List of the best Joseph Pevney movies: Man of a Thousand Faces(1957), Tammy and the Bachelor(1957), Shakedown(1950), Six Bridges to Cross(1955), Undercover Girl(1950), Foxfire(1955), Female on the Beach(1955), Cash McCall(1960), Istanbul(1957), Away All Boats(1956), It Happens Every Thursday(1953), The Crowded Sky(1960) ... ...
Biography
USA
1957
122 Minutes
Director
James Cagney Dorothy Malone Jane Greer Marjorie Rambeau Jim Backus Robert Evans Celia Lovsky Jeanne Cagney Jack Albertson Roger Smith Robert Lyden
actor wife son movie star father mother emotional powerful stage hollywood, calif. family home backstage san francisco show business marriage child custody mental illness lon chaney love transformation
The life and career of vaudevillian and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney, including his contentious relationship with his neurotic wife and his premature death.
Romance
USA
1957
89 Minutes
Director
Debbie Reynolds Leslie Nielsen Walter Brennan Mala Powers Sidney Blackmer Mildred Natwick Fay Wray Philip Ober Craig Hill Louise Beavers April Kent
pilot southern belle bootlegger grandfather fiancée friend airy playful charming lighthearted mississippi houseboat airplane swamp house plane crash new life family unlikely romance injury
An unsophisticated young woman from the Mississippi swamps falls in love with an unconventional southern gentleman.
Drama
USA
1950
80 Minutes
Director
Howard Duff Brian Donlevy Peggy Dow Lawrence Tierney Herman Brix Anne Vernon Charles Sherlock Rock Hudson Peggie Castle Joseph Pevney
Unscrupulous and opportunistic San Francisco news media photographer Jack Early steps-on and uses folks, to get ahead, but in the end he tangles with the wrong people.
Crime, Drama
USA
1955
96 Minutes
Director
Tony Curtis Julie Adams George Nader Jay C. Flippen Kendall Clark Sal Mineo Jan Merlin Richard Castle Bill Murphy Kenny Roberts
delinquent police officer gang member wife girlfriend henchman gripping gutsy moving boston market courtroom police station jail warehouse father figure friendship crime trust investigation
The emotional story of a lifelong friendship between a Boston rookie cop and a young street-wise delinquent.
Drama
USA
1950
83 Minutes
Director
Alexis Smith Scott Brady Richard Egan Gladys George Edmon Ryan Gerald Mohr Royal Dano
A young woman joins the Police Department in order to track down the killer who murdered her father.
Drama
USA
1955
92 Minutes
Director
Jane Russell Jeff Chandler Dan Duryea Mara Corday Robert F. Simon Frieda Inescort Barton MacLane Charlotte Wynters Eddy Waller Celia Lovsky Arthur Space
apache native american socialite husband wife doctor melodramatic emotional mushy arizona mining camp ghost town interracial romance marriage newlyweds romantic dilemma relationships racism love underdog
In Arizona, during the 1950s, privileged white girl Amanda Lawrence marries half-Apache mining engineer Jonathan Dartland who dreams of finding gold in an old abandoned Apache mine.
Crime, Drama
USA
1955
97 Minutes
Director
Joan Crawford Jeff Chandler Jan Sterling Cecil Kellaway Natalie Schafer Marjorie Bennett
Moving into a beach house involves Lynn Markham in mystery, danger, and romance with a beach boy of dubious motives.
Romance
USA
1960
102 Minutes
Director
James Garner Natalie Wood Nina Foch Dean Jagger E.G. Marshall Henry Jones Otto Kruger Roland Winters Edward Platt Edgar Stehli Linda Watkins
businessman old flame business owner assistant boss witty lighthearted office penthouse airport capitalism love triangle corporate culture father/daughter relationship love love quest rivalry 1950s
Cash McCall is a young and slick business man who buys failing businesses and resells them. Grant Austen's Plastics is even more of a prize to Cash, for Cash is also making a bid for ... See full summary »
Adventure
USA
1957
84 Minutes
Director
Errol Flynn Cornell Borchers Nat King Cole John Bentley Torin Thatcher Leif Erickson Peggy Knudsen Martin Benson Werner Klemperer Jan Arvan
A suspected diamond smuggler returns to Istanbul and finds the lady love he thought was dead...or does he?
War
USA
1956
114 Minutes
Director
Jeff Chandler George Nader Julie Adams Lex Barker Keith Andes Richard Boone William Reynolds Charles McGraw Jock Mahoney John McIntire Frank Faylen
captain officer crew member doctor lieutenant commander confident engaging ship pacific ocean okinawa, japan world war ii training navy discipline disapproval pursuit transformation 1940s
The story of a U.S. Naval ship and its crew in the Pacific, from 1943 to 1945.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1953
80 Minutes
Director
Loretta Young John Forsythe Frank McHugh Edgar Buchanan Palmer Lee Harvey Grant Jimmy Conlin Jane Darwell Gladys George Regis Toomey Willard Waterman
pregnant wife husband reporter real estate agent farmer neighbor witty amusing new york city california small town newsroom moving culture clash newspapers small business small-town life publicity stunts love quest
A New York couple takes over a small town newspaper.
Drama
USA
1960
105 Minutes
Director
Dana Andrews Rhonda Fleming Efrem Zimbalist Jr. John Kerr Anne Francis Keenan Wynn Troy Donahue Joe Mantell Patsy Kelly Donald May Louis Quinn
navy pilot copilot soldier stewardess wife passenger engaging incredible suspenseful airplane cockpit flying flashbacks catastrophe equipment malfunction survival escape quest 1930s
Disaster movie about a Navy jet and a commercial airliner heading for a mid air collision.
Drama
1952
82 Minutes
Director
A gold digger (Jan Sterling) and a newswoman (Mona Freeman) follow a deaf boxer's (Tony Curtis) fight to regain his hearing and win the title.
Mystery & Thriller
1979
97 Minutes
Director
Steven Keats Jaime Lyn Bauer Jayne Kennedy Kathryn Davis Rosalind Chao Deborah Shelton Susie Bono Guich Koock Sandy Kevin Michael McGreevey Peter Lawford
An oil worker (Steven Keats) and his buddies crash-land amid fierce women with names like Bambi and Snow.
Comedy
1954
103 Minutes
Director
Dean Martin Jerry Lewis Joanne Dru Zsa Zsa Gabor Wallace Ford Sig Ruman Gene Sheldon Nick Cravat Elsa Lanchester Douglas Fowley Sue Casey
Two ex-GIs (Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis) join a woman's (Joanne Dru) circus as assistants to a trapeze artist and lion tamer.
Drama
USA
1947
104 Minutes
Shorty Polaski
John Garfield Lilli Palmer Hazel Brooks Anne Revere William Conrad Joseph Pevney Lloyd Gough Canada Lee Art Smith
father boxer promoter mother gritty rousing boxing ring hospital slum corruption death honor rise underdog 1940s
A talented boxer's young career hits difficult terrain when an unethical promoter takes interest in him.
Drama
USA
1950
80 Minutes
Director
Howard Duff Brian Donlevy Peggy Dow Lawrence Tierney Herman Brix Anne Vernon Charles Sherlock Rock Hudson Peggie Castle Joseph Pevney
Unscrupulous and opportunistic San Francisco news media photographer Jack Early steps-on and uses folks, to get ahead, but in the end he tangles with the wrong people.