Morris Ankrum — Actor (29)
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Naked Gun (1956) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Naked Gun
director: Eddie Dew / Paul Landres actor: Willard Parker / Mara Corday …
Don Pablo Salazar steals a fortune in jewels from an Indian tribe and an Aztec medicine man puts a curse on the jewels until they are returned. Years later, an American insurance man promises to deliver the Salazar fortune to the rightful heir...
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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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Badman's Country (1958) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Badman's Country
director: Fred F. Sears actor: George Montgomery / Neville Brand …
other title: Der Teufel holt sie alle / I tre sceriffi
Pat Garrett arrives in Abilene where he catches five of Butch Cassidy's gang. He calls in Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson and they learn there is a half million dollar shipment of money arriving by train and Cassidy is amassing enough men to take it.
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From the Earth to the Moon (1958) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
From the Earth to the Moon
director: Byron Haskin actor: Joseph Cotten / George Sanders …
other title: Dalla Terra alla Luna / Von der Erde zum Mond …
Set just after the American civil war, businessman and inventor Victor Barbicane invents a new source of power called Power X. He plans to use it to power rockets, and to show its potential he plans to send a projectile to the moon. Joining him for the trip are his assistant Ben Sharpe, Barbicane's arch-rival Stuyvesant Nicholl, and Nicholl's daughter Virginia. Nicholl believes that Power X goes against the will of God and sabotages the projectile so that they cannot return to earth, setting up a suspenseful finale as they battle to repair the projectile.
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Tennessee's Partner (1955) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Tennessee's Partner
director: Allan Dwan actor: John Payne / Ronald Reagan …
other title: La jungla dei temerari / Todesfaust …
A tough, womanizing high-stakes gambler known only as Tennessee has an uneasy relationship with Duchess, madam of a thinly-disguised bordello, and no other friends at all. But he's saved from murder by a lonesome cowpoke ('My friends call me Cowpoke'), in town to meet his fiancée Goldie on the steamboat. When she arrives, there's a mysterious undercurrent between Goldie and Tennessee, whose newfound friendship with Cowpoke is destined to be severely tried...
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Gentle Annie (1944) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Gentle Annie
director: Andrew Marton actor: James Craig / Donna Reed …
The Goss family live on a farm they call the dust bowl where the wind blows during the day and the coyotes howl at night. When the train is robbed, everyone thinks that Cotton and Violet were the ones that did the job, but no one has any proof. US Marshal Lloyd Richland comes into town in disguise to find the truth and he finds that the sheriff is corrupt and that the Goss family is gosh darn nice. They take in Richland and a stranded woman named Mary without any questions. Cotton believes that Sheriff Tatum shot their pa in the back, and the sheriff is now trying to plug the boys. Richland is looking for the train robbers, and at the same time is keeping an eye on Tatum and the lovely young Mary.
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Kronos (1957) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Kronos
director: Kurt Neumann actor: Jeff Morrow / Barbara Lawrence …
other title: Kronos il conquistatore dell'universo / Kronos, le conquérant de l'univers …
Scientists investigate a huge meteor that crashes into the ocean off Mexico, and encounter a skyscraper-tall, mobile machine which is designed to syphon energy from earth, including any energy directed at it in an effort to destroy it.
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Along the Great Divide (1951) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Along the Great Divide
director: Raoul Walsh actor: Kirk Douglas / Virginia Mayo …
other title: Sabbie rosse / Embrutecidos Pela Violência …
US marshal Len Merrick saves Tim Keith from lynching at the hands of the Roden clan, and hopes to get him to Santa Loma for trial. Vindictive Ned Roden, whose son Ed was killed, still wants personal revenge, and Tim would like to escape before Ned catches up with him again. Can the marshal make it across the desert with Tim and his daughter? Even if he makes it, will justice be served?
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Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Tomorrow Is Another Day
director: Felix E. Feist actor: Ruth Roman / Steve Cochran …
other title: Verfolgt / Les Amants du crime …
A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the outside world and escape his lurid past. He gets involved with a cheap dancehall girl, and when her protector is accidentally killed, they go on the lam together, getting jobs as farm labourers. But some fellow workers get wise to them.