Movies: Richard Rober

  • 1951
    Father's Little Dividend

    Father's Little Dividend (1951)

    Father's Little Dividend

    6.41951HD

    Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be a granddad....

    Father's Little Dividend
  • 1952
    O. Henry's Full House

    O. Henry's Full House (1952)

    O. Henry's Full House

    6.51952HD

    Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accos...

    O. Henry's Full House
  • 1948
    Call Northside 777

    Call Northside 777 (1948)

    Call Northside 777

    6.61948HD

    In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to...

    Call Northside 777
  • 1957
    Jet Pilot

    Jet Pilot (1957)

    Jet Pilot

    5.51957HD

    John Wayne stars as U.S. Air Force aviator Jim Shannon, who's tasked with escorting a Soviet pilot (Janet Leigh) claiming -- at the height of the Cold War -- that she wants to defect. After falling in love with and wedding the fetching flyer, Shannon...

    Jet Pilot
  • 1950
    Backfire

    Backfire (1950)

    Backfire

    5.81950HD

    When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a trumped-up murder rap, and Corey hopes to clear his pal. Tagging along is Army nurse Ju...

    Backfire
  • 1949
    The File on Thelma Jordon

    The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)

    The File on Thelma Jordon

    6.51949HD

    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....

    The File on Thelma Jordon
  • 1949
    Port of New York

    Port of New York (1949)

    Port of New York

    4.71949HD

    Two narcotics agents go after a gang of murderous drug dealers who use ships docking at the New York harbor to smuggle in their contraband....

    Port of New York
  • 1952
    The Savage

    The Savage (1952)

    The Savage

    6.11952HD

    The only white survivor of a Crow Indian raid on a wagon train is a young boy. He is rescued by the Sioux, and the Sioux chief raises him as an Indian in very way. Years later, the white men and the Sioux threaten to go to war and the Indian-raised w...

    The Savage
  • 1949
    Any Number Can Play

    Any Number Can Play (1949)

    Any Number Can Play

    6.91949HD

    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 car...

    Any Number Can Play
  • 1950
    The Woman on Pier 13

    The Woman on Pier 13 (1950)

    The Woman on Pier 13

    5.31950HD

    Communists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them....

    The Woman on Pier 13
  • 1951
    The Tall Target

    The Tall Target (1951)

    The Tall Target

    6.91951HD

    A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861....

    The Tall Target
  • 1951
    The Well

    The Well (1951)

    The Well

    71951HD

    In a racially mixed American town, a five-year-old black girl falls unnoticed into a hidden, forgotten well on her way to school. Having nothing better to go on, the police follow up a report that the child was seen with a white stranger, and rumors ...

    The Well
  • 1951
    Man in the Saddle

    Man in the Saddle (1951)

    Man in the Saddle

    6.51951HD

    A small rancher is being harassed by his mighty and powerful neighbor. When the neighbor even hires gunmen to intimidate him he has to defend himself and his property by means of violence....

    Man in the Saddle
  • 1952
    Kid Monk Baroni

    Kid Monk Baroni (1952)

    Kid Monk Baroni

    6.21952HD

    Leonard Nimoy is "Kid" Monk Baroni, the leader of a street gang who becomes a professional boxer to escape his life in "Little Italy" New York....

    Kid Monk Baroni
  • 1948
    Larceny

    Larceny (1948)

    Larceny

    5.61948HD

    Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial. When Mason falls in love with the widow he has pangs of conscience, but he r...

    Larceny
  • 1949
    Task Force

    Task Force (1949)

    Task Force

    71949HD

    After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott and his pals spend the next two decades promoting the superiority of naval air power. But military and political "red tape" continually frustrate their ef...

    Task Force
  • 1950
    Sierra

    Sierra (1950)

    Sierra

    5.31950HD

    Ring Hassard and his father Jeff, wild horse breakers, live in a hidden mountain eyrie as Jeff is wanted for a murder he didn't commit. Things change when they take in a lost young lady, Riley Martin, who finds that Ring has "never seen a woman close...

    Sierra
  • 1948
    Smart Girls Don't Talk

    Smart Girls Don't Talk (1948)

    Smart Girls Don't Talk

    5.51948HD

    A society woman gets involved with a gangster only to find he has hidden plans....

    Smart Girls Don't Talk
  • 1950
    Deported

    Deported (1950)

    Deported

    6.21950HD

    The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and slightly crackbrained crime drama. Jeff Chandler plays the Luciano counterpart, who once he arrives in Italy renews his criminal activities....

    Deported
  • 1950
    Dial 1119

    Dial 1119 (1950)

    Dial 1119

    5.51950HD

    A deranged killer escapes from a mental institution, intent on locating the psychiatrist whose testimony sent him to the asylum, holds the patrons of a bar hostage....

    Dial 1119