The best William Murphy’s movies

William Murphy

William Murphy

09/01/1921- 06/11/1989
Today we present the best William Murphy’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 Murphy’s movies.
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Sands of Iwo Jima

Sands of Iwo Jima
7/10
The relationship between Sergeant Stryker and a group of rebellious recruits is made difficult by the Sergeant's tough training tactics. At Tarawa, the leathernecks have a chance to see Stryker in action, and begin to appreciate him.

A Foreign Affair

A Foreign Affair
7.3/10
In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her.

The Big Heat

The Big Heat
7.9/10
Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.

Six Bridges to Cross

Six Bridges to Cross
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 19/01/1955
  • Character: Red Flanagan
Follow the evolution of a small time juvenile delinquent hood to a big time racketeer. Based on the famous 1950 Brinks Robbery in Boston that netted the crooks $2.5 million. The story delves into the psychology of the perpetrators, as well as the intricate mechanics of the hold-up.

Young Widow

Young Widow
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/03/1946
  • Character: Army Lieutenant Hope
A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.

Ernie Pyle's Story of G.I. Joe

Ernie Pyle's Story of G.I. Joe
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 13/07/1945
  • Character: Private Mew
War correspondent Ernie Pyle joins Company C, 18th Infantry as this American army unit fights its way across North Africa in World War II. He comes to know the soldiers and finds much human interest material for his readers back in the States.

Fighting Coast Guard

Fighting Coast Guard
6.4/10
Story of how the Coast Guard trained to help win World War II.

Hoodlum Empire

Hoodlum Empire
6/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 15/04/1952
  • Character: Pete Dailey
It's a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain's top gun goes straight and threatens to testify against the big boss and his cruel, nationwide network of crime. The picture, which was shot in a semi-documentary style, was inspired by the Kefauver investigations of 1950-51.

The Jungle Captive

The Jungle Captive
5.1/10
Once again Paula the ape woman is brought back to life, this time by a mad doctor and his disfigured assistant, who also kidnaps a nurse in order to have a female blood donor.

Thumb Tripping

Thumb Tripping
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/10/1972
Gary and Shay are two happy-go-lucky flower children who hitchhike in the beautiful Big Sur-Monterey area of California.

Ain't Misbehavin'

Ain't Misbehavin'
5.8/10
  • Release: 30/06/1955
  • Character: Bucky/a Sailor (uncredited)
Rowdy young girl crashes high society when wealthy older man falls for her.

Salty O'Rourke

Salty O'Rourke
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/03/1945
  • Character: Bennie
A gambler (Alan Ladd) and his buddy (William Demarest) find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse.

Red Skies of Montana

Red Skies of Montana
6.4/10
When a large forest fire breaks out in the mountains of Montana, a squad of 'Smoke Jumpers', the paratroop-corps of fire-fighters in the U. S. Forest Service, is flown to the scene from their regional headquarters in Missoula, Montana. The Forest Rangers, under Cliff Mason, put out the blaze, but several of the fire-fighters are killed. Ed Miller, son of one of the dead rangers, thinks he died because Mason was a coward, and sets out to prove it.

No Down Payment

No Down Payment
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/10/1957
The marital difficulties of four couples living in a southern California housing development become intertwined. Among the unhappy couples are ne'er-do-well Jerry Flagg and his long-suffering wife Isabelle, flirtatious Leola Boone and her sadistic husband Troy, hard working Herman Kreitzer and his understanding wife Betty, and newlyweds Jean and David Martin.

Outlaw Queen

Outlaw Queen
5.9/10
Christina, the daughter of a Greek-immigrant family who does not share their belief that a woman's place is with her husband at the fireside, is a trick-shot artist. With her Uncle Jim, a strolling troubadour, and his sidekick Andy, a mandolin player, heads west to make her fortune.

The Prairie

The Prairie
6.2/10
The Prairie is set at the time of the Louisiana Purchase. Hoping to find their destiny in the new territory, the Bush Family heads southward in a covered wagon. Sharing the family's numerous dangers and hardships are Ellen Wade (Lenore Aubert), sole survivor of an Indian attack, and army mapmaker Paul Hover (Alan Baxter). Cousins Abiram (Russ Vincent) and Asa (Jack Mitchum) duke it out over Ellen's affections

Faces in the Fog

Faces in the Fog
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/11/1944
  • Character: Russell
Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the doctor at the defense plant employing Tom, worries about the effect that Tom and Cora's drinking and socializing have on the children....

The Burning Cross

The Burning Cross
5.6/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 01/09/1947
Recently returned from WWII combat, unable to find a job, finding his sweetheart engaged to another man, and generally aware of the changes which have occurred in his hometown while he was away, a young man becomes easily talked into joining the Ku Klux Klan. Banned by the Virginia Board of Censors, and financed independently because no bank would loan money for it.

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