The best William Fawcett’s movies

William Fawcett

William Fawcett

08/09/1894- 25/01/1974
Today we present the best William Fawcett’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 William Fawcett’s movies.
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Ace in the Hole

Ace in the Hole
8.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/06/1951
  • Character: Sad-Faced Man (uncredited)
An arrogant reporter exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career.

The Comancheros

The Comancheros
6.8/10
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.

Blackbeard's Ghost

Blackbeard's Ghost
6.8/10
Peter Ustinov stars as the eponymous wraith, who returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Elsa Lanchester (Stowecroft). The villains want to kick Lanchester and her friends out of their group home so that they can build a crooked casino. Good guy Steve Walker (Jones) gets caught in the middle of the squabble after evoking Blackbeard's ghost.

King Rat

King Rat
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 27/10/1965
  • Character: Steinmetz
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.

The Mating Season

The Mating Season
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/01/1951
  • Character: Mr. Tuttle
Ellen McNulty leaves her New Jersey hamburger stand and heads west to pay a surprise visit to her son and his new bride. When Ellen arrives, her daughter-in-law mistakes her for the maid she has hired for a big party they are throwing. Rather than cause any embarrassment, Ellen goes along with the charade, which leads to many complications.

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaFamily
  • Release: 29/12/1969
  • Character: Dietes - College Regent (uncredited)
Some college students manage to persuade the town's big businessman, A. J. Arno, to donate a computer to their college. When the problem- student, Dexter Riley, tries to fix the computer, he gets an electric shock and his brain turns to a computer; now he remembers everything he reads. Unfortunately, he also remembers information which was in the computer's memory, like Arno's illegal businesses..

The Proud Ones

The Proud Ones
6.9/10
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.

The Music Man

The Music Man
7.7/10
A con man comes to an Iowa town with a scam using a boy's marching band program, but things don't go according to plan.

Seminole Uprising

Seminole Uprising
5.3/10
  • Genre: WarWestern
  • Release: 01/05/1955
  • Character: Cubby Crouch
An angry Seminole chief wages war after his tribe is relocated from Florida to the American West.

The Return of Dracula

The Return of Dracula
5.7/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 01/04/1958
  • Character: Station Master
After a vampire leaves his native Balkans, he murders a Czech artist, assumes his identity, and moves in with the dead man's American cousins.

Pioneer Justice

Pioneer Justice
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 28/06/1947
  • Character: Uncle Bob
A ranger in Buffalo Gap has been killed and the trail leads to a gang headed by Bill Judd. When there is yet another killing, the sheriff seems remarkably hesitant to arrest the culprit and may be taking his orders from a mystery boss. Teaming up with Al's pretty sister and her Uncle Bob, Cheyenne and Fuzzy go in search of the mystery villain.

Hostile Guns

Hostile Guns
5.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/07/1967
  • Character: Ole Jenson
US Marshal Gid McCool leads a wagon train of convicted felons to Huntsville prison. The only female among the crooks is the dancehall girl Laura Mannon, McCool's former flame. When McCool cannot be swayed from completing his lawful duty, Laura tries to endear herself to shotgun rider Mike Reno in hopes he will set her free.

Hollywood Story

Hollywood Story
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/06/1951
  • Character: Actor as Beggar in Commissary (uncredited)
A producer takes over a small film studio and - sensing that it'll be a good movie- begins investigating an old murder of a silent film star shot in his office years ago. He finds that his life is threatened as he digs deeper into the mystery.

Dakota Incident

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

Comin' Round the Mountain

Comin' Round the Mountain
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/07/1951
  • Character: Jed
Bud and Lou get mixed up with hillbillies, witches and love potions.

The Wild and the Innocent

The Wild and the Innocent
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 27/05/1959
  • Character: Elderly Trapper
Charming tale of mountaineer-trapper Murphy's first taste "big city" life with young, sweet Sandra Dee in tow. She flees her family, which tried to trade her for some of Murphy's beaver pelts, and tags along with the reluctant Murphy. They get into all manner of trouble in town, and Murphy has to shoot the sheriff to rescue Dee from her job as a dancehall girl.

Blackhawk

Blackhawk
6.2/10
  • Genre: ActionAdventure
  • Release: 24/07/1952
  • Character: Dr. Rolph [Chs. 4-7]
Based on a successful comic book that began in 1941, the Blackhawks were seven flyers who banded together during WW II to fight the Nazis. After the war, they continued to fight evil where ever they find it. In this movie, they are battling a group of spies and saboteurs bent on destroying democracy. The Blackhawks foil a succession of plots, with a cliff hanger ending in each episode.

Dawn at Socorro

Dawn at Socorro
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 27/08/1954
  • Character: Stagecoach Relay Station Attendant
Brett Wade, gambler, gunslinger, and classical pianist, is wounded in a gunfight with the Ferris clan; the doctor finds signs of tuberculosis. En route to Colorado for his health, Brett stops in Socorro, New Mexico along with Ferris gunfighter Jimmy Rapp. Sheriff Couthen fears another shootout, but what Brett has in mind is saving waif-with-a-past Rannah Hayes from a life as one of Dick Braden's saloon girls.

The Neanderthal Man

The Neanderthal Man
4.4/10
A scientist develops a formula which will cause animals to regress to the form of their primitive ancestors, and tries it on himself with disastrous results.

No Time for Sergeants

No Time for Sergeants
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 05/07/1958
  • Character: Pa Stockdale
Georgia farm boy Will Stockdale is about to bust with pride. He’s been drafted. Will’s ready. But is Uncle Sam ready for Will? In No Time for Sergeants, Andy Griffith is certifiably funny in the role that clinched his stardom. Wearing a friendly, wide grin, he ambles into the U.S. Air Force – and lots of folks’ll never be the same.

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