Dolores Donlon Movies
- 1961
Riding out of a small town, Bart (Jack Kelly) is surprised to find that his saddle bag is bulging. And no wonder: the bag is stuffed with money stolen from the town's bank. Accused of being a thief, Bart is determined to prove that the real culprit is banker Cyrus Murdock (Tol Avery)--but first he'll have to figure out how to avoid getting captured and/or killed by the bank robbers and the posse members who are hot on his trail. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1961
Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired by the family of wealthy Mexican Don Esteban (Hans Conried) to return the aging aristocrat to his hacienda. Now in his dotage, the eccentric Don Esteban is laboring under the delusion that he is Don Quixote, and has dashed off into the wilderness to tilt at windmills and rescue fair damsels. Also interested in the old man's welfare--but for entirely mercenary reasons--is an unsavory character named Dirty Dog (Robert Carricart). Like many another episode of Have Gun, Will Travel, this one is largely location-filmed at Lone Pine, California. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1961
Enrico (Enrico Maria Salerno) is fast getting burnt out with his stressful city life, and so he takes off for Tahiti in this perceptive drama by popular Italian director Franco Rossi. When Enrico first arrives in Tahiti, he is more than a little distracted by the island's beautiful women and enters into various interludes with a range of attractive females. While that is an effective way to forget the pressures of his recent, hectic life, he soon discovers that the scenery, character, and pace of the island itself are weaving their own soothing magic on his tattered nerves. When it comes right down to it, will he ever want to leave this paradise that Gauguin found so intriguing? ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Enrico Maria Salerno, Elisabeth Logue, (more)
- 1960
Paladin (Richard Boone) is summoned to New Orleans by the aristocratic Allison Windrom (Dolores Donlon). Ostensibly, Paladin is supposed to prevent a gunfight between Allison's father Everett (Paul Cavanaugh) and his old enemy Graham Beckley (George Neise). But it soon develops that Beckley has hired a professional gunslinger named Sledge (James Coburn) to fight in his place--and Paladin is expected to perform the same "service" for Mr. Windrom. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1959
This is the celebrated Maverick spoof of Jack Webb's Dragnet, complete with deadpan narration by protagonist Bret Maverick (James Garner). Travelling by stagecoach to the town of Apocalypse, Bret is in the middle of a blackjack game with a tinhorn gambler (John Vivyan) when the coach is held up an effusively friendly masked bandit, who wears distinctively colorful bandana. Subsequently endeavoring to recover his stolen money, Bret follows the trail of clues to a whiskey-loving cowpoke named Johnny Rain (William Reynolds), who honestly can't remember if he has been robbing stagecoaches while drunk. Dance hall gal Millie Reid (Dolores Donlon) is a key player in the "Just the facts, ma'am" intrigue. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1959
Not long after trying to strike a deal with political "fixer" Wilfred Borden (George Neise), building contractor George Andrews (John Anderson) is in a car accident. When Borden is murdered and Andrews arrested for the crime, Perry (Raymond Burr) hinges his defense on locating swimsuit model Dawn Manning (Dolores Donlon), the girl who was with Andrews at the time of the accident--and that, folks, is why Mr. Mason is posing as a professional photographer. This episode is based on a 1958 novel by Perry Mason creator Erle Stanley Gardner. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1956
Tony Dumont (Rory Calhoun) is none too trustworthy at the beginning of Flight to Hong Kong. A dealer in contraband goods, Dumont is the bane of his girlfriend Jean Blake's (Dolores Donlon) existence. She wants him to go straight, but the other woman in his life, novelist Pamela Vincent (Barbara Rush), wants him to remain a crook--the better to provide material for a book she's writing. Dumont has a belated change of heart when he steps on the toes of the Mob once too often. Flight to Hong Kong also includes brief stopovers in San Francisco, Honolulu, Tangiers and Macao. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Rory Calhoun, Barbara Rush, (more)
- 1955
To promote the upcoming production of "Don Juan," The studio arranges for Ricky (Desi Arnaz) to appear in some publicity photographs, in which he is surrounded by a bevy of gorgeous starlets. Lucy (Lucille Ball), of course, is quite upset by this turn of events, and even more so when Ricky is required to attend a movie premiere with those selfsame starlets. When Ricky fails to return home from the premiere, Lucy jumps to the conclusion that he has left her in favor of one of the younger women -- and the mess isn't straightened out until the very end of the episode. ~ Rovi
- Starring:
- Ross Elliott, Jesslyn Fax, (more)
- 1954
In this espionage drama, an FBI agent heads to California's Big Bear resort for R&R and ends up stopping the evil communists from carrying through with their plot to steal important documents from a recently murdered nuclear physicist. The scientist was killed by his own assistant. Later, the FBI agent's own girlfriend, who witnessed the killing, takes the papers and tries to sell them. As a result, she is killed by the assistant who is in turn killed by someone else. The FBI man then safely retrieves the paper and America is once again safe from the dreaded Red Menace. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- John Ireland, Dorothy Malone, (more)
- 1954
Based on a novel by Mickey Spillane, The Long Wait stars Anthony Quinn as an amnesiac who may or may not have committed a murder. Picking up the pieces of his life, Quinn wanders into a hotbed of small-town intrigue and corruption. Characters essentially to the action are highly respectable bank president Charles Coburn, gangster Gene Evans, and silky femme fatale Peggie Castle. The climax, described by historian William K. Everson as "a typical Spillane head-on collision of sex and violence", finds the trussed-up Quinn and Castle struggling to kiss each other while being goaded on by sadistic gunsel William Conrad. As for the story's surprise outcome. . .well, some things are better seen than said. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Anthony Quinn, Charles Coburn, (more)
