
Maxwell Reed
Actor · 1919 – 1974 · Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Movies22
Movie6.3AdventureWarPrince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal Greeks, he must flee...but fate and their mutual passions lead him to take Helen along. This gives the Greeks just the excuse they need for much-desired war.
Helen of Troy
1956 · 64 votes
Movie6.0ActionAdventureA disgraced member of the Spanish Navy must redeem his family's honor after his father betrays his country to the French.
Movie4.9DramaCrimeA middle-aged garage owner's life is turned upside down when his new mechanics gets it on with his sexy younger wife.
Roadhouse Girl
1953 · 11 votes
Movie6.8ComedyMysteryAn American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.
The Notorious Landlady
1962 · 59 votes
Movie6.5CrimeStory of romance between a young boxer in fairground boxing booth and a chorus girl, and how 'Racer', a 'Wall of Death' rider in the same fairground, involves them in a robbery.
There Is Another Sun
1951 · 2 votes
Movie5.7DramaAfter the war is over, two army pals take opposite paths in civvy street. One becomes a petty criminal, the other becomes a policeman.
Nightbeat
1947 · 6 votes
Movie6.0RomanceDramaA blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family's chateau, but she quickly realizes someone there wants her out of the way.
Madness of the Heart
1949 · 9 votes
Movie5.7HorrorThrillerSusan Shelley is released from an asylum where she's been confined to after the shock suffered over the fiery death of her mother. Her father has a new wife, who has only married him for the money left to him by his dead wife. Susan is still haunted by her mother's memory, and her step-mother is conspiring with her lover to get the troubled girl to lead them to her mother's missing diamond necklace.
Picture Mommy Dead
1966 · 14 votes
Movie5.8ActionAdventureGilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells him she hopes to rescue her brother from the guillotine. Gilliatt finds himself falling in love and so feels betrayed when he later learns this woman is a countess helping Napoleon plan an invasion of England. In reality, however, the "countess" is an English agent working to thwart this invasion. When Gilliatt finds this out, he returns to France to rescue the woman who's true purpose has been discovered by the French.
Sea Devils
1953 · 32 votes
Movie6.2AdventureAn Arabian-nights princess and a Bedouin chief contend over possession of a stallion, but unite to oppose the Corsair Lords.
Flame of Araby
1951 · 8 votes
Movie5.7CrimeThrillerA British psychiatrist reads an amnesiac's (Maxwell Reed) brain waves and sees the mind of a killer.
The Brain Machine
1955 · 6 votes
Movie5.9ThrillerWhen a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime.
Dear Murderer
1947 · 22 votes
Movie6.0ThrillerDramaIn Ballyconnen, Emmy Baudine is a beautiful but disturbed young woman who works for the local priest. When the carnival comes to town, she encounters a handsome young boxer called Dan and lays his face open with her fingernails when he expects sexual favors from her. Hurriedly packed off by Father Corcoran to Yorkshire, Emmy is taken in by a farming family and manages to suppress the strange feelings of fascination and repulsion that she experiences in the presence of the opposite sex. Until, that is, the carnival comes to town and brings with it the vengeful Dan...
Daughter of Darkness
1948 · 12 votes
Movie6.9ThrillerCrimeYoung aspiring actress Molly Lester witnesses a double murder, so its perpetrator, a killer known as The Dark Man, tries everything to maintain her silence.
The Dark Man
1951 · 7 votes
Movie5.7CrimeMysteryA blind man is witness to a murder; later cured of his blindness he attempts to puzzle out the solution to the crime.
Blackout
1950 · 7 votes
Movie6.3MysteryThrillerAfter leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers finds work catalouging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux. Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together.
The Clouded Yellow
1950 · 22 votes
Movie6.7DramaRomanceAfter hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle, Diana Wentworth forges a new life for herself, becoming an MP and learning to love again. Then, out of the blue comes the shattering news that her husband is not dead after all.
The Years Between
1946 · 6 votes
Movie7.1DramaBoxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.
The Square Ring
1953 · 8 votes
Movie5.4DramaAn orphan wreaks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited.
The Brothers
1947 · 9 votes
Movie5.2MysteryA woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy it. She comes to suspect that the nurse who took care of her parents was involved in their deaths, but since the nurse is well thought of in the town, no one believes her. What she doesn't know is that her parents' killer has selected her as the next victim
Before I Wake
1955 · 11 votes
Movie6.0CrimeDramaA mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.
Daybreak
1948 · 13 votes
Movie6.0WarDramaSet in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees in this theatre, prior to returning them to their homelands. The soldiers have difficulty dealing with the rivalries between Serb and Croat, resistance fighter and collaborator, Pole and Russian, etc. The threat of plague briefly unites them, but eventually even this wears off and the refugees unite in their hostility to the British.
The Lost People
1949 · 4 votes
Series6
TV7.7MysteryDramaThe cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
Perry Mason
1957 · 139 votes
TV7.0Action & AdventureWesternDaniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.
Daniel Boone
1964 · 34 votes
TV10.0DramaThe Great Adventure is a historical anthology series that appeared on CBS for the 1963-1964 television season. The series, narrated each week by Van Heflin, and featuring theme music by Richard Rodgers, presented a weekly one-hour dramatization of the lives of famous Americans and important historical events in American History.
The Great Adventure
1963 · 1 votes
TV6.9MysteryCrimeSherlock Holmes (also known as 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes') is a series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by British television company BBC between 1964 and 1968. This was the second screen adaption of Sherlock Holmes for BBC Television.
Sherlock Holmes
1964 · 20 votes
- TV9.0Drama
The Beachcomber was an ITC Entertainment adventure TV series which ran for one series of 39 half-hour episodes in 1962. Narrated by Cameron Mitchell, the series followed a rich executive who retired from the rat-race to become a beachcomber on a small South Pacific island.
The Beachcomber
1962 · 1 votes
- TV6.0Action & Adventure
Captain David Grief is an American action/adventure series that aired in syndication from October 1957, to 1960. The program was based on a series of Jack London short-stories centered around the South Seas tradesman and adventurer David Grief.
Captain David Grief
1957 · 1 votes