Edward Platt — Actor (12)
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Serenade (1956) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
Serenade
director: Anthony Mann actor: Mario Lanza / Joan Fontaine …
other title: Serenata / Dos pasiones y un amor
A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make him a star but then breaks his heart. He flees in misery to Mexico where he meets a sweet farm girl.
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Destination Space (1959) IMDb TMDB
Destination Space
director: Joseph Pevney actor: Harry Townes / John Agar …
Two astronauts are in charge of a giant space station. During an attempted rocket launch, a meteor smashes into the station, damaging it. Later it's discovered that an overload within the rocket will cause a nuclear explosion-within minutes.
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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 Tattered Dress (1957) IMDb TMDB
The Tattered Dress
director: Jack Arnold actor: Jeff Chandler / Jeanne Crain …
other title: Il vestito strappato / Kreuzverhör
After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her dress in rags; murder results. Top New York defense lawyer J.G. Blane, whose own marriage exists in name only, arrives in Desert View, Nevada to find the townsfolk and politically powerful Sheriff Hoak distinctly hostile to the Restons. In due course, Blane discovers he's been "taken for a ride," and that quiet desert communities can be deadly.
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Cash McCall (1960) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Cash McCall
director: Joseph Pevney actor: James Garner / Natalie Wood …
other title: Eine Frau für zwei Millionen / Cet homme est un requin …
Wealthy hotshot Cash McCall makes his money by purchasing unsuccessful businesses, whipping them into shape and then selling them for a huge profit. When Cash comes across Austen Plastics, a small manufacturing corporation on its last legs, he realizes it might be a gamble to buy the company. But when Cash finds out that the company's owner is the father of his old flame, Lory, he buys the business just to get a second chance at romance.
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Illegal (1955)
Illegal
director: Lewis Allen actor: Edward G. Robinson / Nina Foch …
other title: Voi Assassini / Schakale der Unterwelt …
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.
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Backlash (1956) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Backlash
director: John Sturges actor: Richard Widmark / Donna Reed …
other title: La frustata / Punidos Pelo Próprio Sangue …
Jim Slater's father (whom he never knew) died in the Apache ambush at Gila Valley, and Jim is searching for the one survivor, who supposedly went for help but disappeared with a lot of gold. In the process, he gets several people gunning for him, and he keeps meeting liberated woman Karyl Orton, who may be on a similar mission. Renewed Apache hostilities and an impending range war provide complications.