Direction: William Dieterle

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Jennifer Jones · Joseph Cotten · Ethel Barrymore · Lillian Gish

Synopsis Eben Adams is a struggling artist in Depression era New York who has never been able to find inspiration for a painting. One day, after he finally finds someone to buy a painting from him, a young girl named Jennie...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Charles Laughton · Maureen O'Hara · Cedric Hardwicke · Thomas Mitchell

Synopsis Of the many film versions of Victor Hugo's novel, this classic from Hollywood's golden year of 1939 remains the best, rivaled only by the 1923 silent version starring Lon Chaney. In his triumphant attempt to create a performance as memorable...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Richard Barthelmess · David Manners · Johnny Mack Brown · Helen Chandler

Synopsis Cary, Shep, Bill, and Francis are pilots during World War I. Cary and Shep's plane is shot down, and they barely survive; they're released from the hospital on Armistice Day...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Ruth Gordon · Otto Kruger · Donald Crisp

Synopsis Dr. Paul Ehrlich was the German physician who developed the first synthetic antimicrobial drug, 606 or Salvarsan. The film describes how Ehrlich first became interested in the properties of the then-new synthetic dyes and had an intuition that they could...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Paul Muni · Henry O'Neill · Joseph Schildkraut · Gale Sondergaard

Synopsis The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair. Paul Cezanne and Émile Zola were friends when both were starting their careers. Through ups and downs Zola became financially successful...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Jennifer Jones · Joseph Cotten · Ann Richards · Cecil Kellaway

Synopsis During WWII, a British soldier has been writing love letters for a friend, but finds himself falling in love with the woman from afar. When his friend is killed, the letter writer tries to find out more about the woman,...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Edna Best · Eddie Albert · Albert Basserman

Synopsis An entrepreneur builds an international news agency.

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Burt Lancaster · Paul Henreid · Claude Rains · Peter Lorre

Synopsis Two years ago, hunting guide Mike Davis was with a client who trespassed on diamond company land and found a rich lode; Paul Vogel, sadistic commandant of company police, beat Mike nearly to death but failed to learn the location....

Direction William Dieterle

Cast William Holden · Edmond O'Brien · Alexis Smith · Tom Tully

Synopsis John Conroy, a crusading district attorney is tasked to crack down on a crime syndicate, which proves more dangerous because the mob has many city officials under their control. He's assisted by a newspaper man, Jerry McKibbon, who doesn't think...

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 William Dieterle

Cast Paul Muni · Josephine Hutchinson · Anita Louise · Donald Woods

Synopsis In 1860, having helped France solve the problem of sour wine, chemist Louis Pasteur turns to the dangers of childbirth: 20,000 Paris women were dying annually. His germ theory and recommendation that doctors wash their hands and sterilize their instruments...

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 William Dieterle · George Cukor

Cast Ginger Rogers · Joseph Cotten · Shirley Temple · Spring Byington

Synopsis Ginger Rogers is a convict released from state penitentiary for a Christmas leave. On the train, she meets Sergeant Joseph Cotton who has been released from a mental hospital and she invites him home for dinner.

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Paul Muni · Bette Davis · Brian Aherne · Claude Rains

Synopsis The newly named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carolotta arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juraez and democracy. He tries to appease the Mexicans but fails. Abraham Lincoln is supporting Juarez and asks the French to withdraw...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Joan Fontaine · Joseph Cotten · Françoise Rosay · Jessica Tandy

Synopsis Industrialist David Lawrence (Joseph Cotton) and pianist Marianne Stuart (Joan Fontaine) meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren't on the plane. This gives them...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Pat O'Brien · Sybil Jason · Humphrey Bogart · Ann Sheridan

Synopsis Officer O'Malley arrests John Phillips for a traffic violation and costs him a chance at a good job. Phillips has a wife and crippled child, so he commits robbery and O'Malley sends him to prison. After this O'Malley becomes closer...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast William Powell · Kay Francis · Helen Vinson · Hardie Albright

Synopsis When a baroness is present during a robbery at a jewellers in Vienna, she finds the gang's debonair leader more attractive than either her husband or her lover.

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Loretta Young · Robert Cummings · Wendell Corey · Sam Jaffe

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Dana Andrews · Peter Finch · Abraham Sofaer

Synopsis John Wiley takes his new bride, Ruth to "Elephant Walk", a tea plantation in Ceylon which happens to be on the path where elephants roam. Soon Ruth discovers the truth about John's plantation and the effect it has on him....

Direction William Dieterle

Cast William Dieterle · Gunnar Tolnaes · Mary Johnson · Paul Henckels

Synopsis A young man is convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to a term in prison. There he forms a close relationship with his cellmate and upon his release his wife is concerned as to how prison has changed the man she...