List of the best Gary Merrill movies: Phone Call From a Stranger(1952), The Human Jungle(1954), The Black Dakotas(1954), Decision Before Dawn(1951), Another Man's Poison(1951), Twelve O'Clock High(1949), Witness to Murder(1954), The Frogmen(1951), The Missouri Traveler(1958), The Wonderful Country(1959), Destination Inner Space(1966), A Blueprint for Murder(1953) ... ...
Drama
USA
1952
96 Minutes
David L. Trask
Gary Merrill Bette Davis Shelley Winters Michael Rennie Keenan Wynn Evelyn Varden Warren Stevens Beatrice Straight Ted Donaldson Craig Stevens Helen Westcott
lawyer actress doctor salesman wife moving engaging sad powerful iowa airport accidental death plane crash friendship commitment surprise visit discovery transformation 1950s
While awaiting a delayed flight, a lawyer who has left his unfaithful wife, befriends three fellow passengers. After the plane crashes and he is among the few to survive, he feels compelled to contact the families of his dead friends.
Crime, Drama
USA
1954
82 Minutes
Police procedural film about a police captain assigned to take over a demoralized police precinct and turn it around by solving all the unsolved cases as well as some new tough ones.
Western
USA
1954
65 Minutes
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.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, War
USA|West Germany
1951
119 Minutes
Richard Basehart Gary Merrill Oskar Werner Hildegarde Neff Dominique Blanchar O.E. Hasse Hans Christian Blech Helene Thimig Robert Freitag George Tyne
lieutenant colonel prisoner of war spy soldier brash thrilling tense germany prison camp bavaria espionage gestapo world war ii military intelligence cooperation betrayal sacrifice adventure rise
As the US Army approaches Nazi Germany, they recruit German prisoners to spy behind German lines.
Drama
UK
1951
89 Minutes
Bette Davis Gary Merrill Emlyn Williams Anthony Steel Barbara Murray Reginald Beckwith Edna Morris
novelist veterinarian husband secretary fiancé mysterious man tense suspenseful chilling dark intense uneasy northern england crime older woman-younger man infidelity murder poison deception fall
A mystery writer becomes involved in a tangled web of murderous deception not unlike the plots of her novels.
War, Drama
USA
1949
132 Minutes
Col. Ernie Davenport
Gregory Peck Dean Jagger Gary Merrill Hugh Marlowe Millard Mitchell Bob Arthur Paul Stewart John Kellogg Robert Patten Lee MacGregor
pilot military officer soldier patriotic thrilling emotional england military base airplane horrors of war world war ii air raids aviation quest sacrifice 1940s
A hard-as-nails general takes over a bomber unit suffering from low morale and whips them into fighting shape.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1954
83 Minutes
Lawrence Mathews
Barbara Stanwyck George Sanders Gary Merrill Jesse White Harry Shannon Claire Carleton Lewis Martin Dick Elliott
witness murderer lieutenant sergeant suspenseful chilling dark beverly hills, calif. apartment murder witness cover-up insanity frame-ups nazism fear pursuit discovery 1950s
A woman's sanity comes into question, after she claims to have witnessed a murder from her apartment window.
War
USA
1951
96 Minutes
Lt. Cmdr. Pete Vincent
Richard Widmark Dana Andrews Gary Merrill Jeffrey Hunter Warren Stevens Robert Wagner
naval officer diver sailor confident gripping patriotic inspiring spirited submarine pacific ocean under the sea island world war ii naval warfare authority respect brotherhood adventure quest 1940s
The new commander of a Navy Underwater Demolition Team--nicknamed "Frogmen"--must earn the respect of the men in his unit, who are still grieving over the death of their former commander and resentful of the new one.
Drama
USA
1958
104 Minutes
Doyle Magee
Brandon de Wilde Lee Marvin Gary Merrill Paul Ford Ken Curtis Frank Cady Mary Field Kathleen Freeman Will Wright Mary Hosford Cal Tinney
During the early 1900s, a runaway Missouri orphan reaches a town where the townsfolk are enchanted with him and where a wealthy rancher and a local newspaperman compete to give him an education.
Western
USA
1959
96 Minutes
Maj. Stark Colton
Robert Mitchum Julie London Gary Merrill Albert Van Dekker Jack Oakie Charles McGraw "Satchel" Paige Anthony Caruso
mercenary wife army major texas ranger doctor confident gritty spirited thrilling mexico texas border family honor self-defense american indian wars arms syndicate adventure revenge transformation 1870s
A honorable drifter constantly on the run finds his enemies closing in around him.
Sci-Fi
USA
1966
83 Minutes
Dr. LaSatier
Scott Brady Sheree North Gary Merrill Wende Wagner Mike Road John Howard William Thourlby Biff Elliot
A group of scientists working in a deep-sea research station discovers a strange craft of extraterrestrial origin.
Crime, Drama
1953
76 Minutes
Fred Sargent
Joseph Cotten Jean Peters Gary Merrill Catherine McLeod Jack Kruschen Barney Phillips Freddy Ridgeway
uncle sister-in-law niece nephew father femme fatale chilling tense suspenseful cruise ship house poison murder inheritance travel suspicion mystery forbidden love quest 1950s
A man (Joseph Cotten) seeks the truth about his widowed sister-in-law (Jean Peters), suspected of poisoning relatives.
Drama
USA
1950
138 Minutes
Bill Sampson
Bette Davis Anne Baxter Celeste Holm George Sanders Gary Merrill Hugh Marlowe Thelma Ritter Marilyn Monroe Gregory Ratoff Barbara Bates Walter Hampden
actress critic producer writer director witty crafty stage restaurant new york city dressing room household ambition theater production show business quest rivalry 1950s
A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.
Comedy
USA
1961
115 Minutes
James `'Jim'` Dougherty
Fred Astaire Debbie Reynolds Lilli Palmer Tab Hunter Gary Merrill Charles Ruggles Harold Fong Elvia Allman Edith Head
daughter father bride rancher emotional heartwarming california family dysfunction marriage father/daughter relationship absence wedding love 1960s
San Francisco debutante, Jessica Poole, is marrying Napa Valley cattle rancher, Roger Henderson, and hopes her peripatetic father, "Pogo" Poole, whom she hasn't seen for years, comes to the... See full summary »
Sci-Fi
UK
1961
101 Minutes
Gideon Spilitt
Michael Craig Joan Greenwood Herbert Lom Michael Callan Gary Merrill Beth Rogan Percy Herbert Dan Jackson Nigel Green
prisoner of war pirate scientist campy spectacular prison camp island pirate ship laboratory escape experiments monsters fantasy world escape adventure 1860s
During the Civil War a group of Union soldiers and two Confederates escape the stockade using a hot air balloon and end up on a strange Pacific island.
Western
Mexico
1966
100 Minutes
Marshal Duncan
Robert Horton Diane Baker Sal Mineo Nehemiah Persoff Gary Merrill Robert H. Harris Lonny Chapman Royal Dano Zalman King Harry Dean Stanton Val Avery
El Santo is chased throughout 4 centuries by a mysterious masked man called El Encapuchado Negro.
Biography
USA
1960
112 Minutes
Pa Demara
Tony Curtis Edmond O'Brien Frank Gorshin Karl Malden Arthur O'Connell Gary Merrill Joan Blackman Raymond Massey Robert Middleton Jeanette Nolan Sue Ane Langdon
con artist soldier nurse doctor monk fbi agent confident intense amusing new england texas korea island monastery battleship identity theft crime con game schemes on the run
A semi-documentary dramatization of five weeks in the life of Vice Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr., from his assignment to command the U.S. naval operations in the South Pacific to the Allied victory at Guadalcanal.
Musical
USA
1967
99 Minutes
Sam
Elvis Presley Shelley Fabares Will Hutchins Bill Bixby James Gregory Gary Merrill Amanda Harley Suzie Kaye Angelique Pettyjohn Olga Kaya Arlene Charles
young man heir instructor pretty woman wealthy man amusing playful tender florida beach miami trading places wealth romance performance beach culture discovery rivalry transformation 1960s
The heir to an oil fortune trades places with a water-ski instructor at a Florida hotel to see if girls will like him for himself, rather than his father's money.
Musical
USA
1974
118 Minutes
Pap
Jeff East Paul Winfield Harvey Korman David Wayne Arthur O'Connell Gary Merrill
young boy slave father preacher runaway teacher amusing madcap heartwarming family home raft mississippi river island riverboat missouri running away friendship race relations huckleberry finn father/son relationship
In the 1840s Missouri, young boy Huckleberry Finn, wanting to escape his drunkard violent father, joins black runaway slave Jim on a quest for freedom down the Mississippi River on a raft.
Comedy
USA
1977
103 Minutes
Street Man
Marlo Thomas Charles Grodin Professor Irwin Corey Héctor Elizondo Mercedes McCambridge John McMartin Gary Merrill Ann Wedgeworth Bob Fosse
Dramedy of a native New York married couple who splits up in an attempt to rediscover their sanity.
War
USA
1944
130 Minutes
Jane Ball Richard Benedict Lee J. Cobb Jeanne Crain Mark Daniels Jo-Carroll Dennison Peter Lind Hayes Judy Holliday Lon McCallister Jim Nolan Edmond O'Brien
barber best friend cadet wife sergeant pilot engaging emotional air force base flying air force military life war training friendship pursuit underdog rise 1940s
Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with Bobby Grills and Irving Miller, and the... See full summary »