Burt Douglas

Party Girl (1958)

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Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicholas Ray
CAST:  Robert Taylor  •  Cyd Charisse  •  Lee J. Cobb  •  John Ireland

Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicholas Ray
CAST:  Robert Taylor  •  Cyd Charisse  •  Lee J. Cobb  •  John Ireland

Handle with Care (1958)

A law student working on a class project discovers a real-life crime.  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Friedkin
CAST:  Dean Jones  •  Joan O'Brien  •  Thomas Mitchell  •  John Smith

A law student working on a class project discovers a real-life crime.  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Friedkin
CAST:  Dean Jones  •  Joan O'Brien  •  Thomas Mitchell  •  John Smith

Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit (1987)

Jordan White, a publisher friend of Perry, is called to a hotel where a guest, famous horror writer David Hall, has cleared out the hotel for a weekend and has called his "friends" - an actress, a fortune-teller, David's private assistant and the two remaining ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Richard Lang
CAST:  Raymond Burr  •  Barbara Hale  •  William Katt  •  Robert Stack

Jordan White, a publisher friend of Perry, is called to a hotel where a guest, famous horror writer David Hall, has cleared out the hotel for a weekend and has called his "friends" - an actress, a fortune-teller, David's private assistant and the two remaining ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Richard Lang
CAST:  Raymond Burr  •  Barbara Hale  •  William Katt  •  Robert Stack

Lassie and the Flight of the Cougar (1967)

When livestock falls prey to a wild dog, local farmhands mistakenly accuse a mother cougar and her cubs of hunting their heard. It's up to Lassie and her owner, Forest Ranger Corey Stuart, to identify the real culprit and keep the young cougar family out harm's way.  (more)

DIRECTION:  William Beaudine
CAST:  Robert Bray  •  Les Brown Jr.  •  Burt Douglas  •  Stuart Randall

When livestock falls prey to a wild dog, local farmhands mistakenly accuse a mother cougar and her cubs of hunting their heard. It's up to Lassie and her owner, Forest Ranger Corey Stuart, to identify the real culprit and keep the young cougar family out harm's way.  (more)

DIRECTION:  William Beaudine
CAST:  Robert Bray  •  Les Brown Jr.  •  Burt Douglas  •  Stuart Randall

Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)

Drama critic Larry Mackay, his wife Kate and their four sons move from their crowded Manhattan apartment to an old house in the country. While housewife Kate settles into suburban life, Larry continues to enjoy the theater and party scene of New York.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Charles Walters
CAST:  Doris Day  •  David Niven  •  Janis Paige  •  Spring Byington

Drama critic Larry Mackay, his wife Kate and their four sons move from their crowded Manhattan apartment to an old house in the country. While housewife Kate settles into suburban life, Larry continues to enjoy the theater and party scene of New York.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Charles Walters
CAST:  Doris Day  •  David Niven  •  Janis Paige  •  Spring Byington

High School Confidential! (1958)

A tough kid comes to a new high school and begins muscling his way into the drug scene. This is a typical morality play of the era, filled with a naive view of drugs, nihilistic beat poetry, and some incredible '50s slang.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jack Arnold
CAST:  Russ Tamblyn  •  Jan Sterling  •  John Drew Barrymore  •  Mamie Van Doren

A tough kid comes to a new high school and begins muscling his way into the drug scene. This is a typical morality play of the era, filled with a naive view of drugs, nihilistic beat poetry, and some incredible '50s slang.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jack Arnold
CAST:  Russ Tamblyn  •  Jan Sterling  •  John Drew Barrymore  •  Mamie Van Doren

The Law and Jake Wade (1958)

Jake Wade breaks Clint Hollister out of jail to pay off an old debt, though it's clear there is some pretty deep hostility between them. They part, and Jake returns to his small-town marshal's job and his fiancée only to find he has been tracked there by Hollister. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Sturges
CAST:  Robert Taylor  •  Richard Widmark  •  Patricia Owens  •  Robert Middleton

Jake Wade breaks Clint Hollister out of jail to pay off an old debt, though it's clear there is some pretty deep hostility between them. They part, and Jake returns to his small-town marshal's job and his fiancée only to find he has been tracked there by Hollister. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Sturges
CAST:  Robert Taylor  •  Richard Widmark  •  Patricia Owens  •  Robert Middleton

True Grit: A Further Adventure (1978)

The further adventures of True Grit's Rooster Cogburn has him battling injustice in his own unorthodox way while contending with a teenage girl bent on reforming him.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Richard T. Heffron
CAST:  Warren Oates  •  Lisa Pelikan  •  Lee Meriwether  •  James Stephens

The further adventures of True Grit's Rooster Cogburn has him battling injustice in his own unorthodox way while contending with a teenage girl bent on reforming him.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Richard T. Heffron
CAST:  Warren Oates  •  Lisa Pelikan  •  Lee Meriwether  •  James Stephens

The Paradise Trail (1979)

In a small western town in the late 1800′s, two outlaws take a blind preacher, his wife and an Indian girl as hostages in their flight from the law. Excitement mounts when Dan, one of the outlaws makes a shocking discovery. The last train to Cortez lays bare the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Donald W. Thompson
CAST:  Burt Douglas  •  Robert L. Somers  •  Gene Otis  •  Teri Hernandez

In a small western town in the late 1800′s, two outlaws take a blind preacher, his wife and an Indian girl as hostages in their flight from the law. Excitement mounts when Dan, one of the outlaws makes a shocking discovery. The last train to Cortez lays bare the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Donald W. Thompson
CAST:  Burt Douglas  •  Robert L. Somers  •  Gene Otis  •  Teri Hernandez