Direction: King Vidor

Direction King Vidor

Cast James Murray · Eleanor Boardman · Bert Roach · Estelle Clark

Synopsis Born on the fourth of July, 1900, the future holds unlimited potential for newborn John Sims. But dreams soon fade with the death of his father when John is but a lad. Like many before him, John sets out to...

Direction King Vidor

Cast John Gilbert · Renée Adorée · Hobart Bosworth · Claire McDowell

Synopsis The film follows, three men Bull, Slim and Jim (Gilbert). Jim is a rich man's son who has never had a days work in his life. When WWI one breaks out and all his friends become enlisted and preasure from...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Walter Miller · Sylvia Sidney · William Collier Jr. · Estelle Taylor

Synopsis Based on the pullitzer prize winning broadway play, Street scene is a study in the daily lives of people...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Gary Cooper · Patricia Neal · Raymond Massey · Kent Smith

Synopsis The Fountainhead (1949) follows architect Howard Roark, a visionary who refuses to compromise his artistic integrity despite societal pressures. Facing opposition from traditionalists and opportunists, Roark struggles to uphold his modernist ideals in a world that favors conformity. His relentless...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Karen Morley · Tom Keene · Barbara Pepper · Addison Richards

Synopsis John and Mary sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Jennifer Jones · Gregory Peck · Joseph Cotten · Lionel Barrymore

Synopsis Duel in the Sun (1946) is a sweeping romantic Western that follows the tumultuous life of Pearl Chavez, a young woman of mixed heritage, who becomes entangled in a passionate love triangle with two brothers, Jesse and Lewt McCanles. Raised...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · John Boles · Anne Shirley · Alan Hale

Synopsis Working-class Stella Martin marries high-end Stephen Dallas and soon they have a daughter named Laurel. But Stephen's incessant demands of Stella to become what she isn't leads to their eventual separation. Stephen later marries Helen Morrison (his prior fiancée), and...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Audrey Hepburn · Henry Fonda · Mel Ferrer · Vittorio Gassman

Synopsis Set against the backdrop of Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia, King Vidor's adaptation of the Tolstoy sprawling classic stars Henry Fonda as Pierre Bezhukov. Despite the vast scope of the author's detailed portrait of the classes, regions, and characters of...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Kirk Douglas · Jeanne Crain · Claire Trevor · Richard Boone

Synopsis Dempsey Rae, a cowboy with no clear aim in life, winds up working on a spread with a hard lady owner just arrived from the East.

Direction King Vidor

Cast Robert Donat · Rosalind Russell · Ralph Richardson · Rex Harrison

Synopsis Andrew Manson, a young, enthusiastic doctor takes his first job in a Welsh mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Margaret Sullavan · Walter Connolly · Randolph Scott · Janet Beecher

Synopsis SO RED THE ROSE is King Vidor's quietly affecting Civil War romance, starring Margaret Sullavan as a Southern aristocrat, the mistress of a Southern plantation, whose sheltered life is torn apart by the War between the States. During the war's...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Wallace Beery · Jackie Cooper · Irene Rich · Roscoe Ates

Synopsis Dink Purcell loves his alcoholic father, ex-heavyweight champion Andy "Champ" Purcell, despite his frequent binges, his frequent gambling and their squalid living conditions. And there's nothing Andy wouldn't do for Dink. When Andy wins a race horse gambling, he gives...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Hedy Lamarr · Robert Young · Ruth Hussey · Charles Coburn

Synopsis A man who lived his life as he was was told he should, not as he would have chosen to, is brought out of his shell by a beautiful young woman. |

Direction King Vidor

Cast Jennifer Jones · Charlton Heston · Karl Malden · Josephine Hutchinson

Synopsis A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man.

Direction King Vidor

Cast Daniel L. Haynes · Nina Mae McKinney · William Fountaine · Harry Gray

Synopsis In a juke joint, sharecropper Zeke falls for a beautiful dancer, Chick, but she's only setting him up for a rigged craps game. He loses $100, the money he got for the sale of his family's entire cotton crop. His...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Marion Davies · William Haines · Dell Henderson · Paul Ralli

Synopsis Colonel Pepper brings his daughter, Peggy, to Hollywood from Georgia to be an actress. There she meets Billy who gets her work at Comet Studio doing comedies with him. But Peggy is discovered by High Art Studio and she leaves...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Lillian Gish · John Gilbert · Renée Adorée · Roy D'Arcy

Synopsis It is 1830 in Paris and the rent is due, but the money is not there. An article here, a painting there and a monkey with a cup gives them enough money for the rent, but not for food. Rodolphe...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Bette Davis · Joseph Cotten · David Brian · Ruth Roman

Synopsis Rosa Moline is bored with life in a small town. She loves Chicago industrialist Neil Latimer who has a hunting lodge nearby. Rosa squeezes her husband's patients to pay their bills so she can visit Chicago; her husband's patience is...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Frank Mayo · Virginia Valli · Ford Sterling · Nigel de Brulier

Synopsis Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Her grandfather fled there for political reasons. But they're not alone. An escaped prisoner, Nicholas, is terrorizing them, and further more, he's interested in Mllie. John Woolfolk has lost his...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Brian Donlevy · Ann Richards · John Qualen · Walter Abel

Synopsis Stefan Dangos (Brian Donlevy) immigrates to America from the Czech Republic and works his way up from the iron mines and steel mills to become a great American success story as an industrialist.