Richard Thorpe

All Movies of Richard Thorpe

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  7.8
  E.R. (TV Series)
  TV Series (1994-2009). 15 Seasons. 331 episodes. Created by best-selling author Michael Crichton (“Jurassic Park”), the series centers on the medical personnel in the emergency room of a Chicago hospital. Crichton is also an e...
  Director of the film

   1994

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  The Last Challenge
  Marshal Dan Blaine (Glenn Ford), a former gunslinger, now works on the side of law and order defending his Western town. Now, a young troublemaker, Lot McGuire (Chad Everett), rides into town, and a crisis brews.
  Director of the film

   1967

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  The Scorpio Letters (TV)
  Joe Christopher, an American ex-cop living in London, helps out British Intelligence following a suicide which sets him on the trail of a blackmailer known only as Scorpio.
  Director of the film

   1967

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  The Truth About Spring
  Tommy Tyler a lazy Caribbean sailor and his tom-boy daughter, Spring are out to search for a buried treasure. Tommy brings aboard William Ashton, a young lawyer to help with the search. Ashton turns out to be handy when they encou...
  Director of the film

   1965

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  That Funny Feeling
  Love happens in the most unexpected places. Sandra Dee stars as a struggling actress who is embarrassed of where her and her room-mate live, so instead of allowing the man (Bobby Darin), who claims to be an interior decorator, she...
  Director of the film

   1965

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  The Golden Head
  Milly, Michael and Harold Stevenson are in Budapest with their father, a British inspector who is attending an international convention of criminal investigators. Two thieves use the conference as an opportunity to steal the golde...
  Director of the film

   1964

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  5.3
  Fun in Acapulco
  Director of the film

   1963

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  5.3
  Follow the Boys
  Bonnie, Toni, Michele and Liz are on the Riviera to visit their respective husbands and boyfriends in the U.S. Navy. Bonnie tries to resume her canceled honeymoon, Liz wishes her newly-promoted husband would settle down, Frenchwom...
  Director of the film

   1963

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  The Horizontal Lieutenant
  A military comedy about a luckless army intelligence lieutenant who finds himself stationed on a remote island army outpost during World War II, where all the action is between the sheets.
  Director of the film

   1962

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  7.2
  How the West Was Won
  The fifty years of American westward expansion between the 1830s and 1880s are viewed through the experiences of the Prescott and Rawlings families, as they migrate by the Erie Canal, continue over the prairies from St. Louis duri...
  Director of the film

   1962

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  4.0
  The Tartars
  Director of the film

   1961

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  Jailhouse Rock
  Vince Everett is serving a one-year jail sentence for manslaughter. While in the big house, his cellmate, a former country singer, introduces him to the record business. Everett takes to it so well that he decides to become a sing...
  Director of the film

   1957

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  Athena
  Attorney, Purdom, and singer, Damone, romance two sisters, Reynolds and Powell, who live with and are strongly influenced by eccentric, health oriented and star gazing grandparents.
  Director of the film

   1954

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  7.0
  Knights of the Round Table
  King Arthur establishes the greatest reign England has ever seen, and along for the ride are his indispensable Knights of the Round Table, particularly Sir Lancelot. Then, Arthur finds himself a bride, the beautiful Guenivere. Whi...
  Director of the film

   1953

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  6.2
  All the Brothers were Valiant
  Sea-faring saga of two brothers (Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger) and the woman they both love. Set against South Pacific islands, this love triangle pits the good brother against the bad as they squabble over Ann Blyth and a bag o...
  Director of the film

   1953

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  5.8
  The Girl Who Had Everything
  Attorney's daughter falls for one of his gangster clients.
  Director of the film

   1953

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  7.0
  The Prisoner of Zenda
  Rudolph Rassendyll (Stewart Granger) is a British tourist visiting the nation of Ruritania in the Balkans. A number of people comment upon Rassendyll's remarkable resemblance to Prince Rudolph, who in a matter of days is to be cro...
  Director of the film

   1952

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  6.8
  Ivanhoe
  Robert Taylor and Director Richard Thorpe team up for this epic tale of noble knights and beautiful damsels in this adaptation of the 1819 Sir Walter Scott classic. The story is of Wilfred of Ivanhoe and his quest to restore Rich...
  Director of the film

   1952

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  It's a Big Country
  The story, told in eight episodes, covers different facets of the American Spirit, from racial and religious tolerance to the dangers of self-centeredness and myopic reasoning.
  Director of the film

   1951

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  7.4
  The Great Caruso
  Loosely traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). He loves Musetta, in his home town of Naples, and then Dorothy, the daughter of one of the Metropolitan Opera's patrons. Caruso is unacceptable to both women's fathers: t...
  Director of the film

   1951

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  6.5
  Three Little Words
  Song-and-dance man Bert Kalmar can't continue his stage career after an injury for while, so he has to earn his money as a lyricst. Per chance he meets composer Harry Ruby and their first song is a hit. Ruby gets Kalmar to marry i...
  Director of the film

   1950

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  Challenge to Lassie
  In Edinburgh in 1860, sheep herder Jock Gray finds a Collie puppy on the loose. When she is unclaimed, he takes her as his own and calls her Lassie. They are soon inseparable but when Jock dies and is buried in an unmarked grave, ...
  Director of the film

   1949

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  6.3
  On an Island with You
  A young navy lieutenant is brought in as techninical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being made by screen star Rosalind Reynolds. Having once done a number with her - and been kissed at the end - at a Forces show, the young ...
  Director of the film

   1948

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  9.0
  Fiesta
  Director of the film

   1947

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  6.0
  What Next, Corporal Hargrove?
  This follow-up to the 1944 hit See Here, Private Hargrove suffers from that common movie malady known as Sequelitis, meaning that it's not quite as good as its predecessor. U.S. artillery corporal Marion Hargrove (Robert Walker) f...
  Director of the film

   1945

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  Her Highness and the Bellboy
  A hotel bellboy is the unlikely choice to escort a visiting princess, over the protests of his invalid girlfriend.
  Director of the film

   1945

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  6.5
  Two Girls and a Sailor
  A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with gorgeous sister Jean, unaware that her sibling Patsy is also in love with him.
  Director of the film

   1944

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  6.5
  Above Suspicion
  Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
  Director of the film

   1943

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  Tarzan's New York Adventure
  Director of the film

   1942

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  Tarzan's Secret Treasure
  A scientific expedition happens to discover that gold exits on Tarzan's escarpment. The villainous Medford and Vandermeer kidnap Jane and Boy to extort from Tarzan the location of the gold. Everyone is captured by wicked natives. ...
  Director of the film

   1941

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  5.8
  The Bad Man
  Lopez is a bandit who has stolen the herd at Gil's ranch, so Hardy is about to foreclose. But Lucia has come back from New York and Gil is happy until he meets her husband, Morgan. Saying that they are friends, Morgan wants to buy...
  Director of the film

   1941

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  6.7
  20 Mule Team
  It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save the company is a new deposit of high grade Borax, and Bill has a pouch of it...
  Director of the film

   1940

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  Tarzan Finds a Son!
  A young couple die in a plane crash in the jungle. Their son is found by Tarzan and Jane who name him Boy and raise him as their own. Five years later a search party comes to find the young heir to millions of dollars. Jane agrees...
  Director of the film

   1939

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  6.5
  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a 1939 film adaptation of Mark Twain's classic novel of the same name, starring Mickey Rooney in the title role.
  Director of the film

   1939

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  Three Loves Has Nancy
  A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
  Director of the film

   1938

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  The Crowd Roars
  A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy does for a living.
  Director of the film

   1938

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  7.0
  Night Must Fall
  Crotchety old Mrs. Bransom hires a charming young man named Danny as a live-in companion. Less charmed by Danny is Mrs. Bransom's niece, Olivia, a repressed young woman who suspects Danny of foul play. When news of a local murder ...
  Director of the film

   1937

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  Tarzan Escapes
  White hunter Captain Fry tries to take Tarzan back to civilization, caged for public display. He arrives in the jungle with Jane's cousins, Eric and Rita who want Jane's help in claiming a fortune left her.
  Director of the film

   1936