Cast: Joe Sawyer

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


The Roaring Twenties

1939 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast James Cagney · Priscilla Lane · Humphrey Bogart · Gladys George

Synopsis The Roaring Twenties (1939) follows three World War I veterans—Eddie, George, and Lloyd—who return to America with dreams of prosperity. As Prohibition begins, their paths diverge: Eddie becomes a bootlegger, George a nightclub owner, and Lloyd a district attorney. Their...

8.0

6K votes

8.0

6K votes

The Killing

1956 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Sterling Hayden · Coleen Gray · Vince Edwards · Jay C. Flippen

Synopsis The Killing (1956) follows a meticulously planned racetrack heist orchestrated by a group of disparate individuals, each with their own motivations. The mastermind, Johnny Clay, assembles a team to execute the perfect crime, but as the plan unfolds, tensions rise...

7.9

25K votes

7.9

25K votes

Gilda

1946 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Charles Vidor

Cast Rita Hayworth · Glenn Ford · George Macready · Joseph Calleia

Synopsis Just arrived in Argentina, small-time crooked gambler Johnny Farrell is saved from a gunman by sinister Ballin Mundson, who later makes Johnny his right-hand man. But their friendship based on mutual lack of scruples is strained when Mundson returns from...

7.7

31K votes

7.7

31K votes

They Died with their Boots On

1941 · Movie · 138 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Errol Flynn · Olivia de Havilland · Arthur Kennedy · Charley Grapewin

Synopsis They Died with their Boots On (1941) follows the legendary General George Armstrong Custer, from his rebellious West Point days to his rise during the Civil War and eventual command in the Indian Wars. The film portrays his passionate marriage...

7.3

16K votes

7.3

16K 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

The Petrified Forest

1936 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Leslie Howard · Bette Davis · Humphrey Bogart · Genevieve Tobin

Synopsis This heartfelt drama about a gangster on the run is the film for which Humphrey Bogart first received wide-scale recognition. Bogie and costar Leslie Howard were both brought on board after appearing in the successful stage play by Pulitzer prize-winner...

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

North to Alaska

1960 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast John Wayne · Stewart Granger · Capucine · Ernie Kovacs

Synopsis Year 1900. After partners George Pratt and Sam McCord strike it rich with their Nome, Alaska gold mine, George's only wish is to marry his French fiancée Jenny, who has been patiently waiting for him for three years in Seattle....

6.5

1K votes

6.5

1K votes

Dark Command

1940 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast John Wayne · Claire Trevor · Walter Pidgeon · Roy Rogers

Synopsis Cowpoke Bob Seton becomes a rival for William Cantrell's girl and for the sheriff's job Cantrell covets. When Seton wins both, Cantrell forsakes his respected position as schoolteacher and leads a band of renegades through Kansas, looting and destroying, all...

6.4

420 votes

6.4

420 votes

Black Legion

1937 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Dick Foran · Erin O'Brien-Moore · Ann Sheridan

Synopsis When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.

6.4

242 votes

6.4

242 votes

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

1939 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Francis Lederer · George Sanders · Paul Lukas

Synopsis Ed Renard is a G-Man investigating a huge Nazi spy ring in the United States. Contacts are discovered and arrested in U.S.A.

6.4

136 votes

6.4

136 votes

Brewster's Millions

1945 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Helen Walker · June Havoc · Eddie "Rochester" Anderson

Synopsis Monty Brewster is a pennyless, former U.S. Army soldier back from World War II Europe who learns that he has inherited $8 million from a distant relative. But there's a catch: he must spend $1 million of that money in...

6.2

66 votes

6.2

66 votes

Special Agent

1935 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction William Keighley

Cast Bette Davis · George Brent · Ricardo Cortez · Jack La Rue

Synopsis Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An...

6.2

58 votes

6.2

58 votes

Great Guy

1936 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction John G. Blystone

Cast James Cagney · Mae Clarke · James Burke · Edward Brophy

Synopsis It's the New York Department of Weights and Measures vs. a systematic effort to cheat the public by giving them less product than they pay for...organized by crooked city alderman Marty Cavanaugh, who put the last chief deputy inspector in...

6.1

462 votes

6.1

462 votes

You Can't Get Away with Murder

1939 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Gale Page · Billy Halop · John Litel

Synopsis Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie...

6.1

94 votes

6.1

94 votes

San Quentin

1937 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Pat O'Brien · Humphrey Bogart · Ann Sheridan · Barton MacLane

Synopsis Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to...

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6.1

255 votes

6.1

255 votes

It Came from Outer Space

1953 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Jack Arnold

Cast Richard Carlson · Barbara Rush · Charles Drake · Joe Sawyer

Synopsis A spaceship from another world crashes in the Arizona desert and only an amateur stargazer and a schoolteacher suspect alien influence when the local townsfolk begin to act strangely.

6.0

2K votes

6.0

2K votes

Deadline at Dawn

1946 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Harold Clurman · William Cameron Menzies

Cast Susan Hayward · Paul Lukas · Bill Williams · Joseph Calleia

Synopsis A sailor on leave appears to have killed a woman. He has until dawn to find the real killer, aided by a weary dance hall girl.

6.0

88 votes

6.0

88 votes

Big Brown Eyes

1936 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Cary Grant · Joan Bennett · Walter Pidgeon · Lloyd Nolan

Synopsis Dan Barr is a flatfoot on the trail of jewel robbers. Eve Fallon is his girl of 5 years. We meet them spitting and sparring, but never doubting they're in love. Eve is a manicurist, with an eye for news....

6.0

100 votes

6.0

100 votes

The Walking Dead

1936 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Boris Karloff · Ricardo Cortez · Edmund Gwenn · Marguerite Churchill

Synopsis Bringing the dead back to life was an extremely popular horror movie theme of the thirties and forties and Boris Karloff could certainly lay claim to being the king of this specialized genre. Between 1936 and 1941, he made seven...

5.9

227 votes

5.9

227 votes

Riding Shotgun

1954 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction André De Toth

Cast Randolph Scott · Wayne Morris · Joan Weldon · Joe Sawyer

Synopsis When a stagecoach guard tries to warn a town of an imminent raid by a band of outlaws, the people mistake him for one of the gang

5.8

186 votes

5.8

186 votes