The best Edmond O'Brien’s movies on Google Play Movies

Edmond O'Brien

Edmond O'Brien

10/09/1915- 09/05/1985
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Fantastic Voyage

Fantastic Voyage
6.8/10
In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar
7.2/10
The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic.

The Wild Bunch

The Wild Bunch
7.9/10
Aging outlaw Pike Bishop prepares to retire after one final robbery. Joined by his gang, Dutch Engstrom and brothers Lyle and Tector Gorch, Bishop discovers the heist is a setup orchestrated in part by a former partner, Deke Thornton. As the remaining gang takes refuge in Mexican territory, Thornton trails them—resulting in fierce gunfights with plenty of casualties.

White Heat

White Heat
8.1/10
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.

The Killers

The Killers
7.7/10
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
7.8/10
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a gypsy young girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
8.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/04/1962
  • Character: Dutton Peabody
A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.

Birdman of Alcatraz

Birdman of Alcatraz
7.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/07/1962
  • Character: Tom Gaddis
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.

The Longest Day

The Longest Day
7.7/10
  • Genre: War
  • Release: 25/09/1962
  • Character: Gen. Raymond D. Barton
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 21/05/1982
  • Character: (in "White Heat") (archive footage)
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.

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 Greatest Show on Earth

The Greatest Show on Earth
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaFamilyRomance
  • Release: 16/02/1952
  • Character: Midway Barker at End (uncredited)
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on the ground.

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.

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
7.7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 05/05/2010
  • Character: Oscar Muldoon (archive footage)
In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier when his Technicolor camerawork was awarded for Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus. Beyond John Huston's The African Queen and King Vidor's War and Peace, the films of the British-Hungarian creative duo (The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death too) guaranteed immortality for the renowned cameraman whose career spanned seventy years.

Seven Days in May

Seven Days in May
7.8/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 12/02/1964
  • Character: Sen. Raymond Clark
A U.S. Army colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.

The Rack

The Rack
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 02/11/1956
  • Character: Lt. Col. Frank Wasnick
Captain Edward Hall returns to the USA after two years in a prison camp in the korean war. In the camp he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese convince the other prisoners that they were fighting an unjust war. When he comes back he is charged for collaboration with the enemy. Where does loyalty end in a prison camp, when the camp is a living hell?

The Barefoot Contessa

The Barefoot Contessa
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/09/1954
  • Character: Oscar Muldoon
Has-been director Harry Dawes gets a new lease on his career when independently wealthy Kirk Edwards hires him to write and direct a film. They go to Madrid to find Maria Vargas, a dancer who will star in the film.

Warpath

Warpath
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 22/11/1951
  • Character: John Vickers
John Vickers has spent eight years hunting for the three men who murdered the woman he loved. He finds one, Woodson, and kills him in a gunfight, but not before learning that the other two men have joined the U.S. Cavalry.

Moon Pilot

Moon Pilot
5.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 05/04/1962
  • Character: McClosky aka 'Mac'
An Air Force captain inadvertently volunteers to make the first manned flight around the moon. He immediately falls under the watchful protection of various security agencies, but despite all their precautions, a young woman who may be an enemy spy succeeds in making contact with the captain. The captain eventually discovers that this woman is not an enemy but rather a friend from a very unusual source.

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