Edward Rickard

Movies20

• Movie7.6

  MysteryCrime

  Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.

  The Big Sleep

  1946 · 1.2K votes

• Movie7.6

  Drama

  New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the method.

  Sweet Smell of Success

  1957 · 606 votes

• Movie6.7

  WarDrama

  The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.

  The Young Lions

  1958 · 150 votes

• Movie5.7

  AdventureDrama

  The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.

  Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

  1961 · 147 votes

• Movie7.4

  Western

  The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.

  The Gunfighter

  1950 · 217 votes

• Movie6.5

  Drama

  An airline executive refuses to believe that pilot error, by his friend, caused a fatal crash and persists in looking for another reason.

  Fate Is the Hunter

  1964 · 41 votes

• Movie6.7

  ComedyRomance

  Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen presumably perishes when swept off her lifeboat, her body never recovered. Fast forward five years. Nicholas, wanting to move on with his life, has Ellen declared legally dead. Part of that moving on includes getting remarried, this time to a young woman named Bianca Steele, who, for their honeymoon, he plans to take to the same Monterrey resort where he and Ellen spent their honeymoon. On that very same day, Ellen is dropped off in Los Angeles by the Navy, who rescued her from the South Pacific island where she was stranded for the past five years. She asks the Navy not to publicize her rescue nor notify Nicholas as she wants to do so herself.

  Move Over, Darling

  1963 · 104 votes

• Movie7.3

  Drama

  The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority as the first ballot closes and the front-runners begin to decide how badly they want the job.

  The Best Man

  1964 · 45 votes

• Movie7.8

  DramaRomance

  In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — who may or may not be after her inheritance.

  The Heiress

  1949 · 287 votes

• Movie7.2

  Drama

  In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.

  The Last Hurrah

  1958 · 64 votes

• Movie6.3

  DramaMusic

  Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a Marshovian, can be convinced to part with her money and marry the king's nephew count Danilo. Arriving to Marshovia on a visit, Crystal Radek change places with her secretary Kitty. Following them to Paris, Danilo has a hard time wooing the widow after meeting an attractive young woman at a nightclub, the same Crystal Radek who presents herself as Fifi the chorus girl. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

  The Merry Widow

  1952 · 12 votes

• Movie6.4

  ComedyRomance

  Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. He wants them to get married and forget the whole thing, but she cannot give up on herself that easily. She enlists the help of Mike Conovan, a slightly shady sports promoter. Together they face mobsters, a jealous boxer, and a growing mutual attraction.

  Pat and Mike

  1952 · 77 votes

• Movie5.5

  ActionAdventure

  Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa as proof of his inventions worth.

  Five Weeks in a Balloon

  1962 · 35 votes

• Movie6.0

  ComedyRomance

  After a hasty wedding, Carter and Toni find that they disagree on everything. They separate and seven years later, on the eve before their divorce, meet again and spend the night together. Reality sets in when morning comes and they begin arguing again. Once again, divorce proceedings are on — until Carter finds out that an important promotion hinges on whether he's married.

  Strange Bedfellows

  1965 · 23 votes

• Movie6.2

  CrimeDrama

  A private eye and her sidekick solve the case of a dead client.

  Exposed

  1947 · 5 votes

• Movie6.5

  DramaRomance

  Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.

  Reunion in France

  1942 · 22 votes

• Movie5.3

  Comedy

  Bob Hope becomes surrogate father to a baby found abandoned at the United Nations. Director Jack Arnold's 1964 comedy also stars Yvonne De Carlo, Robert Sterling, John McGiver and Lilo Pulver.

  A Global Affair

  1964 · 7 votes

• Movie5.2

  CrimeDrama

  A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.

  Circumstantial Evidence

  1945 · 9 votes

• Movie9.0

  Comedy

  Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides that he can round up some Hollywood actors that could beat the firemen. Since Johnny Mack Brown is about the only person in the film that even looks like he could play football other than Johnny and stuntman Joe Bonomo, it’s doubtful that the team Harron put together could even beat the Our Gang football team! So, Betty Compson, anxious to see her Hollywood friends win the game, keeps phoning false alarms to the fire department. A Hollywood Thalians Club short.

  Hollywood Halfbacks

  1931 · 1 votes

• Movie6.6

  Comedy

  Two stepsisters become rivals for the same handsome bachelor. Comedy.

  Wallflower

  1948 · 7 votes