List of the best Howard Wendell movies: You for Me(1952), The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake(1959), The Black Dakotas(1954), Captain Scarface(1953), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes(1953), The Big Heat(1953), Never Say Goodbye(1956), Athena(1954) ... ...
Romance
USA
1952
70 Minutes
Oliver Wherry
Peter Lawford Jane Greer Gig Young Paula Corday Howard Wendell Otto Hulett Barbara Brown Barbara Ruick Kathryn Card Timothy Farrell Helen Winston
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Katie McDermad, who comes from a working class household, is a dedicated surgical nurse, who loves her profession but not the low pay. Her emotions often get the better of her. Jeff ... See full summary »
Horror
USA
1959
70 Minutes
Dr. George Bradford
Eduard Franz Valerie French Henry Daniell Grant Richards Paul Cavanagh Howard Wendell Paul Wexler Lumsden Hare Frank Gerstle
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Anthropologist Jonathan Drake believes that the men of his family have been cursed for generations by the native South American tribe he studies. Shortly after his brother, discovers one of the tribe's shrunken heads, he's found murdered.
Western
USA
1954
65 Minutes
Judge Horatio Baker
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.
Drama
USA
1953
72 Minutes
Mr. Dilts
Barton MacLane Leif Erickson Virginia Grey Peter Coe Rudolph Anders Howard Wendell Isabel Randolph Paul Brinegar Don Dillaway Martin Garralaga John Mylong
A man desperate to leave South America books passage on a freighter, and learns that the captain has made plans to force a scientist to participate in a mission of destruction.
Comedy, Musical
USA
1953
91 Minutes
Watson
Jane Russell Marilyn Monroe Charles Coburn Elliott Reid Tommy Noonan George Winslow Marcel Dalio Taylor Holmes Norma Varden Howard Wendell Steven Geray
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Showgirls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of Lorelei's fiancé, as well as a rich, enamored old man and many other doting admirers.
Crime, Drama
USA
1953
90 Minutes
Glenn Ford Gloria Grahame Jocelyn Brando Alexander Scourby Lee Marvin Jeanette Nolan Peter Whitney Willis Bouchey Robert Burton Adam Williams Howard Wendell
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Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.
Drama
USA
1956
96 Minutes
Rock Hudson Cornell Borchers George Sanders Ray Collins David Janssen Shelley Fabares Helen Wallace John Wengraf Robert F. Simon Raymond Greenleaf Frank Wilcox
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In 1945 Vienna, an American doctor marries an Austrian girl, who later disappears in the Soviet Control Zone during a visit there, forcing everyone to presume her dead.
Musical
USA
1954
96 Minutes
Jane Powell Edmund Purdom Debbie Reynolds Nancy Kilgas Dolores Starr Jane Fischer Cecile Rogers Vic Damone Louis Calhern Evelyn Varden Linda Christian
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Attorney, Purdom, and singer, Damone, romance two sisters, Reynolds and Powell, who live with and are strongly influenced by eccentric, health oriented and star gazing grandparents.