Don Porter
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1912-09-24
Locus Natus: Miami, Oklahoma, USA
Et ut: Donald Porter, Donald Cecil Porter
The Candidate
Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.
release : 1972.06.29popularis : 12.026
The Racket
The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on...
release : 1951.10.25popularis : 6.058
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 Line Fever
An independent trucker with a pregnant wife fights cargo crooks and the big shot they work for.
release : 1975.07.16popularis : 5.832
711 Ocean Drive
The Horatio Alger parable gets the film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O’Brien as a whip-smart telephone technician who moves up...
release : 1950.07.01popularis : 11.634
The Turning Point
Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. John doesn't...
release : 1952.07.12popularis : 3.369
She-Wolf of London
A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a...
release : 1946.05.17popularis : 8.047
Who Done It?
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder...
release : 1942.10.30popularis : 3.414
The Norliss Tapes
A newspaper publisher listens to the personal tapes of investigative reporter David Norliss, who has disappeared during an investigation. The tapes...
release : 1973.02.21popularis : 4.698
Live a Little, Love a Little
Photographer Greg Nolan moonlights in two full-time jobs to pay the rent, but has trouble finding time to do them both without his bosses finding out.
release : 1968.10.23popularis : 8.908
Bachelor in Paradise
A bachelor author of sleazy books moves to a family-oriented subdivision where he becomes an unofficial relationship advisor to unhappy local...
release : 1961.11.01popularis : 3.491
Danger Woman
A woman plots to steal secrets from her Atomic-expert husband.
release : 1946.07.12popularis : 1.758
Our Miss Brooks
The big-screen translation of the successful television show of the 1950's. Arden stars as Connie Brooks, wisecracking English teacher at Madison...
release : 1956.04.24popularis : 5.044
Eyes of the Underworld
Blackmail and murder in a tale of an auto-theft ring.
release : 1942.10.02popularis : 1.749
Night Monster
Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet...
release : 1942.10.20popularis : 4.2
Youngblood Hawke
An unknown Kentucky writer comes to New York and pursues fame and women.
release : 1964.11.04popularis : 3.986
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
A downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the Germans in this dramatic training film.
release : 1944.08.01popularis : 10.198
Desk Set
A computer expert tries to prove his electronic brain can replace a television network's research staff.
release : 1957.08.02popularis : 8.645
Cripple Creek
It's 1893 and gold is being smuggled out of the country. Instead of stealing gold bars, the outlaws are stealing high grade ore, having it smelted,...
release : 1952.06.30popularis : 1.698
The Morning After
A successful public relations man's refusal to admit his alcoholism jeopardizes his career, his family and his life. ABC Movie of the Week.
release : 1974.02.13popularis : 1.721
Cuban Pete
Unable to complete the deal by telephone, advertising executive Roberts sends his assistant Ann to Cuba to lure a Cuban band, led by Desi Arnaz, on...
release : 1946.06.26popularis : 2.058
The Savage
The only white survivor of a Crow Indian raid on a wagon train is a young boy. He is rescued by the Sioux, and the Sioux chief raises him as an...
release : 1952.09.01popularis : 4.364
Last Hours Before Morning
An ex-cop, now a private detective, investigating a gambler's murder finds that there may be a connection between that crime and the jewel robbery at...
release : 1975.04.19popularis : 2.193
The Murder That Wouldn't Die
William Conrad stars as a retired L.A.P.D. detective who has moved to Hawaii and taken a job as a college security chief and assistant football coach...
release : 1980.03.09popularis : 1.537
The Legend of Lizzie Borden
A dramatization of the famous 1893 Massachusetts trial of the woman accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an ax.
release : 1975.02.10popularis : 15.366
Murder or Mercy
An attorney comes out of retirement to defend a prominent doctor, who has been accused of the mercy killing of his wife.
release : 1974.04.10popularis : 3.647
Mame
The madcap life of eccentric Mame Dennis and her bohemian, intellectual arty clique is disrupted when her deceased brother's 10-year-old son Patrick...
release : 1974.03.07popularis : 6.265
The Ghosts of Buxley Hall
Ghosts and a young cadet try to save a military academy from being closed.
release : 1980.12.21popularis : 3.611
Wild Beauty
In this western, a Native American boy and his horse Wild Beauty make friends with a gentle doctor who helps the boy save his beloved steed from the...
release : 1946.08.08popularis : 1.429
Eagle Squadron
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
release : 1942.06.16popularis : 3.063
Top Sergeant
An army sergeant recognises a young recruit as the man responsible for his brother's death, while attempting a robbery.
release : 1942.06.14popularis : 2.211
Tropic of Desire
A male hustler drifts into Key West, where he becomes involved in a series of steamy interludes with disreputable locals intertwined in various...
release : 1979.06.15popularis : 8.635
Interview with Pontius Pilate
A twentieth century TV journalist conducts an exclusive first century interview with Pontius Pilate thirty years after Christ's death. Go back in...
release : 1980.01.01popularis : 3.161
Madame Spy
Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister. Returning to the US, Bannister becomes suspicious when Joan begins...
release : 1942.12.11popularis : 1.246
The President's Mistress
A government courier is caught in a deadly cover-up after discovering that his murdered sister was not only the mistress of a U.S. president, but...
release : 1978.02.10popularis : 1.977
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone
Harriet O'Malley tries to solve a murder aboard a train en route to New York.
release : 1950.12.08popularis : 4.014
Keep 'Em Slugging
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past...
release : 1943.03.01popularis : 3.031
My Friend Irma Goes West
Singer Steve, friend Seymour and fiance Jane, along with her dizzy blonde room mate Irma, have a series of misadventures on a California-bound train...
release : 1950.06.25popularis : 3.68
A Woman for All Men
Irascible and domineering millionaire Walter McCoy marries the beautiful, but shady and duplicitous Karen Petrie. Walter's son Steve automatically...
release : 1975.08.01popularis : 4.442
40 Carats
After an overnight fling with a man nearly 20 years her junior while vacationing in Greece, Ann Stanley returns to New York assuming she'll never see...
release : 1973.06.28popularis : 7.123
Mystery of the White Room
A doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder.
release : 1939.03.17popularis : 7.601
Gidget Goes to Rome
Francis, now 17, is still in love with Moondoggy. She can persuade her parents to allow them a journey to Rome, together with two of her and two of...
release : 1963.08.07popularis : 2.809
Reconnaissance Pilot
Documentary/training film depicting the duties of a pilot in the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War as he flies reconnaissance missions over...
release : 1943.01.25popularis : 2.05
How to Fly the B-26 Airplane
Documentary feature film depicting the training of young Lieutenant Jim Anthony as a pilot of the B-26 Marauder bomber. Dick, the captain charged...
release : 1944.03.14popularis : 1.977
The Last Song
An aspiring singer unwittingly comes into possession of several tapes for which her engineer husband and his partner, in their electronic...
release : 1980.10.23popularis : 2.68
Because You're Mine
A famous opera singer falls for his sergeant's sister at boot camp.
release : 1952.10.01popularis : 5.145
The Fallbrook Story
“The Fallbrook Story,” is a 20-minute film of Cold War-era uneasiness in which director Frank Capra rails against what he calls the evils...
release : 1952.01.01popularis : 4.228
Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.
Based on the true story of coal miners who became trapped underground in a cave-in on Christmas Eve, 1951.
release : 1977.12.26popularis : 0.851
Happy Anniversary and Goodbye
As her 25th anniversary approaches, Norma Michaels realizes that her marriage to her dentist husband Malcolm has become boring. Seeking independence,...
release : 1974.11.19popularis : 2.874