Cast: John Ridgely

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring John Ridgely. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Big Sleep

1946 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Lauren Bacall · John Ridgely · Martha Vickers

Synopsis It tells the story of private detective Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart), hired by General Sternwood (Charles Waldron) to deal with a blackmailer. The General has two daughters. One, Vivian (Lauren Bacall), is very pretty and somewhat shady. The other, Carmen...

8.1

23K votes

8.1

23K votes

Nora Prentiss

1947 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Ann Sheridan · Kent Smith · Bruce Bennett · Robert Alda

Synopsis Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings they become heavily involved and Talbot finds he is faced with the choice of leaving Nora or divorcing his...

6.8

116 votes

6.8

116 votes

Destination Tokyo

1943 · Movie · 135 min. · United States

Direction Delmer Daves

Cast Cary Grant · John Garfield · Alan Hale · John Ridgely

Synopsis An American submarine is assigned to carry out a secret mission in Japanese waters.

6.6

921 votes

6.6

921 votes

High Wall

1947 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Robert Taylor · Audrey Totter · Herbert Marshall · Dorothy Patrick

Synopsis Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lorrison is initially skeptical about Kenet's story and reluctance to...

6.6

218 votes

6.6

218 votes

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The Big Shot

1942 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Irene Manning · Richard Travis · Susan Peters

Synopsis Three time loser Duke Berne risks life in prison with one more armored car robbery. His attorney's wife Lorna, Berne's old sweetheart, keeps him from it but he goes to jail anyway. Duke and Lorna get some time together again...

6.6

156 votes

6.6

156 votes

Pride of the Marines

1945 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Delmer Daves

Cast John Garfield · Eleanor Parker · Dane Clark · John Ridgely

Synopsis Married couple Jim & Ella Merchant set up their single friend Al Schmid on a blind date with Ruth Hartley. The two hit it off and begin dating. A welder, one day at the workplace, Al learns of a friend's...

6.4

88 votes

6.4

88 votes

Air Force

1943 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast John Ridgely · Gig Young · Arthur Kennedy · Charles Drake

Synopsis The Mary Ann, a B-17 Flying Fortress, takes off from California for Hawaii on a routine training flight on December 6, 1941. En route, they learn of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Subsequently the crew mans the Mary Ann...

6.4

266 votes

6.4

266 votes

Northern Pursuit

1943 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Errol Flynn · Julie Bishop · Helmut Dantine · John Ridgely

Synopsis Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist...

6.4

258 votes

6.4

258 votes

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Brother Orchid

1940 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Humphrey Bogart · Ann Sothern · Donald Crisp

Synopsis Gangster Little John Sarto (Edward G. Robinson) is a man fed up with the racket who travels across Europe in the hopes of finding class. When he returns, he finds his gang in the hands of Jack Buck (Humphrey Bogart),...

6.3

169 votes

6.3

169 votes

My Reputation

1946 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · George Brent · Warner Anderson · Lucile Watson

Synopsis Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her own children.

6.3

121 votes

6.3

121 votes

Torrid Zone

1940 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction William Keighley

Cast James Cagney · Ann Sheridan · Pat O'Brien · Andy Devine

Synopsis Banana Company executive Steve Case on a Caribean plantation group tries to convince his former co-worker Nick Butler to take over the plantation No 7. But he is on his way to Chicago, to take over a job as a...

6.2

39 votes

6.2

39 votes

That's My Man

1947 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Don Ameche · Catherine McLeod · Roscoe Karns · John Ridgely

Synopsis A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight of what mattered to him before.

6.2

44 votes

6.2

44 votes

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Edge of Doom

1950 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Dana Andrews · Farley Granger · Joan Evans · Robert Keith

Synopsis A poor and alienated young man (Farley Granger) who is driven to murder when a priest refuses to give is deceased mother an expensive funeral.

6.2

156 votes

6.2

156 votes

Backfire

1950 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Virginia Mayo · Gordon MacRae · Edmond O'Brien · Dane Clark

Synopsis Bob Corey, recovering from a series of operations in a Veterans' hospital, learns that his friend, Steve Connally, with whom he intended to buy a ranch, has disappeared under circumstance that indicate he may have been involved in a murder....

6.2

71 votes

6.2

71 votes

Room for One More

1952 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Cary Grant · Betsy Drake · Lurene Tuttle · Randy Stuart

Synopsis Anne and "Poppy" Rose are the average American family, with three quirky kids. Anne has a good heart and gives lost cats and dogs a home - and one day also the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried...

6.1

95 votes

6.1

95 votes

King of the Underworld

1939 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Kay Francis · James Stephenson · John Eldredge

Synopsis Niles and Carol Nelson are married doctors who save one of ganglord Gurney's men. Gurney exploits them, then kills Niles leaving Carol to take the fall. He next kidnaps writer Bill Forrest to write his biography. Knowing Bill will be...

Max

6.1

137 votes

6.1

137 votes

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You Can't Get Away with Murder

1939 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Gale Page · Billy Halop · John Litel

Synopsis Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie...

Max

6.1

94 votes

6.1

94 votes

Cry Wolf

1947 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Peter Godfrey

Cast Errol Flynn · Barbara Stanwyck · Geraldine Brooks · Richard Basehart

Synopsis Sandra Demarest arrives at the Caldwell estate, and announces to Mark Caldwell that she was secretly married to his nephew James, who recently died. Mark does not believe her, but allows her to remain at the manor while a search...

6.0

94 votes

6.0

94 votes

Task Force

1949 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Delmer Daves

Cast Gary Cooper · Jane Wyatt · Wayne Morris · Walter Brennan

Synopsis TASK FORCE far surpasses most action war films in that it focuses on the invention of the air craft carrier and its use in World War II. Gary Cooper stars as Jonathan L. Scott, the patriotic naval tactician. Having studied...

6.0

161 votes

6.0

161 votes

The Wagons Roll at Night

1941 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Ray Enright

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Sylvia Sidney · Eddie Albert · Joan Leslie

Synopsis A lion escapes Nick Coster's carnival and is captured by grocery clerk Matt Varney whom Nick brings into the show and eventually makes chief lion tamer. When Nick finds out Matt has fallen for his convent-bred sister Mary he makes...

Max

5.6

52 votes

5.6

52 votes

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