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  • Curse Of The Fly
  • Curse Of The Fly review by from Wolverhampton England
    Rated - 5.0 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 ...   Read customer review
  • The Glass Key
  • The Glass Key review by A customer from Preston
    Rated - 4.0 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...   Read customer review
  • Canyon Passage
  • Canyon Passage review by A customer from London
    Rated - 3.5 stars Fine convincing western 20 June 2010
    ...ving with relatives on a homestead on traditional Indian land. His best friend, Brian Donlevy is now an addicted gambler who runs the town safe deposit and is stealing from ...   Read customer review

Brian Donlevy - filmography


  • Gamera The Invincible (1965)
    Starring: Albert Dekker,  Brian Donlevy,  Diane Findlay
    Director: Sandy Howard,  Noriaki Yuasa
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    An atomic bomb blast is detonated as American and Soviet forces clash, awakening Gammera, an immense prehistoric turtle-like creature, from his eons of slumber. The enraged beast wanders the arctic wilderness annihilating all traces of humanity in his path. The horrible devastation incites an ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 5 members
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  • Curse Of The Fly on DVD (1965)
    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.
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 108 members
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  • The Errand Boy on DVD (1961)
    Starring: Jerry Lewis,  Brian Donlevy
    Director: Jerry Lewis
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The second of Jerry Lewis' directorial endeavors, The Errand Boy, like its predecessor The Bellboy, is essentially a series of spot gags, some hilarious, others only moderately amusing. The gossamer-thin plot finds Morty Tashman (Lewis) being hired by the CEO of Paramutuel Pictures (Brian Donlevy) ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 213 members
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  • Never So Few on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Frank Sinatra,  Gina Lollobrigida,  Steve McQueen
    Director: John Sturges
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Captain Tom Reynolds (Frank Sinatra) and his band of skilled O.S.S. operatives are in World War II Burma to train the Kachin natives in modern warfare. But jungle combat is more gruelling than Reynolds ever imagined, and after Chinese rebels cross the border to loot and murder American soldiers, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 155 members
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  • 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 »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 171 members
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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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 47 members
    Due for release on 22nd October 2012
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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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 56% from 28 members
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  • The Virginian on DVD (1946)
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 106 members
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  • Hangmen Also Die (1943)
    Starring: Brian Donlevy,  Walter Brennan,  Dennis O'Keefe
    Director: Fritz Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Fritz Lang, one of the masters of the German expressionist cinema, turns his sinister imagination and shadowy techniques to a web like take of wartime espionage in Hangmen Also Die. Set in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation, the film depicts an Eastern Europe populated by spies, traitors ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 184 members
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  • The Glass Key on DVD (1942)
    Starring: Veronica Lake,  Alan Ladd,  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.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 384 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.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 44 members
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  • In Old Chicago on DVD (1937)
    Starring: Tyrone Power,  Tyrone Power Sr.,  Alice Faye
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 98 members
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Brian Donlevy facts

5 most recent films

Gamera The Invincible - 2.5 stars
Curse Of The Fly - 2.5 stars
The Errand Boy - 3.0 stars
Never So Few - 3.0 stars
Cowboy - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Great McGinty - 3.5 stars
The Glass Key - 3.5 stars
Hangmen Also Die - 3.0 stars
Canyon Passage - 3.0 stars
Quatermass Collection: Quatermass Experiment / Quatermass 2 - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Gamera The Invincible - 2.5 stars
Impact - 2.5 stars
Beau Geste - 3.5 stars
The Big Combo - 3.5 stars
The Virginian - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Andy Devine - 2 times - show films
Susan Hayward - 2 times - show films
Albert Dekker - 2 times - show films
Veronica lake - 1 times - show films
Fay Holden - 1 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Val Guest - 2 times - show films
Henry King - 1 times - show films
Noriaki Yuasa - 1 times - show films
Arthur Lubin - 1 times - show films
Delmer Daves - 1 times - show films