The best Michael Dante’s movies

Michael Dante

Michael Dante

02/09/1931 (92 años)
Today we present the best Michael Dante’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 Michael Dante’s movies.
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Somebody Up There Likes Me

Somebody Up There Likes Me
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/07/1956
  • Character: Shorty (uncredited)
The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.

La Classe américaine

La Classe américaine
7.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyTV Movie
  • Release: 31/12/1993
  • Character: 'Le Manchot' (archive footage) (uncredited)
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. With his last breath, he whispers: “Shitty world.” The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of these intriguing final words, asks his three best investigators, Dave, Peter and Steven, to solve the mystery… (16 French actors dub scenes from various Warner Bros. films to create a parody of Citizen Kane, 1941.)

The Naked Kiss

The Naked Kiss
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 29/10/1964
  • Character: J.L. Grant
A former prostitute works to create a new life for herself in a small town, but a shocking discovery could threaten everything.

Willard

Willard
6.2/10
A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he raised at home, Ben and Socrates. However, when one of them is killed at work, he goes on a rampage using his rats to attack those who have been tormenting him.

Kid Galahad

Kid Galahad
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 29/11/1962
  • Character: Joie Shakes
After completing his military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter—and takes him under his wing.

Apache Rifles

Apache Rifles
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 26/11/1964
  • Character: Red Hawk
A young cavalry officer is assigned the job of bringing in a band of Apaches who have been terrorizing the countryside.

Westbound

Westbound
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 25/04/1959
  • Character: Rod Miller
As the Civil War spills our nation’s blood, Capt. John Hayes (Randolph Scott) fights on a vital but little-known battlefront. He aims to ship gold to Union banks through a small Colorado town, defying Southern sympathizers who aim to stop him. At any cost. As chiseled and bone-lean as its star, Westbound is the sixth of seven Westerns Scott made with director Budd Boetticher, films that – along with the James Stewart-Anthony Mann Westerns – helped remake the genre in the 50s, substituting grit and veracity for white-hat heroics.

Arizona Raiders

Arizona Raiders
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/08/1965
  • Character: Brady
Murphy plays an ex-Quantrill's Raider who's released from jail with buddy Cooper to be deputized as Arizona Rangers in order to hunt down the remnant of the gang, rumored to he hiding out in a town "neer dee border" in the words of the loose-lipped saloon dancer. The goons are found hiding in an Indian mission. Murphy and Cooper pretend to want to rejoin the gang, but the bad guys catch on and brutally beat Cooper, who protects Murphy's true sentiments to the death.

Fort Dobbs

Fort Dobbs
6.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 18/04/1958
  • Character: Billings
An escaped prisoner helps a mother and her son flee marauding Indians. Director Gordon Douglas' 1958 western stars Clint Walker, Virginia Mayo, Richard Eyer, Brian Keith, Michael Dante and Russ Conway.

Seven Thieves

Seven Thieves
6.5/10
A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull off one last job--the casino vault in Monte Carlo.

Cage

Cage
4.9/10
A GI in Vietnam saves his buddy's life, but in the process is shot in the head. The injury results in brain damage to the point where he basically has a child's brain in a (very large) man's body. When they get out of the army the two open up a bar together, but some local gangsters make things tough for them after they refuse to take part in brutal "cage" matches where fighters battle to the point of serious injury and/or death.

Operation Bikini

Operation Bikini
3.7/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 26/03/1963
  • Character: Lt. William 'Bill' Fourtney
The film takes place aboard an American submarine in the Pacific during World War II. The sub's commander is ordered to stop and pick up an underwater demolition team led by Lt. Hayes, whose mission is to locate and destroy a US submarine sunken in a lagoon off Bikini Atoll before the Japanese are able to raise it and capture the advanced radar system on board.

Winterhawk

Winterhawk
5.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 05/11/1975
  • Character: Winterhawk
Smallpox plagues Chief Winterhawk's tribe. He seeks cure from the white men, who in turn, in fear of getting the smallpox, kill two of his companions. Winterhawk comes back to kidnap a girl and her brother from the white men's settlement, and thus begins the chase...

Beyond Evil

Beyond Evil
4.1/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 01/05/1980
  • Character: Del Giorgio
Middle-aged newlyweds Larry & Barbara spend their honeymoon at a palatial Caribbean mansion, unaware that it is inhabited by the vengeful spirit of a notorious voodoo witch queen who was murdered a century ago. The woman's evil spirit promptly begins precipitating a variety of violent deaths in accordance with a diabolical ritual intended to bring her back to life -a process which is ultimately consummated by taking possession of Barbara's body.

Harlow

Harlow
4.7/10
  • Release: 14/05/1965
  • Character: Ed
Loosely based biography of 1930s star Jean Harlow as she begins her climb to stardom. One of two "Harlow" film biographies that appeared in 1965, this one stars Carol Lynley in the title role that begins as Jean Harlow, a bit player in Laurel and Hardy comedies, is invited to test for director Jonathan Martin for the lead in Howard Hughes's "Hell's Angels." She is an instantaneous sensation, and in a series of films devoted more to her body than her talent, she becomes Hollywood's "Platanum Blonde."

Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident

Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident
3/10
An American intelligence agent travels to pre-Islamic Revolution Iran to try to thwart a power-mad European baron from using a stolen cruise missile to destroy an unspecific target in that country.

The Big Score

The Big Score
4.8/10
A narcotics detective, played by Fred Williamson, lets nothing stand in the way of his bringing down a major drug dealer. After a bust gone awry, he's accused of stealing a lost briefcase filled with money and both the mob and the police are looking for him. A ruthless hit man, played by Bruce Glover, will stop at nothing to get what his boss wants; the money!

The Legend of Custer

The Legend of Custer
4.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/01/1968
  • Character: Crazy Horse
Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer has been reinstated and assigned to command the 7th Cavalry Regiment at Fort Hays. The regiment has become a ragtag outfit of thieves and ruffians and Custer must whip the soldiers into shape to fight, the Kiowa, Sioux and Blackfoot tribes who confront them. These tribes are being supplied shotguns by a white gunrunner and Custer and his men must rescue General Terry and the Fifth Cavalry Regiment from annihilation when they are ambushed and trapped by a large Kiowa war party.

That's the Way of the World

That's the Way of the World
6/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 01/06/1975
  • Character: Mike Lemongello
Record executives want a highly-regarded record producer to focus on a white pop act whom they feel has the sound America wants. To keep his creative integrity, Buckmaster carefully begins to fight the system that has made him the respected producer he has become.

The Kids Who Knew Too Much

The Kids Who Knew Too Much
6.6/10
When a cryptic note is passed to young Bert Hale by a stranger, he and his three friends inadvertently hold the key to unravelling the sinister plot to assassinate a Russian premier visiting Los Angeles.

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