Cast: John Craven

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


Direction Alan Crosland Jr.

Cast James Coburn · John Anderson · Josie Lloyd · John Craven

Synopsis In a post-apocalyptic settlement in 1974, the inhabitants' survival is dependent on the advice of an unseen man living in a nearby cave. This dependence is tested when a band of soldiers descends on their town.

6.4

64 votes

6.4

64 votes

The Human Comedy

1943 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Mickey Rooney · Frank Morgan · James Craig · Marsha Hunt

Synopsis Recently-deceased Matthew Macauley looks down upon his family in small-town Ithaca, where eldest son Marcus has departed to await deployment for combat in the Second World War. This leaves middle son Homer to support the family, working at a telegraph...

6.2

143 votes

6.2

143 votes

Count the Hours

1953 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Macdonald Carey · Teresa Wright · Dolores Moran · Adele Mara

Synopsis Lawyer defends migrant worker falsely accused of 2 murders.

6.2

167 votes

6.2

167 votes

The Purple Heart

1944 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Dana Andrews · Richard Conte · Farley Granger · Kevin O'Shea

Synopsis Four months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a group of American flyers take part in the first U.S. air retaliation attack against Japan - and crash-land into history's most astounding prisoner-of-war story!

5.7

89 votes

5.7

89 votes

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

1943 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Willis Goldbeck

Cast Lionel Barrymore · Van Johnson · Keye Luke · Alma Kruger

Synopsis When Roy, a homicidal maniac was put away for murder, Gillespie tried to get him committed to an insane asylum instead. Now the guy's ex-fiancee wants to marry a soldier, and she goes to Gillespie for advice about Roy. Meanwhile,...

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Best Friends on a Summer Hike

2023 · Movie · 8 min. · Brazil

Direction Mario Furloni

Cast John Craven · Charles Shaw Robinson

Synopsis A cautionary tale.

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Security Risk

1954 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Harold D. Schuster

Cast John Ireland · Dorothy Malone · Keith Larsen · Dolores Donlon

Synopsis Sking at a Big Bear resort are Dr. Lanson, an atomic scientist, Ted Nolan, Donna Weeks and her unscrupulous sister, Peggy. Also there are Joan Cochran, Burke and Johnny, young communists out to steal Lanson's papers. As they plot and...

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Battle Stations

1956 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast John Lund · William Bendix · Keefe Brasselle · Richard Boone

Synopsis A rebuilt WWII carrier sails back to the Pacific theater to rejoin the war in early 1945, a carrier the Japanese think they sank. So if she shows up again, they will go after her with a vengeance. And they...

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Meet the People

1944 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Charles Reisner

Cast Lucille Ball · Dick Powell · Virginia O'Brien · Bert Lahr

Synopsis Shipyard worker Bill Swanson writes a wartime play celebrating the American spirit. He meets theatre actress Julie Hampton, visiting the shipyard on a bond drive, and convinces her to read his patriotic opus. Enthusiastic at its potential, Julie is able...

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Direction John Newland

Cast Barbara Lord · Isobel Elsom · Patrick MacNee · Gavin Gordon

Synopsis A young Englishwoman is suddenly wracked by dreams of drowning in the ocean. She is stunned when her fiancée tells her that he has prepared a surprise honeymoon trip for them--they're sailing to New York on the passenger liner Titanic.

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Someone to Remember

1943 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Mabel Paige · Harry Shannon · John Craven · Dorothy Morris

Synopsis An elderly woman whose son disappeared years before refuses to move when her apartment building is turned into a college dormitory for male students, as she is convinced that he will return one day. She continues to live in the...

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Direction Norman Lloyd

Cast Barry Gordon · Glenn Walken · John Craven · Alfred Hitchcock

Synopsis When a young boy reports a mob beating to the police, and his father does not encourage him, he is adversely affected for the rest of his life.

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Navy Wife

1956 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Edward Bernds

Cast Joan Bennett · Gary Merrill · Judy Nugent · Maurice Manson

Synopsis Japanese women, seeng how well American soldiers stationed in their country treat their wives, demand the same from their husbands.

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Freeland

2020 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Mario Furloni · Kate McLean

Cast Krisha Fairchild · Lily Gladstone · George Psarras · Frank Mosley

Synopsis An aging pot farmer finds her world shattered as she races to bring in what could be her final harvest.

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Swell Guy

1946 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast Sonny Tufts · Ann Blyth · Ruth Warrick · William Gargan

Synopsis Drama of a shiftless and lazy war correspondent who swindles the whole town until his mother exposes him. He dies saving the only boy he cares for.

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Flight to Nowhere

1946 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction William Rowland

Cast Alan Curtis · Evelyn Ankers · Micheline Cheirel · Jack Holt

Synopsis Alan Curtis plays Holby Carrington, a pilot who owns a charter aircraft. A dodgy party of well to do people charter his plane to go to Death Valley but it soon becomes apparent that there is something brewing with a...

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Newsround (TV Series)

1972 · Series · 10 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ben Bawden · Richard Turley · Lizzy Lambley · Kelley Axton

Cast John Craven · Ricky Boleto · Leah Gooding · Joe Tidy

Synopsis TV Series (1972-2010). John Craven (and latterly other presenters) introduce news stories and other articles of interest to its young audience. The programme is aimed at 6 to 12-year-olds.

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Cast Noel Edmonds · Keith Chegwin · John Craven · Maggie Philbin

Synopsis TV Series (1976-1982).

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