Direction: Henry King

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


The Gunfighter

1950 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Gregory Peck · Helen Westcott · Millard Mitchell · Jean Parker

Plot Aging gunslinger, Jimmy Ringo, rides into a strange town where he's immediately recognized. As kids gather at the saloon windows to glimpse the killer and townsfolk gossip about his exploits,...

7.5

2K votes

7.5

2K votes

Wait 'Till The Sun Shines, Nellie

1952 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

7.4

94 votes

7.4

94 votes

The White Sister

1923 · Movie · 143 min. · United States

7.2

30 votes

7.2

30 votes

Jesse James

1939 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Tyrone Power · Henry Fonda · Nancy Kelly · Randolph Scott

Plot The railroads are squeezing farmers off their land. When a railroad agent kills their mother, Frank and Jesse James take up robbing banks and trains. The public regard them as...

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

Remember the Day

1941 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Claudette Colbert · John Payne · Shepperd Strudwick · Ann E. Todd

Plot Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell (Claudette Colbert), waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts (Shepperd Strudwick), recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the...

7.1

83 votes

7.1

83 votes

Tol'able David

1921 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

7.1

104 votes

7.1

104 votes

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain

1951 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

7.0

107 votes

7.0

107 votes

The Winning of Barbara Worth

1926 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

6.9

81 votes

6.9

81 votes

State Fair

1933 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Janet Gaynor · Will Rogers · Lew Ayres · Sally Eilers

Plot Stong's 1932 novel is the basis for the popular film with Pat Boone and Ann-Margret and the recent Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical. The plot follows the adventures of the...

6.9

66 votes

6.9

66 votes

Ramona

1936 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

6.9

53 votes

6.9

53 votes

O. Henry's Full House

1952 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway · Howard Hawks · Henry King · Henry Koster

Cast Fred Allen · Anne Baxter · Jeanne Crain · Farley Granger

Plot This anthology film assembles five respected directors and a top-notch cast to bring a handful of stories by the great American author O. Henry to the screen. In The Cop...

6.8

477 votes

6.8

477 votes

Seventh Heaven

1937 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast James Stewart · Simone Simon · Jean Hersholt · Gregory Ratoff

Plot A Parisian sewer worker (James Stewart) longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl (Simone Simon) from the police, lives with her in a...

6.8

428 votes

6.8

428 votes

The Black Swan

1942 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Tyrone Power · Maureen O'Hara · Laird Cregar · Thomas Mitchell

Plot Soon after Sir Henry Morgan is named Governor of Jamaica in 1674, he announces that the age of the pirate is over and asks his former captains to give up...

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

Stella Dallas

1925 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

6.7

23 votes

6.7

23 votes

The Bravados

1958 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Gregory Peck · Joan Collins · Henry Silva · Lee Van Cleef

Plot Jim Douglas has been relentlessly pursuing the four outlaws who murdered his wife, but finds them in jail about to be hanged. While he waits to witness their execution, they...

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

Twelve O'Clock High

1949 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Gregory Peck · Hugh Marlowe · Dean Jagger · Gary Merrill

Plot "12 O'Clock High" tells the story of an American Bomber Group low on morale and performance after heavy losses over the skies of Germany. General Frank Savage, a desk bound...

6.7

828 votes

6.7

828 votes

Margie

1946 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

6.6

38 votes

6.6

38 votes

Love is a Many-Splendored Thing

1955 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Jennifer Jones · William Holden · Isobel Elsom · Richard Loo

Plot Jennifer Jones stars in this story about a widowed Eurasian doctor who falls in love with charming war reporter Mark Elliot (William Holden) in Hong Kong during the troubled time...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

In Old Chicago

1938 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Tyrone Power · Alice Faye · Don Ameche · Alice Brady

Plot Story of the great fire of 1871. Fictional story of two sons of Mrs. O'Leary (the owner of the cow which started the fire), one a rogue (Power) the other...

6.6

340 votes

6.6

340 votes

Prince of Foxes

1949 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Tyrone Power · Wanda Hendrix · Everett Sloane · Orson Welles

Plot Andrea Zoppo, a well-educated commoner, masquerades as a member of the noble Orsini family and wins favor with the ambitious and Machiavellian Cesare Borgia, who, with his equally corrupt sister...

6.6

243 votes

6.6

243 votes