Joel Allen

Movies15

• Movie8.3

  Drama

  A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

  Sunset Boulevard

  1950 · 3K votes

• Movie7.7

  CrimeThriller

  A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.

  Strangers on a Train

  1951 · 1.9K votes

• Movie7.6

  CrimeDrama

  A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.

  White Heat

  1949 · 558 votes

• Movie7.1

  DramaRomance

  A vain businessman puts strains on his happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend.

  East Side, West Side

  1949 · 26 votes

• Movie6.5

  Drama

  A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption. As the three await news of his rescue at a mountain cabin, they recall incidents from five years earlier and why they were forced to give up their son.

  Three Secrets

  1950 · 17 votes

• Movie6.9

  WarAdventure

  A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they find Japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through enemy-occupied jungle.

  Objective, Burma!

  1945 · 104 votes

• Movie6.2

  DramaAction

  Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.

  The Fighting Seabees

  1944 · 60 votes

• Movie6.0

  DramaThriller

  After successfully swindling thousands of dollars from hapless victims, conflicted con artist Mary (Hillary Brooke) decides to go straight, but her greedy boyfriend and partner, Roger (Tom Conway), convinces her to pull off one final scam before they get married. Written and directed by Andrew L. Stone, this classic crime film finds the police struggling to keep up with the deceptive duo's exceedingly complicated schemes.

  Confidence Girl

  1952 · 10 votes

• Movie5.4

  ActionDrama

  The lives and passions of a stock car team are revealed against the turbulent backdrop of the professional racing world.

  Red Line 7000

  1965 · 36 votes

• Movie5.7

  MusicComedy

  During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the civilians at home. This was Universal Pictures' effort. It features everyone from Donald O'Connor to the Andrews Sisters to Orson Welles to W.C. Fields to George Raft to Marlene Dietrich, and dozens of other Universal players.

  Follow the Boys

  1944 · 11 votes

• Movie5.6

  CrimeDrama

  A Death Row inmate uses his prison law studies to fight for his life. Based on a true story.

  Cell 2455 Death Row

  1955 · 17 votes

• Movie6.7

  DramaThriller

  Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.

  Beyond the Forest

  1949 · 54 votes

• Movie6.0

  ComedyDrama

  18-year-old Angela, reared in a New England town by her Aunt Betsy, receives an inheritance which she uses to go to New York, ostensibly for voice training, but she is pursuing Major Hilary Jarret, an Army surgeon with whom she has become infatuated. Her departure depresses her childhood friend Jimmy Plum. Dr. Plum devises an errand on which to send his love-sick son to New York, where Jimmy discovers Angela thinks she is Jarret's fiancée. Jimmy also renews acquaintances with a group of show people, including Sally McGuire, who attempts to console him. Jimmy meets Jarret's divorced wife, Harriet, famed photographer. Jimmy engineers a meeting of Jarret and Harriet with Angela present, which forms the beginning of an understanding that Jarret is not for her. Jimmy is inducted into the Army.

  This Is the Life

  1944 · 3 votes

• Movie9.0

  Western

  Wild Bill Elliott must escort a gang of killer cattleman who have been terrorizing homesteaders.

  The Maverick

  1952 · 1 votes

• Movie9.0

  WesternDrama

  As other "B"-western series kept dropping like flies in 1952, Johnny Mack Brown kept grinding 'em out for Monogram. In Man From Black Hills, Johnny tries to help locate his saddle pal Jim Fallan's (James Ellison) long-lost father. Arriving in a small mining town, Johnny and Jim discover that Jim's father has established a financial empire--and that a local opportunist (Randy Brooks) has capitalized on this by claiming to be the old man's son.

  Man from the Black Hills

  1952 · 1 votes