Movies by Wallace Ford
As part of the cast:
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A Patch of Blue (1965)
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Elizabeth Hartman, Shelley Winters …
Directed by: Guy Green
Gordon Ralfe (Sidney Poitier), a handsome, hard-working black man, befriends Selina (Elizabeth Hartman, who received an Oscar nod), a blind white girl, and he introduces her to a whole new…
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Warlock (1959)
Cast: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn …
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
The mining town of Warlock hires a gunfighter named Clay (Henry Fonda) and his sidekick (Anthony Quinn) to clean up the streets and restore order, but the townsfolk have second thoughts about…
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The Matchmaker (1958)
Cast: Shirley Booth, Anthony Perkins, Shirley MacLaine …
Directed by: Joseph Anthony
Although matchmaker Dolly (Shirley Booth) is trying to get Horace (Paul Ford) and Irene (Shirley MacLaine) together, she wishes she could have Horace for herself. On the other side of town,…
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Bat Masterson / The Deputy (1958)
Cast: Gene Barry, Henry Fonda, Allen Case …
Law and order prevail in the Wild West in these four episodes from two classic television series. In "Bat Masterson," the title character (played by Gene Barry) roams across the untamed…
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Stagecoach to Fury (1956)
Cast: Forrest Tucker, Mari Blanchard, Paul Fix …
Directed by: William F. Claxton
When Mexican bandits hold up a stagecoach and find there's no gold on board, they keep the passengers hostage until the next coach arrives. As they all wait nervously, cavalry officer…
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The Rainmaker (1956)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn, Wendell Corey …
Directed by: Joseph Anthony
Flimflamming his way through the drought-plagued Southwest, Bill Starbuck (Burt Lancaster) promises -- for $100 -- to bring rain to farmer H.C. Curry (Cameron Prud'Homme). But…
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Thunder Over Arizona (1956)
Cast: Skip Homeier, Kristine Miller, George Macready …
Directed by: Joseph Kane
When laid-back cowboy Tim Mallory (Skip Homeier) is mistaken for an infamous gunslinger, he becomes involved with a shady mayor and other corrupt officials intent on seizing a lucrative local…
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The First Texan (1956)
Cast: Joel McCrea, Felicia Farr, Jeff Morrow …
Directed by: Byron Haskin
Lawyer Sam Houston (Joel McCrea) comes to Texas hoping to start a new life, one free of politics and scandal, but fate and an order from President Jackson end up turning him into a hero and…
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The Man from Laramie (1955)
Cast: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp …
Directed by: Anthony Mann
A former Army scout (Jimmy Stewart) is out for revenge, tracking the person responsible for his brother's death. He knows the guilty party sold guns to a tribe of Apaches -- who…
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A Lawless Street (1955)
Cast: Randolph Scott, Angela Lansbury, Warner Anderson …
Directed by: Joseph H. Lewis
Hardworking Marshall Calem Ware (Randolph Scott) is torn between ridding the town of bad guys and saving his troubled marriage in this classic Western. Ware's estranged wife, Tally…
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Wichita (1955)
Cast: Joel McCrea, Vera Miles, Lloyd Bridges …
Directed by: Jacques Tourneur
Gunman Wyatt Earp (Joel McCrea) tries his hand at law and order in a booming cow town in director Jacques Tourneur's intriguing take on a slice of Wild West history. When Wichita's…
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Lucy Gallant (1955)
Cast: Jane Wyman, Charlton Heston, Claire Trevor …
Directed by: Robert Parrish
After cosmopolitan New Yorker Lucy Gallant (Jane Wyman) is left at the altar, she lands in a Texas boom town where she sells her trousseau to the local ladies and opens a dress shop, even…
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Destry (1954)
Cast: Audie Murphy, Mari Blanchard, Lyle Bettger …
Directed by: George Marshall
Audie Murphy stars in this reprise of a well-worn Western tale as a peaceful man forced by fate to strap on his shooting irons and seek justice. When hired gunmen kill Tom Destry's best…
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Ape Man / The Gorilla / White Zombie (1952)
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, Madge Bellamy …
Directed by: Victor Halperin, William Beaudine
In Ape Man, Bela Lugosi stars as a scientist who turns into a hairy beast. In his next film, Lugosi plays the butler of a man threatened by a killer called the Gorilla. And as a witch doctor…
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Warpath (1951)
Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Dean Jagger, Forrest Tucker …
Directed by: Byron Haskin
In this action-packed classic Western, cowboy John Vickers (Edmond O'Brien) swears he'll seek vengeance on the three men who murdered his beloved fiancée. After killing the first…
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The Furies (1950)
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Walter Huston …
Directed by: Anthony Mann
Fiery ranch owner T.C. Jeffords (Walter Huston, in his final role) incurs the wrath of his feisty daughter Vance (Barbara Stanwyck) when he gets engaged to rich socialite Flo Burnett (Judith…
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The Set-Up (1949)
Cast: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias …
Directed by: Robert Wise
Robert Wise directs film noir icons Robert Ryan and Audrey Totter in this gripping thriller set in boxing's palooka world. The film tells the story of a down-on-his luck fighter who…
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T-Men (1947)
Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, Mary Meade, Alfred Ryder …
Directed by: Anthony Mann
Undercover Treasury agents Dennis O'Brien (Dennis O'Keefe) and Tony Genaro (Alfred Ryder) go after the mob in Anthony Mann's brutally realistic film noir. After an agent…
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Dead Reckoning (1947)
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky …
Directed by: John Cromwell
Humphrey Bogart stars as Rip Murdock, a World War II veteran ensnared in a web of crime and conspiracy when his best friend, Johnny Drake (William Prince), disappears en route to Washington,…
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Magic Town (1947)
Cast: James Stewart, Jane Wyman, Kent Smith …
Directed by: William A. Wellman
A public-opinion pollster (James Stewart) thinks he's struck gold when he stumbles upon the "magic town" of Grandview, a place where residents' opinions mirror the nation's as…
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Black Angel (1946)
Cast: Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre …
Directed by: Roy William Neill
A lopsided couple, Catherine (June Vincent) and Martin (Dan Duryea), turn into amateur sleuths when they launch an investigation to prove that Catherine's incarcerated husband (John…
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Spellbound (1945)
Cast: John Emery, Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck …
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Dr. Edwards (Gregory Peck) arrives at the Green Manors Mental Asylum and falls for the beautiful Dr. Petersen (Ingrid Bergman). But she discovers that he's a paranoid amnesiac impostor,…
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Hollywood Tough Guys #2: Blood on the Sun (1945)
Cast: James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Porter Hall …
Directed by: Frank Lloyd
James Cagney gets to demonstrate his jujitsu skills in this World War II propaganda film that tells the true story of Nick Condon (Cagney), an American newspaper editor in prewar Imperialist…
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Machine Gun Mama (1944)
Cast: Armida, El Brendel, Wallace Ford …
Directed by: Harold Young
Absurd "slapschtick" and old-fashioned farce collide when two ex-Brooklynites, John O'Reilly (Wallace Ford) and Ollie Swenson (El Brendel), take it on the lam to Mexico to escape…
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Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Cast: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey …
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
In trademark style, master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock directs this taut and chilling tale about Charlie (Teresa Wright), a small-town girl consumed with finding out whether her unhinged…
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The Ape Man (1943)
Cast: Wallace Ford, Bela Lugosi, Louise Currie …
Directed by: William Beaudine
While experimenting on his own body with spinal fluid from a gorilla, Dr. James Brewster (Bela Lugosi) accidentally turns himself into a hairy ape-man. The only way for Brewster to return to…
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All Through the Night (1942)
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Kaaren Verne …
Directed by: Vincent Sherman
Talk about your weird coincidences: When grinning gambler Gloves Donahue (Humphrey Bogart) pays a call on a bakery to find out what's holding up his cheesecake delivery, he stumbles on a…
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Inside the Law (1942)
Cast: Wallace Ford, Luana Walters
Directed by: Hamilton MacFadden
Picking the pockets of a stranger gives a clever thief (Wallace Ford) easy access to a bank stuffed with cash, and now he's working on the inside as the bank's manager -- with plans…
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Blues in the Night (1941)
Cast: Priscilla Lane, Betty Field, Richard Whorf …
Directed by: Anatole Litvak
Jigger Pine (Richard Whorf) and his traveling jazz band face rejection, alcoholism, heartbreak and tragedy as they try to make it big -- with a little help from a gangster who books them at…
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Murder by Invitation (1941)
Cast: Wallace Ford, Marian Marsh, Sarah Padden …
Directed by: Phil Rosen
Millionaire spinster Cassandra "Cassie" Denham (Sarah Padden) invites a crazy collection of friends and relatives to her mansion for a reading of her will. But when the guests start dropping…
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The Mummy's Hand / The Mummy's Tomb (1940)
Cast: Dick Foran, George Zucco, Harold Young …
Directed by: Christy Cabanne, Harold Young
In The Mummy's Hand, an expedition of archaeologists travels to Egypt in search of the undiscovered tomb of the princess Ananka -- a trip that turns to horror when they find the tomb…
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The Mummy's Hand (1940)
Cast: Dick Foran, Peggy Moran, Wallace Ford …
Directed by: Christy Cabanne
Archaeologists Steve Banning (Dick Foran) and Babe Jenson (Wallace Ford) are determined to find the tomb of Princess Ananka. But equally resolved to stop them is museum curator professor…
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Love, Honor & Oh-Baby! (1940)
Cast: Donald Woods, Kathryn Adams, Wallace Ford …
Directed by: Charles Lamont
After his gal pal ditches him, distraught author Brian McGrath (Donald Woods) decides he no longer wants to live and pays a hit man to bump him off. But before the job can be carried out,…
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Isle of Destiny (1940)
Cast: William Gargan, Wallace Ford, Gilbert Roland …
Directed by: Elmer Clifton
In this vintage action-adventure, Virginia Allerton's (June Lang) plane crashes on an isolated south sea island, gun-runner Barton (Gilbert Roland) kidnaps the famous aviatrix and…
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Backdoor to Heaven (1939)
Cast: William Harrigan, Jane Seymour, Robert Wildhack …
Directed by: William Howard
Young Frankie Rogers (Jimmy Lydon) hasn't had many breaks in life in this painful drama by William K. Howard. For one, his father is an alcoholic, and his mother is his father's…
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Exiled to Shanghai (1937)
Cast: Wallace Ford, June Travis, Dean Jagger …
Directed by: Nick Grinde, Armand Schaefer
After bungling an assignment during the Spanish Civil War, newsreel cameraman Ted Young (Wallace Ford) is fired by his cantankerous boss, Charlie Sears (Dean Jagger). But when Ted…
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Swing It, Sailor (1937)
Cast: Wallace Ford, Ray Mayer, Isabel Jewell …
The strongest sailor in the Navy, Husky Stone (Ray Mayer) starts hunting for a wife and finds a game prospect in the form of dizzy blonde Myrtle Montrose (Isabel Jewell). But Husky's…
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The Rogues Tavern (1936)
Cast: Wallace Ford, Barbara Pepper, Clara Kimball Young …
When detective Jimmy Kelly (Wallace Ford) and his fiancée, Marjorie (Barbara Pepper), check into a secluded inn and stumble upon a double murder involving dead bodies covered in animal…
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Mysterious Mr. Wong (1935)
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, Arline Judge …
Directed by: William Nigh
In this campy favorite from the 1930s, Bela Lugosi plays Mr. Wong, a Chinatown shopkeeper who doesn't mind resorting to murder to complete his collection of the Twelve Coins of Confucius…
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The Informer (1935)
Cast: Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster …
Directed by: John Ford
Victor McLaglen delivers a harrowing performance as Gypo Nolan, a roistering brute during Ireland's 1922 Sinn Fein uprising, who fingers friend Frankie McPhillip (Wallace Ford) to…
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One Frightened Night (1935)
Cast: Wallace Ford, Regis Toomey, Hedda Hopper …
Directed by: Christy Cabanne
On the verge of bequeathing his entire fortune to his relatives and servants, millionaire Jasper (Charley Grapewin) changes his mind upon being introduced to two women, who both claim to be…
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The Nut Farm (1935)
Cast: Wallace Ford, Oscar Apfel, Betty Alden …
Directed by: Melville W. Brown
After selling their mom-and-pop drugstore to a bigger chain for beaucoup bucks, spouses Bob (Oscar Apfel) and Helen Bent (Betty Alden) use the cash to pursue two very different passions: he…
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The Lost Patrol (1934)
Cast: Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford …
Directed by: John Ford
Set in the Mesopotamian desert during World War I, John Ford's remake tells the struggles of a British cavalry sergeant (Victor McLaglen) and his troops. After the unit's commander…
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Money Means Nothing (1934)
Cast: Wallace Ford, Gloria Shea, Edgar Kennedy …
Directed by: Christy Cabanne
Love is blind, or so it's been said. And at first, that's how it appears to be for the affluent Julie (Gloria Shea), who marries the poverty-ridden Kenneth (Wallace Ford), even if…
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Three-Cornered Moon / Maid of Salem (1933)
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Richard Arlen, Mary Boland …
Directed by: Elliott Nugent, Frank Lloyd
From the Universal vaults come two films from the Claudette Colbert Collection that showcase the legendary screen siren in both her beloved screwball comedic persona (Three-Cornered Moon) and…
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Freaks (1932)
Cast: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova …
Directed by: Tod Browning
Director Tod Browning cast authentic circus folk, not actors, in this Greek tragedy about sideshow "freaks." Normal-sized trapeze artist Cleopatra (Olga Baclanova) marries diminutive Hans…