The best Roy Engel’s movies

Roy Engel

Roy Engel

13/09/1913- 29/12/1980
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Spartacus

Spartacus
7.9/10
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.

Lawman

Lawman
7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 11/03/1971
  • Character: Bartender
While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death. Bannock lawman Jered Maddox later arrives there to arrest everyone involved on a charge of murder. Sabbath is run by land baron Vince Bronson, a benevolent despot, who, upon hearing of the death, offers restitution for the incident.

Some Came Running

Some Came Running
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 18/12/1958
  • Character: Sheriff (uncredited)
Hard-drinking novelist Dave Hirsh returns home after being gone for years. His brother wants Dave to settle down, and introduces him to English teacher Gwen French. Moody Dave resents his brother, and spends his days hanging out with Bama Dillert, a professional gambler who parties late into the night. Torn between the admiring Gwen and Ginny Morehead, an easy woman who loves him, Dave grows increasingly angry.

Kingdom of the Spiders

Kingdom of the Spiders
5.7/10
Investigating the mysterious deaths of a number of farm animals, vet Rack Hansen discovers that his town lies in the path of hoards of migrating tarantulas. Before he can take action, the streets are overrun by killer spiders, trapping a small group of townsfolk in a remote hotel.

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
6.6/10
An atomic bomb test in the Arctic Circle unfreezes a hibernating fictional dinosaur, a Rhedosaurus, that begins to wreak havoc in New York City.

The Switchblade Sisters

The Switchblade Sisters
6.5/10
A tough gang of teenage girls are looking for love and fighting for turf on the mean streets of the city! Bad girls to the core, these impossibly outrageous high school hoodlums go where they want ... and create mayhem wherever they go!

M

M
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 01/03/1951
  • Character: Police Chief Regan
Remake of the 1931 original. In the city, someone is murdering children. The Police search is so intense, it is disturbing the 'normal' criminals, and the local hoods decide to help find the murderer as quickly as possible.

The Killer That Stalked New York

The Killer That Stalked New York
6.4/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 06/10/1950
  • Character: Colonel (uncredited)
In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the police are hot on the couple's trail. Meanwhile, government officials begin a desperate search for an unknown individual who is infecting the city with smallpox.

The Last Movie

The Last Movie
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 29/09/1971
  • Character: Harry Anderson
A film shoot in Peru goes badly wrong when an actor is killed in a stunt, and the unit wrangler, Kansas, decides to give up film-making and stay on in the village, shacking up with local prostitute Maria. But his dreams of an unspoiled existence are interrupted when the local priest asks him to help stop the villagers' killing of each other by re-enacting scenes from the film for real because they don't understand movie fakery....

Shakedown

Shakedown
7.1/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 01/09/1950
In "Shakedown," Howard Duff plays a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss (Brian Donlevy) into allowing himself to be photographed. Donlevy takes him under his wing, but Duff decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Donlevy and another crime boss, Lawrence Tierney, against one another. He uses photos to blackmail Tierney into providing him with a steady income while he sidles up to Donlevy's wife on the sly, all the while romancing the photo editor of the paper at which he works.

The Man from Planet X

The Man from Planet X
5.7/10
While watching for a planet that may collide with earth, scientists stationed in Scotland are approached by a visitor from outer space.

The Amazing Howard Hughes

The Amazing Howard Hughes
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 13/04/1977
  • Character: Production Manager
The Amazing Howard Hughes is a 1977 television movie about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, based on the book by Hughes' business partner Noah Dietrich. The film starred Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, and Tovah Feldshuh.

The Prince Who Was a Thief

The Prince Who Was a Thief
6.4/10
An Arabian prince (Tony Curtis in his first staring role), kidnapped at birth and raised as a thief, plots to regain his throne from his evil uncle in this colorful costume adventure.

Hell Bent for Leather

Hell Bent for Leather
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/02/1960
  • Character: Blacksmith (uncredited)
When Clay Santell stops in the town of Sutterville after having his horse stolen, he is mistaken by townspeople for a murderer named Travers. The townspeople capture Santell, and turn him over to lawman Harry Deckett. Deckett, who is tired of chasing the real Travers, decides to kill Santell and pass him off as Travers. Santell escapes from Deckett, taking lovely Janet Gifford hostage in the process. Janet comes to believe Santell's story, and helps him in his struggle to prove his real identity.

The Mad Magician

The Mad Magician
6.5/10
Don Gallico is an inventor of stage magic effects who aspires to become a star in his own right. Just before his first performance his act is shut down by capricious manager Ross Ormond who wants Gallico's brilliant buzz saw effect for the act of The Great Rinaldi, an established star. With this defeat, and the humiliation of having already lost his wife Claire to Ormond, Gallico decides it is time to take matters into his own hands.

Three Violent People

Three Violent People
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 01/12/1956
  • Character: Carpetbagger
A rancher (Charlton Heston), his shady bride (Anne Baxter) and his one-armed brother (Tom Tryon) fight amid carpetbaggers in Texas.

The Magnetic Monster

The Magnetic Monster
5.8/10
  • Genre: Science Fiction
  • Release: 18/02/1953
  • Character: Gen. Behan (as Roy Engle)
The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process. Although microscopic, it will soon become big enough to destroy Earth; and how to stop it is yet to be determined. The film's Deltatron special effects footage is taken from the 1934 German sci-fi film GOLD.

The Black Castle

The Black Castle
6.3/10
A Man investigates the disappearance of two of his friends who were the guests of a sinister Austrian count.

Breakdown

Breakdown
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/07/1952
  • Character: Al Bell
A boxer (William Bishop) jailed for murder proves his girlfriend's (Ann Richards) wealthy father and a ward boss framed him.

The Flight That Disappeared

The Flight That Disappeared
5.7/10
A cross-country airliner, whose passengers include a nuclear physicist, a rocket expert, and a mathematical genius, is drawn beyond radar range by an unknown, unbreakable force.

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