Roddy McDowall Movies

List of the best Roddy McDowall movies: Lassie Come Home(1943), My Friend Flicka(1943), Thunderhead: Son of Flicka(1945), Lord Love a Duck(1966), Escape From the Planet of the Apes(1971), Conquest of the Planet of the Apes(1972), On the Sunny Side(1942), It!(1967), Battle for the Planet of the Apes(1973), The Cool Ones(1967), Star Hunter(1995), Back to the Planet of the Apes(1981) ... ...

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Lassie Come Home

After her destitute family is forced to sell her, a collie named Lassie (Pal) escapes from her new owner and begins the long trek from Scotland to her Yorkshire home.

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My Friend Flicka

Ken McLaughlin struggles to please his family in any way. He comes back from boarding school boasting poor grades and facing going through the fifth grade again, much to his fathers dismay.... See full summary »

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Thunderhead: Son of Flicka

A young boy tries to train Thunderhead, a beautiful white colt and the son of his beloved Flicka, to be a champion race horse.

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Lord Love a Duck

A bright satirical comedy about an innocent high school girl granted her wishes by a student prodigy. A broad satire of teenage culture in the sixties, its targets ranging from progressive education to beach movies.

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Escape From the Planet of the Apes

The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a U.S. spacecraft. They become the toast of society, but one man believes them to be a threat to the human race.

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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, Caesar, the son of the late simians Cornelius and Zira, surfaces after almost twenty years of hiding out from the authorities, and prepares for a slave revolt against humanity.

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On the Sunny Side

Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in Ohio. Don, the Andrews' 11-year-old son, eagerly accepts the English boy, and is happy ... See full summary »

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It!

After one of their store houses burnt down, museum director Grove and his assistant Pimm find everything destroyed - only one statue withstood the fire mysteriously undamaged. Suddenly ... See full summary »

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Battle for the Planet of the Apes

Ten years after a worldwide series of ape revolutions and a brutal nuclear war among humans, Caesar must protect survivors of both species from an insidious human cult and a militant ape faction alike.

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The Cool Ones

A young, millionaire rock promoter decides to create a new boy/girl duo team for his teen TV dance show by teaming up an ambitious go-go dancer and a has-been pop star and presenting them to the public as a new romantic pair.

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Star Hunter

A busload of teenagers becomes the quarry of evil extraterrestrials on an intergalactic hunting trip.

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Back to the Planet of the Apes

Astronauts Burke (James Naughton) and Virdon (Ron Harper) crash-land on Earth 1,000 years in the future.

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The Thief of Baghdad

The Arabian Nights tale of a thief (Roddy McDowall), a prince (Kabir Bedi) and a caliph's (Peter Ustinov) daughter includes a genie and a magic carpet.

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Planet of the Apes

An astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.

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The Legend of Hell House

A physicist, his wife and two mediums are hired to investigate the Belasco House, where 27 guests had inexplicably died in 1927, along with most of a team of paranormal investigators that was sent in the early 1950s.

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The Martian Chronicles

One long decade after the assassination of her husband, a reclusive queen comes face-to-face with the deceased's doppelgänger and anarchist poet, and strikes a three-day pact; however, fate has other plans. What is the mystery of Oberwald?

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Dead of Winter

A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.

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Arnold

Upon his death, Arnold marries his lover, Karen, in spite of his widow, and leaves deathtraps accompanied by audiotapes and his preserved and articulate corpse for those who cared only for his money.

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How Green Was My Valley

At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.

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Fright Night

A teenager discovers that the newcomer in his neighborhood is a vampire, so he turns to an actor in a television horror show for help dealing with the undead.

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Bedknobs and Broomsticks

An apprentice witch, three kids and a cynical magician conman search for the missing component to a magic spell to be used in the defense of Britain in World War II.

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Molly and Me

A vivacious actress needing work becomes a housekeeper for a crusty retired politician, and gives his life the shaking-up that it needs.

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Circle of Iron

A young martial artist embarks on an adventure, encountering other martial artists in battle until one day he meets an aging blind man who will show him the true meaning of martial arts and life.

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The Defector

An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Soviet scientist interested in defecting to the West but the Stasi secret police's surveillance complicates matters.

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The Third Day

A man involved in a car crash and suffering from amnesia, appears he have killed his sleazy nymphomaniac mistress, and is treated hostilely and coldly by his wife and despised by her cousin.

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Angel 4: Undercover

Molly is now a police photographer in a relationship with a DJ. Her old friend from the streets gets in touch with her. She's in town with a band and hot for the lead singer. Her friend ... See full summary »

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Mean Johnny Barrows

Discharged from the army, an ex-GI is hired as a hit-man by a crime syndicate that is at war with another Mafia family.

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The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli and Baloo

The story of Mowgli, a young boy abandoned in the wilds of India. Raised by a panther, an elephant and a bear, Mowgli must learn civilization's ways when his long-lost uncle and a circus scout from Barnum and Bailey come looking for him.

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Double Trouble

Muscle-bound twins try to smash a jewel smuggling ring.

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Unlikely Angel

A dead country singer (Dolly Parton) seeks to get into heaven by uniting a troubled family during the holidays.

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That Darn Cat!

After a kidnapped bank teller uses a neighbor's wandering cat to send an S.O.S., the F.B.I. assigns a cat-allergic Agent to the case.

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Class of 1984

A new teacher at a troubled inner-city high school soon ends up clashing with the delinquent leader of a punk posse that runs the school.

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Inside Daisy Clover

A tomboy turned movie star deals with the cruelty of Hollywood.

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Funny Lady

Story of singer Fanny Brice's stormy relationship with showman Billy Rose.

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Hello Down There

A marine scientist volunteers to have his family live in a prototype underwater home to prove it's practical.

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Shakma

A wild animal attacks people trapped in a large tower.

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Miracle on 34th Street

A department-store Santa (Sebastian Cabot) goes to court with a lawyer (David Hartman) to prove he is the real thing.

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Holiday in Mexico

The U.S. ambassador's (Walter Pidgeon) daughter falls for a Mexican pianist (Jose Iturbi) old enough to be her grandfather.

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The White Cliffs of Dover

A woman (Irene Dunne) from Oklahoma marries an English aristocrat (Alan Marshal) and raises a son between World War I and World War II.

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Five Card Stud

An 1880s gambler (Dean Martin) and preacher (Robert Mitchum) investigate killings stemming from a game of poker.

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Man Hunt

British hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German agents and aided by a young woman.

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Son of Fury

Cheated out of his estate by his sadistic uncle, young Benjamin Blake goes to the South Seas to make his fortune so he can return to claim his birthright.

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Midnight Lace

In London, a recently wed American woman's sanity comes into question after she claims to be the victim of a threatening stalker.

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Evil Under the Sun

Trying to find how a millionaire wound up with a phony diamond brings Hercule Poirot (Sir Peter Ustinov) to an exclusive island resort frequented by the rich and famous. When a murder is committed, everyone has an alibi.

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Overboard

A cruel but beautiful heiress mocks and cheats a hired carpenter. When she gets amnesia after an accident, he decides to introduce her to regular life by convincing her they're husband and wife.

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Scavenger Hunt

To inherit a fortune, various addressees of a will must compete in a wild scavenger hunt to collect selected items, but cannot be simply bought.

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The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

A small-time outlaw takes over a town by dispensing his own form of justice and confiscating property for court costs.

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The Longest Day

The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.

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Cleopatra

Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.

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The Loved One

Satire on the funeral business, in which a young British poet goes to work at a Hollywood cemetery.

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