Soundtrack: Louis Gruenberg

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


All the King's Men

1949 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Robert Rossen

Cast Broderick Crawford · Mercedes McCambridge · John Ireland · Joanne Dru

Plot All The King's Men is the story of the rise of politician Willie Stark from a rural county seat to the spotlight. Along the way, he loses his initial innocence,...

7.4

3K votes

7.4

3K votes

An American Romance

1944 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

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

Plot 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...

6.8

111 votes

6.8

111 votes

Why We Fight 2: The Nazis Strike

1943 · Documentary · 41 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra · Anatole Litvak

Plot In this installment of the Why We Fight propaganda film series, we see the events of Nazi Germany's diplomatic and military acts of international aggression. One by one, we learn...

6.6

91 votes

6.6

91 votes

One Against Seven

1945 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

6.3

46 votes

6.3

46 votes

Arch of Triumph

1948 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Charles Boyer · Charles Laughton · Louis Calhern

Plot In winter of 1938, Paris is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in the black shadows of night, trying to evade deportation. One such is Dr. Ravic, who...

6.2

637 votes

6.2

637 votes

So Ends Our Night

1941 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Fredric March · Margaret Sullavan · Frances Dee · Glenn Ford

Plot An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence. When the political refugee risks his life to see his...

6.2

89 votes

6.2

89 votes

Commandos Strike at Dawn

1942 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction John Farrow

Cast Paul Muni · Anna Lee · Lillian Gish · Cedric Hardwicke

Plot Erik Toresen, widower and fishery observer, leads a quiet life in a small Norwegian town; but after the Nazi occupation, German abuses lead Erik to form a Resistance group. After...

6.1

155 votes

6.1

155 votes

The Gangster

1947 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Wiles

Cast Barry Sullivan · Belita · Joan Lorring · Akim Tamiroff

Plot Chubunka is the self-made head of the rackets in the sleazy boardwalk community of Neptune City, a low-rent version of Coney Island. He has become infatuated with a sultry nightclub...

6.0

24 votes

6.0

24 votes

Quicksand

1950 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Irving Pichel

Cast Mickey Rooney · Jeanne Cagney · Peter Lorre · Barbara Bates

Plot After borrowing $20 from his employer's cash register to invite a waitress Vera (Jeanne Cagney), auto mechanic Dan Brady (Mickey Rooney) is plunged into a series of increasingly disastrous circumstances...

6.0

150 votes

6.0

150 votes

Escape in the Fog

1945 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Budd Boetticher

Cast Otto Kruger · Nina Foch · William Wright · Konstantin Shayne

Plot A nurse recovering in a hospital from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets the the officer in...

5.4

52 votes

5.4

52 votes

Smart Woman

1948 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Edward A. Blatt

Cast Brian Aherne · Constance Bennett · Barry Sullivan · Michael O'Shea

Plot The last credited screenplay by Alvah Bessie, using his own name, as he was soon to become one of the Hollywood Ten. This one is a 1940s gender-clasher involving a...

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Cannibal Attack

1954 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Lee Sholem

Cast Johnny Weissmuller · Judy Walsh · David Bruce · Bruce Cowling

Plot Johnny Weissmuller is called in by the government to investigate thefts of cobalt from a jungle mine owned by John King and his ward, Luora. He discovers natives led by...

Not rated

Not rated

U-Boat Prisoner

1944 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Lew Landers · Budd Boetticher

Cast Bruce Bennett · Erik Rolf · John Abbott · John Wengraf

Plot Bennett plays merchant seaman Archie Gibbs, who manages to survive when his ship is torpedoed by a German submarine. Disguising himself in the uniform of a dead Nazi spy, Gibbs...

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Not rated

The Fight for Life

1940 · Documentary · 69 min. · United States

Direction Pare Lorentz

Plot An interne witnesses the death of a young mother in a maternity hospital delivery room. Disturbed that he might have overlooked something that could have prevented the death, he goes...

Not rated

Not rated

Passport to Suez

1943 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction André De Toth

Cast Warren William · Ann Savage · Eric Blore · Robert Stanford

Plot The Lone Wolf undercover to foil the Nazis stealing the plans.

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Not rated

Hurricane Island

1951 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Lew Landers

Cast Jon Hall · Marie Windsor · Romo Vincent · Edgar Barrier

Plot Explorer Ponce de Leon searches for the Fountain of Youth in the Florida swamps.

Not rated

Not rated

Chain Gang

1950 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Lew Landers

Cast Douglas Kennedy · Marjorie Lord · Emory Parnell · William 'Bill' Phillips

Plot Crusading newspaperman Cliff Roberts (Douglas Kennedy), masquerades as a prison guard and gets a job attached to the chain gang. Using a tiny camera in the shape of a cigarette...

Not rated

Not rated