Roy Roberts — Actor (24)
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The Cimarron Kid (1952) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Cimarron Kid
director: Budd Boetticher actor: Audie Murphy / Beverly Tyler …
other title: L'ultimo fuorilegge / Flucht vor dem Tode …
Audie Murphy comes into his own as a Western star in this story. Wrongly accused by crooked railroad officials of aiding a train heist by his old friends the Daltons, he joins their gang and becomes an active participant in other robberies. Betrayed by a fellow gang member, Murphy becomes a fugitive in the end. Seeking refuge at the ranch of a reformed gang member, he hopes to flee with the man's daughter to South America, but he's captured in the end and led off to jail. The girl promises to wait.
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Borderline (1950) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Borderline
director: William A. Seiter actor: Fred MacMurray / Claire Trevor …
other title: Guerra di sessi / Jagten til grænsen …
The Los Angeles police know that Pete Ritchie has been bringing drugs into the city, but they can't pin a single piece of evidence on him. After many botched attempts to get at the crook, they resort to having cop Madeleine go undercover and seduce her way into Ritchie's circle. Before she can get anywhere, she's abducted by Johnny, a government agent posing as a thug. But Johnny and Madeleine have no idea they're on the same side of the law.
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Fury at Furnace Creek (1948) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Fury at Furnace Creek
director: H. Bruce Humberstone actor: Victor Mature / Coleen Gray …
other title: L'assalto / Rache ohne Gnade …
The Arizona wilderness, 1880. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell sends a message telling Capt. Walsh, who is escorting a wagon-train through Apache territory, heading for the fort at Furnace Creek, that he should cancel the escort and rush to another town. Apache leader "Little Dog" is leading the attack on the wagon-train and massacring everyone at the poorly manned fort. As a result the treaty is broken with the Indians and the white settlers take over the territory with the help of the cavalry, as the Apaches are wiped out and only "Little Dog" remains at large. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell is court-martial-led for treason.
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Wyoming Mail (1950) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Wyoming Mail
director: Reginald Le Borg actor: Stephen McNally / Alexis Smith …
other title: L'assalto al treno postale / Gefährliche Mission …
In 1869, the United States begins a railroad mail service to the West Coast which proves highly tempting to train robbers, in particular an organized gang with one of the mail's supposed guardians in their pay. Prizefighter Steve Davis, a former army intelligence man, is hired to track down the gang and save the Territorial Mail Service. Steve goes undercover in territorial prison, leans Morse Code from a fellow prisoner, breaks jail, infiltrates the gang...and finds time to romance dance-hall singer Mary, who proves to have hidden depths...
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The Glory Brigade (1953) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Glory Brigade
director: Robert D. Webb actor: Victor Mature / Alexander Scourby …
other title: Brigata di fuoco / La Brigade glorieuse
During the Korean War Lt. Sam Pryor volunteers his platoon to escort Greek troops to perform a reconnaissance mission behind Communist lines. Due to his Greek heritage Pryor is initially proud to accompany the Greek contingent but his feelings change to scorn and mistrust when what he believes is cowardice shown by the Greek soldiers and their leaders results in the near annihiliation of his own platoon. An uneasy alliance is maintained between the US and Greek troops as the enemy's true objective is learned.
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Hoodlum Empire (1952) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Hoodlum Empire
director: Joseph Kane actor: Brian Donlevy / Claire Trevor …
other title: L'impero dei gangster / Mördersyndikat San Francisco …
It's a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain's top gun goes straight and threatens to testify against the big boss and his cruel, nationwide network of crime. The picture, which was shot in a semi-documentary style, was inspired by the Kefauver investigations of 1950-51.
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Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Miss Grant Takes Richmond
director: Lloyd Bacon actor: Lucille Ball / William Holden …
other title: Segretaria tutto fare / Miss Grain de sel
A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.
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Dawn at Socorro (1954) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Dawn at Socorro
director: George Sherman actor: Rory Calhoun / Piper Laurie …
other title: Alba di fuoco / Duell in Sokorro …
Brett Wade, gambler, gunslinger, and classical pianist, is wounded in a gunfight with the Ferris clan; the doctor finds signs of tuberculosis. En route to Colorado for his health, Brett stops in Socorro, New Mexico along with Ferris gunfighter Jimmy Rapp. Sheriff Couthen fears another shootout, but what Brett has in mind is saving waif-with-a-past Rannah Hayes from a life as one of Dick Braden's saloon girls.
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A Kiss for Corliss (1949) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
A Kiss for Corliss
director: Richard Wallace actor: Shirley Temple / David Niven …
other title: Un bacio per Corliss / Almost a Bride …
After a brief encounter with the romantic and thrice divorced Kenneth Marquis, Corliss Archer decides to write in her diary that they are together in order to make her boyfriend Dexter jealous. Corliss' father had also served as attorney representing Kenneth Marquis' ex-wife during his most recent divorce trial. When Corliss and Dexter don't come home one evening until five in the morning, Corliss decides to pretend to have amnesia to avoid the inevitable punishment awaiting her.
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The Man with a Cloak (1951) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Man with a Cloak
director: Fletcher Markle actor: Joseph Cotten / Barbara Stanwyck …
other title: La casa del corvo / Der Mann in Schwarz …
Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals. The alcoholic man is badly crippled and slowly dying, but this doesn't stop the forthright lady from pushing him to change his will to include his estranged grandson so that he can help out the struggling French Republic. Unfortunately, the dying man's conniving housekeeper and butler, already planning murder to get the money themselves, overhear her and begin plotting her demise.
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Big House, U.S.A (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Big House, U.S.A
director: Howard W. Koch actor: Broderick Crawford / Ralph Meeker …
other title: Blutgeld / Le Pacte des tueurs …
A tough and realistic crime drama unfolds as merciless kidnapper Jerry Barker (Ralph Meeker) demands ransom paid against a young runaway whose fate lands Barker in Casabel Island Prison.
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Chain Lightning (1950) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Chain Lightning
director: Stuart Heisler actor: Humphrey Bogart / Eleanor Parker …
other title: Assalto al cielo / Des Teufels Pilot …
Former World War II flying ace Matt Brennan takes a position as a test pilot for a commercial aircraft corporation and bumps into his old girlfriend, Jo Holloway, who now works as a receptionist for the company.
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The King and Four Queens (1956) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The King and Four Queens
director: Raoul Walsh actor: Clark Gable / Eleanor Parker …
other title: Un re per quattro regine / Esse Homem é Meu …
Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to find their hidden gold.
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Behind Green Lights (1946) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Behind Green Lights
director: Otto Brower actor: Carole Landis / William Gargan …
other title: Precinct 33
An unscrupulous private investigator with a penchant for blackmail is found dead in a car and the leading suspect is Janet Bradley, the daughter of a mayoral candidate. With the election just weeks away, shady and ruthless individuals muscle the medical officer into switching the corpse with another body. Lieutenant Sam Carson, one of the few good apples in the bunch must find a way to get to the bottom of it all.