Virginia Huston
Actor · 1925 – 1981 · Wisner, Nebraska, USA
Virginia Huston was born on April 24, 1925 in Wisner, Nebraska, USA. She was an actress, known for Out of the Past (1947), Sudden Fear (1952) and Tarzan's Peril (1951). Huston suffered a broken back in an automobile accident, which disrupted her career at its peak - when she returned, she dropped to minor roles and "B"-level films. Huston retired from films after her marriage to a wealthy real estate agent. She died of cancer on February 28, 1981 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
Movies12
Movie7.7CrimeThrillerThe peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.
Out of the Past
1947 · 663 votes
Movie7.0DramaRomanceA stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
Flamingo Road
1949 · 60 votes
Movie6.3CrimeThrillerThe big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the force, and his loyal patrolman, Johnson, take on the violent Nick.
The Racket
1951 · 43 votes
Movie7.2ThrillerCrimeActor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson's new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn't look like a romantic leading man. On a train from New York to San Francisco, Blaine sets out to prove Myra wrong...by romancing her. Is he sincere, or does he have a dark ulterior motive?
Sudden Fear
1952 · 146 votes
Movie5.2Science FictionThrillerFour scientists and a newsman crash land on Mars and meet martians who act friendly.
Flight to Mars
1951 · 37 votes
Movie6.7ActionComedyVentriloquist Jerry Morgan has failed with another love affair. The reason: when the relationship reaches the point when it is time to discuss marriage, his two dolls become mean and jealous. Morgan's dollmaker Papinek is a member of a spy ring who has stolen the secret plans for the top-secret Lafayette airplane. Since Morgan is leaving for Zurich the same night, he decides to hide the secret plan in the heads of the dolls.
Knock on Wood
1954 · 34 votes
Movie5.5ActionAdventureEscaped convicts are selling weapons to a warlike native tribe.
Tarzan's Peril
1951 · 12 votes
Movie6.8WesternWhen the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the leader of the Doolin gang. He eventually leaves the gang and tries to start a new life under a new name, but the old gang members appear and his true identity becomes known. Once again he becomes an outlaw trying to escape from the law.
The Doolins of Oklahoma
1949 · 11 votes
Movie5.9CrimeDramaIn 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.
Nocturne
1946 · 30 votes
Movie5.8WesternA former Texas Ranger teams up with some of his old colleagues to rid the state of corruption in their new police force.
Night Stage to Galveston
1952 · 5 votes
Movie6.5CrimeDramaJoyce Harper is an ex-Army nurse who enters police work with the L.A. Police Department, when her friend Ruby gets involved with a petty crook, Max Taylor refuses to listen to Joyce's warnings, and eventually marries the hoodlum. Joyce gets through the detailed trained required to become an L.A. policewoman, and she and her newly-assigned detective partner, Harvey Gates cleanup up a skid-row Bar-girl scheme.And she and Gates are told to get the goods on a narcotics gang ran by Richard Cott , and Ruby and Max Taylor reappear.
Women from Headquarters
1950 · 2 votes
Movie10.0AdventureDuring the 1700s, a masked bandit robs the rich and aids the poor, to the chagrin of the authorities and the corrupt nobility, and prompting the king to task a ruthless man from the Colonies to capture the outlaw.
The Highwayman
1951 · 1 votes