6 Best Milton Parsons Movies

By Vlad Zakh · August 23, 2026

Milton Parsons, with his gaunt features and hollow-eyed stare, spent decades typecast as morticians, butlers and sinister background figures. Marnie blackmails a compulsive thief into marriage, The Monster That Challenged the World awakens giant prehistoric mollusks at a naval base, Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome paralyses a city for a bank heist, and The Jackpot burdens a quiz show winner with tax and storage bills. Cry of the Werewolf and My Favorite Blonde round out the list.

Marnie (1964)

TMDB ★ 6.9

Milton Parsons is in this Hitchcock thriller about a compulsive thief whose new employer discovers her secret and blackmails her into marriage.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · 2h 10m · Rated PG

Where to watch

Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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The Monster That Challenged the World (1957)

TMDB ★ 5.4

Milton Parsons is in this sci-fi horror where a radioactive earthquake awakens giant prehistoric mollusks that terrorise a California naval base.

Directed by Arnold Laven · 1h 24m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Stream: Amazon Prime Video, ScreenPix Apple TV channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, ScreenPix Amazon Channel · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store

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The Jackpot (1950)

TMDB ★ 6.5

Milton Parsons features in this James Stewart comedy about a radio quiz show winner who discovers his prizes come with unexpectedly enormous tax and storage burdens.

Directed by Walter Lang · 1h 25m · Rated NR

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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)

TMDB ★ 5.9

Milton Parsons features in this detective film about a grotesque gangster who develops a gas that paralyses an entire city during a robbery.

Directed by John Rawlins · 1h 05m

Where to watch

Stream: Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel, Philo, MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel, MGM Plus · Rent: Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube, FlixFling · Buy: Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube

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Cry of the Werewolf (1944)

TMDB ★ 5.1

Milton Parsons appears in this horror about a gypsy queen's daughter who transforms into a werewolf to protect her clan's ancient secrets.

Directed by Henry Levin · 1h 03m

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My Favorite Blonde (1942)

TMDB ★ 6.9

Milton Parsons is in this Bob Hope comedy about a vaudeville performer who's mistaken for a spy and pursued across the country by enemy agents.

Directed by Sidney Lanfield · 1h 18m

Where to watch

Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Vlad Zakh

Founder, Movieix

Founder of Movieix. He started the site because most recommendation pages felt like noise. Here, lists are sorted by who's in the film, where it's from and what mood you're in tonight.

6 Best Milton Parsons Movies

Marnie (1964)

The Monster That Challenged the World (1957)

The Jackpot (1950)

Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)

Cry of the Werewolf (1944)

My Favorite Blonde (1942)

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