Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.

The Killer Is Loose

1956

English

6.6

♡ 4

67%

Budd Boetticher Director

John Dennis as Highway Patrolman at Roadblock

Wendell Corey as Leon 'Foggy' Poole

Don Beddoe as Mr. Freeman

John Larch as Otto Flanders

A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. Poole begins his plans to get revenge when he escapes his captors.

Any Number Can Play

1949

English

6.9

♡ 3

14%

Mervyn LeRoy Director

Barbara Billingsley as Gambler

Darryl Hickman as Paul Enley Kyng

Wendell Corey as Robbin Elcott

Douglas Fowley as Smitty

When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his work separate from his life at home. His son, Paul, feels ashamed of Charley's career and gets into a fight at his prom because of it. Meanwhile, Charley's brother-in-law, Robbin, who works at the casino, begins fixing games due to his extreme gambling debts.

Holiday Affair

1949

English

7.2

♡ 9

68%

parent child relationship

Romance

Don Hartman Director

Wendell Corey as Carl Davis

Carl Sklover as Department Store Clerk

Jack Kelly as Drunk on Train

Paula Raymond as Girl at Drinking Fountain

Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, who's actually a comparison shopper sent by another store. Steve lets her go, which gets him fired. They spend the afternoon together, which doesn't sit well with Connie's steady suitor, Carl, when he finds out, but delights her young son Timmy, who quickly takes to Steve.

The Rainmaker

1956

English

6.9

♡ 4

80%

Joseph Anthony Director

Burt Lancaster as Bill Starbuck

Wendell Corey as Deputy Sheriff J.S. File

Kenneth Becker as Phil Mackey

Herman Hack as Townsman

Lizzie Curry is on the verge of becoming a hopeless old maid. Her wit and intelligence and skills as a homemaker can't make up for the fact that she's just plain plain! Even the town sheriff, File, for whom she harbors a secrect yen, won't take a chance --- until the town suffers a drought and into the lives of Lizzie and her brothers and father comes one Bill Starbuck ... profession: Rainmaker!

The Astro-Zombies

1968

English

3.1

♡ 3

17%

Ted V. Mikels Director

John Carradine as Dr. DeMarco

Wendell Corey as Holman

Rafael Campos as Juan

Tura Satana as Satana

For devilishly mad "astro-scientist" Dr. DeMarco (John Carradine), a typical day involves run-ins with reanimated corpses, bloodthirsty solar-powered killer robot zombies, Chinese communist spies and vicious Mexican secret agents. But when a bloody trail of young female murder victims leads an intrepid CIA agent to his door, things get really interesting. Ted V. Mikels directs this unique B horror-thriller.

Desert Fury

1947

English

6.5

♡ 5

70%

60%

Action

based on novel or book

Lewis Allen Director

Wendell Corey as Johnny Ryan

Jane Novak as Mrs. Lindquist

Lizabeth Scott as Paula Haller

Burt Lancaster as Tom Hanson

The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.

The Accused

1949

English

6.8

♡ 2

Action

based on novel or book

William Dieterle Director

Harry Harvey as Dr. Odolard

Sam Jaffe as Dr. Romley

Wendell Corey as Lt. Ted Dorgan

John Indrisano as Referee

A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.

Alias Jesse James

1959

English

6.4

♡ 3

38%

Norman Z. McLeod Director

Rhonda Fleming as Cora Lee Collins

Nestor Paiva as Grigsby

Wendell Corey as Jesse James

Margaret Bert as Townswoman

Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James. Milford is sent to buy back the policy, but is robbed by Jesse. And when Jesse learns that Milford's boss is on the way out with more cash, he plans to rob him too and have Milford get killed in the robbery while dressed as Jesse, and collect on the policy.

The Furies

1950

English

7.2

♡ 4

92%

Anthony Mann Director

Louis Jean Heydt as Bailey

Thomas Gomez as El Tigre

Jane Novak as Party Guest

Wendell Corey as Rip Darrow

A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.

The File on Thelma Jordon

1949

English

6.9

♡ 4

71%

Robert Siodmak Director

Wendell Corey as Cleve Marshall

Arthur Tovey as Courtroom Spectator

Jane Novak as Mrs. Blackwell

Kenneth Tobey as Police Photographer

Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.

Hell's Half Acre

1954

English

6.2

25%

John H. Auer Director

Wendell Corey as Chet Chester

Philip Ahn as Roger Kong

Marie Windsor as Rose Otis

Nancy Gates as Sally Lee

A woman travels to Hawaii to find out if a man in prison there is actually her missing husband.

Man-Eater of Kumaon

1948

English

5.8

♡ 2

Byron Haskin Director

Wendell Corey as Dr. John Collins Sabu

Sabu as Narain

Argentina Brunetti as Sita

Ralph Moody as Villager

A doctor hunts a vicious, man-eating tiger that terrorizes a native jungle village. In time the doctor experiences a personal change when he accepts their native customs and beliefs.

Cyborg 2087

1966

English

5.3

♡ 5

Franklin Adreon Director

Michael Rennie as Garth A7

Byron Morrow as Mr. Simmmons

Wendell Corey as Sheriff

John Beck as Skinny

In the future world of the year 2087, freedom of thought is illegal and the thoughts of the world's populations are controlled by the government. A small band of "free thinkers" send a cyborg back in time to the year 1966 to prevent a scientist from making the breakthrough that will eventually lead to the mass thought control of the future. Our time traveler soon discovers he is not alone when government agents from the future try to prevent him from carrying out his mission.

Harriet Craig

1950

English

7.3

♡ 5

84%

based on play or musical

Drama

loneliness

obsession

Vincent Sherman Director

Ellen Corby as Lottie

Kathryn Card as Mrs. Norwood

Charles Evans as Mr. Winston

Wendell Corey as Walter Craig

A perfectionist woman's devotion to her home drives away friends and family.

Picture Mommy Dead

1966

English

5.3

♡ 9

52%

Action

daughter stepmother relationship

Bert I. Gordon Director

Don Ameche as Edward Shelley

Anna Lee as Elsie Kornwald

Martha Hyer as Francene Shelley

Wendell Corey as Lawyer Clayborn

Susan Shelley is released from an asylum where she's been confined to after the shock suffered over the fiery death of her mother. Her father has a new wife, who has only married him for the money left to him by his dead wife. Susan is still haunted by her mother's memory, and her step-mother is conspiring with her lover to get the troubled girl to lead them to her mother's missing diamond necklace.

I Walk Alone

1947

English

7.0

♡ 12

67%

based on play or musical

Byron Haskin Director

Wendell Corey as Dave

Burt Lancaster as Frankie Madison

Jean Del Val as Henri the Chef

Bobby Barber as Newsboy

Bootleggers on the lam Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a posh New York City nightclub. 14 years later, Frankie is released from the clink and visits Noll with the intention of collecting his half of the nightclub's profits. But Noll, who has no intention of being so equitable, uses his ex-girlfriend Kay to divert Frankie from his intended goal.