5 Movies Starring Joseph Calleia

Algiers

Algiers

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1938-08-05

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

96 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (1604 Reviews)

Director:

John Cromwell

Cast:

Writer:

John Howard Lawson (screenplay)

James M. Cain (additional dialogue)

Henri La Barthe (from the novel "Pepe Le Moko" by)

Fullplot:

Pepe Le Moko, a thief who escaped from France with a fortune in jewels, has for two years lived in, and virtually ruled, the mazelike, impenetrable Casbah, "native quarter" of Algiers. A French official insists that he be captured, but sly Inspector Slimane knows he need only bide his time. The suave Pepe increasingly regards his stronghold as also his prison, especially when he meets beautiful Parisian visitor Gaby, who reminds him of the boulevards to which he dare not return...and arouses the mad jealousy of Ines, his Algerian mistress.

Jungle Book

Jungle Book

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1942-04-03

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, UK

Runtime:

108 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (2569 Reviews)

Director:

Zoltan Korda

Cast:

Writer:

Laurence Stallings (adaptation)

Fullplot:

Teenaged Mowgli, who was raised by wolves, appears in a village in India and is adopted by Messua. Mowgli learns human language and some human ways quickly, though keeping jungle ideas. Influential Merchant Buldeo is bigoted against 'beasts' including Mowgli; not so Buldeo's pretty daughter, whom Mowgli takes on a jungle tour where they find a treasure, setting the evil of human greed in motion.

Gilda

Gilda

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1946-03-15

Languages:

English, Spanish, French, German

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (18491 Reviews)

Director:

Charles Vidor

Cast:

Writer:

E.A. Ellington (story)

Jo Eisinger (adaptation)

Marion Parsonnet (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Just arrived in Argentina, small-time crooked gambler Johnny Farrell is saved from a gunman by sinister Ballin Mundson, who later makes Johnny his right-hand man. But their friendship based on mutual lack of scruples is strained when Mundson returns from a trip with a wife: the supremely desirable Gilda, whom Johnny once knew and learned to hate. The relationship of Johnny and Gilda, a battlefield of warring emotions, becomes even more bizarre after Mundson disappears...

Wild Is the Wind

Wild Is the Wind

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1958-02-05

Languages:

English, Italian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

114 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (627 Reviews)

Director:

George Cukor

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Vittorio Nino Novarese (novel)

Arnold Schulman

Fullplot:

An immigrant Nevada rancher brings a woman from Italy to be his second wife but when he neglects her, she becomes involved with his trusted assistant. Nominated for 3 Academy Awards including Best Actor.

Touch of Evil

Touch of Evil

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1958-05-01

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

8.2 (66317 Reviews)

Director:

Orson Welles

Cast:

Writer:

Orson Welles (screenplay)

Whit Masterson (based on the novel "Badge Of Evil" by)

Fullplot:

Mexican Narcotics officer Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas has to interrupt his honeymoon on the Mexican-US border when an American building contractor is killed after someone places a bomb in his car. He's killed on the US side of the border but it's clear that the bomb was planted on the Mexican side. As a result, Vargas delays his return to Mexico City where he has been mounting a case against the Grandi family crime and narcotics syndicate. Police Captain Hank Quinlan is in charge on the US side and he soon has a suspect, a Mexican named Manolo Sanchez. Vargas is soon onto Quinlan and his Sergeant, Pete Menzies, when he catches them planting evidence to convict Sanchez. With his new American wife, Susie, safely tucked away in a hotel on the US side of the border - or so he thinks - he starts to review Quinlan's earlier cases. While concentrating on the corrupt policeman however, the Grandis have their own plans for Vargas and they start with his wife Susie.

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