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Michael Gordon
Director 1909 - 1993

Michael Gordon

Baltimore, Maryland

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Michael Gordon (September 6, 1909 – April 29, 1993) was an American stage actor and stage and film director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Gordon (film director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

12 titles
Texas Across the River

Texas Across the River

Michael Gordon 1966 1h 41m 7.0

In 1845 Texas, a Louisiana belle is courted by a wanted Spanish nobleman and a Texas brawling gunrunner but her suitors' passionate duel is interrupted by the cavalry and a Comanche attack.

Move Over, Darling

Move Over, Darling

Michael Gordon 1963 1h 43m 6.0

Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen presumably perishes when swept off her lifeboat, her body never recovered. Fast forward five years.

For Love or Money

For Love or Money

Michael Gordon 1963 1h 48m 5.0

Wealthy Chloe Brasher has three beautiful daughters; Bonnie, Kate, and Jan. Chloe pays attorney Deke Gentry to fix them up with three suitable husbands.

Portrait in Black

Portrait in Black

Michael Gordon 1960 1h 52m

A pair of lovers plot to kill the woman's rich husband.

Pillow Talk

Pillow Talk

Michael Gordon 1959 1h 42m 7.5

Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about to seduce her in the guise of a sincere and upstanding Texas rancher.

The Secret of Convict Lake

The Secret of Convict Lake

Michael Gordon 1951 1h 23m 7.0

In 1871 a convict escapes, with other prisoners, to kill the man that framed him, but has second thoughts after meeting the man's beautiful future wife.

Woman in Hiding

Woman in Hiding

Michael Gordon 1950 1h 32m

As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too well. Having discovered a horrible truth about her new husband, Deborah is now a “woman in hiding,” living in mortal fear that someday her husband will catch up with her again.

Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac

Michael Gordon 1950 1h 53m 8.5

José Ferrer won the Oscar for Best Actor for his portayal of the swordsman-poet using his silver tongue to woo the woman he loves for another man.

The Lady Gambles

The Lady Gambles

Michael Gordon 1949 1h 39m 6.0

When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction.

An Act of Murder

An Act of Murder

Michael Gordon 1948 1h 31m 7.0

A man kills his terminally ill wife to prevent her further suffering.

The Web

The Web

Michael Gordon 1947 1h 27m 7.0

A brash young lawyer takes a short-term but high-paid job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.

Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood

Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood

Michael Gordon 1942 1h 8m

Boston Blackie and his pal, The Runt, are ready to board a train for Florida when Blackie gets a telegram from his friend Arthur Manleder asking Blackie to go to Manleder's New York apartment, get $60,000 from a wall safe and fly to Hollywood.

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