Edmon Ryan

Edmon Ryan

Birth : 1905-06-05, Cecilia, Kentucky, USA

Death : 1984-08-04

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Edmon Ryan

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Tora! Tora! Tora!
Rear Admiral Bellinger
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
Topaz
McKittreck
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.
The Playground
Jason Porter
A religious prostitute who sees an atheist client die after blaspheming believes the next man she runs into is Jesus.
The Americanization of Emily
Admiral Hoyle
American sailor Charlie Madison falls for a pretty Englishwoman while trying to avoid a senseless and dangerous D-Day mission concocted by a deranged admiral.
A House Is Not a Home
Sam
Story follows the life of Polly Adler, who grew to become one of New York's most successful bordello madams of the 1920s.
Two for the Seesaw
Frank Taubman
Jerry Ryan wanders aimlessly around New York after giving up his Nebraskan law practice. His wife asks for a divorce. He meets Gittel, a struggling dancer from Greenwich Village and they try to sort out their lives. An extended conversation piece with a static camera, but reflects the moral climate of the time.
Good Day for a Hanging
William P. Selby, Attorney
As a youth, Eddie came into the town with his gang to rob the bank, but was caught and convicted. Marshal Ben helped him to become a honorable citizen. Now, many years later, the gang returns to again rob the bank. On their flight they shoot the Marshal. Eddie is the only one to identify the murderer - but is in doubt if he shall be loyal to his new or his old friends.
Nightmare at Ground Zero
After the first atom bomb test, scientists realize the bomb was more powerful than they expected - which may have terrible results.
Destination Earth
(voice)
A Martian explorer discovers the secrets behind the USA's prosperity — oil and free enterprise.
Knights of the Queen
A new adventure for the Dumas musketeers who this time must save the Infanta of Spain from the intrigues of the Prince of Condé who wants to take the throne at any cost. (This film is a compendium edit made from episodes of the television series "I tre moschettieri")
The World of Dong Kingman
Narrator
James Wong Howe follows artist Dong Kingman over the course of a day, in which the maestro starts and finishes a watercolor of a street in New York City.
The Guy Who Came Back
Joe Demarcus
Former football star Harry Joplin is down on his luck, both in his career and in his married life. He seems convinced of his own unworthiness, but a chance to play in a charity football game helps him see his life in a new light.
Highway 301
Detective Sgt. Truscott / Narrator
The "Tri-State" gang goes on a successful bank robbing streak causing local authorities to turn up the heat on the daring career criminals.
Undercover Girl
Doc Holmes
After her father is murdered, a girl joins the police force in an effort to track down the killers.
Three Secrets
Hardin
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption. As the three await news of his rescue at a mountain cabin, they recall incidents from five years earlier and why they were forced to give up their son.
The Breaking Point
Rogers
A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals.
Mystery Street
James Joshua Harkley
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.
Side Street
Victor Backett
A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of a few hundred dollars, it contains $30,000, and when he decides to return the money things go wrong and that is only the beginning of his troubles.
X Marks the Spot
An angel-in-training has trouble watching over a careless driver, and must plead his case before the Judge Angel.
The Dark Eyes of London
Lieutenant Patrick O'Reilly
Insurance agent-physician collects on policies of men murdered by a disfigured resident of the home for the blind where he acts as doctor-on-call.
The Nursemaid Who Disappeared
An overheard conversation leads to clues that a kidnapping plot is afoot.
Murder in Soho
Spike
A London nightclub hostess pretends to fall for the mobster who killed her husband.
Hey! Hey! USA
Ace Marco
While working as a porter Benjamin Twists mistakenly ends up on a cruise ship heading for the USA. Upon landing on the American coast Twist takes up work as a professor.
Oh, Boy!
Butch
A mysterious scientist presents a timid chemist with an elixir which turns him from a weakling into a confident, vital male, able to defeat his rival and impress the girl of his choice. The only problem is that this mysterious substance has the unexpected result of causing him to revert gradually to babyhood...
Gangway
Red Mike
Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster.
Crime Over London
Spider
With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.