List of the best Nehemiah Persoff movies: Deadly Harvest(1977), The Big Show(1961), The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones(1966), The Stranger Within(1974), Day of the Outlaw(1959), The Comancheros(1961), Al Capone(1959), The Hook(1963), Never Steal Anything Small(1959), The Badlanders(1958), Green Mansions(1959), Some Like It Hot(1959) ... ...
Sci-Fi
Canada
1977
87 Minutes
Mort Logan
Farmer struggles to keep food on the table, and regain his son who has joined a gang of marauding city-folk during the world's worst famine.
Drama
USA
1961
113 Minutes
Bruno Everard
Esther Williams Cliff Robertson Nehemiah Persoff Robert Vaughn Margia Dean David Nelson Carol Christensen Kurt Fecher Renata Mannhardt
father son brother fiancée animal trainer circus performer brooding germany tent backstage countryside circus family love triangle sibling rivalry father/son relationship transformation sacrifice 1960s
The owner of a German traveling circus is power-mad and exploits everyone in his path, including his family.
Western
Mexico
1966
100 Minutes
Skoda
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.
Sci-Fi
USA
1974
78 Minutes
Dr. Edward Klein
Barbara Eden George Grizzard Joyce Van Patten David Doyle Nehemiah Persoff
A family is thrown into turmoil when a grandson convinces his grandfather to teach him to fly.
Western
USA
1959
91 Minutes
Dan
Robert Ryan Burl Ives Tina Louise Alan Marshal Nehemiah Persoff Venetia Stevenson Donald Elson Helen Westcott Robert Cornthwaite Jack Lambert
cattleman farmer cavalry captain wife foreman brutal confident gripping tense bitters, wyo. mountain ranch feud bank heist outlaws hostage situation small-town life rivalry sacrifice transformation
Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder keg waiting to blow.
Western
USA
1961
107 Minutes
Graile
John Wayne Stuart Whitman Lee Marvin Ina Balin Nehemiah Persoff Michael Ansara Patrick Wayne Bruce Cabot Joan O'Brien Jack Elam Edgar Buchanan
texas ranger native american outlaw gun runner gambler prisoner gritty rousing melodramatic texas mexico desert valley american west unlikely allies cowboys frontier justice violence romance adventure
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves dealing with the Comanches known as Comancheros.
Crime, Drama
USA
1959
105 Minutes
Johnny Torrio
Rod Steiger Fay Spain James Gregory Martin Balsam Nehemiah Persoff Murvyn Vye
gangster widow police officer henchman crime boss reporter brutal crafty engaging suspenseful chicago illinois store office prison apartment organized crime al capone loyalty murder
A chronicle of the rise and fall of Chicago crime boss Al Capone during the Prohibition era.
War
USA
1963
98 Minutes
Capt. Van Ryn
Kirk Douglas Robert Walker Nick Adams Pancho Magalona Nehemiah Persoff John Bleifer Mark Miller
sergeant private prisoner of war enemy soldier gripping passionate tense emotional ship ocean korea korean war compassion military life moral dilemma prisoners of war seafaring rivalry escape
In the final days of the Korean War, an enemy airman is captured by three American soldiers who cannot bring themselves to follow the order to execute their prisoner.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1959
94 Minutes
Pinelli
James Cagney Shirley Jones Roger Smith Cara Williams Nehemiah Persoff Royal Dano Anthony Caruso Horace MacMahon Virginia Vincent Jack Albertson Robert Wilke
Jake MacIllaney will do just about anything to win the presidential election of longshoreman union Local 26. When he encounters young upright attorney Dan Cabot and Cabot's attractive wife,... See full summary »
Western
USA
1958
85 Minutes
Vincente
Alan Ladd Ernest Borgnine Katy Jurado Claire Kelly Kent Smith Nehemiah Persoff Robert Ernhardt Anthony Caruso Adam Williams Ford Rainey John Day
ex-convict robber deputy prostitute miner explosives expert rousing confident arizona mine prison gold heist bigotry revenge betrayal revenge adventure 1890s
Released from the Yuma Prison in 1898, ex-killer John McBain wants to go straight while ex-robber Peter Van Hoek seeks revenge but their destinies eventually converge in the mining town of Prescott.
Romance
USA
1959
101 Minutes
Don Panta
Audrey Hepburn Anthony Perkins Lee J. Cobb Sessue Hayakawa Henry Silva Nehemiah Persoff Michael Pate Estelle Hemsley
son love interest grandfather native fascinating dreamy intricate venezuela caracas jungle nature war loss romance gold discovery love metamorphosis revenge 1890s
A young man in the jungles of Venezuela meets a strange girl of the forest and falls in love with her.
Comedy
USA
1959
120 Minutes
Bonaparte
Tony Curtis Jack Lemmon Marilyn Monroe George Raft Pat O'Brien Joe E. Brown Nehemiah Persoff Joan Shawlee Billy Gray George E. Stone Dave Barry
musician friend sexy woman millionaire mobster playful hilarious wild chicago train florida beach hotel nightclub deception sex friendship wealth escape love
After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
Crime, Drama
USA
1956
105 Minutes
Eugene Conforti
Henry Fonda Vera Miles Anthony Quayle Harold J. Stone Esther Minciotti Charles Cooper Nehemiah Persoff Laurinda Barrett Norma Connolly Doreen Lang Lola D'Annunzio
musician wife attorney judge criminal suspenseful disturbing thrilling engaging new york city prison courtroom mistaken identity robbery coincidence trial mental breakdown money escape quest
In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
Comedy
USA
1964
84 Minutes
Under Secretary Segura
Bob Hope Liselotte Pulver Michèle Mercier Elga Andersen Yvonne De Carlo Miiko Taka Robert Sterling Nehemiah Persoff John McGiver Jacques Bergerac Reta Shaw
bachelor friend beautiful woman foreigner baby hilarious witty united nations abandonment search childcare foreign relations competition temptation transformation 1960s
As an employee at the United Nations building in New York City, Bob Hope finds himself in charge of an infant abandoned at the UN. Besides being a bachelor trying to cope with an infant, he... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1971
112 Minutes
Amadeo Montoya
Richard Thomas Catherine Burns Desi Arnaz Jr. Richard Crenna Claire Bloom John Colicos Harry Guardino Strother Martin Nehemiah Persoff Pepe Serna Mario Aniov
soldier teen boy mother alcoholic cousin tense emotional alabama new mexico school adolescence life lessons world war ii drinking infidelity race relations growing up underdog 1940s
An adolescent boy and his mother are sent to live in New Mexico after his father goes off to fight World War II. The move is hard on both mother and son. The boy, one of the few whites in ... See full summary »
War, Drama
UK|USA
1976
158 Minutes
Faye Dunaway Max von Sydow Oskar Werner Malcolm McDowell Orson Welles James Mason Lee Grant Ben Gazzara Katharine Ross Luther Adler Paul Koslo
nazi captain jew sailor refugee brutal bleak disturbing boat cuba germany world war ii emigration death escape pursuit 1940s
The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.
Drama
USA
1954
108 Minutes
Marlon Brando Eva Marie Saint Karl Malden Lee J. Cobb Rod Steiger Leif Erickson Pat Henning James Westerfield Tony Galento Tami Mauriello John Hamilton
dockworker mobster lawyer priest sister brooding gritty powerful port hoboken, n.j. organized crime corruption justice transformation underdog rivalry 1950s
An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.