The best Jan Arvan’s movies

Jan Arvan

Jan Arvan

10/04/1913- 24/05/1979
Today we present the best Jan Arvan’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 Jan Arvan’s movies.
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The Poseidon Adventure

The Poseidon Adventure
7.1/10
When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

20 Million Miles to Earth

20 Million Miles to Earth
6.3/10
  • Genre: Science Fiction
  • Release: 08/02/1957
  • Character: Signore Contino - Government Official
When the first manned flight to Venus returns to Earth, the rocket crash-lands in the Mediterranean near a small Italian fishing village. The locals manage to save one of the astronauts Colonel Calder, the mission commander. A young boy also recovers what turns out to be a specimen of an alien creature. Growing at a fantastic rate, it manages to escape and eventually threatens the city of Rome.

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
6.2/10
When the murder of an archaeologist puts a valuable medallion into their hands, Abbott and Costello waste little time in trying to sell it, only to find themselves pursued by police, a slinky adventuress, an Egyptian high priest, and the mummy himself.

The Opposite Sex

The Opposite Sex
6.1/10
Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to ignore the information, but when Crystal performs one of her musical numbers at a charity benefit, she breaks down and goes to Reno to file for divorce. However, when she hears that gold-digging Crystal is making Steve unhappy, Kay resolves to get her husband back.

The Cobweb

The Cobweb
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/06/1955
  • Character: Mr. Appleton
Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes - but drapes are the least of their problems.

The Sign of Zorro

The Sign of Zorro
6.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 18/11/1958
  • Character: Don Nacho Torres
In this film, edited from eight episodes of Disney's hit TV series, Don Diego returns home to find his town under the heel of a cruel dictator, Capitan Monastario. Diego dons the mask of Zorro to fight the evil commandant's tyranny, and, with the help of his mute servant Bernardo, free the pueblo from his oppression.

Istanbul

Istanbul
6.1/10
A suspected diamond smuggler returns to Istanbul and finds the lady love he thought was dead...or does he?

Curse of the Faceless Man

Curse of the Faceless Man
4.8/10
A stone-encrusted body is unearthed at Pompeii, and people left alone with it keep dying of crushed skulls...

Noose for a Gunman

Noose for a Gunman
5.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/05/1960
  • Character: Ben Hallop - Town Council Member
Case Britton, gunslinger and wanted man, comes to town to meet his bride-to-be, stop a stagecoach robbery, and get even with the man who killed his brother.

The Screaming Woman

The Screaming Woman
6.6/10
A wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking the grounds one day she hears the screams of a woman coming from underneath the ground. Her family, however, refuses to believe her story, and sees the incident as an opportunity to prove the woman's mind has snapped so they can take control of her money.

The Stranger Who Looks Like Me

The Stranger Who Looks Like Me
6/10
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 06/03/1974
  • Character: Uncle Charles
A young woman searching for her birth parents in order to fulfill her sense of identity joins with an organization that fights the bureaucracy keeping adoption records sealed.

The Desert Hawk

The Desert Hawk
5.5/10
A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph's daughter.

The Six Million Dollar Man: The Solid Gold Kidnapping

The Six Million Dollar Man: The Solid Gold Kidnapping
6.7/10
A criminal organization known as OSO specializes in kidnapping high ranking U.S. representatives. Although Steve Austin has already thwarted one of their kidnappings, he is unable to stop them from grabbing William Henry Cameron right from under OSI's nose. OSO demands one million dollars in gold and Oscar Goldman takes the opportunity to try and lure them out into the open. Meanwhile, Steve accompanies Dr. Erica Bergner, who is testing a new method of brain transferal in order to find out where Cameron is being kept.

Gunfighters of Abilene

Gunfighters of Abilene
5.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/01/1960
  • Character: Miguel
A gunman receives a request for help from his brother, but arrives too late to save him from the lawless rancher who wanted him dead.

Frontier Uprising

Frontier Uprising
5.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/02/1961
  • Character: Toyon
Not having heard that war has erupted between the U.S. and Mexico, a wagon train heads west, only to find itself threatened by the Mexicans who have teamed up with hostile Indians.

The Brass Bottle

The Brass Bottle
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/05/1964
  • Character: Seneschal
A genie tends to get his master into more predicaments than he gets him out of.

The Power of the Resurrection

The Power of the Resurrection
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1958
  • Character: Judas
A young man, Facing torture and possibly death for his Christian beliefs, confesses his fears to Peter, who awaits a similar fate. Peter tells him of fear he felt in following Jesus' arrest in the Garden of Gethesamene, when he denied knowing him three times - and yet Jesus told him that he would be the rock upon which the Church was built. Peter goes on to relate the events of the passion week, including the Christ's crucifixion, resurrection and ascension.

The Other Woman

The Other Woman
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/12/1954
  • Character: Police Inspector Collins
Bit player Sherry Stewart gets miffed when director Walter Darman turns her down after she reads for a small part in his picture. She and her boy friend, Ronnie, devise a plan to lure Darman to her apartment, where she gives him a drugged drink. She tells Darman they had been intimate and blackmails him for $50,000. More than a little distracted by his situation, his wife senses something is wrong and he gets into a violent argument with his father-in-law who owns the producing company Darman works for, and discontinues the picture. Sherry informs Darman she is going to tell his wife all about them. Darman tells his secretary that he is going to work late and is not to be disturbed, sets the moviola runnings, and exits by the back door and hot-foots it to Sherry's apartment.

Safe Keeping

Safe Keeping
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/02/1956
  • Character: Dr. Kapoldi
The chancellor of a foreign university gives newspaperman Frank Carstairs a document to smuggle out of the country. He anticipates being charged with treason by the totalitarian government and he wants the free world to know he did not willingly join their side. Meanwhile, Frank carries on an affair with a sexy foreign spy who seems to be playing both sides of the fence.

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