Soundtrack: Emil Newman

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


Cluny Brown

1946 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Charles Boyer · Jennifer Jones · Peter Lawford · Helen Walker

Synopsis Czech author Adam Belinski has escaped from the Nazis, taking refuge at the country home of the rich, snobbish English Carmel family. The maid is Cluny Brown, who is also a bit of a plumber. Adam and Cluny become friends....

7.6

2K votes

7.6

2K votes

Rancho Notorious

1952 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Arthur Kennedy · Mel Ferrer · Gloria Henry

Synopsis A western based on the story "Gunsight Whitman" by Silvia Richards. Vern Haskell, a nice rancher, seeks out to avenge his fiancé's death when she is killed during a robbery. His revenge leads him to Chuck-a-luck, Altar Keane's ranch set...

7.3

3K votes

7.3

3K votes

99 River Street

1953 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast John Payne · Evelyn Keyes · Brad Dexter · Frank Faylen

Synopsis Having lost his heavyweight championship match, boxer Ernie Driscoll now drives a taxi for a living and earns the scorn of his nagging wife, Pauline, who blames him for her lack of social status. She's seeing Vic Rawlins, a career...

7.1

426 votes

7.1

426 votes

Cry Danger

1951 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Robert Parrish

Cast Dick Powell · Rhonda Fleming · Richard Erdman · William Conrad

Synopsis An innocent man just released from prison searches for the people who framed him and for the stashed $100,000 bankroll. Along the way he meets the wife of a fellow con still on the inside who was framed for the...

6.6

303 votes

6.6

303 votes

Japanese War Bride

1952 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast Shirley Yamaguchi · Don Taylor · Cameron Mitchell · Marie Windsor

Synopsis Korean War veteran returns home to rural Salinas, California with his new Japanese wife, whom he met at a war hospital. The couple are forced to deal with the sometimes subtle, sometimes overt racism of his family and the townspeople,...

6.6

72 votes

6.6

72 votes

Woman on the Run

1950 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Norman Foster

Cast Ann Sheridan · Dennis O'Keefe · Robert Keith · John Qualen

Synopsis Frank Johnson, sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible retaliation. Frank's wife, Eleanor, suspects he is actually running away from...

6.6

434 votes

6.6

434 votes

6.5

717 votes

Chicago Confidential

1957 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Salkow

Cast Brian Keith · Beverly Garland · Dick Foran · Douglas Kennedy

Synopsis An honest union official named Blane is framed for the murder of another union official. Thus off the hook, the crime syndicate actually responsible for the crime is free to continue its activities. However, State's Attorney Jim Fremont begins to...

6.3

87 votes

6.3

87 votes

The Mad Magician

1954 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction John Brahm

Cast Vincent Price · Mary Murphy · Eva Gabor · John Emery

Synopsis Don Gallico is a master at designing magical illusions which are sold by his employer, Mr. Ormond, to famous magicians such as Rinaldi. He is also a master of disguise and realistic mask design. When Don embarks upon his own...

6.2

97 votes

6.2

97 votes

Island In The Sky

1953 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast John Wayne · Lloyd Nolan · Walter Abel · James Arness

Synopsis A transport plane crash-lands in the frozen wastes of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Dooley (Wayne), must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while waiting for rescue.

6.0

399 votes

6.0

399 votes

The Naked Street

1955 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Maxwell Shane

Cast Farley Granger · Anthony Quinn · Anne Bancroft · Peter Graves

Synopsis Roselle is the naughty but nice little sister of mobster Phil "Regal". The unwed Roselle has managed to get herself pregnant by Nick Branda, a convict who is soon on his way to the electric chair. Phil no sooner has...

6.0

75 votes

6.0

75 votes

The Undying Monster

1942 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction John Brahm

Cast James Ellison · Heather Angel · John Howard · Bramwell Fletcher

Synopsis The Hammond family has been cursed since the Crusades with the possibility that each family member could become a werewolf. When Hammond family members keep falling prey to wolf attacks, a police detective investigates and finds that the werewolf curse...

5.6

97 votes

5.6

97 votes

War Paint

1953 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Lesley Selander

Cast Robert Stack · Joan Taylor · Charles McGraw · Keith Larsen

Synopsis Lieut. Billings and his army patrol are ordered to deliver a new peace treaty to the Indian Commissioner, who is missing. They have nine days to get the treaty to Chief Gray Cloud or there will be war. Chief's son...

5.1

76 votes

5.1

76 votes

Beachhead

1954 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Heisler

Cast Tony Curtis · Frank Lovejoy · Mary Murphy · Eduard Franz

Synopsis In World War II, after his platoon rendezvouses with a French spy and his beautiful daughter, U.S. Marine Tony Curtis must lead the whole bunch through a perilous jungle in order to report the location of a Japanese minefield to...

4.9

179 votes

4.9

179 votes

Southwest Passage

1954 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Ray Nazarro

Cast Rod Cameron · Joanne Dru · John Ireland · John Dehner

Synopsis Edward Beale is in charge of finding a shorter trail across the American desert and to also test the practicality of using camels in the west in this 3-D western. (An actual test once conducted in the Big Bend area...

4.9

43 votes

4.9

43 votes

The Great Sioux Massacre

1965 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Salkow

Cast Joseph Cotten · Darren McGavin · Phil Carey · Julie Sommars

Synopsis A look at what happened to Custer and his troops at the Battle of Little Big Horn. Custer, an outspoken believer in fair treatment for the Indians, is ousted from his post and forced into retirement. Fueled by ambition when...

4.8

110 votes

4.8

110 votes

Big Jim McLain

1952 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Edward Ludwig

Cast John Wayne · Nancy Olson · James Arness · Alan Napier

Synopsis U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter attempt to break up a ring of Communist Party troublemakers in Hawaii.

4.0

64 votes

4.0

64 votes

Jungle Patrol

1948 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Joseph M. Newman

Cast Kristine Miller · Arthur Franz · Ross Ford · Tommy Noonan

Synopsis A visit from a USO entertainer lifts the spirits of the pilots stationed in New Guinea, who are beginning to worry that their luck will soon run short.

Not rated

Not rated

The Steel Lady

1953 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Ewald André Dupont

Cast Tab Hunter · Rod Cameron · John Dehner · Richard Erdman

Synopsis Surviving a plane crash in the Sahara, four oilmen find and manage to repair a German Afrika Corps tank which had been buried in the sand since WWII. Heading toward a French Foreign Legion outpost, they encounter a nomadic Arab...

Not rated

Not rated

Death in Small Doses

1957 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Joseph M. Newman

Cast Peter Graves · Mala Powers · Chuck Connors · Robert Williams

Synopsis A government agent investigates the use of illegal amphetamines among long-haul truck drivers.

Not rated

Not rated