Joel Allen
Oyuncu · 1913 – 1985 · Galena, Kansas, U.S.
Filmler15
Film8.3DramJoe Gillis (William Holden) genç bir senaristtir. Film, Gills’in bir havuzda kanlar içinde yatarken görüntüsü ile başlar ve daha sonra altı ay öncesine gideriz. Senaryolarını satamayan ve parasız kalan Joe’nun başı eski borçlarıyla derttedir. Alacaklılardan kaçar ve Sunset Bulvarı’ndaki bir eve sığınarak saklanır. Buradaki ev sahibi ise, sessiz filmler döneminde ün yapmış aktrislerden Norma Desmond’dır (Gloria Swanson). Eski ününü hemen geri kazanabileceğini düşünen Norma, kendi yazdığı bir senaryoyla sinema dünyasına dönmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Joe kendisine senaryo yazımı konusunda yardım edebileceğini söyler ve böylelikle Norma onun bu evde yaşamasına izin verir.
Film7.7SuçGerilimBir trende karşılaşıp birbirlerinin babası ile karısını öldürmeyi düşünen iki kişinin hikâyesi, on yıldır ABD'de olan İngiliz Alfred Hitchcock'un ilgisini çekti. Yönetmen, her zamanki gibi, fiyatı düşürmek için adını vermeden kitabın film haklarını 7 bin 500 dolara aldı. Hikâye malum: Zengin psikopat Bruno (Robert Walker), tenis yıldızı Guy'a (Farley Granger), onun karısı ile kendisinin babasını öldürme işini değiş-tokuş etmelerini teklif eder. Derken fikrini uygulamaya koyar ve Guy'dan karşılığını bekler...
Film7.7SuçDramJarrett pek çok soygundan ustalıkla çıkmış bir isim.ve bu soygunlarda tek güvendiği kişi annesi.bir tren soygunu esnasında adamlarından birisi bir cinayet işleyince tüm ipuçları Jarrett i işaret ediyor neticesinde Jarrett daha az ceza almak için başka bir suçu üstüne alıyor ve hapse giriyor.polis teşkilatından bir polis bu Jarrett ve çetesinin suçlarını ortaya çıkarabilmek için en deneyimli polislerini mahkum kılığında hapse gönderiyor.amac bellli.polis memuru önce Jarrett in hapishanede güvenini kazanacak ve böylece yakınlaştıktan sonra da onun sırlarını elde etmeye çalışacak.ama Jarrett her şeye oldugu gibi bunda da önsezgilerini kullanacaktır.bu arada Jarrett hapiste iken çetesindeki adamlarından bir tanesi annesini öldürür ve sevgilisini de bu işe oartak eder.
Film7.1DramRomantikA 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
Film6.2DramAksiyonConstruction 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.
Film6.9SavaşMaceraA 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 · 105 votes
Film5.6SuçDramA 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
Film5.4AksiyonDramThe 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
Film9.0WesternDramAs 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
Film6.0DramSuçAfter 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
Film6.0KomediDram18-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
Film6.5DramA 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
Film5.7MüzikKomediDuring 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
Film6.7DramGerilimRosa, 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
Film9.0WesternWild Bill Elliott must escort a gang of killer cattleman who have been terrorizing homesteaders.
The Maverick
1952 · 1 votes