Rudolph Maté — Director (12)
The Barbarians (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Barbarians
director: Rudolph Maté actor: Jack Palance / Milly Vitale
other title: Revak, lo schiavo di Cartagine / Revak, der Sklave von Karthago
Revak is an Iberian prince from Penda, a small island where the Carthagian fleet ransacked and enslaved the surviving native men, including him. After an eventful passage aboard a galley, Revak becomes an elephant driver in Carthage city, and could become the favorite of mighty women, but has only one thirst: bloody revenge, at all cost, so the barbarian makes common cause with the attacking Romans, Carthage's historical enemy and rival for Mediterranean hegemony, scorning love...
The Mississippi Gambler (1953) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Mississippi Gambler
director: Rudolph Maté actor: Tyrone Power / Piper Laurie
other title: L'avventuriero della Louisiana / Die Welt gehört ihm!
Mark Fallon, with partner Kansas John Polly, tries to introduce honest gambling on the riverboats. His first success makes enemies of the crooked gamblers and of fair Angelique Dureau, whose necklace he won. Later in New Orleans, Mark befriends Angelique's father, but she still affects to despise him as his gambling career brings him wealth. Duelling, tragedy, and romantic complications follow.
Paula (1952) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Paula
director: Rudolph Maté actor: Loretta Young / Kent Smith
other title: El secreto de Paula
A woman, distraught because of her recent miscarriage, accidentally injures a child in a hit-and-run accident, but she keeps the incident a secret. Overcome with guilt and remorse, she seeks out the child in the hospital and attempts to help him regain his speech, even though, if successful, it might mean he will implicate her for the crime.
The Deep Six (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Deep Six
director: Rudolph Maté actor: Alan Ladd / Dianne Foster
other title: Acque profonde / Destroyer patrulje
The conflict between duty and conscience is explored in the WWII drama The Deep Six. Alan Ladd stars as Naval gunnery officer Alec Austin, a Quaker whose sincere pacifist sentiments do not sit well with his crew members. When he refuses to fire upon an unidentified plane, the word spreads that Austin cannot be relied upon in battle (never mind that the plane turns out to be one of ours). To prove that he's worthy of command, Austin volunteers for a dangerous mission: the rescue of a group of US pilots on a Japanese-held island. The ubiquitous William Bendix costars as Frenchy Shapiro (!), Austin's Jewish petty officer and severest critic. If the film has a villain, it is Keenan Wynn as ambitious Lt. Commander Edge, who seems to despise anyone who isn't a mainline WASP.
Aliki My Love (1963) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Αλίκη αγάπη μου
other title: Αλίκη αγάπη μου
Barry, a wretched playboy, expects to get rich from the legacy of an uncle of his, the king of roast meat sauce, but his lawyer informs him that the secret of the sauce recipe has been lost along with his uncle, and there is nothing to inherit except for a small island in the Aegean - called Eftychia - where his uncle came from. A hotel keeper, Richard, is interested in the island and plans to create a tourist resort on it, so the two men come hastily to Greece to arrange the sale. On the island of Eftychia they meet a beautiful young teacher, Aliki, and her mother Anna, who are determined to stop foreigners and tourist development from coming to the island. Aliki's beauty and charm seduce Barry, while Richard is enslaved by the wonderful cooking of Anna. One day while they are tasting her food, Richard discovers that Anna possesses the secret of the famous sauce, by which Barry can really become rich. Thus the island is saved, and everyone celebrates their unexpected good fortune.
Branded (1950) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Branded
director: Rudolph Maté actor: Alan Ladd / Mona Freeman
other title: Il marchio di sangue / Das Brandmal
A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as child.
The Black Shield of Falworth (1954) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Black Shield of Falworth
director: Rudolph Maté actor: Tony Curtis / Janet Leigh
other title: Lo scudo dei Falworth / Kongens ridder
In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, without any knowledge of who their father really was. But one day, they journey to Macworth Castle. There, Myles falls in love with Lady Anne Macworth, makes friends and enemies, and learns to be a knight.
The 300 Spartans (1962) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The 300 Spartans
other title: L'eroe di Sparta / Os 300 Espartanos
The 300 Spartans is an account of the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, in which the Greek Spartan King Leonidis, played by Richard Egan, led a remarkably small number of Greek Sparta to victory over an invading Persian army led by evil King Xerxes that was thought to number over 25,000. This spectacular conflict gave the Grecians enough time to organize a force to ultimately repel the Persians, and thus change the course of Western civilization.
The Violent Men (1955) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Violent Men
director: Rudolph Maté actor: Glenn Ford / Barbara Stanwyck
other title: Uomini violenti / Vestens Vilde Mænd
A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled owner and the outfit's bullying tactics make him reconsider. When one of his hands is murdered he decides to stay and fight, utilizing his war experience. Not all is well at Anchor with the owner's wife carrying on with his brother who also has a Mexican woman in town.