Soundtrack: Hugo Friedhofer

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


The Best Years of Our Lives

1946 · Movie · 170 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Dana Andrews · Fredric March · Myrna Loy · Harold Russell

Synopsis After the Second World War, the soldiers who survived, some of them with physical problems, came back to the United States. Initially, they were treated as heroes, but afterwards they became marginalized.

8.2

8K votes

8.2

8K votes

Ace in the Hole

1951 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Kirk Douglas · Jan Sterling · Robert Arthur · Porter Hall

Synopsis A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to re-jump start his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus. Charles Tatum, a down-on-his-luck...

8.0

8K votes

8.0

8K votes

Gilda

1946 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Charles Vidor

Cast Rita Hayworth · Glenn Ford · George Macready · Joseph Calleia

Synopsis Just arrived in Argentina, small-time crooked gambler Johnny Farrell is saved from a gunman by sinister Ballin Mundson, who later makes Johnny his right-hand man. But their friendship based on mutual lack of scruples is strained when Mundson returns from...

7.7

31K votes

7.7

31K votes

An Affair to Remember

1957 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Cary Grant · Deborah Kerr · Richard Denning · Neva Patterson

Synopsis In this legendary tearjerker, the world's most eligible bachelor (Cary Grant) is set to marry an heiress. But unfortunately for his bride-to-be, while he's traveling alone on a luxury liner he meets Terry McKay (Deborah Kerr) and realizes he's engaged...

7.6

11K votes

7.6

11K votes

The Harder They Fall

1956 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Rod Steiger · Jan Sterling · Mike Lane

Synopsis Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch...

7.6

4K votes

7.6

4K votes

Body and Soul

1947 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Robert Rossen

Cast John Garfield · Lilli Palmer · Hazel Brooks · Anne Revere

Synopsis Charley Davis wins an amateur boxing match and is taken on by promoter Quinn. Charley's mother doesn't want him to fight, but when Charley's father is accidentally killed, Charley sets up a fight for money. His career blooms as he...

7.6

2K votes

7.6

2K votes

Lifeboat

1944 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Tallulah Bankhead · John Hodiak · William Bendix · Hume Cronyn

Synopsis In the Atlantic during WWII, a ship and a German U-boat are involved in a battle and both are sunk. The survivors from the ship gather in one of the boats. They are from a variety of backgrounds: an international...

7.3

5K votes

7.3

5K votes

The Young Lions

1958 · Movie · 167 min. · United States

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Marlon Brando · Montgomery Clift · Dean Martin · Maximilian Schell

Synopsis The destiny of two soldiers during World War II. The German officer Christian approves less and less of the war, while the American GI Ackerman climbs the military hierarchy.

7.2

6K votes

7.2

6K votes

No Man of Her Own

1950 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · John Lund · Jane Cowl · Phyllis Thaxter

Synopsis Helen Ferguson (Stanwyck) is a pregnant girl who assumes a new identity and whose past catches up with her in blackmail and murder.

7.2

519 votes

7.2

519 votes

One-Eyed Jacks

1961 · Movie · 141 min. · United States

Direction Marlon Brando

Cast Marlon Brando · Karl Malden · Pina Pellicer · Katy Jurado

Synopsis Marlon Brando's only directorial effort. It's the Old West of 1880, and Brando stars as Kid Rio, who along with his partner, Dad Longworth (Karl Malden) are bank robbers who are caught holding up a Mexican bank. Longworth gets away...

7.1

5K votes

7.1

5K votes

Broken Arrow

1950 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Delmer Daves

Cast James Stewart · Jeff Chandler · Debra Paget · Will Geer

Synopsis By 1870, there has been 10 years of cruel war between settlers and Cochise's Apaches. Ex-soldier Tom Jeffords saves the life of an Apache boy and starts to wonder if Indians are human, after all; soon, he determines to use...

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

The Sound of Fury

1950 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Cy Endfield

Cast Frank Lovejoy · Kathleen Ryan · Richard Carlson · Lloyd Bridges

Synopsis A man down on his luck falls in with a criminal. After a senseless murder, the two are lynched.

7.0

97 votes

7.0

97 votes

Enchantment

1948 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Irving Reis

Cast David Niven · Teresa Wright · Evelyn Keyes · Farley Granger

Synopsis Uncle Rollo finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love, Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last days. However, the appearance of his niece and the subsequent...

7.0

134 votes

7.0

134 votes

The Revolt of Mamie Stover

1956 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Jane Russell · Richard Egan · Joan Leslie · Agnes Moorehead

Synopsis Set in the early '40s and directed by Raoul Walsh, The Revolt of Mamie Stover stars Jane Russell as Mamie, a San Francisco prostitute who is run out of town just as the second world war has begun to intensify....

7.0

208 votes

7.0

208 votes

Vera Cruz

1954 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Gary Cooper · Burt Lancaster · Denise Darcel · Sara Montiel

Synopsis During the Mexican Rebellion of 1866, an unsavory group of American adventurers are hired by the forces of Emporer Maximilian to escort a countess to Vera Cruz.

6.9

6K votes

6.9

6K votes

Violent Saturday

1955 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast Victor Mature · Richard Egan · Stephen McNally · Lee Marvin

Synopsis A trio of bandits plan to rob a bank in an Arizona mining town. When the night comes, they do it, and escape, taking a townsman hostage, to an Amish village, where they hole themselves up. Soon, the townsman and...

6.8

653 votes

6.8

653 votes

The Road to Glory

1936 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Fredric March · Warner Baxter · Lionel Barrymore · June Lang

Synopsis The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and more somber. His rival for the affection of nurse Monique is Capt....

6.8

223 votes

6.8

223 votes

6.8

26 votes

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

1936 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Henry Fonda · Fred MacMurray · Sylvia Sidney · Fred Stone

Synopsis The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1936 romance film based on the novel of the same name. It was directed by Henry Hathaway. It was the second full length feature film to be shot in three-strip Technicolor and...

6.7

456 votes

6.7

456 votes

The Bishop's Wife

1947 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Cary Grant · Loretta Young · David Niven · Monty Woolley

Synopsis A harassed bishop's prayers are answered when an angel (played by Cary Grant) is sent from heaven to help him raise money for a new church. The heavenly agent performs a number of miracles on his behalf, restoring hope to...

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes