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  • Curse Of The Fly
  • Curse Of The Fly review by from Wolverhampton England
    Rated - 5 stars great B movie fun 10 July 2006
    ...George Baker with a slipping Canadian accent Brian Donlevy as the mad scientist grandson of the original creator of teleport technology and subsequently the B movie monster ...  
  • The Glass Key
  • The Glass Key review by A customer from Preston
    Rated - 4 stars An action-packed gathering of really good actors 5 December 2008
    ... But he soon warmed up. Which is just as well, given the lively performances of Brian Donlevy, William Bendix and others, with no holds barred in the action. Even Veronica L...  

Brian Donlevy - filmography


  • Cowboy on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Glenn Ford,  Jack Lemmon,  Anna Kashfi
    Director: Delmer Daves
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When hardened trail boss Tom Reece (Glenn Ford) loses all of his money in a poker game, hotel clerk Frank Harris (Jack Lemmon) offers a $3,800 loan in exchange for a piece of Reece's cattle business. As a result, Frank decides to leave his humdrum desk job and go on a cattle drive from Chicago to ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 138 members
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  • Quatermass 2 on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Brian Donlevy,  John Longden,  Sid James
    Director: Val Guest
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Quatermass is intrigued by strange images on his radar. Thinking them to be meteorites he follows them to a village which, on his arrival, he finds has been destroyed...
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 1,084 member
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  • The Quatermass Experiment on DVD (1955)
    Starring: Brian Donlevy,  Jack Warner,  Thora Hird
    Director: Val Guest
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A missile is launched by Professor Quatermass and his team but when it lands back in England two crew members have disappeared but the third, who is barely alive, turns into a 'thing'. The 'thing' starts killing humans and animals to feed its transformation...
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,556 member
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  • The Big Combo (1955)
    Starring: Cornel Wilde,  Richard Conte,  Brian Donlevy
    Director: Joseph H Lewis
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Shocking cruelty and explosive performances by Wilde and Conte make this a favorite of film-noir cultists. The plot revolves around Wilde's determination to smash the rackets with the help of the gang boss' ex-girlfriend. As in this outing, director Lewis's deft use of low budgets made him a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 22 members
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  • Impact on DVD (1949)
    Starring: Brian Donlevy,  Ella Raines,  Charles Coburn
    Director: Arthur Lubin
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    No-nonsense San Francisco industrial whiz Walter Williams's two-timing wife and her lover plot to do her husband in, but Williams survives the attack and the lover is burned beyond recognition while driving Williams's car. Williams retreats to idyllic Larkspur in Idaho, where he recuperates and ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 56% from 19 members
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  • The Glass Key on DVD (1942)
    Starring: Alan Ladd,  Veronica Lake,  Veronica lake
    Director: Stuart Heisler
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A classic murder mystery, based on the the Dashiell Hammet novel and said to be the inspiration for Kurosawa's Yojimbo. When a corrupt politician is accused of murder, his assistant hunts the real killer, avoiding amorous advances from his boss' fiancee and attacks from gangsters along the way.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 255 members
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  • Beau Geste (1939)
    Starring: Gary Cooper,  Ray Milland,  Robert Preston
    Director: William A. Wellman
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Michael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He is reunited with his two brothers in North Africa, where they face greater danger from their own sadistic commander than from the rebellious Arabs.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 24 members
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  • In Old Chicago on DVD (1937)
    Starring: Tyrone Power,  Alice Faye,  Don Ameche
    Director: Henry King
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A huge-budget drama released by Fox Studios in 1937 in response to MGM's historical-disaster film SAN FRANCISCO, IN OLD CHICAGO is a fictionalised account of Chicago's Great Fire of 1871. Mrs. O'Leary's (Alice Brady, MY MAN GODFREY) two sons couldn't be more different: Jack (Don Ameche, HEAVEN CAN ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 71 members
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  • Curse Of The Fly on DVD
    Starring: Brian Donlevy,  George Baker,  Carole Gray
    Director: Don Sharp
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Third part of the science fiction series which began with THE FLY. A scientist's son becomes obsessed with transporter experimentation against his family's wishes. Unfortunately the equipment malfunctions with disastrous consequences, leaving the scientist with only one method of escape from the law.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 83 members
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  • The Virginian on DVD
    Starring: Joel McCrea,  Brian Donlevy,  Sonny Tufts
    Director: Stuart Gilmore
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Joel McCrea stars a s a local ranch hand who risks losing his best friend and the woman he loves when forced into a showdown with ruthless cattle thieves. When Molly Wood, a well-educated Easterner, arrives in a small Wyoming town to be the new schoolmarm, the Virginian and his best friend, Steve, ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 90 members
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Brian Donlevy facts

5 most recent films

Gamera The Invincible - 1.5 stars
Never So Few - 3.0 stars
Cowboy - 3.0 stars
Quatermass 2 - 3.0 stars
The Quatermass Experiment - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Great McGinty - 3.5 stars
The Glass Key - 3.5 stars
Quatermass 2 - 3.0 stars
Hangmen Also Die - 3.0 stars
The Quatermass Experiment - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Gamera The Invincible - 1.5 stars
Impact - 2.5 stars
Canyon Passage - 3.0 stars
Beau Geste - 3.5 stars
The Big Combo - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Albert Dekker - 2 times - show films
Andy Devine - 2 times - show films
Susan Hayward - 2 times - show films
Gina Lollobrigida - 1 times - show films
Robert Middleton - 1 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Val Guest - 2 times - show films
Arthur Lubin - 1 times - show films
Stuart Gilmore - 1 times - show films
Jacques Tourneur - 1 times - show films
John Sturges - 1 times - show films