Virginia Mayo

When outsiders plan to steal a fortune in black pearls from island natives, they get more than they bargained for.

He looks like Marlon Brando, some reviewers said of this movie's 29-year-old star, but those comparisons would soon end. Soon to impress with his own intense brilliance, Paul Newman made his movie debut in this Biblical saga in the mode of Quo Vadis and The Robe. Set in Rome during the early Christian era, if focuses on an ill-fated sculptor sold into slavery and torn between his adoring wife (Pier Angeli) and a wily temptress (Virginia Mayo) - and threatened in his work by a power-mad sorcerer (Jack Palance) bent on overturning Christianity and becoming his own "true Messiah." The Silver Chalice's cast also includes Lorne Green, E.G. Marshall and a blonde Natalie Wood. But Newman is the movie's heart. "This young man," director Victor Saville predicted, "is destined for great things."

Hornblower (Gregory Peck) battles the French and the Spanish forces during the Napoleonic wars, but also finds time for romance.

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist.

The longing to escape his tedious life leads a daydreaming magazine proofreader on a hero’s journey to save a damsel in distress from jewel thieves.

A cowardly actor and a runaway princess are voyaging on a ship that is captured by a notorious pirate who recently buried his treasure on a secretly mapped island.

For his first movie Western, Kirk Douglas rode in good company. Filmed in the rugged High Sierras and Mojave Desert, Along the Great Divide is a lean, bullet-hard sagebrush saga.

After being murdered by gangsters, an exuberant nightclub entertainer returns as a ghost to persuade his meek twin brother to help bring his killers to justice.

A frontier Kansas town awaits the arrival of a cattle drive, and the wild cowboys who'll be looking for women, whiskey and gambling.

John Hayes, a Civil War veteran, fights to protect a gold shipment from a bitter Confederate officer, Clay Putnam. Clay wants to revive the Confederate cause and plans to steal a shipment. His wife complicates matters since she is Hayes's old flame.

In order to win the heart of a nightclub singer, a sheepish milkman decides to train to become a boxer after knocking out a famed prize fighter.

A Union officer is wounded in battle and left for dead. Rescued by a wagon train, he's nursed back to health and offers to guide the wagons west but the Confederates among the passengers ostracise him.

Fleeing from a lynch mob, accused murderer Gar Davis tries to find refuge on a local ranch, only to save Celia Gray from attackers. Due to a misunderstanding, Gray believes Davis murdered her husband, and he must find a way to prove his innocence.

When Chad Morgan rides home to Texas after the Civil War, he finds another enemy to battle: Brog, a corrupt cattle buyer who forces honest ranchers into financial ruin.

Academy Award winner James Cagney puts on his dancing shoes again for The West Point Story, a spirited comedy packed with star-power and tunes by vetran songwriters Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn.

Former United States President Ronald Reagan stars as a magazine illustrator who has drawn the "perfect woman" for an illustration ... but then he finds her in real life when he meets The Girl from Jones Beach.

King Richard the Lionheart's quest to wrest the Holy Grail from the Emperor Saladin comes to the screen in King Richard and the Crusaders.

On the eve of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, two marines (Burt Lancaster and Chuck Conners) fight over the same brassy nightclub photographer (Virginia Mayo) in Singapore. Now the two make their way across the enemy-held Pacific to return to their units in Hawaii--only to face a court-martial, and the only person who can clear them of the charge of desertion is the woman they left half a world away.