Movies starring Roy Roberts

Guadalcanal Diary (1943)

93 mins     Drama, War      

Watching old war movies such as "Guadalcanal Diary" now many years after they were made it is easy to spot various issues with them especially when it comes to their purposefully rousing nature. But some movies manage to rise...

The Reckless Moment (1949)

82 mins     Crime, Drama      

The Reckless Moment - Joan Bennett is the desperate housewife trying to raise money to buy blackmail letters after she disposed of a dead body...

Borderline (1950)

88 mins     Crime, Drama, Romance      

Why is it that any movie which is in black & white and features a crime story with a dangerous gangster has to be called film noir? It is one of my pet hates as if that was the case a lot of movies made before 1960 would be c...

Santa Fe (1951)

87 mins     Western      

"Santa Fe" starts so well with an opening look at how America was left destroyed by the Civil war; from children who didn't recognize their fathers to people struggling to make a living whilst the resentment between the North...

The Cimarron Kid (1952)

84 mins     Western      

The Cimarron Kid (1952) Audie Murphy stars as the Cimarron Kid who finds himself riding with the Dalton gang despite trying to go straight...

The Man Behind the Gun (1953)

82 mins     Western      

Whilst watching "The Man Behind the Gun" I couldn't but help think about a completely different genre of movie, in fact a franchise of movies because it reminded me of a James Bond movie. Of course "The Man Behind the Gun" ca...

Tumbleweed (1953)

79 mins     Western      

That synopsis for "Tumbleweed" doesn't sound that special does it, Audie Murphy in another role as a good cowboy where he is blamed for something not of his doing and then having to try and clear his name. In fact you can put...

Second Chance (1953)

82 mins     Crime, Drama      

Second Chance - danger arrives for a former gangster's girl when she falls for a boxer but has a gangster's heavy after her at the same time....

Wyoming Renegades (1954)

73 mins     Western      

For all sense and purposes "Wyoming Renegades" is juts another 1950s western the sort which were churned out because the public wanted heroes in white hats. And as such the story which sees a former outlaw trying to go straig...

They Rode West (1954)

84 mins     Western      

You could say that the 1950 western "Broken Arrow" opened the floodgates because after James Stewart starred as Indian sympathizer Tom Jeffords we got more westerns which trod a similar path, which to be honest isn't a bad th...

Dawn at Socorro (1954)

80 mins     Western      

Dawn at Socorro (1954) Rory Calhoun stars as Bret Wade, a tuberculosis ridden gunslinger looking for the quiet life but can't escape his past...

Backlash (1956)

84 mins     Western      

The clue to "Backlash" is there right at the start of the movie, a piece of music which doesn't fit in with the western genre but much more at home in the world of thrillers. And that is that "Backlash" is, it's a thriller se...