Cast: Leon Ames

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Leon Ames. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Angel Face

1952 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Robert Mitchum · Jean Simmons · Mona Freeman · Herbert Marshall

Plot Jean Simmons' fascinating interpretation of an uncharacteristic role is the main drawing card of Otto Preminger's Angel Face. The daughter of Charles Treymayne, who remarried a wealthy woman, Diane Treymayne's...

7.7

7K votes

7.7

7K votes

The Postman Always Rings Twice

1946 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Lana Turner · John Garfield · Cecil Kellaway · Hume Cronyn

Plot Set during the Depression, this story concerns an older man and his attractive young wife, who take on drifter Frank Chambers (John Garfield) as an employee at their roadside cafe....

7.6

17K votes

7.6

17K votes

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1970 · Movie · 143 min. · United States

Direction Richard Fleischer · Kinji Fukasaku · Toshio Masuda

Cast Martin Balsam · Sô Yamamura · Joseph Cotten · Tatsuya Mihashi

Plot In 1941 the Japanese are at odds with the United States on a number of issues which they are attempting to resolve via their Washington embassy. In case this diplomacy...

7.2

13K votes

7.2

13K votes

Meet Me in St. Louis

1944 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Judy Garland · Margaret O'Brien · Mary Astor · Lucille Bremer

Plot St. Louis 1903. The well-off Smith family has four beautiful daughters, including Esther and little Tootie. 17-year old Esther has fallen in love with the boy next door who has...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

Scene of the Crime

1949 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Van Johnson · Arlene Dahl · Gloria DeHaven · Tom Drake

Plot Homicide detective Mike Conovan investigates the shooting of fellow detective Monigan...who apparrently was moonlighting as guard for a bookie. He finds that all the bookies in town are being robbed,...

6.9

40 votes

6.9

40 votes

Little Women

1949 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast June Allyson · Elizabeth Taylor · Peter Lawford · Janet Leigh

Plot Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil war, the sisters: Jo, Meg,...

6.9

5K votes

6.9

5K votes

Battleground

1949 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Van Johnson · John Hodiak · Ricardo Montalban · George Murphy

Plot December, 1944. The Nazis, in the face of the onrushing Allies, turned and pushed into the Ardennes Forest in Belgium and Luxembourg for what would be their last major offensive...

6.8

645 votes

6.8

645 votes

Peyton Place

1957 · Movie · 162 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Lana Turner · Lee Philips · Lloyd Nolan · Arthur Kennedy

Plot A story set in a small New England village whose peaceful facade hides love and passion, scandal and hypocrisy. Allison, a beautiful high school student and aspiring writer, struggles to...

6.8

765 votes

6.8

765 votes

Anchors Aweigh

1945 · Movie · 139 min. · United States

Direction George Sidney

Cast Gene Kelly · Frank Sinatra · Kathryn Grayson · José Iturbi

Plot Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra teamed up for their first of three musical comedies in this frothy confection of sailors on leave in Hollywood, with gawky, shy young Sinatra tagging...

6.7

2K votes

6.7

2K votes

They Were Expendable

1945 · Movie · 136 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Robert Montgomery · John Wayne · Donna Reed · Ward Bond

Plot In the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the members of a PT boat squadron patrol Philippine waters and attack Japanese ships. The PT boat initially had little...

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

Quick Millions

1931 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Rowland Brown

Cast Spencer Tracy · Marguerite Churchill · Sally Eilers · Bob Burns

Plot Truck driver Bugs Raymond organizes the trucking associations and takes protection money. Now rich, he decides to marry socialite Dorothy Stone. She rejects him for another, so he makes plans...

6.6

42 votes

6.6

42 votes

The Velvet Touch

1948 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Jack Gage

Cast Rosalind Russell · Leo Genn · Claire Trevor · Sydney Greenstreet

Plot Broadway star Valerie Stanton, breaking up with her producer-lover Gordon Dunning, unintentionally kills him. In flashback, she recalls meeting new flame Michael Morrell, and Dunning's machinations leading to the fatal...

6.5

69 votes

6.5

69 votes

The Happy Years

1950 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Dean Stockwell · Darryl Hickman · Scotty Beckett · Margalo Gillmore

Plot Friends and family try to tame an unruly student at the turn of the century.

6.4

51 votes

6.4

51 votes

Dial 1119

1950 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Gerald Mayer

Cast Marshall Thompson · Virginia Field · Andrea King · Sam Levene

Plot A former mental patient murders a bus driver, then takes refuge in a bar, where he holds the patrons hostage.

6.4

58 votes

6.4

58 votes

Ambush

1950 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Robert Taylor · John Hodiak · Arlene Dahl · Jean Hagen

Plot Robert Taylor is a scout, John Hodiak is the captain and Don Taylor is the lieutenant who is in love with another man´s wife. Arlene Dahl is searching for her...

6.4

69 votes

6.4

69 votes

Murders in the Rue Morgue

1932 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

6.3

1K votes

6.3

1K votes

Suez

1938 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Tyrone Power · Loretta Young · Annabella · J. Edward Bromberg

Plot De Lesseps is a young aristocrat who conceives the idea for the Suez Canal. When Napoleon fails him, the British show interest. Though the production values make the film entertaining...

6.3

225 votes

6.3

225 votes

Hammersmith Is Out

1972 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Peter Ustinov

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Richard Burton · Peter Ustinov · Beau Bridges

Plot Odd comedy update of the Faust legend. Mental patient Sir Richard (aka "Hammersmith") promises orderly Bridges untold wealth if only he release him from a padded cell. Liz ends up...

6.3

59 votes

6.3

59 votes

The Thin Man Goes Home

1944 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast William Powell · Myrna Loy · Gloria DeHaven · Lucile Watson

Plot Nick and Nora head to Nick's hometown of Sycamore Springs to spend some time with his parents. His father, a prominent local physician, was always a bit disappointed with Nick's...

6.3

125 votes

6.3

125 votes

From the Terrace

1960 · Movie · 144 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Paul Newman · Joanne Woodward · Ina Balin · Myrna Loy

Plot Based on the novel by John O'Hara, From the Terrace tells the tale of Alfred Eaton, a man whose marriage is crumbling from neglect as he climbs the ladder of...

6.3

775 votes

6.3

775 votes