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The Ambassador (1984)
The Ambassador is a 1984 American political thriller film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Robert Mitchum, Ellen Burstyn, Rock Hudson and Allan Younger. It was the last theatrical release starring Rock Hudson before his death in October 1985.
Starring: Jeff Corey•Diane Ladd•Preston Foster•Charles Boyer
The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
The Mirror Crack'd is a 1980 British mystery film directed by Guy Hamilton from a screenplay by Jonathan Hales and Barry Sandler, based on Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1962). It stars Angela Lansbury, Geraldine Chaplin, Tony Curtis, Edward Fox, Rock Hudson, Kim Novak, and Elizabeth Taylor. Scenes were fi...
Starring: Otto Kruger•Nigel Green•James Stewart•Diane Ladd•Anthony Quinn
Avalanche (1978)
Avalanche is a 1978 American disaster film directed by Corey Allen and starring Rock Hudson, Mia Farrow, Robert Forster and Jeanette Nolan.
Starring: Diane Ladd•Jane Wyman•Chill Wills
Embryo (1976)
Embryo is a 1976 American science fiction horror film directed by Ralph Nelson starring Rock Hudson, Barbara Carrera, and Diane Ladd with a cameo appearance by Roddy McDowall. It deals with the mental and physical consequences of growing a human embryo in an artificial uterus. The film is in the public domain.
Starring: Diane Ladd•Robert Stack•Anne Baxter
Showdown (1973)
Showdown is a 1973 American Western film produced and directed by George Seaton and starring Rock Hudson, Dean Martin and Susan Clark.
Starring: Agnes Moorehead•Diane Ladd•Arthur Kennedy
Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971)
Pretty Maids All in a Row is a 1971 American sexploitation film that is part black comedy, part sex comedy, and part murder mystery. Starring Rock Hudson, Angie Dickinson, and Telly Savalas, it was released on April 28, 1971. Roger Vadim directed the film, and Gene Roddenberry produced and wrote the screenplay based on a 1968 novel by Francis Polli...
Starring: Diane Ladd•Harriet Nelson•Gig Young
Darling Lili (1970)
Darling Lili is a 1970 American romantic-musical spy film, written by William Peter Blatty and Blake Edwards, the latter also directing the film. It stars Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson, and Jeremy Kemp, with music by Henry Mancini and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. This was the last full musical to have song lyrics written by Mercer.
Starring: Diane Ladd•Dorothy McGuire•Robert Ryan
Hornets' Nest (1970)
Hornets’ Nest is a 1970 Italian-American war film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Rock Hudson, Sylva Koscina, and Sergio Fantoni. The plot focuses on a group of boys aged 7–14 who survive a massacre in their village in Northern Italy in 1944 and what happens to them. The film was attacked by critics for its depiction of children learning abou...
Starring: Diane Ladd•Angela Lansbury•Julie London
The Undefeated (1969)
The Undefeated is a 1969 American Western and Civil War-era film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and starring John Wayne and Rock Hudson. The film portrays events surrounding the French Imperial intervention in Mexico during the 1860s period of the neighboring American Civil War. It is also loosely based on Confederate States Army General Joseph Or...
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor•Diane Ladd•Dan Duryea
Ice Station Zebra (1968)
Ice Station Zebra is a 1968 American espionage thriller film directed by John Sturges and starring Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Ernest Borgnine, and Jim Brown. The screenplay is by Alistair MacLean, Douglas Heyes, Harry Julian Fink, and W. R. Burnett, loosely based on MacLean's 1963 novel. Both have parallels to real-life events that took place i...
Starring: Yvonne de Carlo•Barry Sullivan•Diane Ladd•Steve Cochran•Arlene Dahl•Kirk Douglas
Tobruk (1967)
Tobruk is a 1967 American drama war film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Rock Hudson and George Peppard. The film was written by Leo Gordon and released through Universal Pictures.
Starring: Diane Ladd•Doris Day•Mercedes McCambridge
Blindfold (1966)
Blindfold is a 1966 American romantic comedy film directed by Philip Dunne and starring Rock Hudson and Claudia Cardinale. The film was distributed by Universal Pictures. It was based on Lucille Fletcher's 1960 novel of the same name. Sequences were filmed in Central Park in New York City and in Silver Springs, Florida.
Starring: Diane Ladd•Dorothy Malone•Dean Martin
Seconds (1966)
Seconds is a 1966 American psychological horror science fiction film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph, and Will Geer. The film tells the story of a middle-aged New York banker who, disillusioned with his life, contacts an agency known as "The Company" which specializes in providing "rebirths" under...
Starring: Hugh O'Brian•Diane Ladd•Cornell Borchers•Julie Adams•Piper Laurie
Strange Bedfellows (1965)
Strange Bedfellows is a 1965 American romantic comedy film directed by Melvin Frank and starring Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Gig Young, and Terry-Thomas. It was released by Universal Studios.
Starring: Jean Simmons•Diane Ladd•Kim Novak
A Very Special Favor (1965)
A Very Special Favor is a 1965 romantic comedy film directed by Michael Gordon and starring Rock Hudson and Leslie Caron.
Starring: Rock Hudson•Barbara Rush•Diane Ladd
Man's Favorite Sport? (1964)
Man's Favorite Sport? is a 1964 American comedy film starring Rock Hudson and Paula Prentiss and directed and produced by Howard Hawks. Hawks intended the film to be an homage to his own 1938 screwball classic Bringing Up Baby with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, and unsuccessfully tried to get the original stars to reprise their roles.
Starring: Diane Ladd•Alex Nicol•John War Eagle
Send Me No Flowers (1964)
Send Me No Flowers is a 1964 American romantic comedy film directed by Norman Jewison from a screenplay by Julius Epstein, based on the play of the same name by Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore, which had a brief run on Broadway in 1960. It stars Rock Hudson, Doris Day, and Tony Randall. Following Pillow Talk (1959) and Lover Come Back (1961), it i...
Starring: Rod Taylor•Diane Ladd•Tony Randall
A Gathering of Eagles (1963)
A Gathering of Eagles is a 1963 SuperScope Eastmancolor film about the U.S. Air Force during the Cold War and the pressures of command. The plot is patterned after the World War II film Twelve O'Clock High, which producer-screenwriter Sy Bartlett also wrote, with elements also mirroring Above and Beyond and Toward the Unknown, films written by his ...
Starring: Ursula Thiess•Diane Ladd•Rex Reason
The Spiral Road (1962)
The Spiral Road is a 1962 American adventure-drama film directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Rock Hudson, Burl Ives, Gena Rowlands, and Geoffrey Keen. The film was released by Universal-International in the United States in 1962, the same year that Mulligan's other movie To Kill a Mockingbird became a critical and commercial success.
Starring: Marcia Henderson•Diane Ladd•Kathleen Hughes•Roberta Haynes
Come September (1961)
Come September is a 1961 American romantic comedy film directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin.
Starring: Diane Ladd•Kim Novak•Jeff Morrow•James Dean
The Last Sunset (1961)
The Last Sunset is a 1961 American Western film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, and Dorothy Malone.
Starring: Sal Mineo•Paula Prentiss•Diane Ladd
Lover Come Back (1961)
Lover Come Back is a 1961 American Eastmancolor romantic comedy film released by Universal Pictures and directed by Delbert Mann. It stars Doris Day and Rock Hudson and is their second time working together. The supporting cast includes Tony Randall, Edie Adams, Ann B. Davis, and Donna Douglas.
Starring: Rod Taylor•Diane Ladd•Tony Randall•Sandra Dee
Pillow Talk (1959)
Pillow Talk is a 1959 American romantic comedy film in CinemaScope directed by Michael Gordon and starring Rock Hudson and Doris Day. The supporting cast features Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter, Nick Adams, Allen Jenkins, Marcel Dalio and Lee Patrick. The film was written by Russell Rouse, Maurice Richlin, Stanley Shapiro, and Clarence Greene.
Starring: Rod Taylor•Diane Ladd•Tony Randall
This Earth Is Mine (1959)
This Earth Is Mine is a 1959 American drama film directed by Henry King and starring Rock Hudson and Jean Simmons. The film portrays the lives and loves of the Rambeau family, a California winemaking dynasty trying to survive during Prohibition in the United States.
Starring: Gena Rowlands•Salome Jens•Diane Ladd
The Tarnished Angels (1958)
The Tarnished Angels is a 1957 black-and-white American CinemaScope drama film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson, and Robert Middleton. The screenplay by George Zuckerman is based on the 1935 novel Pylon by William Faulkner.
Starring: Barbara Carrera•Paula Prentiss•Diane Ladd
Twilight for the Gods (1958)
Twilight for the Gods is a 1958 American Eastmancolor adventure film directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Rock Hudson and Cyd Charisse. The story is based on the novel Twilight for the Gods by Ernest K. Gann. An underlying current in the book is about sailing ships with their long histories being replaced by modern steamers, which is what the tit...
Starring: Telly Savalas•Sylva Koscina•Diane Ladd
Battle Hymn (1957)
Battle Hymn is a 1957 American war film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Rock Hudson as Lieutenant Colonel Dean E. Hess, a real-life United States Air Force fighter pilot in the Korean War who helped evacuate several hundred war orphans to safety. The cast also includes Anna Kashfi, Dan Duryea, Don DeFore, Philip Ahn, and Martha Hyer. The film...
Starring: Murray Hamilton•Diane Ladd•Donald Pleasence
A Farewell to Arms (1957)
A Farewell to Arms is a 1957 American drama film directed by Charles Vidor. The screenplay by Ben Hecht, based in part on a 1930 play by Laurence Stallings, was the second feature film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's 1929 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. It was the last film produced by David O. Selznick.
Starring: Claudia Cardinale•Diane Ladd
Something of Value (1957)
Something of Value is a 1957 American drama film directed by Richard Brooks and starring Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, and Sidney Poitier. The film was reissued under the title Africa Ablaze.
Starring: Diane Ladd•Julie Andrews•Ellen Burstyn
Giant (1956)
Giant is a 1956 American epic Western drama film, directed by George Stevens from a screenplay adapted by Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat from Edna Ferber's 1952 novel.
Starring: Jim Brown•Nigel Green•John Randolph•Diane Ladd•Susan Clark•Mia Farrow•Marian McCargo
Never Say Goodbye (1956)
Never Say Goodbye is a 1956 American drama romance film directed by Jerry Hopper starring Rock Hudson. The film is loosely based on the play Come Prima Meglio Di Prima by Luigi Pirandello. It is a remake of This Love of Ours (1945).
Starring: Jeremy Kemp•Diane Ladd
Written on the Wind (1956)
Written on the Wind is a 1956 American Southern Gothic melodrama film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone. It follows the dysfunctional family members of a Texas oil dynasty, including the complicated relationships among its alcoholic heir; his wife, a former secretary for the family co...
Starring: Barbara Carrera•Preston Foster•Paula Prentiss•Diane Ladd
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
All That Heaven Allows is a 1955 American drama romance film directed by Douglas Sirk, produced by Ross Hunter, and adapted by Peg Fenwick from a story by Edna L. Lee and Harry Lee. It stars Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson in a tale about the social complications that arise following the development of a romance between a well-to-do widow and a younger ...
Starring: Donna Reed•Diane Ladd
Captain Lightfoot (1955)
Captain Lightfoot is a 1955 American CinemaScope Technicolor adventure film directed by Douglas Sirk starring Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush and Jeff Morrow and is Sirk's adaptation of a book by W. R. Burnett written in 1954.
Starring: Diane Ladd•Robert Ryan•Ann Doran
One Desire (1955)
One Desire is a 1955 Technicolor drama romance film directed by Jerry Hopper and starring Anne Baxter, Julie Adams and Rock Hudson. Described as a "rugged story of oil-boom Oklahoma in the early 1900s", it was adapted from Conrad Richter's best-selling 1942 novel Tacey Cromwell. Baxter portrays a gambling house owner, Hudson a card dealer turned ba...
Starring: Anthony Quinn•Maxwell Reed•Diane Ladd
Bengal Brigade (1954)
Bengal Brigade is a 1954 American adventure war film directed by Laslo Benedek and starring Rock Hudson, Arlene Dahl and Ursula Thiess. The film was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures, based on the 1952 novel Bengal Tigers by Hall Hunter. It was released in Britain as Bengal Rifles.
Starring: Jane Wyman•Diane Ladd•Anne Baxter
Magnificent Obsession (1954)
Magnificent Obsession is a 1954 American romantic drama film directed by Douglas Sirk starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson. The screenplay was written by Robert Blees and Wells Root, after the 1929 book Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd C. Douglas. The film was produced by Ross Hunter. Sirk sometimes claimed that the story was based distantly on the Gr...
Starring: Agnes Moorehead•Donna Reed•Ozzie Nelson•Diane Ladd•Robert Ryan
Taza, Son of Cochise (1954)
Taza, Son of Cochise is a 1954 American Western film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Rock Hudson and Barbara Rush. The film was shot in 3D, and is one of just two films confirmed to have been released in the Pola-Lite 3D System using one projector.
Starring: Diane Ladd•Robert Ryan•Barbara Hale
Back to God's Country (1953)
Back to God's Country is a 1953 American adventure western film directed by Joseph Pevney starring Rock Hudson, Marcia Henderson and Steve Cochran.
Starring: Julie London•Diane Ladd•Lauren Bacall
The Golden Blade (1953)
The Golden Blade is a 1953 American adventure film directed by Nathan Juran and starring Rock Hudson as Harun Al-Rashid and Piper Laurie as Princess Khairuzan. It is set in ancient Bagdad and borrows from the Arabic fairy tales of One Thousand and One Nights as well as the myth of King Arthur and the Sword in the Stone.
Starring: David Nelson•Diane Ladd•Yvonne De Carlo•Steve Cochran
Gun Fury (1953)
Gun Fury is a 1953 3-D American Western crime film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Rock Hudson and Donna Reed, with major supporting roles for Philip Carey and Leo Gordon. The film is based on the novel Ten Against Caesar by Kathleen B. George and Robert A. Granger. The supporting cast includes Lee Marvin and Neville Brand. It was filmed in th...
Starring: Arlene Dahl•Diane Ladd•Hugh O'Brian•Julie Adams•Piper Laurie
The Lawless Breed (1953)
The Lawless Breed is a 1953 American Technicolor Biographical Western film produced and distributed by Universal-International, directed by Raoul Walsh, and starring Rock Hudson and Julie Adams. The film is a romanticized story based on the life of outlaw John Wesley Hardin.
Starring: Barbara Rush•Maxwell Reed•Diane Ladd
Sea Devils (1953)
Sea Devils is a 1953 colour British–American historical adventure film, directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Rock Hudson, Yvonne De Carlo, and Maxwell Reed. The story is based on Victor Hugo's novel Toilers of the Sea which was the working title of the film. The scenes at sea were shot around the Channel Islands, and much of the rest of the film wa...
Starring: Philip Carey•Diane Ladd•Alex Nicol
Seminole (1953)
Seminole is a 1953 American Western film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Rock Hudson, Barbara Hale, Anthony Quinn and Richard Carlson. Much of the film was shot in the Everglades National Park, Florida. The film depicts the Second Seminole War (1835-1842).
Starring: John War Eagle•Lee Marvin•Diane Ladd
Bend of the River (1952)
Bend of the River is a 1952 American Western film directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Julie Adams, and Rock Hudson. Based on the 1950 novel Bend of the Snake by Bill Gulick, the film is about a tough cowboy who risks his life to deliver confiscated supplies to homesteaders after gold is discovered in the region. Ben...
Starring: Ricky Nelson•Telly Savalas•Diane Ladd
Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952)
Has Anybody Seen My Gal? is a 1952 comedy film distributed by Universal-International, directed by Douglas Sirk, and stars Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Charles Coburn, and Gigi Perreau. It is loosely based upon the Eleanor Porter novel ,"Oh Money! Money!". Set in the 1920s, the film leans heavily on period detail, such as flappers, the Charleston and...
Starring: David Nelson•Diane Ladd
Here Come the Nelsons (1952)
Here Come the Nelsons is a 1952 American comedy film starring real-life husband and wife Ozzie and Harriet Nelson and their sons David and Ricky Nelson. The supporting cast includes Rock Hudson, Sheldon Leonard, Jim Backus, Gale Gordon, and Chubby Johnson. The film was directed by Frederick de Cordova.
Starring: Ursula Thiess•Rex Reason•Diane Ladd•Marcia Henderson•Kathleen Hughes
Horizons West (1952)
Horizons West is a 1952 American Western film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Robert Ryan, Julie Adams and Rock Hudson.
Starring: Roberta Haynes•Maxwell Reed•Diane Ladd
Scarlet Angel (1952)
Scarlet Angel is a 1952 American Technicolor historical adventure film directed by Sidney Salkow and starring Yvonne de Carlo, Rock Hudson and Richard Denning. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. The two leads appeared together again in Sea Devils the following year.
Starring: Jeff Morrow•Diane Ladd
The Fat Man (1951)
The Fat Man is a 1951 American film noir crime film directed by William Castle. It is based on a radio drama of the same name, with J. Scott Smart reprising his role as Brad Runyan, a portly detective.
Starring: Preston Foster•Diane Ladd
Tomahawk (1951)
Tomahawk is a 1951 American Western film directed by George Sherman and starring Van Heflin and Yvonne De Carlo. The film is loosely based on events that took place in Wyoming in 1866 to 1868 around Fort Phil Kearny on the Bozeman Trail such as the Fetterman Fight and Wagon Box Fight. In the UK, the film was released as The Battle of Powder River.
Starring: Ann Doran•Van Heflin•Julie London•Philip Carey•Diane Ladd•Alex Nicol•John War Eagle