Cast: Brian Donlevy
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Brian Donlevy. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 87
Hangmen Also Die!
1943 · Movie · 131 min. · United States
Direction Fritz Lang
Cast Brian Donlevy · Walter Brennan · Anna Lee · Gene Lockhart
Synopsis An apocryphal version of the assassination of the Nazi leader and Czech "protector" Reinhard Heydrich by a resistance fighter in World War II. The story follows the assassin as he evades the widening Nazi dragnet, protected by his fellow Czechs...
7.7
3K votes
7.7
3K votes
Hold Back the Dawn
1941 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Charles Boyer · Olivia de Havilland · Paulette Goddard · Victor Francen
Synopsis Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown...
7.6
1K votes
7.6
1K votes
Beau Geste
1939 · Movie · 114 min. · United States
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast Gary Cooper · Ray Milland · Robert Preston · Brian Donlevy
Synopsis BEAU GESTE begins with a framed scene of a mounted column approaching Fort Zinderneuf in the desert of French Morocco. No one answers Colonel de Beaujolais's signal. Someone fires shots at his feet. When he points out that the troopers...
7.5
4K votes
7.5
4K votes
Kiss of Death
1947 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Henry Hathaway
Cast Victor Mature · Richard Widmark · Brian Donlevy · Coleen Gray
Synopsis Nick Bianco is a small-time hoodlum and thief who is shot and arrested after he and three others hold up an exclusive jewelry store. The District Attorney, Louis D'Angelo offers to go easy on him if he'll implicate his fellow...
7.3
2K votes
7.3
2K votes
High Tension
1936 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction Allan Dwan
Cast Brian Donlevy · Glenda Farrell · Norman Foster · Helen Wood
Synopsis Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
7.3
25 votes
7.3
25 votes
Woman They Almost Lynched
1953 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Allan Dwan
Cast John Lund · Brian Donlevy · Audrey Totter · Joan Leslie
Synopsis Kate Quantrill (Audrey Totter), wife of infamous Confederate raider Quantrill (Brian Donlevy), and Sally Maris (Joan Leslie), virginal sister of Kate's ex-lover, saloonkeeper Bitteroot Bill (Reed Hadley). Sally herself falls in love with Lance Horton (John Lund), ostensibly a mine...
7.3
47 votes
7.3
47 votes
Jesse James
1939 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Henry King
Cast Tyrone Power · Henry Fonda · Nancy Kelly · Randolph Scott
Synopsis The railroads are squeezing farmers off their land. When a railroad agent kills their mother, Frank and Jesse James take up robbing banks and trains. The public regard them as heroes. Highly fictionalised account of Jesse James and his exploits.
7.2
1K votes
7.2
1K votes
The Big Combo
1955 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Joseph H. Lewis
Cast Cornel Wilde · Richard Conte · Brian Donlevy · Jean Wallace
Synopsis Police Lt. Diamond (Cornel Wilde) is told to close his surveillance of suspected mob boss Mr. Brown (Richard Conte) because it's costing the department too much money with no results. Diamond makes one last attempt to uncover evidence against Brown...
7.2
1K votes
7.2
1K votes
Destry Rides Again
1939 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction George Marshall
Cast Marlene Dietrich · James Stewart · Irene Hervey · Mischa Auer
Synopsis Kent, the unscrupulous boss of Bottleneck has Sheriff Keogh killed when he asks one too many questions about a rigged poker game that gives Kent a stranglehold over the local cattle rangers. The mayor, who is in cahoots with Kent...
7.1
1K votes
7.1
1K votes
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
1944 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Preston Sturges
Cast Eddie Bracken · Betty Hutton · Diana Lynn · William Demarest
Synopsis Preston Sturges directs THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK, about Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton) a party girl who wakes up one morning to find she's married and pregnant, but she cannot remember who, of six possible American soldiers, is the lucky...
7.1
651 votes
7.1
651 votes
The Great McGinty
1940 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Preston Sturges
Cast Brian Donlevy · Muriel Angelus · Akim Tamiroff · Allyn Joslyn
Synopsis Writer-director Preston Sturges first film tells of the rise and fall of Dan McGinty which begins when he endears himself to the political machine by voting 37 times in a single election: his spectacular career ends as a bartender in...
7.0
478 votes
7.0
478 votes
Union Pacific
1939 · Movie · 133 min. · United States
Direction Cecil B. DeMille
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Joel McCrea · Akim Tamiroff · Robert Preston
Synopsis This is Cecil B. De Mille's version of the trouble and hardships involved in the building of the famous transcontinental railroad. Jeff Butler is hired to insure that the Union Pacific is completed and arrives at its destination in Ogden...
6.9
659 votes
6.9
659 votes
Barbary Coast
1935 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Howard Hawks
Cast Miriam Hopkins · Edward G. Robinson · Joel McCrea · Walter Brennan
Synopsis Year 1849 in the Gold Rush era. Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiance dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Louis Charnalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s....
6.8
583 votes
6.8
583 votes
Canyon Passage
1946 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Jacques Tourneur
Cast Dana Andrews · Brian Donlevy · Susan Hayward · Patricia Roc
Synopsis In 1856, backwoods businessman Logan Stuart escorts Lucy Overmire, his friend's fiancée, back home to remote Jacksonville, Oregon; in the course of the hard journey, Lucy is attracted to Logan, whose heart seems to belong to another. Once arrived in...
6.8
724 votes
6.8
724 votes
An American Romance
1944 · Movie · 121 min. · United States
Direction King Vidor
Cast Brian Donlevy · Ann Richards · John Qualen · Walter Abel
Synopsis Stefan Dangos (Brian Donlevy) immigrates to America from the Czech Republic and works his way up from the iron mines and steel mills to become a great American success story as an industrialist.
6.8
111 votes
6.8
111 votes
In Old Chicago
1938 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Henry King
Cast Tyrone Power · Alice Faye · Don Ameche · Alice Brady
Synopsis Story of the great fire of 1871. Fictional story of two sons of Mrs. O'Leary (the owner of the cow which started the fire), one a rogue (Power) the other a lawyer (Ameche). One of the most expensive films of...
6.6
340 votes
6.6
340 votes
Impact
1949 · Movie · 111 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Lubin
Cast Brian Donlevy · Ella Raines · Charles Coburn · Helen Walker
Synopsis No-nonsense San Francisco industrial whiz Walter Williams's two-timing wife and her lover plot to do her husband in, but Williams survives the attack and the lover is burned beyond recognition while driving Williams's car. Half-dazed, Williams stumbles into a moving...
6.6
285 votes
6.6
285 votes
The Great Man's Lady
1942 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Joel McCrea · Brian Donlevy · K.T. Stevens
Synopsis A 100-year-old pioneer woman tells her story in flashbacks.
6.6
178 votes
6.6
178 votes
The Creeping Unknown
1955 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Val Guest
Cast Brian Donlevy · Jack Warner · Margia Dean · Richard Wordsworth
Synopsis Britain's first rocket has been successfully launched and returns to Earth but communication has been severed.
6.5
2K votes
6.5
2K votes
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964 · Documentary · 90 min. · United States
Direction Robert Youngson
Cast Clark Gable · Greta Garbo · Jean Harlow · Cary Grant
Synopsis A compilation of scenes from classic MGM comedies from the silent era up to 1948's "A Southern Yankee." Among the films showcased are "The Thin Man," "A Night at the Opera," "Dinner at Eight" and "Bonnie Scotland."
6.5
24 votes
6.5
24 votes