Ray Collins
19 titles
Filmography
19 results

The Man from Colorado
(1948)Ford stars as a sadistic Civil War veteran, teetering on the brink of insanity, who has been killing for the sheer joy of it, even after the official battles cease. Although his mind has become unbalanced by the terrors of the war, he manages somehow to secure a job as a judge in Colorado and uses his power to torture and kill all those who would oppose him.

Francis
(1950)A dimwitted lieutenant is labeled a lunatic when he insists a talking mule helped him on his military ventures.

Badman's Territory
(1946)Quinto is a sack full of rattlesnakes, an Oklahoma Territory-panhandle town outside U.S. jurisdiction.

Salute to the Marines
(1943)A WWII flag-waver: a Marine lifer (Wallace Beery) retires without having seen combat action, then proves his Semper Fi mettle as a civilian in the Philippines. Filmed in Technicolor®.

The Racket
(1951)Robert Ryan stars as a racketeer and Robert Mitchum stars as the one incorruptible cop on the force, who's determined to bring the mobster to justice in this classic police drama. Top Racketeer Nick Scanlon (Ryan) has anyone he can't bribe murdered until Captain McQuigg convinces Scanlon's moll (Lizabeth Scott) to talk. But McQuigg must still face his fellow cops, who are on Scanlon's payroll, before he can arrest Scanlon.

Homecoming
(1948)In 1941, Dr. Robert Sunday (John Hodiak) criticizes his friend, successful surgeon Ulysses Johnson (Clark Gable), for his hypocritical stance on war victims while neglecting needy, poor patients at home. When Ulysses joins the Army, his wife, Penny (Anne Baxter), worries about the war's effects on him and their marriage. On the voyage across, Ulysses meets nurse and widow Jane "Snapshot" McCall (Lana Turner), whose idealism, strength and skill prompt him to reevaluate his principles.

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
(1947)A handsome artist, a willing teenaged model with a crush, and her older sister - who's a judge - form a hilarious love triangle.

Invitation
(1952)No more loneliness. Shy, plain Ellen Bowker has found unexpected fulfillment as the bride of handsome Dan Pierce. What she doesn't know is that Dan was bought and paid for - he's a "gift" from Ellen's wealthy father, who wants his fatally ill daughter to experience romance before she dies. A story that might have been a three-hanky soaper in lesser hands instead exudes luminous emotion, thanks largely to its two stars. As Dan, Van Johnson captures the guilt and untapped decency of a man who falls in love with the woman he married for money. And Dorothy McGuire, whose gentle charm and beauty are ideal for the role, gives a heartbreaking performance as the wife who finally discovers the stunning truth.

Whistling in Brooklyn
(1943)This is the third and last film in a series of wacky comedies about ace radio detective Wally Benton. He finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while being a suspect himself.

Beverly Lewis' The Confession
(2013)Raised by an Amish family, Katie Lapp (Katie Leclerc, TV's "Switched at Birth") always felt the call of another life. Now, her quest to find her birth-mother, Laura Mayfield-Bennett (Sherry Stringfield, TV's "ER"), has drawn her into world of the "Englishers." Along the way, two very different men try to help her overcome a devious scheme to steal her rightful inheritance. Business-minded but kind-hearted Justin Wirth (Michael Rupnow) reaches out to discover Katie's hidden secrets, while her childhood companion Daniel Fisher (Cameron Deane Stewart) sacrifices his own happiness for her future. Katie's heart is divided between two worlds as love reveals the truth in the moving saga based on the hit novel from New York Times bestselling author Beverly Lewis.

The Magnificent Ambersons
(1942)The magnificent Orson Welles directed this brilliant, moving portrayal of an aristocratic American family in what many critics consider a masterpiece equal to Citizen Kane.

The Human Comedy
(1943)A small-town, telegraph messenger boy comes of age during World War II, delivering ordinary notes and heartbreaking death notices.

It Happens Every Spring
(1949)In this comedy starring Ray Milland, Jean Peters and Paul Douglas, a college professor discovers a compound that makes baseballs repel wood. Soon, he's a pitching sensation!

Commandos Strike at Dawn
(1942)Dynamic performances by Paul Muni and Anna Lee highlight this action drama set in WWII Norway. Muniis a Norwegian fisherman whose taken on the extremely dangerous job of helping British commandos attack occupying Nazis.

The Miracle on 34th Street
(1955)A kindly old gentleman working as a department-store Santa Claus, causes quite a commotion when he claims to be the real St. Nick from the North Pole.

Summer Stock
(1950)There's an unusual harvest at Falbury Farm: beans, hay…show tunes. It's a bumper crop, too, with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly leading all the hoofing, singing and sparking. In her final MGM musical, Garland plays Jane Falbury, a farm owner more than a bit riled when her aspiring-actress sister (Gloria De Haven) shows up with a theatrical troupe that wants to stage a musical in the family's barn....

I Want You
(1951)In 1950, small-town Americans try to deal with military conscription.

Vengeance Valley
(1951)Two sons, one biological and the other adopted, of a Colorado cattle baron grow up and fight for control of their father's business empire.

Rose Marie
(1954)Musical fans, we’re calling you, oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo! Howard Keel and Ann Blyth play stalwart Mountie and backwoods hellion in this grand and Cinemascope version of the beloved operetta.