Robert J. Wilke
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1914-05-18
Locus Natus: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Et ut: Bob Wilke, Robert Wilke, Robert Joseph Wilke
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.
release : 1954.12.23popularis : 25.577
High Noon
Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon...
release : 1952.06.09popularis : 15.713
Spartacus
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the...
release : 1960.10.13popularis : 26.179
Flaming Fury
A Los Angeles fire captain (Roy Roberts) sends an arson-squad rookie (George Cooper) undercover.
release : 1949.07.28popularis : 1.203
Night Passage
Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw brother, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years...
release : 1957.07.24popularis : 10.921
Tony Rome
Tony Rome, a tough Miami PI living on a houseboat, is hired by a local millionaire to find jewelry stolen from his daughter, and in the process has...
release : 1967.11.10popularis : 4.422
The Las Vegas Story
When newlyweds visit Las Vegas, the wife's shady past comes to the surface.
release : 1952.01.30popularis : 3.737
Hitchhike to Happiness
An aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes of getting a break. Unfortunately, most of them...
release : 1945.07.16popularis : 1.951
The Magnificent Stranger
Rowdy Yates is accused of murder, and has to alert the Army to a bandit assault.
release : 1966.08.26popularis : 2.498
Man of the West
Heading east to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher for his frontier town home, Link Jones is stranded with singer Billie Ellis and gambler Sam...
release : 1958.06.20popularis : 12.815
Arrowhead
Director Charles Marquis Warren's 1953 western stars Charlton Heston and Jack Palance. Chief of Scouts Ed Bannon works for the US Army at Fort Clark,...
release : 1953.08.03popularis : 2.621
Backlash
Jim Slater's father (whom he never knew) died in the Apache ambush at Gila Valley, and Jim is searching for the one survivor, who supposedly went for...
release : 1956.03.14popularis : 4.098
The Tarnished Angels
In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne,...
release : 1957.11.21popularis : 12.559
Cowboy and the Senorita
Chip has inherited a supposedly worthless gold mine from her father and Craig Allen is about to buy it. Roy suspects the mine may be valuable and...
release : 1944.05.13popularis : 5.345
The Far Country
During the Klondike Gold Rush, a misanthropic cattle driver and his talkative elderly partner run afoul of the law in Alaska and are forced to work...
release : 1954.02.12popularis : 18.034
Written on the Wind
Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jasper, works hard to establish the family...
release : 1956.10.04popularis : 10.014
The Ghost Goes Wild
Young artist Monte Crandell is being sued for an unauthorized caricature. To escape arrest, he disguises himself as a mystic, only to conjure up a...
release : 1947.08.08popularis : 2.495
A Gunfight
Will Tenneray and Abe Cross are two aging, famous gunfighters, both in need of money. Tenneray comes up with the idea to stage a duel to the death in...
release : 1971.08.25popularis : 7.676
The Rookies
Three new officers in a large metropolitan police department adjust to their new jobs and way of life. This is another TV-pilot that was first aired...
release : 1972.03.07popularis : 3.269
The Inner Circle
A fresh-faced young detective gets set up, framed for murder, and alibied by a smart blonde.
release : 1946.08.07popularis : 3.353
Bandits of the Badlands
Sunset Carson is a wandering cavalier who rides into the Badlands. Hallie Wayne is bedeviled by bandits who've been raiding the livestock of her...
release : 1945.09.14popularis : 0.988
Santee
Jody Deakes joins up with his father after many years, just to discover that his dad is part of an outlaw gang on the run from a relentless bounty...
release : 1973.09.01popularis : 2.892
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
Little Richie Bridgestone goes to spend the weekend with his father at his secluded mountain cabin, and witnesses his father being attacked by 'a...
release : 1973.08.01popularis : 8.884
Gun the Man Down
An outlaw is left for dead by his gang after being shot. A year later, he is released from jail with one thing on his mind: Revenge.
release : 1956.11.15popularis : 4.315
Hot Summer Night
An out-of-work reporter (Leslie Nielsen) seeks out a bank robber, and his bride (Colleen Miller) has to rescue him.
release : 1957.02.15popularis : 1.224
Fate Is the Hunter
A man refuses to believe that pilot error caused a fatal crash, and persists in looking for another reason. Airliner crashes near Los Angeles due to...
release : 1964.11.08popularis : 8.434
The Lone Ranger
The territorial governor asks the Lone Ranger to investigate mysterious raids on settlers by Indians who ride with saddles. Wealthy rancher Reese...
release : 1956.02.25popularis : 11.952
The Fighting Devil Dogs
Two marine lieutenants battle a masked would-be world conqueror who uses electricity as a weapon.
release : 1938.05.27popularis : 1.626
The Gun Hawk
When his town-drunk father is killed by the Sully brothers, gunfighter Blaine Madden exacts his revenge but has to flee, aided by a young aspiring...
release : 1963.08.28popularis : 2.725
Homicide for Three
While on shore leave to celebrate his first anniversary, Lt. Peter Duluth (Warren Douglas) takes his wife, Iris (Audrey Long), to a Los Angeles hotel...
release : 1948.12.08popularis : 2.294
War Paint
An Indian and his beautiful sister attempt to destroy a cavalry patrol trying to deliver a peace treaty to their chief.
release : 1953.08.28popularis : 6.562
Best of the Badmen
After the North defeats the South, Union Maj. Jeff Clanton heads to Missouri to provide the Confederacy's Quantrill's Raiders a chance to claim...
release : 1951.08.09popularis : 3.803
San Quentin
Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for...
release : 1937.05.24popularis : 3.44
Canyon River
A rancher's foreman schemes against him on a cattle drive from Oregon to Wyoming.
release : 1956.08.04popularis : 3.84
San Antonio Kid
A geologist has found oil on the neighboring ranches and teams up with Ace who has his gang create a reign of terror to get the ranchers to sell out....
release : 1944.08.16popularis : 2.681
Cattle Town
The governor of Texas sends a cowboy to keep the peace between ranchers and a land baron.
release : 1952.09.06popularis : 2.373
Return to Warbow
Three escaped prisoners return to the site of a robbery to find the stolen money that was never recovered. Western.
release : 1958.01.15popularis : 3.097
Hellgate
A man is framed and sent to the toughest prison in the territory.
release : 1952.09.04popularis : 8.893
Never Steal Anything Small
Director Charles Lederer's 1959 musical stars James Cagney as an unscrupulous longshoreman who'll resort to every dirty trick in the book to win his...
release : 1959.02.11popularis : 1.586
The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler
A U.S. Senator is spirited away to a secret New Mexico medical lab after a serious car crash. His injuries are completely healed by a secret...
release : 1971.11.30popularis : 9.593
The Slowest Gun in the West
The town of Primrose, Arizona is beset by outlaws, so the towns people hire Fletcher Bissell III (A.K.A. The Silver Dollar Kid) as their new sheriff....
release : 1960.05.07popularis : 6.563
Code of the Prairie
Just after the Oklahoma Panhandle was annexed into the united states an ex-lawman turned newspaper man arrives to town to civilize it. He brings...
release : 1944.10.06popularis : 4.122
Hidden Valley Outlaws
Lawyer Leland is using land rights to kick the ranchers off their land. When Wild Bill and Gabby arrive to help the ranchers, he has actor Percel...
release : 1944.04.01popularis : 1.84
Daredevils of the Clouds
Terry O'Rourke, an American operating a small airline in Canada, is having a tough time making a go of it; he has to cope with unfavorable weather...
release : 1948.07.26popularis : 2.172
Overland Telegraph
Not to be confused with the 1929 film The Overland Telegraph, this Western from director Lesley Selander stars Tim Holt as a cowboy appropriately...
release : 1951.12.15popularis : 2.505
Cow Country
A hired hand gets caught between a noble rancher and ruthless land grabbers.
release : 1953.04.25popularis : 2.218
From Here to Eternity
In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.
release : 1953.08.28popularis : 18.719
Smoke Signal
Capt. Harper's cavalry patrol returns to the fort to find it besieged by Ute Indians. The apparent cause is the recapture of Army traitor Brett...
release : 1955.03.01popularis : 7.26
Smoky
A cowboy named Clint bonds with a beautiful wild stallion that he trains, but after the two are separated and the horse ends up in a rodeo, Clint is...
release : 1966.08.03popularis : 1.554
Daredevils of the Red Circle
Escaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to create a variety of disasters. Fortunately, he is...
release : 1939.06.10popularis : 4.903
That Man's Here Again
An elevator operator in a swanky apartment building falls in love with a homeless girl who sneaks in one night looking for a place to keep warm. In...
release : 1937.04.16popularis : 1.754
Star Reporter
An idealistic young newspaper reporter crusades against organized crime.
release : 1939.02.22popularis : 1.016
Vigilantes of Dodge City
This "Red Ryder" entry stars Gordon "Wild Bill" Elliot as Ryder. The heroine is having troubles with the freight company that she owns. Time and...
release : 1944.11.15popularis : 0.887
Corpus Christi Bandits
After the Civil War, veteran Jim Christi (Allan Lane) returns to Texas, where he is unjustly accused of murder. In flashback, Mr. Christi relates the...
release : 1945.04.20popularis : 0.878
Sheriff of Cimarron
Sunset Carson rides into the town of Cimarron looking for his brother and the crooks who framed him for cattle rustling. When he's made sheriff, he...
release : 1945.02.28popularis : 1.933
Road Agent
Brand controls the only road to the cattle market and is charging exorbitant rates. Tim and Chito rob Brand to recover only their overcharge, but...
release : 1952.03.29popularis : 1.224
Frontier Outpost
Federal agent Steve Lawton works undercover with his assistant, Smiley Burnette, to track down an outlaw gang that is raiding government gold...
release : 1950.12.29popularis : 1.292
They Call It Murder
A small-town district attorney is saddled with several major investigations, including a gambler's murder and a possible insurance scam.
release : 1971.12.17popularis : 3.401
The Magnificent Seven
An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.
release : 1960.10.12popularis : 33.709
Two Guns and a Badge
In the last of his four western programmers for Allied Artists, Wayne Morris plays frontiersman Jim Bisby. Mistaken for a notorious gunslinger, Jim...
release : 1954.09.11popularis : 0.861
Santa Fe Saddlemates
Governor Price sends Sunset Carson to investigate a smuggling ring which is baffling the Border Patrol. Newspaper woman Ann Morton is working...
release : 1945.06.01popularis : 0.773
Sierra Sue
To fight a poisonous weed, ranchers are burning their land. Gene is the Inspector brought in and he recommends spraying. The spraying goes well until...
release : 1941.11.12popularis : 1.068
The Desperate Mission
A man who has lost everything joins others paid to convey a wealthy man's wife - and a mysterious treasure - to safety in San Francissco.
release : 1969.01.01popularis : 2.618
The Long Rope
A judge in a murder trial, believing the defendant is innocent, sets out to find the real killer.
release : 1961.03.26popularis : 4.06
Days of Heaven
In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work...
release : 1978.09.13popularis : 29.161
Saddle Legion
A cattle inspector runs a rustling ring on the side.
release : 1951.04.07popularis : 1.015
Adventures of Red Ryder
Calvin Drake employs a group of low-lifes to drive away land owners along the path of a new railroad; Red Ryder opposes this strategy.
release : 1940.06.28popularis : 4.243
Bordertown Trail
The election to determine if Texas will become a state is near and men opposed are running contraband across the border. Sunset and Frog are Border...
release : 1944.08.11popularis : 2.593
Call of the Rockies
Cowboy Sunset Carson teams up with Frog Millhouse on a routine supply trip to Placer City. Before long, the duo find themselves ambushed by a team of...
release : 1944.07.14popularis : 1.282
Hot Lead
Recently released from prison, nice guy Dave Collins finds himself unwillingly mixed up with his old outlaw acquaintances Turk Thorne and his gang as...
release : 1951.09.30popularis : 1.543
Gunplay
Landry has Sam Martin killed. When Tim and Chito find Martin and his son, Chip says Matt Potter was responsible. But when Tim and Chito start their...
release : 1951.07.23popularis : 1.977
Pistol Harvest
Two men are accused of killing their boss. They are saved from the hangman's noose when two other guys are arrested, but Holt feels as though justice...
release : 1951.08.30popularis : 1.411
Cyclone Fury
A late entry in Columbia's seemingly endless Durango Kid Western series, Cyclone Fury was augmented with a hefty dose of stock footage from an...
release : 1951.08.14popularis : 1.741
The Cheyenne Social Club
Two cowboys inherit a "social club" specializing in satisfying men.
release : 1970.06.12popularis : 5.93
In Old Missouri
The Weavers are share-croppers who confront their landlord with their tale of woe only to find he is in money trouble too. He also has a wastrel son...
release : 1940.04.17popularis : 2.215
Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
release : 1941.12.27popularis : 4.136
Strange Lady in Town
Julia Garth, a female doctor, plans to introduce modern techniques of medicine to old Santa Fe in 1880, but is opposed by an established doctor,...
release : 1955.04.12popularis : 2.141
Wyoming Roundup
When newcomers Whip and Bob break up a saloon fight they are made town Marshals. This puts then in the middle of the range war between large ranch...
release : 1952.11.09popularis : 2.303
In Old Monterey
The U.S. Army takes over a large area of land, over the objection of citizens and corporations who live and work there.
release : 1939.08.14popularis : 2.922
Grand Ole Opry
Aided by musicians at the Grand Ole Opry, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks takes on a group of crooked politicians.
release : 1940.06.25popularis : 2.3
Web of Danger
Ernie Reardon, the superintendent, and Bill O'Hara, the foreman, of a construction company crew working on a bridge to a remote valley, are...
release : 1947.06.10popularis : 1.585
Blackmail
A private detective is offered a job protecting a rich business man from suspected blackmail. Before he can accept the case a murder is uncovered.
release : 1947.07.24popularis : 4.116
Twilight on the Rio Grande
Gene and Pokie are on vacation in Mexico when they learn that their buddy Dusty has been bumped off.
release : 1947.03.31popularis : 1.939
The Catman of Paris
When author Charles Regnier returns to Paris with a best-selling book that criticizes the government, he's tormented by frequent blackouts. After a...
release : 1946.04.20popularis : 2.418
Traffic in Crime
Police Chief Jim Murphy, in a crime-ridden city, deputizes newspaper-reporter Sam Wire, to work as an undercover operative to rid the town of the...
release : 1946.06.28popularis : 1.504
Passkey to Danger
An advertising man's new campaign for a fashion designer attracts the attention of mysterious characters.
release : 1946.05.11popularis : 0.952
Earl Carroll Vanities
Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring attractive young ladies. Carroll's annual...
release : 1945.04.05popularis : 2.36
Faces in the Fog
Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the...
release : 1944.11.30popularis : 1.928
The Fighting Seabees
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the...
release : 1944.01.27popularis : 5.247
The Wyoming Bandit
Wyoming Dan (Trevor Bardette) returns home after 20 years evading the law for a crime he didn't commit, only to find his son on his deathbed. Seeking...
release : 1949.07.15popularis : 2.835
Coyote Canyon
This film and the 1950 short "The Fargo Phantom" were edited together and released as a feature called "Tales of the West #2" in 1950.
release : 1949.11.17popularis : 1.075
Across the Badlands
Charles Starrett once more hits the trail as "The Durango Kid" in Columbia's Across the Badlands. By now, the formula was a well-oiled machine:...
release : 1950.09.14popularis : 0.825
Outcasts of Black Mesa
Our Hero is accused of a crime he didn't commit. Once again, he breaks jail to find the real culprits. And once again, he dons his Durango Kid...
release : 1950.04.13popularis : 2.002
The Desert Hawk
A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph's daughter.
release : 1950.08.05popularis : 3.84
Fargo
The brother (House Peters Jr.) of rancher Bill Martin (Bill Elliott) is killed in a stampede started by cattleman. Bill returns to the Fargo country...
release : 1952.09.07popularis : 2.538
The Maverick
Wild Bill Elliott must escort a gang of killer cattleman who have been terrorizing homesteaders.
release : 1952.12.14popularis : 1.256
The Hallelujah Trail
A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League, the US cavalry, the miners and the local...
release : 1965.06.23popularis : 17.438
Law of the Canyon
Freight wagons are being stolen and ransomed back to their owners. Government agent Steve Langtry (and his alter ego the Durango Kid) is sent break...
release : 1947.04.23popularis : 5.865
Sheriff of Sundown
Bringing his large cattle herd to Sundown, rancher Tex Jordan must sell his cattle to corrupt baron Jack Hatfield. He does OK but learns Hatfield is...
release : 1944.11.07popularis : 2.596
Rough Riders of Cheyenne
Sunset returns to find the Carson-Sterling feud still going. Sterling has been killed and it's not long before Andrew Carson is murdered. To end the...
release : 1945.10.31popularis : 3.118
Sunset in El Dorado
The story involves a rather odd flashback by Dale who is visiting El Dorado, home of her grandmother. She dreams about her grandmother's adventures...
release : 1945.09.29popularis : 2.257
Trail of Kit Carson
Bill Harmon receives a letter from his partner, Dave MacRoy informing him of a rich gold strike in their California mine. Arriving there, Bill learns...
release : 1945.07.11popularis : 0.841
Carson City Raiders
Carson City Raiders is a western film directed by Yakima Canutt in 1948. Rocky Lane (Allan Lane) wants to help Nugget Clark (Eddy Waller) save his...
release : 1948.05.13popularis : 4.016
The Rawhide Years
Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with his girlfriend, luscious entertainer Zoe. But...
release : 1956.07.01popularis : 4.285
The Lone Gun
Cruze arrives in town and when he stands up to the three Moran brothers, he gets appointed Marshal. First the brothers kill a rancher while framing...
release : 1954.04.25popularis : 5.303
Wichita
Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. His skill as a gun-fighter makes him a...
release : 1955.07.03popularis : 8.948
Shotgun
a deputy U.S. Marshall pursue the gang of Ben Thompson after the murder of another marshall. Along with a bounty hunter and a half-breed woman they...
release : 1955.04.23popularis : 6.593
Raw Edge
A Texan arrives in Oregon and seeks justice for his innocently-hanged brother
release : 1956.03.24popularis : 4.574
S.O.S Tidal Wave
A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral...
release : 1939.06.02popularis : 1.265
Rendezvous with Annie
A homesick American soldier stationed in England during World War II makes an unauthorized trip to see his wife and returns to England with only two...
release : 1946.07.22popularis : 4.077
Whispering Footsteps
An Ohio bank clerk's life becomes a nightmare when his descriptions is a fit of a maniac killer.
release : 1943.12.30popularis : 3.208
The Sweet Creek County War
In this western, a sheriff gets tired of upholding the law and retires to a quiet ranch. Unfortunately, he ends up saving his homesteader neighbors...
release : 1979.01.25popularis : 1.132
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
release : 1988.11.22popularis : 5.862
Badman's Territory
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law...
release : 1946.05.04popularis : 6.215
Buck Privates Come Home
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up...
release : 1947.04.04popularis : 1.879
White Tie and Tails
When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up marrying an heiress.
release : 1946.08.30popularis : 2.975
Shock Treatment
A private investigator endures the rigors of an insane asylum in order to locate $1 million in stolen loot.
release : 1964.07.22popularis : 2.519
Laramie
A major Indian uprising is expected and Wyoming military posts are alerted. Colonel Dennison is meeting with Chief Eagle and his son Running Wolf...
release : 1949.05.19popularis : 2.244
Stripes
John Winger, an indolent sad sack in his 30s, impulsively joins the US Army after losing his job, his girlfriend and his apartment.
release : 1981.06.26popularis : 18.286
Wild and Wooly
A Western adventure — a "Charlie's Angels" on horseback — involving three comely females who meet in a territorial prison, engineer a...
release : 1978.02.20popularis : 2.99