Direction: Leslie Fenton

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Leslie Fenton. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Saigon

1948 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Fenton

Cast Alan Ladd · Veronica Lake · Douglas Dick · Wally Cassell

Plot After World War II Larry learns that his flying buddy Mike will only live a short time despite the efforts of the doctors. He takes on a profitable flying job...

6.3

33 votes

6.3

33 votes

Whispering Smith

1948 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Fenton

Cast Alan Ladd · Robert Preston · Brenda Marshall · Donald Crisp

Plot Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him. He also seems to...

5.8

194 votes

5.8

194 votes

On Our Merry Way

1948 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor · George Stevens · Leslie Fenton

Cast James Stewart · Henry Fonda · Burgess Meredith · Charles D. Brown

Plot Also released under the title A MIRACLE CAN HAPPEN, this three-part anthology features vignettes that are connected by a question from feature reporter Oliver Pease (Burgess Meredith): "Has a child...

5.7

524 votes

5.7

524 votes

The Redhead and the Cowboy

1951 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

5.6

22 votes

5.6

22 votes

Lulu Belle

1948 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Fenton

Cast Dorothy Lamour · George Montgomery · Albert Dekker · Otto Kruger

Plot Lulu Belle is singing in a cheap dive in Natchez, Mississippi in the early 1900's when she meets rising young attorney George Davis. He gives up his fiancée and career...

5.5

24 votes

5.5

24 votes

Streets of Laredo

1949 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Fenton

Cast William Holden · William Bendix · Macdonald Carey · Mona Freeman

Plot Texas, 1878: cheerful outlaw-buddies Jim, Lorn and Wahoo rescue spunky orphan Rannie Carter from rustling racketeers, then are forced to separate. Lorn goes on to bigger and better robberies, while...

5.3

196 votes

5.3

196 votes

A Criminal Is Born (S)

1938 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Fenton

Cast George P. Breakston · David Durand · Norman Phillips Jr. · Warren McCollum

Plot An entry in the "Crime Does Not Pay" series, it tells the true story of how a young man, ignored by his parents, gets into a gang and starts a...

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Pardon My Past

1945 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Fenton

Cast Fred MacMurray · Marguerite Chapman · Akim Tamiroff · William Demarest

Plot Recently discharged GI's Eddie York and Chuck Gibson are en route to Beaver Dam, Wisconsin to start their own mink farm. While in New York, Eddie is mistaken for wealthy...

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The Saint's Vacation

1941 · Movie · 61 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie Fenton

Cast Hugh Sinclair · Cecil Parker · Arthur Macrae · Leueen MacGrath

Plot While on vacation, the Saint discovers a much-sought-after music box.

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The Man from Dakota

1940 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Fenton

Cast Wallace Beery · John Howard · Dolores del Rio · Donald Meek

Plot During the Civil War a beautiful woman helps two Union spies cross into the Confederacy and gather information.

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Tell No Tales

1939 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Fenton

Cast Melvyn Douglas · Louise Platt · Gene Lockhart · Douglass Dumbrille

Plot Michael Cassidy is the managing-editor of a small newspaper which is about to be closed down by its new owner, Matthew Cooper, who owns another newspaper in the city and...

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Tomorrow, the World!

1944 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Fenton

Cast Fredric March · Betty Field · Agnes Moorehead · Joan Carroll

Plot German boy Emil comes to live with his American uncle who tries to teach the former Hitler Youth to reject Nazism.

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Stronger Than Desire

1939 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Fenton

Cast Virginia Bruce · Walter Pidgeon · Lee Bowman · Ann Dvorak

Plot Wealthy socialite Elizabeth Flagg is courted by persistent Michael McLain, despite her protests that she is a married woman. McLain is just charming enough to attract Elizabeth into a series...

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Miracle Money (S)

1938 · Movie · 21 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Fenton

Cast John Miljan · Boyd Crawford · Robert Middlemass · E. Alyn Warren

Plot A quack doctor convinces people that this "Volta Ray" cures cancer.

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The Golden Fleecing

1940 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Fenton

Cast Lew Ayres · Rita Johnson · Lloyd Nolan · Virginia Grey

Plot A $50,000 life-insurance sale puts mild-mannered Henry Twinkle on the fast track at Ajax Insurance Company. Now he can marry his girl and climb the corporate ladder -- just as...

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