Robert Shayne
10 titles
Filmography
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The Neanderthal Man
(1953)A professor of prehistoric life conducts experiments with an extract that can regress a cat to a saber-tooth tiger and a man to a Neanderthal.

Murder Is My Beat
(1955)After a businessman is found dead, two detectives scramble to find the killer.

War of the Satellites
(1958)As the world prepares to launch the first manned satellite into orbit, aliens issue a dire warning to stop or else suffer total annihilation.

Three Strangers
(1946)Three strangers, three incredibly dangerous people drawn together by their greed. Each ready to kill for the riches of ...Kwan Yin. Jean Negulesco was truly hitting his stride with his classic run of film noirs when he crafted this stylish thriller in which three strangers find their destinies entwined with a mysterious, foreign idol, "The Masters of Mystery," Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet, play two of the strangers, while Geraldine Fitzgerald proves more than a match for the two screen greats as the third. According to a legend, if three strangers gather before the fables idol of Kwan Yin and make a common wish, the wish shall be granted. Spurned spouse Crystal Shackleford (Fitzgerald) has the idol and enlists a sleazy solicitor (Greenstreet) and a drunken thief (Lorre) in her plans for riches and revenge. But the two strangers have dreams of their own that collide with hers when the idol's powers prove to be real.

Rider from Tucson
(1950)
Loaded Pistols
(1948)A cowboy goes out looking for the man who killed his best friend in a poker game. When he finds a man who has the gun, he knows he’s not the culprit.

The Giant Claw
(1957)An enormous bird from outer space descends upon the Earth and chows down on people. Scientists and the military must team up to save our planet.

Mr. Skeffington
(1944)Oscar-winners Bette Davis ("The Letter") and Claude Rains ("Casablanca") star in this drama about a flighty beauty who marries a stockbroker for convenience and almost ruins both their lives.

Nobody Lives Forever
(1946)Jean Negulesco continues his classic run of forties film noirs with this tale of a con artist who falls for the mark he is trying to fleece. The great John Garfield commands the screen as grifter Nick Blake, who returns to New York after the war, only to find heartache and betrayal. Heading west, Nick hooks up with fellow con men Pop (Walter Brennan) and Doc (George Coulouris), who need a Romeo to sweep recently widowed Gladys Halvorsen (Geraldine Fitzgerald) off her feet and out of her sizable inheritance. But it's Nick who starts falling, and now that he wants out of the scam, will that fall turn into a dive? Or will Gladys pay the price for Nick's change of heart? Garfield is his usual astonishing self, it's Fitzgerald who proves a revelation, as she stabs at the heart of noir's darkness by perfectly impersonating pure innocence. Faye Emerson plays the fatale, as Nick's sultry ex.

Marshal of Cedar Rock
(1953)A cowboy and his trusted black stallion face off against a railroad grifter who is secretly robbing the town’s landowners of their property.