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Gordon Douglas Filmography
Complete filmography of Gordon Douglas: 39 films in the TMDB catalog, sorted by year.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
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| Viva Knievel! | 1,977 | Adventure, Action, Comedy, Thriller | 3.6 | 14 | English | The legendary stuntman plans his most incredible stunt yet while battling the mob in this action-adventure. |
| They Call Me Mister Tibbs! | 1,970 | Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime, Mystery | 5.8 | 96 | English | A police detective's investigation of a prostitute's murder points to his best friend. |
| Barquero | 1,970 | Western | 6.2 | 50 | English | Jake Remy leads a gang of outlaw cutthroats making their escape toward Mexico from a successful robbery. Barring their way is a river--crossable only by means of a ferry barge. The barge operator, Travis, refuses to be bullied into providing transport for the gang and escapes across river with most of the local populace--leaving Remy and his gang behind, desperately seeking a way across. A river-wide stand-off begins between the gang and the townspeople, both groups of which have left people on the wrong side of the river. |
| The Detective | 1,968 | Crime, Mystery, Drama | 5.9 | 72 | English | Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a gay man. |
| Lady in Cement | 1,968 | Mystery, Crime, Thriller | 6.1 | 59 | English | While diving for sunken treasure, street-smart gumshoe Tony Rome finds the body of a gorgeous blonde, her feet stuck in a block of cement. Soon after, tough guy Waldo Gronski hires him to find a missing woman named Sandra Lomax, and Rome wonders if there's a connection. He sets about trying to locate the woman, and in no time finds himself mixed up with a beautiful party girl and a slippery racketeer. |
| In Like Flint | 1,967 | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 6.1 | 84 | English | Flint is again called out of retirement when his old boss finds that he seems to have missed 3 Minutes while golfing with the President. Flint finds that the President has been replaced by an actor (Flint's line [with a wistful look] is "An Actor as President?") Flint finds that a group of women have banded together to take over the world through subliminal brainwashing in beauty salons they own. |
| Tony Rome | 1,967 | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 | 66 | English | Tony Rome, a tough Miami PI living on a houseboat, is hired by a local millionaire to find jewelry stolen from his daughter, and in the process has several encounters with local hoods as well as the Miami Beach PD. |
| Chuka | 1,967 | Action, Drama, Western | 6.2 | 31 | English | A group under siege at an Army fort grapple with painful memories. |
| Stagecoach | 1,966 | Western | 6 | 46 | English | A group of unlikely travelling companions find themselves on the same stagecoach to Cheyenne. They include a drunken doctor, a bar girl who's been thrown out of town, a professional gambler, a travelling liquor salesman, a banker who has decided to embezzle money, a gun-slinger out for revenge and a young woman going to join her army captain husband. All have secrets but when they are set upon by an Indian war party and then a family of outlaws, they find they must all work together if they are to stay alive. |
| Way... Way Out | 1,966 | Comedy, Science Fiction | 5.7 | 18 | English | A platonically wed American couple run a lunar weather station near an unwed Soviet couple. |
| Harlow | 1,965 | Drama | 5.4 | 18 | English | Jean Harlow arrives in Los Angeles as a teenager, pushed into showbiz by her mother and stepfather. Kindhearted agent Arthur Landau becomes Jean's mentor, while a devious Howard Hughes-like mogul grows infatuated with the beautiful young actress. Harlow herself falls for producer Paul Bern before tragedy strikes. |
| Robin and the 7 Hoods | 1,964 | Music, Comedy, Crime | 6.1 | 73 | English | Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisborne a cut of their profits after Guy shoots mob boss Big Jim and takes over. When Big Jim's daughter, Marian, gives Robbo a large sum, believing he has avenged her father's death, the gangster donates to an orphanage, cementing his reputation as a softhearted hood. |
| Rio Conchos | 1,964 | Western | 6.3 | 58 | English | Two Army officers, an alcoholic ex-Confederate soldier and a womanizing Mexican travel to Mexico on a secret mission to prevent a megalomaniacal ex-Confederate colonel from selling a cache of stolen rifles to a band of murderous Apaches. |
| Follow That Dream | 1,962 | Comedy | 6.1 | 46 | English | When the Kwimper family car runs out of fuel on a new Florida highway and an officious state supervisor tries to run them off, Pop Kwimper digs in his heels and decides to do a little homesteading. He and his son Toby and their 'adopted' children—Holly, Ariadne, and the twins—start their own little community along a strip of the roadside. |
| Gold of the Seven Saints | 1,961 | Adventure, Western | 7 | 13 | English | Fur-trapping partners stumble across a cache of gold, but their discovery quickly attracts every greedy villain in the territory. |
| Up Periscope | 1,959 | War, Adventure, Action | 6.3 | 32 | English | Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled into a Japanese-held island via submarine to photograph radio codes. |
| Yellowstone Kelly | 1,959 | Adventure, Western | 6.1 | 25 | English | A fur-trapper named Kelly, who once saved the life of a Sioux chief, is allowed to set his traps in Sioux territory during the late 1870s. Reluctantly he takes on a tenderfoot assistant named Anse and together they give shelter to a runaway Arapaho woman. Tensions develop when Anse falls in love with this woman and when the Sioux chief arrives with his warriors to re-claim her. |
| Fort Dobbs | 1,958 | Western | 6.8 | 19 | English | Eluding a sheriff's posse, an escaped man saves a farming family from a Comanche attack and escorts it to the nearby Fort Dobbs. |
| The Big Land | 1,957 | Romance, Western | 6.4 | 18 | English | Back home in Texas following the Civil War, former Confederate officer Chad Morgan (Alan Ladd) leads a cattle drive to Missouri, assuring fellow ranchers that their stock will bring $10 a head at auction. Instead, ruthless cattle baron Brog (Anthony Caruso) has scared off all competition and offers much less. |
| Bombers B-52 | 1,957 | Drama, Romance | 5.6 | 15 | English | Sgt. Chuch Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even more reason to, Jim is dating his daughter, Lois. |
| Them! | 1,954 | Science Fiction, Horror | 6.8 | 452 | English | As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southwest, and a father-daughter team of entomologists join forces with the state police officer who first discovers their existence, an FBI agent and, eventually, the US Army to eradicate the menace, before it spreads across the continent — and the world. |
| Young at Heart | 1,954 | Romance, Drama, Music | 6 | 44 | English | The lives and romances of three sisters in a musical family; the youngest daughter's life is complicated by the subsequent arrival of a charming composer and a cynical music arranger. |
| Mara Maru | 1,952 | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 4.8 | 13 | English | An American salvage diver plunges into dangerous intrigue around a sunken treasure in the Philippines. |
| The Iron Mistress | 1,952 | History, Drama, Action, Western, Romance | 5 | 12 | English | In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge Narcisse's murder, but Judalon takes up with another man. Jim eventually has another romantic interlude with Judalon and is forced to kill one of her suitors in self-defense. Jim leaves town, and falls for the daughter of a Texas politician, but his entanglement with Judalon continues to bedevil him. |
| Only the Valiant | 1,951 | Western | 6.4 | 41 | English | Only the Valiant, a classic western adventure, based on a novel by Charles Marquis Warren, the film tells the story of a Cavalry officer who volunteers for a suicidal mission to fight the hostile Apaches in an effort to prove his loyalty to his men and the woman he loves. |
| I Was a Communist for the FBI | 1,951 | Drama, Thriller | 5.3 | 13 | English | A fact-based story about a man who posed as an American Communist for years as part of a secret plan to infiltrate their organization. |
| Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye | 1,950 | Crime, Thriller | 6.9 | 44 | English | Ralph Cotter, a ruthless criminal, escapes violently from a farm prison. Then, he seduces a dead inmate’s sister, gets back quickly into the crime business, faces corrupt local cops who run the city’s underworld and meets a powerful tycoon’s whimsical daughter. |
| Between Midnight and Dawn | 1,950 | Crime | 5.6 | 29 | English | Rocky and Dan, war buddies, are prowl car cops on night duty. Dan is a cynic who views all lawbreakers as scum; Rocky feels more lenient. Both are attracted to the radio voice of communicator Kate Mallory; but in person, Kate proves reluctant to get involved with men who just might stop a bullet. By lucky chance, Rocky and Dan cause big trouble for murderous racketeer Ritchie Garris; but when he swears vengeance, Kate's fears may prove justified. |
| The Nevadan | 1,950 | Western | 5.8 | 21 | English | A mysterious stranger crosses paths with an outlaw bank robber and a greedy rancher. |
| Mr. Soft Touch | 1,949 | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.8 | 11 | English | When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WWII hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the club's safe and hides in a settlement home, while the mob is on his tail. |
| The Doolins of Oklahoma | 1,949 | Western | 6.8 | 10 | English | When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the leader of the Doolin gang. He eventually leaves the gang and tries to start a new life under a new name, but the old gang members appear and his true identity becomes known. Once again he becomes an outlaw trying to escape from the law. |
| Walk a Crooked Mile | 1,948 | Crime, Drama | 6 | 23 | English | A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation. To investigate the case more efficiently, Dan O'Hara, an FBI agent, and Philip Grayson, a Scotland Yard sleuth, join forces. Will they manage to stop the spy ring from achieving their aim? |
| Dick Tracy vs. Cueball | 1,946 | Crime, Thriller | 5.3 | 24 | English | A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac. |
| Zombies on Broadway | 1,945 | Comedy, Horror | 5.1 | 27 | English | Two bumbling press agents must search for a zombie to fulfill a commitment to their ex-gangster boss's new nightclub or face the consequences. |
| The Falcon in Hollywood | 1,944 | Mystery, Crime | 6 | 12 | English | Suave amateur detective Tom Lawrence--aka Michael Arlen's literary hero The Falcon--arrives in Hollywood for some rest and relaxation, only to find himself involved in the murder of a movie actor. There's no shortage of suspects: the costume designer to whom he was married, a tyrannical director, a beautiful young French starlet, a Shakespeare-quoting producer, even a New York gangster. Helping The Falcon solve the crime is a cute, wise-cracking cab driver and a pair of bumbling cops. |
| A Night of Adventure | 1,944 | Crime, Mystery, Romance | 4.7 | 10 | English | A lawyer tries to clear his wife's lover of murder charges. |
| Saps at Sea | 1,940 | Comedy | 6.8 | 85 | English | Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a horn. His doctor prescribes a restful sea voyage. Mayhem ensues. |
| Zenobia | 1,939 | Comedy | 4.6 | 12 | English | A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant. |
| Bored of Education | 1,936 | Comedy | 6.6 | 15 | English | Spanky and Alfalfa fake a toothache to get out of school. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with UCLA Film & Television Archive in 2013. |
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