Watch movies directed by Richard Thorpe

6.4

The Last Challenge

An upstart outlaw baits a legendary gunslinger, now a marshal in love with a saloon keeper.

NR

6.4

1967 Western 105 min Play

8.1

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 encounter dangerous rivals. Tommy also tries to play match maker between Ashton and Spring – a difficult task indeed.

NR

8.1

1965 Adventure 102 min Play

5.8

Fun in Acapulco

Mike works on a boat in Acapulco. When the bratty daughter of the boat owner gets him fired, Mike must find new work. Little boy Rauol helps him get a job as a lifeguard and singer at a local hotel. Clashes abound when Mike runs into the rival lifeguard, who is the champion diver of Mexico.

PG

5.8

1963 Comedy 97 min Play

6.8

The Honeymoon Machine

Lieutenant Fergie Howard, Ensign Beau Gilliam and navy scientist Jason Elderidge use their ships computer, designed to calculate missile trajectories, to calculate a roulette ball's trajectory and hit the Venice Casino. Things get complex when Admiral Fitch arrives at the same Casino.

NR

6.8

1961 Comedy 87 min Play

6

Killers of Kilimanjaro

An American engineer reaches Mombasa to finish the works of an African railroad and to find his predecessor, who has mysteriously disappeared. While the work continues, will have to face several obstacles, especially violent local tribes, Arabs slave traders and wild animals.

NR

6

1959 Adventure 91 min Play

6.2

Tip on a Dead Jockey

Broke and about to divorce his wife, a pilot joins a smuggling scheme in postwar Madrid.

NR

6.2

1957 Crime 98 min Play

6.2

Jailhouse Rock

After serving time for manslaughter, young Vince Everett becomes a teenage rock star.

NR

6.2

1957 Drama 96 min Play

4.5

The Prodigal

A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring pagan priestess and cheated of his fortune by the High Priest as well.

NR

4.5

1955 Drama 112 min Play

6.6

The Adventures of Quentin Durward

During the 15th century reign of France's King Louis XI, a young Scottish man is sent by his English Lord to woo a French lady on his behalf. The plan goes awry when the young man falls in love with her. Based on the classic novel by Sir Walter Scott.

NR

6.6

1955 Adventure 103 min Play

6.3

Athena

A stuffy young lawyer's outlook on life drastically changes when he meets a perky health food enthusiast and her wacky family.

NR

6.3

1954 Comedy 95 min Play

6.9

The Girl Who Had Everything

Attorney's daughter falls for one of his gangster clients.

NR

6.9

1953 Drama 69 min Play

6

All the Brothers Were Valiant

In the South Pacific islands, two brothers, one good and one bad, fight over the same girl and over a bag of pearls.

NR

6

1953 Adventure 101 min Play

6.2

Knights of the Round Table

In Camelot, kingdom of Arthur and Merlin, Lancelot is well known for his courage and honor. But one day he must quit Camelot and the Queen Guinevere's love, leaving the Round Table without protection.

NR

6.2

1953 Action 115 min Play

6.3

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 automatic rifle used in World War II.

NR

6.3

1952 Crime 92 min Play

6.5

The Prisoner of Zenda

The classic tale of a king and an everyman switching places.

NR

6.5

1952 Adventure 96 min Play

6.9

Ivanhoe

Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.

NR

6.9

1952 Adventure 106 min Play

5.9

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: to one, because he sings; to Dorothy's, because he is a peasant. To New York patricians, Caruso is short, barrel chested, loud, emotional, unrefined. Their appreciation comes slowly. The film depicts Caruso's lament that "the man does not have the voice, the voice ...

NR

5.9

1951 Drama 109 min Play

5.7

It’s a Big Country

Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best directors, screenwriters and actors; it is narrated by Louis Calhern. Stories are framed by the lecture of a university professor. In one tale a Boston resident becomes angry when the census forgets to record her presence. Another sketch chronicles the achievements of African Americans while still another pays tongue-in-cheek tribute to Texas.

NR

5.7

1951 Comedy 89 min Play

5.2

Vengeance Valley

A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. As they get older the resentment festers into hatred, and eventually the real son frames his stepbrother for fathering an illegitimate child that is actually his, seeing it as an opportunity to get his half-brother out of the way so he can have his father's empire all to himself.

NR

5.2

1951 Western 83 min Play

5.1

The Unknown Man

A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he"s gotten off was really guilty.

NR

5.1

1951 Crime 86 min Play

5.6

Black Hand

In turn-of-the-century New York, an Italian seeks vengeance on the mobsters who killed his father.

NR

5.6

1950 Crime 92 min Play