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
Direction Robert Florey
Cast Bela Lugosi · Sidney Fox · Leon Ames · Bert Roach
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