Shepperd Strudwick

Shepperd Strudwick

Nascimento : 1907-09-22, Hillsboro [now Hillsborough], North Carolina, USA

Morte : 1983-01-15

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Shepperd Strudwick

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Kent State
Prof. Warren
Dramatization of the four days of events leading up to the historic tragedy at Kent State University in May 1970, during the confrontation between National Guardsmen and students staging antiwar demonstrations.
The Man Without a Country
Secretary of the Navy
At his court-martial, an American Army officer renounces his country. For his punishment he is ordered to spend the rest of his life on a ship that sails all over the world, but he will never be allowed to set foot on his country's soil. nor come within site of it, nor be allowed to know anything about the country
The Monitors
Tersh Jeterax
Earthlings chafe at the peace established by a benevolent alien race and set about to rebel.
Slaves
Mr. Stillwell
A Kentucky slave fights for his freedom from cruel overseer whose mistress eventually joins Davis and the other slaves in their revolt.
Daring Game
Dr. Henry L. Carlyle
Survival Devices, Inc are an organisation that employ a team of adventurers known as "the Flying Fish" who are adept in sky diving, scuba diving and martial arts. They are engaged to rescue a captured scientist imprisoned on a Caribbean island by a dictator. The team parachutes off the coast of the island in a HALO jump and establishes an inflatable underwater basecamp in an "Instant Underwater Habitat" or "Igloo".
Violent Midnight
Adrian Benedict
An axe murderer is loose in a small New England town.
The Bat
Dr. Wells
A sinister criminal known only as "The Bat" attempts to locate a fortune in stolen securities supposedly hidden in the rambling mansion owned by spinster Cornelia Van Gorde.
Girl on the Run
James McCullough / Ralph Graham
A Hollywood private eye (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) seeks a singer being stalked by a hired killer.
O Bamba do Regimento
Major General Vanderlip
Bixby (Jerry Lewis) é um desastrado recruta que é um dos poucos americanos capazes de montar um determinado equipamento bélico. Esta qualidade vai deixá-lo em maus lençóis quando comerciantes de armas no Marrocos precisam do seu auxílio.
That Night!
Dr. Bernard Fischer
When a driven business man suffers a series of heart attacks, he and his family must reassess their values.
Suplício de uma Alma
Jonathan Wilson
Um repórter/escritor, auxiliado por seu futuro sogro, conspira para conduzir o assassinato de uma dançarina burlesca com provas forjadas como parte de um esforço para banir a pena de morte. O repórter investigativo Tom Garrett, licenciado de seu trabalho no jornal, trabalha em seu segundo romance. Como está tendo problemas para escrever o segundo, seu chefe e futuro sogro, o editor de jornais Austin Spencer, sugere que ele escreva um livro de não-ficção sobre a pena capital. Eles acreditam que o promotor público do estado, Roy Thompson, sempre manipula os júris para garantir vereditos, levando pessoas inocentes para o corredor da morte. O plano é plantar provas que condenem uma pessoa inocente num caso de assassinato, Tom será a pessoa inocente. Vão documentar todas as evidências plantadas, tornando-as públicas após a apresentação do veredicto para reverter e, esperamos, levar à discussão dos méritos da abolição da pena de morte.
Folhas Mortas
Dr. Malcolm Couzzens
A woman falls for a younger man with severe mental problems.
Melodia Imortal
Sherman Wadsworth
Biografia romanceada do pianista Eddy Duchin. No final dos anos 20, o farmaceutico recém-formado e aspirante pianista Eddy Duchin vai de Boston para Nova York com a expectativa de tocar com a orquestra de Leo Reisman no fantástico Cassino do Central Park de Nova York. No entanto, ele tinha entendido mal a convite do maestro. Quando está deixando o local conhece a rica socialite Marjorie Oelrichs que pede a Leo Reisman para dar uma chance ao Eddy. Ele começa a tocar durante os intervalos da orquestra e se torna um pianista famoso. Dois anos depois, Marjorie e Eddy se casam e no Natal, Marjorie tem um bebê, Peter.
Lady in the Dark
Dr. Brooks
The unhappy female editor of a fashion magazine is undergoing psychoanalysis.
Um Lugar ao Sol
Anthony Vickers
Um jovem ambicioso ganha o coração de uma herdeira, mas tem que lidar com a gravidez de sua ex-namorada. O jovem e pobre George Eastman (Montgomery Clift) deixa sua mãe religiosa em Chicago e vai para a Califórnia esperando encontrar um emprego melhor nos negócios de seu tio rico, Charles Eastman. Seu primo Earl Eastman avisa que há muitas mulheres na fábrica e a regra básica é que ele não deve paquerar qualquer uma delas. George encontra a operária Alice Tripp no cinema e eles começam a namorar. No entanto o marginalizado George é promovido e encontra a linda Angela Vickers numa festa na casa de seu tio. Angela o apresenta à alta sociedade local e eles se apaixonam. Mas Alice está grávida e ela quer se casar com George.
A Morte Aponta sua Arma
Milo Bragg
O gânsgster Bert Galvin tem interesse pessoal e profissional num clube noturno de Audrey Totter. A caminho de Nova Yok, ele assassina um homem e vai preso. Totter recusa-se a testemunhar em seu favor, pois não quer cometer perjúrio. Assim, ele é condenado a vinte anos e vai para o presídio federal. Nesse lugar é onde se passa a maior parte da história.
Let's Dance
Timothy Bryant
Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her wealthy and controlling mother-in-law. Alone and jobless in New York, she runs into an old flame, her USO partner Donald Elwood, who agrees to help her fight for custody of the child.
Three Husbands
Arthur Evans
When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands, with whom he regularly played poker, to a letter he left each of them claiming to have had an affair with each's wife.
Duelo Sangrento
Jameson
Western reconstituindo um dos episódios mais famosos da carreira de William H. Bonney, o fora-da-lei, Billy the Kid (1859-1881), interpretado por Audie Murphy. Aos 18 anos, Billy chega ao Novo México e abandona as armas, empregando-se no rancho do inglês Tunstall, com quem faz amizade e que o ajuda a regenerar-se. Tunstall, porém, é assassinado por ladrões de gado que operam na região e Billy resolve vingar-se deflagrando um combate que ficou conhecido como a Guerra do Condado de Lincoln (1878).
Na Teia do Destino
Ted Darby
Após a morte acidental do amante indesejável de sua filha, Lucia Harper (Joan Bennett) esconde o corpo para proteger sua família. Após um tempo, o parceiro do morto (James Mason) aparece e começa a chantageá-la. O conforto e a segurança de seu mundo está em perigo, logo tudo começa a desmoronar.
A Grande Ilusão
Adam Stanton
O filme conta a história de ascensão e queda de um político rebelde do interior que começa exigindo reformas e justiça social, mas acaba embriagado pelo próprio poder. O roteiro é uma adaptação do romance de Robert Penn Warren, publicado em 1946, e pelo qual o autor recebeu o Prémio Pulitzer de Literatura.
Caminhos Sem Fim
Blacky Franchot
On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Ames comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.
A Sombra da Guilhotina
Napoleon Bonaparte (uncredited) (voice)
França, 1794. Robespierre, uma poderosa figura da Revolução Francesa, espalha o terror contra seus opositores. Paralelamente, uma conspiração é formada para que ele não alcance o poder.
O Vale da Ternura
Mr. Fred Tiflin
Peter Miles stars as Tom Tiflin, the little boy at the heart of this John Steinbeck story set in Salinas Valley. With his incompatible parents -- the city-loving Fred and country-happy Alice -- constantly bickering, Tom looks to cowboy Billy Buck for companionship and paternal love.
Encantamento
Marchese Del Laudi
Roland Dane finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last days. However, the appearance of his niece and her subsequent romance with Lark's nephew causes him to reevaluate his life and offer some advice so the young couple doesn't make the same mistake he did, all those years ago.
Joana D'Arc
Father Massieu, Joan's Bailiff
No século XV, a França é uma nação derrotada e arruinada após a Guerra dos Cem Anos contra a Inglaterra. A menina de fazenda de 14 anos de idade Joana D'Arc afirma ouvir vozes do Céu pedindo-lhe para levar Exército de Deus contra Orleans e coroando o fraco Delfim Charles VII como Rei da França. Joana arregimenta as pessoas com a sua fé, forma um exército e conquista Orleans. Quando seu exército está pronto para atacar Paris, o corrupto Charles vende seu país para a Inglaterra e dissolve o exército. Joana é presa, vendida ao Burgundians Ingleses e submetida a um julgamento político vergonhoso no castelo de Rouen.
Sangue, Suor e Lágrimas
Brig. Gen. Mel Gilbert
During World War II, an insubordinate fighter pilot finds the shoe on the other foot when he's promoted.
Home Sweet Homicide
Mr. Wallace Sanford
Mystery writer Marian Carstairs is hard at work trying to finish her latest novel. Her three children meanwhile are entertaining themselves by trying to solve a murder in their own neighborhood. In between gathering clues, the kids play matchmaker by trying to fix up their widowed mom with the handsome detective investigating the case.
Strange Triangle
Earl Huber aka Mathews
In this drama, a seductive woman uses her wiles upon both a traveling bank examiner and a manager to whom she is married. This woman has expensive taste and ends up spending all of her husband's money. She then begins trying to seduce the bank examiner, who doesn't know she is married to the manager.
Chetniks!
Lt. Aleksa Petrovic, Mihailovitch's Aide
Subtitled The Fighting Guerillas, Chetniks tells the story of Yugoslavian guerilla fighter General Draja Mihailovitch. Based on the General's own memoirs, the film depicts Mihailovitch (played here by Philip Dorn) as a selfless idealist, leading his resistance troops, known as the Chetniks, on one raid after another against the Germans during WW II.
Dr. Renault's Secret
Dr. Larry Forbes
A remake of the 1927 horror film "The Wizard". Dr. Larry Forbes arrives in a remote French village to visit his fiancée who lives with her scientist father Dr. Renault and his Ape-like manservant Noel. Several Murders coincide with Dr. Forbes arrival, with clues pointing in multiple directions.
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Henry Clay
This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century, Congress appropriated the money to build the school, but opponents who believed it to be an illegitimate expansion of the powers of the federal government decided to sabotage the school. They put the hard-as-nails Major Sam Carter in charge of the academy, and he ruthlessly put the recruits through grueling training -- until only ten prospective soldiers remained. They include Dawson, a patriotic farm boy and Howard Shelton, a selfish playboy who has come to West Point only because of its prestige. The two vie for Carolyn Bainbridge, while they, along with the other eight, try convince Carter that the school is worth keeping.
Rings on Her Fingers
Tod Fenwick
Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes and glamour she can never hope to have. Enter May Worthington and Warren, a pair of con artists who pose as the mother and uncle of a pretty girl in order to separate millionaires from their money. They convince Susan she has an opportunity to fulfill all her dreams, and the trio heads for Palm Beach. Susan meets John Wheeler who says he is shopping for a sailboat. Believing that he is a millionaire, Warren and May sell him a boat that doesn't belong to them, and make off with his $15,000 life savings. Looking for greener pastures, they work themselves into the family of wealthy Tod Fenwick, who falls for Sue, posing as "Linda Worthington". But John shows up as a guest of Fenwick and he tells "Linda", not knowing she was part of the scam, that he has a detective after the fake captain that sold him the boat...
Remember the Day
Dewey Roberts
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
Cadet Girl
Bob Mallory
A West Point cadet and his bandleader brother fall for a singer in the band.
The Men in Her Life
Roger Chevis
A circus performer becomes a ballerina and then begins her life of a career versus marriage and a home-life. She marries her first husband, her mentor and instructor, primarily out of gratitude. After his death, she marries an American thinking that can be her escape from the world of ballet. But she leaves him to return the dancing. She has a child but does not tell her husband. When her daughter is two-years-old, the husband finds out and takes the child to America. The ballerina continues to dance until her best dancing days have gone by.
Formosa Bandida
Ed Shirley
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr (Scott) Belle Shirley (Tierney) vows to take revenge. Breaking Starr out of prison, she joins his small guerrilla group for a series of raids on banks and railroads, carpetbaggers and enemy troops. Belle's bravado during the attacks earns her a reputation amongst the locals as well as the love of Starr himself. The pair get married, but their relationship starts to break down when Sam Starr lets a couple of psychotic rebels into the gang, leaving Belle to wonder if he really cares about the Southern cause.
Know For Sure
Dr. Morton
A 1941 film encouraging people to seek treatment if they had, or might have had, syphilis.
Asas nas Trevas
Lieut. Jerry Banning
Presunçoso piloto em treinamento deseja se destacar numa unidade aérea da Marinha.
A Way in the Wilderness
Dr. Joseph Goldberger
This Passing Parade entry tells the story of Dr. Joseph Goldberger (1874-1929), a Hungarian immigrant who devoted his life to finding the cause of pellagra, a disease that killed hundreds of thousands in the southern United States. Although the medical community believed that the condition was caused by a virus, Goldberger proved that a healthy diet was the cure.
Tom Thumb in Trouble
Narrator / Tom Thumb's Father (voice) (uncredited)
Tom's father mistakenly believes that the little bird who's just rescued his tiny son from drowning in the dishwater is attacking the boy and drives it away. Tom sets off to find the bird and gets lost in a fierce snowstorm.
O Estranho Caso do Dr. Kildare
Dr. Gregory 'Greg' Lane
Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.
Congo Maisie
Dr. John 'Jock' McWade
Maisie gets lost in a jungle in Africa and the jungle of romance. The African jungle has snakes, crocodiles and witch doctors. The romantic jungle has a dedicated doctor with an un-dedicated wife and an embittered doctor who is dedicated to no one.
Fast Company
Ned Morgan
Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.
Joaquin Murrieta
Joaquin Murrieta
This MGM Historical Mystery short follows the life and exploits of killer outlaw Joaquin Murrieta, in California in the 1850s.
That Mothers Might Live
Dr. Semmelweis
That Mothers Might Live is a 1938 American short drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann. The short is a brief account of Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis and his discovery of the need for cleanliness in 19th-century maternity wards, thereby significantly decreasing maternal mortality, and of his struggle to gain acceptance of his idea. Although Semmelweis ultimately failed in his lifetime, later scientific luminaries advanced his work in spirit like microbiologist Louis Pasteur, who provided a scientific theoretical explanation of Semmelweis' observations by helping develop the germ theory of disease and the British surgeon, Dr. Joseph Lister who revolutionized medicine putting Pasteur's research to practical use. In 1939, at the 11th Academy Awards, the film won an Oscar for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).