In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne, works as a parachutist. When newspaper reporter Burke Devlin arrives to do a story on the Shumanns’ act, he quickly falls in love with the beautiful--and neglected--LaVerne.

The Fighting Seabees

1944

English

6.4

♡ 17

100%

Edward Ludwig Director

Robert J. Wilke as Arriving Construction Worker

Addison Richards as Capt. Joyce

Forbes Murray as Navy Surgeon

Ben Welden as Yump Lumkin

Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.

The Hallelujah Trail

1965

English

6.5

♡ 6

33%

John Sturges Director

Jerry Gatlin as Brother-in-law #2

Robert J. Wilke as Chief Five Barrels

Brian Keith as Frank Wallingham

Marshall Reed as Lt. Carter

A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League, the US cavalry, the miners and the local Indians all try to take control of the valuable cargo.

Cyclotrode 'X'

1966

English

4.8

♡ 3

Action

Adventure

Sci-Fi

William Witney Director

Dale Van Sickel as Harte

Carey Loftin as Lab Guard 1

Sam Flint as Prof. Maxwell

Robert J. Wilke as Scott

Feature-length version of the Crimson Ghost serial (1946), in which the evil Crimson Ghost tries to make away with an atomic device capable of wreaking havoc throughout the world.

San Francisco

1936

English

7.1

♡ 8

92%

san francisco, california

W.S. Van Dyke Director

Rosemary Theby as Earthquake Survivor

Robert J. Wilke as Earthquake Survivor

Jason Robards Sr. as Father

Irving Bacon as Picnicker

A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.

Rosie the Riveter

1944

English

6.4

♡ 3

40%

Joseph Santley Director

Helen Talbot as Award Presentation Dancer

Frank Albertson as Charlie Doran

Lloyd Corrigan as Clem Prouty

Robert J. Wilke as Furniture Mover

In this romantic wartime comedy, four female defense plant workers share a house with four male workers. The situation is on the up and up as the men and women work different shifts and they are only making do because there is a housing shortage. Unfortunately, they soon begin to fight about who gets the house during certain hours. Romance ensues.

Tony Rome

1967

English

6.5

♡ 12

63%

59%

Action

based on novel or book

Gordon Douglas Director

Richard Conte as Lt. Dave Santini

Rocky Graziano as Packy

Robert J. Wilke as Ralph Turpin

Stanley Ralph Ross as Sam Boyd

Tony Rome, a tough Miami PI living on a houseboat, is hired by a local millionaire to find jewelry stolen from his daughter, and in the process has several encounters with local hoods as well as the Miami Beach PD.

Smoke Signal

1955

English

6.2

♡ 3

95%

Jerry Hopper Director

Robert J. Wilke as 1st Sgt. Daly

Douglas Spencer as Garode

William Schallert as Pvt. Livingston

Milburn Stone as Sgt. Miles

Capt. Harper's cavalry patrol returns to the fort to find it besieged by Ute Indians. The apparent cause is the recapture of Army traitor Brett Halliday, who deserted to the Utes in a previous war; but Brett has a different story. With capture imminent, the only chance for the surviving men (and one woman) is to boat down a wild, uncharted river, where Harper and Halliday must pull together, like it or not.

The James Brothers of Missouri

1949

English

6.5

♡ 1

Fred C. Brannon Director

Art Dillard as Blears / Townsman 1

Marshall Reed as Dutch

Gene Roth as Rand [Chs. 10-12]

Robert J. Wilke as Townsman

This 12-part serial concerns the efforts of the infamous James brothers (of which Jesse was a prominent member) to become normal everyday citizens. Of course, there's no room in the Wild West for reformed outlaws, and the duo inevitably find themselves caught up in showdowns and robberies.

San Quentin

1937

English

6.5

♡ 1

25%

Lloyd Bacon Director

Barton MacLane as Captain Druggin

Pat O'Brien as Captain Stephen Jameson

Sidney D'Albrook as Convict

Robert J. Wilke as Young Convict in Yard

Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to stir up trouble by telling Joe about Jameson's interest in his sister.

S.O.S. Tidal Wave

1939

English

5.8

♡ 2

husband wife relationship

Sci-Fi

tv personality in politics

ventriloquist

John H. Auer Director

Mickey Kuhn as Buddy Shannon

Robert J. Wilke as Man in TV Studio

George Montgomery as (uncredited)

Minerva Urecal as (uncredited)

A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate after a gangster threatens his family. Features tidal wave stock footage from RKO's "Deluge" (1933), q.v.

Shotgun

1955

English

6.0

♡ 4

12%

Lesley Selander Director

Robert J. Wilke as Bentley

Francis McDonald as Dishwasher

Rory Mallinson as Frank

Fiona Hale as Midge

Clay Hardin, a Deputy U.S. Marshal, is about to turn in his badge and take the job as the territory's Indian commissioner until the notorious Ben Thompson slays the marshal when he tried to make an arrest. Clay turns his back on a white-collar job and his girl to pursue the gang. Picking up a bounty hunter and a beautiful half-breed woman along the way, the little band follows the trail into Apache land where the lawman discovers that the outlaws plan to sell repeating rifles to the Indians.

Days of Heaven

1978

English

7.7

♡ 44

94%

husband wife relationship

Terrence Malick Director

Richard Gere as Bill

Stuart Margolin as Mill Foreman

Robert J. Wilke as The Farm Foreman

Richard Libertini as Vaudeville Leader

In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.

War Paint

1953

English

5.7

♡ 5

96%

Lesley Selander Director

Charles McGraw as Sgt. Clarke

Douglas Kennedy as Trooper Clancy

Robert J. Wilke as Trooper Grady

James Parnell as Trooper Martin

An Indian and his beautiful sister attempt to destroy a cavalry patrol trying to deliver a peace treaty to their chief.

The Desert Hawk

1950

English

5.5

♡ 2

Frederick De Cordova Director

Robert J. Wilke as Camel Driver

Michael Ansara as Guard

Richard Hale as Imam - the Holy One

Ben Welden as Mokar

A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph's daughter.

The Catman of Paris

1946

English

5.4

♡ 4

Fantasy

Horror

Mystery

Lesley Selander Director

Francis McDonald as Devereaux

Douglass Dumbrille as Henry Borchard

Anthony Caruso as Raoul

Robert J. Wilke as The Catman

When author Charles Regnier returns to Paris with a best-selling book that criticizes the government, he's tormented by frequent blackouts. After a mysterious cat-like creature slaughters people close to him, Charles is suspected of murder. Charles fears that he is the beast, but his paramour Marie and best friend Henry, believe he's innocent... until the creature begins to stalk Marie.

Strange Lady in Town

1955

English

6.1

♡ 2

Drama

parent child relationship

Western

Mervyn LeRoy Director

Walter Hampden as Father Gabriel Mendoza

Robert J. Wilke as Karg

Cameron Mitchell as Lt. David Garth

Jack Williams as Rebstock

Julia Garth, a female doctor, plans to introduce modern techniques of medicine to old Santa Fe in 1880, but is opposed by an established doctor, Rourke O'Brien.

The Far Country

1954

English

7.1

♡ 13

Anthony Mann Director

Robert Foulk as Constable Kingman

Robert J. Wilke as Madden

Jack Williams as Shep

Forbes Murray as Townsman

During the Klondike Gold Rush, a misanthropic cattle driver and his talkative elderly partner run afoul of the law in Alaska and are forced to work for a saloon owner to take her supplies into a newly booming but lawless Candian town.

Buck Privates Come Home

1947

English

6.8

♡ 2

67%

Charles Barton Director

Jean Del Val as Duprez - French Consul General

Robert J. Wilke as GI Buddy

Don Beddoe as Mr. Roberts

Joan Shawlee as Sylvia Hunter

Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.

Backlash

1956

English

6.6

♡ 2

42%

apache nation

based on novel or book

John Sturges Director

Jack Williams as Castro

Norman Leavitt as Hotel Clerk

Robert J. Wilke as Jeff Welker

Barton MacLane as Sgt. George Lake

Jim Slater's father (whom he never knew) died in the Apache ambush at Gila Valley, and Jim is searching for the one survivor, who supposedly went for help but disappeared with a lot of gold. In the process, he gets several people gunning for him, and he keeps meeting liberated woman Karyl Orton, who may be on a similar mission. Renewed Apache hostilities and an impending range war provide complications.

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Shotgun

Days of Heaven

War Paint

The Desert Hawk

The Catman of Paris

Strange Lady in Town

The Far Country

Buck Privates Come Home

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