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51. Zero Hour! (1957)
Passed | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food poisoning, thus forcing an ex-WWII fighter pilot (Dana Andrews) to try to land the airliner in heavy fog.
Director: Hall Bartlett | Stars: Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Sterling Hayden, Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch
Votes: 2,297
52. Manhandled (1949)
Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The secretary to a psychiatrist finds herself caught up in the murder of a patient's wife and realizes that her life is also in danger.
Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: Dan Duryea, Dorothy Lamour, Sterling Hayden, Irene Hervey
Votes: 916
53. Carol for Another Christmas (1964 TV Movie)
84 min | Drama, Fantasy
Daniel Grudge, a wealthy industrialist and fierce isolationist long embittered by the loss of his son in World War II, is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve who lead him to reconsider his attitude toward his fellow man.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Percy Rodrigues, Sterling Hayden, Ben Gazzara, Barbara Ann Teer
Votes: 1,454
54. Naked Alibi (1954)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A chief of police detectives fired for brutality, tries to get evidence on a man suspected of killing 3 of his officers.
Director: Jerry Hopper | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Gloria Grahame, Gene Barry, Marcia Henderson
Votes: 1,514
55. Virginia (1941)
110 min | Drama, Romance
A New York chorus girl (Madeleine Carroll) comes home to claim her family plantation and must choose between two men (Fred MacMurray, Sterling Hayden), one rich, one not.
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray, Sterling Hayden, Helen Broderick
Votes: 127
56. Crime of Passion (1956)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a dangerous path.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr, Fay Wray
Votes: 2,856
57. Deadly Strangers (1975)
R | 88 min | Thriller
Amidst public warnings of a dangerous patient who's escaped from a mental hospital, a young Belle Adams (Hayley Mills) hitches rides on the highway with various assortment of motorists.
Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Hayley Mills, Simon Ward, Sterling Hayden, Ken Hutchison
Votes: 745
58. Take Me to Town (1953)
Approved | 81 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A pretty saloon entertainer escapes the marshal's custody and hides in a small town where she unexpectedly becomes surrogate mother to three motherless boys who wish to see their father re-married.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Sterling Hayden, Phillip Reed, Lee Patrick
Votes: 384
59. Hellgate (1952)
Approved | 87 min | Western
A man is framed and sent to toughest prison in the territory.
Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Joan Leslie, Ward Bond, James Arness
Votes: 531
60. Cinema (1964–1975)
30 min | Documentary
Weekly film magazine, featuring film reviews, interviews with celebrities and historical lookbacks.
Stars: Michael Scott, Michael Parkinson, Brian Trueman, Clive James
Votes: 121
61. Journey Into Light (1951)
Passed | 87 min | Drama
A minister embittered by his wife's suicide turns away from God. He ends up among the bums of skid row before he finds meaning again through the love of a missionary's blind daughter.
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Viveca Lindfors, Thomas Mitchell, Ludwig Donath
Votes: 143
62. The Albatross (2016)
TV-PG | 7 min | Animation, Short
In the center of a freezing, misty lake, a struggling writer's solitary fishing trip is disrupted by a strange creature from the bottom of a whiskey bottle.
Directors: Joel Best, Alex Jeremy, Alex Karonis | Star: Sterling Hayden
Votes: 105
63. Der Havarist (1984)
100 min | Drama
An adaptation of actor Sterling Hayden's autobiography, WANDERER, with three different actors portraying Hayden in his various aspects, with special focus on Hayden's brief flirtation with ... See full summary »
Director: Wolf-Eckart Bühler | Stars: Burkhard Driest, Rüdiger Vogler, Hannes Wader, Hans-Michael Rehberg
Votes: 146
64.
Schlitz Playhouse (1951–1959)
Episode:
Delay at Fort Bess
(1954)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
A small army garrison is surrounded by Apaches who threaten to wipe out the entire command unless an Indian prisoner is set free.
Director: Roy Kellino | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Barbara Billingsley, James Seay, Walter Coy
Votes: 7
65. Blaze of Noon (1947)
Approved | 90 min | Action, Drama
In the 1920s, four brothers fly for the fledgling U.S. Air Mail Service.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Anne Baxter, William Holden, Sonny Tufts, William Bendix
Votes: 216
66. The Last Command (1955)
Passed | 110 min | History, War, Western
Moderate Jim Bowie leads rebellious Texicans--and Davy Crockett--in a last-ditch stand against his old friend, Santa Anna.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Richard Carlson, Arthur Hunnicutt
Votes: 940
67. Variety Girl (1947)
Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Musical
Almost everyone under contract to Paramount Pictures at the time make cameos or perform songs, with particularly large amounts of screen time featuring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Mary Hatcher, Olga San Juan, DeForest Kelley, Frank Ferguson
Votes: 503
68. 5 Steps to Danger (1956)
Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
During the 1950s, a man's car trip from L.A. to Texas turns into a Cold-War espionage drama after his car breaks down and he accepts a lift from a stranger.
Director: Henry S. Kesler | Stars: Ruth Roman, Sterling Hayden, Werner Klemperer, Richard Gaines
Votes: 1,157
69. King of the Gypsies (1978)
R | 112 min | Crime, Drama
In the criminal and violent world of modern-day Gypsies based in New York City, their 'king' Zharko Stepanowicz passes his leadership to his unwilling grandson, leaving the skipped father resentful.
Director: Frank Pierson | Stars: Eric Roberts, Judd Hirsch, Susan Sarandon, Sterling Hayden
Votes: 1,407 | Gross: $7.33M
70. Winter Kills (1979)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be the real shooter.
Director: William Richert | Stars: Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins, Eli Wallach
Votes: 3,500 | Gross: $1.08M
71. The Starlost (1973–1974)
60 min | Sci-Fi
A group of humans must explore a vast starship in order to find the controls to save it from destruction.
Stars: Keir Dullea, Gay Rowan, Robin Ward, William Osler
Votes: 596
72. Prince Valiant (1954)
Approved | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: James Mason, Janet Leigh, Robert Wagner, Debra Paget
Votes: 2,949
73. Top Gun (1955)
Approved | 73 min | Western
A gunslinger returns to his hometown to warn of an impending outlaw gang attack, but he's met with hatred and fear for his previous killings.
Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Sterling Hayden, William Bishop, Karin Booth, James Millican
Votes: 725
74. The Eternal Sea (1955)
Passed | 103 min | Biography, Drama, War
Rear Adm. John M. Hoskins (Sterling Hayden) fights to stay on after losing a leg on an aircraft carrier in World War II.
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Alexis Smith, Ben Cooper, Dean Jagger
Votes: 358
75. Loving (1970)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
In this romantic comedy/drama, George Segal stars as a freelance artist who's attempting to revitalize his career just as his marriage to Eva Marie Saint begins to fall apart. Co-starring David Doyle, Sterling Hayden and Kennan Wynn.
Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: George Segal, Eva Marie Saint, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn
Votes: 719 | Gross: $0.82M
76. Le grand départ (1972)
71 min | Drama
A mysterious man, who calls himself Cain, withdraws from the world masquerading as a holy man and brings with him a young girl, Innocence, promising that they will soon reach paradise, ... See full summary »
Director: Martial Raysse | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Anne Wiazemsky, Gilles Raysse, Lucienne Hamon
Votes: 56
77. The Come On (1956)
83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Unscrupulous con woman gets involved in murder.
Director: Russell Birdwell | Stars: Anne Baxter, Sterling Hayden, John Hoyt, Jesse White
Votes: 277
78. Shotgun (1955)
Approved | 80 min | Western
After vengeful Ben Thompson ambushes and kills Marshal Mark Fletcher with a shotgun, Deputy Marshal Clay Hardin pursues the Thompson gang.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Yvonne De Carlo, Zachary Scott, Guy Prescott
Votes: 551
79. The Iron Sheriff (1957)
Passed | 73 min | Mystery, Western
When the sheriff's son is placed on trial for murdering a stagecoach driver, the sheriff desperately searches for the real killer - and finds the trail leads back to his boy.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Constance Ford, John Dehner, Kent Taylor
Votes: 434
80.
The Starlost (1973–1974)
Episode:
Voyage of Discovery
(1973)
60 min | Sci-Fi
Devon tours a huge spaceship, the ark, to discover who built it and where it's taking them. In Each episode Devon meets someone and finds out a little bit more about it.
Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Keir Dullea, Gay Rowan, Robin Ward, Sterling Hayden
Votes: 67
81. Valerie (1957)
Approved | 82 min | Western
After the American Civil War, former Union Major John Garth marries pretty settler Valerie but tragedy strikes and the two spouses end up in court where they give two different conflicting accounts of their marriage.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Anita Ekberg, Anthony Steel, Peter Walker
Votes: 392
82. Flat Top (1952)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, War
During the Korean War, aboard the U.S.S. Princeton, Navy Commander Dan Collier reminisces about his first assignment on the same aircraft carrier in the war against Japan.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Richard Carlson, William Phipps, John Bromfield
Votes: 541
83. Venom (1981)
R | 92 min | Horror, Thriller
Terrorists in the process of kidnapping a child get trapped in a house with an extremely deadly snake.
Directors: Piers Haggard, Tobe Hooper | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Oliver Reed, Nicol Williamson, Sarah Miles
Votes: 3,224 | Gross: $5.23M
84. El Paso (1949)
Approved | 103 min | Western
In El Paso, lawyer and ex-Confederate captain Clay Fletcher forms a vigilante group to bring law and order to a town where the judge is a drunk, the sheriff is corrupt and the town is run by a crooked landowner.
Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: John Payne, Gail Russell, Sterling Hayden, George 'Gabby' Hayes
Votes: 456
85. Kansas Pacific (1953)
Approved | 73 min | Western
With the Civil War about to begin, Southern saboteurs attack frontier railroad construction.
Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Eve Miller, Barton MacLane, Harry Shannon
Votes: 802
86. Bahama Passage (1941)
Passed | 82 min | Drama, Romance
A girl, Carol Delbridge (Madeleine Carroll), whom the audience is quickly informed has been around, and her father arrive to take over the business management of an island in the Bahamas ... See full summary »
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Madeleine Carroll, Sterling Hayden, Flora Robson, Leo G. Carroll
Votes: 144
87. Flaming Feather (1952)
Approved | 77 min | Western
In Arizona,during the 1870s, rancher Tex McCloud and cavalry Lt. Tom Blaine race to capture the famous renegade outlaw Ute leader known as the Sidewinder.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Forrest Tucker, Arleen Whelan, Barbara Rush
Votes: 438
88. Hard Contract (1969)
R | 106 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A cold hearted American hit man goes to Europe for 'one last score'. His encounter with a beautiful young woman casts self doubt on his lifeblood, and influences him to resist carrying out the contract
Director: S. Lee Pogostin | Stars: James Coburn, Lee Remick, Lilli Palmer, Burgess Meredith
Votes: 622
89. Angel's Leap (1971)
95 min | Crime, Drama
The electoral battle is raging in Marseilles. The Corsican Clan, under the rule of the Orsini family, is being challenged by the next generation, younger gangsters who support the ... See full summary »
Director: Yves Boisset | Stars: Jean Yanne, Senta Berger, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Pellegrin
Votes: 296
90. Denver & Rio Grande (1952)
Passed | 89 min | Drama, Western
A romanticized history of the building of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad in the Colorado mountains.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Sterling Hayden, Dean Jagger, Kasey Rogers
Votes: 618
91. Arrow in the Dust (1954)
Approved | 79 min | Western
A cavalry deserter risks his life to warn and protect a wagon train from an impending Indian attack.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Keith Larsen, Tom Tully
Votes: 509
92. Timberjack (1955)
Passed | 94 min | Western
In the late 1800s Montana, two competing logging operators clash over ownership of a logging railroad, land and timber clear-cutting rights.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Vera Ralston, David Brian, Adolphe Menjou
Votes: 238
93. The Final Programme (1973)
R | 81 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
A trio of scientists plan to create a self-replicating, immortal, hermaphrodite using the Final Programme developed by a dead, Nobel Prize-winning scientist.
Director: Robert Fuest | Stars: Jon Finch, Jenny Runacre, Sterling Hayden, Harry Andrews
Votes: 1,080
94. Cry, Onion (1975)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Western
Onion Jack has bought a piece of land on which to settle, but the property is still in possession of the orphans of the original owner and is coveted by the local oil baron.
Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Franco Nero, Sterling Hayden, Martin Balsam, Emma Cohen
Votes: 761
95. The Golden Hawk (1952)
Passed | 83 min | Action, Adventure, History
The seafaring adventures of French privateer Kit 'The Hawk' Gerardo during the Franco-Spanish-English war of the 17th century.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Rhonda Fleming, Sterling Hayden, Helena Carter, John Sutton
Votes: 357
96. Battle Taxi (1955)
82 min | Drama, War
In the Korean war, the commander of an Air Rescue helicopter team must show a hot-shot former jet pilot how important helicopter rescue work is and turn him into a team player.
Director: Herbert L. Strock | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Arthur Franz, Marshall Thompson, Leo Needham
Votes: 268
97. Fighter Attack (1953)
Approved | 80 min | War
World War II action in Italy involving fighter pilot's last sortie, and the help he receives from Italian partisans in an effort to complete it.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Sterling Hayden, J. Carrol Naish, Joy Page, Kenneth Tobey
Votes: 199
98. Ten Days to Tulara (1958)
Not Rated | 77 min | Action, Adventure, Western
A bandido forces a pilot to fly him and some gold bars to the coast, but when the plane is shot down, they make the trip cross-country, accompanied by the bandit's nubile daughter, leaving a trail of love and death behind.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Grace Raynor, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., Carlos Múzquiz
Votes: 140
99. Gun Battle at Monterey (1957)
Approved | 67 min | Western
A double-crossed partner left for dead seeks revenge against the wishes of a woman who nursed him back to health and fell in love with him.
Directors: Sidney Franklin Jr., Carl K. Hittleman | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Pamela Duncan, Ted de Corsia, Mary Beth Hughes
Votes: 212
100. Today (1952– )
TV-G | 240 min | News, Talk-Show
A daily live broadcast provides current domestic and international news, weather reports, and interviews with newsmakers from the worlds of politics, business, media, entertainment, and sports.
Stars: Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb, Jack Lescoulie, Frank Blair
Votes: 2,461