Gordon Douglas — Director (25)
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Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Fortunes of Captain Blood
director: Gordon Douglas actor: Louis Hayward / Patricia Medina …
other title: Le avventure di capitan Blood / Liebe unter schwarzen Segeln …
When he unwittingly sends some of his men into a trap, pirate Captain Peter Blood decides to rescue them. They've been taken prisoner by the Spanish Marquis de Riconete who is now using them as slave labor harvesting pearls from the sea.
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She's Back on Broadway (1953) WikiData IMDb TMDB
She's Back on Broadway
director: Gordon Douglas actor: Virginia Mayo / Gene Nelson …
other title: Back to Broadway / Catherine et son amant …
When Catherine Terris's career in Hollywood hits the skids, she heads back to the site of her first great triumphs...Broadway! She takes the lead in a play which is being directed by Gordon Evans, the man who was both her Svengali and her lover. Evans is still bitter that she walked out on him to become the toast of Hollywood years earlier. Can Terris and Evans put aside their mutual animosity long enough to make a go of this production. The way things start off, it doesn't seem likely.
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Saps at Sea (1940) IMDb TMDB
Saps at Sea
director: Gordon Douglas actor: Stan Laurel / Oliver Hardy …
other title: C'era una volta un piccolo naviglio / Marujos Improvisados …
Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a horn. His doctor prescribes a restful sea voyage. Mayhem ensues.
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Harlow (1965) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Harlow
director: Gordon Douglas actor: Carroll Baker / Red Buttons …
other title: Jean Harlow, la donna che non sapeva amare / Harlow, A Venus Platinada …
Jean Harlow arrives in Los Angeles as a teenager, pushed into showbiz by her mother and stepfather. Kindhearted agent Arthur Landau becomes Jean's mentor, while a devious Howard Hughes-like mogul grows infatuated with the beautiful young actress. Harlow herself falls for producer Paul Bern before tragedy strikes.
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Slaughter's Big Rip-Off (1973) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Slaughter's Big Rip-Off
director: Gordon Douglas actor: Jim Brown / Ed McMahon …
other title: Un duro al servizio della polizia / Der Sohn des Mandingo …
Vigilante Slaughter comes under attack from Duncan, a local money launderer whose hit-man traps Slaughter in a car at a cliff, but Slaughter escapes, arms himself, and goes after Duncan's hideout.
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Barquero (1970) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Barquero
director: Gordon Douglas actor: Lee Van Cleef / Warren Oates …
other title: O Rio da Violência / Los forajidos de Río Bravo
Jake Remy leads a gang of outlaw cutthroats making their escape toward Mexico from a successful robbery. Barring their way is a river--crossable only by means of a ferry barge. The barge operator, Travis, refuses to be bullied into providing transport for the gang and escapes across river with most of the local populace--leaving Remy and his gang behind, desperately seeking a way across. A river-wide stand-off begins between the gang and the townspeople, both groups of which have left people on the wrong side of the river.
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The Falcon in Hollywood (1944) IMDb TMDB
The Falcon in Hollywood
director: Gordon Douglas actor: Tom Conway / Barbara Hale …
other title: Le Faucon à Hollywood / El Halcón en Hollywood
Suave amateur detective Tom Lawrence--aka Michael Arlen's literary hero The Falcon--arrives in Hollywood for some rest and relaxation, only to find himself involved in the murder of a movie actor. There's no shortage of suspects: the costume designer to whom he was married, a tyrannical director, a beautiful young French starlet, a Shakespeare-quoting producer, even a New York gangster. Helping The Falcon solve the crime is a cute, wise-cracking cab driver and a pair of bumbling cops.
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Between Midnight and Dawn (1950) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Between Midnight and Dawn
director: Gordon Douglas actor: Mark Stevens / Edmond O'Brien …
other title: Tra mezzanotte e l'alba / Entre la medianoche y el amanecer …
Rocky and Dan, war buddies, are prowl car cops on night duty. Dan is a cynic who views all lawbreakers as scum; Rocky feels more lenient. Both are attracted to the radio voice of communicator Kate Mallory; but in person, Kate proves reluctant to get involved with men who just might stop a bullet. By lucky chance, Rocky and Dan cause big trouble for murderous racketeer Ritchie Garris; but when he swears vengeance, Kate's fears may prove justified.
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Stagecoach (1966) IMDb TMDB
Stagecoach
director: Gordon Douglas actor: Ann-Margret / Red Buttons …
other title: I 9 di Dryfork City / A Última Diligência …
A group of unlikely travelling companions find themselves on the same stagecoach to Cheyenne. They include a drunken doctor, a bar girl who's been thrown out of town, a professional gambler, a travelling liquor salesman, a banker who has decided to embezzle money, a gun-slinger out for revenge and a young woman going to join her army captain husband. All have secrets but when they are set upon by an Indian war party and then a family of outlaws, they find they must all work together if they are to stay alive.
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Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
director: Gordon Douglas actor: James Cagney / Barbara Payton …
other title: Non ci sarà domani / Den Morgen wirst du nicht erleben …
Ralph Cotter, a ruthless criminal, escapes violently from a farm prison. Then, he seduces a dead inmate’s sister, gets back quickly into the crime business, faces corrupt local cops who run the city’s underworld and meets a powerful tycoon’s whimsical daughter.
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Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964) WikiData IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Robin and the 7 Hoods
director: Gordon Douglas actor: Frank Sinatra / Dean Martin …
other title: I 4 di Chicago / Os Sete Ladrões da Cidade …
Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisborne a cut of their profits after Guy shoots mob boss Big Jim and takes over. When Big Jim's daughter, Marian, gives Robbo a large sum, believing he has avenged her father's death, the gangster donates to an orphanage, cementing his reputation as a softhearted hood.