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Roy Rowland
Director 1910 - 1995

Roy Rowland

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Roy Rowland (December 31, 1910 – June 29, 1995) was an American film director. He directed a number of films in the 1950s and 1960s including Our Vines Have Tender Grapes, Meet Me in Las Vegas, Rogue Cop, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T., and The Girl Hunters. Rowland married Ruth... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

12 titles
The Girl Hunters

The Girl Hunters

Roy Rowland 1963 1h 38m 6.5

Mickey Spillane plays his own creation, street-thug-turned-PI Mike Hammer, in this 1963 adaptation of his novel. The film opens with Hammer on the downside of a years-long bender, scooped out of the gutter by a bitter cop intent on prying information from a dying man.

Gun Glory

Gun Glory

Roy Rowland 1957 1h 29m

An ex-gunslinger returns home; shunned by townsfolk he is the only one who knows how to stop a ruthless cattleman from driving his herd through their town.

Meet Me in Las Vegas

Meet Me in Las Vegas

Roy Rowland 1956 1h 52m 5.0

Chuck Redwell is a gambling cowboy who discovers that he's lucky at the roulette wheel if he holds hands with dancer Marie. However, Marie doesn't like to hold hands with him, at least not in the beginning...

Many Rivers to Cross

Many Rivers to Cross

Roy Rowland 1955 1h 35m 6.0

Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let anything interfere with her plans to marry him in this humorous romantic adventure through the American Frontier of 1798.

Witness to Murder

Witness to Murder

Roy Rowland 1954 1h 23m 6.5

A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.

Rogue Cop

Rogue Cop

Roy Rowland 1954 1h 32m

A police detective on the take tries to catch his brother's killer.

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.

Roy Rowland 1953 1h 29m 6.4

A young boy dreams that he is in an imaginary world where, assisted by his family's plumber, he must save other piano-playing kids like himself from the dungeons of his dictatorial piano teacher who also mind-controls his mother.

Scene of the Crime

Scene of the Crime

Roy Rowland 1949 1h 34m

A cop investigates the shooting of another policeman... that may have been involved in crooked activities.

Tenth Avenue Angel

Tenth Avenue Angel

Roy Rowland 1948 1h 14m 6.0

Flavia's been told that her Aunt Susan's fiancé, Steve, has been on a trip around the world, but in truth he's finished his prison term. Steve wonders how he can make some money and is approached by his old associates.

Killer McCoy

Killer McCoy

Roy Rowland 1947 1h 44m 6.0

Following a mishap in the ring, hard-nosed lightweight Tommy "Killer" McCoy gets mixed up with a big time gambler and falls for his educated daughter Sheila, against her father's better wishes.

A Stranger in Town

A Stranger in Town

Roy Rowland 1943 1h 7m

In the small town of Crown Port local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of corrupt town officials by running for mayor. The cards seemed stacked against him when he gets help from a visiting hunter who, unknown to Adams and the rest of the town, is actually vacationing supreme court justice John Josephus Grant.

Hollywood Party

Hollywood Party

Charles Reisner, George Stevens 1934 1h 8m

Jimmy Durante is jungle star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. So when Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws a big party with so that he might use the lions in his next movie. His film rival sneaks into the party to buy the lions before Durante.

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