Movies by Director - Phil Karlson (50 [Missing: 5]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| A Wave, a WAC and a MarineNA | 1944 | | Comedy,Musical,Romance | | | Not Available |
| G.I. HoneymoonThe efforts of a young soldier and his new bride to make their marriage ""official"" are continually thwarted by a string of army ""emergencies"". | 1945 | Phil Karlson | Comedy | 5.7 (86 votes) | 70 | 20240625 |
| Shanghai Cobra, TheSomeone is attempting to steal radium stored in a bank. Death by cobra venom connects a number of murders. Charlie investigates. | 1945 | Phil Karlson | Mystery | 6.6 (1.1K votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| There Goes KellyTwo young men working as pages at a radio station try to get an audition for a girl they know who wants to be a singer. When the station's star singer is murdered, they decide to solve the crime themselves. | 1945 | Phil Karlson | Comedy,Mystery | 4.8 (50 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| Behind the MaskLamont Cranston, aka the Shadow, has his hands full as the murder of blackmailing reporter Jeff Mann is blamed on him. Not only does the real murderer seem one step ahead of him as Lamont tries to discover his identity, but he is con | 1946 | Phil Karlson, William Beaudine | Mystery | 5.1 (170 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Bowery BombshellSlip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey and Chuck unsuccessfully try to sell a dilapidated car to a street cleaner for a fabulous amount, so they can get enough money to save Louie's Malt Shop. | 1946 | Phil Karlson | Comedy,Crime,Drama | 6.4 (366 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Dark AlibiA public defender enlists Charlie to exonerate one of his clients, an ex-con falsely accused of bank robbery and murder, scheduled for execution in nine days. | 1946 | Phil Karlson | Crime,Drama,Mystery | 6.6 (1.2K votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| Live WiresSlip, who has difficulties in keeping a job for too long, is hired by the District Attorney's office to serve summons and warrants to problematic citizens. | 1946 | Phil Karlson | Comedy,Crime | 6.4 (363 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Missing Lady, TheA jade statue, the "missing lady", is stolen and its owner killed. Lamont Cranston, alias the Shadow, sets out to catch the killer but is blamed for the murders himself as each time he investigates some facet of the case another susp | 1946 | Phil Karlson | Crime,Drama,Mystery | 5.3 (143 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
| Swing Parade of 1946A struggling young singer falls for a nightclub owner whose father, a millionaire, is trying to shut it down. Featuring The Three Stooges as waiters. | 1946 | Phil Karlson | Comedy,Drama,Music | 5.2 (389 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Wife WantedCareer-slipping movie star Carole Raymond (Kay Francis) buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell (Paul Cavanagh). Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed (Veda Ann Borg), Caldwell runs a matrimonial bureau and, with the a | 1946 | Phil Karlson | Action,Crime,Drama | 6.2 (110 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Black GoldIn the 1920s Texas, Indian farmer Charley Eagle is dreaming of winning the Kentucky Derby with his Black Hope horse but things change when oil is found on his land and the Black Gold colt is born. | 1947 | Phil Karlson | Drama,History,Sport | 6.3 (179 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Kilroy Was Here"Kilroy Was Here" was a popular expression during World War II, but it's not much fun to John J. Kilroy, who has to try to live with all the jokes and wisecracks regarding his name. | 1947 | Phil Karlson | Comedy | 6.5 (44 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| LouisianaFourteen-year-old James Houston Davis, the music-loving son of a poor sharecropper, is determined to get a good education and help improve life in his beloved state of Louisiana. With the help of his self-sacrificing parents, Jimmie | 1947 | Phil Karlson | Drama | 6.9 (21 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Adventures in Silverado"Into California's 1880 frontier country rides Robert Louis Stevenson (Edgar Barrier), the novelist, looking for story material 'in a land of stage-drivers and highwaymen', and soon finds it when Bill Foss ('William Bishop(I)') arriv | 1948 | Phil Karlson | Western | 6.4 (72 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| RockyNA | 1948 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
| ThunderhoofTexas rancher Scotty Mason goes into the Mexican desert-country in search of a wild horse, and takes his young wife, Margarita and his hired-hand, The Kid, whose life Scotty had saved a few years earlier. The Kid falls in love with M | 1948 | Phil Karlson | Drama,Romance,Western | 6.7 (100 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Big Cat, The1933. A city boy arrives in his late mother's birthplace to discover the locals have been pestered by drought, old fights and a cougar. He turns out to be pivotal in all of these. | 1949 | Phil Karlson | Action,Adventure,Drama | 5.5 (267 votes) | 75 | 20240625 |
| Down Memory LaneNA | 1949 | | Comedy,History,Music | | | Not Available |
| Ladies Of The ChorusA chorus girl falls in love with a wealthy young man, but their relationship is jeopardized by her mother's fears about the reaction of his family. | 1948 | Phil Karlson | Musical,Romance | 6.1 (1.2K votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| The Iroquois TrailNA | 1950 | | Western | | | Not Available |
| Lorna DooneSet in 17th century Scotland, a young woman falls in love with a humble villager whose community suffers under the rule of her despotic landowning family. | 1951 | Phil Karlson | Adventure,Drama,Romance | 5.8 (203 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Mask of the AvengerDuring the European revolutionary fervor of 1848, Italian Captain Renato Dimorna tries to avenge his father's death, goes against the corrupt local military governor Larocca and prevents an Austrian military invasion. | 1951 | Phil Karlson | Adventure,Drama,History | 5.5 (305 votes) | 83 | 20240625 |
| Texas Rangers, TheIn 1874, unable to eliminate a gang of notorious outlaws, the Texas Rangers hire two former convicts to assist with the tracking and the destruction of the Sam Bass gang. | 1951 | Phil Karlson | Western | 6.1 (332 votes) | 74 | 20220414 |
| Brigand, TheIn the 1800s, after an assassination attempt by Prince Ramon against the king of Mandorra, a brigand resembling the king surreptitiously impersonates the incapacitated monarch in order to throw off the plotters. | 1952 | Phil Karlson | Adventure,Romance | 6.0 (168 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Kansas City ConfidentialAn ex-con trying to go straight is framed for a million dollar armored car robbery and must go to Mexico in order to unmask the real culprits. | 1952 | Phil Karlson | Crime,Drama,Film-Noir | 7.4 (6.9K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Scandal SheetThe editor of an exploitation newspaper commits a murder and assigns his protégé to investigate hoping to divert attention away from himself. | 1952 | Phil Karlson | Crime,Drama,Film-Noir | 7.4 (2.5K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| 99 River StreetA former boxer turned cab driver has to hide from the police when his badgering wife is murdered by the jewel thief she was having an affair with. | 1953 | Phil Karlson | Action,Crime,Drama | 7.4 (2.9K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| They Rode WestA young cavalry doctor, against orders, treats very sick Indians who are forced to stay on unhealthy land, which could lead to a war. | 1954 | Phil Karlson | Drama,Western | 5.9 (711 votes) | 84 | 20240625 |
| 5 Against the HouseFour vets attending college on the GI Bill and a cabaret singer try to rob a Reno Casino and pull off the perfect crime. | 1955 | Phil Karlson | Crime,Drama,Film-Noir | 5.9 (1.5K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Hell's IslandDown-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's disappearance, is his ex-girlfriend. | 1955 | Phil Karlson | Adventure,Drama,Film-Noir | 5.9 (357 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Phenix City Story, TheA crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town. | 1955 | Phil Karlson | Crime,Drama,Film-Noir | 7.2 (2.6K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Tight SpotA female inmate is whisked out of prison and into a police guarded hotel until the district attorney can convince her to testify against the mob in the upcoming trial. | 1955 | Phil Karlson | Crime,Drama,Film-Noir | 6.6 (2K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Brothers Rico, TheA retired mob accountant is drawn back in when his brothers, who have recently made a hit for the organization, decide to go to the authorities. | 1957 | Phil Karlson | Crime,Drama,Film-Noir | 6.8 (1.3K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Gunman's WalkA powerful rancher always protects his wild adult son by paying for damages and bribing witnesses, until his crimes become too serious to rectify. | 1958 | Phil Karlson | Western | 7.0 (1.8K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Hell to EternityWhen his adoptive Japanese-American family is sent to Manzanar after Pearl Harbor, a young Chicano enlists in the marines to become a hero in the Battle of Saipan. | 1960 | Phil Karlson | Biography,Drama,War | 6.9 (1.3K votes) | 131 | 20220731 |
| Key WitnessIn Los Angeles, a brave witness to murder agrees to testify in court against the street gang leader who's desperate to silence him. | 1960 | Phil Karlson | Crime,Drama,Mystery | 6.2 (339 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Secret Ways, TheDuring the 1956 Hungarian uprising, an American mercenary is hired to smuggle a Hungarian resistance leader out of Soviet-occupied Budapest. | 1961 | Phil Karlson, Richard Widmark | Adventure,History,Mystery | 6.1 (362 votes) | 112 | 20220414 |
| Young Doctors, TheMedical drama set at one of New York City's hospitals during the early 1960s. | 1961 | Phil Karlson | Drama | 6.8 (548 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Kid GalahadAfter completing his military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter and takes him under his wing. | 1962 | Phil Karlson | Drama,Musical,Sport | 6.2 (2.7K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Scarface Mob, TheStory of how a group of incorruptible federal lawmen helped put 1920s' Chicago gangster Al Capone in prison. | 1959 | Phil Karlson | Crime,Drama | 7.1 (243 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| RampageIn colonial Malaysia, British big game-hunter Otto Abbot and American trapper Harry Stanton clash over the ethics of catching versus killing animals and over Abbot's mistress, Anna. | 1963 | Phil Karlson | Adventure,Romance | 5.6 (686 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Silencers, TheRetired agent Matt Helm is re-activated in order to stop an evil organization from exploding an atom bomb over the USA and starting WWIII. | 1966 | Phil Karlson | Action,Adventure,Comedy | 6.1 (3.2K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Time for Killing, AConfederate POWs escape a Union camp and make for the Mexico border chased by Union troops with both parties oblivious to the fact that peace was declared. | 1967 | Phil Karlson, Roger Corman | Drama,Western | 5.4 (876 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Wrecking Crew, TheGold bullion worth USD 1 billion has been stolen from a hijacked train in Denmark. The main suspect is Count Massimo Contini. The US government sends Matt Helm, one of its top agents, to investigate and recover the gold. | 1968 | Phil Karlson | Action,Adventure,Comedy | 5.6 (3.1K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Hornet's NestIn 1944, during a sabotage mission, the sole surviving U.S. paratrooper is saved by a group of Italian orphans who later aid him in blowing-up a vital enemy dam. | 1970 | Phil Karlson, Franco Cirino | Action,Drama,War | 5.8 (965 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| BenA lonely boy befriends Ben, the leader of a violent pack of killer rats. | 1972 | Phil Karlson | Drama,Horror,Thriller | 5.3 (2.9K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Walking TallBased on the life of Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser, who almost single-handily cleaned up his small town of crime and corruption, but at a personal cost of his family life and nearly his own life. | 1973 | Phil Karlson | Action,Biography,Crime | 6.9 (5.8K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Walking TallNA | 1973 | | | | | Not Available |
| FramedA gambler kills a sheriff in self defense. But as everyone in conspiring against him, he is condemned to a long sentence in prison. | 1975 | Phil Karlson | Action,Crime,Drama | 6.4 (613 votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Alexander the GreatAs Alexander the Great prepares for his battle against his great rival, King Darius III, he must also face down his own war weary army and internal rivals. | 1963 | Phil Karlson | Drama | 5.3 (159 votes) | 50 | 20211228 |