Robert Ryan

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Crossfire (1947): Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan…; Controversial Best Picture nominee, with Robert Mitchum investigating an anti–Semitic murder committed amongst American soldiers recently…
Set-Up, The (1948): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias; This film noir classic is a gripping, real–time examination of a night in the life of an aging prize–fighter who refuses to be corrupted…
Caught (1949): Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Robert Ryan, Barbara Bel Geddes, James Mason; Noir–melodrama hybrid has half–mad millionaire Robert Ryan (a role based on Howard Hughes), wrapping Barbara Bel Geddes in the coils of a…
Act of Violence (w/ Mystery Street) (1949-1950): Dir. Fred Zinnemann, John Sturges
Feat. Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh…; Van Heflin's blissful small–town existence is upended when a returning WWII–vet arrives, determined to settle an old score. Disturbingly…
On Dangerous Ground (1951): Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond…; Grimly rewarding noir, with real–life tough guy Robert Ryan in one of his best roles. As a cop helping with a protracted rural manhunt, he…
Racket, The (1951): Dir. John Cromwell
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Lizabeth Scott…; An incorruptible police captain's attempts to clean up the streets of his town leads to confrontation with the local mob boss. Minor noir, previously…
Clash by Night (1952): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe; Simmering jealousies in a run–down fishing village provide downbeat fare from the pen of Clifford Odets. With Barbara Stanwyk, Robert Ryan and…
Horizons West (1952): Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Robert Ryan, Julie Adams, Rock Hudson; Western with shades of film noir and gangster pic, set in post–civil war Texas, where two confederate soldier brothers return to their family…
Naked Spur, The (1953): Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan…; Cited as one of the Great Westerns; a tough, hard little film about self–styled bounty hunter Stewart trying to capture Ryan, who stirs tension…
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955): Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Lee Marvin…; An unflappable Spencer Tracy arrives in a desolate town to investigate a dormant missing–persons report, but the surly locals don't take to…
Tall Men, The (1955): Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan…; Effortlessly enjoyable western with Gable as a Confederate who signs up for a grand cattle drive from Texas to Montana, Jane Russell and Robert Ryan…
House Of Bamboo (1955): Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi…; Samuel Fuller directs this exciting Tokyo–set noir, about an American army cop who goes undercover to take down an organised crime ring lead by…
Men in War (1958): Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Aldo Ray, Robert Ryan, Vic Morrow…; Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray play the leaders of a small detachment of American soldiers cut off and desperately trying to rejoin their division over a…
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters…; Injecting race problems into a surefire thriller formula, this has an unstable criminal trio – ex–convict (Ryan), crooked cop (Begley)…
Day of the Outlaw (1959): Dir. Andre De Toth
Feat. Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise…; Bleak snowbound western has a gang of outlaws terrorizing the inhabitants of a small farming town. Shot in stark black and white this is a…
King of Kings (1961): Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Jeffrey Hunter, Hurd Hatfield, Robert Ryan…; Faithful, intelligent telling of the life of Christ, with Jeffrey Hunter in the robes of JC, benefits from a lesser–known cast. Orson Welles…
Battle of the Bulge (1965): Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan…; Admirable and far from simplistic recreation of the Nazi's WW2 counter–offensive in the Ardennes in 1944, which led to a series of bitter…
Professionals, The (1966): Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan…; A taut precursor to THE WILD BUNCH, with a gang of American mercenaries making an incursion into Mexican territory to rescue a beautiful hostage…
Hour of the Gun (1967): Dir. John Sturges
Feat. James Garner, Jason Robards Jr., Robert Ryan…; Slowburning, melancholic revenge flick follows on from the events of Gunfight at the O.K Corral, with Garner as Wyatt Earp wrecking vengeance on the…
Wild Bunch, The (1969): Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan…; Sam Peckinpah's uncompromising Western bloodbath with William Holden and Ernest Borgnine leading the famous band of unruly marauders. Astonishing in…
Lawman (1970): Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb…; Burt Lancaster and Robert Ryan are veteran adversaries in this violent '70s Western. Saddle–sore Lancaster is on the trail of a band of…
American Film Theatre - Iceman Cometh, The (1973): Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Fredric March…; Masterly filmic adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's late stageplay set among the various seedy denizens of an early 20th century barroom, awaiting the…
Executive Action (1973): Dir. David Miller
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer; Rogue intelligence agents, right–wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free–lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination…

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