Cast: James Gleason

Direction Charles Laughton

Cast Robert Mitchum · Billy Chapin · Sally Ann Bruce · Shelley Winters

Synopsis A schizophrenic preacher (Robert Mitchum) - possibly the devil himself - relentlessly hunts two small children (Billy Chapin and Sally Jane Bruce) across the Depression-era Bible Belt to get at their dead fathers stolen fortune.

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Gary Cooper · Barbara Stanwyck · Edward Arnold · Walter Brennan

Synopsis Gary Cooper stars as a nobody hired by a newspaper as part of a stunt to play a man that says he will commit suicide Christmas Eve because he's tired of how people have forgotten each other. Barbara Stanwyck stars...

Direction John Ford

Cast Spencer Tracy · Jeffrey Hunter · Dianne Foster · Basil Rathbone

Synopsis An aging politician tries to get re-elected one last time in the changing world of the 1950s when TV started to play a bigger part in politics. Based loosely on the career of multi-term Boston Mayor James Michael Curley, this...

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Dorothy McGuire · James Dunn · Joan Blondell · Peggy Ann Garner

Synopsis An outstanding film version of Betty Smith's novel about the hardships facing an Irish family living in a turn-of-the-century Brooklyn tenement. McGuire is splendid as the mother, with an Oscar-winning performance by Dunn as her alcoholic husband. Garner won a...

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Charles Boyer · Rita Hayworth · Thomas Mitchell · Ginger Rogers

Synopsis A formal tailcoat that gets passed from one owner to another affects each life in a significant way.

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Robert Montgomery · Evelyn Keyes · Claude Rains · Rita Johnson

Synopsis Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him...

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Judy Garland · Robert Walker · James Gleason · Keenan Wynn

Synopsis Soldier Joe Allen is on a two-day leave in New York, and there he meets Alice. She agrees to show him the sights and they spend the day together. In this short time they find themselves falling in love with...

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Cary Grant · Loretta Young · David Niven · Monty Woolley

Synopsis A harassed bishop's prayers are answered when an angel (played by Cary Grant) is sent from heaven to help him raise money for a new church. The heavenly agent performs a number of miracles on his behalf, restoring hope to...

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast James Cagney · Phyllis Thaxter · Raymond Massey · James Gleason

Synopsis Alcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley Dolan. After six years on the wagon he gets his job back and devotes himself to other recovering alcoholics. His boss enlists his help to sober...

Direction Jack Arnold

Cast Jeff Chandler · Orson Welles · Colleen Miller · Ben Alexander

Synopsis Virgil Renchler owns most of the town providing a thriving economy. When he goes too far and kills one of his migrant workmen, the sheriff goes after him even if it means his job and everyone else's.

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Vera Miles · Ward Bond · James Gleason

Synopsis A small town sports writer attending the World Series recognizes a young ballplayer as the son of former baseball hero who was banned for throwing a game.

Direction Irving Rapper

Cast Ginger Rogers · William Holden · Paul Douglas · Pat Crowley

Synopsis Playwright Stanley Krown has a terrific new play. It's got a great part for reigning Broadway star Beatrice Page, and a young actress named Sally Carver will do just about anything to get the ingénue lead. The problem is that...

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Spencer Tracy · Irene Dunne · Van Johnson · Ward Bond

Synopsis A sentimental, patriotic (if not propagandistic) Hollywood fantasy about a dead World War II bomber pilot, Maj. Pete Sandidge (Tracy) who becomes guardian angel to another pilot, Capt. Ted Randall (Johnson), guiding Randall through battle and helping him to romance...

Direction Lewis Allen

Cast Frank Sinatra · Sterling Hayden · James Gleason · Nancy Gates

Synopsis Three paid hit-men arrive at a small California town to await the president's arrival by train for his annual fishing trip. Their plan is to assassinate him. To do so, they find a house on a hill with a great...

Direction Frank Tashlin

Cast Jerry Lewis · Marilyn Maxwell · Salvatore Baccaloni · Connie Stevens

Synopsis Clayton Poole (Jerry Lewis) is a big fan of glamorous movie star Carla Naples (Marilyn Maxwell), a recent widow who gives birth to triplets--a fact she wants kept hush-hush since she's starring as a virgin in a religious epic. So...

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Lionel Barrymore · Norma Shearer · Clark Gable · Leslie Howard

Synopsis Stephen Ashe, an upper class alcoholic defense attourney, successfully defends local mobster Ace Wilfong in a murder case. After his daughter Jan Ashe breaks her engagement to polo player Dwight Winthrop and starts an affair with Wilfong, she finds that...

Direction Busby Berkeley

Cast Mickey Rooney · Judy Garland · Fay Bainter · Virginia Weidler

Synopsis After four months of floundering attempts to get into a Broadway show, Tommy Williams grasps the opportunity to produce a charity show to take city orphans on a trip to the country. With his new girlfriend, Penny, he and his...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Bing Crosby · Coleen Gray · Charles Bickford · Frances Gifford

Synopsis RIDING HIGH is Frank Capra's remake of his own 1934 film Broadway Bill (AKA Strictly Confidential), in which romance and comedy play out against the backdrop of thoroughbred horse racing. Real-life racing enthusiast Bing Crosby takes over Warner Baxter's starring...

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Rita Hayworth · Larry Parks · Marc Platt · Roland Culver

Synopsis Upset about a new Broadway musical's mockery of Greek mythology, the goddess Terpsichore comes down to earth and lands a part in the show. She works her charms on the show's producer and he incorporates her changes into the show....

Direction John Ford

Cast James Cagney · Corinne Calvet · Dan Dailey · William Demarest

Synopsis James Cagney signed on to play Captain Flagg in 20th Century Fox's 1952 remake of the 1926 classic What Price Glory after being told that the old property was being converted into a musical. By the time Cagney learned that...