Rhys Williams
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1897-12-30
Locus Natus: Clydach, Swansea, Wales, UK
Et ut:
Julius Caesar
The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic.
release : 1953.06.04popularis : 18.586
There's No Business Like Show Business
Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Youngest son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to...
release : 1954.12.16popularis : 7.412
Random Harvest
Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star but his amnesia makes it difficult to last.
release : 1942.12.17popularis : 6.213
Our Man Flint
When scientists use eco-terrorism to impose their will on the world by affecting extremes in the weather, Intelligence Chief Cramden calls in top...
release : 1966.01.16popularis : 10.265
The Black Shield of Falworth
In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, without any knowledge of who their father really...
release : 1954.09.02popularis : 3.819
The Bells of St. Mary's
Father O'Malley is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. He and Sister Benedict work together in an attempt...
release : 1945.12.27popularis : 6.802
Midnight Lace
Kit Preston begins to unravel when she receives threatening telephone calls informing her she's soon to be murdered.
release : 1960.10.13popularis : 11.288
The Fastest Gun Alive
Whenever it becomes known how good he is with guns, ex-gunman George and his wife Dora have to flee the town, in fear of all the gunmen who might...
release : 1956.07.12popularis : 6.333
The Spiral Staircase
On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.
release : 1946.02.06popularis : 9.072
Johnny Guitar
On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin' Kid and his gang....
release : 1954.05.26popularis : 8.723
The Strange Woman
In early 19th century New England, an attractive unscrupulous woman uses her beauty and wits to deceive and control the men around her.
release : 1946.10.25popularis : 4.53
Devil's Doorway
A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.
release : 1950.09.15popularis : 4.183
The Inspector General
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials...
release : 1949.12.31popularis : 5.378
Nightmare
Clarinetist Stan has a nightmare about killing a man in a mirrored room. But when he wakes up and finds blood marks on himself and a key from the...
release : 1956.08.20popularis : 3.244
Man in the Attic
London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist, takes lodgings with the Harleys,...
release : 1953.12.23popularis : 6.99
Voice of the Whistler
A dying millionaire marries his nurse for companionship, only to experience a miracle cure.
release : 1945.10.30popularis : 4.261
Underground Agent
In this espionage caper, a government spy must keep enemy agents from spying upon a defense plant. His work is made easier by his newest invention, a...
release : 1942.12.03popularis : 3.055
How Green Was My Valley
A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.
release : 1941.10.28popularis : 13.447
The Farmer's Daughter
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.
release : 1947.03.26popularis : 3.57
The Corn Is Green
When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and...
release : 1945.03.29popularis : 3.548
The Crooked Way
A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his...
release : 1949.04.22popularis : 3.592
Gentleman Jim
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of...
release : 1942.11.14popularis : 6.452
The Boss
A crusading politician falls prey to the temptations of power.
release : 1956.10.10popularis : 1.973
Million Dollar Pursuit
A petty thief schemes a big score when he plans an armored car robbery.
release : 1951.05.30popularis : 1.894
Carbine Williams
David Marshall Williams is sent to a prison farm where he works in the tool shop and eventually develops the precursor of the famous M-1 Carbine...
release : 1952.05.01popularis : 3.188
Moss Rose
When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckily, another chorus girl saw a gentleman leaving...
release : 1947.05.30popularis : 4.137
The Sword of Monte Cristo
In 1858 France, Emperor Louis Napoleon sends Captain Renault of the Royal Dragoons, Minister La Roche and Major Nicolet to Normandy in search of the...
release : 1951.03.03popularis : 3.313
The Sons of Katie Elder
The four sons of Katie Elder reunite in their hometown of Clearwater, Texas for their mother's funeral, and discover that the family ranch is now in...
release : 1965.06.23popularis : 9.304
Brigadoon
Every 100 years, people stumble upon the Scottish village of Brigadoon, which will never be found on a map. A wonderful, fun filled day will be had...
release : 1966.10.15popularis : 1.326
The Kentuckian
A frontiersman and his son fight to build a new home in Texas.
release : 1955.07.22popularis : 3.871
Raintree County
In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by...
release : 1957.12.20popularis : 8.027
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Ralph Cotter, a ruthless criminal, escapes violently from a farm prison. Then, he seduces a dead inmate’s sister, gets back quickly into the...
release : 1950.08.19popularis : 11.419
Tokyo Joe
An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals...
release : 1949.10.26popularis : 6.16
Many Rivers to Cross
Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let anything interfere with her plans to marry him in...
release : 1955.02.04popularis : 4.278
Lightning Strikes Twice
Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his...
release : 1951.04.12popularis : 2
Bad for Each Other
A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and helping the poor.
release : 1953.12.24popularis : 1.665
Merry Andrew
When eccentric English teacher Andrew Larabee needs a raise in order for his fiancée to marry him, his interest in archaeology leads him to...
release : 1958.03.20popularis : 2.015
The World in His Arms
A boisterous sea captain in the Pacific Coast, circa 1850, has a plan to buy Alaska from the Russians… if they don’t kill him first.
release : 1952.10.09popularis : 3.615
The Showdown
Shadrach Jones, ex-Texas State Policeman, has the ruthless determination to find and kill the man who shot his brother in the back and stole the...
release : 1950.08.15popularis : 2.201
The King's Thief
An ex-soldier turned highwayman uncovers a plot to take control of England from King Charles II.
release : 1955.08.05popularis : 2.538
Tenth Avenue Angel
Flavia's been told that her Aunt Susan's fiancé, Steve, has been on a trip around the world, but in truth he's finished his prison term. Steve...
release : 1948.02.20popularis : 4.528
Hills of Home
William McClure is the villlage doctor in a remote Scottish glen. Tricked into buying Lassie, a collie afraid of water, he sets about teaching her to...
release : 1948.11.25popularis : 4.938
The Son of Dr. Jekyll
The son of the notorious Dr. Henry Jekyll is determined to prove that his father's reputation has been unjustly deserved. He sets out to develop his...
release : 1951.10.31popularis : 2.803
Les Miserables
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman of good character, has nevertheless been convicted for the minor crime of stealing bread. A minor infraction leads to his...
release : 1952.08.14popularis : 7.894
If Winter Comes
The small English town of Penny Green is swarming with scandal when textbook author Mark, unhappily married to the shrewish Mabel, cultivates a...
release : 1947.12.31popularis : 2.981
Never Trust a Gambler
A small-time gambler on the run from the law hides in his ex-wife's house.
release : 1951.07.13popularis : 1.572
The Scarlet Coat
An American officer goes undercover to unmask a Revolutionary War traitor.
release : 1955.07.29popularis : 2.918
The Light Touch
An art thief tries to double cross his gangster boss.
release : 1951.12.06popularis : 2.754
The Imperfect Lady
A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.
release : 1946.11.29popularis : 6.908
The Law and the Lady
A former housemaid now works as a confidence trickster, but her plans for a big job in California go awry.
release : 1951.07.20popularis : 1.794
Scandal at Scourie
After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. All of them are available for adoption and at...
release : 1953.05.17popularis : 2.123
Mutiny
Early in the War of 1812, Captain James Marshall is commissioned to run the British blockade and fetch an unofficial war loan from France. As first...
release : 1952.03.05popularis : 4.752
Easy Come, Easy Go
Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.
release : 1947.03.07popularis : 3.725
Bad Boy
A lawman tries to find the source of a juvenile delinquent's bad behavior.
release : 1949.02.22popularis : 4.32
You Came Along
War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chaperone" Ivy Hotchkiss. Bob's a cheerful Lothario with...
release : 1945.07.04popularis : 1.554
Cross My Heart
A compulsive liar admits to a killing she didn't commit so her husband, a lawyer, can clear her and build a reputation for himself.
release : 1946.12.18popularis : 1.039
One Too Many
A once-famous concert pianist has had her career ruined by her alcoholism. Her husband and a member of Alcoholics Anonymous try to help her recover.
release : 1950.12.01popularis : 2.892
Skullduggery
An expedition into the interior of Papua New Guinea comes across a tribe of ape-like people who may or may not be ancestors of early man.
release : 1970.03.06popularis : 7.454
Mohawk
An artist working in a remote army post is juggling the storekeeper's daughter, his fiancée newly arrived from the east, and the Indian...
release : 1956.04.01popularis : 5.334
Crossroads - U.S.A.
Group of people trapped in gas station during a storm teach a young man valuable life lessons.
release : 1952.02.02popularis : 0.9
Plymouth Adventure
During the Mayflower pilgrims' long voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on their way to America, Captain Christopher Jones falls in love with William...
release : 1952.11.28popularis : 3.039
So Goes My Love
Country girl Jane Budden goes to the big city, determined to find and marry a wealthy man. Instead, she meets and marries Herman Maxim, a struggling...
release : 1946.05.01popularis : 1.621
Remember Pearl Harbor
A man tries to redeem himself after ducking out on his comrades before the fatal attack.
release : 1942.01.02popularis : 1.486
The Black Arrow
A young British nobleman comes back from fighting in the War of the Roses to discover that his father has been murdered by an old family friend who...
release : 1948.03.18popularis : 1.633
Okinawa
On the eve of their return to the states, the crew of the U.S.S. Blake is unpleasantly surprised when their new captain, Lt. Commander Hale,...
release : 1952.02.28popularis : 2.517
Battle Cry
The dramatic story of US Marines in training, in combat, and in love, during World War II. The story centers on a major who guides the raw recruits...
release : 1955.02.02popularis : 3.895
Cairo
Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Conwoys with robot-planes.
release : 1942.08.17popularis : 1.996
Eagle Squadron
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
release : 1942.06.16popularis : 1.777
No Time for Love
Upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson river.
release : 1943.04.09popularis : 4.13
California Passage
A series of reversals bring two desperate people together. When a saloon owner is framed by his partner for a stagecoach robbery, he fights to secure...
release : 1950.12.15popularis : 1.052
The Trouble with Women
A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating...
release : 1947.06.25popularis : 2.081
Blood on the Sun
Nick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset...
release : 1945.04.26popularis : 3.825
Fighting Man of the Plains
Former bandit Jim Dancer becomes marshal of a Kansas town and cleans up the criminal element - with the help of his old pal, Jesse James.
release : 1949.11.16popularis : 5.922
The Desperados Are in Town
In this western, a young man tries to walk the straight and narrow, but he is impeded by his past. The trouble begins when the young fellow flees his...
release : 1956.11.01popularis : 1.635
The Restless Breed
Texas-border gunrunners kill a federal agent, whose son comes looking for revenge.
release : 1957.05.01popularis : 6.432
Tyrant of the Sea
In 1803, the only thing standing between Napoleon and his plan of world domination is England and the British Navy. The admiralty, learning that...
release : 1950.02.22popularis : 0.971
Mrs. Miniver
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the...
release : 1942.07.03popularis : 9.963
This Above All
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with...
release : 1942.05.12popularis : 3.626
Meet Me at the Fair
In 1904, Doc Tilbee, medicine show huckster and champion tall-tale teller, gives a ride to a young boy escaped from an orphanage, where bad...
release : 1953.01.01popularis : 1.941
How To Be Very, Very Popular
Two strippers on the run hide out in a college fraternity. Director Nunnally Johnson's 1955 musical comedy stars Betty Grable, Sheree North, Robert...
release : 1955.07.22popularis : 4.009