Direction: Mervyn LeRoy

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Paul Muni · Glenda Farrell · Helen Vinson · Preston Foster

Synopsis James Allen (Paul Muni), just back from World War I, is unjustly convicted of a crime and sentenced to 10 years of bruisingly unfair treatment on a chain gang. He escapes and goes to Chicago where he becomes a success...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Claude Rains · Gloria Dickson · Edward Norris · Otto Kruger

Synopsis A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Ronald Colman · Greer Garson · Philip Dorn · Susan Peters

Synopsis As the First World War ends a soldier wanders out of a Midlands asylum. Smithy was found in the trenches having lost his memory and all contact with the past. Amidst the noise of the armistice celebrations he meets a...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Robert Taylor · Vivien Leigh · Lucile Watson · Virginia Field

Synopsis On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front....

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Robert Taylor · Deborah Kerr · Peter Ustinov · Leo Genn

Synopsis Quo Vadis (1951) is an epic historical drama set in ancient Rome during the reign of Emperor Nero. The story follows Marcus Vinicius, a Roman military commander, who falls in love with Lygia, a Christian hostage. As their romance blossoms,...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Glenda Farrell · Stanley Fields

Synopsis The ambitious criminal Rico moves from the country to the big city in the east and joins Sam Vettori's gang with his friend Joe Massara. Sooner he becomes the leader of the gangsters and known as Little Caesar, and gets...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Marian Marsh · H.B. Warner · Anthony Bushell

Synopsis Editor Hinchecliffe wants to boost circulation for his "New York Gazette" and city editor Randall puts his top reporter on a 20-year-old murder case in which Nancy Vorhees shot her lover. As she is now a happy wife and mother,...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Robert Taylor · Lana Turner · Edward Arnold · Van Heflin

Synopsis Ruthless hood Johnny Eager is pretending to his parole officer that he has chucked the rackets and is now a full-time taxi driver. In fact he's as deep in as he ever was, and desperately needs official permission to open...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Warren William · Joan Blondell · Aline MacMahon · Ruby Keeler

Synopsis Barney Hopkins is producing a new show on Broadway, but the day before it opens, the set and costumes are confiscated due to not paid bills. Everybody is sitting on the street and due to depression there is no possibility...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast June Allyson · Elizabeth Taylor · Peter Lawford · Janet Leigh

Synopsis Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil war, the sisters: Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother -...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · James Mason · Ava Gardner · Van Heflin

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Greer Garson · Walter Pidgeon · Henry Travers · Albert Basserman

Synopsis Young Polish physics student Marie marries Doctor Pierre Curie, in whose lab she had worked for a while. On their honeymoon they decide to find out what caused the strange effect Prof. Becquerel has noticed with the uranium/thorium stones for...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Vivienne Osborne · Guy Kibbee · Preston Foster

Synopsis A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, flashes back over his life and the incidents that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair.

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Clark Gable · Lana Turner · Anne Baxter · John Hodiak

Synopsis Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it's "the thing to do" rather than deep-seated patriotism. On his first day, he's put into place by 'Snapshot', a...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Nancy Kelly · Patty McCormack · Henry Jones · Eileen Heckart

Synopsis Christine Penmark seems to have it all: a lovely home, a loving husband and the most "perfect" daughter in the world. But since childhood, Christine has suffered from the most terrible recurring nightmare. And her "perfect" daughter's accomplishments include lying,...

Direction John Ford · Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Henry Fonda · James Cagney · Jack Lemmon · William Powell

Synopsis Mister Roberts is aboard a US cargo ship, working in the Pacific during the Second World War. He'd do anything to leave the quiet of the ship to join in the "action". Trouble is, the captain of the ship, is...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Jean Simmons · Dan O'Herlihy · Rhonda Fleming · Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Synopsis Director Mervyn LeRoy's psychological drama follows recovering mental patient Charlotte (Jean Simmons), who leaves the secure confines of a psychiatric ward to return to the dysfunctional environment responsible for her nervous breakdown: the home she shares with her college professor...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Virginia Davis · Joan Blondell · Anne Shirley · Ann Dvorak

Synopsis Three women who were childhood schoolmates take different paths in life. Vivian marries a very wealthy lawyer and has an adorable boy. Mary, on the other hand, takes the hard road through reform school. After a superstitious faux pas, Vivian's...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Norma Shearer · Robert Taylor · Conrad Veidt · Alla Nazimova

Synopsis An American goes to Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of a German countess he engineers her escape.

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast James Cagney · Mary Brian · Allen Jenkins · Ruth Donnelly

Synopsis Small time con artist Lefty Merrill has co-organized a crooked dance marathon and set-up his girlfriend to win the prize money. When his partner disappears with money before the contest is over, he's forced to come up with a series...