Phillip Reed — Actor (22)
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A Gentleman After Dark (1942) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
A Gentleman After Dark
director: Edwin L. Marin actor: Brian Donlevy / Miriam Hopkins …
other title: Io la difendo
A greedy woman betrays her jewel thief husband to the police, for the reward. Her husband's friend, a detective, adopts the couple's child and raises her as his own. Eighteen years later the husband, still in prison, finds out that his ex-wife is now blackmailing their daughter. He vows to break out and put a stop to her once and for all.
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I Cover Big Town (1947) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
I Cover Big Town
director: William C. Thomas actor: Phillip Reed / Hillary Brooke …
One of the four films in the Pine-Thomas series based on radio's long-running "Big Town." This time out, society editor Lorelei Kilbourne is assigned to the police beat. Her paper, "The Illustrated Press", following its usual policy of socially-correct muckraking by crusading editor Steve Wilson, is putting heat on the chief of police. But Lorelei believes the chief is qualified to do the job. She and managing editor Steve Wilson, who, in the film series, is wrong more often than right, discover a corpse and then proceed to help the police solve the crime.
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The Bandit Queen (1950) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Bandit Queen
director: William Berke actor: Barbara Britton / Willard Parker …
other title: La figlia di Zorro / Zorros Tochter …
Zara Montalve, half Spanish and half America, returns to her native California in time to see her parents murdered for their hacienda and gold by Sheriff Jim Harding and his gang. Posing as Lola Belmont, an American visiting from Detroit, teams up with Joaquin Murietta, posing as Carlos Del Rio, to form a Robin-Hood type band that takes vengeance on the gang and restores stolen gold to its rightful owners, aided by militia leader Dan Hinsdale.
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Gambling Lady (1934) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Gambling Lady
director: Archie Mayo actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Joel McCrea …
other title: L'ultima carta / Franc jeu …
A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks out," leaving tough-minded daughter Lady Lee to earn a living the only way she knows. She soon becomes a success gambling among the rich, but, falling out with the syndicate, she considers the marriage proposal of blueblood Garry Madison. Can such a match work despite snobbery and old associations?
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The Woman in Red (1935) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Woman in Red
director: Robert Florey actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Gene Raymond …
other title: La signora in rosso / La Dame en rouge
A professional equestrian marries a polo player from a once-wealthy family, only to face the scorn of his snobbish relatives. When she becomes entangled in a murder trial, she must choose between protecting her reputation and saving the man she loves.
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Manhandled (1949) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Manhandled
director: Lewis R. Foster actor: Dorothy Lamour / Sterling Hayden …
other title: La traccia del serpente / La maltratada …
Merle Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a private eye and former cop. Merle mentions in passing that one of her boss's patients is an author with recurring dreams of murdering his wife, and she includes the fact that the wife owns valuable jewels. When the wife is found murdered in a manner identical to that of her husband's dream, the husband is naturally the prime suspect. But as the investigation of the police and insurance investigator Joe Cooper proceeds, it turns out that several people in the case, including Merle, are not what they seem.
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Pirates of Monterey (1947) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Pirates of Monterey
director: Alfred L. Werker actor: Maria Montez / Rod Cameron …
other title: Piratas de Monterey / Die Piraten von Monterey …
A woman journeys to Spanish California to marry a Spanish officer, but on the way she meets and falls in love with an American adventurer who is part of a movement to overthrow the Spanish in California.
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The Tattered Dress (1957) [Movie] 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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The Case of the Curious Bride (1935) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
The Case of the Curious Bride
director: Michael Curtiz actor: Warren William / Margaret Lindsay …
other title: El caso de la novia curiosa
After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China. That is, he was, until Rhoda, his old flame, meets him at a restaurant. It seems that her husband Moxley, who had been allegedly dead for four years, is alive and demanding money as she has married into wealth. The case escalates when the police find the body of Moxley and charge her with the murder.
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Jimmy the Gent (1934) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Jimmy the Gent
director: Michael Curtiz actor: James Cagney / Bette Davis …
other title: Ein feiner Herr / A la caza de herederos
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.
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Take Me to Town (1953) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Take Me to Town
director: Douglas Sirk actor: Ann Sheridan / Sterling Hayden …
other title: Portami in città / Eine abenteuerliche Frau …
Saloon entertainer Vermilion O'Toole and her former partner in crime Newt Cole escape from a train ride to prison and hide out in logging town Timberline. Meanwhile, the three sons of widower Will Hall come to town in search of a wife for their dad. Vermilion needs to lay low to escape the marshal, so she accepts the boys' offer to visit pioneer community Pine Grove. Once there, she annoys local Mrs. Grundys but eventually starts to fit in.