Cast: John Qualen

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Ingrid Bergman · Paul Henreid · Claude Rains

Synopsis In Casablanca (1942), Rick Blaine, a cynical American expatriate, runs a popular nightclub in the Moroccan city during World War II. When his former lover, Ilsa Lund, unexpectedly arrives with her husband, Victor Laszlo, a renowned resistance leader, Rick's world...

Direction John Ford

Cast Henry Fonda · Jane Darwell · John Carradine · Charley Grapewin

Synopsis When Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) returns home after being released from prison, he discovers his family has been kicked out of their farm. Seeking a better future, he leaves with his mother (Jane Darwell) and the rest of the family...

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · James Stewart · Vera Miles · Lee Marvin

Synopsis Congressman Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) returns with his wife Hallie (Vera Miles) to the tiny town of Shinbone to bury an old friend, Tom Doniphon (John Wayne), and tells reporters the truth about how he came to be known as...

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Natalie Wood · Jeffrey Hunter · Ward Bond

Synopsis The Searchers (1956) follows Ethan Edwards, a hardened Civil War veteran, who returns to his brother's Texas ranch. After a Comanche raid leaves his family dead and his niece Debbie abducted, Ethan embarks on a relentless years-long quest to find...

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Cary Grant · Rosalind Russell · Ralph Bellamy · Gene Lockhart

Synopsis His Girl Friday (1940) is a fast-paced screwball comedy that follows ace reporter Hildy Johnson as she plans to leave journalism to marry her fiancé and start a new life. However, her charismatic and scheming ex-husband and editor, Walter Burns,...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Karen Morley · Tom Keene · Barbara Pepper · Addison Richards

Synopsis John and Mary sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a...

Direction Guy Green

Cast Elizabeth Hartman · Sidney Poitier · Shelley Winters · Wallace Ford

Synopsis A young blind woman, living with her prostitute mother and sheltered inside most of her life, meets a black man, who, resisting family pressures, falls in love with her, puts her into a school for the blind, and promises to...

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Paul Newman · Edward G. Robinson · Elke Sommer · Anna Lee

Synopsis In The Prize (1963), Nobel laureates gather in Stockholm for the prestigious awards ceremony. Among them is American writer Andrew Craig, a cynical and disillusioned author who struggles with alcoholism. As the festivities unfold, Craig becomes entangled in a web...

Direction Hugo Haas

Cast Hugo Haas · Cleo Moore · Lance Fuller · Lucille Barkley

Synopsis Bit player Sherry Stewart gets miffed when director Walter Darman turns her down after she reads for a small part in his picture. She and her boy friend, Ronnie, devise a plan to lure Darman to her apartment, where she...

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast John Wayne · Dean Martin · Martha Hyer · Michael Anderson Jr.

Synopsis A ranch-owner's four sons vow to avenge their father's death.

Direction Henry King

Cast James Stewart · Simone Simon · Jean Hersholt · Gregory Ratoff

Synopsis A Parisian sewer worker (James Stewart) longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl (Simone Simon) from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away...

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Fredric March · Warner Baxter · Lionel Barrymore · June Lang

Synopsis The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and more somber. His rival for the affection of nurse Monique is Capt....

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.

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Thomas Mitchell · Ian Hunter · Ward Bond

Synopsis Aboard the freighter Glencairn, the lives of the crew are lived out in fear, loneliness, suspicion and cameraderie. The men smuggle drink and women aboard, fight with each other, spy on each other, comfort each other as death approaches, and...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Edward Arnold · Walter Huston · James Craig · Jane Darwell

Synopsis William Dieterle adapts Stephen Vincent Benet's transformation of the Faust legend from the tale of an aging genius to that of struggling New Hampshire farmer Jabez Stone, played by James Craig. When Stone absently exclaims that he would sell his...

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast John Wayne · Betty Field · Harry Carey · Beulah Bondi

Synopsis Young Matt Masters, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt's mother and left her to die. His obsession contributes to the hatred rampant in the mountains. However, the arrival of a stranger,...

Direction Steve Sekely · Paul Henreid

Cast Paul Henreid · Joan Bennett · Eduard Franz · Leslie Brooks

Synopsis John Muller (Paul Henreid), medical school dropout and brilliant crook, plans a holdup which goes a little bit wrong, and finds vindictive gambler Rocky Stansyck after him. At the end of his tether, he stumbles onto a lucky chance to...

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast John Garfield · Ida Lupino · Thomas Mitchell · Eddie Albert

Synopsis Fishermen Jonah Goodwin (Thomas Mitchell) and Olaf Johnson (John Qualen) are confronted by gangster Harold Goff (John Garfield) who tries to extort "boat protection" money out of the two men. Afraid to go to the law, the two men decide...

Direction Norman Foster

Cast Ann Sheridan · Dennis O'Keefe · Robert Keith · John Qualen

Synopsis Frank Johnson, sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible retaliation. Frank's wife, Eleanor, suspects he is actually running away from...

Direction Vincent McEveety

Cast James Stewart · Henry Fonda · Inger Stevens · Gary Lockwood

Synopsis A villainous gang of outlaws, led by vicious gunfighter Fonda, has left the residents of Firecreek living in fear. Although rancher Stewart considers himself a man of peace, he agrees to become the town's sheriff and put an end to...