List of the best Roy Rowland movies: Two Weeks With Love(1950), These Wilder Years(1956), The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.(1953), Witness to Murder(1954), Hit the Deck(1955), Scene of the Crime(1949), Many Rivers to Cross(1955), Gun Glory(1957), The Outriders(1950), Meet Me in Las Vegas(1956), The Girl Hunters(1963), Excuse My Dust(1951) ... ...
Musical, Comedy
USA
1950
92 Minutes
Director
Jane Powell Ricardo Montalban Louis Calhern Ann Harding Phyllis Kirk Carleton Carpenter Debbie Reynolds
daughter father mother teen boy cuban best friend playful charming uplifting resort beach restaurant canoe dance floor adolescence romance family friendship father/daughter relationship singing
The Robinson family are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills. Older daughter Patti vies with her friend, Valeria, for the affections of Demi Armendez but Patti... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1956
91 Minutes
Director
James Cagney Barbara Stanwyck Walter Pidgeon Betty Lou Keim Don Dubbins Edward Andrews Basil Ruysdael Grandon Rhodes
businessman woman lawyer judge child melodramatic touching small town orphanage courtroom redemption dark secrets lawsuit adoption fatherhood transformation quest discovery 1950s
A middle-aged man tries to reconnect with his illegitimate son, who was given to an orphanage many years ago.
Kids & Family, Fantasy
USA
1953
88 Minutes
Director
Peter Lind Hayes Hans Conried Tommy Rettig Mary Healy John Heasley Robert Heasley Noel Cravat Henry Kulky
young boy single mother plumber music teacher uncle amusing quirky outlandish household dreamworld imagination fantasy childhood mother/son relationship song and dance piano adventure escape rescue 1950s
A young boy dreams that he is in an imaginary world where, assisted by his family's plumber, he must save other piano-playing kids like himself from the dungeons of his dictatorial piano teacher who also mind-controls his mother.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1954
83 Minutes
Director
Barbara Stanwyck George Sanders Gary Merrill Jesse White Harry Shannon Claire Carleton Lewis Martin Dick Elliott
witness murderer lieutenant sergeant suspenseful chilling dark beverly hills, calif. apartment murder witness cover-up insanity frame-ups nazism fear pursuit discovery 1950s
A woman's sanity comes into question, after she claims to have witnessed a murder from her apartment window.
Musical
USA
1955
112 Minutes
Director
Jane Powell Tony Martin Debbie Reynolds Walter Pidgeon Vic Damone Gene Raymond Ann Miller Russ Tamblyn J. Carrol Naish Kay Armen Richard Anderson
Sailor Danny Xavier Smith and two other gobs try to save his sister Susan's virtue. She wants to get a role in the show "Hit the Deck". After wrecking the producers hotel suite, they land ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1949
94 Minutes
Director
Van Johnson Arlene Dahl Gloria DeHaven Tom Drake Leon Ames John McIntire Donald Woods Norman Lloyd
police detective wife killer stripper captain dark suspenseful tense los angeles police station household nightclub crime ring murder case investigation marital problems deception mystery pursuit revenge
While his wife is urging him to quit the force, a Los Angeles homicide detective hunts for the killer responsible for the murder of his ex-partner, who might have been on the take with local bookies.
Comedy, Western
USA
1955
92 Minutes
Director
Robert Taylor Eleanor Parker Victor McLaglen James Arness Josephine Hutchinson Rosemary DeCamp
trapper frontiersman frontier woman father tomboy native american warrior amusing lighthearted spirited kentucky woods mountain river cabin unlikely romance courtship ambush marriage frontier life rescue
Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let anything interfere with her plans to marry him in this humorous romantic adventure through the American Frontier of 1798.
Western
USA
1957
89 Minutes
Director
Stewart Granger Rhonda Fleming Chill Wills Steve Rowland James Gregory Jacques Aubuchon Arch Johnson William Fawcett Carl Pitti Lane Bradford Rayford Barnes
cowboy cattleman preacher father son grocer bleak confident tense wild west ranch small town saloon cattle drives father/son relationship defending the helpless frontier justice homecoming homesteading fall
A gunfighter defends his town when cattlemen threaten to destroy it by stampeding cattle through the farmlands.
Western
USA
1950
93 Minutes
Director
Joel McCrea Arlene Dahl Barry Sullivan Claude Jarman Jr. James Whitmore Ramon Novarro
soldier bandit widow guide brother-in-law rousing suspenseful missouri santa fe, n.m. wagon train robbery american civil war gold deception betrayal native americans love transformation adventure 1860s
In 1865, three escaped Confederate POWs are coerced into joining an offshoot of Quantrill's raiders who are planning to rob a Union gold shipment concealed in a civilian wagon train going from Santa Fe to St. Louis.
Musical, Romance
USA
1956
112 Minutes
Director
Dan Dailey Cyd Charisse Agnes Moorehead Lili Darvis Jim Backus Paul Henreid
rancher gambler ballerina chaperone mother amusing playful cheeky las vegas hotel casino stage gambling luck love-hate relationship vacation mother/son relationship love discovery temptation
In 1950s Las Vegas, a gambling rancher and a ballerina discover that some people have luck at cards while others have luck at love.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1963
103 Minutes
Director
Mickey Spillane Shirley Eaton Lloyd Nolan Scott Peters Guy Kingsley James Dyrenforth Charles Farrell Kim Tracy Benny Lee
Legendary detective Mike Hammer has spent seven years in an alcoholic funk after the supposed death of his secretary, Velda. He is brought back to the land of the living by his old friendly enemy, police lieutenant Pat Chambers.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1951
82 Minutes
Director
Red Skelton Sally Forrest Macdonald Carey Monica Lewis William Demarest Raymond Walburn Jane Darwell Lillian Bronson Herb Anderson Paul Harvey
inventor girlfriend pretty woman rival amusing lighthearted indiana small town inventions cars competition romance song and dance rivalry quest discovery love 1890s
Joe, inventor in an American Small town of 1895 has problems with his new invention, a car, driven with a gasoline motor. Everybody is making fun about his "crazy invention", only his girl ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1952
85 Minutes
Director
Ray Milland Helena Carter Hugh Marlowe Forrest Tucker George Reeves Gertrude Michael
cavalry captain native american native american chief native american warrior rival army officer brash gutsy patriotic rousing tense montana battlefield dakota territory fort rivalry demotion battle of the little bighorn love interest love triangle
After violently attacking a fellow officer Lt. Edward Garnett, cavalry Captain Kern Shafter is court martialled. Later, he rejoins the army with Custer's regiment at Fort Lincoln, Dakota, becoming a sergeant, where he runs into his old foe.
Romance
USA
1953
89 Minutes
Director
Jean Simmons Victor Mature Monica Lewis Jane Darwell Dabbs Greer Olive Carey Mary Jo Tarola Wally Vernon
playwright husband wife actress baby melodramatic emotional new york city broadway theater marital problems romance estrangement broadway seduction temptation love 1950s
When a TV gossip columnist wrongly announces that the marriage between now successful playwright William Blakeley and his wife Carolyn is breaking up, New York friends variously reminisce ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1953
75 Minutes
Director
Barbara Stanwyck Fred MacMurray Ward Bond William Ching John Dierkes Morris Ankrum Jack Elam Charles Halton Sam Flint Myra Marsh
cattle rustler brother old flame hobo sheriff rancher fiery engaging thrilling tense american west prison small town ranch bank mountain lynching reunion brother relationship love triangle
A cattle herder turned rustler runs from a lynch mob and falls, again, for an ex-lover.
Musical, Romance
UK
1958
103 Minutes
Director
Mario Lanza Renato Rascel Marisa Allasio Peggie Castle Clelia Matania Rossella Como Guido Celano Carlo Giuffré
Spoiler: Roger Tweakham, a married accountant leading a hum-drum life gets involved with a motivating model, 'tweaks' the books of a stocking-factory whose owner he likes so it will show a ... See full summary »
Drama
1947
104 Minutes
Director
Mickey Rooney Brian Donlevy Ann Blyth James Dunn Tom Tully Sam Levene Walter Sande Mickey Knox James Bell Gloria Holden Eve March
boxer gambler deadbeat dad daughter love interest alcoholic engaging tense melodramatic new york city boxing ring street pool hall apartment corruption rise to stardom gambling redemption moral dilemma boxing
A dancer (Mickey Rooney) tries boxing, kills his buddy in the ring and becomes a gambler's (Brian Donlevy) pawn.
Drama
1943
67 Minutes
Director
Frank Morgan Richard Carlson Jean Rogers Porter Hall Robert Barrat Donald MacBride Walter Baldwin Andrew Tombes Olin Howland Chill Wills Irving Bacon
A Supreme Court justice on a duck-hunting foray becomes involved in serious trouble with the citizens in a small town.