List of the best Roland Winters movies: The Chinese Ring(1947), Between Midnight and Dawn(1950), To Please a Lady(1950), Blue Hawaii(1962), Everything's Ducky(1961), Bigger Than Life(1956), Jet Pilot(1957), Once More, My Darling(1949), Follow That Dream(1962), Guilty of Treason(1949), She's Working Her Way Through College(1952), Malaya(1950) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1947
67 Minutes
Roland Winters Warren Douglas Victor Sen Yung Mantan Moreland Philip Ahn Louise Currie Byron Foulger Thayer Roberts Jean Wong
Soon after a Chinese princess comes to the US to buy planes for her people, she is murdered by a poison dart fired by an air rifle.
Crime, Drama
USA
1950
89 Minutes
Mark Stevens Edmond O'Brien Gale Storm Roland Winters Madge Blake Donald Buka
Prowl car cops on night duty romance a reluctant young lady while in danger from a vengeful racketeer.
Drama
USA
1950
91 Minutes
Dwight Barrington
Clark Gable Barbara Stanwyck Adolphe Menjou Roland Winters Will Geer Emory Parnell Frank Jenks
race car driver opponent reporter mechanic veteran melodramatic thrilling heartwarming racetrack newsroom racing accidental death scandal journalism comeback stunt driving rivalry love transformation 1950s
A former war hero and midget car racer meets his match in a feisty reporter who blames his reckless tactics for an accidental racing death.
Musical, Romance
USA
1962
103 Minutes
Fred Gates
Elvis Presley Joan Blackman Angela Lansbury Nancy Walters Roland Winters John Archer Howard McNear Steve Brodie Iris Adrian Darlene Tompkins Jenny Maxwell
surfer singer matriarch girlfriend friend lighthearted campy uplifting beach mansion bus hawaii surfing rebellion singing youth forbidden love growing up transformation 1960s
After arriving back in Hawaii from the Army, Chad Gates (Elvis Presley) defies his parents' wishes for him to work at the family business and instead goes to work as a tour guide at his girlfriend's agency.
Comedy
USA
1961
81 Minutes
Capt. Lewis Bollinger
Mickey Rooney Buddy Hackett Jackie Cooper Joanie Sommers Roland Winters Elizabeth MacRae Gene Blakely Gordon Jones
sailor duck psychiatrist pretty woman amusing madcap military base ship human-animal friendship sailors military intelligence rocket science talking animal rescue discovery adventure 1960s
Two sailors sneak a talking duck on board their ship. Complications ensue.
Drama
USA
1956
95 Minutes
Dr. Ruric
James Mason Barbara Rush Walter Matthau Robert F. Simon Chris Olsen Roland Winters Rusty Lane Rachel Stephens Kipp Hamilton
schoolteacher wife friend son doctor dark gripping intense small town family home hospital school america drug addiction experiments small-town life unusual behavior american dream fall transformation
A seriously ill schoolteacher becomes dependent on a "miracle" drug that begins to affect his sanity.
Drama
USA
1957
112 Minutes
Col. Sokolov
John Wayne Janet Leigh Jay C. Flippen Paul Fix Richard Rober Roland Winters Hans Conried Ivan Triesault Joyce Compton Denver Pyle Elizabeth Flournoy
soviet pilot pilot officer commander soldier love interest sultry campy alaska air force base jet palm springs, calif. soviet union cold war communism flying duplicity espionage secret plans adventure
Air Force Colonel Jim Shannon is tasked to escort a defecting Soviet pilot who is scheming to lure Shannon to the USSR.
Romance
USA
1949
94 Minutes
Colonel Head
Robert Montgomery Ann Blyth Jane Cowl Lillian Randolph Steven Geray John Ridgely Roland Winters Maurice Cass Taylor Holmes Charles McGraw Don Beddoe
An actor is recalled to active duty with the Army's C.I.D. to find the thief who stole historical jewels in occupied Germany and the trail leads to the boyfriend of a young debutante from Bel Air.
Musical
USA
1962
110 Minutes
Judge
Elvis Presley Arthur O'Connell Anne Helm Joanna Moore Jack Kruschen Simon Oakland Roland Winters Alan Hewitt Howard McNear Frank de Kova
son patriarch orphan social worker bureaucrat governor winsome amusing playful positive florida beach car highway casino family government ineptitude bureaucracy land dispute schemes
A family of ragtag vagabonds sets up a makeshift home on a Florida beach after becoming marooned there, prompting an uptight local bureaucrat to attempt to evict them.
Drama
USA
1949
86 Minutes
Soviet Comissar Belov
Charles Bickford Paul Kelly Bonita Granville Richard Derr Berry Kroeger Elisabeth Risdon Roland Winters John Banner Alfred Linder
cardinal music teacher army colonel journalist brutal dark budapest, hungary american embassy farm cold war persecution freedom iron curtain communism oppression sacrifice underdog cold war
The story of Cardinal Josef Mindzhenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out against both the Nazi occupation of his country during World War II and the Communist regime ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
1952
101 Minutes
Fred Copeland
Virginia Mayo Ronald Reagan Gene Nelson Don DeFore Phyllis Thaxter Patrice Wymore Roland Winters Raymond Greenleaf Norman Bartold Amanda Randolph
A burlesque queen (Virginia Mayo) goes to college, charms a professor (Ronald Reagan) and livens up the class play.
War
USA
1950
98 Minutes
Bruno Gruber
Spencer Tracy James Stewart Sydney Greenstreet Valentina Cortesa John Hodiak Lionel Barrymore Gilbert Roland Roland Winters Richard Loo Lester Matthews Ian MacDonald
journalist adventurer editor government agent girlfriend old friend gritty tense california alcatraz island ship malay peninsula jungle plantation world war ii secret mission friendship patriotism island life smuggling
Newspaperman Royer convinces government officials of a plan to obtain rubber by smuggling it out from under the Japanese. Carnahan is let out of prison to help.
Romance
USA
1960
102 Minutes
General Andrew "Andy" Danvers
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 »
Drama
USA
1950
83 Minutes
Manfredo Acuto
Alan Ladd Wanda Hendrix Francis Lederer Celia Lovsky Angela Clarke Richard Avonde Joseph Calleia Roland Winters Frank Puglia Luis Alberni Jane Nigh
captain secret agent young man traitor love interest young woman intense gutsy patriotic milan small town battlefield family home world war ii secret mission betrayal reunion war crime military quest
A group of agents in the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (forerunner of the C.I.A.) are sent to Italy during World War II to spy on the Germans. Most of them are killed because of an ... See full summary »
Comedy
1957
100 Minutes
Sen. Burdick
Susan Hayward Kirk Douglas Paul Stewart Jim Backus John Cromwell Michael Fox Frank Gerstle Roland Winters Arthur E. Gould-Porter Charles Lane Edna Holland
A publisher (Susan Hayward) uses her magazine and charm to derail a general (Kirk Douglas) on the Washington fast track.
Comedy
USA
1949
84 Minutes
T. Hanley Brooks
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Boris Karloff Lenore Aubert Gar Moore Donna Martell Alan Mowbray James Flavin Roland Winters Nicholas Joy
The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.
Drama
USA
1953
101 Minutes
Klaas Pool
Jane Wyman Sterling Hayden Nancy Olson Steve Forrest Elisabeth Fraser Martha Hyer Walter Coy Richard Beymer Tommy Rettig Roland Winters Jacques Aubuchon
mother husband son composer artist surrogate child engaging moving rousing illinois farm chicago parenthood career family mother/son relationship art aspirations growing up transformation
In the late 1890s, a young widowed woman becomes a successful farmer and can send her son, nicknamed 'So Big', to college. After graduating, he finds a job as an architect, but forgoes his dream in favor of an immediate financial success.
Western
USA
1951
89 Minutes
Alexander Tomson
David Brian Arlene Dahl Barry Sullivan Mercedes McCambridge Paula Raymond Claude Jarman Jr. Lon Chaney Monica Lewis John Hoyt Roland Winters Barbara Billingsley
Rip MacCool has learned early in life that "money talks" (and other stuff walks), as does the audience via flashbacks, and when he arrives in San Francisco, he has no qualms about being ... See full summary »
Comedy, Other, Drama
1973
100 Minutes
Mr. Gimbel
Jane Alexander Sebastian Cabot David Hartman Roddy McDowall Suzanne Davidson Jim Backus Tom Bosley David Doyle James Gregory Roland Winters Liam Dunn
single mother kris kringle attorney psychiatrist young girl judge amusing charming melodramatic tense department store parade courtroom faith christmas santa claus mother/daughter relationship court battles discovery rivalry
A department-store Santa (Sebastian Cabot) goes to court with a lawyer (David Hartman) to prove he is the real thing.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1959
94 Minutes
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 »
Drama
USA
1953
88 Minutes
James Cagney Barbara Hale Anne Francis Warner Anderson John McIntire Jeanne Cagney Lon Chaney Frank McHugh Larry Keating Onslow Stevens James Millican
political candidate southerner schoolteacher lawyer farmer gangster melodramatic gutsy powerful american south rural community farm rise to power political corruption exploitation murder mob violence trial rise rivalry
A charismatic peddler from the bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?