James Nolan
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1915-11-29
Locus Natus: San Francisco, California, USA
Et ut: Jim Nolan, James F. Nolan
Dirty Harry
When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law...
release : 1971.12.23popularis : 17.431
Alias the Champ
Slammin’ Sammy Menacker is killed in the ring, and Gorgeous George (in his only film appearance) is arrested for murder. Out to clear his name...
release : 1949.10.15popularis : 3.042
He Walked by Night
Roy Morgan is a burglar who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops. After Morgan kills a police officer,...
release : 1949.02.06popularis : 13.222
Charley Varrick
Charley Varrick robs a bank in a small town with his friends, but instead of obtaining a small amount of money, they discover they stole a very large...
release : 1973.09.19popularis : 11.6
Flame of Youth
Outside the Wolf Club, wayward high school student Geraldine “Jerry” Briggs waits in the parking lot, while her partner in crime, Al,...
release : 1949.09.22popularis : 2.909
Alias Mr. Twilight
Geoffrey Holden (Lloyd Corrigan) is an elderly con-man who is a lovable old man when providing his beloved granddaughter (Gigi Perreau) with the...
release : 1946.12.24popularis : 2.384
They Live by Night
An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from...
release : 1949.11.01popularis : 6.642
Race Street
A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.
release : 1948.09.11popularis : 1.578
Support Your Local Gunfighter
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to...
release : 1971.05.26popularis : 14.726
The Darker Side of Terror
A psychological thriller about a research biologist who, angered when an associate is given a position over him based on stolen research findings,...
release : 1979.04.03popularis : 1.855
Berlin Express
In post-war Europe, a diverse group of passengers aboard a U.S. Army train to bombed-out Frankfurt becomes involved in a Nazi assassination plot.
release : 1948.05.01popularis : 6.996
All Night Long
Executive George Dupler loses his temper and is demoted to the night manager at a 24 hour drugstore. After he suggests to his teenage son Freddie...
release : 1981.03.06popularis : 6.314
Charlie Noir
In this loving tribute to film noir, a hard-boiled detective goes soft when he meets a femme fatale with a voice so husky it could pull a sled.
release : 2002.06.05popularis : 0.651
Riding High
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
release : 1950.04.12popularis : 3.304
The Shootist
Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Books, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly returns to Carson City for medical attention...
release : 1976.07.21popularis : 17.975
Night Time in Nevada
Twenty years earlier Farrell killed his mining partner Andrews. Now Andrews daughter arrives to get her father's trust fund. Farrell having rustled...
release : 1948.09.05popularis : 4.62
Death Valley Gunfighter
Rocky Lane hits the trail when he gets word that one of two brothers in a partner-ship mining project has been killed by outlaws trying to gain...
release : 1949.03.29popularis : 0.745
In Tandem
Gypsy truckers -- a tough veteran driver and his young college-educated partner -- come to the aid of embattled citrus growers in this pilot for the...
release : 1974.05.08popularis : 0.844
Daughter of the Jungle
An airplane carrying a pair of police officers escorting gangsters to prison crash-lands in the African jungle. They are rescued from an attack by...
release : 1949.02.08popularis : 1.553
Airport
Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
release : 1970.03.25popularis : 15.09
Racket Busters
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
release : 1938.07.16popularis : 3.206
Boy Meets Girl
Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie...
release : 1938.08.27popularis : 1.544
Cowboy from Brooklyn
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
release : 1938.07.09popularis : 2.94
Garden of the Moon
Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast...
release : 1938.09.23popularis : 2.741
Abie's Irish Rose
Cultures clash when a Jewish boy wants to marry an Irish girl.
release : 1946.12.27popularis : 1.582
Girls on Probation
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
release : 1938.10.22popularis : 2.041
Thieves' Highway
Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his...
release : 1949.09.20popularis : 11.482
The Little Maestro
A silent, little man carrying a violin case wanders into the kitchen of a swanky nightclub looking for a meal. The chef takes pity on him and...
release : 1937.03.26popularis : 1.355
The Miracle of the Bells
The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three...
release : 1948.03.27popularis : 3.84
The Arizona Ranger
A disgraced veteran wanders the West alone until he decides to help a battered woman.
release : 1948.05.14popularis : 1.417
Son of God’s Country
Bill Sanger has his men out raiding and killing to obtain the ranches along the route that he knows the new railroad will use. He then kills the...
release : 1948.09.15popularis : 4.511
Bandit King of Texas
The Jewel Land Company of Elko, Texas is selling Government land to settlers. Before any of the settlers can claim their land, they are being killed...
release : 1949.08.29popularis : 7.26
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret...
release : 1947.09.26popularis : 6.063
Adam's Rib
A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers...
release : 1949.11.18popularis : 20.853
The Window
An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can't get his parents or the police to believe him. The only people taking...
release : 1949.05.10popularis : 5.746
Wake of the Red Witch
Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.
release : 1948.12.30popularis : 12.165
Guns of Hate
Ben Jason has found a lost gold mine. When Morgan learns this, he and his henchman chase down Jason and kill him. Banning and sidekick Rafferty...
release : 1948.06.18popularis : 2.542
Illegal Entry
Long before he became producer/director of The Tonight Show, Fred DeCordova helmed the Universal meller Illegal Entry. Howard Duff, who later worked...
release : 1949.06.01popularis : 5.587
The Whistle at Eaton Falls
A newly promoted plant supervisor finds himself in the position of having to announce a layoff of his fellow workers.
release : 1951.08.02popularis : 4.285
Too Late for Tears
Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means...
release : 1949.07.17popularis : 7.592
Torchy Blane in Panama
Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.
release : 1938.05.07popularis : 4.055
An American Dream
Stephen Rojack is a decorated war vet who has now found success as an outspoken television personality. During a vicious argument with his wife,...
release : 1966.08.31popularis : 6.452
Strange Bargain
Bookkeeper Sam Wilson learns from his boss, Malcolm Jarvis, that he is losing his job because the company is closing down. Jarvis then makes a...
release : 1949.11.05popularis : 5.597
Jinxed!
Harold, a professional gambler, and his girlfriend Bonita, a lounge singer, follow Willie, a young blackjack dealer, around the western U.S. Harold...
release : 1982.10.22popularis : 7.867
Rogues' Regiment
A post World War 2, US Army agent is assigned to join the Foreign Legion in search of high ranking Nazi war criminal who may have also enlisted.
release : 1948.12.28popularis : 2.266
The Brute Man
A facially disfigured and mentally unhinged man wreaks his revenge on those he blames for his condition.
release : 1946.10.01popularis : 8.823
Lady in the Lake
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne...
release : 1946.12.19popularis : 13.793