Basil Ruysdael
13 titles
Filmography
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Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
(1955)The adventures of the famous frontiersman who became a Tennessee legislator, congressman and ultimately an Alamo hero.

Broken Arrow
(1950)A former Army scout, sick of the continuing warfare, immerses himself in the Apache culture and attempts to negotiate a treaty between Cochise and the government in this classic western.

Pinky
(1949)Pinky (Jeanne Crain), a black woman who works as a nurse in Boston, finds she is able to pass for white. Afraid her true heritage will be discovered, she leaves her white fiancé (William Lundigan) and returns home to Mississippi.

Carrie
(1952)As Carrie, the smalltown girl come to Chicago, Jennifer Jones "seems to have stepped out of the pages of the book" (Time). And Laurence Olivier gives one of his finest portrayals as love-doomed Hurstwood.

Jubal
(1956)A well-meaning drifter is caught between a ranch owner's unfaithful wife and her husband's jealous foreman.

The Scarf
(1951)A man escapes from an asylum to prove that he is innocent of strangling a woman with a scarf. When he meets a woman with an identical scarf, a sinister plot begins to unravel.

Raton Pass
(1951)Patricia Neal and Dennis Morgan star in this atypical, melodramatic Western. Newlyweds Marc and Ann each own half of a huge cattle ranch, but ambitious Ann wants the whole thing--and she's not reluctant to hire gunslingers to convince Marc after legal chicanery fails. But Marc rallies the local homesteaders to help him make a stand against his swindling wife.

Pearl of the South Pacific
(1955)When outsiders plan to steal a fortune in black pearls from island natives, they get more than they bargained for.

High Lonesome
(1950)In Big Bend Country in Texas, a recent spate of unsolved murders get pinned on a mysterious young drifter in town who gets caught up with bad actors.

Come to the Stable
(1949)Two French nuns are faced with a series of obstacles when they set out to build a children's hospital in New England.

People Will Talk
(1951)Screen legend Cary Grant stars as Dr. Noah Praetorius, a lovable professor and head of a medical clinic who becomes the subject of a McCarthy-style investigation initiated by a jealous colleague (Hume Cronyn). Along the way, Praetorius befriends and ultimately marries a young woman who attempts suicide when she discovers she is pregnant. Baut as the witch-hunt into the good doctor's

My Forbidden Past
(1951)Robert Mitchum and Ava Gardner star in this steamy historical melodrama about a beauty who seeks revenge on the suitor who jilted her. When Barbara Beaurevel (Gardner) inherits a substantial fortune from her grandmother, she hopes to wipe away her wealthy but scandalous family's stigma by using her money to help others. Barbara is in love with Dr. Mark Lucas (Mitchum), but since he is married t...
These Wilder Years
(1956)James Cagney and Barbara Stanwyck shine in their only screen pairing, a powerful story of loss and regret co-starring Walter Pidgeon. After 20 years, middle-aged steel magnate Steve Bradford (Cagney) has decided to return to his hometown to take care of some unfinished business. Determined to find the son he fathered while still in high school, he tangles with orphanage director Ann Dempster (Stanwyck), who refuses to give him the young man's name. Turning to the courts in a brazen attempt to force Dempster to reveal the information, Bradford gets more than he bargained for when she introduces him to Suzie (Betty Lou Keim), an expectant 16-year-old who helps him realize that the wishes and feelings of others may be more important than his own.