Cast: Blanche Yurka
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Blanche Yurka. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 17
A Tale of Two Cities
1935 · Movie · 128 min. · United States
Direction Jack Conway
Cast Ronald Colman · Elizabeth Allan · Edna May Oliver · Reginald Owen
Synopsis An elaborate adaptation of Dickens' classic tale of the French Revolution. Dissipated lawyer Sydney Carton defends emigre Charles Darnay from charges of spying against England. He becomes enamored of Darnay's fiancée, Lucie Manette, and agrees to help her save Darnay...
7.1
630 votes
7.1
630 votes
City for Conquest
1940 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Anatole Litvak
Cast James Cagney · Ann Sheridan · Anthony Quinn · Frank Craven
Synopsis Cagney is Danny Kenny, a truck driver who enters "the fight game" and Sheridan his former girlfriend, Peggy. While Danny is realizing success in the ring, he is blinded by acid on the boxing gloves of his opponent during a...
7.0
313 votes
7.0
313 votes
The Furies
1950 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Anthony Mann
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Wendell Corey · Walter Huston · Judith Anderson
Synopsis The 1870s, New Mexico territory: T.C. Jeffords is a cattle baron who built his ranch, the Furies, from scratch. He borrows from banks, pays hired hands with his own script ("T.C.'s"), and carries on low-level warfare with the Mexicans who...
7.0
550 votes
7.0
550 votes
The Southerner
1945 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Jean Renoir
Cast Zachary Scott · Betty Field · J. Carrol Naish · Beulah Bondi
Synopsis Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle disease, a flood, and a jealous neighbor. Can they make it as...
6.9
542 votes
6.9
542 votes
13 Rue Madeleine
1946 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Henry Hathaway
Cast James Cagney · Annabella · E.G. Marshall · Richard Conte
Synopsis A neat World War II thriller, 13 Rue Madeleine benefits from the postwar craze for shooting outside the studio. With Quebec doubling for occupied France, this is a spy movie with a sense of open air. James Cagney plays an...
6.5
506 votes
6.5
506 votes
Escape
1940 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Mervyn LeRoy
Cast Norma Shearer · Robert Taylor · Conrad Veidt · Alla Nazimova
Synopsis An American goes to Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of a German countess he engineers her escape.
6.4
43 votes
6.4
43 votes
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1944 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Rowland V. Lee
Cast Lynn Bari · Akim Tamiroff · Francis Lederer · Alla Nazimova
Synopsis An ancient Inca rope bridge spanning a chasm in the Peruvian Andes collapses, sending five travelers to their deaths in the gorge below. A monk who was nearby, Father Juniper, decides to investigate the lives of those who died in...
5.6
24 votes
5.6
24 votes
Lady for a Night
1942 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Leigh Jason
Cast Joan Blondell · John Wayne · Ray Middleton · Philip Merivale
Synopsis Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society. When her husband is killed in an attempt on her life, she is charged with his murder.
5.4
46 votes
5.4
46 votes
Cry of the Werewolf
1944 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction Henry Levin
Cast Nina Foch · Stephen Crane · Osa Massen · Blanche Yurka
Synopsis Young woman raised by gypsies is actually daughter of a werewolf. She starts killing those who know about her.
4.8
22 votes
4.8
22 votes
Thunder in the Sun
1959 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Russell Rouse
Cast Susan Hayward · Jeff Chandler · Jacques Bergerac · Blanche Yurka
Synopsis A western about a wagon train of french Basque immigrants -running away from the Napoleonic Wars to America- making its way through Indian territory with a cargo of special vines so they can start a vineyard in the "new world".
4.8
216 votes
4.8
216 votes
Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
1941 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction James P. Hogan
Cast Ralph Bellamy · Margaret Lindsay · Charley Grapewin · Mona Barrie
Synopsis Ellery and his police-inspector father (Charley Grapewin) are summoned to a private hospital by its owner, philanthropist Mrs. Stack (Blanche Yurka). There’ve been some very weird goings-on at the hospital as of late, and Mrs. Stack wants to get to...
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Pacific Rendezvous
1942 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction George Sidney
Cast Lee Bowman · Jean Rogers · Mona Maris · Carl Esmond
Synopsis A code expert working for Naval Intelligence is assigned to decode enemy messages despite his desire for active duty.
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Queen of the Mob
1940 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction James P. Hogan
Cast Ralph Bellamy · Blanche Yurka · J. Carrol Naish · Jeanne Cagney
Synopsis Infamous Ma Webster rules her clan of mobsters – mainly consisting of her three more or less criminally inclined sons – with an iron hand and without mercy. She is the terror of Centre City. She refuses to let anyone...
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One Body Too Many
1944 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Frank McDonald
Cast Jack Haley · Jean Parker · Bela Lugosi · Blanche Yurka
Synopsis A timid insurance salesman Albert L. Tuttle (Jack Haley) decides to place a call upon an eccentric recluse at his mansion only to find that he has just died. What he also finds is a home full of relatives who...
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The Flame
1947 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction John H. Auer
Cast John Carroll · Vera Ralston · Robert Paige · Broderick Crawford
Synopsis George McAllister, the black sheep of a wealthy family who has squandered his share of the family inheritance, and lives in constant jealousy, hatred and resentment of his half-brother Barry, who has been supporting him. George gets his girl friend,...
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Tonight We Raid Calais
1943 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction John Brahm
Cast Annabella · John Sutton · Lee J. Cobb · Beulah Bondi
Synopsis British Intellengence dispatches Commando Geoffrey Carter on a one-man raid to destroy a munitions plant that manufactures bombs in Nazi-occupied France. He enlists the aid of a patriotic farmer, M. Bonnard, that lives near the plant, over the objections of...
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Taxi
1953 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Gregory Ratoff
Cast Dan Dailey · Constance Smith · Neva Patterson · Blanche Yurka
Synopsis A New York cab driver helps an Irish immigrant girl with a baby, locate her missing husband.
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