Edmond O'Brien

Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.

Dir. John Ford · With John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.

Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.

Dir. Raoul Walsh · With James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.

Dir. John Frankenheimer · With Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

Dir. Robert Siodmak · With Edmond O'Brien, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner

Roy and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He's killed before, and he lets the two know that as soon as they're no longer useful, he'll kill again. The two friends plot an escape, but the hitchhiker's peculiar physical affliction, an eye that never closes even when he sleeps, makes it impossible for them to tell when they can make a break for it.

Dir. Ida Lupino · With Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman

A U.S. Marine Corps colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.

Dir. John Frankenheimer · With Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March

Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.

Dir. William Dieterle · With Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell

In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.

Dir. Richard Fleischer · With Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but both have sorely underestimated Mark Antony.

Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz · With Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud

Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the help of his assistant and girlfriend, Paula, begins to trace back over his last steps. As he frantically tries to unravel the mystery behind his own impending demise, his sleuthing leads him to a group of crooked businessmen and another murder.

Dir. Rudolph Maté · With Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler

In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

Dir. Michael Anderson · With Edmond O'Brien, Jan Sterling, Michael Redgrave

A washed-up filmmaker gets a second chance at stardom when he discovers stunning peasant Maria Vargas dancing in a Madrid nightclub. Goaded by his producer, the director convinces Maria to screen test for, and then star in, his next big picture. But as the producer's possessive nature and the realities of stardom weigh on Maria, she seeks a genuine lover with whom she can escape.

Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz · With Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien

At a media-swamped party to celebrate his seventieth birthday and screen his avant-garde film-in-progress, a legendary but jaded Hollywood director is faced both with voracious fans and unsettling questions about what became of his lead actor.

Dir. Orson Welles · With John Huston, Oja Kodar, Peter Bogdanovich

San Francisco businessman Harry Graham and his wife and business partner, Eve, are in the process of adopting a child. When private investigator Mr. Jordan uncovers the fact that Graham has another wife, Phyllis, and a small child in Los Angeles, he confesses everything.

Dir. Ida Lupino · With Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmond O'Brien