Biography: John Hodiak |
John Hodiak began his radio acting career in Detroit, where he'd previously worked in the warehouse at the Chevrolet motor company. Signed to an MGM contract in 1942, Hodiak did some of his best work on loan-out to 20th Century-Fox, where he appeared... more
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Cast: Fess Parker Barbara Britton Bruce Bennett
Tags: Adventure Drama Combat Films Adventure Drama
Length: 82min
Dragonfly Squadron is set in 1950 in the months before the beginning of the Korean War. John Hodiak stars as Major Mathew Brady, assigned to the base at Kongju to train South Korean troops for possible combat. These troops are to be used to protect...
Cast: Glenn Ford Dorothy McGuire
Tags: Courtroom Drama Drama Crime
Length: 105min
Adapted by Don M. Mankiewicz from his own novel, Trial is a surprisingly timely story of how justice can sometimes be compromised by "special interests". It all begins when Mexican youth Angelo Chavez (Rafael Campos) is placed on trial for the murder...
On the Threshold of Space (1956)
Cast: Guy Madison
Tags: Drama
Length: 98min
The men behind America's first venture into space are honored in this drama that paid special emphasis on historical accuracy and obtained much input and assistance from the US Air Force. The story centers on an Air Force doctor who performs many...
Cast: Martin Milner
Tags: Adventure Action Combat Films
Length: 81min
In this exciting Korean War-era actioner, two Marine combat photographers risk their lives on the front to chronicle the battles. When not behaving heroically up there, they are competing for the affection of a pretty Red Cross nurse. ~ Sandra...
Cast: Robert Stack
Length: 70min
Cashing in on the popularity of such pro-Native American films as Broken Arrow, Columbia's resident quickiemeister Sam Katzman came up with Conquest of Cochise. John Hodiak plays the eponymous Apache leader, who at the beginning of the film is seen...
Across the Wide Missouri (1951)
Cast: Clark Gable Adolphe Menjou William Wellman
Tags: Epic Western Western Indian Western
Length: 78min
Clark Gable is the largely nonheroic hero of the sprawling western Across the Wide Missouri. A cunning trapper who lives purely by his wits, Gable avoids being scalped by the Blackfoot Indians by marrying Maria Elena Marques, the chief's daughter....
Cast: John Hodiak Ray Teal
Length: 73min
Ambush at Tomahawk Gap is a characteristically brutal program western from Columbia's Wallace MacDonald unit. John Hodiak, John Derek, David Brian and Ray Teal play ex-convicts who ride into a Godforsaken western town. They're on the lookout for the...
Cast: Ray Milland
Length: 86min
Ray Milland plays a happily married college professor whose wife and child perish in a fire. Despondent, Milland loses himself in drink, despite the efforts of his friends and fellow faculty members. He is on the verge of suicide before he is salvaged...
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
Cast: Spencer Tracy Pat O'Brien Mae Clarke
Tags: Crime Mystery Drama Courtroom Drama
Length: 101min
Fish-market worker Johnny O'Hara (James Arness) is named as a suspect when his boss -- with whom he had a dispute the previous day -- is shot to death in an apparent robbery. When he's arrested, his family appeals to their old friend James Curtayne...
Cast: Walter Pidgeon Audrey Totter
Length: 83min
Gerald Mayer proved once more that he had talent above and beyond being the nephew of MGM-head Louis B. Mayer with his direction of The Sellout. The story begins with a bang, as big-city newspaper editor Haven Allridge (Walter Pidgeon) falls victim to...
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