James MacArthur
8 titles
Filmography
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The Young Stranger
(1957)Before he gained his fame directing cinematic masterpieces like The Manchurian Candidate and Seven Days in May, John Frankenheimer made his feature film debut with this sensitive father-son drama about troubled youth. When clean-cut Hal Ditmar (Hawaii Five-O's James MacArthur), son of a wealthy movie producer (James Daly), gets into a fight with a movie theater manager (Whit Bissell), no one believes he acted in self-defense. With the police concerned that they have another juvenile delinquent on their hands, Hal's mother (Kim Hunter) thinks the problem lies in the growing gulf between father and son. Heartfelt and effective, Frankenheimer's already sure hand at the helm and the talent that star MacArthur shared with his illustrious mother Helen Hayes buoy The Young Stranger above the common ground of 1950's delinquency dramas.

Kidnapped
(1960)Unaware of his inheritance, young David Balfour is almost sold into slavery by his conniving uncle. Kidnapped and en route to his doom aboard the ship of a scurrilous sea-dog, he survives a shipwreck and joins forces with a Jacobite rebel heading for France.

Third Man on the Mountain
(1959)A boy attempts the impossible - climbing the "Citadel."

Spencer's Mountain
(1963)
Swiss Family Robinson
(1960)In a heroic tale that chronicles the courageous exploits of the Robinson family after they are shipwrecked on a deserted island, they use their wits and ingenuity to overcome the obstacles of nature, transforming their new home into a civilized community. But the ultimate challenge comes when a band of cutthroat pirates threatens to destroy the Robinsons' makeshift paradise.

The Bedford Incident
(1965)A reporter aboard a U.S. destroyer witnesses the captain's pursuit of a Soviet sub near Greenland.

Cry of Battle
(1963)En la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el hijo consentido de un rico empresario se mete en la guerrilla contra los japoneses y encuentra amor y aventura.

Storm Chasers: Revenge of the Twister
(1998)After her meteorologist husband is killed by a tornado, Jamie Marshall devotes her life to proving his theories that violent twisters are predictable.