Craig Stevens

Craig Stevens

Nacimiento : 1918-07-08, Liberty, Missouri, USA

Muerte : 2000-05-10

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Craig Stevens

Películas

Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Holiday Affair
Frank Poston
Robert Young brings his Marcus Welby alter ego to television for one last time. Having retired, the good doctor takes a trip to Europe alone and falls in love with an American divorcee who is caring for a blind dancer.
Condor
Cyrus Hampton
In futuristic Los Angeles, a crime-fighting organization known as Condor goes up against the Black Widow, a female master criminal. The Black Widow steals the national security code and threatens to blow up Hollywood unless her old enemy, Proctor, a Condor operative, is turned over to her.
The Trout
Carter
Frederique (Huppert) abandona el pueblo, donde su familia tiene una granja de truchas, para emprender un viaje al Japón y a los brazos de un hombre.
S.O.B. Sois honrados bandidos
Willard Pratt, Polly Reed's husband
Sátira acerca del mundo del cine y sus entresijos, a través de la historia de un productor cinematográfico empeñado en transformar su último fracaso en un rotundo éxito.
Secrets of Three Hungry Wives
Bill McClure
When a millionaire playboy is murdered, suspicion falls on three married women, best friends, whom he had tried to play against each other in a game of divide and conquer.
Nick and Nora
Nick Charles
Retired detective Nick Charles and his wife set out to solve a murder mystery after a corpse wearing white gloves is found in a hotel pool.
Abejas asesinas
Rudolf van Bohlen
La matriarca de una gran familia tiene un particular poder sobre una importante colonia de abejas asesinas que habita en los parrales de la finca familiar.
Pánico en el ascensor
Dr. Stuart Reynolds
Un nuevo edificio rascacielos, con varios pisos aún en construcción, cierra para el fin de semana cuando Eddie Holcomb y Peter Howarth atracan una oficina de inversiones en el piso 39 y cometen un asesinato. Cuando huyen con el botín, Holcomb se separa de Howarth al entrar en un ascensor abarrotado de gente. Con exceso de peso, el ascensor se detiene entre dos pisos. Holcomb, dominado por el pánico, aterroriza a los otros pasajeros. Atrapados entre dos pisos con un delincuente armado, los asustados pasajeros deterioran aun más el mecanismo del ascensor con el riesgo de caer al foso que se encuentra 30 pisos más abajo.
The Snoop Sisters
Charles Corman
A spinster and her widowed sister, who are the authors of murder-mystery novels, try to track down the killer of a former movie star. This TV pilot film became a series of rotating movies the following season.
The Limbo Line
The Limbo Line tells a story of Cold War double-crossing with British secret agent Manston trying to break up a group of Russian agents who return defectors to Moscow for brainwashing. When a Russian ballerina defects to Germany, Manston goes after the head of The Limbo Line in an effort to stop the group from kidnapping the defectors. Acting against the orders of his boss, Manston is faced with killing the communist leader of the movement in Germany or allowing the dancer to be turned over for interrogation and reprisals for her political beliefs. Matters are further complicated when Manston finds himself falling for the ballerina…
Gunn
Peter Gunn
El detective Peter Gunn investiga el asesinato de Scarlotti, un mafioso que una vez le salvó la vida. A pesar de destacar en el plano de las comedias, el cineasta Blake Edwards también se adentró en el mundo de las cintas románticas ("Desayuno con diamantes"), los melodramas ("Días de vino y rosas") o el thriller. La que nos ocupa es una película de suspense que se basa en la serie de televisión homónima que el mismo Edwards creó en 1958. De hecho, el director volvió a contar con la estrella de la ficción, Craig Stevens, aunque para esta puesta de largo le cambió su compañera de aventuras, ahora interpretada por Laura Devon ("La cámara de los horrores").
Buchanan cabalga de nuevo
Abe Carbo
Tras servir como mercenario en el ejército mexicano, el aventurero Buchanan cabalga hacia un pueblo llamado "Infierno", famoso por sus expeditivos ahorcamientos y dominado por los hermanos Agry. A uno de éllos lo mata Juan, un joven mexicano, para vengar el honor de su hermana. Buchanan se pone de su parte y ambos son arrestados y condenados a morir en la horca. (FILMAFFINITY)
El monstruo alado
Col. Joe Parkman
Una erupción volcánica en el hemisferio sur provoca una reacción en el Polo Norte, cuya consecuencia es que un gigantesco iceberg quede libre en la superficie. Al descongelarse este, se liberará un ser que había sido atrapado allí desde los tiempos prehistóricos: una mantis religiosa gigante. El insecto ciclópeo siembra el caos por donde pasa, volando hacia el sur (Canadá y EE.UU.) y aniquilando todo lo que se cruza en su camino, algo que ni el Ejército ni los científicos saben cómo frenar; sin embargo, la misión de todos ellos será destruirla.
Duelo en el Mississippi
René LaFarge
El estado de Lousiana del siglo XIX es el escenario de un duelo entre dos hombres enfrentados. Lili Scarlet es una mujer criolla que organiza constantes razias contra las plantaciones de una familia aristocrática, con la cual mantiene una especial animadversión. Todo cambia cuando se enamora de Andre, el heredero de la familia Tulane, enviado para combatir los ataques. Sin embargo el lugarteniente de Lili, Hugo, no consiente este romance, por lo que se desafía a un duelo a muerte. Uno de los largometrajes del oeste más conocidos de la etapa que dedicó al western William Castle, maestro del cine de serie B, y especialista en películas de terror, director de "House on Haunted Hill" y productor del film de Polansky "La semilla del diablo". En el papel de Andre se encuentra Lex Barker, el Tarzán más conocido de la historia del cine. Completan el reparto Patricia Medina y Warren Stevens, intérpretes asiduos al género del western.
La línea francesa
Phil Barton
Para pasar inadvertida, Mary Carson hace un crucero de incógnito. Tiene la esperanza de que si algún hombre se le acerca sea por sí misma y no por su dinero.
Abbott y Costello contra el Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde
Bruce Adams
Abbott y Costello se meten en la piel de un par de policías norteamericanos que viajan a Londres para aprender nuevas técnicas de sus compañeros ingleses. Allí conocen al rarito Dr. Jekyll y por error uno de ellos acaba inyectándose con una extraña jeringa que hace que el médico se convierta en un siniestro personaje.
Murder Without Tears
Detective Sergeant Steve O'Malley
A man hires someone to murder his wife and use a legal loophole to get away with it.
Llama a un desconocido
Mike Carr
Durante un vuelo con destino a Los Ángeles, traban amistad cuatro pasajeros que tienen problemas muy diferentes. A causa de una fuerte tormenta, el avión intenta aterrizar en Las Vegas, pero acaba estrellándose. El único superviviente del grupo decide visitar a las familias de los tres fallecidos. (FILMAFFINITY)
Tambores de guerra
Col. Braxton Summers
Dos grandes amigos graduados de la academia de West Point, Clay y Will, deciden ir a visitar a otro de sus compañeros, Braxton, a su plantación de Georgia. Allí Clay se reencontrará con su antiguo amor, Kathy, que es ahora esposa del terrateniente. Cuando se declara la Guerra entre Norte y Sur, ambos amigos se encontrarán enfrentados en lados opuestos durante una batalla en la montaña del Diablo.
The Lady from Texas
Cyril Guthrie
An eccentric Civil War widow is accused of being insane.
Katie Did It
Stuart Grumby
Katherine Standish, who has been brought up in a strict manner in a prudish New England town, falls in love with a city slicker commercial artist, Peter Van Arden. The romance blossoms until Katie falls victim of some false information, and becomes convinced that Peter is already married and the father of two children.
Blues Busters
Rick Martin
The Bowery Boys (Bowery Boys) open a nightclub after Sach has his tonsils out and wakes up with a singing voice.
Al borde del peligro
Ken Paine
Marx Dixon (Dana Andrews) es un conflictivo policía marcado por el fuerte carácter de su padre. En el transcurso de una investigación, hiere de muerte a un sospechoso y oculta el crimen. Un taxista (Tom Tully) es acusado como presunto autor del asesinato. Y, mientras tanto, Mark se enamora de su bella hija (Gene Tierney).
Night Unto Night
Tony Maddox
A bleak mansion sits ominously on a cliff above the sea somewhere on Florida's east coast. In its shadows, two people meet: a scientist haunted by incurable illness and a beautiful woman haunted by the voice of her dead husband. Ronald Reagan and Hollywood-debuting Viveca Lindfors star in an eerie drama steeped in religious faith and supernatural fear, in the destructive power of sexual jealousy and the redemptive power of love. In one of his earliest directorial efforts, Don Siegel (Dirty Harry, The Shootist) displays his command of pacing and camerawork, building the action to a climactic hurricane that parallels the tumultuous emotions of characters precariously balanced between now and the hereafter.
Love and Learn
Willard Deckerr
A wealthy socialite bored with her life meets and falls in love with a struggling songwriter on the verge of leaving New York and quitting the music business.
That Way with Women
Carter Andrews
A bored millionaire matches his daughter with his partner in a gas station.
De amor también se muere
Monte Loeffler
Helen Wright (Joan Crawford) es una seductora mujer que siempre consigue lo que quiere: vestidos, hombres, joyas... Un día conoce a Paul Boray (John Garfield), un joven y brillante violinista, que no se deja manipular. Al contrario: en esta ocasión y, por primera vez, Helen es víctima de su amor por un hombre.
The Man I Love
Bandleader
Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various ways with shady nightclub owner Nicky Toresca. Petey has what it takes to handle Nicky, but then she meets San Thomas, formerly great jazz pianist now on the skids, and falls for him hard.
Land and Live in the Desert
Gil
Documentary short film depicting the correct methods of surviving the crash landing of a military aircraft in the desert. Methods of conserving water, providing shelter, and signaling for help are depicted.
Too Young to Know
Major Bruce
A returning GI searches for the wife who left him and gave away their son.
Dios es mi copiloto
Ed Rector
Biografía de Robert L. Scott, afamado piloto de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, que se enfrentó a muerte con su mortífero enemigo, el aviador japonés conocido como Tokyo Joe.
Hollywood Canteen
Self
El "Hollywwod Canteen" era un club que la Warner Bros creó durante la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945) para que los soldados que estaban de permiso pudieran divertirse con el espectáculo y codearse con los actores de moda. Dos soldados pasan tres noches en el club: uno de ellos sueña con besar a Joan Leslie, su amor imposible durante la guerra del Pacífico. John Garfield favorece el encuentro.
The Doughgirls
Tom Dillon
Arthur and Vivian are just married, but when the get to their honeymoon suite in Washington D.C., they find it occupied. Arthur goes to meet Slade, his new boss, and when he comes back, he finds three girls in his suite. He orders Vivian to get rid of them, but they are friends of Vivian's and as time goes by, it looks more like Grand Central Station than the quiet honeymoon suite Arthur expected. As long as there is anyone else in the suite, Arthur will not stay there and there will be no honeymoon.
Desde que te fuiste
Danny Williams
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Mientras su marido lucha en la guerra, Anne Hilton intenta superar los problemas económicos y el racionamiento alquilando una habitación al Coronel Smollet. Lo malo es que su hija Jane tiene un aventura con el nieto de Smollet. (FILMAFFINITY)
How to Fly the B-26 Airplane
Lieutenant Jim Anthony
Documentary feature film depicting the training of young Lieutenant Jim Anthony as a pilot of the B-26 Marauder bomber. Dick, the captain charged with pilot instruction, leads Jim through every aspect of preparation to fly the bomber, going through a detailed checklist of pre-flight procedures, long before he allows Jim to turn an engine over. Once preparations are completed, Dick shows Jim the process of starting the engines, followed by take-off. In the air, further instruction helps Jim understand the various limits and capabilities of the aircraft. When one engine fails, Dick must simultaneously guide the limping plane back to a safe landing and explain to Jim each step of the procedure.
Learn and Live
Bob
Joe Instructor, an Army Air Forces flight instructor, visits Pilot Heaven and has a discussion with Saint Peter about the unacceptable number of pilots who have died and gone to heaven without ever getting into combat, all as a result of haphazard or inattentive flying. Joe points out several pilots as examples and tells Saint Peter just what they did wrong that landed them in Pilot Heaven.
Recognition of the Japanese Zero Fighter
Weldon (P-40 Pilot)
Military training film on the characteristics, capabilities, weaknesses, and recognition of the World War II Japanese fighter aircraft known as the Zero.
Three Cadets
Edwards
The story of Three Cadets and sexually transmitted diseases.
The Hidden Hand
Peter Thorne
Peter Thorne is a young attorney who works for an eccentric old woman, Lorinda Channing, who uses her insane brother, John Channing, to frighten her other relatives because they are after her money. Further complications arise when another murderer arrives on the scene and plants the blame on John.
Secret Enemies
Carl Becker
FBI agents Carl Becker and John Trent raid a New York hotel, sending Nazi spies to an upstate hunting lodge.
Spy Ship
Ward Prescott
A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies. With the help of the girl's sister, he sets out to expose the spy and her Nazi gang.
Steel Against the Sky
Chuck Evans
Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.
The Body Disappears
Robert Struck
Wealthy scion Peter DeHaven, about to marry socialite Christine Lunceford, wakes up after bachelor party revelry to find he's been turned invisible by eccentric college professor Reginald Shotesbury. An unbelievable series of events is revealed by several witnesses testifying in a "mystery trial" to determine the reason for DeHaven's "disappearance".
At the Stroke of Twelve
Lane McGowan
This entry in Warner's "Broadway Brevity" series of shorts is based on Damon Runyon's short story, "The Old Doll's House". Racketeer Lance McGowan, on the night he has decided to go straight, finds himself caught between the gunfire of two rival gangsters and, wounded by a bullet, he finds refuge in the home of a wealthy recluse. One of the gangsters is found riddled with bullets from the gun Lance dropped while making his escape, and he is arrested and tried for murder. The reclusive widow comes to the trail and testifies that Lance was her guest that night when the clock struck twelve, the time of the killing. Lance, while innocent, is also lucky, as the widow had her all her clocks set to always strike twelve, as the time her husband had died.
Law of the Tropics
Alfred King, Jr.
Jim Conway, who works on a South American rubber plantation, leaves to meet a girl from the United States whom he is to marry. But he receives a telegram from her telling him she has married someone else. He goes to a waterfront café where he meets a singer, Joan Madison, and tells her his troubles. He asks her to marry him and return to the plantation with him using the name of the girl he was to marry. This strikes her as a great idea as she is a wanted fugitive.
Bombarderos en picado
John Thomas Anthony III
Historia de un médico del ejército americano que investiga los mareos y desvanecimientos que sufren los pilotos cuando vuelan a gran altura. Basada en hechos reales, fue estrenada meses antes del ataque japonés contra Pearl Harbor.
Lady with Red Hair
Bit Role (uncredited)
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
Alice in Movieland
Carlo's Guest (uncredited)
In a U.S. town that could be anywhere, 18-year-old Alice Purdee wins a free trip to Hollywood. With the assistance of a cheerful porter, she takes the night train and dreams about her arrival. Instead of instant success, she meets disappointment after disappointment, and she needs the unexpected encouragement of her grandmother and an aging, former star whom she meets at a talent night. Finally, she gets a call to be an extra, and she's so hopeful that the regulars decide to make a fool of her. Is this the end of Alice's dream? Not if the porter has anything to say about it.
Caballero sin espada
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Jefferson Smith, un joven ingenuo e idealista, que parece fácilmente manipulable, es nombrado senador. Ignora que en Washington tendrá que vérselas con políticos y empresarios sin escrúpulos que le harán perder la fe. Sin embargo, gracias a su secretaria, una joven que conoce muy bien los entresijos de la política, protagoniza en el Senado una espectacular y maratoniana intervención en la que, además de defender apasionadamente la democracia, pone en evidencia una importante trama de corrupción.
Coast Guard
Sailor (uncredited)
Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the life of Captain Tobias Bliss, tramp steamer skipper, in a daring rescue at sea. Speed flies the injured man back to the base hospital, where the two officers later visit him. There Ray meets Nancy Bliss, Bliss' grand-daughter, and falls in love with her. Speed meets her at a dance and urges Ray to propose before some other guy does. Ray is assigned to flood rescue duty, and Speed and Nancy start going out together and discover they are in love.