Sterling Hayden

Sterling Hayden

출생 : 1916-03-26, Upper Montclair, New Jersey, USA

사망 : 1986-05-23

약력

Sterling Walter Hayden, born Sterling Relyea Walter, was an American actor and author. He didn't really harbor any aspirations of being an actor, dropped out of high school at the age of 16 and hired on as mate on a schooner. He was a ship's captain at 22, and in need of cash to buy his own boat, established himself as a model in New York, discovered by Paramount Studios talent scouts and offered a contract. Sterling Hayden, the handsome tall blond actor who played wholesome leading-man movie roles in the 1940's and 1950's and later weathered into a rough-hewn solid character actor in films such as ''Dr. Strangelove'', ''The Godfather,'' "Nine to Five" and "King of the Gypsies". He appeared in 71 feature films and tv-productions from the debut in "Virginia" 1941 to the tv mini-series "The Blue and the Gray" in 1982. He wrote of his obsessive fascination with the sea in a 1963 autobiography, ''Wanderer,'' and in 1970 his 700-page epic novel of the sea, ''Voyage,'' was a main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. Sterling Hayden appeared in the German documentary, ''Pharos of Chaos,'' (1983) filmed aboard his barge in Europe, and seemed to be in an alcoholic stupor much of the time, supplementing his wine intake with hashish. On camera he said: ''What confuses me is I ain't all that unhappy. So why do I drink, I don't know.''

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참여 작품

The Albatross
Glass Man (voice) (archive footage)
In the center of a freezing, misty lake, a struggling writer's solitary fishing trip is disrupted by a strange creature from the bottom of a whiskey bottle.
Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other
Self (archive footage)
Critics Kent Jones, B. Ruby Rich, Joe McElhaney and Miriam Bale discuss the unique qualities of "Johnny Guitar," its lasting appeal and the influence the film had on some prominent directors during the years.
Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'
Self (archive footage)
Larry Ceplair, co-author of The Inquisition in Hollywood, and blacklisted screenwriter Walter Bernstein, a former member of the Communist Party, discuss the socio-political environment in Hollywood during the 1940s and 1950s, as well as unusual production history of "Johnny Guitar."
Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?
Self (archive footage)
Critics Kent Jones, B. Ruby Rich, Joe McElhaney and Miriam Bale take a closer look at the feminist overtones in "Johnny Guitar."
Irving Johnson High Seas Adventurer
Himself
High Seas Adventurer highlights Johnson's exciting life, beginning with his introduction to the sea aboard the PEKING in 1929. Around Cape Horn, a Mystic Seaport video released in 1984, chronicles that voyage on the Peking. Seven of Johnson's round-the-world voyages aboard the brigantine Yankee are charted and illustrated with National Geographic's striking footage of exotic stops in the South Pacific islands. Later, aboard the smaller ketch Yankee, we travel with the Johnsons through the inland waterways of Europe and up the ancient Nile. Captain Johnson's realistic yet openly optimistic view of life is captured, showing him to be a paragon of the sailor. Several members of the "family" crew recount how memorable it was to sail with the Johnsons, and relate their appreciation for the experience.
The Shipwrecker
Book
Three actors portray scenes from the life of Sterling Hayden, with a particular focus on his appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Inspired by Hayden’s memoir “Wanderer.”
Pharos of Chaos
Self - Actor
A superb, moving and thrilling interview with American actor Sterling Hayden (1916-86), held in Besançon, France, on board a dilapidated barge, when he was 65 years old. An unparalleled portrait, in his own words and without any qualms, of a legendary Hollywood star, icon of film noir and the western, who was also a marine, an OSS agent, an anti-communist informer, a writer and a wandering sailor: the hero of his own life.
Vor Anker, Land unter - Ein Film mit Sterling Hayden
Himself
Venom
Howard Anderson
International terrorists attempt to kidnap a wealthy couple's child. Their plan comes unstuck when a deadly Black Mamba, sent by mistake instead of a harmless snake, escapes and the terrorists and several hostages are trapped in the boy's London home.
Gas
Duke Stuyvesant
Susan Anspach stars in this comedy as a news reporter who investigates a story about stolen milk causing milk and gas prices to rise. During the course of her investigation, other people become involved, culminating in a multiple car chase.
나인 투 파이브
Russell Tinsworthy
젊은 여비서와 바람이 난 남편과 이혼한 쥬디(Judy Bernly: 제인 폰다 분)는 대기업의 말단 사무직원으로 취직한다. 출근 첫날부터 직속 상관인 하트 부사장(Franklin Hart Jr.: 대브니 콜만 분)은 미인이라며 추파를 던지질 않나, 사소한 실수를 두고 해고하겠다고 위협하질 않나 그녀의 인격은 풍전등화. 한편 이 부서의 과장인 바이올렛(Violet Newstead: 릴리 톰린 분)은 능력있는 여직원에 대한 하트의 견제 때문에 승진 심사에서도 미끄러지고 매일 커피 심부름이나 하는 처지. 또한 하트의 비서이자 환상적인 글래머 도랠리(Doralee Rhodes: 돌리 파튼 분)는 시도 때도 없는 하트의 육탄공세와 선물공세 때문에 다른 직원들로부터 따돌림을 당한다. 홧김에 낮술을 마시러 들어간 바에서 마주친 세 여자. 그들은 자신들의 인격과 권리를 찾기 위해 하트를 본격적으로 공격하기로하는데...
The Outsider
Seamus Flaherty
Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to Belfast to join the cause of his grandfather, Seamus (Sterling Hayden). Soon he finds that he is not as welcomed in his home country as he imagined he would be. Even worse, he's the target of an IRA assassination plot designed to make the British forces look bad in order to elicit financial support from wealthy Americans.
The Starlost: The Beginning
Jeremiah
Three farmers in Cypress Corners discover that farm life is not so simple. Discovering a hidden door in the earth, they break through it, discovering they are not on Earth, but in a giant Noah's Ark-like spaceship. The spaceship is made up of giant "domes" holding the various cultures of humanity. Eventually, they find the bridge, its crew dead and its computer complaining that the ship is off-course, heading into the path of a distant sun. The three farmers take it upon themselves to travel the ship, contacting the various cultures of humanity in search of somebody who can correct the course of the ship and save mankind.
윈터 킬
Z.K. Dawson
국민들의 신임을 한 몸에 받고 있던 미 현직 대통령 티모시 키건이 윌리 아놀드에 의해 살해된다. 그리고 배후 세력이 밝혀지지 않은 채 윌리의 단독 범행으로 수사는 종결된다. 19년 후, 티모시의 이복 동생 닉은 온몸이 붕대로 감긴 수수께끼의 인물을 알게 된다. 그는 자신이 대통령을 저격한 살해범이며, 그 당시 사용했던 총의 소재와 배후 인물을 말한뒤 숨진다. 그리고 완전 범죄의 음모 속에 증인들이 하나 둘 의문의 죽음을 당한다.
집시들의 왕
King Zharko Stepanowicz
Zharko, leader of the Romanis in NYC, passes his position of leadership on to his unwilling grandson, Dave, leading to infighting between Dave and his father.
1900년
Leo Dalcò
1차 대전이 일어나기 전인 1901년, 이탈리아의 작은 마을에서는 두 아이가 태어난다. 같은 날에 태어난 지주의 아들 알프레도와 소작농의 아들 올모는 서로 너무 다른 환경에 속하지만, 라이벌이자 가장 친한 친구로 함께 자란다. 하지만 알프레도의 아버지가 가업을 이어받으면서 지주와 소작농들 사이의 갈등은 심화되고, 알프레도와 올모도 점점 서로 대립하기 시작한다. 알프레도와 올모의 얽히고설킨 삶을 통해 이탈리아 현대사를 꿰뚫고 있는 베르나르도 베르톨루치의 대작으로, 사랑과 질투, 계급 갈등과 역사적 고난이 웅장한 화면에 펼쳐지는 감동적인 서사극이다. 러닝 타임이 5시간이 넘어 미국 개봉 당시 축약본으로 상영되는 수모를 겪기도 했다.
The Cinema According to Bertolucci
Self
Documentary on the filming of Novecento by Bernardo Bertolucci
Cry, Onion!
Henry 'Jack' Pullitzer
Onion Jack (Franco Nero) has bought a piece of land on which to settle, but the property is still in possession of the orphans of the original owner and is coveted by the local oil baron.
Deadly Strangers
Malcolm Robarts
After she misses her train, a young woman is forced to hitch a ride back to town. After managing to get away from a lecherous trucker, she is given a ride by a good-looking but somewhat mysterious young man, who she comes to suspect may be a dangerous escapee from a mental asylum.
The Final Programme
Maj. Wrongway Lindbergh
After the death of his Nobel Prize-winning father, billionaire physicist Jerry Cornelius becomes embroiled in the search for the mysterious "Final Programme", developed by his father. The programme, a design for a perfect, self-replicating human being, is contained on microfilm. A group of scientists, led by the formidable Miss Brunner (who consumes her lovers), has sought Cornelius's help in obtaining it. After a chase across a war-torn Europe on the verge of anarchy, Brunner and Cornelius obtain the microfilm from Jerry's loathsome brother Frank. They proceed to an abandoned underground Nazi fortress in the Arctic to run the programme, with Jerry and Miss Brunner as the subjects.
긴 이별
Roger Wade
LA의 사설탐정 필립은 친구 테리의 부탁으로 그를 멕시코까지 차로 데려다 준다. 집에 돌아온 필립은 테리의 부인이 살해된 것을 알게 되고, 경찰은 테리를 용의자로 지목한다. 한편, 테리는 멕시코에서 자살하고, 미모의 유부녀가 필립을 숨겨주지만 곧 남편에게 발각된다. 로버트 알트먼이 미국 영화 비평계의 자랑이었던 1970년대에 만든 필름 누아르로, 레이먼드 챈들러의 동명 소설을 알트먼이 좀 더 실험적인 스타일을 가미해 현대판 필름 누아르로 재해석했다.
The Big Departure
M. Nature / The Leader
This is the only feature directed by the famed French painter and sculptor Martial Raysse. In keeping with the revolutionary spirit of the time, the movie has no plot to speak of and appears to have been largely made up on the spot. We follow the cat man into a bizarre fantasy universe presented in negative exposure that reverses color values (black is white and vice versa) and written words. The cat man steals a car and then picks up a young girl he promises to take to “Heaven.” Heaven turns out to be a country chateau inhabited by several more animal mask wearing weirdoes...
Angel's Leap
Mason / Custer
In this French crime thriller, you can leave the mob, but the mob won't leave you. Louis (Jean Yanne) has retired to a Thailand plantation with an Asian wife and child. Back in Marseilles, however, because a no-holds-barred gang war has broken out, Louis' large collateral family is wiped out, and he is family are slated for destruction.
Sweet Hunters
Allan
An ornithologist goes on a field trip to a deserted island near the mainland with his wife and small son, and is joined by the wife's sister, who is getting over an abortion; later, an escaped convict is discovered. A situation which may seem naturalistic enough, but the form never is: incidents are isolated, cross-relations are oblique, emotions are unexplained.
Loving
Lepridon
Brooks Wilson is in crisis. He is torn between his wife Selma and two daughters and his mistress Grace, and also between his career as a successful illustrator and his feeling that he might still produce something worthwhile.
Hard Contract
Michael Carlson
A cold hearted American hit man goes to Europe for "one last score". His encounter with a beautiful young woman casts self doubt on his lifeblood, and influences him to resist carrying out the contract.
Carol for Another Christmas
Daniel Grudge
Daniel Grudge, a wealthy industrialist and fierce isolationist long embittered by the loss of his son in World War II, is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve who lead him to reconsider his attitude toward his fellow man.
닥터 스트레인지러브
Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper
미 공군의 잭 리퍼 장군은 공산주의자들이 미국인의 신성한 혈통을 오염시킬 음모를 꾸미고 있다는 망상에 사로잡혀 핵폭격기를 출격시킨다. 미국 대통령은 절대절명의 위기를 해결 하기 위해 자문회를 소집하는데, 그 자리에서 소련 대사는 만일 소련이 핵공격을 당한다면 지구상의 모든 동식물이 파멸되는 운명의 날이 다가오게 될 것이라고 경고한다. 전 나치주의자였던 천재 과학자 스트레인지러브 박사는 핵무기에 지구의 운명이 달려있다는 사실이 너무 명백하므로 핵무기로 상황을 대응할 수 없다는 결론을 내린다. 과연 폭격기는 제 시간에 제거될 수 있을 것인가? 아니면 잭 리퍼 장군이 전세계를 파멸시키는데 성공 할 것인가?
Ten Days To Tulara
Scotty
Director George Sherman's 1958 western about gold thieves in Mexico stars Sterling Hayden, Grace Raynor and Rodolfo Hoyos.
Terror in a Texas Town
George Hansen
Armed with a harpoon, a Swedish whaler is out for revenge after the death of his father. A greedy oil man trying to buy up the Swede's land might be the guilty party.
Zero Hour!
Captain Martin Treleaven
In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food poisoning, thus forcing an ex-WW2 fighter pilot to try to land the airliner in heavy fog.
Gun Battle at Monterey
Jay Turner / John York
An outlaw saved by a Mexican girl hunts the holdup partner who shot him in the back.
Valerie
John Garth
After the American Civil War, former Union Major John Garth marries pretty settler Valerie but tragedy strikes and the two spouses end up in court where they give two different conflicting accounts of their marriage.
The Iron Sheriff
Sheriff Samuel Galt
Frontier peacekeeper Sheriff Galt faces a crisis of conscience in The Iron Sheriff. In the aftermath of a robbery-murder, Galt follows the trail of evidence directly to his own son, Benjie. Sworn to uphold the law at all costs, Galt is grimly determined to see that Benjie will receive a fair trial without any coercion on his part. But the townsfolk have already decided that the sheriff will try to spring the boy, and a lynch-mob mentality slows festers its way through the community. As the trial proceeds, it becomes obvious that Benjie is going to hang for his alleged crime, but there's still one or two surprises in store.
Crime of Passion
Lt. William Doyle
Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a dangerous path.
Five Steps to Danger
John Emmett
Can a couple keep important secrets from Communist spies?
킬링
Johnny Clay
전과자 자니 클레이는 샌프란시스코 경마장 강도 계획을 세우고 동료들을 모은다. 치밀한 준비 끝에 드디어 실행의 시간이 왔지만, 계획이 성공했다고 생각한 순간 예상하지 않았던 상황이 그들을 기다리고 있다. 라이오넬 화이트의 원작을 스탠리 큐브릭이 치밀하게 영화화한 걸작. 소설에서는 흔히 사용되어 왔던, 동시에 일어나는 사건을 시간을 반복해 순서대로 묘사하는 테크닉을 스크린에 옮겨 놓았으며, 범행 장면의 다이내믹한 연출 역시 놓칠 수 없는 부분이다.
The Come On
Dave Arnold
A con woman tries to swindle her partner-in-crime husband with the help of one of her former marks. But is she to be trusted?
Top Gun
Rick Martin
A gunslinger returns to his hometown to warn of an impending outlaw gang attack, but he's met with hatred and fear for his previous killings.
The Last Command
Jim Bowie
During the Texas War of Independence of 1836 American frontiersman and pioneer Jim Bowie pleads for caution with the rebellious Texicans. They don't heed his advice since he's a Mexican citizen, married to the daughter of the Mexican vice-governor of the province and a friend to General Santa Anna since the days they had fought together for Mexico's independence. After serving as president for 22 years, Santa Anna has become too powerful and arrogant. He rules Mexico with an iron fist and he would not allow Texas to self-govern. Bowie sides with the Texans in their bid for independence and urges a cautious strategy, given Santa Anna's power and cunning. Despite the disagreement between the Texicans and Bowie regarding the right strategy they ask Bowie to lead them in a last-ditch stand, at Alamo, against General Santa Anna's numerically superior forces.
Shotgun
Clay Hardin
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 follow the trail into Apache territory.
The Eternal Sea
Rear-Adm. John Madison Hoskins
Biography of Admiral John Hoskins' efforts to retain active command despite WW2 injury.
Timberjack
Tim Chipman
A young man seeks his father's killers among lumberjacks, and discovers that they are actually timber barons who also seek to control lumber mills. Based on the novel of the same name.
Battle Taxi
Capt. Russ Edwards
In the Korean war, the commander of an Air Rescue helicopter team must show a hot-shot former jet pilot how important helicopter rescue work is and turn him into a team player.
드러난 알리바이
Joe E. Conroy
Questioned as a murder suspect, solid (but drunk) citizen Al Willis attacks his police questioners, is beaten, and swears vengeance against them. Next night, Lieut. Parks is murdered; Willis is the only suspect in the eyes of tough Chief Conroy, who pursues him doggedly despite lack of evidence. The obsessed Conroy is dismissed from the force, but continues to harass Willis, who flees to a sleazy town on the Mexican border. Of course, Conroy follows. But which is crazy, Conroy or Willis?
Suddenly
Sheriff Tod Shaw
The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town... and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush.
쟈니 기타
Johnny 'Guitar' Logan
서부 산악 지대를 지나가는 말탄 사나이. 그가 본 것은 서부에 철도를 놓기 위한 토목공사 현장과 벌판에서 역마차를 습격하는 한 무리의 무법자들이다. 이 사나이의 이름은 쟈니 기타. 한때는 서부에 이름을 날렸던 유명한 무법자 총잡이다. 지금 그가 찾아가는 곳은 아리조나에 있는 선술집이다. 그 선술집의 주인은 비엔나로서 당당하고 멋진 서부의 여인이다. 원래 쟈니와 비엔나는 사랑하는 사이였지만 쟈니는 무법자로서의 생활을 택했고 그녀는 그와 헤어져 혼자 살아왔다. 그러다가 그녀는 자신이 참여할 서부 철도 사업을 위해 그를 총잡이로 고용했다. 하지만 옛 연인과 재회한 쟈니의 손에는 총 대신 기타가 들려 있었다. 이때, 먼지 바람 속을 뚫고 한 무리의 남자들이 몰려온다. 그들은 댄싱 키드와 그의 패거리들이다. 키드는 비엔나를 사랑하는데, 쟈니를 보자 대뜸 시비를 건다. 키드의 부하 바트 로네건이 쟈니와 티격태격하고 있을 때, 다시 마을 보안관과 엠마 스몰이 이끄는 마을사람들이 등장한다. 이들은 서부에 철도가 건설되는 것에 반대하고, 그 건설에 관여하는 비엔나를 쫓아내려 기회를 엿보고 있었다. 특히 엠마는 댄싱 키드를 사랑하지만, 그가 비엔나에게 관심이 있자 질투의 불길에 휩싸여 있다. 더구나 역마차를 습격하여 자신의 오빠를 죽인 무법자 일당이 댄싱 키드라고 몰아붙이면서도 그를 좋아하는 눈치다. 그리고 비엔나 때문에 마을에 액운이 있다고 주장하며 그녀를 마녀라고 몰아 붙인다. 차츰 마을 사람들은 이성을 잃기 시작히는데...
Arrow In The Dust
Bart Laish
Director Lesley Selander's 1954 western stars Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Keith Larsen, Tom Tully, Lee Van Cleef and Jimmy Wakely.
Prince Valiant
Sir Gawain
A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.
Fighter Attack
Steve
World War II film set in German occupied Italy. A US fighter pilot is shot down in enemy territory during a raid against a German supply depot. He receives from Italian partisans in laying the groundwork for a new attack by his squadron.
So Big
Pervis DeJong
After the death of her father and the loss of his fortune, Selina takes a job teaching school in the Dutch community of New Holland. She stays with the Pools and teaches young Roelf piano. He has a crush on her, but it is Pervus she marries. Dirk is their only child. After a few years Pervus dies. With a young child and only the farm, Selina begins her quest to grow high quality vegetables. She wants more for Dirk and guides his life until he graduates from college as an architect. As her vegetable label prospers, she sees Paula control Dirk's life as he moves away from creating and into sales, which is not where he wants to go.
크라임 웨이브
Det. Lt. Sims
Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then attempt to force him into doing a bank job.
Take Me to Town
Will Hall
Saloon entertainer Vermilion O'Toole and her former partner in crime Newt Cole escape from a train ride to prison and hide out in logging town Timberline. Meanwhile, the three sons of widower Will Hall come to town in search of a wife for their dad. Vermilion needs to lay low to escape the marshal, so she accepts the boys' offer to visit pioneer community Pine Grove. Once there, she annoys local Mrs. Grundys but eventually starts to fit in.
Kansas Pacific
Capt. John Nelson
Just before the Civil War (but after the South has seceded), Southern saboteurs try to prevent railroad construction from crossing Kansas to the frontier; army captain Nelson is sent out to oppose them. As the tracks push westward, Nelson must contend with increasingly violent sabotage, while trying to romance the foreman's pretty daughter Barbara.
The Star
Jim Johannsen aka Barry Lester
A washed-up movie queen finds romance, but continues to desire a comeback.
Flat Top
Commander Dan Collier
A rock hard commander trains Navy Carrier Pilots during the Second World War
The Golden Hawk
Kit 'The Hawk' Gerardo
A 17th-century French pirate (Sterling Hayden) sides with an English noblewoman (Rhonda Fleming) who's posing as a pirate.
Hellgate
Lt. Tod Voorhees
A man is framed and sent to the toughest prison in the territory.
Denver and Rio Grande
McCabe
Jim Vesser and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less scrupulous construction workers sabotages the entire operation in the hopes that they can get their tracks laid first and get the money from the railroad.
Flaming Feather
Tex McCloud
A mysterious outlaw known as the Sidewinder, phantom leader of renegade Ute Indians, terrorizes the people of the Arizona Territory in the 1870s. When rancher Tex McCloud has his place burned out, he vows to find and kill the Sidewinder.
Journey Into Light
Rev, John Burrows
John Burrows, an ordained minister from a small village in the East, envisions himself with a larger congregation. He is mortified when his wife drunkenly interrupts a sermon, then despondent after her suicide. Burrows travels to Los Angeles for a fresh start, but takes to the bottle himself and ends up arrested for public intoxication. A skid-row con man, Gandy, finds him a bed at a flop house, while a street preacher, Doc Thorssen, and daughter Christine take him to a local mission. Christine is blind. She falls in love with Burrows, enjoying his discussions of the spirit and the soul but knowing little of his past. One day she is struck by a streetcar and knocked unconscious, causing Burrows to once again question his faith. He ultimately accepts the Lord's will and is offered a better place to live and preach. Burrows decides he is better suited to the mission, with Christine by his side.
아스팔트 정글
Dix Handley
전설적인 범죄자 독은 출감하자마자 오래 전부터 준비해 온 보석상 강도를 실행에 옮기기 위해 금고 전문털이 루이스, 운전사 거스, 건달 딕스를 끌어 들인다. 자금이 필요한 그들은 변호사이자 악덕 고리대금업자인 에머리히에게서 돈을 지원받기로 하지만, 에머리히는 독을 이용해 보석을 가로챈 뒤 애인과 함께 외국으로 도망치려는 계획을 꾸민다. 당시 23세였던 젊은 마릴린 먼로를 만날 수 있는 걸작 범죄영화.
Manhandled
Joe Cooper
Merle Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a private eye and former cop. Merle mentions in passing that one of her boss's patients is an author with recurring dreams of murdering his wife, and she includes the fact that the wife owns valuable jewels. When the wife is found murdered in a manner identical to that of her husband's dream, the husband is naturally the prime suspect. But as the investigation of the police and insurance investigator Joe Cooper proceeds, it turns out that several people in the case, including Merle, are not what they seem.
El Paso
Bert Donner
Ex-confederate officer Clay Fletcher jumps at the chance to reunite with his once lady-friend, Susan Jeffers, when his father, Judge Fletcher, sends him on an errand to El Paso, Texas to get the signature of Susan's father, Judge Jeffers, on a legal document. Once there he finds the judge has become a drunk and a laughing stock, doing the bidding of local magnate Bert Donner and his running dog, Sheriff La Farge. Just as Clay starts straightening out the town's problems, events occur which force him to abandon the legal system and instead adopt the murderous tactics of a vigilante.
Variety Girl
Sterling Hayden
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.
Blaze of Noon
Tad McDonald
In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs to become mail pilots. Because their job requires that they constantly travel, they are advised to not settle down with wives and kids. Still, one pilot falls in love and marries. Unfortunately, the woman dislikes his brothers and constantly worries that he will be killed during a flight. Her fears are not unfounded and much tragedy ensues as the story unfolds.
Bahama Passage
Adrian Ainsworth
A girl, Carol whom the audience is quickly informed "has been around," and her father arrive to take over the business management of an island in the Bahamas owned by Adrian Ainsworth, descendant of many ancestors who have handled it over the years to the satisfaction of its 250 native residents. He is married to a woman who stays away from the island because she is lonely when there. Adrian doesn't want Carol or her father there, and they don't want to be there. Romance can't be lurking far behind the beautiful sunset.
Virginia
Norman Williams
Post-Civil War romantic drama about defeated Southerners, starring Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray.