Cast: Blanche Yurka

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


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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Not rated