
boxer trainer young woman mother inmate father brooding tense passionate new york city jail boxing ring lower east side street army base boxing rebellion training blackmail prison life
A youth turns his rebellious nature into a successful ring career in this fact-based portrait of boxer Rocky Graziano.