GREAT OLD MOVIES

BACK FROM ETERNITY  (1956). Director: John Farrow. In this widescreen if black and white remake of Five Came Back  (which was also directe...

Claudette Colbert and Robert Ryan THE SECRET FURY  (1950). Director: Mel Ferrer. Colorized version. Ellen Ewing (no relation to J. R. Ewing)...

John Phillip Law as Robin Stone, the "Love Machine" THE LOVE MACHINE  (1971). Director: Jack Haley Jr.   Newscaster Robin Stone (J...

Robert Ryan and Mala Powers CITY BENEATH THE SEA  (1953). Director: Budd Boetticher.  Brad Carlton (Robert Ryan) and Tony Barlett (Anthony Q...

Robert Ryan THE SET-UP  (1949). Director: Robert Wise. Bill Stoker (Robert Ryan) is a 35-year-old boxer at the end of his game. He ra...

Harry Belafonte and Ed Begley ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW  (1959). Director: Robert Wise. With some difficulty ex-cop Dave Burke (Ed Begley...

Jimmy Stewart and Ralph Meeker THE NAKED SPUR  (1953). Director: Anthony Mann. After the Civil War Howard Kemp (James Stewart) lost h...

Robert Ryan ACT OF VIOLENCE  (1949). Director: Fred Zinnemann. Frank Enley (Van Heflin) is a respected man with a wife, Edith (Janet ...

LONELYHEARTS  (1958). Director: Vincent J. Donehue. Adam White (Montgomery Clift) importunes publisher William Shrike (Robert Ryan) to g...

Robert Ryan, Barbara Bel Geddes, James Mason CAUGHT  (1949). Director: Max Ophuls.  The wealthy industrialist Smith Ohlrig (Robert Ry...

THE LIVES OF ROBERT RYAN . J. R. Jones. Wesleyan University Press; 2015. Robert Ryan was never quite in the front rank of iconic movie s...

Tom Reese and Duvall with Karen Black in the background THE OUTFIT  (1973). Director: John Flynn. Earl Macklin (Robert Duvall) gets ou...

Robert Ryan and Shirley Booth ABOUT MRS. LESLIE  (1954). Director: Daniel Mann. Vivian Leslie (Shirley Booth) operates a boarding hous...

Barbara Stanwyck and Paul Douglas in a tense moment CLASH BY NIGHT (1952). Director: Fritz Lang. Based on the play by Clifford Odets; s...

EXECUTIVE ACTION (1973 ) Director: David Miller. Written by Dalton Trumbo. This interesting if little-seen movie -- which today we would ca...

ON DANGEROUS GROUND (1952). Director: Nicholas Ray.  " Sometimes people who are never alone are the loneliest. "  Two lonely, to...

BORN TO BE BAD (1950). Directed by Nicholas Ray. Joan Fontaine is Christable Caine, a scheming blonde who steals away the wealthy fiancé (Z...