The best Ed Begley’s movies

Ed Begley

Ed Begley

25/03/1901- 28/04/1970
Today we present the best Ed Begley’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 Ed Begley’s movies.
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12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men
9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/04/1957
  • Character: Juror 10
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.

Hang 'em High

Hang 'em High
7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 31/07/1968
  • Character: Captain Wilson
Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with the nine men on his hit list and starts dispensing his own brand of Wild West justice.

Backfire

Backfire
6.6/10
When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a trumped-up murder rap, and Corey hopes to clear his pal. Tagging along is Army nurse Julie Benson, who has fallen for Corey.

Billion Dollar Brain

Billion Dollar Brain
5.9/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 02/11/1967
  • Character: General Midwinter
A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?

Firecreek

Firecreek
6.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 24/01/1968
  • Character: Preacher Broyles
A peace-loving, part-time sheriff in the small town of Firecreek must take a stand when a gang of vicious outlaws takes over his town.

The Dunwich Horror

The Dunwich Horror
5.4/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 14/01/1970
  • Character: Henry Armitage
Dr. Henry Armitage, an expert in the occult, goes to the old Whateley manor in Dunwich looking for Nancy Wagner, a student who went missing the previous night. He is turned away by Wilbur, the family's insidious heir, who has plans for the young girl. But Armitage won't be deterred. Through conversations with the locals, he soon unearths the Whateleys' darkest secret — as well as a great evil.

Sitting Pretty

Sitting Pretty
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 10/03/1948
  • Character: Horatio J. Hammond
Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.

Sorry, Wrong Number

Sorry, Wrong Number
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 24/09/1948
  • Character: James 'J.B.' Cotterell
Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.

Boomerang!

Boomerang!
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/02/1947
  • Character: Paul Harris
In a quiet Connecticut town, a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner. The citizens are horrified and demand action from the police. All of the witnesses identify John Waldron, a nervous out-of-towner, as the killer. Although Waldron vehemently denies the crime, no one will believe him. District Attorney Henry Harvey is then put on the case and faces political opposition in his attempt to prove Waldron's innocence. Based on a true story.

Sweet Bird of Youth

Sweet Bird of Youth
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 21/03/1962
  • Character: Tom 'Boss' Finley
Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his home town as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter of the local politician Tom "Boss" Finley, who more or less forced him to leave his daughter and the town many years ago.

Odds Against Tomorrow

Odds Against Tomorrow
7.4/10
An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.

Convicted

Convicted
6.8/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 01/08/1950
  • Character: Mackay, Head of Parole Board
A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.

The Unsinkable Molly Brown

The Unsinkable Molly Brown
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 11/06/1964
  • Character: Shamus Tobin
The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life—a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world. She assures the Leadville saloon keeper that she can sing and play the piano, and learns quickly. Soon she marries Johnny Brown, who in a few years will be able to replace the original cigar wrapper wedding ring with a replica in gold and gemstones. The Browns head for Europe and bring a few crowned heads back to Denver for a party that turns into a ballroom brawl. Molly goes to Europe alone, returning on the Titanic. She didn't survive a flood as a baby for the story to end here.

Patterns

Patterns
7.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/03/1956
  • Character: William Briggs
A New York corporate boss grooms an Ohio engineer for the No. 2 man's job.

The Oscar

The Oscar
5.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/03/1966
  • Character: Grosbard
An amoral lowlife accidentally stumbles into an acting career that sets him on a trajectory to Hollywood stardom. But everyone on whom he steps on the way to the top remembers when he is nominated for an Oscar and he runs a dirty campaign in an attempt to win.

Warning Shot

Warning Shot
6.7/10
Hounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman (David Janssen) works his own case.

Deadline - U.S.A.

Deadline - U.S.A.
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 14/03/1952
  • Character: Frank Allen
With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster.

Dark City

Dark City
6.7/10
Gamblers who "took" an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in on them.

Tulsa

Tulsa
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/04/1949
  • Character: John J. 'Johnny' Brady (as Edward Begley)
It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans revenge by bringing in her own wells with the help of oil expert Brad Brady and childhood friend Jim Redbird. When the oil and the money start gushing in, both Brad and Jim want to protect the land but Cherokee has different ideas. What started out as revenge for her father's death has turned into an obsession for wealth and power.

The Turning Point

The Turning Point
6.8/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 15/11/1952
  • Character: Neil Eichelberger
Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city, and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. John doesn't understand why Matt is reluctant, but cynical reporter Jerry McKibbon thinks he knows: he's seen Matt with mob lieutenant Harrigan. Jerry's friendship with John is tested by the question of what to do about Matt, and by his attraction to John's girl Amanda. Meanwhile, the threatened racketeers adopt increasingly violent means of defense.

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