List of the best Red Buttons movies: Who Killed Mary What's 'er Name?(1971), Sayonara(1957), The Big Circus(1959), Your Cheatin' Heart(1964), A Ticklish Affair(1963), Reunion at Fairborough(1985), Stagecoach(1966), Gable and Lombard(1976), Viva Knievel!(1977), Movie Movie(1978), They Shoot Horses, Don't They?(1969), Pete's Dragon(1977) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller
1971
90 Minutes
Red Buttons Alice Playten Sylvia Miles Conrad Bain Sam Waterston David Doyle Richard Williams Gilbert Lewis Earl Hindman Ron Carey
A former boxer (Red Buttons) and his daughter (Alice Playten) solve the low-priority case of a slain Greenwich Village prostitute.
Drama
USA
1957
147 Minutes
Marlon Brando Red Buttons Miiko Taka Miyoshi Umeki Ricardo Montalban Martha Scott James Garner
pilot military officer soldier wife girlfriend emotional melodramatic japan military base interracial romance love korean war military forbidden love sacrifice 1950s
A US Air Force major in Kobe confronts his own opposition to marriages between American servicemen and Japanese women when he falls for a beautiful performer.
Adventure
USA
1959
109 Minutes
Randy Sherman
Victor Mature Red Buttons Rhonda Fleming Kathryn Grant Vincent Price Peter Lorre David Nelson Gilbert Roland Howard McNear
ringmaster circus owner sister loan officer public relations specialist circus performer chilling dark thrilling suspenseful circus niagara falls, n.y. tent sabotage financial crisis show business circus brother/sister relationship murder investigation mystery
A circus owner tries to keep his financially troubled circus on the road, despite the efforts of a murderous saboteur who has decided that the show must not go on.
Biography
USA
1964
100 Minutes
Shorty Younger
George Hamilton Susan Oliver Red Buttons Arthur O'Connell Shary Marshall Rex Ingram Chris Crosby Rex Holman Hortense Petra Roy Engel Donald Losby
musician boy manager businessman publisher wife moving endearing alabama small town stage hank williams, sr. country music fame alcoholism show business rise transformation underdog fall
The story of the country and western singer Hank Williams.
Romance
USA
1963
89 Minutes
Flight Officer Simon Shelley
Shirley Jones Gig Young Red Buttons Carolyn Jones Edgar Buchanan Eddie Applegate Edward Platt Bill Mumy Bryan Russell Robert Foulk Milton Frome
commander widow boy pilot fireman police officer playful emotional san diego california ship courtship parenthood childhood family discovery love rescue 1960s
When the kids of a young widow inadvertently send an SOS while playing with their uncle Cy's Navy Signal Lamp, the Navy sends their top man to investigate and he falls for their mother.
Romance
1985
113 Minutes
Jiggs Quealy
Robert Mitchum Deborah Kerr Red Buttons Judi Trott Barry Morse Shane Rimmer Don Fellows Manning Redwood
An Air Force hero (Robert Mitchum) returns to England and finds the woman (Deborah Kerr) he loved and lost 40 years before.
Western
USA
1966
115 Minutes
Peacock
Ann-Margret Alex Cord Bing Crosby Red Buttons Michael Connors Bob Cummings Van Heflin Slim Pickens Stefanie Powers Keenan Wynn Brad Weston
cowboy prostitute pregnant wife banker doctor criminal thrilling tender engaging wild west desert stagecoach fort dangerous mission honor status unlikely allies american indian wars cooperation transformation
On the stagecoach to Cheyenne, a mixed group of passengers must work together to survive the arduous journey and the Indian attacks.
Drama
USA
1976
131 Minutes
Ivan Cooper
James Brolin Jill Clayburgh Allen Goorwitz Red Buttons Melanie Mayron Carol McGinnis S. John Launer Bill Bryant Joanne Linville Noah Keen Morgan Brittany
A biography about the love affair between 1930s Hollywood superstars Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.
Action
USA
1977
104 Minutes
Ben Andrews
Gene Kelly Lauren Hutton Red Buttons Leslie Nielsen Sheila Mathews Cameron Mitchell Albert Salmi Dabney Coleman Sidney Clute Ernie Orsatti Robert Tafur
Motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel is offered a fortune to perform in Mexico. What Evel doesn't know is that they're planning to kill him and use his body to ship cocaine into the U.S. His ... See full summary »
Comedy
1978
106 Minutes
Peanuts, Jinks Murphy
George C. Scott Trish Van Devere Harry Hamlin Red Buttons Eli Wallach Ann Reinking Jocelyn Brando Michael Kidd Kathleen Beller Barry Bostwick Art Carney
boxer producer gangster beautiful woman daughter diva witty hilarious lighthearted boxing ring nightclub new york city broadway theater boxing broadway loss of innocence redemption song and dance world war i transformation
Old-movie parodies: "Dynamite Hands," about a boxing law student (Harry Hamlin) ; "Baxter's Beauties of 1933," about a producer's (George C. Scott) show.
Drama
USA
1969
121 Minutes
Sailor
Jane Fonda Michael Sarrazin Susannah York Gig Young Red Buttons Bonnie Bedelia Bruce Dern Michael Conrad Al Lewis Robert Fields Severn Darden
failed actress sailor bombshell farmer wife emcee bleak disturbing ballroom santa monica, calif. dance marathon great depression underdog wretched excess 1930s
The lives of a disparate group of contestants intertwine in an inhumanely grueling dance marathon.
Kids & Family, Fantasy
USA
1977
134 Minutes
Hoagy
Helen Reddy Sean Marshall Mickey Rooney Jim Dale Red Buttons Shelley Winters Jane Kean Jim Backus Charles Tyner Gary Morgan Jeff Conaway
boy orphan ranger father dragon friend best friend lighthearted emotional endearing playful positive forest united states friendship relationships survival survival skills dragon growing up
An orphan boy and his magical dragon come to town with his abusive adoptive parents in pursuit.
Fantasy
USA
1988
100 Minutes
Charlie
George Burns Charlie Schlatter Tony Roberts Anita Morris Red Buttons Miriam Flynn Jennifer Runyon
teenager grandfather girlfriend professor mother businessman playful winsome high school hospital dance hall gym car switched identities high school second chance self-discovery growing up metamorphosis discovery
An aging ruthless businessman swaps bodies with his grandson in the wake of getting into a car accident.
Kids & Family, Comedy
USA
1979
91 Minutes
Bracken
Wesley Eure Valerie Bertinelli Conrad Bain Chuck McCann Red Buttons Larry Bishop Hermione Baddeley Jim Backus Robert Q. Lewis Regis Toomey
A young man invents a robot dog that has super strength, x-ray vision and can detect crimes being committed. A greedy businessman tries to steal the invention from him.
Adventure
USA
1980
121 Minutes
Francis Fendly
Paul Newman Jacqueline Bisset William Holden Edward Albert Red Buttons Barbara Carrera Valentina Cortesa Veronica Hamel Alex Karras Burgess Meredith Ernest Borgnine
oil driller geologist loner dark island volcano time danger disaster escape
An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.
Romance
USA
1994
97 Minutes
Walter Zakuto
Nicolas Cage Bridget Fonda Rosie Perez Wendell Pierce Isaac Hayes Victor Rojas Seymour Cassel Stanley Tucci Red Buttons
waitress cop wife reporter photographer husband heartwarming amusing new york city diner apartment hair salon hotel courtroom lottery greed generosity new love divorce tip
A police officer promises to share his lottery ticket with a waitress in lieu of a tip.
Comedy
USA
1961
108 Minutes
MP Sergeant
James Cagney Pamela Tiffin Horst Buchholz Arlene Francis Liselotte Pulver Howard St. John Hanns Lothar Lois Bolton Leon Askin Red Buttons
executive daughter boss communist wife amusing spirited lighthearted witty berlin airport office young love business father/daughter relationship pregnancy communism forbidden love rise 1960s
In West Berlin during the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss' socialite daughter.
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 »
War, Drama, History
USA
1962
180 Minutes
Andrew Marton John Wayne Robert Mitchum Henry Fonda Rod Steiger Robert Ryan Peter Lawford Richard Burton Richard Beymer Jeffrey Hunter
soldiers sailor general parachutist powerful rousing patriotic spectacular france germany england world war ii adolf hitler armed conflict d-day quest sacrifice rivalry 1940s
The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.