Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows With J. Robert Benton

1. Highway Patrol (1955–1959)

TV-PG | 30 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Powerful patrol cars, fast motorcycles, and superheterodyne two-way radios combine to fight crime on the rural highways of America's wide open spaces.

Stars: Broderick Crawford, Art Gilmore, William Boyett, Vance Skarstedt

Votes: 1,535

2. Science Fiction Theatre (1955–1957)

25 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

In this science-fiction anthology series host Truman Bradley introduces stories extrapolated from actual scientific data available in the 1950's, concentrating on such concepts as space flight, UFO's and mental telepathy.

Stars: Truman Bradley, Michael Fox, Marshall Thompson, Peter Hansen

Votes: 445

3. Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966)

Approved | 88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Western

Maria Frankenstein puts the brain of a monster into the body of one of Jesse James' sidekicks.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: John Lupton, Narda Onyx, Cal Bolder, Estelita Rodriguez

Votes: 2,081

4. I Led 3 Lives (1953–1956)

30 min | Drama

Herbert Philbrick's covert life as an FBI spy within the Communist underground, his dual existence fraught with constant peril and the challenge of keeping his espionage activities hidden from family and friends.

Stars: Richard Carlson, John Zaremba, Virginia Stefan, Ed Hinton

Votes: 166

5. West Point (1956–1957)

30 min | Drama

Dramatic series of actual people and events at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York.

Stars: Donald May, Larry Thor, Lew Gallo, Charles Maxwell

Votes: 132

6. Meet Corliss Archer (1954– )

30 min | Comedy

Pert blond teenager Corliss Archer must balance her life at school, her lovable but goofy boyfriend Dexter and her well-meaning but clueless parents.

Stars: Ann Baker, Mary Brian, John Eldredge, Robert Ellis

Votes: 72

7. Navy Log (1955–1958)

30 min | History, War

Showed featured dramatic reenactments of true Naval events taken from the files of the Defense Department. The episodes generally featured little known actors although better known performers sometimes hosted.

Stars: Robert Carson, Robert Shayne, George Conrad, Joel Smith

Votes: 135

8. Border Patrol (1959)

30 min | Adventure

Don Jagger is a Border Patrol deputy chief who is a troubleshooter from to various locations. His assignments take him from the Florida Everglades to Washington logging camps in this syndicated series.

Stars: Richard Webb, Rico Alaniz, John Indrisano, Don Gordon

Votes: 31

9. Border Patrol (1959)
Episode: A Bundle of Dope (1959)

26 min | Adventure

Jagger is sent to San Diego to break up a drug-smuggling gang operating along the Mexican border. He traces the narcotics to the criminals' headquarters - an innocent-looking bowling alley.

Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Richard Webb, Robert Brubaker, Robert Tafur, Del Erickson

10. Border Patrol (1959)
Episode: Cargo Unknown (1959)

26 min | Adventure

Jagger is ordered to the Canadian border when a gang specializing in stealing guns from federal armories sets up a lucrative arms smuggling operation.

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Richard Webb, Douglas Dick, Arthur Hanson, Ric Roman

11. Border Patrol (1959)
Episode: Death in the Desert (1959)

Adventure

Jagger travels to Yuma, Arizona, to investigate a gang smugging aliens into the country from Mexico.

Director: Samuel Gallu | Stars: Richard Webb, Ron Hagerthy, Dallas Mitchell, Fred Sherman

12. Border Patrol (1959)
Episode: Everglades Story (1959)

26 min | Adventure

Jagger and a Seminole Indian go deep into the Everglades in pursuit of a gang of illegal aliens who are smuggling guns.

Director: Samuel Gallu | Stars: Richard Webb, Victor Millan, Ben Johnson, Rico Alaniz

13. Border Patrol (1959)
Episode: In a Deadly Fashion (1959)

26 min | Adventure

A Border Patrolman goes undercover as a boxer to catch a dangerous and violent gangster.

Director: Samuel Gallu | Stars: Richard Webb, Don Gordon, Val Avery, Jan Arvan

14. Border Patrol (1959)
Episode: Love, Death and Diamonds (1959)

26 min | Adventure

A beautiful girl goes to the Border Patrol for assistance and puts them onto the trail of a big smuggling racket.

Director: Richard Whorf | Stars: Richard Webb, Herbert Rudley, Doreen Lang, Peter Leeds

15. Border Patrol (1959)
Episode: Night Target (1959)

26 min | Adventure

In New Orleans Jagger investigates a boat service that charters fishing trips which may be connected to a gang smuggling illegal aliens from South America.

Director: Samuel Gallu | Stars: Richard Webb, Dean Fredericks, Rico Alaniz, Roy Engel

16. Border Patrol (1959)
Episode: Rattigan and the Cat (1959)

26 min | Adventure

A woman goes to the police and tells them that her husband is plotting to murder her.

Director: Richard Whorf | Stars: Richard Webb, Elisabeth Fraser, Dick Wessel, Russell Arms

17. Border Patrol (1959)
Episode: The Logmen (1959)

26 min | Adventure

Jagger goes undercover as a logger in a lumber camp near the Canadian border as part of his investigation into the smuggling of illegal aliens.

Director: Richard Whorf | Stars: Richard Webb, Peter Mamakos, Christopher Dark, Harry Jackson

18. I Led 3 Lives (1953–1956)
Episode: Exchange Student (1955)

30 min | Drama

In his capacity as committee chairman of the University Club, Philbrick welcomes a group of exchange students from Europe. The comrades, however, have arranged to employ one of the students as secret courier.

Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Richard Carlson, John Beradino, Charles Maxwell, David Post

19. Navy Log (1955–1958)
Episode: After You, Ludwig (1957)

24 min | History, War

During the first days of the D day invasion, a group of American officers realize there may be valuable intelligence gained from a captured German bunker. They need a German POW to lead ... See full summary »

Director: Samuel Gallu | Stars: Bart Burns, King Donovan, Gene Reynolds, Werner Klemperer

20. Navy Log (1955–1958)
Episode: Florida Weekend (1958)

25 min | History, War

Two pilots crash in the Florida everglades and have to work out how to survive until rescuers can figure out their position.

Director: Samuel Gallu | Stars: Richard Webb, Robert Rockwell, Ben Johnson, Ralph Smiley

21. Navy Log (1955–1958)
Episode: PT 109 (1957)

24 min | History, War

Tells the story of the destruction of the PT109. The crew, led by future US president John F Kennedy, struggles to come up with a survival plan that will help them avoid the numerous Japanese forces in the area.

Director: Samuel Gallu | Stars: John Baer, Patrick Waltz, Peter Miller, John Close

Votes: 11

22. Navy Log (1955–1958)
Episode: The Big White Albatross (1957)

History, War

Story of a cargo vessel during World War II, which gets stuck with a lousy movie just prior to starting a long voyage.

Director: Samuel Gallu | Stars: Charles Farrell, Alvy Moore, Richard Deacon, George Cisar

23. Navy Log (1955–1958)
Episode: The Commander and the Kid (1957)

23 min | History, War

Invasion plans are held up when a minesweeper is sunk in the harbor while on active duty. The Navy hatches a daring plan to try and infiltrate the countryside and find someone who knows where the mines are laid

Director: Samuel Gallu | Stars: Lawrence Dobkin, Charles H. Gray, Tristram Coffin, Philip Ahn

24. Navy Log (1955–1958)
Episode: War of the Whale Boats (1957)

24 min | History, War

During the Korean War, a mine-sweeper crew launches a campaign of harassment against the enemy.

Director: Samuel Gallu | Stars: Richard Jaeckel, Val Dufour, Dean Fredericks, Hylton Socher

Votes: 10

25. Science Fiction Theatre (1955–1957)
Episode: Dead Storage (1955)

30 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

Arctic workers discover a frozen mammoth, which is quickly transported to a research institute. Upon thawing, and with a little galvanic shock, investigations take an interesting turn.

Director: Jack Herzberg | Stars: Truman Bradley, Virginia Bruce, Walter Coy, Robert H. Harris

Votes: 32

26. Science Fiction Theatre (1955–1957)
Episode: Death at My Fingertips (1956)

30 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

Police think they have an open-and-shut case against a professor in the murder of his college's dean, as the man's fingerprints are found all over the lab where the murder occurred. But ... See full summary »

Director: Tom Gries | Stars: Truman Bradley, June Lockhart, Dick Foran, John Stephenson

Votes: 24

27. Science Fiction Theatre (1955–1957)
Episode: Doctor Robot (1956)

30 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

Edgar Barnes runs a project called Operation Polyglot, to build an ENIAC/UNIVAC-like computer to translate text to multiple languages. But someone is tampering with the machine in off hours. Is it nefarious, or life-saving?

Director: Eddie Davis | Stars: Truman Bradley, Peter Hansen, Whit Bissell, John Stephenson

Votes: 24

28. Science Fiction Theatre (1955–1957)
Episode: Survival in Box Canyon (1956)

30 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

A rescue mission is mounted to find the plane carrying a nuclear physicist to an atomic experiment.

Director: Herbert L. Strock | Stars: Truman Bradley, Bruce Bennett, DeForest Kelley, Paul Birch

Votes: 31

29. West Point (1956–1957)
Episode: His Brother's Fist (1956)

30 min | Drama

Cadet Kennedy was a Golden Gloves champion before West Point but he refuses to join the Academy boxing team. His older brother, a champion boxer in his own right, wants him to leave the Academy and return to boxing.

Director: James Sheldon | Stars: Leonard Nimoy, Jeff Harris, John Beradino, Rodney Bell

30. West Point (1956–1957)
Episode: The Right to Choose (1956)

30 min | Drama

The daughter of a family visiting the Point for the week-end falls in love with a Cadet below her on the social scale, and is pressured to end their relationship.

Director: James Sheldon | Stars: Gloria Talbott, Robert Gothie, Hillary Brooke, Hayden Rorke

31. Highway Patrol (1955–1959)
Episode: Prison Break (1955)

TV-PG | 30 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A vicious, unpredictable prison escapee abandons his injured partner, ambushes a highway patrolman, and uses the patrolman's uniform and gun to hijack a school bus in a daring attempt to escape his pursuers.

Director: Herbert L. Strock | Stars: Broderick Crawford, Robert Stevenson, Fritz Ford, Harry Cody

Votes: 148

32. Highway Patrol (1955–1959)
Episode: Reformed Criminal (1955)

TV-PG | 30 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Dan Mathews has reason to suspect the worst when a courier with a criminal record disappears with $31,000 after an automobile accident.

Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Broderick Crawford, Lee Roberts, House Peters Jr., Terry Frost

Votes: 85

33. Highway Patrol (1955–1959)
Episode: Reckless Driving (1955)

TV-PG | 26 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Tragedy results when an impatient traveling salesman refuses to heed numerous warnings concerning his predilection for speeding and taking chances while driving.

Director: Leon Benson | Stars: Broderick Crawford, Hugh Sanders, Vivi Janiss, Grant Scott

Votes: 105

34. Meet Corliss Archer (1954– )
Episode: Harry Gives Advice (1954)

30 min | Comedy

Dexter and the guys donate their allowances to charity for a month, meaning no money for dates. Harry tells Corliss that the girls should take the guys out and pay for the date, which ... See full synopsis »

Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Ann Baker, Mary Brian, John Eldredge, Robert Ellis

35. Meet Corliss Archer (1954– )
Episode: Harry the Dictator (1954)

30 min | Comedy

Harry becomes upset after hearing Corliss' essay on family life, which names the father as a dictator. Harry declares a democracy, majority rules, but he keeps losing the vote.

Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Ann Baker, Mary Brian, John Eldredge, Robert Ellis

36. Meet Corliss Archer (1954– )
Episode: The Fortune Teller (1954)

30 min | Comedy

Dexter has everyone visiting a swami who tells their future, with Harry being the only skeptic.

Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Ann Baker, Mary Brian, John Eldredge, Robert Ellis

37. Highway Patrol (1955–1959)
Episode: The Search (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A fleeing murderer's charm enables him to enlist the unwitting aid of several law-abiding citizens in his efforts to elude the Highway Patrol.

Director: Jack Herzberg | Stars: Broderick Crawford, Richard Vath, Gail Kobe, Pat O'Malley

Votes: 96

38. Highway Patrol (1955–1959)
Episode: Machine-Napping (1955)

TV-PG | 26 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Two thieves steal a $100,000 computer and demand that amount as ransom in exchange for its safe return.

Director: Herbert L. Strock | Stars: Broderick Crawford, Guy Kingsford, Sidney Clute, Paul Power

Votes: 106

39. Highway Patrol (1955–1959)
Episode: Lookout (1955)

TV-PG | 26 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An innocent man who unknowingly accompanies two acquaintances on an armed robbery flees and finds himself pursued by the Highway Patrol and by one of the revenge-seeking felons.

Director: Herbert L. Strock | Stars: Broderick Crawford, Michael Garth, Meg Randall, Bill Page

Votes: 92

40. Highway Patrol (1955–1959)
Episode: Radioactive (1955)

TV-PG | 26 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Dan Mathews and his officers race against time to find a stolen oil indicator device that contains potentially lethal radioactive pellets.

Director: Paul Guilfoyle | Stars: Broderick Crawford, Jack Stang, Cyril Delevanti, George Meader

Votes: 104

41. Highway Patrol (1955–1959)
Episode: Mental Patient (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An escapee from a mental hospital is the primary suspect in the violent death of a farmer.

Director: Leon Benson | Stars: Broderick Crawford, Anthony George, Riza Royce, Frank Fenton

Votes: 96

42. I Led 3 Lives (1953–1956)
Episode: Housebreaking (1955)

30 min | Drama

Philbrick returns from vacation to find his house has been burgled. The comrades have broken in to check for any incriminating evidence linking him to the FBI.

Director: Henry S. Kesler | Stars: Richard Carlson, Virginia Stefan, John Zaremba, Robert Griffin

Votes: 8

43. Highway Patrol (1955–1959)
Episode: Escort (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Dan Mathews escorts a crusading senator to the scene of his hearings after he receives information that a prominent racketeer plans to murder him.

Director: Alvin Ganzer | Stars: Broderick Crawford, George Milan, Robert Griffin, Baynes Barron

Votes: 72

44. Highway Patrol (1955–1959)
Episode: Escaped Mental Patient (1957)

TV-PG | 30 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Dan Mathews and his officers must work quickly to capture a delusional and unpredictable escapee from a mental hospital.

Director: Paul Guilfoyle | Stars: Broderick Crawford, William Lally, William Anders, Robert Reese

Votes: 75

45. I Led 3 Lives (1953–1956)
Episode: Helping Hand (1953)

30 min | Drama

Philbrick receives a special assignment - pick up a man who has been smuggled into the country, obtain false credentials and introduce him to the Hollywood elite. The Communist ... See full summary »

Director: Eddie Davis | Stars: Richard Carlson, Virginia Stefan, Lester Sharpe, William O'Neal

Votes: 7

46. I Led 3 Lives (1953–1956)
Episode: Common Denominator (1955)

30 min | Drama

Philbrick is tested by a suspicious comrade who creates a false assassination scenario involving a visiting Latin American official.

Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Richard Carlson, Virginia Stefan, John Beradino, Hy Anzell