Biography: Leif Erickson |
Born William Anderson, this brawny, blond second lead had the looks of a Viking god. He worked as a band vocalist and trombone player, then gained a small amount of stage experience before debuting onscreen in a bit part (as a corpse) in Wanderer of... more
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Cast: Charles B. Pierce
Length: 98min
This melodramatic adventure follows the exploits of a young Blackfoot Indian who goes to the Anglos for some badly needed smallpox serum. Instead of helping him, they attack. The young man is enraged and retaliates by kidnapping two young people from...
Tags: Hybrid Western Western
Length: 98min
This western is notable for having Bill Cosby in a dramatic role in his first feature film. Caleb Rivers (Cosby) is a black Civil War Veteran who just wants to clear out his Arizona homestead and live in peace with his neighbors. Instead, he and his...
Tags: Teen Movie Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 82min
With true William Castle-style flamboyance the advertisements for I Saw What You Did intrigued non-etymologically inclined audiences by warning them that this suspenseful thriller was about uxoricide. He then had some of the theaters where the film...
Tags: Crime Thriller Crime
Length: 100min
If familiar with the Patty Hearst episode, the viewer will likely believe this is a spin-off because it has most of the elements: wealthy white upper-class gal abducted by terrorists and held for big stakes--this time the ransom is the demand that a...
Tags: Parody/Spoof Comedy Western Comedy Western
Length: 85min
Having gained a measure of TV fame by 1958, the nightclub comedy duo of Dan Rowan and Dick Martin decided to give movies a try with Once Upon a Horse. Dan and Dick play Dan Casey and Doc Logan, a pair of nitwitted cowboys who turn to outlawry because...
Cast: Joan Crawford
Tags: Thriller Psychological Thriller
Length: 90min
In this chilling blood-tale in "Psycho" style, Robert Bloch modernizes the Lizzy Borden story. A wife (Joan Crawford) literally axes her cheating husband and his lover, witnessed by her three-year-old daughter. Mom is packed off to the insane asylum...
Cast: Errol Flynn
Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure Drama
Length: 84min
In this adventure, a remake of Singapore (1947), a hero finds a bracelet containing 13 precious gems while visiting Istanbul. He soon finds himself pursued by covetous crooks who want those jewels. He is then deported by the Turkish authorities, but...
Cast: Rock Hudson Cyd Charisse Leif Erickson
Tags: Thriller Drama Adventure Action Adventure Drama Disaster Film
Length: 120min
Adapted by Ernest Gann from his own novel, Twilight for the Gods bears traces of Gann's earlier The High and the Mighty. This "psychological adventure" stars Rock Hudson as Captain Bell, who crawls into a bottle after being court-martialed and...
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck Teri Garr Edith Head Hal B. Wallis
Tags: Musical Rock Musical Musical Romance
Length: 101min
Charlie Rogers (Elvis Presley) is a coffeehouse singer who joins a financially troubled carnival in Roustabout. He is hired by owner Maggie Morgan (Barbara Stanwyck) and soon catches the eye of his pretty female co-worker Cathy Lean (Joan Freeman)....
Cast: Cary Grant Stanley Donen Ray Walston Jayne Mansfield Kathleen Freeman Deborah Kerr Werner Klemperer Nancy Kulp
Tags: Romance Military Comedy Comedy Drama Farce
Length: 105min
Luther Davis' racy wartime comedy Kiss Them for Me was expurgated a bit for the 1957 film version. Cary Grant, Ray Walston and Larry Blyden portray three navy war heroes who've been booked on a morale-building "vacation" in San Francisco. Eluding...
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