Zachary Scott
Nascimento : 1914-02-21, Austin, Texas, USA
Morte : 1965-10-03
História
Zachary Scott (21 February 1914 – 3 October 1965) was an American actor, most notable for his roles as villains and "mystery men".
Writer
In 1943, Max Fronenberg spent one year digging a secret underground tunnel to escape out of a prison camp in Warsaw, Poland during the Holocaust while saving fifteen other prisoners in the process and forced to leave behind the love of his life, Rena, in the prison.
Gregory DeWitt
Lester March (Jerry Lewis) é um órfão de 25 anos que ganha a vida consertando aparelhos eletrônicos. Sua verdadeira paixão são as histórias de detetive e seu sonho é um dia se tornar um. Ele e seu melhor amigo, Pete Flint (Jesse White), ficam sabendo do caso de uma família que está procurando seu sobrinho desaparecido e como recompensa estão oferecendo Us$ 100.000,00. Na tentativa de conseguir o dinheiro e de viver uma aventura de detetive, Lester invade a casa da família em busca de provas e pistas. Porém, ao observar as fotos do sobrinho desaparecido, ele percebe que se parece muito com o rapaz.
Otto Habershaw
A timid man with money problems gets into a big card game with some high-rollers.
Miller
Um músico de jazz procura refúgio de um linchamento numa ilha remota, onde ele encontra um guarda florestal hostil e uma jovem objeto das suas atenções.
John A. Morrow / John Murrell
Bank clerk Virgil Stewart infiltrates a band of land pirates on the Natchez Trace, and learns bandit leader John Morrow's ambitious plans will lead to bloody revolution between slaveholders and slaves if they aren't stopped.
John Lewis Sullivan
The wife of a condemned man tries to save him in England by finding the real killer.
Max Brant
An escaped murderer flees France to England, where he forces an ex-forger, now established as a reputable estate owner, and the forger's daughter who knew nothing of his past, to counterfeit 5-pound notes for mass distribution around the countryside.
Kennedy
American arms dealer Kennedy hopes to make a killing by selling to the "regulares" in the 1916 Mexican revolution. American mercenary Wilson favors the rebel faction headed by Escobar, and they plot to hijack Kennedy's arms; but Wilson also has his eye on Kennedy's wife. Raids, counter-raids, and escapes follow in a veritable hail of bullets.
Wade Evans
A café singer buys a gambling casino and several men fall in love with her.
Reb Carlton
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.
Ross Haney
Ranchers battle one another over water rights. Western.
Harry Sheppard
On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett, an American carrying money for a Honduran counter-revolution. Denied permission to land in Honduras, Corbett releases the prisoners and with their aid hijacks the ship. They land, taking the wealthy Sheppards as hostages, and start the arduous trip upriver to Corbett's rendezvous, meeting jungle hazards
Richard Van Ness
A former pilot suffering from blackouts discovers that a fellow flyer is suspected of being mixed up with a web of smugglers. While searching for his missing buddy, he unwittingly becomes entangled in a morass of suspicion.
Don Miguel Navarro
In 1850s Mexico, the beautiful owner of a silver mine is kidnapped by a bandit leader, who needs money to finance his revolt against the Emperor Maximilian.
Victor Macfarland
A woman divorces her husband of 20 years because he gambles too much.
Johnny Greer
After a group of convicts escapes from prison, they take refuge in the wilderness. While most of the crew are ruthless sociopaths, Jim Canfield is an innocent man who was jailed under false pretenses. When Canfield and his fellow fugitives reach an isolated farming settlement where the men are all away, it creates tension with the local women. Things get direr when rumors of hidden money arise, and Canfield discovers that the man who framed him is part of the community.
Harvey Fortescue Turner
Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
Curtis Carey
Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master of manipulation, she covertly breaks off the engagement of her trusting cousin, Donna, to her fabulously wealthy beau, Curtis Carey. Once married to Curtis herself, Christabel continues her affair with novelist Nick Bradley, who knows she's evil, but loves her anyway.
Barry Holmes
A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.
Jason Brett
Gun salesman Steve Farrell gets two of his new Colt .45 pistols stolen from him by ruthless killer Jason Brett but vows to recover them.
David I. Starrling
Angered that her sister Celia has stolen her fiance, Dell Faring kills her and allows Celia's husband David, knocked out in an argument with Celia, to take the blame and end up on death row. Later Dell, finding out that David's young daughter Susan was witness to the crime and is undergoing psychiatric treatment, plans to eliminate her before her memory returns.
Max Thursday
O ex-policial Max Thursday se embebeda em um hotel barato quando sua ex-mulher aparece com más notícias e o manda numa corrida desesperada contra o tempo e a bebida. Uma relíquia noir independente do diretor Joseph Lerner, filmada inteiramente em Nova York. Um filme independente repleto de bebida e paranoia, filmado inteiramente em lugares reais nas ruas de Nova Iorque.
Larry Pearce
A jealous wife suspects the worst when her dingaling husband hires his former girlfriend for a position at his company.
Fielding Carlisle
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
Charlie Burns
With the advent of the American Civil War, three partners in a ranch see how this is destroyed. Needing money, will join the Confederate troops, each for their particular motivations.
Walter Colby
Messing with a mobster's girlfriend gets a lawyer framed for murder.
Self
The Warner Bros. annual blooper reel for 1949.
Rex Durant
An artist follows a woman from California to New York, where he boxes for her mobster husband.
Horace Woodruff 'Woody' Vendig
Horace Vendig always gets what he wants. Even as a poor youth, he charmed his way into high society by getting the father of his friend, Martha, to foot the bill for his Harvard education. When Vic, another childhood pal, is invited to Horace's mansion for a party, he brings along Mallory Flagg, who happens to bear a striking resemblance to Martha. As Vic and Horace reunite, old resentments rise to the surface.
Bradd Criley
O juiz Cass Timberlane se casa com uma garota do lado errado dos trilhos, Virginia Marshland. Um bebê nasce morto e ela se volta cada vez mais para o advogado amigo de Cass ', Bradd Criley. Enquanto discutia, o juiz diz a Virginia para ficar com Bradd, mas quando ela fica doente, ele a traz para casa.
Bob Hunter
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.
Stephen Purcell
A veterinarian and a novelist compete for the heart of a lady rancher.
Steve Maddux
A singer can't choose between a charismatic gangster and an honest newspaperman.
Ronnie Mason
After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles. Under a new identity and claiming to be a writer, Ronnie finds lodging at the home of Hilda Fenchurch and her mother. He woos Hilda, knowing she has money, but when he discovers that Hilda's sister, Anne, has just inherited $25,000, he switches his attentions to her.
Monte Beragon
Principal suspeita do assassinato de seu marido, Mildred Pierce tem sua vida repassada em flashback. Vemos como era seu relacionamento com as filhas, o quanto dava duro para lhes dar tudo do bom e do melhor, e como uma delas a tratava mal, chegando a ter um relacionamento com seu padrasto. Oscar de Melhor Atriz para Joan Crawford.
Sam Tucker
Sam Tucker, um colhedor de algodão, em busca de um futuro melhor para sua família, decide cultivar sua própria plantação de algodão. No primeiro ano, os Tuckers enfrentam uma doença, uma inundação e um vizinho ciumento. Será que vão conseguir se transformar em agricultores? (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
Self
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
Dimitrios Makropoulos
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Along the way he is joined by the mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.