Soundtrack: Hugo Friedhofer

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


After Tomorrow

1932 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Charles Farrell · Marian Nixon · Minna Gombell · William Collier Sr.

Synopsis In the Depression, Pete and Sidney are good kids, working hard, giving money to their parents, and engaged for three years while they save to get married. Each has a selfish mother: Sydney's is cold, Pete's is clingy. Sidney's mother...

6.7

47 votes

6.7

47 votes

The Bravados

1958 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

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

Synopsis 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 escape; and the townspeople enlist Douglas' aid to recapture them.

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

Call of the Wild

1935 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Clark Gable · Loretta Young · Jack Oakie · Reginald Owen

Synopsis Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields.

6.6

391 votes

6.6

391 votes

The Sullivans

1944 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Anne Baxter · Thomas Mitchell · Selena Royle · Edward Ryan

Synopsis The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and of World War II and their eventual deaths in action in the Pacific theater are chronicled in this film based...

6.6

53 votes

6.6

53 votes

6.5

717 votes

This Earth is Mine

1959 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

6.4

506 votes

6.4

506 votes

The Conspirators

1944 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Hedy Lamarr · Paul Henreid · Sydney Greenstreet · Peter Lorre

Synopsis Vincent Van Der Lyn, a Dutch freedom fighter in WWII, is forced to neutral Lisbon to escape the Nazis. There he meets a small band of underground conspirators. The group's leader, Ricardo Quintanilla, knows that one of their number is...

6.4

79 votes

6.4

79 votes

The Lodger

1944 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction John Brahm

Cast Merle Oberon · George Sanders · Laird Cregar · Cedric Hardwicke

Synopsis Mrs. Bonting manages to keep up appearances, but little more than that, these days. Though Mr. Bonting is unhappy over the idea of letting rooms, it seems an answer to a prayer when a peculiar young man named Mr. Slade...

6.4

581 votes

6.4

581 votes

Two Flags West

1950 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Joseph Cotten · Linda Darnell · Jeff Chandler · Cornel Wilde

Synopsis Captain Bradford offers Confederate prisoners the chance of freedom if they agree to serve as Union soldiers to protect frontier forts against the Indians. Colonel Tucker accepts when Bradford gives him his word that the men won?t be asked to...

6.4

211 votes

6.4

211 votes

Hondo

1953 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction John Farrow

Cast John Wayne · Geraldine Page · Ward Bond · Michael Pate

Synopsis Hondo Lane, a despatch rider for the cavalry, encounters Angie Lowe, a woman living alone with her young son in the midst of hostile Apache territory. She presumes she is safe because the Apaches, under their chief Vittorio, have always...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

Homicidal

1961 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction William Castle

Cast Glenn Corbett · Patricia Breslin · Joan Marshall · Eugenie Leontovich

Synopsis A woman calling herself Miriam Webster gives a bellboy a thousand dollars if he will marry her and immediately after the ceremony nullify the marriage. But during the ceremony she stabs the Justice of the Peace and then runs off...

6.4

488 votes

6.4

488 votes

The Marrying Kind

1952 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

6.4

259 votes

6.4

259 votes

Wing and a Prayer

1944 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Don Ameche · Dana Andrews · William Eythe · Charles Bickford

Synopsis An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of Midway. All the men have their individual worries and concerns, but become increasingly frustrated at...

6.3

83 votes

6.3

83 votes

Man in the Attic

1953 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Fregonese

Cast Jack Palance · Constance Smith · Byron Palmer · Frances Bavier

Synopsis London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist, takes lodgings with the Harleys, including a gloomy attic room for "experiments." Mrs. Harley finds Slade odd and increasingly suspects the worst;...

6.3

180 votes

6.3

180 votes

The Gang's All Here

1943 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Busby Berkeley

Cast Alice Faye · Carmen Miranda · Phil Baker · Benny Goodman

Synopsis Playboy Andy Mason, on leave from the army, romances showgirl Eadie Allen overnight to such effect that she's starry-eyed when he leaves next morning for active duty in the Pacific. Only trouble is, he gave her the assumed name of...

6.3

95 votes

6.3

95 votes

The Red Baron

1971 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Roger Corman

Cast John Phillip Law · Don Stroud · Barry Primus · Corin Redgrave

Synopsis World War I: an allied squadron and a German squadron face off daily in the skies. Manfred von Richtofen, the Red Baron, leads one, and, although one of his decisions cost the life of his predecessor, he expects his men...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

Edge of Doom

1950 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Dana Andrews · Farley Granger · Joan Evans · Robert Keith

Synopsis A poor and alienated young man (Farley Granger) who is driven to murder when a priest refuses to give is deceased mother an expensive funeral.

6.2

156 votes

6.2

156 votes

Dante's Inferno

1935 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Harry Lachman

Cast Spencer Tracy · Claire Trevor · Henry B. Walthall · Alan Dinehart

Synopsis Jim Carter moves in on the McWade's carnival concession which shows scenes from Dante's "Inferno". He makes it a going concern, marrying Betting along the way. An inspector calls the amusement pier unsafe but Carter bribes him. The pier collapses,...

6.2

84 votes

6.2

84 votes