Michael Gordon

Directing

Michael Gordon

Born 1909-09-06 · Baltimore, Maryland

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Michael Gordon (September 6, 1909 – April 29, 1993) was an American stage actor and stage and film director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Gordon (film director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Pillow Talk poster
7.1

Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about to seduce her in the guise of a sincere and upstanding Texas rancher. When mutual friend Jonathan discovers that his best friend is moving in on the girl he desires, however, sparks fly.

Pillow Talk

1959

Move Over, Darling poster
6.7

Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen presumably perishes when swept off her lifeboat, her body never recovered. Fast forward five years. Nicholas, wanting to move on with his life, has Ellen declared legally dead. Part of that moving on includes getting remarried, this time to a young woman named Bianca Steele, who, for their honeymoon, he plans to take to the same Monterrey resort where he and Ellen spent their honeymoon. On that very same day, Ellen is dropped off in Los Angeles by the Navy, who rescued her from the South Pacific island where she was stranded for the past five years. She asks the Navy not to publicize her rescue nor notify Nicholas as she wants to do so herself.

Move Over, Darling

1963

The Lady Gambles poster
6.1

When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.

The Lady Gambles

1949

Woman in Hiding poster
6.3

As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too well. Having discovered a horrible truth about her new husband, Deborah is now a “woman in hiding,” living in mortal fear that someday her husband will catch up with her again. When a returning GI recognizes Deborah, however, she must decide whether or not she can trust him.

Woman in Hiding

1950

Cyrano de Bergerac poster
6.9

France, 1640. Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The chivalrous Cyrano sets up with Christian an innocent deception, with tragic results.

Cyrano de Bergerac

1950

A Very Special Favor poster
5.8

The long-lost father of a frigid, uptight Freudian psychologist contracts a wealthy American playboy who owes him a favor to woo his daughter.

A Very Special Favor

1965

Another Part of the Forest poster
7.8

This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.

Another Part of the Forest

1948

Texas Across the River poster
5.6

The Louisiana wedding of debutante Phoebe Ann Naylor to Don Andrea de Baldasar, El Duce de la Casala is stopped by the Cavalry over a matter of honor. Don Andrea flees across the river to Texas, where he meets up with Sam Hollis and his Indian sidekick, Kronk, who are carrying rifles to the town of Moccasin Flats. Don Andrea rescues an Indian maiden, Lonetta, tames some longhorns, competes with Sam for Phoebe's affections, eludes a Comanche war party and the cavalry and ultimately saves the town and gets his girl.

Texas Across the River

1966

Crime Doctor poster
6.4

Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.

Crime Doctor

1943

For Love or Money poster
6.1

Wealthy Chloe Brasher has three beautiful daughters; Bonnie, Kate, and Jan. Chloe pays attorney Deke Gentry to fix them up with three suitable husbands.

For Love or Money

1963

Boys' Night Out poster
5.9

Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different than their ordinary marriages, children and TV-dinners. In secret, they get themselves an apartment with a beautiful young woman, Kathy, for romantic rendezvous. But Kathy does not tell them that she is a sociology student researching the sexual life of the white middle-class male.

Boys' Night Out

1962

The Secret of Convict Lake poster
6.6

After a group of convicts escapes from prison, they take refuge in the wilderness. While most of the crew are ruthless sociopaths, Jim Canfield is an innocent man who was jailed under false pretenses. When Canfield and his fellow fugitives reach an isolated farming settlement where the men are all away, it creates tension with the local women. Things get direr when rumors of hidden money arise, and Canfield discovers that the man who framed him is part of the community.

The Secret of Convict Lake

1951

Portrait in Black poster
5.7

A pair of lovers plot to kill the woman's rich husband.

Portrait in Black

1960

Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood poster
5.6

Blackie receives a call from a friend who asks him to retrieve some money from his apartment and deliver it to him in California. Performing this good deed, he is accused of theft, but is allowed to proceed to Hollywood to help the police find a lost diamond.

Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood

1942

The Impossible Years poster
5.6

The eldest daughter of a professor of psychology at a large conservative university causes havoc, and great embarrassment, for her father with her free-willed and uninhibited lifestyle.

The Impossible Years

1968

How Do I Love Thee? poster
4.2

A professor recalls his atheistic father, his devoted mother and his father's blousy mistress.

How Do I Love Thee?

1970

The Web poster
7.1

A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.

The Web

1947

One Dangerous Night poster
5.1

Reformed jewel thief the Lone Wolf investigates the murder of a playboy who was blackmailing three socialites.

One Dangerous Night

1943

An Act of Murder poster
6.9

A man kills his terminally ill wife to prevent her further suffering.

An Act of Murder

1948

Underground Agent poster
9.0

In this espionage caper, a government spy must keep enemy agents from spying upon a defense plant. His work is made easier by his newest invention, a word scrambler which makes it difficult for the enemy agent.

Underground Agent

1942

I Can Get It for You Wholesale poster
6.0

A ruthless fashion designer steps on everyone in her way in order to reach the top of her profession. Eventually she is forced to choose between her ambition and the man she loves.

I Can Get It for You Wholesale

1951