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...

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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

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