Biography: Dick Powell |
Curly-haired actor, director, and producer, Powell worked as a vocalist and instrumentalist for bands (he had several hit records), and occasionally was an M.C. He debuted onscreen in 1932, at first as a crooner in '30s Warner Bros. backstage... more
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Cast: Theodore Bikel
Tags: Combat Films War Drama War
Length: 98min
The Enemy Below is a study of submarine warfare from the vantage point of both sides. Robert Mitchum plays the captain of an American destroyer, who despite having lost his family in the war endeavors to let his head rule his heart in combat. Curt...
Cast: Robert Mitchum Robert Wagner
Tags: Adventure Drama Combat Films Adventure Drama
Length: 108min
Directed with crisp efficiency by Dick Powell, The Hunters is a romantic melodrama with an aviation angle. Robert Mitchum plays veteran Air Force pilot Maj. Cleve Saville, in charge of a group of young flyboys in 1952 Korea. Among the men under...
Cast: John Wayne Agnes Moorehead Susan Hayward
Tags: Historical Epic Historical Film
Length: 111min
In the historical epic The Conqueror, John Wayne stars as Temujin, better known as Genghis Khan. Red-haired Susan Hayward costars as Bortai, the Tartar princess whom Temujin claims as the spoils of battle. Eventually, Bortai's hatred for her captor...
Length: 85min
Actor Dick Powell made an impressive film debut with the taut atomic-age suspenser Split Second. Convicts Stephen McNally, Paul Kelly and Frank DeKova escape to a ghost town in the Nevada desert. Only it isn't exactly a ghost town, but a "dummy...
You Can't Run Away From It (1956)
Cast: Jack Lemmon June Allyson
Tags: Musical Comedy Musical Comedy Screwball Comedy
Length: 95min
You Can't Run Away From It is a musical remake of Frank Capra's Oscar-winning classic It Happened One Night, complete with same-named characters and word-for-word scene reconstructions. It all begins when spoiled heiress Ellie Andrews (June Allyson)...
Cast: Ruby Dee Marshall Thompson
Tags: Period Film Political Thriller Drama Thriller
Length: 78min
The Tall Target is based on a true story: the attempted assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln, even before he was able to assume his duties in Washington. Dick Powell stars as New York detective John Kennedy, who learns of the assassination...
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Cast: Vincente Minnelli Kirk Douglas
Tags: Showbiz Drama Drama Film a Clef
Length: 118min
Kirk Douglas plays the corrupt and amoral head of a major film studio in this Hollywood drama, often regarded as one of the film's industry's most interesting glimpses at itself. Actress Gloria Lorrison (Lana Turner), director Fred Amiel (Barry...
Cast: Frank Tashlin
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy
Length: 98min
Susan Slept Here is the only feature film in Hollywood history ever to be narrated by an Academy Award. After introducing itself, the Oscar statuette invites us into the apartment home of its owner, screenwriter Mark Christopher Dick Powell. Knowing...
Tags: Film Noir Crime Thriller Thriller
Length: 80min
Dick Powell stars in this suspenseful melodrama, directed by Robert Parrish. Rocky Mulloy (Powell) has recently returned from prison, after being pardoned from a life sentence when new evidence clears him from a robbery conviction. Delong (Richard...
Cast: Dick Powell
Tags: Screwball Comedy Detective Film Heavenly Comedy Comedy Fantasy Mystery
Length: 78min
The most delightful aspect of You Never Can Tell is the film's ability to successfully sustain its single joke for 78 minutes. The story begins when King, a German shepherd, falls heir to a fortune. Ellen Hathaway (Peggy Dow), trustee of King's...
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