Movies starring Alan Baxter

In Name Only (1939)

94 mins     Drama, Romance      

"In Name Only" is anything but a complicated movie. We have Alec who wants to leave his unhappy marriage to start one with the beautiful Julie but finds his manipulative wife is not going to make things easy leading to despai...

Spirit of the People (1940)

110 mins     Biography, Drama      

Anyone who has read some of my reviews on other historical movies will be aware of my admitted lack of historical knowledge and blame the British education system for making history lessons so dull as a child for my ignorance...

Saboteur (1942)

109 mins     Thriller      

"Saboteur" is what I would call a bad Hitchcock movie; it feels almost run of the mill and lacks those Hitchcock touches which make it memorable. Having said that even a bad Hitchcock movie isn't that bad and so what we get i...

The Set-Up (1949)

73 mins     Drama, Sport      

The Set-Up: Robert Ryan stars as the ageing boxer who falls foul of a mob boss when he doesn't take a dive against a contender...

The True Story of Jesse James (1957)

92 mins     Action , Biography, Crime, Western      

Now there are two things worth knowing, first up is that "The True Story of Jesse James" is in fact a remake and secondly how much true story there is is debatable as whilst we have pivotal events the drama of them, well I wo...

Face of a Fugitive (1959)

81 mins     Western      

"Face of a Fugitive" is a surprising western and it's not just because is stars Fred MacMurray who whilst he made a few westerns is best known for his Disney movies. Nope this western despite being little known is better than...

The Mountain Road (1960)

102 mins     Drama, War      

I believe James Stewart refused to do war movies as they were never accurate to how it was. Well in 1960 he did make one war movie, the hard to get hold of and rarely broadcast "The Mountain Road" and unsurprisingly it is not...