Soundtrack: Joseph Gershenson

The best movies, series, and documentaries with a soundtrack by Joseph Gershenson. Enjoy the titles that feature an unforgettable music.


The Incredible Shrinking Man

1957 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Jack Arnold

Cast Grant Williams · Randy Stuart · April Kent · Paul Langton

Plot After an exposure to a strange mist, Scott Carey begins to shrink. After facing such trials as confounded doctors and his angry cat, he accidently gets locked in the basement....

7.6

14K votes

7.6

14K votes

The Far Country

1954 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast James Stewart · Ruth Roman · Corinne Calvet · Walter Brennan

Plot One of the best Mann/Stewart Westerns of the '50s with a refreshing Yukon setting. Stewart drives cattle north on an arduous trek to Alaska. When he reaches his destination, his...

7.5

5K votes

7.5

5K votes

Man Without a Star

1955 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

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

Plot 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.

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

The Lawless Breed

1953 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Rock Hudson · Julie Adams · John McIntire · Dennis Weaver

Plot Released from jail, John Wesley Hardin leaves an account of his life with the local newspaper. It tells of his overly religious father, his resulting life of cards and guns,...

6.6

644 votes

6.6

644 votes

Creature from the Black Lagoon

1954 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Jack Arnold

Cast Richard Carlson · Julie Adams · Richard Denning · Antonio Moreno

Plot The Creature, an amphibious, prehistoric man-monster, inhabits the primordial depths of a tropical lagoon undisturbed until scientists intrude upon his domain. Variously interpreted as a monster from hell and a...

6.5

3K votes

6.5

3K votes

Snezhnaya koroleva

1957 · Movie · 74 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Lev Atamanov

Plot A young girl journeys to a frigid land to find her friend, imprisoned by a heartless queen.

6.4

235 votes

6.4

235 votes

The Monolith Monsters

1957 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction John Sherwood

Cast Lola Albright · Grant Williams · Les Tremayne · Trevor Bardette

Plot A strange black meteor crashes near the town of San Angelo and litters the countryside with fragments. When a storm exposes these fragments to water, they grow into skyscraper-sized monoliths...

6.3

249 votes

6.3

249 votes

Horizons West

1952 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

6.3

484 votes

6.3

484 votes

Seminole

1953 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

6.1

506 votes

6.1

506 votes

Saddle Tramp

1950 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Fregonese

Cast Joel McCrea · Wanda Hendrix · John Russell · John McIntire

Plot Carefree Chuck Connor is on his way west and stops off to see an old friend and his four lads. When his host is killed in a riding accident Chuck...

6.0

140 votes

6.0

140 votes

The Strange Door

1951 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Pevney

Cast Charles Laughton · Boris Karloff · Sally Forrest · Richard Wyler

Plot Alain, the Sire de Maletroit, plots revenge on his younger brother Edmund for stealing Alain's childhood sweetheart, now deceased. Alain imprisons Edmund in a dungeon for 20 years. He then...

5.8

70 votes

5.8

70 votes

Posse from Hell

1961 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Herbert Coleman

Cast Audie Murphy · John Saxon · Zohra Lampert · Vic Morrow

Plot Banner Cole is a tough sheriff's deputy who forms a small posse to go after 4 death cell escapees who killed the sheriff , along with 3 other men, and...

5.6

75 votes

5.6

75 votes

The Cimarron Kid

1952 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Budd Boetticher

Cast Audie Murphy · Yvette Duguay · Beverly Tyler · James Best

Plot Wrongly accused by crooked railroad officials of aiding a train heist by his old friends the Daltons, he joins their gang and becomes an active participant in other robberies. Betrayed...

5.6

142 votes

5.6

142 votes

The Raiders

1952 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Lesley Selander

Cast Richard Conte · Viveca Lindfors · Barbara Britton · Hugh O´Brian

Plot A band of victimized gold miners strikes back at the organized ruthlessness of a land baron who also is effectively sabotaging a movement to unionize the California Territory.

5.3

44 votes

5.3

44 votes

Francis in the Navy

1955 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

5.0

31 votes

5.0

31 votes

Flame of Araby

1951 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Maureen O'Hara · Jeff Chandler · Maxwell Reed · Lon Chaney Jr.

Plot An Arabian-nights princess and a Bedouin chief contend over possession of a stallion, but unite to oppose the Corsair Lords.

4.9

100 votes

4.9

100 votes

Francis Joins the WACS

1954 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast Donald O´Connor · Julie Adams · Mamie Van Doren · Joan Shawlee

Plot On arrival at Fort Chase, ex-soldier Peter Stirling, recalled to active duty, is re-united with his old pal Francis the Talking Mule. Gradually, it dawns on Peter that a clerical...

Not rated

Not rated

Ma and Pa Kettle at Home

1954 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Marjorie Main · Percy Kilbride · Alan Mowbray · Alice Kelley

Plot Elwin Kettle might win a scholarship to an agricultural college. Essay contest judges Mannering and Crosby decide to choose between the two finalists by spending a weekend at the home...

Not rated

Not rated

Take Me to Town

1953 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Ann Sheridan · Sterling Hayden · Phillip Reed · Lee Patrick

Plot Saloon entertainer Vermilion O'Toole and her former partner in crime Newt Cole escape from a train ride to prison and hide out in logging town Timberline. Meanwhile, the three 'cute'...

Not rated

Not rated

Air Cadet

1951 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Pevney

Cast Stephen McNally · Gail Russell · Alex Nicol · Richard Long

Plot A new group of plebes (including roommates Joe, Russ, Jerry and Walt) arrive at an Air Force training camp and go through the usual "course of sprouts." Then on to...

Not rated

Not rated