George Sherman — Director (16)
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Mystery Broadcast (1943) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Mystery Broadcast
director: George Sherman actor: Ruth Terry / Frank Albertson …
other title: La dama del velo
A radio detective sets out to solve an old murder case, with the help of her sound man and another radio detective. They manage to talk to the people involved in the case, but shortly afterwards the main suspects turn up dead.
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Dawn at Socorro (1954) IMDb TMDB
Dawn at Socorro
director: George Sherman actor: Rory Calhoun / Piper Laurie …
other title: Alba di fuoco / Duell in Sokorro …
Brett Wade, gambler, gunslinger, and classical pianist, is wounded in a gunfight with the Ferris clan; the doctor finds signs of tuberculosis. En route to Colorado for his health, Brett stops in Socorro, New Mexico along with Ferris gunfighter Jimmy Rapp. Sheriff Couthen fears another shootout, but what Brett has in mind is saving waif-with-a-past Rannah Hayes from a life as one of Dick Braden's saloon girls.
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Hell Bent for Leather (1960) IMDb TMDB
Hell Bent for Leather
director: George Sherman actor: Audie Murphy / Felicia Farr …
other title: Duello tra le rocce / Die Unerbittlichen …
When Clay Santell stops in the town of Sutterville after having his horse stolen, he is mistaken by townspeople for a murderer named Travers. The townspeople capture Santell, and turn him over to lawman Harry Deckett. Deckett, who is tired of chasing the real Travers, decides to kill Santell and pass him off as Travers. Santell escapes from Deckett, taking lovely Janet Gifford hostage in the process. Janet comes to believe Santell's story, and helps him in his struggle to prove his real identity.
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The Last of the Fast Guns (1958) IMDb TMDB
The Last of the Fast Guns
director: George Sherman actor: Jock Mahoney / Gilbert Roland …
other title: Una storia del West / Kampf auf Leben und Tod …
A rich, dying Easterner hires gunfighter Brad Ellison to find his brother and heir in Mexico. En route, it becomes clear to Ellison that his is a dying profession. At a remote rancho, Ellison enlists ranch foreman Miles Lang to help him search the hills where the missing man is rumored to have lived. They find nothing ...except that someone wants to kill them; and Ellison becomes wrapped in a maze of double crosses.
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The Mantrap (1943) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Mantrap
director: George Sherman actor: Henry Stephenson / Lloyd Corrigan …
Henry Stephenson stars as a retired Scotland Yard detective. He is regarded as an icon because he has written volumes of books on the art of detection. While Stephenson is being honoured for his past successes, he senses modern detectives, particularly the current District Attorney, look at him and his methods as outdated. This spurs the old man out of retirement to prove himself to the know-it-all modern detectives.
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New Frontier (1939) IMDb TMDB
New Frontier
director: George Sherman actor: John Wayne / Ray Corrigan …
other title: Nuove frontiere / Wasser für Arizona
The Three Mesquiteers convince a group of settlers to exchange their present property for some which, unbeknownst to our goodguys, is going to be worthless. They are captured before they can warn the ranchers.
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The Raging Tide (1951) IMDb TMDB
The Raging Tide
director: George Sherman actor: Shelley Winters / Richard Conte …
other title: La donna del porto
A San Francisco hood is rubbed out by rival Bruno Felkin, who himself reports the crime to Homicide Lt. Kelsey in an alibi scheme which fails. To escape, he stows away on a fishing boat. At sea, skipper Hamil Linder receives Bruno kindly, teaching him fishing; Bruno enlists Hamil's wayward son Carl to tend his slot machines. Then Carl takes an interest in Bruno's girl Connie. Climax in a storm at sea.
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Spy Hunt (1950) IMDb TMDB
Spy Hunt
director: George Sherman actor: Howard Duff / Märta Torén …
other title: Contraespionaje
Roger Quain, escorting two zoo-bound black panthers on the train from Milan to Paris, is unaware that a Western agent, Catherine Ullven, has hidden a microfilm in the collar of one of the animals. But when the train is derailed in the Swiss Alps and the panthers escape, she is forced to involve him in her mission, which now includes enemy agents hunting the microfilm, the animals, Catherine and Roger.
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Larceny (1948) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Larceny
director: George Sherman actor: John Payne / Joan Caulfield …
other title: Ladri in guanti gialli / Aves de rapiña …
Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial. When Mason falls in love with the widow he has pangs of conscience, but he reckons without his con-artist boss, who tends to bolster his arguments with muscle and bullets.
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The Sleeping City (1950) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Sleeping City
director: George Sherman actor: Richard Conte / Coleen Gray …
other title: Mentre la città dorme / Brigade secrète
A young doctor taking a break from work is shot in the head, and the police can't find a clue even as to a possible motive. Inspector Al Gordon (John Alexander) decides that he has to put some men on duty at the hospital, and one of them is Fred Rowan (Richard Conte), a detective with experience as an army medic, masquerading as an intern. What Rowan finds is a high-pressure world in which interns are hopelessly squeezed for time, sleep, energy, and -- most of all -- money, and walk a fine line on the edge of personal and professional disaster.