The best Edmond O'Brien’s action movies

Edmond O'Brien

Edmond O'Brien

10/09/1915- 09/05/1985
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Up Periscope

Up Periscope
6.4/10
Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled into a Japanese-held island via submarine to photograph radio codes.

Rio Conchos

Rio Conchos
6.6/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 28/10/1964
  • Character: Col. Theron Pardee
Two Army officers, an alcoholic ex-Confederate soldier and a womanizing Mexican travel to Mexico on a secret mission to prevent a megalomaniacal ex-Confederate colonel from selling a cache of stolen rifles to a band of murderous Apaches.

The Last Voyage

The Last Voyage
6.7/10
The S. S. Claridon is scheduled for her five last voyages after thirty-eight years of service. After an explosion in the boiler room, Captain Robert Adams is reluctant to evacuate the steamship. While the crew fights to hold a bulkhead between the flooded boiler room and the engine room and avoid the sinking of the vessel, the passenger Cliff Henderson struggles against time trying to save his beloved wife Laurie Henderson, who is trapped under a steel beam in her cabin, with the support of the crew member Hank Lawson.

The Turning Point

The Turning Point
6.8/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 15/11/1952
  • Character: John Conroy
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.

Fighter Squadron

Fighter Squadron
6.2/10
  • Genre: ActionWar
  • Release: 27/11/1948
  • Character: Maj. Ed Hardin
During World War II, an insubordinate fighter pilot finds the shoe on the other foot when he's promoted.

Stopover Tokyo

Stopover Tokyo
5.6/10
An American intelligence agent is sent to Tokyo to track down a Communist spy ring.

The Redhead and The Cowboy

The Redhead and The Cowboy
6.3/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 15/03/1951
  • Character: Maj. Dunn Jeffers (Union intelligence officer)
Gil Kyle finds himself caught up in the politics and unrest of the American Civil War and soon gets himself framed for a murder. His only alibi is Candace Bronson, who is aiding the Confederate cause and has left the territory to deliver a vital message about a Yankee gold shipment. So he sets off in pursuit, running into desperados, government agents, and guerrilla fighters, who are more interested in profit than ideals. Written by Alfred Jingle

99 and 44/100% Dead

99 and 44/100% Dead
5.5/10
Uncle Frank Kelly calls on Harry Crown to help him in a gang war. The war becomes personal when Harry's new girlfriend is kidnapped by Uncle Frank's enemy, Big Eddie.

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