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1. All About Eve (1950)
Passed | 138 min | Drama
A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm
Votes: 138,783 | Gross: $0.01M
2. Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
Not Rated | 132 min | Drama, War
A tough-as-nails general (Gregory Peck as General Savage) takes over a B-17 bomber unit suffering from low morale and whips them into fighting shape.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Millard Mitchell
Votes: 15,802
3. Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Det. Sgt. Mark Dixon wants to be something his old man wasn't: a guy on the right side of the law. Will Dixon's vicious nature get the better of him?
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill, Bert Freed
Votes: 9,963
4. The Incident (1967)
Approved | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Late one night, two young toughs hold hostage the passengers in one car of a New York subway train.
Director: Larry Peerce | Stars: Tony Musante, Martin Sheen, Beau Bridges, Brock Peters
Votes: 4,828
5. Strange Victory (1948)
71 min | Documentary
"Strange Victory" is about racial bias in post World War II America. Folowing "Native Land" in Leo Hurwitz' filmography, it uses some of the same techniques: dramatized scenes interspersed ... See full summary »
Director: Leo Hurwitz | Stars: Alfred Drake, Muriel Smith, Gary Merrill, Saul Levitt
Votes: 112
6. Decision Before Dawn (1951)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama, War
As the US Army approaches Nazi Germany, they recruit German prisoners to spy behind German lines.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill, Oskar Werner, Hildegard Knef
Votes: 2,994
7. Rawhide (1951)
Approved | 89 min | Drama, Romance, Western
A stagecoach stop employee and a stranded woman traveller find themselves at the mercy of four desperate outlaws intent on robbing the next day's gold shipment.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Hugh Marlowe, Dean Jagger
Votes: 3,139
8. Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)
105 min | Drama, Film-Noir
While awaiting a delayed flight, a lawyer who has left his unfaithful wife, befriends three fellow passengers. After the plane crashes and he is among the few to survive, he feels compelled to contact the families of his dead friends.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Bette Davis, Shelley Winters, Gary Merrill, Michael Rennie
Votes: 3,008
9. The Great Impostor (1960)
Approved | 113 min | Comedy, Drama
Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. is a versatile man who gets his kicks out of impersonating a marine, a monk, a navy surgeon and a prison warden, eventually getting in trouble with the law for it.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Tony Curtis, Karl Malden, Edmond O'Brien, Arthur O'Connell
Votes: 1,708
10. The Girl in White (1952)
92 min | Biography, Drama
A young woman decides to become a doctor at a time when women are not being made welcome in the field of medicine. Eventually, her determination and skills end up earning the respect of her male counterparts.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: June Allyson, Arthur Kennedy, Gary Merrill, Mildred Dunnock
Votes: 448
11. The Savage Eye (1959)
68 min | Drama
This drama takes the form of a story told using documentary material as an intrinsic part of the narrative. In this journey through the dark side of 1950s urban life, the camera follows ... See full summary »
Directors: Ben Maddow, Sidney Meyers, Joseph Strick | Stars: Barbara Baxley, Gary Merrill, Herschel Bernardi, Jean Hidey
Votes: 336
12. Another Man's Poison (1951)
TV-G | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A mystery writer becomes involved in a tangled web of murderous deception not unlike the plots of her novels.
Director: Irving Rapper | Stars: Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Emlyn Williams, Anthony Steel
Votes: 3,370
13. Mysterious Island (1961)
Not Rated | 101 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
During the Civil War a group of Union soldiers, a Confederate and a civilian escape the stockade using a hot-air balloon and end up on a strange Pacific island.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill
Votes: 8,544
14. The Pleasure of His Company (1961)
Not Rated | 115 min | Comedy
Jessica Poole, is marrying Roger Henderson. When her father arrives, he disrupts the household of his ex-wife and befriends their cook.
Director: George Seaton | Stars: Fred Astaire, Lilli Palmer, Debbie Reynolds, Tab Hunter
Votes: 885
15. A Blueprint for Murder (1953)
Approved | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Whitney Cameron suspects his sister-in-law has poisoned his brother and niece, but without proof how does he prevent the murder of his nephew?
Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Gary Merrill, Catherine McLeod
Votes: 1,834
16. Witness to Murder (1954)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A woman's sanity comes into question, after she claims to have witnessed a murder from her apartment window.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill, Jesse White
Votes: 3,434
17. The Frogmen (1951)
Approved | 96 min | Adventure, Drama, War
The new commander of a Navy Underwater Demolition Team--nicknamed "Frogmen"--must earn the respect of the men in his unit, who are still grieving over the death of their former commander and resentful of the new one.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Richard Widmark, Dana Andrews, Gary Merrill, Jeffrey Hunter
Votes: 1,541
18. The Quiet One (1948)
65 min | Documentary, Drama
A documentary account of the rehabilitation at the Wiltwyck School of an emotionally disturbed Black boy who is unwanted, misunderstood, and inwardly tortured.
Director: Sidney Meyers | Stars: Gary Merrill, Donald Thompson, Clarence Cooper, Sadie Stockton
Votes: 308
19. Slattery's Hurricane (1949)
83 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A former WW2 naval pilot employed by a Miami civilian company reminisces about his past and present sins while flying a plane into an incoming hurricane.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Veronica Lake, John Russell
Votes: 546
20. Winged Victory (1944)
Approved | 130 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Pinkie Scariano, Alan Ross and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with Bobby Grills and Irving Miller, and the ... See full summary »
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Mark Daniels, Edmond O'Brien, Lon McCallister, Don Taylor
Votes: 228
21. Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)
Approved | 146 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In 1947, following the U.N. decision to split British Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states, a former U.S. Army officer is recruited by the Jews to reorganize the Haganah.
Director: Melville Shavelson | Stars: Kirk Douglas, John Wayne, Frank Sinatra, Senta Berger
Votes: 3,823
22. The Missouri Traveler (1958)
Passed | 103 min | Drama, Family, Western
During the early 1900s, a runaway Missouri orphan reaches a town where the townsfolk are enchanted with him and where a wealthy rancher and a local newspaperman compete to give him an education.
Director: Jerry Hopper | Stars: Brandon De Wilde, Lee Marvin, Gary Merrill, Paul Ford
Votes: 298
23. Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966)
Approved | 101 min | Drama, Western
After an 11-year absence, a buffalo hunter returns home with lots of money in his saddlebags only to be robbed at gunpoint by a trio of no-good town citizens, prompting an eventual revenge quest.
Director: Bernard McEveety | Stars: Chuck Connors, Michael Rennie, Kathryn Hays, Joan Blondell
Votes: 772
24. The Wonderful Country (1959)
Approved | 98 min | Romance, Western
A honorable drifter constantly on the run finds his enemies closing in around him.
Director: Robert Parrish | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Julie London, Gary Merrill, Albert Dekker
Votes: 2,108
25. The Woman Who Wouldn't Die (1965)
84 min | Mystery, Thriller, Horror
An astute businesswoman is completely devoted to her faithless husband, who must kill her to carry on with her pretty young niece. It turns out that the dead don't die so easily.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Gary Merrill, Jane Merrow, Georgina Cookson, Neil McCallum
Votes: 360
26. The Last Challenge (1967)
Approved | 96 min | Western
A deadly gunslinger travels to a town to shoot it out with a famed gunslinger turned lawman in a small town.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Glenn Ford, Angie Dickinson, Chad Everett, Gary Merrill
Votes: 1,208
27. Night Without Sleep (1952)
77 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Awaking one morning out of a drunken stupor, composer Richard Morton can't shake the feeling he has murdered a woman during the night.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Linda Darnell, Gary Merrill, Hildegard Knef, Joyce Mackenzie
Votes: 205
28. The Power (1968)
Approved | 108 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
One by one members of a special project team are being killed by telekinesis - the ability to move things with the power of the mind alone. The race is to determine which of the remaining team members is the murderer and how to stop them.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: George Hamilton, Suzanne Pleshette, Richard Carlson, Yvonne De Carlo
Votes: 1,774
29. The Human Jungle (1954)
Approved | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Police procedural film about a police captain assigned to take over a demoralized police precinct and turn it around by solving all the unsolved cases as well as some new tough ones.
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Gary Merrill, Jan Sterling, Regis Toomey, Lamont Johnson
Votes: 239
30. This Is the Army (1943)
Approved | 121 min | Musical
A soldier wounded in the War (WWI) becomes a producer and stages a show for the forces.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: George Murphy, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Alan Hale
Votes: 1,338 | Gross: $20.83M
31. A Girl Named Tamiko (1962)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
A Eurasian photographer uses his women in an attempt to get American nationality.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Laurence Harvey, France Nuyen, Martha Hyer, Gary Merrill
Votes: 196
32. Mother Didn't Tell Me (1950)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy
A woman learns how to deal with the difficulties of being a doctor's wife and having an interfering mother-in-law.
Director: Claude Binyon | Stars: Dorothy McGuire, William Lundigan, June Havoc, Gary Merrill
Votes: 155
33. Bermuda Affair (1956)
77 min | Drama
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Gary Merrill, Kim Hunter, Ron Randell, Zena Marshall
Votes: 23
34. Clambake (1967)
TV-G | 99 min | Comedy, Musical
The heir to an oil fortune trades places with a water-ski instructor at a Florida hotel to see if girls will like him for himself rather than for his father's money.
Director: Arthur H. Nadel | Stars: Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Will Hutchins, Bill Bixby
Votes: 3,230
35. Huckleberry Finn (1974)
G | 118 min | Adventure, Family, Musical
In 1840s Missouri, young Huckleberry Finn, wanting to escape his violent drunkard father, joins Black runaway slave Jim on a quest for freedom down the Mississippi River on a raft.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Jeff East, Paul Winfield, Harvey Korman, David Wayne
Votes: 705 | Gross: $0.42M
36. The Black Dakotas (1954)
Approved | 65 min | Western
During the American Civil War, Confederate spies aim to steal Union gold intended for the peace treaty with the Sioux and thus pit the Indians against the Union Forces.
Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Gary Merrill, Wanda Hendrix, John Bromfield, Noah Beery Jr.
Votes: 293
37. Amarsi male (1969)
92 min | Drama
Anna, personal secretary of a wealthy industrialist, falls in love with her boss' daughter's leftist boyfriend Carlo and basically severs her ties with her boss (with whom she has also been... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Di Leo | Stars: Nieves Navarro, Gianni Macchia, Micaela Pignatelli, Lucio Dalla
Votes: 64
38. Around the World Under the Sea (I) (1966)
G | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The crew of a five-man submarine travels the world oceans, planting sensors on the ocean floor to warn scientists of any impending earthquakes.
Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Shirley Eaton, Brian Kelly, David McCallum
Votes: 963
39. Crash Landing (1958)
Approved | 76 min | Drama, War
Airplane passengers prepare for a crash landing in the ocean.
Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Gary Merrill, Nancy Reagan, Irene Hervey, Roger Smith
Votes: 213
40. Thieves (1977)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Dramedy of a native New York married couple who splits up in an attempt to rediscover their sanity.
Directors: John Berry, Alfred Viola | Stars: Marlo Thomas, Charles Grodin, Irwin Corey, Hector Elizondo
Votes: 179
41. Destination Inner Space (1966)
Not Rated | 83 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
A group of scientists working in a deep-sea research station discovers a strange craft of extraterrestrial origin.
Director: Francis D. Lyon | Stars: Scott Brady, Sheree North, Gary Merrill, Wende Wagner
Votes: 646
42. Run, Psycho, Run (1968)
93 min | Mystery, Thriller
A man and his wife are vacationing on the Tuscan coast in 1912. When the wife is murdered, the husband sets out to find a young woman who looks just like her, in order to keep her memory alive.
Director: Brunello Rondi | Stars: Gary Merrill, Elga Andersen, Georges Rivière, Rossella Falk
Votes: 60
43. Navy Wife (1956)
83 min | Comedy, Romance
Japanese women, seeng how well American soldiers stationed in their country treat their wives, demand the same from their husbands.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Joan Bennett, Gary Merrill, Judy Nugent, Maurice Manson
Votes: 45
44. The Making of Liberty (1986)
58 min | Documentary
This documentary chronicles the birth, building and rebuilding of the Statue of Liberty by incorporating the perspectives of artisans and laborers who were responsible for working on the Statue of Liberty.
Director: Charles Guggenheim | Star: Gary Merrill
45. The Secret of the Sacred Forest (1970)
G | 87 min | Adventure
Provost plays a brave teenager who sneaks into the Philippines in order to search for his brother, Parsons, a famed investigative reporter whose plane crashed in the middle of the jungle ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Du Pont | Stars: Laurie Agudo, Zenaida Amador, Poch Apostol, Rolf Bayer
46. The Zodiac Murders (1975)
Thriller
A murderous couple plot a killing spree according to their victims astrological signs.
Director: Morton Schwartz | Stars: Gary Merrill, Gloria DeHaven, Kaye Stevens, Nico Minardos
47. Hong Kong un addio (1963)
95 min | Drama
Director: Gian Luigi Polidoro | Stars: Antonella Lualdi, Gary Merrill, Mario Grimaldi, Henri Serre