Cast: Walter Sande

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Walter Brennan · Lauren Bacall · Dolores Moran

Synopsis To Have and Have Not (1944) is set in Martinique during World War II. It follows Harry Morgan, a cynical fishing boat captain who avoids getting involved in the war. However, when a resistance fighter seeks his help to transport...

Direction John Sturges

Cast Spencer Tracy · Robert Ryan · Lee Marvin · Anne Francis

Synopsis One of the first Hollywood films to deal openly with white racism toward Japanese Americans during World War II, this drama directed by 1950s action maestro John Sturges (The Great Escape) stars Spencer Tracy as a one-armed stranger named MacReedy,...

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast Joel McCrea · Vera Miles · Lloyd Bridges · Wallace Ford

Synopsis Ex-Buffalo Hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. His skill as a gunfighter make him a perfect candidate for Marshal but he refuses the job until he feels morally obligated to bring law...

Direction Felix E. Feist

Cast Ruth Roman · Steve Cochran · Lurene Tuttle · Ray Teal

Synopsis A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the outside world and escape his lurid past. He gets involved with a cheap dancehall girl, and when her protector is accidentally...

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Bette Davis · Barry Sullivan · Betty Lynn · Peggie Castle

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Joan Bennett · Robert Ryan · Charles Bickford · Nan Leslie

Synopsis After recuperation from physical and psychological trauma during the war, Robert Ryan finds himself stationed at a sleepy Coast Guard outpost on the California coast. He's restless and diffident about his upcoming marriage to a local girl. One day on...

Direction Andrew L. Stone

Cast Joseph Cotten · Teresa Wright · Jonathan Hale · Walter Sande

Synopsis A Bank officer discovers a flaw in the U.S. extradition treaty with Brazil and decides to take advantage of it. On Friday, he steals a million dollars from the bank, knowing it won't be missed until the bank opens on...

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Burt Lancaster · Jean Peters · Charles Bronson · John Dehner

Synopsis Refusing to let himself be re-settled on a Florida reservation, Massai, an Apache warrior, escapes his captors and returns to his homeland to become a peaceful farmer.

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Charlton Heston · Lizabeth Scott · Viveca Lindfors · Dean Jagger

Synopsis Danny Haley's bookie operation is shut down, so he and his pals need money; when Danny meets Arthur Winant, a sucker from out of town, he decoys him into a series of poker games where eventually Winant loses $5000 that...

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Robert Mitchum · Lizabeth Scott · Robert Ryan · William Talman

Synopsis The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. There are only two problems: First, Nick is the violent type, preferring to do things the old-fashioned way instead of using the syndicate's...

Direction George Marshall

Cast Alan Ladd · Veronica Lake · William Bendix · Howard Da Silva

Synopsis When Johnny comes home from the navy he finds his wife Helen kissing her substitute boyfriend Eddie, the owner of the Blue Dahlia nightclub. Helen admits her drunkenness caused their son's death. He pulls a gun on her but decides...

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast George Raft · Lynn Bari · Virginia Huston · Joseph Pevney

Synopsis Police detective Joe Warner investigates the shooting of womanizing composer Keith Vincent. Evidence points to suicide and that is the official verdict, but Joe doesn't buy it and obsessively keeps looking, tracking down one discarded love after another, despite being...

Direction Jack Bernhard

Cast Robert Paige · Leslie Brooks · Russ Vincent · Michael Whalen

Synopsis A society reporter keeps herself in the headlines by marrying a series of wealthy men, all of whom die under mysterious circumstances.

Direction Stuart Heisler

Cast Gary Cooper · Loretta Young · William Demarest · Dan Duryea

Synopsis Riding into Payneville, easy-going cowboy Melody Jones is mistaken by the townsfolk for notorious gunman Monte Jarrad. The real Jarrad is hiding out wounded on the ranch of childhood sweetheart Cherry. She has the idea of sending Jones off to...

Direction Robert Montgomery

Cast James Cagney · Dennis Weaver · Ward Costello · Vaughn Taylor

Synopsis A semi-documentary dramatization of five weeks in the life of Vice Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr., from his assignment to command the U.S. naval operations in the South Pacific to the Allied victory at Guadalcanal.

Direction Tim Whelan

Cast Claudette Colbert · Barry Sullivan · Ray Collins · James Bell

Synopsis Prudence travels to an isolated Texas town where she has inherited the local paper. She finds the place ruled over by the two men who wrested the area from the Indians twenty-five years before, and it is clear they do...

Direction Kurt Neumann

Cast Audie Murphy · Gale Storm · Albert Dekker · Shepperd Strudwick

Synopsis Billy the Kid becomes embroiled in Lincoln County, NM, land wars. When rancher who gave him a break is killed by rival henchman, Billy vows revenge. New employer takes advantage of his naivety to kill rivals, lets the Kid take...

Direction Louis King

Cast Rory Calhoun · Corinne Calvet · Cameron Mitchell · Penny Edwards

Synopsis Ex-marshal Chino Bullock has hung up his guns until his prospecting partner is shot dead. Chino then takes over as the law in town, forming a friendship with gun-man Mitch Hardin and making enemies of the Logan brothers. When Hardin'...

Direction William Dieterle · John Farrow

Cast Alan Ladd · Lizabeth Scott · Arthur Kennedy · John Ireland

Synopsis Towards the end of the American Civil War, a rebel captain flees to Colorado to join a band of Southern mercenaries. He drags an innocent gold prospecting couple into trouble when the husband is accused of a murder he committed.

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Audie Murphy · Faith Domergue · Stephen McNally · Susan Cabot

Synopsis A gang of claim jumpers is infesting the territory, gaining ownership of undermanned mining operations through extortion...and leaving no live witnesses. But one victim, quick-drawing gambler Luke Cromwell, escapes. Meanwhille, Marshal Lightnin' Tyrone is also after the gang; recovering from...