36 Hours 1965  N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: George Seaton
Cast: James Garner, Rod Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, Werner Peters, Alan Napier, Celia Lovsky, John Banner, Ed Gilbert, Sig Ruman, Russell Thorson, Oscar Beregi Jr., Karl Held, Martin Kosleck, Marjorie Bennett, Henry Rowland
During World War II, U.S. Army Intelligence Major Jefferson Pike (James Garner) is captured by the Germans shortly before D-Day. In an effort to get information about an Allied invasion, Pike's captors drug him to convince him that the war is long over and that he has suffered from amnesia for the last six years. Pike is also told that he has a wife, but Anna (Eva Marie Saint) is not really married to him. She took this assignment to get away from abuse in her concentration camp. Pike catches on to the ploy, and the game of cat-and-mouse ensues between Pike and the Nazi doctor, Major Walter Gerber (Rod Taylor), who is pumping him for information.
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Ask Any Girl 1959 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Walters
Cast: David Niven, Gig Young, Shirley MacLaine, Rod Taylor, Jim Backus, Elisabeth Fraser, Claire Kelly, Read Morgan, Carmen Phillips, Myrna Hansen, Dodie Heath, Robert Foulk, Aileen Carlyle, Barbara English, James Maloney
Naive, young Meg Wheeler (Shirley MacLaine) comes to New York in search of a husband. She finds a job in the marketing company run by the Doughton brothers, Evan (Gig Young) and Miles (David Niven) and sets her sights on Evan. Meg asks Miles for help, and the fun begins.
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 The Birds 1963   N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Romance
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Veronica Cartwright, Jessica Tandy, Charles McGraw, Doodles Weaver, Ethel Griffies, Ruth McDevitt, Joe Mantell, Doreen Lang, Malcolm Atterbury, Karl Swenson, Elizabeth Wilson, Lonny Chapman
Alfred Hitchcock's terrifying movie concerns birds that plague a small seaside community. Melanie (Tippi Hedren) drives to Bodega Bay where lawyer Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) is spending time with his mother Lydia (Jessica Tandy) and his sister Cathy (Veronica Cartwright). Upon her arrival, a seagull attacks Melanie, and then thousands attack anyone they find. Will Melanie and Mitch's family survive? Tippi Hedren and Jessica Tandy are great in this film that received an Oscar nomination for Best Special Effects. 1 User Review
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| | the most out standy movie | ashley 03/08/2007 | | this girl is in love with birds |
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The Catered Affair 1956  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Bette Davis, Debbie Reynolds, Rod Taylor, Ernest Borgnine, Barry Fitzgerald, Robert F. Simon, Madge Kennedy, Dorothy Stickney, Ray Stricklyn, Dan Tobin
Bette Davis plays the wife of a Bronx taxi driver who is determined to spend more than she has to impress family and friends at her daughter's (Debbie Reynolds) wedding. 1 User Review
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| | movie of a dysfunctional couple and their effect on the fami | 06/03/2011 | | WONDERFUL touching movie!!!! |
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Fate Is the Hunter 1964 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ralph Nelson
Cast: Glenn Ford, Nancy Kwan, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Jane Russell, Wally Cox, Nehemiah Persoff, Mark Stevens, Max Showalter, Howard St. John, Constance Towers, Robert J. Wilke, Bert Freed, Dort Clark, Mary Wickes
An airplane crashes and, in the course of the ensuing FBI investigation, the fatal flight is reenacted to discover the cause.
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The Glass Bottom Boat 1966  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Arthur Godfrey, John McGiver, Paul Lynde, Edward Andrews, Eric Fleming, Dom DeLuise, Dick Martin, George Tobias
Jennifer Nelson (Doris Day) is a widow who is suspected of espionage when an aerospace engineer (Rod Taylor) tries to woo her.
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Long John Silver 1954 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Adventure / Action
aka: Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island
Director: Byron Haskin
Cast: Robert Newton, Connie Gilchrist, Lloyd Berrell, Grant Taylor, Rod Taylor, Eric Reiman, Kit Taylor, Syd Chambers, John Brunskill, Harvey Adams, Muriel Steinbeck, Henry Gilbert, Harry Hambleton, George Simpson-Lyttle, Thora Smith
This film takes up where "Treasure Island" left off with Robert Newton remaining in the role of "Long John Silver." Once again, that infamous buccaneer is on the lookout for his pot of gold. He arrives on an island and learns that his arch-rival, pirate Mendoza (Lloyd Berrell), has taken the governor's daughter Elizabeth (Thora Smith) captive. Long John comes to the rescue and saves Elizabeth. Later, he prevents a mutiny and saves Jim Hawkins (Kit Taylor) who is about to walk the plank. And, of course, before his adventures are over, Long John battles Mendoza.
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Nobody Runs Forever 1968  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Action
aka: The High Commissioner
Director: Ralph Thomas
Cast: Rod Taylor, Christopher Plummer, Lilli Palmer, Camilla Sparv, Daliah Lavi, Franchot Tone, Clive Revill, Lee Montague, Calvin Lockhart, Burt Kwouk
Australian policeman Scobie (Rod Taylor) heads to London to bring back a diplomat (Christopher Plummer) who is in charge of high-level negotiations. The charge: murder of his wife 25 years ago. The diplomat talks Scobie into allowing him to finish the negotiations, but Scobie has his hands full saving the diplomat from assassination attempts. A tepid Cold War tale.
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One Hundred and One Dalmatians 1961 N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Comedy
aka: 101 Dalmatians
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi
Cast: Rod Taylor, J. Pat O'Malley, Betty Lou Gerson, Martha Wentworth, Tom Conway, Ben Wright, Lisa Davis, Cate Bauer, Frederick Worlock, Tudor Owen, Lisa Daniels, George Pelling, Thurl Ravenscroft, David Frankham, Ramsay Hill
A male Dalmation, Pongo (voice of Rod Taylor), finds a way for his master, Roger (voice of Ben Wright), to meet Anita (voice of Lisa Davis) who has a pet female Dalmatian, Perdita (voice of Cate Bauer). Roger and Anita fall in love and marry. Pongo and Perdita are now together and produce a litter of 15 Dalmatian puppies. The evil Cruella de Vil (voice of Betty Lou Gerson) wants to buy Dalmatian puppies to provide fur coats for profit. When Roger refuses to sell them to her, she arranges to steal them. The police cannot find the puppies, but Pongo and Perdita use a system of dog signals to locate them, and–with help from dogs, geese, horses, and cows–the puppies are rescued.
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 Open Season 1996 R, 101 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Wuhl
Cast: Robert Wuhl, Tom Selleck, Joe Piscopo, Dina Merrill, Rod Taylor, Helen Shaver, Gailard Sartain, Saul Rubinek, Jimmie Walker, Maggie Han
A Public TV executive (Robert Wuhl) finds his shows receive top ratings (because of a tabulating error), and commercial networks jump on the bandwagon by inserting culture into their programming fare.
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Raintree County 1957 N/R, 168 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Eva Marie Saint, Nigel Patrick, Lee Marvin, Rod Taylor, Agnes Moorehead, Rhys Williams, Walter Abel, Tom Drake, Jarma Lewis, Russell Collins, DeForest Kelley, Dorothy Granger, Michael Dugan
Johnny Green's great score adds to the enjoyment of this film. This is a Civil War epic about Southern belle Susanna Drake (Elizabeth Taylor) whose life and psyche are severely disturbed by events surrounding her Midwest existence. The film received four Oscar nominations, including Best Actress (Taylor) and Musical Score.
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Separate Tables 1958 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Delbert Mann
Cast: Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Burt Lancaster, Wendy Hiller, Gladys Cooper, Cathleen Nesbitt, Felix Aylmer, Rod Taylor, Audrey Dalton, May Hallatt, Priscilla Morgan, Hilda Plowright
Guests at a British seaside resort are presented through vignettes in this film adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play. David Niven won the Best Actor Academy Award for his role as Major Pollock who helps Sybil (Deborah Kerr) break away from her cruel mother. Wendy Hiller won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her portrayal of the inn's owner. Five other nominations included Best Picture and Actress (Kerr).
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Sunday in New York 1963 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Peter Tewksbury
Cast: Cliff Robertson, Jane Fonda, Rod Taylor, Robert Culp, Jim Backus, Jo Morrow, Peter Nero, Jim Hutton, Alvy Moore, Rayford Barnes, Robert Williams, Sam Flint
Eileen Tyler (Jane Fonda) is a virgin who seeks refuge in her brother Adam's (Cliff Robertson) New York City apartment. The fun begins when Eileen discovers that she now has two men interested in her.
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 The Time Machine 1960 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Adventure
Director: George Pal
Cast: Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, Alan Young, Sebastian Cabot, Tom Helmore, Whit Bissell, Doris Lloyd, Paul Frees, Bob Barran, Josephine Powell, James Skelly
Around 1900, a scientist, H. George Wells (Rod Taylor), invents a time machine that can transport him through the fourth dimension of time. He travels into the year 807,701 where he discovers a VERY foreign world filled with the meek Elois who are hiding from the brutal Morlocks. Wells battles the Morlocks to regain his stolen time machine and rescues the beautiful Weena (Yvette Mimieux). From the H.G. Wells story.
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The Train Robbers 1973 PG, 92 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Burt Kennedy
Cast: John Wayne, Ann - Margret, Rod Taylor, Ben Johnson, Christopher George, Bobby Vinton, Jerry Gatlin, Ricardo Montalban
Lane (John Wayne) sets out with Jesse (Ben Johnson) and Mrs. Lowe (Ann-Margret) to find stolen gold that had disappeared after a train robbery. Mrs. Lowe tells Lane that her husband had stolen the gold and told her where the gold was hidden. She says that she wants to return it to the bank and clear the family name. They find the gold but then are attacked by banditos. They defeat the banditos, and Mrs. Lowe leaves on a train to return the gold. Then, a Pinkerton agent (Ricardo Montalban) arrives on the scene and tells Lane that he is following Mrs. Lowe because he knows that Mrs. Lowe has concocted the story about her husband and that she learned about the gold from the real thief as he lay dying. Angry at being tricked, Lane rides after the departing train.
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The V.I.P.s 1963 N/R, 119 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anthony Asquith
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan, Elsa Martinelli, Orson Welles, Margaret Rutherford, Rod Taylor, Maggie Smith, Michael Hordern, Robert Coote
The acting is top notch in this film about four V.I.P.s who are stranded overnight by fog at London's Heathrow Airport. Margaret Rutherford won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
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The Virgin Queen 1955 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Henry Koster
Cast: Bette Davis, Richard Todd, Joan Collins, Jay Robinson, Herbert Marshall, Dan O'Herlihy, Robert Douglas, Rod Taylor, Leslie Parrish, Robert Adler, Romney Brent, Lisa Daniels, David Thursby, Frank Mills, Noel Drayton
This historical drama focuses on the relationship between Queen Elizabeth (Bette Davis) and Sir Walter Raleigh (Richard Todd). Young adventurer Raleigh wants the aging Queen to finance his expedition to the New World and is determined to make a good impression by romancing her. Meanwhile, he falls in love with lady-in-waiting Beth Throgmorton (Joan Collins), and they secretly wed. When the Queen learns about the marriage, she feels betrayed and imprisons Raleigh in the Tower of London but later relents, frees him, and provides support for his trip across the ocean.
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Welcome to Woop-Woop 1997 R, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Stephan Elliott
Cast: Johnathon Schaech, Rod Taylor, Susie Porter, Dee Smart, Barry Humphries, Richard Moir, Paul Mercurio, Rachel Griffiths, Maggie Kirkpatrick, Tina Louise
With creditors hot on his trail, Teddy (Johnathon Schaech) heads for Australia and travels the Outback in a Volkswagen camper. He picks up a hitchhiker, Angie (Susie Porter), and drives her to her very strange hometown of Woop-Woop, and meets her equally odd father, Daddy O (Rod Taylor), and sister, Krystal (Dee Smart). When Teddy has had enough of Woop-Woop, he discovers that it is not an easy town to leave.
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Young Cassidy 1965 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jack Cardiff, John Ford
Cast: Rod Taylor, Maggie Smith, Julie Christie, Flora Robson, Michael Redgrave, Edith Evans, Jack MacGowran, Sian Phillips, T.P. McKenna, Philip O'Flynn, Julie Ross, Arthur O'Sullivan, Joe Lynch, Robin Sumner, Pauline Delaney
Rod Taylor takes on the roll of John Cassidy in this film based on the life and times of Irish author Sean O'Casey during the early 20th century. Director John Ford fell ill during the shooting of the film and was replaced by Jack Cardiff.
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| 1. 36 Hours (1965)
2. Ask Any Girl (1959)
3. The Birds (1963)
4. The Catered Affair (1956)
5. Chuka (1967)
6. Cry of the Innocent (1980)
7. Do Not Disturb (1965)
8. Fate Is the Hunter (1964)
9. The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
10. The Heroes (1972)
11. Long John Silver (1954)
aka: Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island
12. Nobody Runs Forever (1968)
aka: The High Commissioner
13. One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
aka: 101 Dalmatians
14. Open Season (1996)
15. The Oregon Trail (1976)
16. Raintree County (1957)
17. Separate Tables (1958)
18. Sunday in New York (1963)
19. The Time Machine (1960)
20. The Train Robbers (1973)
21. The V.I.P.s (1963)
22. The Virgin Queen (1955)
23. Welcome to Woop-Woop (1997)
24. Young Cassidy (1965)
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