Movies with Karl Malden
Movies found: 17, viewing from 1 to 17
On the Waterfront
Genres: Crime, Romance, Drama
Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, James Westerfield, Rod Steiger, Leif Erickson, Rudy Bond, Lee J. Cobb
Directors: Elia Kazan
Country: USA
Year: 1954
Available Quality: DivX, iPod, Hi Def
Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize fighter, while tending his pigeons and running errands at the docks for Johnny Friendly, the corrupt boss of the dockers union. Terry witnesses a murder by two of Johnny's thugs, and later meets the dead man's sister and feels responsible for his death. She introduces him to Father Barry, who tries to force him to provide information for the courts that will smash the dock racketeers.
Gypsy
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Drama
Starring: Karl Malden, Parley Baer, Morgan Brittany, Natalie Wood, Harry Shannon, Rosalind Russell, Jean Willes
Directors: Mervyn LeRoy
Country: USA
Year: 1962
Available Quality: Hi Def
Mama Rose lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder, less obviously talented, daughter Louise. However, having her headlining as a stripper at Minsky's Burlesque is not what she initially has in mind.
The Cat o' Nine Tails
Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Starring: Karl Malden, James Franciscus, Fulvio Mingozzi, Rada Rassimov, Pino Patti, Ugo Fangareggi, Pier Paolo Capponi
Directors: Dario Argento
Country: Italy, West Germany, France
Year: 1971
Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def
Franco Arno is a blind man that lives with his young niece and makes a living writing crossword puzzles. One night, while walking on the street, he overhears a weird conversation between two man sitting in a car parked in front of a medical institute where genetic experiments are performed. The same night someone breaks in the institute and kills a guard. Arno decides to investigate with the help of reporter Carlo Giordani.
How the West Was Won
Genres: Adventure, Romance, Drama
Starring: Eli Wallach, John Wayne, Robert Preston, Walter Brennan, James Stewart, Karl Malden, Richard Widmark
Directors: John Ford, Henry Hathaway
Country: USA
Year: 1962
Sprawling epic which follows the Prescotts, an emigrant family through four generations, from the Erie Canal in the 1830's to their settled home in the West a half a century later. On the way they encounter river pirates, and escape with the help of fur trapper Linus Rawlings, who subsequently marries one of their daughters, Eve. The parents are drowned on a foundering raft, and the other daughter Lilith becomes a riverboat singer and catches the eye of a genteel adventurer Cleve Van Valen. They cross the plains together in a wagon train and make and lose a fortune in California; meanwhile Linus has turned farmer and, comes the Civil War, joi...
The Cincinnati Kid
Genres: Drama
Starring: Jeff Corey, Karl Malden, Ann-Margret, Rip Torn, Cab Calloway, Steve McQueen, Karl Swenson
Directors: Norman Jewison
Country: USA
Year: 1965
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
In 1930s New Orleans, the Cincinnati Kid, a young stud poker player who travels from one big game to the next, stopping along the way up with various girls, is pitted against the legendary champion card-sharp Lancey Howard in a high-stakes poker game.
Parrish
Genres: Drama
Starring: Dean Jagger, Karl Malden, Sylvia Miles, Dub Taylor, Hayden Rorke, Claudette Colbert, Bibi Osterwald
Directors: Delmer Daves
Country: USA
Year: 1961
Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut River Valley. His mother winds up marrying Sala's rival Judd Raike, ruthless planter who wants to drive Sala out of business. Judd insists that Parrish learn the business from the ground up.
Fatal Vision
Genres: Drama
Starring: Eva Marie Saint, Gary Cole, Albert Salmi, Karl Malden, Barry Corbin, Mitch Ryan, Andy Griffith
Directors: David Greene
Country: USA
Year: 1984
Captain Jeff MacDonald, a renowned and an ambitious surgeon at Fort Bragg army base, appears to be a happily married father of two. When the MP enter MacDonald's house in response to his desperate emergency call they find him injured and his wife and daughters murdered. He reports a gang of drugged 'hippies' raided the house and attacked the family. As a massive search for the suspects yields no leads, investigators focus on some inconsistencies in MacDonald's account and he becomes their prime suspect.
Cheyenne Autumn
Genres: History, Western
Starring: Arthur Kennedy, Sal Mineo, Karl Malden, Richard Widmark, Patrick Wayne, John Carradine, Victor Jory
Directors: John Ford
Country: USA
Year: 1964
When the government agency fails to deliver even the meager supplies due by treaty to the proud Cheyenne tribe in their barren desert reserve, the starving Indians have taken more abuse then it's worth and break it too by embarking on a 1,500 miles journey back to their ancestral hunting grounds. US Cavalry Capt. Thomas Archer is charged with their retrieval, but during the hunt grows to respect their noble courage, and decides to help them.
A Streetcar Named Desire
Genres: Drama
Starring: Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Wright King, Karl Malden, Nick Dennis, Rudy Bond, Vivien Leigh
Directors: Elia Kazan
Country: USA
Year: 1951
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Blanche is in real need of a protector at this stage in her life when circumstances lead her into paying a visit to her younger sister Stella in New Orleans. She doesn't understand how Stella, who is expecting her first child, could have picked a husband so lacking in refinement. Stanley Kowalski's buddies come over to the house to play cards and one of them, Mitch, finds Blanche attractive until Stanley tells him about what kind of a woman Blanche really is. What will happen when Stella goes to the hospital to have her baby and just Blanche and her brother-in-law are in the house?
Murderers' Row
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Starring: Richard Eastham, Karl Malden, Ann-Margret, Ted Hartley, Dean Martin, James Gregory, Beverly Adams
Directors: Henry Levin
Country: USA
Year: 1966
The handsome top agent Matt dies a tragic death in his bath tub - the women mourn about the loss. However it's just faked for his latest top-secret mission: He shall find Dr. Solaris, inventor of the Helium laser beam, powerful enough to destroy a whole continent. It seems Dr. Solaris has been kidnapped by a criminal organization. The trace leads to the Cote D'Azur...
Operation Secret
Genres: Drama, War
Starring: Karl Malden, Paul Picerni, Wilton Graff, Steve Cochran, Dan O'Herlihy, Phyllis Thaxter, Lester Matthews
Directors: Lewis Seiler
Country: USA
Year: 1952
While under attack by German forces, a French army unit discovers there is a traitor in their midst, feeding the Germans information.
Meteor
Genres: Thriller, Drama, Sci-Fi
Starring: Roger Robinson, Sean Connery, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Henry Fonda, Martin Landau, Richard Dysart
Directors: Ronald Neame
Country: USA
Year: 1979
After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it will hit it will cause a incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules" but discovers soon that it doesn't have enough fire power. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR who have also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?
Nuts
Genres: Drama
Starring: Paul Benjamin, Eli Wallach, James Whitmore, Leslie Nielsen, Karl Malden, Dakin Matthews, Castulo Guerra
Directors: Martin Ritt
Country: USA
Year: 1987
A high-class call girl kills a customer in self-defense. To avoid scandal, her parents try to have her declared mentally incompetent. Not helping matters is that she is very distrustful of everybody, including her court-appointed attorney, and is very disruptive during her court hearings.
Patton
Genres: Drama, War, Biography
Starring: Karl Malden, George C. Scott, Bill Hickman, Stephen Young, David Bauer, Morgan Paull, Frank Latimore
Directors: Franklin J. Schaffner
Country: USA
Year: 1970
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination. Faults which would, eventually, lead to his being relieved as Occupation Commander of Germany.
One-Eyed Jacks
Genres: Western
Starring: Marlon Brando, Ray Teal, Miriam Colon, Karl Malden, Slim Pickens, Katy Jurado, Ben Johnson
Directors: Marlon Brando
Country: USA
Year: 1961
Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captured. Years later, Rio escapes from the prison where he has been since, and hunts down Dad for revenge. Dad is now a respectable sheriff in California, and has been living in fear of Rio's return.
Birdman of Alcatraz
Genres: Drama, Biography
Starring: Telly Savalas, Thelma Ritter, Edmond O'Brien, Burt Lancaster, Whit Bissell, Karl Malden, Neville Brand
Directors: John Frankenheimer
Country: USA
Year: 1962
As an inmate at Leavenworth prison, Robert Stroud has a series of confrontations with the guards and with the other convicts. When Stroud kills a guard, he is sentenced to be executed, and only his mother's impassioned intervention gets his sentence commuted to life imprisonment, which he must serve in solitary confinement. As he serves out his sentence in boredom and despair, one day he finds a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard. Stroud soon takes a deep interest in caring for birds, which gives him a new purpose in life, but which also brings new conflicts with prison authorities.
Pollyanna
Genres: Family, Romance, Drama
Starring: Karl Malden, Richard Egan, Adolphe Menjou, Reta Shaw, Donald Crisp, Agnes Moorehead, Jane Wyman
Directors: David Swift
Country: USA
Year: 1960
A little girl comes to a town that is embattled by feuds and intimidated by her aunt. By the time she must leave, she has transformed the community with her indominatable will to see the good side of even the worst situations and bring it out for the betterment of all.