The best Robert F. Simon’s movies

Robert F. Simon

Robert F. Simon

02/12/1908- 29/11/1992
Today we present the best Robert F. Simon’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 Robert F. Simon’s movies.
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
8.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/04/1962
  • Character: Handy Strong
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.

Operation Petticoat

Operation Petticoat
7.2/10
A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.

Bigger Than Life

Bigger Than Life
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/08/1956
  • Character: Dr. Norton
A seriously ill schoolteacher becomes dependent on a "miracle" drug that begins to affect his sanity.

Spider-Man Strikes Back

Spider-Man Strikes Back
5/10
At the New York State University, one of Peter Parker's tutors has accidentally given three students all the materials they need to create an atomic bomb. While Peter Parker tries to find out what's happened, the police suspect him of the crime, and Peter has to deal with an attractive journalist determined to get an interview with Spider-Man. Then dastardly millionaire Mr. White shows up, and will stop at nothing to get his hands on the atomic bomb. Spider-Man must defeat this scheming villain and stop him blowing up the World Trade Centre.

The Buccaneer

The Buccaneer
6.4/10
During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will arrive with 60 ships and 16,000 men to take the city. In this situation an island near the city becomes strategically important to both parties, but it's inhabited by the last big buccaneer: Jean Lafitte. Although Lafitte never attacks American ships, the governor hates him for selling merchandise without taxes - and is loved by the citizens for the same reason. When the big fight gets nearer, Lafitte is drawn between the fronts. His heart belongs to America, but his people urge him to join the party that's more likely to win.

Compulsion

Compulsion
7.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/04/1959
  • Character: Police Lt. Johnson
Two close friends kidnap and murder a young boy and are defended in court by a renowned attorney who makes an impassioned plea against capital punishment.

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Where the Sidewalk Ends
7.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 07/07/1950
  • Character: Insp. Nicholas Foley (uncredited)
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.

The Catered Affair

The Catered Affair
7.4/10
At breakfast, Jane announces that she and Ralph are getting married the next week. All Jane and Ralph want is a small wedding with the immediate family and no reception. This is because Jane's parents are poor and Jane and Ralph can borrow a car for their honeymoon. However, at dinner that night all Ralph's parents talk about are the big weddings they gave their daughters and everything escalates. All of a sudden, it is a big wedding breakfast with hundreds of guests. The problem is that for 12 years, Tom has been saving money to buy his own cab and license, but now that he can, all of his money is going towards a wedding neither he, or Jane or Ralph really want.

Fate Is the Hunter

Fate Is the Hunter
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 08/11/1964
  • Character: Proctor
A man refuses to believe that pilot error caused a fatal crash, and persists in looking for another reason. Airliner crashes near Los Angeles due to unusual string of coincidences. Stewardess, who is sole survivor, joins airline executives in discovering the causes of the crash.

Captain Newman, M.D.

Captain Newman, M.D.
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaWar
  • Release: 25/12/1963
  • Character: Lt. Col. M.B. Larrabee
In 1944, Capt. Josiah J. Newman is the doctor in charge of Ward 7, the neuropsychiatric ward, at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona. The hospital is under-resourced and Newman scrounges what he needs with the help of his inventive staff, especially Cpl. Jake Leibowitz. The military in general is only just coming to accept psychiatric disorders as legitimate and Newman generally has 6 weeks to cure them or send them on to another facility. There are many patients in the ward and his latest include Colonel Norville Bliss who has dissociated from his past; Capt. Paul Winston who is nearly catatonic after spending 13 months hiding in a cellar behind enemy lines; and 20 year-old Cpl. Jim Tompkins who is severely traumatized after his aircraft was shot down. Others come and go, including Italian prisoners of war, but Newman and team all realize that their success means the men will return to their units.

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 01/10/1955
  • Character: Stage Manager (as Robert Simon)
Broadway showgirl Evelyn Nesbit (Joan Collins) is the object of affection of two men: playboy architect Stanford White (Ray Milland) and wealthy but unstable Harry Thaw (Farley Granger). She marries Thaw, but White’s continued pursuit puts him in the path of Thaw’s volatile temper. Inspired by true events that occurred at the turn of the 20th century.

Foxfire

Foxfire
6.2/10
A part-Indian mining engineer looks for gold in an Arizona ghost town with his socialite bride.

Chief Crazy Horse

Chief Crazy Horse
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 31/03/1955
  • Character: Jeff Mantz
When young Crazy Horse, of whom great things were predicted, wins his bride, rival Little Big Man goes to villainous traders with evidence of gold in the sacred Lakota burial ground. Of course, a new gold rush starts despite all treaties, and Crazy Horse becomes military leader of his people. Initial Indian victories lead to the inevitable result. Uniquely, all is told from the Indian perspective.

Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge

Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge
4.8/10
Two episodes of the TV series "Spider Man" edited together and released as a feature.

The Rack

The Rack
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 02/11/1956
  • Character: Law Officer
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 Spiral Road

The Spiral Road
6.1/10
A selfish and prideful young Dutch doctor, through a series of circumstances, comes to learn that he does indeed "need" a higher spiritual being and other people.

Edge of the City

Edge of the City
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/01/1957
  • Character: Mr. George Nordmann
An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt union official.

Gunman's Walk

Gunman's Walk
7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/07/1958
  • Character: Sheriff Harry Brill
A powerful rancher always protects his wild adult son by paying for damages and bribing witnesses, until his crimes become too serious to rectify.

The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War

The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War
6.8/10
After Col. Steve Austin fails to retrieve the contents of a safe owned by arms dealer Arlen Findletter, he takes up an friendly offer of a holiday in the Bahamas. There he runs into Soviet Agent Alexi Kaslov and his lovely assistant Katrina Volana, who also happen to be out to find Findletter. Is it a coincidence, or was Steve's trip all part of one of Oscar Goldman's missions?

Never Say Goodbye

Never Say Goodbye
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 10/03/1956
  • Character: Dr. Kenneth Evans
In present-day U.S., Dr. Michael Parker, a prominent surgeon, unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife whom he thought was dead. Victor, an artist and his "dead" wife's now boyfriend, berates Dr. Parker for "killing" her. The bulk of the story flashes back to Austria during World War II as we learn how Dr. Parker met and married his wife, and the one mistake that may have cost him his family.

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