The best Whit Bissell’s action movies

Whit Bissell

Whit Bissell

25/10/1909- 05/03/1996
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Airport

Airport
6.6/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 05/03/1970
  • Character: Mr. Davidson
Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.

5 Card Stud

5 Card Stud
6.4/10
The players in an ongoing poker game are being mysteriously killed off, one by one.

The Sea Hawk

The Sea Hawk
7.6/10
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.

The Proud Ones

The Proud Ones
6.9/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 15/05/1956
  • Character: Mr. Sam Bolton
Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a crooked casino operator from Ryan's past comes to town. An early scuffle in the casino leaves Ryan with vision problems that interfere with his duties. Jeffrey Hunter who came to town with a cattle drive encounters Ryan, who killed Hunter's father when Hunter was young. Feelings of animosity soon change as Hunter begins to sense Ryan is telling the truth about his father. What follows is a plot that continues to thicken to the inevitable showdown.

No Name on the Bullet

No Name on the Bullet
7.2/10
When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.

The Desperate Hours

The Desperate Hours
7.5/10
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.

Convicted

Convicted
6.8/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 01/08/1950
  • Character: States Attorney Owens (uncredited)
A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.

City Beneath the Sea

City Beneath the Sea
5.1/10
A group of 21st-century colonists inhabit an underwater city called Pacifica. Originally intended as a purely scientific installation, the U. S. government wants to stash all its gold reserves from Fort Knox there, along with a fantastic new radioactive element. The brother of Pacifica's returning former commander plans to steal the gold and on top of that, the city faces destruction by an asteroid from outer space

Dakota Incident

Dakota Incident
6/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 23/07/1956
  • Character: Mark Chester
Indians attack a stagecoach, and a disparate band of passengers must band together to fight them off.

Flood!

Flood!
5.3/10
Two helicopter pilots rush aid to a small town devastated by a flood following the collapse of an aging dam.

Devil's Canyon

Devil's Canyon
5.4/10
An outlaw woman helps one Arizona convict stop another with a Gatling gun.

Canon City

Canon City
6.5/10
Prisoners battle each other -- and the police -- when they escape the Colorado State Penitentiary.

The Salzburg Connection

The Salzburg Connection
5.3/10
An American lawyer on vacation in Europe is asked by a book publisher to stop by the Austrian town of Salzburg to see a photographer who's taking pictures for a book on picturesque Austrian lakes. Upon his arrival he senses that something is wrong when the photographer seems to have vanished, leaving a near panic-stricken wife and a sinister, secretive brother. Before he knows it, the lawyer finds himself mixed up with spies, assassins, and the hunt for a list made up by the Nazis during World War II of people who collaborated with them.

Last Of The Mohicans

Last Of The Mohicans
6.2/10
During the French and Indian War in colonial America, a white scout, with two of his Indian brothers, helps a British officer escort two women through dangerous territory, with both French troops and hostile Indians after them.

It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog

It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
6.6/10
A pretty blonde with a Doberman pinscher walks into a bar on April Fool's Day and asks for a bag of bones. Thus begins a merry chase in which a newspaper reporter, a drunken policeman and a hand-painted necktie help locate the missing witness in a criminal investigation.

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