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Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity (1944) more movies like this

directed by Billy Wilder
featuring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather

Directed by Billy Wilder and adapted from a James M. Cain novel by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, Double Indemnity represents the high-water mark of 1940s film noir urban crime dramas in which a greedy, weak man is seduced and trapped by a cold, evil woman amidst the dark shadows and Expressionist lighting of modern cities. Phyllis Dietrichson ...

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His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday (1940) more movies like this

directed by Howard Hawks
featuring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Helen Mack, Porter Hall, Clarence Kolb, Roscoe Karns

The second screen version of the Ben Hecht/Charles MacArthur play The Front Page, His Girl Friday changed hard-driving newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson from a man to a woman, transforming the story into a scintillating battle of the sexes. Rosalind Russell plays Hildy, about to foresake journalism for marriage to cloddish Bruce Baldwin (Ralph ...

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Sullivan's Travels

Sullivan's Travels (1941) more movies like this

directed by Preston Sturges
featuring Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn, Porter Hall, Robert Warwick

In Preston Sturges' classic comedy of Depression-era America, filmmaker John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea), fed up with directing profitable comedies like "Ants in Your Plants of 1939," is consumed with the desire to make a serious social statement in his upcoming film, "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" Unable to function in the rarefied atmosphere of ...

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Blood on the Sun

Blood on the Sun (1945) more movies like this

directed by Frank Lloyd
featuring James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Porter Hall, Wallace Ford, Robert Armstrong, John Emery, Rosemary de Camp

In his first film in two years, James Cagney stars as Nick Condon, the American editor of a pre-WW2 Tokyo newspaper. When two of his best friends are horribly murdered, Condon suspects that the "peaceful" Japanese military government is up to no good. He dedicates himself to getting his hands on the "Tanka Plan," a Japanese blueprint for ...

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The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944) more movies like this

directed by Preston Sturges
featuring Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, William Demarest, Brian Donlevy, Porter Hall

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon 'em." Firmly in the latter category is Norval Jones (Eddie Bracken), a feckless wartime 4-F who must stand by helplessly as his sweetheart Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton) entertains every visiting GI in town. One morning after a particularly wild night, Trudy labors ...

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The General Died at Dawn

The General Died at Dawn (1936) more movies like this

directed by Lewis Milestone
featuring Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Akim Tamiroff, Dudley Digges, Porter Hall

General Yang (Akim Tamiroff) is a politically ambitious Chinese bandit who holds the Northern districts in a grip of terror. Yang is opposed by O'Hara (Gary Cooper), an American mercenary who fights on behalf of the peasants. When he is entrusted with a large sum of money to buy guns, O'Hara becomes the target of Yang and his minions. Betrayed by ...

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A Stranger in Town

A Stranger in Town (1943) more movies like this

directed by Roy Rowland
featuring Frank Morgan, Richard Carlson, Jean Rogers, Porter Hall, Robert H. Barrat

All but forgotten today, A Stranger in Town serves as an excellent showcase for the dramatic talents of Frank Morgan. The star plays Supreme Court justice John Josephus Grant, who decides to take a break from his hectic schedule by going on a hunting vacation. Travelling incognito, Grant stops over in a small town that turns out to be a hotbed of ...

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Arizona

Arizona (1940) more movies like this

directed by Wesley Ruggles
featuring William Holden, Jean Arthur, Warren William, Porter Hall, Paul Harvey

Wesley Ruggles's Arizona is an epic western set in an impoverished Arizona outpost. It tells the story of the feisty, no-nonsense Phoebe Titus (Jean Arthur). Wearing leather breeches, with a bullwhip and gun, she can out-shoot and out-fight nearly every bad hombre in town, and manages to transform the down-and-out community into Tuscon, one of the ...

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Bulldog Drummond Escapes

Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937) more movies like this

directed by James Hogan
featuring Guy Standing, Heather Angel, Porter Hall, Reginald Denny

Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" series got off to a start with 1937's Bulldog Drummond Escapes. Up-and-coming Ray Milland stars as soldier-of-fortune Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond, who on this occasion comes to the aid of pretty heiress Phyllis Clavering (Heather Angel). The heroine is being held against her will by scheming "family friend" Merridew ...

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Ace in the Hole

Ace in the Hole (1951) more movies like this

directed by Billy Wilder
featuring Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall, Frank Cady

Billy Winder directed and co-wrote this bitterly satiric comedy-drama which turns a jaundiced eye towards both the news media and its consumers. Chuck Tatum (Kirk Douglas) is a talented but short-tempered reporter whose fondness for booze and unwillingness to bow to authority has cost him jobs at some of America's most prestigious newspapers. When ...

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