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Gentleman's Agreement

Gentleman's Agreement (1947) more movies like this

directed by Elia Kazan
featuring Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm, June Havoc

Adapted by Moss Hart from the novel by Laura Z. Hobson, this film stars Gregory Peck as recently widowed journalist Phil Green. With a growing son (Dean Stockwell) to support, Green is receptive to the invitation of magazine publisher John Minify (Albert Dekker) to write a series of hard-hitting articles on the scourge of anti-Semitism. In order ...

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Force of Evil

Force of Evil (1948) more movies like this

directed by Abraham Polonsky
featuring John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor, Roy Roberts, Beatrice Pearson

John Garfield, in the best performance of his career, portrays Joe Morse, an ambitious attorney who has long since abandoned his scruples in favor of monetary reward. Morse now represents the interests of crime boss Ben Tucker (Roy Roberts), who plans to take over the numbers racket in New York. Morse has devised a way of doing this legally and ...

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Destination Tokyo

Destination Tokyo (1943) more movies like this

directed by Delmer Daves
featuring Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale, Dane Clark, John Ridgely

Though its purely propagandastic aspects are never far from surface, Destination Tokyo must rank as one of the most intelligent and objective of wartime thrillers. Cary Grant is a tower of strength as Captain Cassidy, skipper of an American submarine bound for Tokyo harbor. Its mission: to allow a Navy meterologist to survey Japanese weather ...

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They Made Me a Criminal

They Made Me a Criminal (1939) more movies like this

directed by Busby Berkeley
featuring John Garfield, Gloria Dickson, Bobby Jordan, Claude Rains, Ann Sheridan, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Billy Halop

They Made Me a Criminal opens in New York, depicting the latest victory in the ring for Johnny Bradfield (John Garfield), a young boxer who seems headed for a championship. When a reporter finds Bradfield drunk and carousing with women, and learns that the squeaky-clean image that he has cultivated is a complete lie, he threatens to blow the lid ...

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Juarez

Juarez (1939) more movies like this

directed by William Dieterle
featuring Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne, Claude Rains, John Garfield

Juarez was originally designed to concentrate almost exclusively on the tragedy of Hapsburg Emperor Maximillian, whose attempts to establish a puppet government in Mexico on behalf of Napoleon III ended in disaster and death. But when Paul Muni decided that he wanted to play Zapotec-Indian-turned-Mexican President Benito Pablo Juarez, the film's ...

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Body and Soul

Body and Soul (1947) more movies like this

directed by Robert Rossen
featuring John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, James Burke, Anne Revere, Canada Lee, Mary Currier, Joe Devlin, Hazel Brooks, William Conrad

This riveting 1947 drama, regarded by many as the greatest boxing movie of all time, centers on a former pugilist who looks back on his life in and out of the ring and realizes that self-respect is a more important prize than winning. John Garfield is Charlie Davis, a former boxing champion who began fighting in order to save himself and his ...

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The Postman Always Rings Twice

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) more movies like this

directed by Tay Garnett
featuring Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, Audrey Totter

James M. Cain's novel received its first authorized screen treatment in this MGM production. Drifter Frank Chambers (John Garfield) takes a job at a roadhouse run by slovenly but likeable Nick Smith (Cecil Kellaway). Nick's sexy young wife Cora (Lana Turner) takes an immediate liking to Frank, but he senses that she's trouble and he keeps his ...

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The Sea Wolf

The Sea Wolf (1941) more movies like this

directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Alexander Knox, Gene Lockhart

The fifth film version of Jack London's The Sea Wolf stars Edward G. Robinson as "premature fascist" Wolf Larsen. The captain of the scavenger ship Ghost , Larsen is a heartless tyrant who can tolerate no sign of weakness in anyone. "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven" is Larsen's philosophy (borrowed from the character of Satan in ...

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Tortilla Flat

Tortilla Flat (1942) more movies like this

directed by Victor Fleming
featuring Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield, Frank Morgan, Akim Tamiroff

Like the John Steinbeck novel on which it is based, Tortilla Flat is not so much a movie as a series of warm-hearted anecdotes, all linked to a small California fishing village populated by poor but happy immigrants. The focus is upon Pilon (Spencer Tracy), a good-natured, charismatic freeloader, and Danny (John Garfield), a hot-headed fisherman ...

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Humoresque

Humoresque (1946) more movies like this

directed by Jean Negulesco
featuring Joan Crawford, John Abbott, John Garfield, Oscar Levant, Paul Cavanagh, J. Carrol Naish, Joan Chandler, Tommy Cook

Fannie Hurst's novel Humoresque is the lachrymose tale of a famed Jewish-American violinist who forgets all about his friends and family in his rise to fame. Screenwriters Clifford Odets and Zachary Gold refashioned this timeworn material into a first-class, big-budget soap opera, completely dominated by the high-octane talents of Joan Crawford ...

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We Were Strangers

We Were Strangers (1949) more movies like this

directed by John Huston
featuring Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendáriz, Gilbert Roland, Ramon Novarro

Set in the Cuba of 1933, We Were Strangers stars John Garfield as revolutionary-minded Tony Fenner. A member of an underground movement dedicated to toppling the despotic Machado regime, Tony supervises the booby-trapping of a cemetery where several top Cuban officials are planning to converge for a state funeral. Also involved in the ...

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The Fallen Sparrow (1943) more movies like this

directed by Richard Wallace
featuring John Garfield, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak, Patricia Morison, Martha O'Driscoll

John Garfield was borrowed from Warner Bros. by RKO Radio for the tense espionage melodrama The Fallen Sparrow. Garfield is cast as Kit, an idealistic Spanish Civil War veteran who survives two torturous years in a fascist prison. Upon returning to New York, Kit is pounced upon by Nazi agents, who hope to learn the valuable secrets that Kit would ...

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