Direction: Sam Wood
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Sam Wood. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
A Night at the Opera
1935 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Sam Wood
Cast The Marx Brothers · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx
Plot Moved by a strange sense of business, Groucho gets all the stars of the Milano Opera on a boat headed to New York. Two stowaways also travel on the same...
8.3
45K votes
8.3
45K votes
Gone With the Wind
1939 · Movie · 238 min. · United States
Direction Victor Fleming · George Cukor · Sam Wood
Cast Vivien Leigh · Clark Gable · Olivia de Havilland · Leslie Howard
Plot When wealthy Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) learns that Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard), whom she's secretly in love with, is engaged to Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de Havilland), she decides...
7.9
57K votes
7.9
57K votes
A Day at the Races
1937 · Movie · 111 min. · United States
Direction Sam Wood
Cast The Marx Brothers · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx
Plot Town villain Morgan has his sights set on taking over Judy's sanitarium and turning it into a casino. Aiding Judy in saving the sanitarium are Dr. Hugo Hackenbush, a horse...
7.7
10K votes
7.7
10K votes
Goodbye Mr. Chips
1939 · Movie · 114 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Sam Wood
Cast Robert Donat · Greer Garson · John Mills · Terry Kilburn
Plot An old classics teacher looks back over his long career, remembering pupils and colleagues, and above all the idyllic courtship and marriage that transformed his life.
7.2
1K votes
7.2
1K votes
The Pride of the Yankees
1942 · Movie · 128 min. · United States
Direction Sam Wood
Cast Gary Cooper · Teresa Wright · Babe Ruth · Walter Brennan
Plot Gary Cooper plays Lou Gehrig, the first baseman for the Yanks who suffered from a crippling and incurable disease. Even when Gehrig was a student at Columbia University, the press...
7.0
1K votes
7.0
1K votes
The Devil And Miss Jones
1941 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Sam Wood
Cast Jean Arthur · Robert Cummings · Charles Coburn · Edmund Gwenn
Plot Tycoon John P. Merrick is startled to see an effigy of himself hanging on the front page of the New York Times, courtesy of union organizers at Neeley's Department Store,...
6.9
199 votes
6.9
199 votes
Ivy
1947 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Sam Wood
Cast Joan Fontaine · Patric Knowles · Herbert Marshall · Richard Ney
Plot In 1909, the beautiful but amoral British belle Ivy Lexton meets older, rich Miles Rushworth; undeterred by the prior claims of her husband Jervis and lover Roger, she goes after...
6.8
101 votes
6.8
101 votes
Kings Row
1942 · Movie · 127 min. · United States
Direction Sam Wood
Cast Ann Sheridan · Robert Cummings · Ronald Reagan · Betty Field
Plot Five children in an apparently ideal American small town find their lives changing as the years pass near the turn of the century in 1900. Parris and Drake, both of...
6.8
281 votes
6.8
281 votes
The Stratton Story
1949 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction Sam Wood
Cast James Stewart · June Allyson · Frank Morgan · Agnes Moorehead
Plot The movie is about Chicago White Sox pitcher Monty Stratton (Jimmy Stewart), who in the 1930s, compiled a 37-19 won-loss record in three seasons. After he became the winningest right-hander...
6.4
182 votes
6.4
182 votes
Ambush
1950 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Sam Wood
Cast Robert Taylor · John Hodiak · Arlene Dahl · Jean Hagen
Plot Robert Taylor is a scout, John Hodiak is the captain and Don Taylor is the lieutenant who is in love with another man´s wife. Arlene Dahl is searching for her...
6.4
69 votes
6.4
69 votes
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943 · Movie · 170 min. · United States
Direction Sam Wood
Cast Gary Cooper · Ingrid Bergman · Akim Tamiroff · Arturo de Córdova
Plot This respectful adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel of the Spanish Civil War was one of the most sensational and popular films to come out of wartime Hollywood. Gary Cooper and...
6.3
3K votes
6.3
3K votes
Whipsaw
1935 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Sam Wood
Cast Myrna Loy · Spencer Tracy · Harvey Stephens · William Harrigan
Plot Vivian, Ed and Harry steal jewels in Paris. In New York government agent McBride accompanies Vivian riding across the country with the loot. She falls in love with him and...
6.3
35 votes
6.3
35 votes
Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman
1940 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction Sam Wood
Cast Ginger Rogers · Dennis Morgan · James Craig · Eduardo Ciannelli
Plot Kitty Foyle (Ginger Rogers), a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against...
6.3
338 votes
6.3
338 votes
Beyond the Rocks
1922 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Sam Wood
Cast Rudolph Valentino · Gloria Swanson · Edythe Chapman · Raymond Blathwayt
Plot Love, duty, and the scent of narcissus. Theodora, a young and penniless aristocrat, marries a much older man, self-made millionaire grocer Josiah Brown, so that her father and spinster sisters...
6.3
61 votes
6.3
61 votes
Our Town
1940 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Sam Wood
Cast William Holden · Martha Scott · Thomas Mitchell · Frank Craven
Plot Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get delivered every morning,...
6.3
515 votes
6.3
515 votes
The Girl from Missouri
1934 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Jack Conway · Sam Wood
Cast Jean Harlow · Lionel Barrymore · Franchot Tone · Lewis Stone
Plot With her pal Kitty, Eadie Chapman escapes from the sleazy roadhouse run by her mother and stepfather, only to become a showgirl. But her former milieu gave her a poor...
6.2
37 votes
6.2
37 votes
Guest Wife
1945 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Sam Wood
Cast Claudette Colbert · Don Ameche · Dick Foran · Charles Dingle
Plot Christopher Price, a small-town bank executive, continues to be loyal to and idolize his boyhood friend, Joseph Jefferson Parker, a famous war correspondent. But Chris's wife, Mary, is none to...
6.2
38 votes
6.2
38 votes
Raffles
1939 · Movie · 71 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Sam Wood
Cast David Niven · Olivia de Havilland · Dame May Whitty · Dudley Digges
6.2
238 votes
6.2
238 votes
Hold Your Man
1933 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Sam Wood
Cast Jean Harlow · Clark Gable · Stuart Erwin · Dorothy Burgess
Plot Eddie Hall and his partner Slim are a pair of nickel-and-dime con men on the hustle. Nearly caught by the police, Eddie ducks into Ruby Adams's apartment and convinces her...
6.2
37 votes
6.2
37 votes
Command Decision
1948 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Sam Wood
Cast Clark Gable · Walter Pidgeon · Van Johnson · Brian Donlevy
Plot Army generals struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing the German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties the mission will cost.
6.0
126 votes
6.0
126 votes