The best Ralph Sanford’s movies

Ralph Sanford

Ralph Sanford

21/05/1899- 20/06/1963
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Dodge City

Dodge City
7.1/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 08/04/1939
  • Character: Brawler (uncredited)
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.

The Big Country

The Big Country
7.9/10
Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the vast expanse of the West to marry fiancée Pat Terrill. McKay is a man whose values and approach to life are a mystery to the ranchers and ranch foreman Steve Leech takes an immediate dislike to him. Pat is spoiled, selfish and controlled by her wealthy father, Major Henry Terrill. The Major is involved in a ruthless civil war, over watering rights for cattle, with a rough hewn clan led by Rufus Hannassey. The land in question is owned by Julie Maragon and both Terrill and Hannassey want it.

The Heiress

The Heiress
8.1/10
  • Genre: DramaHistoryRomance
  • Release: 06/10/1949
  • Character: Captain of the Castle Queen (uncredited)
Dull and plain Catherine lives with her emotionally distant father, Dr. Sloper, in 1840s New York. Her days are empty -- filled with little more than needlepoint. Enter handsome Morris Townsend, a dashing social climber with his eye on the spinster's heart and substantial inheritance.

Fort Defiance

Fort Defiance
6.1/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 09/10/1951
  • Character: Jed Brown, Stagecoach Driver
It's just after the Civil War and Ben Shelby arrives looking for Johnny Tallon whom he plans to kill. Shelby was the only survivor of a battle due to the cowardice of Tallon. Thinking Tallon dead, another man who lost a brother at the same battle arrives to kill Tallon's blind brother. Tallon arrives to find Shelby and his brother fleeing. Then they are attacked by Indians and Shelby and Tallon must now fight together postponing the inevitable showdown. - Written by Maurice VanAuken

Champion

Champion
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/04/1949
  • Character: Hammond
An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.

Four Mothers

Four Mothers
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 04/01/1941
  • Character: Bill (uncredited)
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.

They Drive by Night

They Drive by Night
7.2/10
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.

Union Station

Union Station
6.8/10
Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.

Beginning of the End

Beginning of the End
3.9/10
  • Genre: Science Fiction
  • Release: 28/06/1957
  • Character: Man with Red Cross Representative [extra]
An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a secret government laboratory conducting radiation experiments on vegetables. The lead scientist is eager to help find out what happened. Together they discover that giant grasshoppers are behind the devastation. Worse yet, thousands of them are headed toward Chicago! Can they be stopped... or is this the BEGINNING OF THE END?

Appointment with Danger

Appointment with Danger
6.5/10
Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective.

If I Were King

If I Were King
7.1/10
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.

Stranger on the Third Floor

Stranger on the Third Floor
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 16/08/1940
  • Character: Truck Driver in Accident (uncredited)
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.

Minesweeper

Minesweeper
5.1/10
A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins. He re-enlists under an assumed name, and is assigned to a minesweeper, where he has to perform hazardous duties while at the same time keeping his real identity a secret.

Dance, Girl, Dance

Dance, Girl, Dance
6.8/10
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.

Alaska Highway

Alaska Highway
5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/06/1943
  • Character: Frosty Gimble
Pop Ormsby wins the contract from the Army Engineer Corps for the construction of the Alaska Highway connecting Alaska to Canada. The elder of his two sons, Woody Ormseby, decides he had rather fight with bullets than bulldozers but is assigned by the Army to work on the project. Woody and his younger brother Steve are both rivals for the affection of Ann Caswell, the daughter of Road Engineer Blair Caswell.

Maisie Goes to Reno

Maisie Goes to Reno
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 15/08/1944
  • Character: Policeman (Uncredited)
A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife.

Wildcat

Wildcat
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/09/1942
  • Character: 'Grits' O'Malley
Wildcatter Johnny Maverick and his pal go to a town in oil country offering $25,000 to the person who brings in the first well. They find oil on the outskirts but have to sell a share to a promoter who hires Johnny's old enemy.

Lucky Legs

Lucky Legs
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 01/10/1942
  • Character: Bartender
Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that will star her. Unfortunately, the money has "made the rounds" prior to reaching Gloria and several less-than-scrupulous characters set out to separate Gloria from her inheritance.

Shotgun

Shotgun
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 23/04/1955
  • Character: Chris
a deputy U.S. Marshall pursue the gang of Ben Thompson after the murder of another marshall. Along with a bounty hunter and a half-breed woman they follow the trail into Apache territory.

East of the River

East of the River
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 09/11/1940
  • Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.

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