After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, Ryan and his buddy Lt. Brickley are told they can finally take their squadron into battle. The PT boats quickly prove their worth, successfully shooting down Japanese planes, relaying messages between islands, and picking off a multitude of enemy ships.

Rock Island Trail

1950

English

6.1

♡ 3

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

Joseph Kane Director

John Roy as Board Member

Pierre Watkin as Major

Forrest Tucker as Reed Loomis

Marshall Reed as Stagecoach Passenger

A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.

Lord Love a Duck

1966

English

6.3

♡ 2

70%

George Axelrod Director

Roddy McDowall as Alan Musgrave

Tuesday Weld as Barbara Ann Greene

John Roy as Security Guard

Robert Foulk as Uniformed Police Sgt.

From his prison cell, young Alan Musgrave relates his experiences of the previous year dedicated to fulfilling every whim of beautiful and self-absorbed high school senior Barbara Ann Greene.

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

1951

English

6.9

♡ 23

Henry Hathaway Director

Patrick Whyte as British Agent

Carleton Young as German Staff Officer

Sean McClory as Jock

John Roy as Soldier

The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.

Cleopatra

1934

English

6.8

♡ 14

83%

Cecil B. DeMille Director

Juanita Moore as Dancer / Slave Girl

Marjorie Bonner as Roman Girl

John Roy as Roman Soldier

Kenneth Gibson as Scribe

The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.

The Sniper

1952

English

7.1

♡ 5

83%

san francisco, california

sniper

Thriller

Edward Dmytryk Director

John Roy as Detective at Line-Up

Harry Harvey as Man at Darr Murder Scene

Robert Foulk as Officer Rivers

Wally Cox as Presser at dry cleaning shop

Eddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he's especially bothered by seeing women with their lovers. He starts a killing spree as a sniper by shooting women from far distances. In an attempt to get caught, he writes an anonymous letter to the police begging them to stop him.

Chain Lightning

1950

English

6.0

♡ 6

26%

Stuart Heisler Director

Fred Sherman as Jeb Farley

Eleanor Parker as Joan "Jo" Holloway

John Roy as Military Officer

Colin Kenny as Pub Patron

Former World War II flying ace Matt Brennan takes a position as a test pilot for a commercial aircraft corporation and bumps into his old girlfriend, Jo Holloway, who now works as a receptionist for the company.

Loan Shark

1952

English

6.4

♡ 1

15%

Seymour Friedman Director

George Raft as Joe Gargen

Paul Stewart as Lou Donelli

John Roy as Police Officer

Lawrence Dobkin as Walter Kerr

A vicious loan shark ring has been preying on factory workers. When several workers at a tire factory suffer violence at the hands of the loan sharkers, a union leader and the factory owner try to recruit ex-con Joe Gargan to infiltrate to the gang. At first Joe does not want to get involved, but changes his mind when his brother-in-law dies at the hands of a savage loan shark hood. Joe works his way into the mob, but in order to keep his cover, Joe can't tell anyone what he is up to. This results in him being disowned by his sister and girl friend.

Rope of Sand

1949

English

6.6

♡ 3

33%

William Dieterle Director

Sam Jaffe as Dr. Francis Hunter

John Roy as Police Officer

Nestor Paiva as Ship's Captain

Peter Lorre as Toady

Story of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking out for smugglers.

Invisible Invaders

1959

English

5.0

♡ 4

19%

Edward L. Cahn Director

John Carradine as Dr. Karol Noymann

John Roy as Game Spectator

Chuck Niles as Hockey Game Announcer

John Agar as Maj. Bruce Jay

Aliens, contacting scientist Adam Penner, inform him that they have been on the moon for twenty thousand years, undetected due to their invisibility, and have now decided to annihilate humanity unless all the nations of earth surrender immediately. Sequestered in an impregnable laboratory trying to find the aliens' weakness, Penner, his daughter, a no-nonsense army major and a squeamish scientist are attacked from outside by the aliens, who have occupied the bodies of the recently deceased.

Good Times

1967

English

4.5

♡ 6

William Friedkin Director Cher

Cher as Chér / Bargirl / Zora / Sam

Sonny Bono as Sonny / Sheriff Irving Ringo / Jungle Morry / Johnny Pitzaccatto

John Roy as Stagehand

Norman Alden as Warren

Given the opportunity to headline their own feature film by studio executive Mr. Mordicus, Sonny and Cher have three days to come up with an idea for a hit movie or they'll have to use the studio's hackneyed script.

The Last Command

1955

English

6.3

♡ 3

40%

Frank Lloyd Director

John Roy as Cantina Barfly

Anna Maria Alberghetti as Consuelo de Quesada

Herman Hack as Man Greeting Austin

Pepe Hern as Seguin's Son

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.

Tower of London

1939

English

6.6

♡ 3

83%

Rowland V. Lee Director

Vincent Price as Duke of Clarence

John Roy as Guard

Frank Hagney as Soldier

Donald Stuart as Torturer Bunch

In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.

Escape from Fort Bravo

1953

English

6.6

♡ 4

55%

John Sturges Director

William Campbell as Cabot Young

Eleanor Parker as Carla Forester

Forrest Lewis as Dr. Miller

John Roy as Trooper

A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort.

Lust for Gold

1949

English

6.8

♡ 3

68%

George Marshall Director

Ida Lupino as Julia Thomas

Trevor Bardette as Man in Saloon

John Roy as Townsman

Edgar Buchanan as Wiser

A man determined to track down the fabled Arizona gold mine known as The Lost Dutchman has an affair with a married treasure hunter, whose pursuit of the mine has lead her to double-cross her husband.

Some Came Running

1958

English

7.2

♡ 4

78%

Vincente Minnelli Director

John Roy as Bus Passenger

Nancy Gates as Edith Barclay

Martha Hyer as Gwen French

Len Lesser as Indianapolis Poker Player

A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother, and becomes close with an easy-going professional gambler and torn between two very different women.