The best Rod Taylor’s drama movies

Rod Taylor

Rod Taylor

11/01/1930- 07/01/2015
Today we present the best Rod Taylor’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 Rod Taylor’s movies.
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Inglourious Basterds

Inglourious Basterds
8.4/10
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

Giant

Giant
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 24/11/1956
  • Character: Sir David Karfrey
Giant is a movie of huge scale and grandeur in which three generations of land-rich Texans love, swagger, connive and clash in a saga of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly rich oil tycoons.

Zabriskie Point

Zabriskie Point
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 09/02/1970
  • Character: Lee Allen
An epic portrait of late Sixties America, as seen through the portrayal of two of its children: anthropology student Daria (who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert) and dropout Mark (who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot)...

Raintree County

Raintree County
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 20/12/1957
  • Character: Garwood B. Jones
In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further complicated by the American Civil War, and dark family history.

The V.I.P.s

The V.I.P.s
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/09/1963
  • Character: Les Mangrum
Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.

36 Hours

36 Hours
7.3/10
Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.

Fate Is the Hunter

Fate Is the Hunter
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 08/11/1964
  • Character: Capt. Jack Savage
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.

Hotel

Hotel
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/01/1967
  • Character: Peter McDermott
This is the story of the clocklike movements of a giant, big city New Orleans hotel. The ambitious yet loyal manager wrestles with the round-the-clock drama of its guests. A brazen sneak thief, who nightly relieves the guests of their property, is chased through the underground passages of the hotel. The big business power play for control of the hotel and the VIP diplomat guest with a secret add to the excitement.

Separate Tables

Separate Tables
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 18/12/1958
  • Character: Charles
Boarders at an English resort struggle with emotional problems.

Chuka

Chuka
6.3/10
A group under siege at an Army fort grapple with painful memories.

Young Cassidy

Young Cassidy
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/02/1965
  • Character: John Cassidy
In Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are restricted by the demands of looking after his family, journeys through the social injustices of Dublin life, involving himself with the rowdy tramway-men strike, dawdling with prostitute Daisy Battles (Julie Christie), and seeking a better life. He falls in love with bookshop assistant Nora (Dame Maggie Smith) who encourages him toward a life of writing. Finding success at the Abbey Theatre, his unorthodox views estrange him from family, friends, and his own past.

Family Flight

Family Flight
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 25/10/1972
  • Character: Jason Carlyle
A bitterly divided family is forced to cooperate when their holiday plane crash-lands in the California wilderness. Overcoming their differences, they concentrate on repairing the plane and attempt to build a makeshift runway which will help them escape the unforgiving terrain.

Dark of the Sun

Dark of the Sun
6.8/10
A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds. But infighting, sadistic rebels and a time lock jeopardize everything.

Palomino

Palomino
5.6/10
After the break up of her marriage, photographer Samantha Taylor retreats to the sanctuary of friend Caroline Lord's California ranch. Samantha falls in love with ranch hand Tate Jordan, and they share a deep and passionate love until Tate finds out that Samantha's ex-husband is popular and wealthy news anchor Warren Taylor. Ashamed he leaves the ranch, Samantha is heartbroken. Samantha breaks her back in an accident and is paralysed, and must learn how to walk - and ride - again. Caroline Lord tragically dies but leaves her ranch to Samantha, who turns it into a riding school for paralysed children. Through this enterprise, she begins to heal from the pain of Tate's desertion, the loss of her friend and her own paralysis. Tate returns to the ranch after hearing of Caroline's death and finds Samantha there. Can they both overcome their own demons and learn to love each other again??

Hell River

Hell River
5.4/10
Yugoslav partisans battle Nazi invaders in a series of bloody confrontations which eventually culminate in the Battle at Hell River.

A Gathering of Eagles

A Gathering of Eagles
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 21/06/1963
  • Character: Col. Hollis Farr
Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52 commander who must shape up his men to pass a grueling inspection that the previous commander had failed, and had been fired for. He is also recently married, and as a tough commanding officer doing whatever he has to do to shape his men up, his wife sees a side to him that she hadn't seen before.

Hellinger's Law

Hellinger's Law
5.8/10
Hellinger's Law is a made-for-TV movie starring Sean Penn

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.

Darker Than Amber

Darker Than Amber
6.2/10
Rod Taylor plays John D. MacDonald's famous Florida PI Travis McGee. Professional beach bum and 'knight errant' Travis McGee goes up against psychotic body-builder Terry Bartell. McGee pulls out all the stops when he joins a Carribean cruise to bring the killer to justice.

Nobody Runs Forever

Nobody Runs Forever
6.1/10
Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level commissioner wanted down under for murder. But when Malone arrives, he finds that the amiable Quentin is not only the key in groundbreaking peace negotiations, but also the target of an assassin himself.

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