Movies by Dean Jagger
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Alligator (1980)
Cast: Jack Carter, Robert Forster, Dean Jagger …
Directed by: Lewis Teague
Twelve years ago, a pet alligator was set free in the Chicago sewers, where it fed on the bodies of dogs used in genetic experiments. Now, the mutated reptile is on a feeding spree. Cop David…
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Gideon's Trumpet (1980)
Cast: Henry Fonda, John Houseman, Fay Wray …
Directed by: Robert E. Collins
Oscar-winning actor Henry Fonda stars in this Emmy-nominated Hallmark Hall of Fame drama based on Anthony Lewis's book by the same name, the true story of one man's fight for the…
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The Game of Death (1978)
Cast: Bruce Lee, Colleen Camp, Dean Jagger …
Directed by: Robert Clouse
Martial arts icon Bruce Lee made his final film appearance in this action-packed tale of Billy Lo, a champion fighter and movie star who must fake his death to escape and then expose the…
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End of the World (1977)
Cast: Kirk Scott, Sue Lyon, Christopher Lee …
Directed by: John Hayes
In this sci-fi thriller from 1977, Dr. Andrew Boran (Kirk Scott) receives messages from outer space that accurately predict natural disasters all over the globe. When he and his wife, Sylvia…
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Redneck County (1974)
Cast: Scott McKenzie, Robert Ridgely, Willie Jones …
Directed by: Harry Thomason
In this action-packed Southern-fried romp, New Yorker Malcolm (Scott McKenzie) and his smart-aleck sidekick (Willie Jones) befriend hammy, moonshine-running biplane pilot Lester Boggs (Robert…
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The Hanged Man (1974)
Cast: Steve Forrest, William Bryant, Dean Jagger …
Directed by: Michael Caffey
Gunslinger James Devlin (Steve Forrest) is wrongfully convicted of murder and, after miraculously surviving the noose, turns into a Wild West avenger with psychic powers. Bent on helping…
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Glass House (1972)
Cast: Vic Morrow, Billy Dee Williams, Alan Alda …
Directed by: Tom Gries
After accidentally killing a man in self-defense, college professor Jonathan Paige (Alan Alda) gets sent to a maximum-security prison where he faces his worst nightmare, suffering gang…
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Vanishing Point (1971)
Cast: Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Dean Jagger …
Directed by: Richard C. Sarafian
In this classic among "car chase" movies, notable for its on-location shots filmed in the American Southwest, James Kowalski (Barry Newman) works for a car delivery service and agrees to…
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Fire Creek (1968)
Cast: James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens …
Directed by: Vincent McEveety
When a gang of vicious outlaws torments the residents of Firecreek, only Johnny Cobb (James Stewart) is willing to don the sheriff's star and save the beleaguered townspeople from harm.…
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Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
Cast: Doris Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante …
Directed by: Charles Walters
Circus owner Pop Wonder (Jimmy Durante) and his daughter, Kitty (Doris Day), try to save their beloved business from foreclosure in this musical. Pop and Kitty rely on aerialist Sam (Stephen…
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The Twilight Zone: Vol. 35 (1961)
Cast: Theodore Bikel, Dean Jagger, Steve Forrest …
Directed by: William Asher, Jus Addiss
Creator Rod Serling's long-running, Emmy-winning television series brought science fiction to the masses. Viewers enjoyed the twisted, often-humorous mysteries as well as the show's…
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Parrish (1961)
Cast: Troy Donahue, Claudette Colbert, Karl Malden …
Directed by: Delmer Daves
After moving to a Connecticut farming community with his mother (Claudette Colbert), young Parrish McLean (Troy Donahue) becomes embroiled in a feud involving ruthless tobacco tycoon Judd…
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Elmer Gantry (1960)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy …
Directed by: Richard Brooks
Hollywood legend Burt Lancaster nabbed a Best Actor Oscar as glad-handing, soul-redeeming charlatan Elmer Gantry, a huckster who spins his talent for preaching into a métier behind the…
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The Nun's Story (1959)
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans …
Directed by: Fred Zinnemann
This moving religious drama stars Audrey Hepburn (who won a BAFTA Award) in a range-stretching performance as the young postulant Sister Luke. Assigned to a hospital in the Belgian Congo, the…
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Cash McCall (1959)
Cast: James Garner, Natalie Wood, Nina Foch …
Directed by: Joseph Pevney
As he prepares to acquire a struggling plastics company, wealthy financier Cash McCall (James Garner) confesses his love for beautiful and outspoken Lory Austen (Natalie Wood), whose father…
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King Creole (1958)
Cast: Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, Walter Matthau …
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Elvis Presley stars as Danny Fisher, a naive but talented nightclub singer whose climb to the top takes a dangerous detour when he gets tangled with the New Orleans mob. Walter Matthau is…
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Forty Guns (1957)
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger …
Directed by: Samuel Fuller
In 1881 Cochise County, Ariz., cattle queen Jessica Drummond (Barbara Stanwyck) makes all the rules, with backing from her personal band of hired guns. Enter the illustrious Bonnell brothers…
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X the Unknown (1956)
Cast: Dean Jagger, Edward Chapman, Leo McKern …
Directed by: Leslie Norman
A squad of British commandos returns from a covert mission suffering from mysterious symptoms and horrific burns. Dr. Adam Royston (Dean Jagger), an atomic scientist, suspects lethal…
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White Christmas (1954)
Cast: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney …
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye play war buddies turned entertainers who fall for two sisters. The boys follow the girls to a resort owned by their former commanding officer, and he's in…
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Bad Day at Black Rock (1954)
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis …
Directed by: John Sturges
When John J. Macreedy (Spencer Tracy) steps off the train at the backwater hamlet of Black Rock, he inadvertently opens a Pandora's box of fear and suspicion. He's there to deliver…
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Executive Suite (1954)
Cast: Robert Wise, William Holden, June Allyson …
A company president dies, leaving his daughter Julia (Barbara Stanwyck) to choose a successor from five candidates. The motivations, strengths and flaws of each emerge as they vie for the…
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Private Hell 36 (1954)
Cast: Ida Lupino, Steve Cochran, Howard Duff …
Directed by: Don Siegel
Two Los Angeles police detectives, Cal (Steve Cochran) and Jack (Howard Duff), find themselves in too deep when they come across a large sum of stolen money, and Cal decides to pocket a third…
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The Robe (1953)
Cast: Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature …
Directed by: Henry Koster
Hardened Roman Marcellus Gallio (Richard Burton) oversees the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in Jerusalem. But problems arise when Marcellus wins Christ's robe in a dice game, played…
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My Son John (1952)
Cast: Helen Hayes, Van Heflin, Dean Jagger …
Directed by: Leo McCarey
Is he or isn't he? Following criticism of her religious views and her husband's (Dean Jagger) patriotism, upon suspicion, Lucille Jefferson (Helen Hayes) follows her arrogant son,…
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Denver and Rio Grande (1952)
Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Sterling Hayden, Dean Jagger …
Directed by: Byron Haskin
In this classic trains-and-guns frontier drama, railway construction boss Jim Vesser (Edmond O'Brien) takes on merciless adversary McCabe (Sterling Hayden) in a race to complete the…
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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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Dark City (1950)
Cast: Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Viveca Lindfors …
Directed by: William Dieterle
Bad luck begets bad blood when desperate GI Arthur Winant (Don DeFore) gets taken by grifter Danny Haley (Charlton Heston) and his cronies and hangs himself, launching unseen brother Sidney…
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Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
Cast: Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill …
Directed by: Henry King
Hard-as-nails World War II Gen. Frank Savage (Gregory Peck) must turn a discouraged group of American bomber pilots into heroes. Along the way, the once-alienated general comes to view the…
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Pursued (1947)
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Judith Anderson …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
This Western drama tells the story of two families, the Rands and the Callums, who have a long-standing rivalry. When a Callum kills all the Rands save one -- a boy the Callums adopt and…
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Driftwood (1947)
Cast: Ruth Warrick, Walter Brennan, Dean Jagger …
Directed by: Allan Dwan
After young orphan Jenny Hollingsworth (Natalie Wood) loses her only relative, the sheriff asks Dr. Steve Webster (Dean Jagger) to look after her temporarily, although Steve's…
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World War II Movies: The North Star / Commandos / Five for Hell (1943)
Cast: Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston …
Directed by: Lewis Milestone, Armando Crispino, Frank Kramer …
This three-pack of movies set against the backdrop of World War II offers a taste of military history with a healthy dose of fiction. A tiny Russian village is invaded by German troops in The…
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Brigham Young (1940)
Cast: Dean Jagger, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell …
Directed by: Henry Hathaway
This Henry Hathaway-directed drama examines how the Mormons settled in what would become Salt Lake City, now the home base of their church. Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell play two of the…
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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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Fright Night Horror Classics: Vol. 3: Revolt of the Zombies (1936)
Cast: Dean Jagger, Robert Noland, Dorothy Stone …
Directed by: Victor Halperin
Part of an international expedition sent to Cambodia to uncover, then destroy, a tribal secret for turning humans into zombies, Armand Louque (Dean Jagger) instead steals the secret and…
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King of the Zombies / Revolt of the Zombies (1936)
Cast: Dick Purcell, Joan Woodbury, Mantan Moreland …
Directed by: Jean Yarbrough, Victor Halperin
How's this for a unique twist: In King of the Zombies, zombies stagger around on a tropical island, the creations of a mad doctor who hopes to use them in World War II as the ultimate…
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The Cowboy Creed (1936)
Cast: Alan Ladd, Olivia de Havilland, Dean Jagger …
Directed by: Michael Curtiz, Joseph Kane, B. Reeves Eason …
Cowboy stars of yore uphold the code of the Old West in this collection of classic oaters. In Man of the Frontier (1936), Gene Autry pursues the varmint who keeps trying to blow up a new…
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Wings in the Dark / Big Brown Eyes (1935)
Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Bennett, Walter Pidgeon …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh, James Flood
Silver-screen icon Cary Grant is doubly dashing in this vintage pair of romances: Wings in the Dark (1935), in which Grant plays a blinded pilot; and Big Brown Eyes (1936), in which he's…