Tom Fadden
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1895-01-06
Locus Natus: Bayard, Iowa, USA
Et ut:
Pocketful of Miracles
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying...
release : 1961.12.18popularis : 9.926
Devil's Doorway
A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.
release : 1950.09.15popularis : 4.943
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
release : 1956.02.05popularis : 20.367
The Good Fellows
The title of Grand Caesar in the Ancient Order of Noblest Romans of Wakefield, Indiana keeps Jim "Pop" Helton so involved and distracted that he...
release : 1943.08.11popularis : 6.277
Panhandle
An ex-gunfighter woos two women while avenging his brother, victim of a crooked gambler.
release : 1948.02.22popularis : 7.798
Flareup
A Las Vegas go-go dancer moves to Los Angeles to escape the psycho who has killed her partners.
release : 1969.11.10popularis : 2.796
Cheyenne
Slick gambler James Wylie (Dennis Morgan) is apprehended by the law and given the option to forgo a prison sentence if he poses as a bandit. His...
release : 1947.06.06popularis : 2.785
Destry Rides Again
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he...
release : 1939.11.30popularis : 8.391
Toughest Man in Arizona
Marshal Landry captures outlaw Girard and bringing him in finds a woman and two children, the only survivors of an Indian attack. Later, transferring...
release : 1952.10.10popularis : 2.19
I Stole a Million
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
release : 1939.08.01popularis : 6.17
Thy Neighbor's Wife
In 1841, in the small Morovian village of Skalni Hradec, a judge makes his much younger wife witness the public humiliation of an unfaithful wife who...
release : 1953.09.23popularis : 0.98
Dirty Dingus Magee
Ass-breaker Dingus Magee is looking for a gold train when he comes upon old acquaintance Hoke Birdsill on stage to San Francisco, and robs him of his...
release : 1970.11.18popularis : 3.788
Kansas Pacific
Just before the Civil War (but after the South has seceded), Southern saboteurs try to prevent railroad construction from crossing Kansas to the...
release : 1953.02.22popularis : 4.621
Congo Maisie
Maisie gets lost in a jungle in Africa and the jungle of romance. The African jungle has snakes, crocodiles and witch doctors. The romantic jungle...
release : 1940.01.19popularis : 4.439
The Lawless Breed
After being released from prison, ex-gunfighter John Wesley Hardin hopes to have his autobiography published in order to rehabilitate his tarnished...
release : 1952.12.28popularis : 3.767
Tomorrow, the World!
German boy Emil comes to live with his American uncle who tries to teach the former Hitler Youth to reject Nazism.
release : 1944.12.29popularis : 1.966
Northern Pursuit
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring,...
release : 1943.11.07popularis : 4.657
The Hairy Ape
Aboard ship, a spoiled woman (Susan Hayward) insults the brutish stoker (William Bendix) while watching him work.
release : 1944.07.02popularis : 4.194
Singing Guns
Notorious stagecoach robber Rhiannon is unintentionally appointed as deputy when he saves the sheriff's life and must wear two hats between his new...
release : 1950.02.28popularis : 2.274
Moonrise
Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most...
release : 1948.10.01popularis : 11.696
Whispering Smith
Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go...
release : 1948.12.09popularis : 3.843
Winners of the West
Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a variety of schemes to prevent the railroad from...
release : 1940.07.02popularis : 2.975
Flaming Star
Sam Burton's second wife is a Kiowa, and their son is therefore born mixed-race. When a struggle starts between the whites and the native Kiowas, the...
release : 1960.12.20popularis : 5.218
That Hagen Girl
Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has been whispers, rumors and gossip about who are her...
release : 1947.11.01popularis : 8.24
My Favorite Blonde
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a...
release : 1942.04.02popularis : 5.593
Held For Ransom
A female detective investigates the kidnapping of a wealthy businessman.
release : 1938.06.17popularis : 1.876
Raw Deal
A revenge-seeking gangster is sent to prison after being framed for a crime he didn't commit. After seducing a beautiful young woman, he uses her to...
release : 1948.05.21popularis : 8.064
Wings for the Eagle
Aircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle.
release : 1942.07.18popularis : 3.889
A Medal for Benny
Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they...
release : 1945.04.16popularis : 6.369
Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
Teenager Henry Aldrich and his pal Dizzy decide to try and earn extra money by starting a babysitting service.
release : 1944.06.10popularis : 1.083
Baby Face Nelson
Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” (Mickey Rooney) robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful moll (Carolyn Jones).
release : 1957.12.11popularis : 2.647
Empire of the Ants
A Florida real estate developer and her captain lure investors to a property in the Everglades called Dreamland Shores, under false pretenses that...
release : 1977.06.29popularis : 25.514
Dragonwyck
For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation...
release : 1946.04.19popularis : 8.849
It's a Wonderful Life
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich...
release : 1946.12.20popularis : 64.195
The Judge Steps Out
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
release : 1947.12.15popularis : 1.76
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
The Hired Man
The LA County sheriff's department is on the hunt for a man who approaches his victims as a prospective used car buyer. Directed by Don Siegel for...
release : 1957.09.10popularis : 5.152
Edge of Eternity
Helped by socialite Janice Kendon and barkeeper Scott O'Brien, Arizona deputy sheriff Les Martin works to solve three brutal murders in and around...
release : 1959.11.02popularis : 2.403
Drums in the Deep South
Two old friends find themselves on opposite sides during the Civil War in a desperate battle atop an impregnable mountain.
release : 1951.09.01popularis : 2.634
Dark Passage
A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.
release : 1947.09.05popularis : 17.319
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose...
release : 1966.06.08popularis : 10.789
When the Daltons Rode
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing...
release : 1940.08.23popularis : 5.795
The Night Before the Divorce
Marital comedy with a dash of murder.
release : 1942.03.06popularis : 4.542
The Captain Is a Lady
Because of a bad investment, Captain and Mrs. Peabody are evicted from their home. Mrs. Peabody finds lodging at a retirement home, but as only...
release : 1940.06.21popularis : 1.637
The Howards of Virginia
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the...
release : 1940.09.19popularis : 3.338
Blondie Goes to College
Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband,...
release : 1942.01.15popularis : 9.659
Sundown Jim
US marshal Sundown Jim Majors main purpose in life is to bring a deadly frontier feud to a peaceful end. This requires him to clean out the local...
release : 1942.03.27popularis : 0.843
Lone Star Ranger
Texas Ranger Buck Dunne is assigned to round up a gang of bank robbers. The leader of the gang turns out to be the "respectable" Judge Longstreth,...
release : 1942.03.20popularis : 1.732
The Shepherd of the Hills
Young Matt Matthews, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt's mother and left her to die....
release : 1941.07.18popularis : 5.36
A Lady Takes a Chance
A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
release : 1943.08.19popularis : 4.508
The Royal Mounted Rides Again
In time-honored fashion, a couple of supporting players -- George Dolenz and Bill Kennedy -- found themselves elevated to starring roles in this...
release : 1945.10.23popularis : 3.331
Trail to Vengeance
A cowboy investigating his brother's murder finds himself going up against a banker who holds the deed to the cowboy's family ranch.
release : 1945.06.01popularis : 2.839
The Remarkable Andrew
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he...
release : 1942.03.05popularis : 0.825
Fall In
An Army sergeant's photographic memory puts him in conflict with a Nazi spy.
release : 1942.11.20popularis : 3.413
The Big Sleep
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the...
release : 1946.08.23popularis : 13.307
Dragnet
Scotland Yard Inspector Geoffrey James comes to the United States looking for a band of international gem-thieves who have smuggled a rich load of...
release : 1947.08.16popularis : 2.521
The Inside Story
A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a...
release : 1948.03.14popularis : 1.983
State of the Union
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.
release : 1948.04.30popularis : 8.352
The Well Groomed Bride
A man and a woman fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco--she wants it for a wedding, and he wants to use it to christen a...
release : 1946.05.17popularis : 2.575
The Hunted
A cop investigating a jewel robbery finds that all trails lead to his girlfriend - but she claims she's being framed.
release : 1948.04.07popularis : 6.337
Edge of Darkness
The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living...
release : 1943.04.09popularis : 7.098
Murder, He Says
Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing....
release : 1945.06.23popularis : 3.848
The Glass Key
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
release : 1942.09.08popularis : 7.848
Pursued
A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his...
release : 1947.03.02popularis : 6.642
Hard to Get
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making...
release : 1938.11.05popularis : 3.406
Pardon My Sarong
A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat...
release : 1942.08.07popularis : 5.15
In Society
Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree...
release : 1944.08.16popularis : 3.849
The Naughty Nineties
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating...
release : 1945.06.20popularis : 4.141
Zanzibar
A beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is worshiped by the locals.
release : 1940.03.08popularis : 1.13
Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
Angered at stern Uncle Daniel, Toby Tyler runs away from his foster home to join the circus, where he soon befriends Mr. Stubbs, the frisky...
release : 1960.01.21popularis : 5.023
The Tall Men
Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers,...
release : 1955.09.22popularis : 7.344