The best Michael Tolan’s movies

Michael Tolan

Michael Tolan

27/11/1925- 31/01/2011
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The Greatest Story Ever Told

The Greatest Story Ever Told
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 15/02/1965
  • Character: Lazarus
From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling. Major aspects of Christ's life are touched upon, including the execution of all the newborn males in Egypt by King Herod; Christ's baptism by John the Baptist; and the betrayal by Judas after the Last Supper that eventually leads to Christ's crucifixion and miraculous return.

Presumed Innocent

Presumed Innocent
6.9/10
Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his fight to clear his name becomes a whirlpool of lies and hidden passions.

Perfect Stranger

Perfect Stranger
5.7/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 11/04/2007
  • Character: Judge
A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her best friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 04/06/1953
  • Character: Officer to Octavius
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.

All That Jazz

All That Jazz
7.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/12/1979
  • Character: Dr. Ballinger
Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going.

Hour of the Gun

Hour of the Gun
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/11/1967
  • Character: Pete Spence
Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton-gang in a fight. In revenge Clanton's thugs kill the marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt Earp starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.

The Enforcer

The Enforcer
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 24/02/1951
  • Character: James 'Duke' Malloy
After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a solid case against an elusive gangster whose top lieutenant is about to testify.

John and Mary

John and Mary
6.5/10
John and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.

Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison

Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 18/05/1951
  • Character: Leo Daly (as Lawrence Tolan)
A warden and his assistant clash over prison reform, triggering a violent riot.

The Savage

The Savage
6.1/10
The only white survivor of a Crow Indian raid on a wagon train is a young boy. He is rescued by the Sioux, and the Sioux chief raises him as an Indian in very way. Years later, the white men and the Sioux threaten to go to war and the Indian-raised white man is torn between his racial loyalties and his adopted tribe.

Night Terror

Night Terror
6/10
Carol Turner, a frazzled, airheaded mother of two, driving alone from Phoenix to Denver, where her son has been hospitalized, witnesses the shooting of a highway patrolman by a psychopath in a yellow Mustang. Now he is relentlessly pursuing her in order to eliminate the only witness.

Fort Worth

Fort Worth
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 14/07/1951
  • Character: Mort Springer (as Lawrence Tolan)
Ex-gunfighter Ned Britt returns to Fort Worth after the civil war to help run a newspaper which is against ambitious men and their schemes for control.

The Lost Man

The Lost Man
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/07/1969
  • Character: Insp. Carl Hamilton
A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle."

Valley Forge

Valley Forge
6.8/10
George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary War.

Hiawatha

Hiawatha
6.3/10
A young Indian brave attempts to bring peace to two warring tribes.

Solomon Northup's Odyssey

Solomon Northup's Odyssey
7.3/10
This is based on a true story. Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century before slavery was abolished. He's a born freeman who works as a carpenter and is also a part time musician. One day he is approached by some men who want him to play for them. However, that is not their intention; they have kidnapped him and sold him into slavery. Now he has to endure the hardships that he has been spared because of his status as a freeman. And his family who don't know what happened to him is searching for him but where do they go? And Solomon also wishes to let them know where he is so that they could get him but unfortunately no one believes his story or is willing to help him.

Roseanna

Roseanna
5.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/08/1967
  • Character: Elmer B. Kafka
A young American girl is found dead in Gota Kanal, Swedens largest channel. Since there are hardly any clues or evidence at all it seems as if the murder cant be solved. Martin Beck and his men are assigned to the case. Soon they find a likely suspect and together with a police woman they begin a cat and mouse game to catch him.

The Dybbuk

The Dybbuk
5.7/10
The Dybbuk is a made for TV film adaptation of a classic Jewish folktale. The story is about a young Jewish man, Sender (Theodore Bikel) who loves a young Jewish woman, Leah (Carol Lawrence) but her father arranges her marriage with another man. The grief of this causes Sender to die, but his spirit passes into the body of his beloved on her wedding day. Rabbi Azrael (Ludwig Donath), who serves as our narrator through the beginning of the film, is charged with the task of exercising Sender’s Dybbuk (sometimes defined as a malicious spirit or demon who possesses the living) from Leah’s body.

Perilous Voyage

Perilous Voyage
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 29/06/1976
  • Character: Reynaldo Solis
A South American guerrilla, whose revolution is faltering, hijacks a ship carrying arms and holds all of the passengers hostage.

The 300-Year Weekend

The 300-Year Weekend
5.4/10
  • Release: 26/02/1971
  • Character: Dr. Marshall
A doctor spends 24 hours in a clinic with a group of patients. Each character has his or her own story to tell, about their fathers, mothers, or spouses who don't understand them, and how they've turned instead to drugs.

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