Arthur Kennedy — Actor (25)
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Nevada Smith (1966) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Nevada Smith
director: Henry Hathaway actor: Steve McQueen / Karl Malden …
Nevada Smith is the young son of an Indian American mother and European-American father. When his father is killed by three men over gold, Nevada sets out to find them and kill them. The boy is taken in by a gun merchant. The gun merchant shows him how to shoot, on time and correctly.
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Dirty World (1978) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Porco mondo
director: Sergio Bergonzelli actor: Carlo De Mejo / Karin Well …
other title: Porco mondo / Puerco mundo
Senator Alberici tries to approach the secretariat of his party with a campaign against immorality. In reality the politician is a pervert with homosexual tendencies that he expresses with men and women.
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Covert Action (1978) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Sono stato un agente C.I.A.
director: Romolo Guerrieri actor: David Janssen / Arthur Kennedy …
other title: Sono stato un agente C.I.A. / Covert Action – Rauschgift tötet leise …
Janssen plays an ex-CIA agent who has become an author, writing both non-fiction exposes (Phillip Agee was in the news at this time) and fiction spy novels. The CIA is on his case, in the person of Arthur Kennedy, CIA chief in Athens, where Janssen is staying. Janssen is pursuing a case that interests him, while dodging the traps set for him by Kennedy and trying to help Maurizio Merli, a former colleague with personal problems.
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Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man (1962) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
director: Martin Ritt actor: Richard Beymer / Diane Baker …
other title: Le avventure di un giovane / Hemingways Abenteuer eines jungen Mannes …
Young and restless Nick Adams, the only son of a domineering mother and a weak but noble doctor father, leaves his rural Michigan home to embark on an eventful cross-country journey. He is touched and affected by his encounters with a punch-drunk ex-boxer, a sympathetic telegrapher, and an alcoholic advanceman for a burlesque show. After failing to get a job as reporter in New York, he enlists in the Italian army during World War I as an ambulance driver. His camaraderie with fellow soldiers and a romance with a nurse he meets after being wounded propel him to manhood.
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Some Came Running (1958) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB TMDB Douban WikiData
Some Came Running
director: Vincente Minnelli actor: Frank Sinatra / Dean Martin …
other title: Qualcuno verrà / De kom løbende …
A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother, and becomes close with an easy-going professional gambler and torn between two very different women.
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The Girl in White (1952) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Girl in White
director: John Sturges actor: June Allyson / Arthur Kennedy …
other title: La dama bianca
The first female doctor in New York City comes up against prejudice from male counterparts who feel threatened by her skills. Eventually, though, they come to respect her and romance blossoms between her and the head doctor.
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City for Conquest (1940) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
City for Conquest
director: Anatole Litvak / Jean Negulesco actor: James Cagney / Ann Sheridan …
other title: La città del peccato / Im Taumel der Weltstadt …
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
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Crashout (1955) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Crashout
director: Lewis R. Foster actor: William Bendix / Arthur Kennedy …
other title: I sanguinari / Straße des Terrors …
Convict Van Duff engineers a large-scale prison break; the six survivors hide out in a forgotten mine working near the prison, then set out on a long, dangerous journey by foot, car, train and truck to retrieve Duff's bank loot. En route, as they touch the lives of "regular folks," each has his own rendezvous with destiny.
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Chicago Deadline (1949) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Chicago Deadline
director: Lewis Allen actor: Alan Ladd / Donna Reed …
other title: Ultimatum a Chicago / Todesfalle von Chikago …
On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Ames comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.
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Killer Cop (1975) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
La polizia ha le mani legate
director: Luciano Ercoli actor: Claudio Cassinelli / Arthur Kennedy …
other title: La polizia ha le mani legate / La police a les mains liées …
In a crowded hotel in the center of Milan a bomb has been planted. The time device on its detonator has only minutes to run. A young detective discovers the bomb by accident and is drawn into a terrifying nightmare of intrigue, brutality and ruthless killing. This is a world where human life is sold or sacrificed for twisted ideals. A world of international terrorism. The time is now.
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Devotion (1946) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Devotion
director: Curtis Bernhardt actor: Ida Lupino / Paul Henreid …
other title: Appassionatamente / La Vie passionnée des sœurs Brontë …
In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Rev. Arthur Nicholls. Along with their sister Anne, Emily and Charlotte also try to help their tormented brother Branwell, a gifted artist whose life is being destroyed by alcohol.
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Desperate Journey (1942) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Desperate Journey
director: Raoul Walsh actor: Errol Flynn / Ronald Reagan …
other title: L'avventura impossibile / Jornada Trágica …
A British bomber crew, including Australian (Flynn) and American (Reagan), is shot down over Germany during a bombing run. The five make their way across a perilous Germany, intent on reaching the UK with the war secrets they have learned, battling Nazis along the way.