Charles Bickford

What members say | Filmography

Charles Bickford - what members say

Whirlpool review by from London

Glossy Noir 7 May 2005
...wdunit murder mystery.Three outstanding performances, with excellent support by Charles Bickford as the investigating cop, in a sharp, intelligent thriller. ... Read customer review

Days Of Wine And Roses on DVD (1962)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford
Director: Blake Edwards
Certificate:
Blake Edwards's disturbing adaptation of J.P. Miller's PLAYHOUSE 90 story, starring Jack Lemmon as Joe Clay, remains an anomaly in a body of work largely devoted to comedy. Clay, a San Francisco public relations man who likes a drink, meets secretary Kirsten Arnesen (Lee Remick), who doesn't drink ..read more »

72% from 771 members

The Unforgiven on DVD (1959)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy
Director: John Huston
Certificate:
One of Hollywood's most famous and acclaimed directors, John Huston guides this western with an unerring hand -- the cast of notable stars is no drawback either. Setting up the story with a series of suspenseful scenes, Huston has a mysterious stranger on horseback come into a small community in ..read more »

59% from 598 members

The Big Country on DVD (1958)
Starring: Charles Bickford, Chuck Connors, Alfonso Bedoya
Director: William Wyler
Certificate:
Wyler's powerful Western covers a lot of territory with Gregory Peck a fish out of water as a sea captain who travels west to marry and settle, but finds himself in the middle of a bitter dispute over water rights and a jealous clash with the ranch foreman (Charlton Heston). He also discovers his ..read more »

71% from 1,546 member

A Star Is Born (2 discs) on DVD (1954)
Starring: Judy Garland, James Mason, Charles Bickford
Director: George Cukor
Certificate:
The 1954 musical remake of A Star is Born could have been titled A Star is Reborn, in that it represented the triumphal return to the screen of Judy Garland after a four-year absence. The remake adheres closely to the plotline of the 1937 original: An alcoholic film star, on his last professional ..read more »

68% from 1,383 member

Jim Thorpe - All American (1951)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Charles Bickford, Steve Cochran
Director: Michael Curtiz
Certificate:
Burt Lancaster delivers a powerful performance as Jim Thorpe, a Native American athlete who succeeded as an Olympian, on the gridiron and in the diamond. Hailing from an Oklahoma reservation, Thorpe's prodigious talent won the attention of his coaches at Carlisle College. There he began his road to ..read more »

52% from 5 members
Currently unavailable

Whirlpool on DVD (1949)
Starring: Gene Tierney, Jose Ferrer, Richard Conte
Director: Otto Preminger
Certificate:
In this intriguing 1950 film noir, Gene Tierney plays Ann Sutton, the wife of a successful psychoanalyst, who is arrested for shoplifting. Scandal is averted due to the intervention of hypnotist David Korvo (Jose Ferrer) but he manipulates Ann as he knows she really is a shoplifter. This ..read more »

62% from 451 members

Brute Force on DVD (1947)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford
Director: Jules Dassin
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Burt Lancaster had one of his first starring roles in this hard-hitting prison drama. Capt. Munsey (Hume Cronyn) is a cruel, corrupt prison guard who has his own less-than-ethical ways of dealing with inmates, enough so that Joe Collins (Lancaster) -- the toughest inmate in the cell block -- has ..read more »

71% from 133 members

Duel In The Sun on DVD (1946)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten
Director: King Vidor
Certificate:
Dubbed 'Lust in the Dust' by Hollywood wags and, at $5 million, the most expensive film made up to that time, DUEL IN THE SUN stars Jennifer Jones as Pearl Chavez, a stunning young mixed-race woman. After her father's death, she's taken in by distant relative Laura Belle McCanles (Lillian Gish), ..read more »

58% from 480 members

Fallen Angel on DVD (1945)
Starring: Dana Andrews, Alice Faye, Linda Darnell
Director: Otto Preminger
Certificate:
Eric Stanton (Dana Andrews), is a down-on-his-luck press agent who isliving in a small Californian town and begins to frequent a diner called "Pop's Eats" , where he meets a beautiful waitress by the name of Stella (Linda Darnell). He falls for Stella but she is not interested in him. Eric decides ..read more »

63% from 541 members

The Song Of Bernadette on DVD (1943)
Starring: Jennifer Jones, William Eythe, Charles Bickford
Director: Henry King
Certificate:
The classic story of peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous, a poverty-stricken adolescent, who saw a vision of a 'beautiful lady' near her home town of Lourdes in 1858. A remarkable story of hope, courage and faith.

72% from 416 members

Mr Lucky (1943)
Starring: Cary Grant, Laraine Day, Charles Bickford
Director: H C Potter
Certificate:
A gambler has plans to swindle money from a charity program, but starts to have second thoughts when he falls for a rich society girl.

60% from 13 members
Currently unavailable

Of Mice and Men on DVD (1939)
Starring: Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, Lon Chaney Jr.
Director: Lewis Milestone
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
A mentally retarded giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America. (B & W).

72% from 203 members

The Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan Collection (3 discs) on DVD (1932)
Starring: Johnny Weissmuller, Neil Hamilton, Maureen O'Sullivan
Director: W. S. Van Dyke, Cedric Gibbons, Richard Thorpe
Certificate:
Johnny Weissmuller. Maureen O'Sullivan. He Tarzan, she Jane - the most memorable pair ever to portray Edgar Rice Burroughs' jungle hero and heroine. All 6 of the stars' vine-swinging teamings are in this 3-disc set. The Lord of the Apes swoops Jane Parker into his life in the trendsetting Tarzan ..read more »

70% from 166 members

Days Of Wine And Roses - 3.5 stars
The Unforgiven - 3.0 stars
The Big Country - 3.5 stars
A Star Is Born - 3.5 stars
Jim Thorpe - All American - 2.5 stars

The Song Of Bernadette - 3.5 stars
Days Of Wine And Roses - 3.5 stars
Of Mice and Men - 3.5 stars
Brute Force - 3.5 stars
The Big Country - 3.5 stars

Jim Thorpe - All American - 2.5 stars
Mr Lucky - 3.0 stars
Duel In The Sun - 3.0 stars
The Unforgiven - 3.0 stars
Whirlpool - 3.0 stars

William Henry - 4 times - show films
Ian Hunter - 4 times - show films
Neil Hamilton - 4 times - show films
Virginia Grey - 4 times - show films
Johnny Sheffield - 4 times - show films

Richard Thorpe - 4 times - show films
W. S. Van Dyke - 4 times - show films
Cedric Gibbons - 4 times - show films
George Cukor - 3 times - show films
Lewis Milestone - 2 times - show films