Edmond O'Brien Archives

6.8

The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage

Oscar nominated "Making of" documentary about Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch.

NR

6.8

1996 Documentary 34 min Play

6.2

Lucky Luciano

Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss. But a few years later he is put into jail. In 1946, he got a pardon and is sent back to Sicilia. There, he begins becoming one of the chief of the Mafia. The US Army seems to refrain from interfering.

R

6.2

1973 Crime 105 min Play

7

The Love God?

Abner Peacock's (Knotts) beloved bird-watcher's magazine, "The Peacock," is in financial crisis. Desperate to stay afloat, Abner takes on new partners who have an agenda of the own: to publish a sexy gentleman's magazine. Before he can stop them, the first issue sells over 40 million copies, and Abner becomes the unwilling spokesman for First Amendment rights. Swept up in adulation, the unwitting playboy quickly begins settling into the swinging bachelor lifestyle in this quirky comedy ...

NR

7

1969 Comedy 101 min Play

6.8

The Doomsday Flight

A bomb on board an airliner has an altitude-sensitive trigger. Unless a ransom is paid, it will explode when the plane descends to land.

NR

6.8

1966 Thriller 100 min Play

6.7

Fantastic Voyage

In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.

PG

6.7

1966 Adventure 100 min Play

5.9

Moon Pilot

An Air Force captain inadvertently volunteers to make the first manned flight around the moon. He immediately falls under the watchful protection of various security agencies, but despite all their precautions, a young woman who may be an enemy spy succeeds in making contact with the captain. The captain eventually discovers that this woman is not an enemy but rather a friend from a very unusual source.

NR

5.9

1962 Comedy 98 min Play

7.1

The Great Impostor

Fictionalized account of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., who stole or created fictional identities and worked in a variety of occupations, most quite successfully.

NR

7.1

1961 Comedy 113 min Play

5.8

The 3rd Voice

Marian Forbes has been having an affair with her boss and when he drops her for another woman. In an act of jealousy and greed she convinces an acquaintance to murder her former lover and then impersonate him just long enough to get their hands on a large sum of money.

NR

5.8

1960 Crime 79 min Play

6

Up Periscope

Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled into a Japanese-held island via submarine to photograph radio codes.

NR

6

1959 Action 112 min Play

5.9

The World Was His Jury

A sea captain stands trial for manslaughter after 162 people are killed in a fire aboard his cruise ship. Director Fred F. Sears' 1958 drama stars Edmond O'Brien, Robert McQueeney, Paul Birch, Mona Freeman and Karin Booth.

NR

5.9

1958 Crime 82 min Play

6.3

The Big Land

Back home in Texas following the Civil War, former Confederate officer Chad Morgan (Alan Ladd) leads a cattle drive to Missouri, assuring fellow ranchers that their stock will bring $10 a head at auction. Instead, ruthless cattle baron Brog (Anthony Caruso) has scared off all competition and offers much less.

PG-13

6.3

1957 Romance 92 min Play

6.4

The Girl Can’t Help It

A down-and-out gangster hires an alcoholic press agent to make his blonde bombshell girlfriend a recording star in 6 weeks. But what is he going to do when he finds out that she has no talent? And what is going to happen when the two fall in love?

PG

6.4

1956 Comedy 99 min Play

5.1

A Cry in the Night

A police captain's emotions get in the way when his daughter is kidnapped.

NR

5.1

1956 Drama 75 min Play

6.7

1984

In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

NR

6.7

1956 Drama 90 min Play

6.1

Pete Kelly’s Blues

In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.

NR

6.1

1955 Crime 95 min Play

4.4

The Shanghai Story

Shanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a hotel by the communist authorities in order to find the spy hiding among them.

NR

4.4

1954 Drama 90 min Play

6.7

Shield for Murder

A crooked detective masterminds a robbery then fights to keep his money.

NR

6.7

1954 Crime 82 min Play

6.8

The Barefoot Contessa

Has-been director Harry Dawes gets a new lease on his career when independently wealthy Kirk Edwards hires him to write and direct a film. They go to Madrid to find Maria Vargas, a dancer who will star in the film.

NR

6.8

1954 Drama 128 min Play

0

China Venture

American soldiers undertake a mission to capture a Japanese admiral who has survived an air crash in China during WWII.

Cow Country

A hired hand gets caught between a noble rancher and ruthless land grabbers.

NR

5.1

1953 Western 82 min Play

5.7

Man in the Dark

A prisoner undergoes experimental brain surgery in order to get early parole. He released but has no memories. Things get dangerous when a group of thugs go after him in search of loot he hid before his amnesia.

NR

5.7

1953 Crime 70 min Play

6.8

The Hitch-Hiker

Ray and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He's killed before, and he lets the two know that as soon as they're no longer useful, he'll kill again. The two friends plot an escape, but the hitchhiker's peculiar physical affliction, an eye that never closes even when he sleeps, makes it impossible for them to tell when they can make a break for it.

NR

6.8

1953 Crime 71 min Play

5.4

Denver and Rio Grande

Jim Vesser and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less scrupulous construction workers sabotage the entire operation in the hopes that they can get their tracks laid first and get the money from the railroad.

NR

5.4

1952 Adventure 89 min Play

6.1

The Turning Point

Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city, and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. John doesn't understand why Matt is reluctant, but cynical reporter Jerry McKibbon thinks he knows: he's seen Matt with mob lieutenant Harrigan. Jerry's friendship with John is tested by the question of what to do about Matt, and by his attraction to John's girl Amanda. Meanwhile, the threatened racketeers adopt increasingly violent means of defense.

NR

6.1

1952 Action 85 min Play