Brian Donlevy — Actor (46)
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Union Pacific (1939) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Union Pacific
director: Cecil B. DeMille actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Joel McCrea …
other title: La via dei giganti / Pacific Express …
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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Barbary Coast (1935) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Barbary Coast
director: Howard Hawks actor: Miriam Hopkins / Edward G. Robinson …
other title: La costa dei barbari / Cidade Sem Lei …
Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s. She falls in love with miner Jim Carmichael and takes his gold dust at the wheel. She goes after him, Chamalis goes after her with intent to harm Carmichael.
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In Old Chicago (1938) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
In Old Chicago
director: Henry King actor: Tyrone Power / Alice Faye …
other title: L'incendio di Chicago / No Velho Chicago …
The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
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Shakedown (1950) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Shakedown
director: Joseph Pevney actor: Howard Duff / Brian Donlevy …
other title: Jack il ricattatore / Ohne Skrupel
Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.
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The Great McGinty (1940) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Great McGinty
director: Preston Sturges actor: Brian Donlevy / Muriel Angelus …
other title: Il grande McGinty / Der große McGinty …
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
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Fighting Coast Guard (1951) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Fighting Coast Guard
director: Joseph Kane actor: Brian Donlevy / Forrest Tucker …
other title: Alerte aux garde-côtes / Hombres de combate …
Story of how the Coast Guard trained to help win World War II.
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Kiss of Death (1947) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Kiss of Death
director: Henry Hathaway actor: Victor Mature / Brian Donlevy …
other title: Il bacio della morte / Dødskysset …
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
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Destry Rides Again (1939) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB NeoDB Douban
Destry Rides Again
director: George Marshall actor: James Stewart / Marlene Dietrich …
other title: Partita d'azzardo / A Cidade Turbulenta …
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.
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Curse of the Fly (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Curse of the Fly
director: Don Sharp actor: Brian Donlevy / George Baker …
other title: La maledizione della mosca / Der Fluch der Fliege …
The son of the inventor of a matter-transporter, which turned him into a monster when he tried to transport himself along with a tiny housefly, continues to pursue his father's experiment, while his own two sons attempt to extricate him, themselves and the family name from further disaster and scandal.
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Pit Stop (1969) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Pit Stop
director: Jack Hill actor: Brian Donlevy / Richard Davalos …
Rick Bowman, a drag racing street punk, comes to the attention of crafty businessman Grant Willard. Willard bails him out of jail and offers him sponsorship as a stock car driver. Bowman accepts and enters the demolition derby-adjacent world of "figure eight" racing. As Bowman moves up in the ranks, his regard for his friends slips-- giving way to outright obsession with becoming the best.