List of the best Fay Roope movies: Callaway Went Thataway(1951), The Black Dakotas(1954), The Charge at Feather River(1953), Seminole(1953), The Proud Ones(1956), The Day the Earth Stood Still(1951), Carbine Williams(1952), Viva Zapata!(1952), The Rack(1956), You're in the Navy Now(1951), Naked Alibi(1954), A Lion Is in the Streets(1953) ... ...
Comedy, Western
USA
1951
81 Minutes
Tom Lorrison
Fred MacMurray Dorothy McGuire Howard Keel Jesse White Fay Roope Natalie Schafer Douglas Kennedy Elisabeth Fraser John Indrisano Stan Freberg
advertiser actor television producer agent witty engaging hollywood, calif. los angeles mexico filmmaking impersonation cover-up fame quest escape 1950s
Two marketing professionals hire a lookalike of classic western actor Smoky Callaway to impersonate the actor and make new films, but things go awry when the real Callaway, thought long missing, returns.
Western
USA
1954
65 Minutes
John Lawrence
Gary Merrill Wanda Hendrix John Bromfield Noah Beery Jr. Fay Roope Howard Wendell Robert F. Simon James Griffith Richard Webb Peter Whitney John War Eagle
During the American Civil War, Confederate spies aim to steal Union gold intended for the peace treaty with the Sioux and thus pit the Indians against the Union Forces.
Western
USA
1953
96 Minutes
Lt. Col. Kilrain
Guy Madison Frank Lovejoy Vera Miles Helen Westcott Dick Wesson Onslow Stevens Steve Brodie Ron Hagerthy Fay Roope Neville Brand Henry Kulky
cavalryman cavalry captain cavalry sergeant woman frontier woman pioneer thrilling suspenseful emotional wild west river kidnapping battle fighting escape rivalry love pursuit adventure 1950s
In Colorado territory, Miles Archer is asked by the cavalry at Fort Bellows to aid in rescuing two white women abducted by the Cheyenne and to provide security for the railroad construction teams.
Action
USA
1953
87 Minutes
Zachary Taylor
Rock Hudson Barbara Hale Anthony Quinn Richard Carlson Hugh O'Brian Russell Johnson Lee Marvin Ralph Moody Fay Roope James Best Don Gibson
native american chief childhood friend lieutenant major love interest powerful tense gripping melodramatic fort florida everglades battlefield interracial romance interracial conflict american indian wars wrongfully accused murder racism underdog
A cavalry lieutenant recounts his efforts to make peace with the Seminole Indian tribe, under an evil major.
Western
1956
94 Minutes
Markham
Robert Ryan Virginia Mayo Jeffrey Hunter Robert Middleton Walter Brennan Arthur O'Connell Ken Clark Rodolfo Acosta George Mathews Fay Roope Edward Platt
marshal hit man cowboy criminal gripping suspenseful intense emotional kansas small town american west crime engagement murder old west revenge love escape pursuit 19th century
A misguided youth (Jeffrey Hunter) sides with a Kansas boomtown marshal (Robert Ryan) against a gambler and his henchmen.
Sci-Fi
USA
1951
92 Minutes
Michael Rennie Patricia Neal Hugh Marlowe Sam Jaffe Billy Gray Frances Bavier Lock Martin Frank Conroy Carleton Young Fay Roope Edith Evanson
alien robot scientist single mother son powerful inspiring engaging washington, d.c. earth cold war aliens morality discovery sacrifice 1950s
An alien lands and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.
Biography
1952
91 Minutes
James Stewart Jean Hagen Wendell Corey Carl Benton Reid Paul Stewart Otto Hulett Rhys Williams Herbert Heyes James Arness Porter Hall Fay Roope
prisoner inventor warden spirited charming prison north carolina guns inventions imprisonment david marshall williams redemption bad behavior discovery underdog rise 1920s
North Carolina moonshiner Marsh Williams (James Stewart) modifies the .30-caliber M-1 while serving 30 years in prison.
Biography
USA
1952
113 Minutes
Marlon Brando Jean Peters Anthony Quinn Joseph Wiseman Arnold Moss Alan Reed Margo Harold Gordon Lou Gilbert Frank Silvera Florenz Ames
emiliano zapata pancho villa porfirio diaz military officer peasant brother brash confident gripping mexico small town palace family home countryside politics poverty revolution revenge rise underdog
The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.
Drama
USA
1956
100 Minutes
Paul Newman Anne Francis Walter Pidgeon Wendell Corey Edmond O'Brien Lee Marvin Cloris Leachman Robert Burton Robert F. Simon Trevor Bardette Adam Williams
military officer father widow prisoner of war lawyer psychiatrist emotional powerful san francisco air force base courtroom death of a child torture treason korean war post-traumatic stress disorder escape transformation 1950s
A decorated Korean War hero inexplicably collaborates with the enemy while interred in a POW camp and is court-martialed.
Comedy
1951
93 Minutes
Gary Cooper Jane Greer Millard Mitchell Eddie Albert John McIntire Ray Collins Harry von Zell Jack Webb Richard Erdman Harvey Lembeck Henry Slate
lieutenant commander naval officer wife rear admiral boxer amusing lighthearted engaging patriotic submarine naval base virginia navy seafaring misfits world war ii technology group dynamics underdog
A new Navy officer (Gary Cooper) leads recruits on an untested steam-powered patrol boat dubbed the USS Teakettle.
Crime, Drama
USA
1954
86 Minutes
Sterling Hayden Gloria Grahame Gene Barry Marcia Henderson Casey Adams Billy Chapin Chuck Connors Don Haggerty Stuart Randall Don Garrett Richard Beach
baker murder suspect police chief girlfriend police officer young boy bleak tense thrilling california city police station mexican-american border roof murder investigation double life police work domestic violence manhunt pursuit
A chief of police detectives fired for brutality, tries to get evidence on a man suspected of killing 3 of his officers.
Drama
USA
1953
88 Minutes
James Cagney Barbara Hale Anne Francis Warner Anderson John McIntire Jeanne Cagney Lon Chaney Frank McHugh Larry Keating Onslow Stevens James Millican
political candidate southerner schoolteacher lawyer farmer gangster melodramatic gutsy powerful american south rural community farm rise to power political corruption exploitation murder mob violence trial rise rivalry
A charismatic peddler from the bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?