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Channel 4's film review notes, "Despite the barely believable plot, the film has a real edge. Made in 1950, it obviously can't push to the extremes of Dirty Harry but it shares the same mean spirit. Maté capitalizes on the story's setting by using innocent passengers and the station's dramatic spaces to heighten the feverish atmosphere."
Jan Sterling (born Jane Sterling Adriance; April 3, 1921 – March 26, 2004) was an American film, television and stage actress.At her most active in films during the 1950s (immediately prior to which she had joined the Actors Studio), [1] Sterling received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The High and the Mighty (1954) as well as an Academy Award for ...
Olson's success in "Sunset Boulevard" also led to her being cast in the 09/15/1950 episode of the radio program Dimension X, titled "Hello Tomorrow". Other film credits include several films for Warner Bros. such as Big Jim McLain (1952), So Big (1953) and Battle Cry (1955). Olson made several appearances in films for the Walt Disney studio.
Lyle Stathem Bettger (February 13, 1915 – September 24, 2003) [1] was an American character actor who had roles in Hollywood films and television from the 1950s onward, often portraying villains. One such role was the wrathfully jealous elephant handler Klaus from the Oscar -winning film The Greatest Show on Earth (1952).
In 1951, Cornthwaite was cast in Howard Hawks's production of The Thing from Another World. His character, Dr. Carrington, the unofficial leader of an Arctic polar expedition, observes the nearby crash of an unidentified flying object , and urges his military counterparts to communicate with the creature inside, even at the cost of their own lives.
José Ferrer won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role as the title character in the film version of the 1946 Broadway play, Cyrano de Bergerac, a role which he had played on Broadway. Other nominees that year were Louis Calhern for The Magnificent Yankee , William Holden for Sunset Boulevard , James Stewart for Harvey and Spencer Tracy for ...
On The Adventures of Superman, he played the sinister title character in the 1951 show “The Human Bomb”. In its 1954 episode "Great Caesar's Ghost", he was a member of a criminal gang trying to drive editor Perry White insane by making him think the subject of his oft-heard epithet had materialized.
Roberts appeared in twelve movies from 1947 to 1954, and on TV in Four Star Playhouse, Adventures of Superman [5] and Dragnet. [citation needed] Her first big picture was The Red House (1947) [3] starring Rory Calhoun, Julie London and Edward G. Robinson.