Frank De Kova
Frank DeKova parlayed a sinister scowl, piercing eyes and an all-around menacing attitude into a long career of playing cold-blooded trigger-men, rampaging Indian chiefs, brutal Mexican army officers and the like. So it would probably come as a shock to those who know his work... Read full bio →
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American Pop
American Pop is an American animated film that film tells the story of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians whose careers parallel the history of American popular music.
Coonskin
A multi-layered satire of race relations in America. Live-action sequences of a prison break bracket the animated story of Brother Rabbit, Brother Bear, and Preacher Fox, who rise to the top of the crime ranks in Harlem by going up against a con-man, a racist cop, and the Mafia.
Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes
A numbers king pin tries to stay in business as the mafia and police close in around him.
The Slams
Rival prison factions surround a Los Angeles convict who has $1.5 million stashed on the outside.
The Don Is Dead
After his mistress is murdered a Mafia leader goes after the killer with a bloody vengeance. Soon after the hunt begins, a gang war ensues.
Heavy Traffic
A white dropout struggles to become a cartoonist and filmmaker, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him.
The Mechanic
Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets' deaths seem like accidents, thinks himself an artist. It's made him very rich, but as he hits middle age, he's so depressed and lonely that he takes on one of his victim's sons, Steve McKenna, as his apprentice.
The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Greatest Story Ever Told is a film by director George Stevens about the life of Jesus.
Follow That Dream
When the Kwimper family car runs out of gas on a new Florida highway and an officous state supervisor tries to run them off, Pop Kwimper digs in his heels and decides to do a little homesteading. He and his son Toby and their "adopted" children - Holly, Ariadne and the twins - start their own little community along a strip of the roadside.
Atlantis: The Lost Continent
A Greek Fisherman brings an Atlantean Princess back to her homeland which is the mythical city of Atlantis. He is enslaved for his trouble. The King is being manipulated by an evil sorcerer who is bent on using a natural resource of Atlantis to take over the world.
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
The New York killer (Ray Danton) goes from mob bodyguard to mob boss to mob target.
The Brothers Karamazov
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Katya, herself lovely and rich.
Teenage Cave Man
Roger Corman's post-holocaust quickie about an adolescent tribesman who dares to explore the feared "forbidden zone."
Machine-Gun Kelly
Machine-Gun Kelly, the famous bank robber, seldom without his Thompson machine gun.
Cowboy
Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. Soon, though, the tenderfoot finds out life on the range is neither what he expected nor what he's been looking for...
Run of the Arrow
A veteran leaves the army, and finds a home with the Sioux.
Ride Out for Revenge
When an Indian chief is murdered in a hateful town, a sympathizing ex marshal tries to stop the Indians from attacking for revenge.
Appointment with a Shadow
George Nader plays a reporter whose career is ruined by liquor. A comeback opportunity presents itself when Nader is a bystander at the arrest of a well-known criminal.
The Ten Commandments
Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.
The Lone Ranger
The territorial governor enlists the help of the Lone Ranger to investigate mysterious raids on white settlers by Native Americans who ride with saddles. Wealthy rancher Reese Kilgore wants to expand his land to include Spirit Mountain sacred to local tribes.
Reprisal!
New ranch owner Frank Madden, half Indian but posing as white, arrives just as an all white jury finds the three white Shipley brothers who lynched three Indians innocent. There is soon trouble between Frank and the Shipleys who are using Frank's land to graze their cattle.
Pillars of the Sky
First Sergeant Emmett Bell (Jeff Chandler) faces off with Apache chieftain Kamiakin (Michael Ansara) in this nuanced portrayal of racial tensions between Native Americans and white settlers in 1860s Oregon Country.
The Man from Laramie
Newcomer Will Lockhart defies the local cattle baron and his sadistic son by working for one of his oldest rivals.
Strange Lady in Town
There's a new doctor in old Santa Fe, and it's Greer Garson. Director Mervyn LeRoy's 1955 western also stars Dana Andrews, Cameron Mitchell, Lois Smith, Walter Hampden, Pedro Gonzales-Gonzales, Earl Holliman, Adele Jergens, Robert Wilke, Frank DeKova, Nick Adams, Douglas Kennedy, Ralph Moody and Louise Lorimer.
Shack Out on 101
A greasy spoon diner provides a base for a spy smuggling nuclear secrets.
Hold Back Tomorrow
Suicidal hooker Cleo Moore agrees to spend the night with condemned prisoner John Agar in this Hugo Haas film noir.
Passion
In Mexican California, a land feud erupts and murder is committed when rich landowner Don Domingo reneges on an earlier verbal promise made by his father to grant to the tenant Melo family a piece of land.
Drum Beat
In 1872, Indian fighter Johnny MacKay is appointed peace commissioner for the California and Oregon territory but he faces tough opposition from the renegade Modocs led by their chief Captain Jack.
Split Second
Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town that"s the target of a nuclear bomb test.
Arrowhead
Director Charles Marquis Warren's 1953 western stars Charlton Heston and Jack Palance.
All the Brothers Were Valiant
Sea-faring saga of two brothers (Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger) and the woman they both love.
Viva Zapata!
Australian actor who died in January 2008 of an overdose of medication in his appartment in Manhattan, just after shooting the Batman Movie The Dark Knight, at the age of 28. Ledger gained reputation after the Gay Drama Brokeback Mountain.
The Big Sky
Kirk Douglas stars as the determined leader of a band of Tennessee fur trappers who set out to explore the uncharted Missouri river in 1830 and find them selves battling American Indians.
Kiss of Death
Ex hood Nick Bianco rats on vicious killer Tommy Udo. But when at trial Udo is acquitted, Bianco is sure that Udo will be out for revenge.