John Payne — Actor (17)
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The Great American Broadcast (1941) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Great American Broadcast
director: Archie Mayo actor: Alice Faye / Jack Oakie …
other title: Música de estrellas / Radio Cavalcade
After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A coast-to-coast radio program is set up to bring everyone back together.
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Sun Valley Serenade (1941) IMDb TMDB
Sun Valley Serenade
director: H. Bruce Humberstone actor: Sonja Henie / John Payne …
other title: Serenata a Vallechiara / Quero Casar-me Contigo …
When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. When soloist Vivian Dawn quits, Karen stages an ice show as a substitute.
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Tennessee's Partner (1955) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Tennessee's Partner
director: Allan Dwan actor: John Payne / Ronald Reagan …
other title: La jungla dei temerari / Todesfaust …
A tough, womanizing high-stakes gambler known only as Tennessee has an uneasy relationship with Duchess, madam of a thinly-disguised bordello, and no other friends at all. But he's saved from murder by a lonesome cowpoke ('My friends call me Cowpoke'), in town to meet his fiancée Goldie on the steamboat. When she arrives, there's a mysterious undercurrent between Goldie and Tennessee, whose newfound friendship with Cowpoke is destined to be severely tried...
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Sentimental Journey (1946) IMDb TMDB
Sentimental Journey
director: Walter Lang actor: John Payne / Maureen O'Hara …
other title: Conflicto sentimental
An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She decides to adopt the child so that her husband Bill will not be alone when she dies. Unfortunately, Bill is not charmed by Hitty.
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Silver Lode (1954)
Silver Lode
director: Allan Dwan actor: John Payne / Lizabeth Scott …
other title: La campana ha suonato / Stadt der Verdammten …
Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by four men led by Ned McCarty, an old acquaintance who, as a US Marshal, arrests Ballard for the murder of his brother and the theft of $20,000. Ballard seeks to stall McCarty while tracking down evidence that will prove his innocence.
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Slightly Scarlet (1956) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Slightly Scarlet
director: Allan Dwan actor: John Payne / Rhonda Fleming …
other title: Veneri rosse / Straße des Verbrechens …
Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" politician Frank Jansen. Ben Grace, associate of crime boss Sol "Solly" Caspar, sees this as a way to smear Jansen's campaign. Seductive Dorothy will do anything to get what she wants, which includes having a good time with Ben-- whom June is now in love with.
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Hell's Island (1955) IMDb TMDB
Hell's Island
director: Phil Karlson actor: John Payne / Mary Murphy …
other title: Il demone dell'isola / Dem Teufel auf der Spur …
Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's disappearance, is his ex-girlfriend.
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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 Crooked Way (1949) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Crooked Way
director: Robert Florey actor: John Payne / Sonny Tufts …
other title: Incrocio pericoloso / Le passé se venge …
A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past.