Soundtrack: Hans J. Salter

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


Scarlet Street

1945 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Joan Bennett · Dan Duryea · Jess Baker

Plot Chris Cross (Edward G. Robinson), a mild mannered bank clerk, celebrates his 25 years of service, but he is unhappy with his dead end job and his shrieking harpy of...

8.2

13K votes

8.2

13K votes

Bend of the River

1952 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast James Stewart · Arthur Kennedy · Rock Hudson · Julie Adams

Plot Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory. They establish a settlement outside of Portland...

7.6

8K votes

7.6

8K votes

The Reckless Moment

1949 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Max Ophüls

Cast James Mason · Joan Bennett · Geraldine Brooks · Henry O'Neill

Plot After discovering the dead body of Bea Harper's lover, Bea's mother Lucia hides the body under the assumption that it was her daughter who killed the man. Martin Donnelly comes...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

The Web

1947 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Michael Gordon

Cast Ella Raines · Edmond O'Brien · William Bendix · Vincent Price

Plot Leopold Kroner, formerly of Colby Enterprises, is released after five years in prison for embezzlement. Andrew Colby, claiming that Kroner has threatened him, hires lawyer Bob Regan as a secret...

7.1

145 votes

7.1

145 votes

Phantom Lady

1944 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Franchot Tone · Ella Raines · Alan Curtis · Aurora Miranda

Plot This noir thriller follows an innocent man blamed for the murder of his wife and unable to find the woman with whom he passed the evening in question. When he's...

7.0

945 votes

7.0

945 votes

Wichita

1955 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast Joel McCrea · Vera Miles · Lloyd Bridges · Wallace Ford

Plot Ex-Buffalo Hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. His skill as a gunfighter make him a perfect candidate for Marshal but he refuses...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

1945 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast George Sanders · Geraldine Fitzgerald · Ella Raines · Sara Allgood

Plot Bachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a small-town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters, glamorous hypochondriac Lettie and querulous widow Hester. His developing relationship with new colleague Deborah Brown...

6.8

552 votes

6.8

552 votes

Autumn Leaves

1956 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Joan Crawford · Cliff Robertson · Vera Miles · Lorne Greene

Plot Milly, a lonely older woman, marries Burt Hanson, a much younger man. But after the wedding, Milly discovers that Burt has been mentally unhinged by the discovery, some time before,...

6.7

422 votes

6.7

422 votes

It Started with Eve

1941 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Deanna Durbin · Charles Laughton · Robert Cummings · Guy Kibbee

Plot A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a...

6.6

78 votes

6.6

78 votes

Thunder on the Hill

1951 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Claudette Colbert · Ann Blyth · Robert Douglas · Anne Crawford

Plot Convicted murderess Valerie Carns (Ann Blyth) is being transported to Norwich to be executed when a flood strands her and her guards at a convent hospital. Nurse Sister Mary (Claudette...

6.5

250 votes

6.5

250 votes

Man in the Shadow

1957 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Jack Arnold

Cast Jeff Chandler · Orson Welles · Colleen Miller · Ben Alexander

Plot Virgil Renchler owns most of the town providing a thriving economy. When he goes too far and kills one of his migrant workmen, the sheriff goes after him even if...

6.5

208 votes

6.5

208 votes

Cover Up

1949 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast William Bendix · Dennis O'Keefe · Barbara Britton · Art Baker

Plot An insurance company investigator goes to a small town to probe into a case of supposed suicide. The natives are not very cooperative and some turn hostile, leading to suspicion...

6.4

21 votes

6.4

21 votes

The Wolf Man

1941 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction George Waggner

Cast Lon Chaney Jr. · Claude Rains · Warren William · Ralph Bellamy

Plot Upon the death of his brother, Larry Talbot returns from America to his ancestral home in Wales. He visits a gypsy camp with village girl Jenny Williams, who is attacked...

6.3

2K votes

6.3

2K votes

Bedtime Story

1964 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Ralph Levy

Cast Marlon Brando · David Niven · Shirley Jones · Dody Goodman

Plot In this 1960s comedy, Freddy Benson (Marlon Brando) and Lawrence 'The Prince' Jameson (David Niven) are two charming scoundrel confidence trickster gigolos who prey on wealthy women taking holidays on...

6.3

596 votes

6.3

596 votes

Apache Drums

1951 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Fregonese

Cast Stephen McNally · Coleen Gray · Willard Parker · Arthur Shields

Plot A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.

6.3

178 votes

6.3

178 votes

Christmas Holiday

1944 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Deanna Durbin · Gene Kelly · Richard Whorf · Dean Harens

Plot Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin marries Southern aristocrat...

6.2

258 votes

6.2

258 votes

Seven Sinners

1940 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Marlene Dietrich · John Wayne · Albert Dekker · Broderick Crawford

Plot Bijou, a saloon singer with a reputation for insighting brouhahas, is one of several deportees from a south Pacific island to arrive at another U.S. protectorate, Boni Komba. She becomes...

6.2

120 votes

6.2

120 votes

Come September

1961 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

The Spider Woman

1943 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Roy William Neill

Cast Basil Rathbone · Nigel Bruce · Gale Sondergaard · Dennis Hoey

Plot Alarmed by a series of baffling suicides of prominent gamblers popularly dubbed "The Pajama Murders" by the newspapers, Holmes fakes his own death and assumes the identity of Rajni Singh,...

6.2

432 votes

6.2

432 votes

The Spoilers

1942 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Ray Enright

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Randolph Scott · John Wayne · Margaret Lindsay

Plot In Nome, Alaska, miner Roy Glennister and his partner Dextry, financed by saloon entertainer Cherry Malotte, fight to save their gold claim from crooked commissioner Alexander McNamara.

6.2

394 votes

6.2

394 votes