Charles McGraw
20 titles
Filmography
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The Narrow Margin
(1952)On a train bound from Chicago to Los Angeles, hard-boiled detective Walter Brown must protect the widow of a gangster who's slated to testify before a grand jury. Brown's (Charles McCraw) partner was murdered while guarding the ill-tempered Mrs. Neall (Marie Windsor), and the friction between the detective and his charge grows in the confined space. Now, the mob will stop at nothing to kill Mrs...

Roadblock
(1951)An insurance agent's greedy wife leads him to a life of crime.

Loophole
(1954)Barry Sullivan stars as a bank teller whose road to destruction begins when he fails to report a $49,000 shortfall. Out of work and accused of theft, this only salvation is to solve the crime for which he is accused.

War Paint
(1953)
The Defiant Ones
(1958)Two convicts bound together by an unbreakable iron chain escape a Southern work gang and must put aside their differences in order to evade capture.

Toward the Unknown
(1956)Tortured into a false confession while a POW in Korea, Major Lincoln Bond returns to active service as a test pilot.

One Minute to Zero
(1952)Using refugees as human shields, North Korean troops advance on Col. Steve Jankowski and his dug-in troops. Jankowski orders his gunners to fire warning shots short of the advance.

His Kind of Woman
(1951)Deported crime boss Nick Ferraro (Emmy-winner Raymond Burr "Rear Window") needs to re-enter the United States to run his operation. His plan involves hard-up gambler Dan Milner (Golden Globe-winner Robert Mitchum "Cape Fear"), who is persuaded, both by a series of beatings and a substantial sum of money, to sell his identity to Nick. En route, Dan meets the singer Lenore Brent (Jane Russell "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"), who is actually posing as an heiress, trying to marry a millionaire. On arrival at posh resort in Baja California, Dan finds the ostensibly rich, carefree guests all playing roles...except for the Hollywood actor Mark Cardigan (Vincent Price "House on Haunted Hill," "Edward Scissorhands"). Directed by Oscar-winner John Farrow ("Around the World in 80 Days").

Saddle the Wind
(1958)Steve Sinclair is a world a world-weary former gunslinger, now living as a peaceful farmer. Things go wrong when his wild younger brother Tony arrives with his new bride Joan Blake.

The Man in the Net
(1959)New Englanders think an adman turned artist has killed his erratic, alcoholic wife after she goes missing.

The Horizontal Lieutenant
(1962)A Japanese raider strikes on an American-held Pacific island. Stealing smoked oysters, fish from the military larder. Lt. Merle given the task of finding, stopping the marauding rascal.

Hang 'em High
(1968)After narrowly escaping death, a man mistaken for a killer takes on the job of deputy marshal to bring justice to the men who did him wrong.

Johnny Got His Gun
(1971)After a shell leaves his body mangled on the final day of World War I, young Joe Bonham lies trapped in a hospital bed.

The Bridges at Toko-Ri
(1954)A conflicted Navy pilot and veteran of the Second World War questions the role he is forced to play when he is called back into service for the Korean War.

T-Men
(1947)Two US Treasury agents hunt a successful counterfeiting ring.

The Birds
(1963)Nothing equals The Birds for sheer terror when Alfred Hitchcock unleashes his foul friends in one of his most shocking and memorable masterpieces. As beautiful blonde Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) rolls into Bodega Bay in pursuit of eligible bachelor Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor), she is inexplicably attacked by a seagull. Suddenly thousands of birds are flocking into town, preying on schoolchildren and residents in a terrifying series of attacks. Soon Mitch and Melanie are fighting for their lives against a deadly force that can't be explained and can't be stopped in one of Hollywood's most horrific films of nature gone berserk.

Reign of Terror
(1949)A powerful figure in the French Revolution desperately seeks his book listing those marked for death, thereby guaranteeing his rise to dictatorship.

A Boy and His Dog
(1975)En un yermo posatómico tras la IV Guerra Mundial, un joven y su perro telepático luchan por comida, refugio y compañía.

The Wonderful Country
(1959)An American outlaw in Mexico travels for work, but runs into trouble when a gun shipment is stolen and he falls for a local army major's wife.

On the Old Spanish Trail
(1947)A cowboy who is counting on the reward money for capturing a notorious fugitive has to deal with the actual bad outlaws who framed an innocent man.