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Stagecoach

Stagecoach (1939) more movies like this

directed by John Ford
featuring Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Andy Devine, Thomas Mitchell, George Bancroft, John Carradine

Although there were Westerns before it, Stagecoach quickly became a template for all movie Westerns to come. Director John Ford combined action, drama, humor, and a set of well-drawn characters in the story of a stagecoach set to leave Tonto, New Mexico for a distant settlement in Lordsburg, with a diverse set of passengers on board. Dallas ...

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The High and the Mighty

The High and the Mighty (1954) more movies like this

directed by William Wellman
featuring John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day, Robert Stack, Jan Sterling

For The High and the Mighty, director William Wellman made a point of using Cinemascope to heighten the dramatic content of a confined screen space -- in this instance, the cockpit of a plane in flight. Copilot Dan Roman (John Wayne) seems a lot more in control of things than Captain John Sullivan (Robert Stack) when the plane loses an engine ...

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Key Largo

Key Largo (1948) more movies like this

directed by John Huston
featuring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Monte Blue, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor, Thomas Gomez

Richard Brooks and John Huston's screenplay for Huston's Key Largo eschews the lofty blank verse of Maxwell Anderson's original play, concentrating instead on the simmering tensions among the many characters. Humphrey Bogart plays Frank McCloud, an embittered war veteran who travels to Key Largo in Florida, there to meet Nora Temple (Lauren Bacall ...

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Kiss Me Goodbye

Kiss Me Goodbye (1982) more movies like this

directed by Robert Mulligan
featuring Sally Field, James Caan, Jeff Bridges, Paul Dooley, Claire Trevor

Robert Mulligan directed this Americanized re-make of the successful Brazilian comedy Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands. Sally Field stars as Kay Villano, a lonely widow of three years who can't forget the memory of her dead husband, Jolly (James Caan). Jolly was a selfish and unfaithful Broadway choreographer who still managed to win Kay over with ...

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Dead End

Dead End (1937) more movies like this

directed by William Wyler
featuring Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie, Claire Trevor

Adapted by Lillian Hellman from Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play, Dead End concerns itself with several denizens of New York's East River district. Here the elite and the slum-dwellers rub shoulders due to the close proximity of the riverfront tenements with the East Side luxury hotels. Slum girl Drina Gordon (Sylvia Sidney) tries to prevent her ...

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Raw Deal

Raw Deal (1948) more movies like this

directed by Anthony Mann
featuring Dennis O'Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt, John Ireland, Raymond Burr

Violent and viscerally sexual, Anthony Mann's muscular low-budget noir tells the tale of a framed gangster's quest for vengeance after he busts out of prison. Once freed, gangster Joe Sullivan Dennis O'Keefe) and his girl friend Pat (Claier Trevor) set off to find the mobster who set him up. The kidnapping of Ann Martin (Marsha Hunt), the social ...

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Marjorie Morningstar

Marjorie Morningstar (1958) more movies like this

directed by Irving Rapper
featuring Gene Kelly, Natalie Wood, Claire Trevor, Everett Sloane, Martin Milner

Marjorie Morgenstern (Natalie Wood) is an 18-year-old, middle-class, Jewish girl from New York who wants nothing more than to be an actress, despite the hopes and wishes of her parents (Everett Sloane and Claire Trevor) that she graduate from college, marry, and settle down to have a family. At the urging of her more worldly friend Marsha Zelenko ...

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The Dark Command

The Dark Command (1940) more movies like this

directed by Raoul Walsh
featuring Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Walter Pidgeon, Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes

Set in the years leading up to the Civil War and its outbreak, Dark Command tells a fictionalized version of the story of William Clarke Quantrill, the schoolteacher-turned-renegade, whose raids -- ostensibly on behalf of the Confederacy -- turned Kansas into a charnel house. John Wayne plays Bob Setton, a young Texan who arrives in Lawrence, KS, ...

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Baby, Take a Bow

Baby, Take a Bow (1934) more movies like this

directed by Harry Lachman
featuring Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Claire Trevor, Alan Dinehart, Ray Walker

Shirley Temple's first starring vehicle casts her as the button-cute daughter of ex-convict Eddie Ellison (James Dunn) and his wife Kay (Claire Trevor). Ellison and his old cellmate Larry Scott (Ray Walker) manage to land jobs as chauffeurs for a wealthy family. When a valuable string of pearls disappears, both men are fired and Eddie is accused ...

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The Babe Ruth Story

The Babe Ruth Story (1948) more movies like this

directed by Roy Del Ruth
featuring William Bendix, Claire Trevor, Charles Bickford, Sam Levene, William Frawley

The Plan 9 From Outer Space of baseball biopics, The Babe Ruth Story is definitely in the "So Bad It's Good" category. An outrageously miscast William Bendix stars as George Herman "Babe" Ruth, who as depicted herein is a childish, misunderstood oaf who happens to be one of the greatest ballplayers of all time. With an almost perverse disregard ...

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Allegheny Uprising (1939) more movies like this

directed by William Seiter
featuring Claire Trevor, John Wayne, George Sanders, Brian Donlevy, Wilfred Lawson

Films set during America's colonial era seldom did well at the box office, and Allegheny Uprising was no exception. John Wayne and Claire Trevor, stars of the recent western hit Stagecoach, are reteamed herein as 18th century adventurer James Smith and his spitfire sweetheart Janie. Taking every opportunity to defy the edicts of the King of ...

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Texas (1941) more movies like this

directed by George Marshall
featuring William Holden, Glenn Ford, Claire Trevor, George Bancroft, Edgar Buchanan

Texas was Columbia Pictures' lighthearted (and frankly more enjoyable) follow-up to its 1940 big-budget western Arizona. William Holden and Glenn Ford, looking collectively 28 years old, play a couple of ex-Confederate soldiers who get into all sorts of trouble in a wide-open Texas town. The two split up, whereupon Ford takes a job on Joseph ...

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The Desperadoes (1943) more movies like this

directed by Charles Vidor
featuring Randolph Scott, Glenn Ford, Claire Trevor, Evelyn Keyes, Edgar Buchanan

In this Western drama, Steve Upton (Randolph Scott) is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers (Glenn Ford), was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, he's gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. However, while Cheyenne is in town to pay Upton a visit, the local bank is robbed and Cheyenne is ...

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The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953) more movies like this

directed by André De Toth
featuring Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor, Joan Weldon, George Macready, Alfonso Bedoya

Randolph Scott makes his 3-D debut in the stereoscopic western Stranger Wore a Gun. This time, Scott plays Jeff Travis, a former spy for Quantrill's Raiders. When he heads to Arizona to start life anew, Travis finds that his reputation has preceded him: crooked Jules Mourret (George Macready) hires him to monitor a series of gold shipments, in ...

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Murder, My Sweet (1944) more movies like this

directed by Edward Dmytryk
featuring Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger, Mike Mazurki

One-time movie crooner Dick Powell literally turned his career around in the 1944 film noir Murder My Sweet. Powell stars as Phillip Marlowe, the hard-boiled private detective antihero created by novelist Raymond Chandler. Hired by hulking, psychotic Moose Malloy (Mike Mazurki) to locate Moose's old girl friend, Marlowe is pitched headlong into a ...

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The Mountain (1956) more movies like this

directed by Edward Dmytryk
featuring Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Claire Trevor, William Demarest, Barbara Darrow, Anna Kashfi

To fully enjoy the rugged outdoors adventure The Mountain, one must accept the notion that 55-year-old Spencer Tracy and 25-year-old Robert Wagner are brothers. Tracy plays veteran mountain guide Zachary Wheeler, who is coaxed out of retirement when a passenger plane crashes on high mountain. He decides it isn't worth risking his life to recover ...

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Borderline (1950) more movies like this

directed by William Seiter
featuring Fred MacMurray, Claire Trevor, Raymond Burr, Roy Roberts, José Torvay

This crime melodrama with humorous undertones involves the investigation of dope smugglers on the Mexican border. Americans Fred MacMurray and Claire Trevor enter the scene and find themselves embroiled in the illicit activities. Both are government agents, but each one thinks the other is a crook. The real bad guy is Raymond Burr, head of the ...

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Born to Kill (1947) more movies like this

directed by Robert Wise
featuring Lawrence Tierney, Claire Trevor, Walter Slezak, Phillip Terry, Audrey Long

Somehow the titles of the films of hardcase actor Lawrence Tierney seemed to be extensions of the man's personality, as witness such films as The Devil Thumbs a Ride and Born to Kill. In the latter picture, Tierney starts the ball rolling by committing a double murder in a jealous pique. Claire Trevor discovers the bodies, but says nothing to the ...

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I Stole a Million (1939) more movies like this

directed by Frank Tuttle
featuring George Raft, Claire Trevor, Dick Foran, Henry Armetta, Victor Jory

In this crime drama, a grizzled cabbie is scammed out of his life savings by a fake finance company. He tries to no avail to get police assistance. Finally he becomes a wanted criminal and escapes to California where he meets the girl who will become his wife. She helps him go straight by helping him set up a garage. When she gets pregnant, she ...

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The Bachelor's Daughters (1946) more movies like this

directed by Andrew L. Stone
featuring Gail Russell, Claire Trevor, Ann Dvorak, Adolphe Menjou, Billie Burke

Andrew Stone's The Bachelor's Daughters has much of the nonsensical breeziness of Stone's earlier screwball comedy Hi Diddle Diddle; the stylistic link between the two properties is emphasized by the presence in both films of stars Adolphe Menjou and Billie Burke. The title characters are four merrily mercenary salesgirls: Eileen (Gail Russell), ...

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The Stripper (1963) more movies like this

directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
featuring Joanne Woodward, Richard Beymer, Claire Trevor, Carol Lynley, Robert Webber

This routine tale of an aspiring actress on the verge of a sharp decline is directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and features Joanne Woodward in a skillful and engaging portrayal of Lila, the would-be thespian. The setting is a small town in the plains state of Kansas where Lila finds herself stranded when her job falls apart. Thanks to her friend ...

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Johnny Angel (1945) more movies like this

directed by Edwin L. Marin
featuring George Raft, Claire Trevor, Signe Hasso, Lowell Gilmore, Hoagy Carmichael

No relation to the later Shelley Fabares song hit of the same name, RKO Radio's Johnny Angel was adapted by Steve Fisher and Frank Gruber from a short story by Charles Gordon Booth. In one of his better performances, George Raft plays sea captain Johnny Angel, who doggedly pursues the no-good rats who murdered his father and swiped a shipment of ...

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How to Murder Your Wife (1965) more movies like this

directed by Richard Quine
featuring Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, Terry-Thomas, Eddie Mayehoff, Claire Trevor

George Axelrod's script for How to Murder Your Wife isn't politically correct in the least, but you're likely to get a charge out of it -- provided you are of the male persuasion, that is. Jack Lemmon stars as Stanley Ford, a successful cartoonist and a confirmed bachelor who shares a lavish apartment with his misogynistic manservant, Charles ...

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Hoodlum Empire (1952) more movies like this

directed by Joseph Kane
featuring Brian Donlevy, Claire Trevor, Forrest Tucker, Vera Ralston, Luther Adler

The Kefauver Committee's ongoing investigation of organized crime spawned several "Torn from Today's Headlines!" films in the early 1950s. Republic's Hoodlum Empire concerns the efforts by gangster Joe Gray (John Russell) to get out of the rackets after WW II. Part of Gray's "reclamation" is to testify at a public hearing, prompting a series of ...

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Honky Tonk (1941) more movies like this

directed by Jack Conway
featuring Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Frank Morgan, Claire Trevor, Albert Dekker, Marjorie Main

The marvelous rapport between stars Clark Gable and Lana Turner makes MGM's Honky Tonk seem far more substatianal than it really is. About to be tarred and featherd by an angry mob, frontier con artists Candy Johnson (Gable) and his pal Sniper (Chill Wills) manage to make a quick getaway via train. While on board, Candy strikes up a friendship ...

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