18 Movies Starring Rock Hudson

Magnificent Obsession

Magnificent Obsession

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1954-08-07

Languages:

English, German

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

108 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (3851 Reviews)

Director:

Douglas Sirk

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Lloyd C. Douglas (novel)

Robert Blees (screenplay)

Wells Root (adaptation)

Sarah Y. Mason (based upon the screenplay by)

Victor Heerman (based upon the screenplay by)

Fullplot:

When churlish, spoiled rich man Bob Merrick foolishly wrecks his speed boat, the rescue team resuscitates him with equipment that's therefore unavailable to aid a local hero, Dr. Wayne Phillips, who dies as a result. Phillips had helped many people, and when Merrick learns Phillips' secret, to give selflessly and in secret, he tries it in a ham-handed way. The result further alienates Phillips' widow, Helen, with whom Merrick has fallen in love. Merrick's persistence causes another tragedy, and he must remake his life, including going back to medical school, in an attempt to make amends and win her love.

All That Heaven Allows

All That Heaven Allows

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1955-12-09

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

89 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (8267 Reviews)

Director:

Douglas Sirk

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Peg Fenwick (screenplay)

Edna L. Lee (story)

Harry Lee (story)

Fullplot:

Giant

Giant

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1956-11-24

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

201 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (24420 Reviews)

Director:

George Stevens

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Edna Ferber (from the novel by)

Fred Guiol (screen play)

Ivan Moffat (screen play)

Fullplot:

Texan rancher Bick Benedict visits a Maryland farm to buy a prize horse. Whilst there he meets and falls in love with the owner's daughter Leslie, they are married immediately and return to his ranch. The story of their family and its rivalry with cowboy and (later oil tycoon) Jett Rink unfolds across two generations.

Written on the Wind

Written on the Wind

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1956-12-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (6973 Reviews)

Director:

Douglas Sirk

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

George Zuckerman (screenplay)

Robert Wilder (based on the novel by)

Fullplot:

On 24 October 1955, the hard-work geologist of the Hadley Oil Company Mitch Wayne meets the executive secretary Lucy Moore in the office of her boss Bill Ryan in New York and invites her to go to a conference with the alcoholic playboy and son of a tycoon Kyle Hadley. On the way of the meeting, he confesses that they had traveled from Houston to New York to satisfy the wish of the reckless Kyle, who is his best friend since their childhood, of eating a sandwich from club 21 and the meeting was just a pretext to Kyle's father Jasper Hadley. Mitch and Kyle immediately fall in love for Lucy, and Kyle unsuccessfully uses his money to impress Lucy; then he opens his heart and proposes Lucy. They get married and travel to Acapulco and the insecure Kyle stops drinking. Meanwhile, Kyle's sister Marylee is an easy woman and has a non-corresponded crush on Mitch that sees her as a sister. One year later, Kyle discovers that he has a problem and might be sterile and starts drinking again. The jealous Marylee poisons Kyle telling that his wife and Mitch are having a love affair. When Lucy finds that she is pregnant, Kyle believes that the baby belongs to Mitch and his mistrust leads to a tragedy.

A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1957-12-14

Languages:

English, Latin

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

152 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (1749 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Ben Hecht (screenplay)

Ernest Hemingway (novel)

Laurence Stallings (play)

Fullplot:

Something of Value

Something of Value

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1957-06-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

113 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (667 Reviews)

Director:

Richard Brooks

Genres:

DramaWar

Cast:

Writer:

Richard Brooks (screen play)

Robert C. Ruark (based on the book: "Something of Value" by)

Fullplot:

Even though Peter and Kimani grow up together, Kimani soon finds that different races are treated differently. After the father of Kimani is jailed for following tribal customs, Kimani joins a band of rebels that wants all non-Kenyans out of their country. While Kimani believes in the cause, he does not agree with the indiscriminate killing of women, children and those who will not join or agree with them. Peter, even after the deaths of his little sister and brother by the Mau Mau, still believes that there is a chance for peaceful co-existence. He believes that he can stop most of the killing if he can only reason with Kimani.

Pillow Talk

Pillow Talk

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1959-10-07

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

102 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (10698 Reviews)

Director:

Michael Gordon

Cast:

Writer:

Stanley Shapiro (screenplay)

Maurice Richlin (screenplay)

Russell Rouse (story)

Clarence Greene (story)

Fullplot:

In New York, the interior decorator Jan Morrow and the wolf composer Brad Allen share a party line, but Brad keeps it busy most of the time flirting with his girlfriends. They do not know each other but Jan hates Brads since she needs the telephone for her business and can not use it. Coincidently Jan's wealthy client Jonathan Forbes that woos her is the best friend of Brad and he comments with him that he feels an unrequited love for Jan, who is a gorgeous woman. When Brad meets Jan by chance in a restaurant, he poses as a naive tourist from Texas named Rex Stetson and seduces her. But Jonathan hires a private eye to find who Rex Stetson is.

This Earth Is Mine

This Earth Is Mine

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1959-06-26

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

124 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (278 Reviews)

Director:

Henry King

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Alice Tisdale Hobart (novel)

Casey Robinson

Fullplot:

In 1931, Elizabeth Rambeau comes from England to live in California with her aunt and uncle of a winemaking dynasty, who are still wealthy despite 12 years of Prohibition. Object: marriage to the heir of another vineyard, to further consolidate holdings in the Valley. But John Rambeau, Elizabeth's illegitimate cousin, has other ideas about who she should marry, and sharply opposes patriarch Philippe's refusal to sell wine grapes to bootleggers. John's activities bring violence to the valley, and soap opera to the Rambeau family...

Come September

Come September

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1961-08-09

Languages:

English, Italian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

112 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (2183 Reviews)

Director:

Robert Mulligan

Cast:

Writer:

Stanley Shapiro (screenplay)

Maurice Richlin (screenplay)

Stanley Roberts (story)

Robert Russell (story)

Fullplot:

Wealthy industrialist Robert Talbot arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Italian villa to find three problems lying in wait for him. Firstly, his long-time girlfriend Lisa Fellini has given up waiting for him to pop the question and has decided to marry another man. Secondly, the major domo of his villa, Maurice Clavell, has turned the estate into a posh hotel to make some easy money while the boss isn't around. And, finally, the current guests of the "hotel" are a group of young American girls trying to fend off a gang of oversexed boys, led by Tony, who are 'laying siege' at the outer walls of the villa. Talbot, to his own surprise, finds himself becoming an overprotective chaperone.

The Last Sunset

The Last Sunset

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1961-06-07

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (1660 Reviews)

Director:

Robert Aldrich

Cast:

Writer:

Howard Rigsby (novel)

Dalton Trumbo (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Brendan O'Malley arrives at the Mexican home of old flame Belle Breckenridge to find her married to a drunkard getting ready for a cattle drive to Texas. Hot on O'Malley's heels is lawman Dana Stribling who has a personal reason for getting him back into his jurisdiction. Both men join Breckenridge and his wife on the drive. As they near Texas tensions mount, not least because Stribling is starting to court Belle and O'Malley is increasingly drawn by her daughter Missy.

Lover Come Back

Lover Come Back

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1962-03-03

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

107 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (4609 Reviews)

Director:

Delbert Mann

Cast:

Writer:

Stanley Shapiro

Paul Henning

Fullplot:

Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are both in the advertising business, but for different agencies. Annoyed by Jerry's methods of using alcohol and women to ensure contracts for his agency, Carol tries to get him thrown out of his profession. To avoid this Jerry bribes the girl who'd testify against him, by starring her in a TV commercial for a product named VIP that he's just made up. By accident these commercials are broadcasted and to keep his job, Jerry has to come up with VIP for which he enlists the help of Doctor Linus Tyler. Carol goes to see the Doctor to try and get the VIP account, but because she and Jerry have never met, she mistakes Jerry for the Doctor. Jerry then takes advantage of this situation to win her.

Man's Favorite Sport?

Man's Favorite Sport?

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1964-01-29

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

120 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (3338 Reviews)

Director:

Howard Hawks

Cast:

Writer:

Pat Frank (story)

John Fenton Murray

Steve McNeil

Fullplot:

Roger Willoughby is considered to be a leading expert on sports fishing. He's written books on the subject and is loved by his customers in the sporting goods department at Abercrombie and Fitch, where he works. There's only one problem however: he's never been fishing in his life. When the store owner enters him in a fishing contest, mayhem ensues.

Send Me No Flowers

Send Me No Flowers

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1964-10-14

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

100 min

IMDB Ratings:

(3891 Reviews)

Director:

Norman Jewison

Cast:

Writer:

Norman Barasch (play)

Carroll Moore (play)

Julius J. Epstein (screenplay)

Fullplot:

At one of his many visits to his doctor, hypochondriac George Kimball mistakes a dying man's diagnosis for his own and believes he only has about two more weeks to live. Wanting to take care of his wife Judy, he doesn't tell her and tries to find her a new husband. When he finally does tell her, she quickly finds out he's not dying at all (while he doesn't) and she believes it's just a lame excuse to hide an affair, so she decides to leave him.

Seconds

Seconds

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1966-11-14

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (10255 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Lewis John Carlino (screenplay)

David Ely (based on the novel by)

Fullplot:

Middle-aged banker Arthur Hamilton is given the opportunity to start a completely new life when he receives calls from his old friend Charlie. The only problem is that Charlie is supposed to be dead. Hamilton is eventually introduced to a firm that will fake his death and create an entirely new look and life for him. After undergoing physical reconstruction surgery and months of training and psychotherapy, Hamilton returns to the world in the form of artist Tony Wilson. He has a nice house in Malibu and a manservant, a company employee who is there to assist him with his adjustment. He finds that the life he had hoped for isn't quite what he expected and asks the company to go through the process with surprising results.

Tobruk

Tobruk

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1967-02-07

Languages:

English, German, Italian, Arabic

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

107 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (1784 Reviews)

Director:

Arthur Hiller

Genres:

WarDrama

Fullplot:

September 1942 - With Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps on the march through Egypt, a British special forces unit, composed of German Jews who serve with the British despite the mutual resentment between both, kidnap a Canadian officer who is an expert topographer and who is held prisoner by the Vichy French in Algeria. The officer, Donald Craig, must negotiate a company of British and German-Jewish commandos through 800 miles of the Sahara to aide a pending amphibious landing against Tobruk's massive fuel storage base - a mission that sees one impediment after another, and which discovers an undetected German armored force ready to win the battle of Egypt.

Darling Lili

Darling Lili

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1970-06-24

Languages:

English, German

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

136 min

Rated:

G

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (1468 Reviews)

Director:

Blake Edwards

Cast:

Writer:

Blake Edwards

William Peter Blatty

Fullplot:

WWI. Lili Smith is a beloved British music hall singer, often providing inspiration for the British and French troops and general populace singing rallying patriotic songs. She is also half German - her real last name being Schmidt - and is an undercover German spy, using her feminine wiles to gather information from the high ranking and generally older military officers and diplomats she seduces. Masquerading as her Swiss uncle, Colonel Kurt Von Ruger is not only her German handler but her lover. Kurt's boss, General Kessler, doesn't fully trust Lili as she is still half British. That is why it irks him that Kurt has entrusted Lili with the important mission of finding out more about the Allied air defense plans, the air which is becoming a more important battleground of the war. Of the five men who are most privy to such information, Kurt believes the best target is American pilot, Major William Larrabee as he is young, single and a ladies man. Lili is more than easily able to strike a romantic and sexual relationship with Bill. Lili's mission is threatened when she learns that two French agents believe that Larrabee is passing information to a female German spy. But Lili believes she's also stumbled onto some vital information when she accidentally learns from one of Bill's pilot compatriots, T.C. Carstairs, of a secret mission code named "Crepe Suzette". Crepe Suzette ends up being a game changer for Lili, not only with her position as a spy, but in her relationship with Bill. The outcome of "Suzette" also threatens both Bill and Lili's lives.

Embryo

Embryo

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1976-05-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

(873 Reviews)

Director:

Ralph Nelson

Genres:

HorrorSci-Fi

Cast:

Writer:

Anita Doohan (screenplay)

Jack W. Thomas (screenplay)

Jack W. Thomas (story)

Fullplot:

A scientist doing experiments on a human fetus discovers a method to accelerate the fetus into a mature adult in just a few days. However, the "adult" fetus turns into a homicidal psycho and looks for a new formula to prevent her from aging further.

Seconds

Seconds

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1966-11-14

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (10212 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Lewis John Carlino (screenplay)

David Ely (based on the novel by)

Fullplot:

Middle-aged banker Arthur Hamilton is given the opportunity to start a completely new life when he receives calls from his old friend Charlie. The only problem is that Charlie is supposed to be dead. Hamilton is eventually introduced to a firm that will fake his death and create an entirely new look and life for him. After undergoing physical reconstruction surgery and months of training and psychotherapy, Hamilton returns to the world in the form of artist Tony Wilson. He has a nice house in Malibu and a manservant, a company employee who is there to assist him with his adjustment. He finds that the life he had hoped for isn't quite what he expected and asks the company to go through the process with surprising results.

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