Movies by Harry Shannon
As part of the cast:
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Dead and Gone (2008)
Cast: Kyle Gass, Marilyn Ghigliotti, Chris Bruno …
Directed by: Yossi Sasson
Forced to live in his late family's creepy mountainside cabin after losing all his money, Jack Wade (Quentin Jones) struggles to maintain his sanity while caring for his comatose wife…
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Gypsy (1962)
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden …
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Mervyn LeRoy directs this old-fashioned musical (featuring a classic Stephen Sondheim-Jule Styne score) about stage-mother-from-hell Mama Rose Hovick (Rosalind Russell) and the two daughters…
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Touch of Evil (1958)
Cast: Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh …
Directed by: Orson Welles
Narcotics detective Mike Vargas (Charlton Heston) sees his honeymoon cut short when a car crossing the U.S.-Mexico border explodes before his eyes. Vargas forsakes his bride (Janet Leigh) to…
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Man or Gun (1958)
Cast: Macdonald Carey, Audrey Totter, James Craig …
Directed by: Albert C. Gannaway
Macdonald Carey heads the cast as gun-slinging drifter "Maybe" Smith, whose Colt .44 pistol and shooting skills are put to the test shortly after his arrival in the New Mexico frontier town…
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The Lonely Man (1957)
Cast: Jack Palance, Anthony Perkins, Neville Brand …
Directed by: Henry Levin
Can a hoodlum turn over a new leaf? That's all Jacob Wade (Jack Palance) wants, but it's hard to shake his fearsome reputation. That's especially true when nearly everyone --…
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Duel at Apache Wells (1957)
Cast: Anna Maria Alberghetti, Ben Cooper, Jim Davis …
Directed by: Joseph Kane
Rebellious prodigal son Johnny Shattuck (Ben Cooper) returns to the family ranch, where he's immediately met with a crisis: Rival rancher Dean Cannary (Jim Davis) has designs on the…
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Hell's Crossroads (1957)
Cast: Stephen McNally, Peggie Castle, Robert Vaughn …
Directed by: Franklin Adreon Vallette
When a heist goes wrong, Jesse James (Henry Brandon) and his gang must scatter to elude the authorities. Outlaws Bob Ford (Robert Vaughn) and Vic Rodell (Stephen McNally) are nabbed, but the…
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Written on the Wind (1956)
Cast: Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack …
Directed by: Douglas Sirk
Self-pitying Texas oil millionaire Kyle Hadley (Robert Stack) tries to cure his alcoholic ills by stealing the virtuous Lucy Moore (Lauren Bacall) from best friend Mitch Wayne (Rock Hudson).…
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Come Next Spring (1956)
Cast: Ann Sheridan, Steve Cochran, Walter Brennan …
Directed by: R.G. Springsteen
Walter Brennan stars in this heartwarming classic as Matt Ballot, a reformed alcoholic who's returning home to rural Arkansas to be with his family more than a decade after leaving them…
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The Violent Men (1955)
Cast: Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson …
Directed by: Rudolph Maté
Land-grabbing cattle baron Lew Wilkison (Edward G. Robinson) is a nettlesome thorn in the side of peaceful landowners living in his valley. Wilkison covets all the choice acreage, including…
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Phantom Stallion (1954)
Cast: Rex Allen, Slim Pickens, Carla Balenda …
Directed by: Harry Keller
Singing cowboy Rex Allen reunites with his faithful sidekick, Slim Pickens, in this classic black-and-white Western. But this time, they're former cavalrymen who pitch in to help a…
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Witness to Murder (1954)
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill …
Directed by: Roy Rowland
Cheryl Draper (Barbara Stanwyck), without a doubt, witnessed a murder. But when she reports the incident, the police conclude she was dreaming. Now, the killer, Albert Richter (George…
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Kansas Pacific (1953)
Cast: Harry Shannon, Reed Hadley, Barton MacLane …
Directed by: Ray Nazarro
When Confederate sympathizers mount daring raids to halt construction on the Kansas Pacific Railway as it winds steadily across the continent, U.S. Army Capt. John Nelson (Sterling Hayden) is…
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The Scarf (1951)
Cast: John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge, James Barton …
Directed by: Ewald Andre Dupont
John Barrington (John Ireland) busts free from a mental institution, unable to remember killing a woman with a scarf -- the crime that landed him in the asylum. While seeking refuge with a…
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The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
Cast: Jackie Robinson, Ruby Dee, Minor Watson …
Directed by: Alfred E. Green
This 1950 biographical movie tackles the racial issues that elevated and threatened Jackie Robinson, the first baseball player to break the color barrier. The Hall of Fame Dodger plays…
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Three Little Words (1950)
Cast: Fred Astaire, Red Skelton, Vera-Ellen …
Directed by: Richard Thorpe
Fred Astaire won a Golden Globe for his performance as sidelined magician Bert Kalmar, who meets aspiring baseball player Harry Ruby (Red Skelton). The pair start writing tunes together,…
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Gene Autry Collection: Cow Town (1950)
Cast: Gene Autry, Gail Davis, Harry Shannon …
Directed by: John English
Get along, little doggie. Everybody's favorite crooning cowpoke, Gene Autry, once again metes out frontier justice in his own inimitable way. This time, Autry is called into action when…
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Tulsa (1949)
Cast: Susan Hayward, Robert Preston, Pedro Armendáriz …
Directed by: Stuart Heisler
Set at the start of the Oklahoma oil boom, this epic features a commanding performance by Susan Hayward as Cherokee Lansing, a woman out to avenge her father's murder by a rival oil…
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Champion (1949)
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell, Arthur Kennedy …
Directed by: Mark Robson
Midge Kelly (Kirk Douglas) is a talented boxer but a horrible person. He rises to the top of his sport, but fame and wealth quickly seduce him, and he revels in the glory of being a star.…
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The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
Cast: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane …
Directed by: Orson Welles
Batten down the hatches -- it's gonna be one bumpy ride when Mike O'Hara (Orson Welles, who also wrote and directed) becomes a crew member on Arthur Bannister's (Everett…
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Exposed (1947)
Cast: Adele Mara, Mark Roberts, Lorna Gray …
Directed by: George Blair
Smart-aleck young private eye Belinda Prentice (Adele Mara) has her work cut out for her when her very first client turns up dead. Faced with a number of different suspects, Belinda relies on…
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Night Editor / One Girl's Confession (1946)
Cast: William Gargan, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell …
Directed by: Henry Levin, Hugo Haas
In Night Editor, a newspaperman recounts the sordid tale of a married cop and his lover who witness a brutal murder, and in One Girl's Confession, a waitress admits to stealing $25,000…
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Crime, Inc. (1945)
Cast: Leo Carrillo, Tom Neal, Martha Tilton …
Directed by: Lew Landers
When two wise guys are gunned down, cub reporter Jim Riley, working with the police, starts snooping. Jim has ties to racketeer Bugs Kelly and discovers that the two dead thugs were…
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The Yellow Rose of Texas (1944)
Cast: Grant Withers, Trigger, Dale Evans …
Directed by: Joseph Kane
Working undercover as a singer on the titular showboat, insurance investigator Roy (Roy Rogers) tracks down fugitive Sam Weston (Harry Shannon) and the loot he allegedly stole. Meanwhile,…
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Idaho (1943)
Cast: Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette, Sons of the Pioneers …
Directed by: Joseph Kane
Judge Grey (Harry Shannon) aims to shut down a saloon owned by the feisty Belle (Ona Munson). But when two older criminals inform Belle of Grey's disreputable outlaw past, she blackmails…
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Alaska Highway (1943)
Cast: Richard Arlen, William Henry, Jean Parker …
Directed by: Frank McDonald
When they are assigned to help the army build a critical highway to Alaska in the early days of World War II, brothers Woody (Richard Arlen) and Steve Ormsby (William Henry) help the military…
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Song of Texas (1943)
Cast: Roy Rogers, Sheila Ryan, Barton MacLane …
Directed by: Joseph Kane
In order to help down-and-out pal Sam Bennett (Harry Shannon) save face in front of his visiting daughter (Sheila Ryan), ranch owner Roy Rogers pretends that he and Bennett co-own the land --…
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Citizen Kane (1941)
Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore …
Directed by: Orson Welles
Orson Welles reinvented movies at the age of 26 with this audacious biography of newspaper baron Charles Foster Kane, which, in essence, was a thinly veiled portrait of publishing magnate…
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Roy Rogers: Cowboy Classics (1940)
Cast: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Bob Steele …
Directed by: Joseph Kane
Roy Rogers warbles some tuneful melodies and puts the spurs (gently) to his faithful steed Trigger as he rights wrongs, brings baddies to justice and soaks up an awful lot of trail dust in…
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Too Many Girls (1940)
Cast: Lucille Ball, Richard Carlson, Ann Miller …
Directed by: George Abbott
When East Coast teen Consuelo "Connie" Casey (Lucille Ball) announces her plans to attend the coeducational Pottawatomie College in California, her father agrees -- but not before he secretly…