Cast: James Bell

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


Marty

1955 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast Ernest Borgnine · Betsy Blair · Esther Minciotti · Joe Mantell

Synopsis Marty (Ernest Borgnine) is a 34-year-old butcher whose Italian family is constantly after him to get married. He meets plain-looking schoolteacher Clara (Betsy Blair). They are both lonely, unglamorous people who have resigned themselves to their unloved lives. But they...

7.5

5K votes

7.5

5K votes

Dead Reckoning

1947 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Lizabeth Scott · Morris Carnovsky · Charles Cane

Synopsis After WWII, Rip Murdock's comrade in arms Johnny Drake disappears. Rip tries to track Johnny down and discovers a body burned beyond recognition that could be Johnny's. Rip discovers Johnny had been involved in a love triangle with Coral and...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

The Tin Star

1957 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Henry Fonda · Anthony Perkins · Betsy Palmer · Michel Ray

Synopsis Anthony Mann made some of the greatest Westerns of the 1950s, all in partnership with James Stewart. Perhaps needing to prove himself as his own man, in 1957 Mann dropped out of Night Passage to do this film. It's a...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

I Walked with a Zombie

1943 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast James Ellison · Frances Dee · Tom Conway · Edith Barrett

Synopsis Nurse Betsy Conwell takes up a position on the West Indies island of St Sebastian tending Jessica, the wife of plantation owner Paul Holland, whose mind has been burnt out by a tropical disease. But Betsy comes to fall in...

7.1

5K votes

7.1

5K votes

Crime Wave

1954 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction André De Toth

Cast Sterling Hayden · Gene Nelson · Phyllis Kirk · Ted de Corsia

Synopsis Three San Quentin escapees (Penny, Hastings and Morgan) kill a cop in a gas-station holdup. Wounded, Morgan flees through black-shadowed streets to the handiest refuge: with former cellmate Steve Lacey, who's paroled, with a new life and lovely wife, and...

7.0

658 votes

7.0

658 votes

Driftwood

1947 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Ruth Warrick · Walter Brennan · Dean Jagger · Charlotte Greenwood

Synopsis Six-year-old Jenny rescues a collie dog, the only survivor of a plane wreck. A tag on the dog's neck states that it is en route to a medical laboratory where its blood will be used for spotted fever vaccine. Dr....

6.9

40 votes

6.9

40 votes

The Glenn Miller Story

1953 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast James Stewart · June Allyson · Harry Morgan · Barton MacLane

Synopsis James Stewart, at his warmest and most avuncular, plays the bandleader who rocketed to fame during the swing era. The Glenn Miller Story may be a whitewashed version of Miller's life, but it certainly is a pleasant example of the...

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

The Leopard Man

1943 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Margo · Jean Brooks · Isabel Jewell

Synopsis At the encouragement of her manager, a nightclub performer in New Mexico (Kiki Walker) takes a leashed leopard into the club as a publicity gimmick. But her rival, angered by the attempt to upstage, scares the animal and it bolts....

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

Japanese War Bride

1952 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast Shirley Yamaguchi · Don Taylor · Cameron Mitchell · Marie Windsor

Synopsis Korean War veteran returns home to rural Salinas, California with his new Japanese wife, whom he met at a war hospital. The couple are forced to deal with the sometimes subtle, sometimes overt racism of his family and the townspeople,...

6.6

72 votes

6.6

72 votes

The Sea of Grass

1947 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Spencer Tracy · Katharine Hepburn · Robert Walker · Melvyn Douglas

Synopsis Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy star as a husband and wife on America's frontier; cattlemen in a "sea of grass". The wife has an affair which produces a child, and she is ostracized from the community. Meanwhile, the farmers watch...

6.6

687 votes

6.6

687 votes

Dial 1119

1950 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Gerald Mayer

Cast Marshall Thompson · Virginia Field · Andrea King · Sam Levene

Synopsis A former mental patient murders a bus driver, then takes refuge in a bar, where he holds the patrons hostage.

6.4

58 votes

6.4

58 votes

Holiday Inn

1942 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Bing Crosby · Fred Astaire · Marjorie Reynolds · Virginia Dale

Synopsis Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after femme fatale Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club, Holiday Inn, is the setting for...

6.3

230 votes

6.3

230 votes

The Company She Keeps

1951 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Lizabeth Scott · Jane Greer · Dennis O'Keefe · Fay Baker

Synopsis An ex-convict meets a handsome man and they begin seeing one another. Jeopardizing their relationship are that she has not told him she was in prison and that he is also involved with her parole officer.

6.2

154 votes

6.2

154 votes

Private Detective 62

1933 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast William Powell · Margaret Lindsay · Ruth Donnelly · Gordon Westcott

Synopsis A private eye in Paris falls for the beautiful gambling lady he''s investigating.

5.9

32 votes

5.9

32 votes

White Woman

1933 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Walker

Cast Carole Lombard · Charles Laughton · Charles Bickford · Kent Taylor

Synopsis A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is cruel, vicious and insanely jealous. She and the plantation's overseer develop a mutual...

5.8

21 votes

5.8

21 votes

Flying Leathernecks

1951 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast John Wayne · Robert Ryan · Don Taylor · Janis Carter

Synopsis Major Daniel Kirby takes command of a squadron of Marine fliers just before they are about to go into combat. While the men are well meaning, he finds them undisciplined and prone to always finding excuses to do what is...

5.8

658 votes

5.8

658 votes

Roughshod

1949 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Robert Sterling · Gloria Grahame · Claude Jarman Jr. · John Ireland

Synopsis Wrangler Clay Phillips and his young brother are taking horses to Sonora when they come across four dancehall girls heading the same way, stuck with a wrecked buggy. He takes the girls on to the nearest ranch, where it turns...

5.7

41 votes

5.7

41 votes

5.7

29 votes

Blood on the Sun

1945 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast James Cagney · Sylvia Sidney · Wallace Ford · Rosemary DeCamp

Synopsis Cagney is a crusading newspaper editor in 1930s Japan who's come into possession of the "Tanaka Plan" for world domination. Amidst political intrigue and crossed loyalties, Cagney must now find a way to warn the outside world.

5.7

546 votes

5.7

546 votes

Posse from Hell

1961 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Herbert Coleman

Cast Audie Murphy · John Saxon · Zohra Lampert · Vic Morrow

Synopsis Banner Cole is a tough sheriff's deputy who forms a small posse to go after 4 death cell escapees who killed the sheriff , along with 3 other men, and kidnapped a woman with rape in mind.

5.6

75 votes

5.6

75 votes