The best Billy Curtis’s movies

Billy Curtis

Billy Curtis

27/06/1909- 09/11/1988
Today we present the best Billy Curtis’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Billy Curtis’s movies.
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Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes
8/10
An U.S. Spaceship lands on a desolate planet, stranding astronaut Taylor in a world dominated by apes, 2000 years into the future, who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.

High Plains Drifter

High Plains Drifter
7.4/10
A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.

Saboteur

Saboteur
7.1/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 24/04/1942
  • Character: Midget (Circus Troupe)
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.

The Incredible Shrinking Man

The Incredible Shrinking Man
7.6/10
While on a boating trip, Scott Carey is exposed to a radioactive cloud. Nothing seems amiss at first, but several months later Scott realizes that he's shrunk in height by several inches. He sees a doctor, who admits that he's baffled. As Scott continues to shrink, decreasing to three feet tall, he becomes bitter, and lashes out at his wife, Louise. He begins to fear a cure will never be found -- since even as he becomes a national sensation, he's still shrinking.

Eating Raoul

Eating Raoul
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 24/03/1982
  • Character: Little Person
A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discover a bizarre, if not murderous way to get funding for opening a restaurant.

Superman and the Mole-Men

Superman and the Mole-Men
5.5/10
Reporters Clark Kent and Lois Lane arrive in the small town of Silsby to witness the drilling of the world's deepest oil well. The drill, however, has penetrated the underground home of a race of small, furry people who then come to the surface at night to look around. The fact that they glow in the dark scares the townfolk, who form a mob, led by the vicious Luke Benson, intent on killing the strange people. Only Superman has a chance to prevent this tragedy.

Hellzapoppin'

Hellzapoppin'
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 25/12/1941
  • Character: Bodyguard (uncredited)
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.

Man of a Thousand Faces

Man of a Thousand Faces
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/08/1957
  • Character: Harry Earles (uncredited)
The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces; bearer of many personal misfortunes that even his great success could not mitigate.

Head Office

Head Office
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/06/1985
  • Character: Reverend Lynch
In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son (Judge Reinhold) moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But against his better judgment, he falls for a woman (the chairman's daughter, no less) who's leading a protest against the company's shady business practices. "Saturday Night Live" writer-performer Michael O'Donoghue scripted this satire co-starring Danny DeVito and Jane Seymour.

The Terror of Tiny Town

The Terror of Tiny Town
3.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 01/12/1938
  • Character: The Hero (Buck Lawson)
Using a conventional Western story with an all dwarf cast, the filmmakers were able to showcase gags such as cowboys entering the local saloon by walking under the swinging doors, and pint-sized cowboys galloping around on Shetland ponies while roping calves.

Princess of the Nile

Princess of the Nile
6.2/10
Shalimar, an Egyptian princess, striving to rid her country of its Bedouin conquerors, forms an alliance with Prince Haidi, son of the Caliph of Bagdad. She practices her intrigues both at the court and, disguised as a dancing girl, in the market place.

The Hard Way

The Hard Way
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaMusicRomance
  • Release: 13/01/1943
  • Character: Vaudeville Midget (Uncredited)
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.

Loose Shoes

Loose Shoes
4.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/08/1980
  • Character: Menchkin
Broad satire and buffoonery presented as a series of movie trailers. Among the titles and subjects are: "The Howard Huge Story", "Skate-boarders from Hell", "The Invasion of the Penis Snatchers", Woody Allen (pre-Mia), movie trailer come-ons, Charlie Chaplin, war movies, Billy Jack. The source of the title is presented about an hour into the film.

Jungle Moon Men

Jungle Moon Men
5/10
Priestess Oma is forever young in this Jungle Jim knockoff of "She" or the La of Opar stories from "Tarzan". The Jungle Jim-type character is played by Weissmuller using his own name.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
7.8/10
Snow White must flee from her evil stepmother. She's taken in by the lovable seven dwarves. Will the wicked queen be able to get rid of her rival?

Lucky Legs

Lucky Legs
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 01/10/1942
  • Character: Newsboy
Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that will star her. Unfortunately, the money has "made the rounds" prior to reaching Gloria and several less-than-scrupulous characters set out to separate Gloria from her inheritance.

The Wild McCullochs

The Wild McCullochs
4.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 21/05/1975
  • Character: Charlie P.
A story about the rich McCulloch Family, their overbearing father and the children's misguided blaming him for everything that doesn't go right.

Out of Sight

Out of Sight
4.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 12/05/1966
  • Character: The Man From F.L.U.S.H.
Teenage beach party/spy spoof/musical comedy about a plot to bomb a music fair. As his boss is on vacation, a superspy's butler must come to the rescue, while being pursued by a trio of gorgeous assassins who're agents of F.L.U.S.H. Features George Barris hotrods, along with the musical talents of Gary Lewis and the Playboys, The Astronauts, The Knickerbockers, Freddy and the Dreamers, and the only film appearance of The Turtles.

Three Texas Steers

Three Texas Steers
5.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 12/05/1939
  • Character: Hercules - the Midget
Nancy Evans, lovely circus owner, has a ranch that she's never visited, but for sentimental reasons won't sell to Mike Abbott. Her partners, secretly in league with Abbott, sabotage the circus to force Nancy to sell the ranch; instead, she goes there to live. Will her neighbors, the Three Mesquiteers, be a match for the secret swindlers? And what's so valuable about that run-down ranch anyway?

Maisie Was a Lady

Maisie Was a Lady
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 10/01/1941
  • Character: Midget (Uncredited)
Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid. Maisie soon finds herself trying to mend the family's many problems.

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