Movies by Alan Ladd
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Interview the Best (2008)
Cast: Alan Ladd
Employee recruiter Alan Ladd leads you through this comprehensive video designed to help you master the art of interviewing and land your dream job by creating an effective…
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The Best of Film Noir (1999)
Cast: Lana Turner, Cary Grant, Orson Welles …
Tough-talking private investigators meet melodramatic dames in this documentary about the film noir genre of the 1940s and '50s. Jeffrey Wells discusses the history of the genre, and…
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Hollywood Musicals of the '40s (1999)
Cast: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra …
Celebrate the great Hollywood musicals of the 1940s with this retrospective made up of movie clips, trailers and behind-the-scenes footage. Betty Grable, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Fred…
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
Cast: Steve Martin, Humphrey Bogart, Rachel Ward …
Directed by: Carl Reiner
Gumshoe Rigby Reardon (Steve Martin) takes on the case of a missing cheese maker/scientist when the man's shapely daughter, Juliet Forrest (Rachel Ward), hires the detective to…
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The Carpetbaggers (1964)
Cast: George Peppard, Alan Ladd, Robert Cummings …
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
This 1964 blockbuster, based on Harold Robbins's best-selling novel and loosely based on Howard Hughes's life, chronicles the financial rise and moral descent of half-cocked…
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Duel of the Champions (1961)
Cast: Alan Ladd, Terence Young
Directed by: Ferdinando Baldi, Franco Fabrizi
After being captured and given up for dead by his family, Roman nobleman and military leader Horatio (Alan Ladd) manages to escape and begin his journey home. Along the way, he must battle…
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The Man in the Net (1959)
Cast: Alan Ladd, Carolyn Jones, Diane Brewster …
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
This powerful drama from director Michael Curtiz stars Alan Ladd as John Hamilton, an artist whose alcoholic, unstable wife, Linda (Carolyn Jones), publicly humiliates him and then disappears…
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The Badlanders (1958)
Cast: Alan Ladd, Ernest Borgnine, Katy Jurado …
Directed by: Delmer Daves
Alan Ladd and Ernest Borgnine star as Peter Van Hook and John McBain, two ex-convicts who conspire with a prostitute (Katy Jurado) and an explosives expert (Nehemiah Persoff) to steal a…
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Saskatchewan (1954)
Cast: Alan Ladd, Shelley Winters, J. Carrol Naish …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
After rising up against his superior, Thomas O'Rourke (Alan Ladd) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police leads his men and their cache of confiscated weapons to a safer spot in the…
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Shane (1953)
Cast: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin …
Directed by: George Stevens
Amid stunning vistas, this Oscar-winning Western from director George Stevens follows a reformed gunslinger whose determination to avoid a fight is tested when greedy cattle barons threaten…
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Botany Bay (1953)
Cast: Alan Ladd, James Mason, Patricia Medina …
Directed by: John Farrow
Based on the story of Australia's colonization, this atmospheric drama stars Alan Ladd as Hugh Tallant, an American medical student falsely convicted of robbery and sent on a torturous…
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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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Thunder in the East (1952)
Cast: Alan Ladd, Deborah Kerr, Charles Boyer …
Directed by: Charles Vidor
As India is in the midst of civil war, American Steve Gibbs (Alan Ladd) attempts to sell a stockpile of arms to the maharaja to fend off the rebels, despite opposition from pacifist Prime…
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Appointment with Danger (1951)
Cast: Alan Ladd, Phyllis Calvert, Paul Steward …
Directed by: Lewis Allen
This hardboiled crime story stars stoic noir staple Alan Ladd as Al Goddard, a special investigator sent to Gary, Ind., to solve a postal detective's murder and track down the sole…
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Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950)
Cast: Alan Ladd, Wanda Hendrix, Francis Lederer …
Directed by: Mitchell Leisen
Webb Carey (Alan Ladd), a former U.S. agent, returns to Italy after World War II to find out who betrayed his team on its last mission and to avenge the death of the resistance worker he…
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Branded (1950)
Cast: Alan Ladd, Mona Freeman, Charles Bickford …
Directed by: Rudolph Maté
Alan Ladd stars as Choya, an outsider who snakes his way into an affluent Texas family by pretending he's the son they never knew. Surprised by how he's welcomed with open arms, he…
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Whispering Smith (1948)
Cast: Alan Ladd, Robert Preston, Brenda Marshall …
Directed by: Leslie Fenton
A railroad officer finds his convictions tested when an old friend loses his job and starts disrupting the trains out of rage. But his growing feelings for his friend's estranged wife…
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My Favorite Blonde / Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)
Cast: Bob Hope, Madeleine Carroll, Gale Sondergaard …
Directed by: Sidney Lanfield, George Marshall
Bob Hope pops up alongside some of Hollywood's biggest stars in this pair of Paramount comedies. In My Favorite Blonde (1942), a good-natured entertainer (Hope) finds himself caught up…
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This Gun for Hire (1942)
Cast: Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar …
Directed by: Frank Tuttle
Phillip Raven (Alan Ladd) is an assassin whose latest murder assignment is paid for with counterfeit money by turncoat Willard Gates. Ellen Graham (Veronica Lake), an entertainer and the…
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Citizen Kane (1941)
Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore …
Directed by: Orson Welles
Orson Welles reinvented movies at the age of 26 with this audacious biography of newspaper baron Charles Foster Kane, which, in essence, was a thinly veiled portrait of publishing magnate…
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Gangs, Inc. (1941)
Cast: Lash La Rue, Alan Ladd, Gavin Gordon …
Directed by: Phil Rosen
Tasked with bringing down notorious mobster Mickey Roman (Jack La Rue), undercover cop Bob Elliott (John Archer) enlists the help of vengeful female ex-con Rita Adams (Joan Woodbury) and…
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Gangs Incorporated (1941)
Cast: Joan Woodbury, Jack LaRue, John Archer …
Directed by: Phil Rosen
A young innocent girl goes to jail to shield her boyfriend. She vows revenge against the boyfriend's wealthy father and eventually goes on to become queen of a vast syndicate of mobsters.
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Great Guns (1941)
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Sheila Ryan …
Directed by: Monty Banks
In this madcap comedy from director Monty Banks, stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy join the Army to protect their rich cosseted master, Dan Forrester (Dick Nelson), who's just been…
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Classic Ski Films: The Basic Principles of Skiing (1941)
Cast: Alan Ladd
After starting out as a ski instructor to A-list celebrities like Gary Cooper, Groucho Marx and 20th Century Fox's Darryl Zanuck, Otto Lang took Zanuck's advice and began to make…
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The Black Cat (1941)
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford …
Directed by: Albert S. Rogell
Murder's afoot after wealthy matron Henrietta (Cecilia Loftus) dies, leaving her fortune to her collection of cats in this classic whodunit with a cast of characters dying to get their…
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World War II: Homefront: Vol. 1 (1941)
Cast: James Stewart, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Ladd …
Hollywood's biggest stars show their patriotism in this collection of World War II-era shorts designed to rally America's workers. Titles include "Women in Defense," in which…
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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…