The best Rory Calhoun’s drama movies

Rory Calhoun

Rory Calhoun

08/08/1922- 28/04/1999
We present our ranking of the best Rory Calhoun’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Rory Calhoun.
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River of No Return

River of No Return
6.6/10
An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.

The Colossus of Rhodes

The Colossus of Rhodes
5.8/10
While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.

Pure Country

Pure Country
7.1/10
Dusty Chandler (Strait) is a super star in the country music world, but his shows have the style of a '70s rock concert. One day he takes a walk - out of his overdone concerts to find his real country roots. He's helped and hindered by friends and staff, but pushes on in his search for a real music style as well as a real romance.

Requiem for a Heavyweight

Requiem for a Heavyweight
7.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/10/1962
  • Character: Himself
Mountain Rivera is at the end of his boxing career after a knockout by Cassius Clay in the seventh round. His left eye is one punch from permanent trauma, his ears turned to cauliflower, his speech slurred from "being hit a million times", and he slings punches anytime he hears a bell His trainer and 'cutman' Army, and Miss Miller, a manipulative social worker, support his illusion that he could be a movie usher, a camp counselor—or a romantic partner for Miller.

The Rebels

The Rebels
6.4/10
Philip Kent (Andrew Stevens) takes part in the American Revolution and the newly formed congress.

The Red House

The Red House
6.7/10
An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.

Flight to Holocaust

Flight to Holocaust
5.8/10
A team of troubleshooters is called to a skyscraper where a plane has crashed into the 20th floor and is stuck in the side of the building.

Half Nelson

Half Nelson
6.2/10
Rocky Nelson is a New York cop, who after making a major bust and selling the rights of his story to Hollywood decides to try his luck out as an actor. However, when he gets there, the directors think that he is too short to be an actor. He is then approach by someone who offers him a job at a Hollywood security agency, cause he would fit in there being an ex-cop and while working there he could come in contact with some Hollywood heavy-weights who could give him the break he needs. And at the same he gets to live in Dean Martin's guest-house.

That Hagen Girl

That Hagen Girl
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/11/1947
  • Character: Ken Freneau
Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has been whispers, rumors and gossip about who are her real parents. When Tom Bates returns to town, he takes over the house and practice that Judge Merrivale left him when he died. As Tom has been away a number of years, this leads to more gossip and Mary believes that he is her father. The popular and rich Ken loves Mary, but his family and friends constantly remind him that she is 'not one of us'. Julia, a teacher at school encourages Mary but Mary cannot get a break in anything she does, or is accused of doing. Tom knows the answer to her true identity, and he is silent.

A Bullet Is Waiting

A Bullet Is Waiting
5.6/10
A plane carrying a sheriff and a man indicted for manslaughter is wrecked on a lonely California beach and the prisoner manages to escape, after a struggle, only to be taken in hand by the female manager of a remote sheep ranch.

Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers

Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
5/10
This engaging made-for-television movie follows the adventures of Ginny "Sweetie Pie" LaRosa (Kim Darby), who needs money after her trucker husband, Jack (Fred Willard), is shot by hijackers. Fortunately, she finds a partner in Flatbed Annie (Annie Potts), a freewheelin' driver. The women form an unlikely but profitable friendship while fending off the repo man who wants the truck and the criminals who are after the cocaine hidden in it.

Ride Out for Revenge

Ride Out for Revenge
5.8/10
When an Indian chief is murdered in a hateful town, a sympathizing ex marshal tries to stop the Indians from attacking for revenge.

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 17/02/1951
  • Character: Jack Stark
A minister from the Deep South is assigned a new parish and moves with his wife to a town in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where he tends to the spiritual and emotional needs of his small flock.

Rogue River

Rogue River
7.2/10
Rogue River stars Rory Calhoun as Ownie Rodgers, the nephew of crooked Oregon police chief Joe Dandridge (Frank Fenton). A $70,000 windfall, bequeathed to Dandridge by a man he'd once framed on a bank robbery charge, unleashes innumerable family skeletons. Ownie is obliged to solve the long-ago bank job himself, and in so doing he discovers that his "faithful" girl friend Judy (Ellye Marshall) was in on the scheme.

Flight to Hong Kong

Flight to Hong Kong
5.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/10/1956
  • Character: Tony Dumont
On an airliner bound for Hong Kong, Tony (Rory Calhoun), a career crook who deals in stolen diamonds, agonizes over whether he should stick with his girlfriend (Dolores Donlon) or pursue Pamela (Barbara Rush), an intriguing novelist with whom he's instantly infatuated. Viewing Tony's dastardly deeds as great material for her new book, Pamela gladly encourages him to continue his criminal behavior.

The Big Caper

The Big Caper
6.5/10
A con artist moves into a small town to spearhead a payroll robbery.

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With a Song in My Heart

With a Song in My Heart
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 03/04/1952
  • Character: John Burn
Jane Froman (Susan Hayward), an aspiring songstress, lands a job in radio with help from pianist Don Ross (David Wayne), whom she later marries. Jane's popularity soars, and she leaves on a European tour... but her plane crashes in Lisbon, and she is partially crippled. Unable to walk without crutches, Jane nevertheless goes on to entertain the Allied troops in World War II.

The Great John L.

The Great John L.
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/05/1945
  • Character: James J. 'Gentleman Jim' Corbett
Portrait of legendary fighter John L. Sullivan, aka "The Boston Strong Boy", and his meteoric rise to become the first gloved World Heavyweight Champion. But the famed boxer is no match for the two women with holds on him, love struck actress Kathy Harkness and the real love of his life, beautiful but unyielding Anne Livingstone.

County Fair

County Fair
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/07/1950
  • Character: Peter Brennan
"Ma" Ryan, who runs a burger stand at the county fair, asks daughter Loretta to put a bet on a horse that Loretta's boyfriend Tommy is riding. Unfortunately, Loretta mistakenly places the bet on the wrong horse. When she discovers her error she tries to get the cashier to exchange the ticket for the horse she wanted, but the cashier refuses. Peter Brennan, standing in back of her in line, buys the ticket for the horse Loretta wants and then exchanges it with her. It turns out that Peter is from a wealthy family that owns racehorses, and Peter is a horse trainer himself. He soon begins to fall for Loretta, and Tommy doesn't like it one bit. Complications ensue.

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