Robert Cummings

Beach Party -- An anthropologist studies the wild dating and mating habits of Malibu tennagers. When his research backfires, he goes off with his assistant, a woman closer to his own age.

Dial M for Murder -- Alfred Hitchcock mixes suspense & mystery with romance in the story of a three cornered love affair that leads to murder.

Screwball comedy is alive and kicking with Rosalind Russell as a would-be federal judge whose ex-husband (Robert Cummings) wants her back. Seems the cause of the split-up was dumb blonde Marie McDonald who kept popping up at the most untimely moments.

This riveting wartime thriller stars Robert Cummings as Barry Kane, a Los Angeles aircraft factory worker who witnesses a Nazi agent firebombing his plant. However, it is Barry who is accused of the fiery sabotage, and to clear his name he sets off on a desperate, action-packed cross-country chase that takes him from Boulder Dam to New York's Radio City Music Hall to the top of the Statue of Liberty. Hitchcock's first film with an all-American cast moves with breakneck speed toward its final heart-pounding confrontation and it remains a suspense classic.

Beach party madness with your fave teens Frankie and Annette. A light-hearted musical-comedy romp on the sands of southern California. Frankie and Annette sing six songs while a serious-minded 40 year-old college professor studies the vacationing habits of youngsters, comparing them with the mating rituals of primitive tribes.

A Hong Kong taxi driver delivers a cryptic letter from a recently deceased man (Klaus Kinski) to the police commissioner (Rupert Davies), who passes it on to its intended recipient, an American jet-setter named Bob Mitchell (Robert Cummings). "Five golden dragons" is the brief, mysterious message. Things only get stranger from there, as Bob finds himself drawn into a whirlwind of murder, romance and intrigue.

Harold Robbins' tale of the ruthless men and beautiful women who shaped Hollywood. Harold Robbins' best seller about '30s Hollywood comes to the screen in a torrent of frank, controversial and (for the times) sensational scenes that helped break the Production Code. George Peppard is the ruthless tycoon who (with amazing parallels to Howard Hughes) builds a multi-million-dollar empire. Carroll Baker, who performs a razzle-dazzle striptease atop a glittering chandelier, is the Jean Harlow-type star. In addition to its depiction of the wild life in Tinseltown's early days, the film also boasts Alan Ladd's terrific final screen performance as the hero's sidekick, Nevada Smith.

onas Cord is a disagreeable rich young tycoon on the corporate make, with some subplots about booze, broads and Hollywood in the 1930's.

Jonas Cord is a disagreeable rich young tycoon on the corporate make, with some subplots about booze, broads and Hollywood in the 1930's.

A widow tells a psychiatrist the story of her four husbands, each of whom died and left her with enormous wealth.

Throw on your Hawaiian shirt and light the tiki torches for the first "Beach" flick starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. It's summer vacation and the duo, along with their beach-bum pals, celebrate by hitting the waves and dancing to the tunes of Dick Dale and his Del-Tones. But an anthropologist (Bob Cummings) studying the teens' mating rituals and a bungling biker (Harvey Lembeck) who abducts Annette threaten the kids' fun in the sun.

An anthropologist studies the wild dating and mating habits of Malibu tennagers. When his research backfires, he goes off with his assistant, a woman closer to his own age.