6 Best Trevor Bardette Movies

By Vlad Zakh · August 16, 2026

Trevor Bardette brought a weathered, authoritative presence to decades of Hollywood westerns, noirs and science fiction. The Monolith Monsters grows crystalline monoliths from a meteorite, Flight to Mars lands astronauts in a hidden civilisation plotting invasion, Macao mistakes a drifter for an undercover cop, and Run for Cover struggles to earn a frontier town’s trust. Silver River and Dick Tracy round out the list.

The Monolith Monsters (1957)

TMDB ★ 6.2

Trevor Bardette features in this sci-fi story where a mysterious meteorite unleashes rapidly growing crystalline monoliths.

Directed by John Sherwood · 1h 17m

Where to watch

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

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Run for Cover (1955)

TMDB ★ 6.5

A wrongly accused drifter and his young companion struggle to earn the trust of a suspicious town.

Directed by Nicholas Ray · 1h 33m · Rated NR

Where to watch

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

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Macao (1952)

TMDB ★ 6.4

A drifter is mistaken for an undercover cop while entangled with a nightclub singer and a gambling boss.

Directed by Josef von Sternberg · 1h 21m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Stream: HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Flight to Mars (1951)

TMDB ★ 4.9

A team of astronauts crash-lands on Mars and discovers a hidden civilisation plotting to invade Earth.

Directed by Lesley Selander · 1h 12m

Where to watch

Stream: FlixFling, Eternal Family, Bloodstream · Rent: FlixFling, Bloodstream · Buy: FlixFling

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Silver River (1948)

TMDB ★ 6.3

A disgraced Union officer builds a ruthless silver mining empire in the post-war American West.

Directed by Raoul Walsh · 1h 50m · Rated NR

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Dick Tracy (1945)

TMDB ★ 6.0

A determined police detective hunts a disfigured serial killer terrorising the city's underworld.

Directed by William Berke · 1h 01m

Where to watch

Stream: fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel, Philo, MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel, MGM Plus, Pure Flix · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home, FlixFling

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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 Trevor Bardette Movies

The Monolith Monsters (1957)

Run for Cover (1955)

Macao (1952)

Flight to Mars (1951)

Silver River (1948)

Dick Tracy (1945)

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