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Phil Karlson (July 2, 1908, Chicago, Illinois – December 12, 1985, Los Angeles, California) was a film director known for his no-nonsense film noirs. Karlson directed 99 River Street, Kansas City Confidential and Hell's Island all with actor John Payne in the early 1950s. Other films include Rocky (1948), The Phenix City Story (1955), 5 Against the House (1955) and The Young Doctors (1961).
Phil Karlson was the son of popular Irish actress Lillian O'Brien.
He studied painting at Chicago's Art Institute, and law, at his father's request, at Loyola Marymount University in California.
Karlson got into the film industry working as a prop man while a law student. After working a number of film jobs, including being an assistant director for a number of Abbott and Costello films, Karlson directed his first film in 1944 and in 1948 directed the first film starring Marilyn Monroe, Ladies of the Chorus. He worked on a number of low-budget projects for Monogram Pictures and Eagle-Lion Films before making his mark in 1950. It was then that he was known for directing tough, realistic and sometimes violent gritty crime films. In the 1960s the quality of his directed films declined, which included working on Kid Galahad (1962) with Elvis Presley and two Dean Martin Matt Helm spy films, including The Wrecking Crew (1969) co-starring Sharon Tate and Elke Sommer. He had his biggest success in 1973 when he directed the hit film, Walking Tall. The film made the director a rich man many times over, thanks to the fact that he owned a huge part of the movie.
Most Popular Phil Karlson Trailers
Total trailers found: 61
25 May 1946
After three men are convicted of bank robberies, Charlie becomes suspicious. After some investigation Charlie finds the men are innocent and that the fingerprint evidence used to convict them had been forged.
21 August 1953
A former boxer turned taxi driver earns the scorn of his nagging wife and gets mixed up with jewel thieves.
12 January 1946
Slip gets fired from his job at a construction company for decking his boss. His sister, who got him a job at the company, is angry with him.
03 June 1951
It's 1874 and the Texas Rangers have been reorganized. But Sam Bass has assembled a group of notorious outlaws into a gang the Rangers are unable to cope with.
22 February 1973
Ex-wrestler and Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser walks tall and carries a big stick as he tussles with county-wide corruption and moonshining thugs.
23 June 1972
A lonely boy becomes good friends with Ben, a rat. This rat is also the leader of a pack of vicious killer rats, killing lots of people.
11 November 1952
An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.
30 December 1968
When Count Contini attempts to destroy the world's economy by masterminding the theft of $1 billion in U.
30 May 1941
Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead.
18 February 1966
Matt Helm is called out of retirement to stop the evil Big O organization who plan to explode an atomic bomb over Alamagordo, NM, and start WW III.
29 November 1962
After completing 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.
15 July 1958
A powerful rancher always protects his wild adult son by paying for damages and bribing witnesses, until his crimes become too serious to rectify.
23 August 1957
Eddie Rico, the erstwhile bookkeeper for a big Mafia boss, is now making a living as an honest merchant in Florida with his family.
19 March 1955
A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious gangster.
01 August 1975
Joe Don Baker plays a gambler who is framed for a crime he did not commit. A corrupt legal system leads him into a plea bargain and four years behind bars.
31 May 1951
An English farmer leads a village uprising against their corrupt landlords.
10 June 1955
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
25 October 1940
Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.
13 May 1935
A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.
01 August 1967
During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison and head for the Mexican border.
01 April 1961
Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Michael Reynolds is hired to help a threatened Hungarian scientist escape from Budapest.
29 September 1945
Someone is attempting to steal radium stored in a bank. Death by cobra venom connects a number of murders.
08 September 1970
An American commando who's the sole survivor of a parachute jump into WWII-era Italy leads a group of children in a campaign of sabotage against the Nazis.
30 December 1948
Former burlesque star May and her daughter Peggy dance in the chorus. When May has a fight with featured dancer Bubbles, Bubbles leaves the show and Peggy takes her place.
12 January 1940
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
19 July 1955
A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.
04 February 1935
A choirmaster addicted to opium and obsessed with a beautiful young woman will stop at nothing to possess her.
06 October 1960
An average Los Angeles citizen witnesses a gang murder when he stops to use a telephone. When he presents himself to the LAPD as the only person willing to identify the culprits, he opens himself up to a campaign of intimidation from the gang involved.
26 September 1941
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy.
25 May 1946
Falsely accused of murdering a crooked newspaper reporter, suave detective Lamont Cranston -- aka the Shadow -- vows to track down the real killer.
07 July 1941
In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.
04 December 1954
A young cavalry doctor treats very sick Indians against orders, whom are forced to stay on unhealthy land, which could lead to a war.
20 July 1946
Slip, 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.
26 January 1968
An historical film that follows the life of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian king that united all ancient Greek tribes and led them against the vast Persian Empire.
01 August 1960
Based on the story about Guy Gabaldon, a Los Angeles Hispanic boy raised in the 1930s by a Japanese-American foster family.
27 June 1951
Costume swashbuckler with heroic John Derek battling evil Anthony Quinn.
16 September 1947
A Native American man trains a horse for the Kentucky Derby.
16 January 1952
A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.
19 April 1959
In 1929 Chicago, Federal investigator Eliot Ness struggles in the fight against Al Capone. He decides to form a special team of reliable, dedicated, honest law enforcement officers.
19 March 1946
A struggling young singer falls for a nightclub owner whose father, a millionaire, is trying to shut it down.
23 August 1961
An aging doctor's resentment of his young assistant could lead to tragedy.
09 October 1963
In 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.
02 November 1946
Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell. Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed, Caldwell runs a matrimonial bureau and, with the aid of his associate, Lee Kirby, they defraud and blackmail a large group of lonely people.
01 April 1949
A city boy arrives in his late mother's birthplace to discover the locals have been pestered by a cougar.
22 October 1934
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman.
06 May 1955
Down-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.
24 June 1952
Carlos Delargo, the banished son of a royal princess of Mandorra, is returned to the kingdom to be tried for a murder change.
25 March 1948
Author Robert Louis Stevenson takes a trip to Napa Valley, California, in 1880 and gets involved in the exploits of a stagecoach driver who captures a hooded highwayman called The Monk.
15 June 1950
An American scout and his Indian friend help the English troops against the French during the French and Indian War.
01 July 1935
Night club owner Dan Moore is trying to collect a debt owed to him by playboy Reggie Van Dorn, but Reggie is a playboy with no money but lots of social connections.
15 November 1947
The life story of Jimmie Davis, from his humble beginnings as the son of a sharecropper through his career as a country songwriter/singer and onward to become the governor of Louisiana.
13 August 1934
The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cinderella and Prince Charming" contest.
01 August 1949
This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio.
17 August 1946
While investigating the theft of a valuable jade statue known as "The Missing Lady" -- and the subsequent murder of an art dealer -- imperceptible sleuth Lamont Cranston aka the Shadow finds himself being blamed for the crime.
17 January 1948
Out fishing one day, painter John Hammond and his son Chris come across Bert Hillman, the foreman of a local ranch.
06 April 1945
In this romantic comedy, set during WW II, an newlywed army couple are unable to consummate their marriage, as on their wedding night the husband is called away to sentry duty.
07 October 1944
Henny Brown, talent scout for the Margaret Ames Film Agency in Hollywood, mistakes Broadway show understudies Judy and Marian, for stars Betty and Eileen, and signs them up for movies.
19 July 1947
"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.
08 July 1948
Two men, one woman and one horse get into trouble.
