Roy Roberts — Actor (20)
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Stage to Tucson (1950) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Stage to Tucson
director: Ralph Murphy actor: Rod Cameron / Wayne Morris …
other title: Les écumeurs des Monts Apaches / Diligencia a Tucson …
A group of outlaws posing as Southern sympathizers and led secretly by freight-line owner Jim Maroon are raiding stagecoaches, and this is a threat to the Union communications. Grif Holbrook, a trouble-shooter for the Butterfield Stage Line, and Union man Barney Broderick team up to try and put a stop to the activity, when they aren't fighting over the charms of Kate Crocker.
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The Second Face (1950) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Second Face
director: Jack Bernhard actor: Ella Raines / Bruce Bennett …
other title: ザ・セカンド・フェイス
A homely girl is seriously injured in a car crash. When she eventually wakes up in the hospital, she's astounded to see that plastic surgery has transformed her into a world-class beauty. When she finds out that a mysterious "benefactor" has paid for her surgery, she sets out to find out who he is and why he did it.
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The Glory Brigade (1953) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Glory Brigade
director: Robert D. Webb actor: Victor Mature / Alexander Scourby …
other title: La Brigade glorieuse / 榮譽軍團 …
During the Korean War Lt. Sam Pryor volunteers his platoon to escort Greek troops to perform a reconnaissance mission behind Communist lines. Due to his Greek heritage Pryor is initially proud to accompany the Greek contingent but his feelings change to scorn and mistrust when what he believes is cowardice shown by the Greek soldiers and their leaders results in the near annihiliation of his own platoon. An uneasy alliance is maintained between the US and Greek troops as the enemy's true objective is learned.
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Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Miss Grant Takes Richmond
director: Lloyd Bacon actor: Lucille Ball / William Holden …
other title: Miss Grain de sel / 痴鳳登龍
A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.
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Dawn at Socorro (1954) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Dawn at Socorro
director: George Sherman actor: Rory Calhoun / Piper Laurie …
other title: Duell in Sokorro / Vengeance à l'Aube …
Brett Wade, gambler, gunslinger, and classical pianist, is wounded in a gunfight with the Ferris clan; the doctor finds signs of tuberculosis. En route to Colorado for his health, Brett stops in Socorro, New Mexico along with Ferris gunfighter Jimmy Rapp. Sheriff Couthen fears another shootout, but what Brett has in mind is saving waif-with-a-past Rannah Hayes from a life as one of Dick Braden's saloon girls.
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Strange Triangle (1946) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Strange Triangle
director: Ray McCarey actor: Signe Hasso / Preston Foster …
other title: 路柳牆花 / Aventura fatal
In this drama, a seductive woman uses her wiles upon both a traveling bank examiner and a manager to whom she is married. This woman has expensive taste and ends up spending all of her husband's money. She then begins trying to seduce the bank examiner, who doesn't know she is married to the manager.
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Cripple Creek (1952) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Cripple Creek
director: Ray Nazarro actor: George Montgomery / Karin Booth …
other title: Zwei räumen auf / La Folie de L'or …
It's 1893 and gold is being smuggled out of the country. Instead of stealing gold bars, the outlaws are stealing high grade ore, having it smelted, and then having it plated to look like lead. The Government sends agents Bret and Larry who arrive in Cripple Creek posing as Texas gunfighters. Bret finds the smelting operation and Larry learns of the payoff. But the crooked town Marshal is suspicious of the two men and the reply of his inquiry to Texas exposes them putting their lives in danger.
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Tumbleweed (1953) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Tumbleweed
director: Nathan Juran actor: Audie Murphy / Lori Nelson …
other title: Drei waren Verräter / Qui est le traître? …
Jim Harvey is hired to guard a small wagon train as it makes its way west. The train is attacked by Indians and Harvey, hoping to persuade Aguila, the chief, to call off the attack due to Harvey's having saved his son's life, leaves the train to negotiate. He is captured and the rest of the train is wiped out except for two sisters. Escaping and showing up in town later, Harvey is nearly hanged as a deserter, but gets away. Eventually caught by the sheriff and his posse, they are attacked by Indians. This time the Indians are defeated and Aguila, captured and dying, reveals the identity of the white man who engineered the initial attack on the wagon train, just as the perpetrator rides up behind them.
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Borderline (1950) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Borderline
director: 威廉·A·塞特 actor: 弗莱德·麦克莫瑞 / Claire Trevor …
other title: Alarma en la frontera / 夜渡边城 …
The Los Angeles police know that Pete Ritchie has been bringing drugs into the city, but they can't pin a single piece of evidence on him. After many botched attempts to get at the crook, they resort to having cop Madeleine go undercover and seduce her way into Ritchie's circle. Before she can get anywhere, she's abducted by Johnny, a government agent posing as a thug. But Johnny and Madeleine have no idea they're on the same side of the law.
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Bodyhold (1949) [Movie] IMDb Douban
Bodyhold
director: Seymour Friedman actor: Willard Parker / Lola Albright …
A plumber with a girlfriend turns pro wrestler for a crooked promoter.
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Chinatown (1974) [Movie]
Chinatown
8.4 (472 ratings) director: Roman Polanski actor: Jack Nicholson / Faye Dunaway …
other title: 차이나타운 / チャイナタウン …
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.