Movies by Phyllis Kirk
As part of the cast:
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Bang the Drum Slowly / The Battler (2008)
Cast: Paul Newman, Albert Salmi, Rudy Bond …
Directed by: Arthur Penn
At the beginning of his legendary career, Paul Newman shines in two sports-themed TV movies from the 1950s. In Bang the Drum Slowly, baseball pitcher Henry Wiggen (Newman) keeps secret the…
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The Sad Sack (1957)
Cast: Jerry Lewis, David Wayne, Phyllis Kirk …
Directed by: George Marshall
Jerry Lewis stars as inept soldier Meredith Bixby in this hilarious comedic romp. In spite of his incompetence, Bixby is sent to Morocco on a top-secret assignment after an Army psychiatrist…
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City After Midnight (1957)
Cast: Phyllis Kirk, Dan O'Herlihy, William Franklyn …
Directed by: Compton Bennett
In a French coastal town, Det. Dermot Kinross (Dan O'Herlihy) is inspecting the murder of antiques dealer Maurice Lawes (Wilfrid Hyde-White), and the evidence points to Lawes's son,…
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Canyon Crossroads (1955)
Cast: Richard Basehart, Phyllis Kirk, Stephen Elliott …
Directed by: Alfred L. Werker
Accompanied by a geology professor (Russell Collins) and his daughter (Phyllis Kirk), maligned mining engineer Larry Kendall (Richard Basehart) scours the desert for a valuable mother lode of…
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House of Wax / The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1953)
Cast: Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk …
Directed by: André De Toth
In this spine-tingling film -- one of the first 3D movies ever made -- Vincent Price thrills as Professor Henry Jarrod, the creepy curator of a wax museum who loses his beloved business to a…
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The Man Behind the Gun / Thunder Over the Plains / Riding Shotgun (1953)
Cast: Randolph Scott, Patrice Wymore, Dick Wesson …
Directed by: Felix E. Feist, André De Toth
Randolph Scott saddles up in three classic Westerns. In The Man Behind the Gun, he goes undercover in pre-Civil War California. Thunder Over the Plains has Scott maintaining order in…
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The Iron Mistress (1952)
Cast: Alan Ladd, Virginia Mayo, Joseph Calleia …
Directed by: Gordon Douglas
A thrilling look into the life of fearless frontiersman Jim Bowie (Alan Ladd), this biopic follows the real-life hero's early experiences in New Orleans, doomed relationship with…
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Three Guys Named Mike (1951)
Cast: Van Johnson, Howard Keel, Jane Wyman …
Directed by: Charles Walters
&NFb;&NFb_;Flying high at 30,000 feet, pretty airline stewardess Marcy Lewis (Jane Wyman) is used to fending off flirtatious male passengers. But with three handsome bachelors -- Mike…
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Two Weeks with Love (1950)
Cast: Jane Powell, Ricardo Montalban, Louis Calhern …
Directed by: Roy Rowland
At the turn of the 20th century, teenage Patti Robinson (Jane Powell) vacations with her family in the Catskills. She immediately falls for a dashing musician, Demi (Ricardo Montalban), but…
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Crime Wave / Decoy (1946)
Cast: Gene Nelson, Sterling Hayden, Phyllis Kirk …
Directed by: André De Toth, Jack Bernhard
This film noir twin bill proves the old saw that says crime doesn't pay. At the pushing of a detective (Sterling Hayden), reformed felon Steve Lacey (Gene Nelson) finds himself framing…