Police officer Tom Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous conspiracy involving a local politician. Sharky's new 'machine' gathers evidence while Sharky falls in love with a woman he has never met.

Looker

1981

English

6.1

♡ 18

32%

Michael Crichton Director

Richard Venture as Cindy's Father

Arthur Taxier as D.M.I. Truck Technician

Darryl Hickman as Dr. Jim Belfield

Vin Scully as Self - baseball announcer

Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and starts investigating. What he uncovers are the mysterious - and perhaps murderous - activities of a high-tech computer company called Digital Matrix.

The Tingler

1959

English

6.6

♡ 12

78%

William Castle Director

Darryl Hickman as David Morris

Vincent Price as Dr. Warren Chapin

Ernest Torrence as Luke Hatburn, in clip from Tol'able David

George DeNormand as Member of Silent Movie Audience

A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler that lives within each person on the spinal cord and is suppressed only when people scream when scared.

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

1946

English

7.4

♡ 7

100%

husband wife relationship

noir

Romance

Lewis Milestone Director

Ann Doran as Bobbi St. John

Walter Baldwin as Dempsey

Amzie Strickland as Nightclub Patron

Darryl Hickman as Sam - As a Child

Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect combination to dominate the corrupt city of Iverstown at will. But the unexpected return of Sam, after years of absence, deeply disturbs the life of the odd couple.

Rhapsody in Blue

1945

English

7.0

♡ 5

29%

Irving Rapper Director

Robert Alda as George Gershwin

Darryl Hickman as Ira Gershwin

Kenneth Gibson as Nightclub Patron

Rosemary DeCamp as Rose Gershwin

Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.

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.

Leave Her to Heaven

1945

English

7.6

♡ 13

85%

86%

Action

based on novel or book

John M. Stahl Director

Addison Richards as Bedford

Darryl Hickman as Danny Harland

Gene Lockhart as Dr. Saunders

Vincent Price as Russell Quinton

A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.

Keeper of the Flame

1942

English

6.7

♡ 4

67%

foreign correspondent

Mystery

widow

George Cukor Director

Forrest Tucker as Geoffrey Midford

Audrey Christie as Jane Harding

Darryl Hickman as Jeb Rickards

John Roy as Police Officer at Funeral

Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.

The Set-Up

1949

English

7.8

♡ 8

85%

Robert Wise Director

Frank Richards as Bat - Program Vendor

John Indrisano as Corner Man

Darryl Hickman as Shanley

Phillip Pine as Souza

Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

Southwest Passage

1954

English

5.7

♡ 4

Ray Nazarro Director

John Ireland as Clint McDonald

Darryl Hickman as Jeb

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams as Tall Tale

Douglas Fowley as Toad Ellis

As the Cavalry tests the viability of bringing camels to US deserts, a surveyor, Arab drivers, and fugitive bank robbers confront Apaches and thirst. Originally filmed in 3-D

Alias Nick Beal

1949

English

7.1

♡ 7

John Farrow Director

Thomas Mitchell as Joseph Foster

Nestor Paiva as Karl

Darryl Hickman as Larry Price

Charles Evans as Paul Norton

After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.

Black Gold

1947

English

6.1

♡ 3

Phil Karlson Director

Raymond Hatton as Bucky

Robert Patten as Jockey

Darryl Hickman as Schoolboy

Jonathan Hale as Senator Watkins

A Native American man trains a horse for the Kentucky Derby.

High School U.S.A.

1983

English

5.5

♡ 4

39%

Rod Amateau Director

Crispin Glover as Archie Feld

Nancy McKeon as Beth Franklin

Dwayne Hickman as Mr. Plaza

Darryl Hickman as (uncredited)

Set in a senior high school class, J.J. pursues the girlfriend of a rival from a higher clique which culminates in a race at the end of the movie between the two rivals in this light comedy.

If I Were King

1938

English

7.1

♡ 4

76%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

Frank Lloyd Director

Paul Newlan as Beggar

Darryl Hickman as Child

William Haade as Guy Tabarie

John Roy as Restraining Guard

King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.

Tea and Sympathy

1956

English

7.3

♡ 5

82%

76%

based on play or musical

Drama

high school student

lgbt

older woman younger man relationship

preparatory school

school

Vincente Minnelli Director

Darryl Hickman as Al

Dale Van Sickel as Burly Man

Peter Miller as Pete

Tom Laughlin as Ralph

A sensitive young man recalls his time in boarding school when the only person who seemed compassionate towards him was his housemaster's wife.

The Prisoner of Zenda

1937

English

7.6

♡ 8

91%

80%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

John Cromwell Director

Mary Astor as Antoinette de Mauban

Ben Webster as Lord Topham

D'Arcy Corrigan as Traveler

Darryl Hickman as (uncredited)

A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bride, the beautiful Princess Flavia.

Submarine Command

1951

English

6.2

♡ 4

21%

John Farrow Director

John Mitchum as Bert

William Bendix as CPO Boyer

Darryl Hickman as Ens. Jack Wheelwright

Jack Kelly as Lt. Paul Barton

Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Subsequent years of meaningless navy ground assignments and the animosity of a former sailor, leave White (now a captain) feeling guilty and empty. His life spirals downward and his wife is about to leave him. Suddenly, he is forced into a dangerous rescue situation at the start of the Koren War.... reassigned to the same submarine where all of his problems began.

Network

1976

English

8.1

♡ 65

91%

co-worker relationship

Sidney Lumet Director

Darryl Hickman as Bill Herron

Robert Duvall as Frank Hackett

John Carpenter as George Bosch

Arthur Burghardt as Great Ahmed Kahn

When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink their decision when his fanatical tirade results in a spike in ratings.

Many Rivers to Cross

1955

English

6.2

♡ 3

45%

Roy Rowland Director

Rosemary DeCamp as Lucy Hamilton

Eleanor Parker as Mary Stuart Cherne

Darryl Hickman as Miles Henderson

Louis Jean Heydt as Noah Crawford

Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let anything interfere with her plans to marry him in this humorous romantic adventure through the American Frontier of 1798.