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Shane

Shane (1953) more movies like this

directed by George Stevens
featuring Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon de Wilde, Jack Palance

The simple story of a Wyoming range war is elevated to near-mythical status in producer/director George Stevens' Western classic Shane. Alan Ladd plays the title character, a mysterious drifter who rides into a tiny homesteading community and accepts the hospitality of a farming family. Patriarch Joe Starrett (Van Heflin) is impressed by the way ...

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3:10 to Yuma

3:10 to Yuma (1957) more movies like this

directed by Delmer Daves
featuring Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr, Leora Dana, Henry Jones, Richard Jaeckel

Desperate for money, frontier rancher Van Heflin holds outlaw Glenn Ford at gunpoint, intending to collect the $200 reward. While both men await the train to Yuma that will escort Ford to prison, the cagey outlaw offers Heflin $10,000 if he'll set Ford free. The rest of the film is a sweat-inducing cat-and-mouse game between captive and captor, ...

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Battle Cry

Battle Cry (1955) more movies like this

directed by Raoul Walsh
featuring Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman, Nancy Olson, James Whitmore, Tab Hunter

Adapted by Leon Uris from his own novel, the film follows a group of World War II marines, from Basic Training to Battlefield. Major Van Heflin knows that his men are spoiling for a real fight, but must make do with the desultory skirmishes assigned them by the Brass. All this changes with an onslaught of heavy-duty battling in the South Pacific. ...

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Till the Clouds Roll By

Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) more movies like this

directed by Richard Whorf
featuring June Allyson, Robert Walker, Judy Garland, Gower Champion, Lucille Bremer, Cyd Charisse, Joan Wells, Bruce Cowling, Van Heflin

MGM's Till the Clouds Roll By is the musicalized, and highly fictionalized, life story of beloved composer Jerome Kern, who gave his blessing to the production shortly before his death in 1946. As played by a gray-templed Robert Walker, Kern is a likeable but none too exciting sort who expresses his emotions through his music. Constructed in the ...

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The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers (1948) more movies like this

directed by George Sidney
featuring Gene Kelly, Lana Turner, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Angela Lansbury

The third talkie version of Dumas' The Three Musketeers, this splashy MGM adaptation is also the first version in Technicolor. Gene Kelly romps his way through the role of D'Artagnan, the upstart cadet who joins veteran Musketeers Athos (Van Heflin), Porthos (Gig Young) and Aramis (Robert Coote) in their efforts to save their beloved Queen Anne ...

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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) more movies like this

directed by Lewis Milestone
featuring Barbara Stanwyck, Roman Bohnen, Van Heflin, Charles D. Brown, Lizabeth Scott, Ann Doran, Kirk Douglas, Judith Anderson

In The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, relationships formed in childhood lead to murder and obsessive love. The wealthy Martha Ivers (Barbara Stanwyck) is the prime mover of the small Pennsylvania town of Iverston. Martha lives in a huge mansion with her DA husband, Walter O'Neil (Kirk Douglas), an alcoholic weakling. No one knows just why Martha ...

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A Woman's World

A Woman's World (1954) more movies like this

directed by Jean Negulesco
featuring Clifton Webb, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Lauren Bacall, Fred MacMurray, Arlene Dahl

In this subtle 1954 comedy with feminist overtones, Clifton Webb plays Gifford, an executive with a large automobile manufacturer who is having trouble deciding who to hire as his chief sales manager. His three candidates are equally competent, so he brings their wives with them to New York headquarters, planning to hire the one whose wife is most ...

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East Side, West Side

East Side, West Side (1949) more movies like this

directed by Mervyn LeRoy
featuring Barbara Stanwyck, James Mason, Van Heflin, Ava Gardner, Cyd Charisse

Director Mervyn Leroy lends a burnished MGM gloss to this sordid tale of infidelity among rich New York East Siders. Barbara Stanwyck stars as Jessie Bourne, a charming society woman whose finds out that her husband Brandon (James Mason) is guiltily indulging in an illicit affair with the earthy Isobel Lorrison (Ava Gardner). Jessie bears her ...

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Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary (1949) more movies like this

directed by Vincente Minnelli
featuring Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan, Christopher [Alf] Kent

MGM circumvented the censorship that would otherwise have prevented a film version of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary by adding a prologue and epilogue that assured any and all bluenoses that the story was strictly a work of fiction. James Mason appears as Flaubert, defending his inflammatory novel before a French jury. Thus, the tragedy of Emma ...

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Presenting Lily Mars

Presenting Lily Mars (1943) more movies like this

directed by Norman Taurog
featuring Judy Garland, Van Heflin, Fay Bainter, Marta Eggerth, Richard Carlson, Spring Byington

A Booth Tarkington novel was the source for the so-so Judy Garland musical Presenting Lily Mars. Garland plays the title character, a small-town girl with big-city ambitions. She heads to Broadway hoping for stardom, but after a series of disappointments the best she can manage is an understudy job. That's right, folks: the star walks out on ...

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Cry of Battle (1963) more movies like this

directed by Irving Lerner
featuring Van Heflin, Rita Moreno, James MacArthur, Leopoldo Salcedo, Sidney Clute

Surely Benjamin Appel's novel Fortress in the Rice was more interesting than its static film adaptation Cry of Battle. Van Heflin plays a crusty soldier of fortune fighting with the Philippine partisans during World War II. James MacArthur co-stars as the wealthy, aimless son of a businessman who joins the partisan cause for a lark. He is ...

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Tomahawk (1951) more movies like this

directed by George Sherman
featuring Van Heflin, Yvonne De Carlo, Alex Nicol, Preston S. Foster, Jack Oakie

Tomahawk takes place during the Great Sioux Uprising of the 1860s. Van Heflin stars as famed frontier scout Jim Bridger, who labors valiantly and vainly to orchestrate peace between Indians and whites. Much of the action takes place at Fort Phil Kearney, the scene of one of the bloodiest battles in western history. Though the film isn't what one ...

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Patterns (1956) more movies like this

directed by Fielder Cook
featuring Van Heflin, Ed Begley, Sr., Everett Sloane, Beatrice Straight, Elizabeth Wilson

Rod Serling's incisive "gray flannel suit" TV drama created such a sensation when Kraft Television Theatre first aired it live on January 11, 1955 that, in an unprecedented move, it was repeated four weeks later, on February 9, again live. Richard Kiley starred as Fred Staples, a bright young man from Cincinnati brought into the executive pool at ...

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The Big Bounce (1969) more movies like this

directed by Alex March
featuring Ryan O'Neal, Leigh Taylor-Young, Van Heflin, Lee Grant, James Daly

Jack Ryan (Ryan O'Neal) is a cucumber picker who is fired after a fight with a Mexican-American (Victor Paul) co-worker. He finds work on a ranch owned by Ray Ritchie (James Daly). Soon his private secretary Nancy (Leigh Taylor-Young) is after Jack. She spends her free time in pursuit of hedonism and reckless pleasure by fornicating on tombstones ...

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Black Widow (1954) more movies like this

directed by Nunnally Johnson
featuring Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney, George Raft, Peggy Ann Garner

Broadway producer Peter Denver (Van Heflin) takes in young actress Nanny Ordway (Peggy Ann Garner) while his wife (Gene Tierney) is out of town. When Nancy is found murdered in his penthouse apartment, the two prime suspects are Peter and the neglected husband (Reginald Gardiner) of temperamental Broadway star Ginger Rogers, who had also been ...

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They Came to Cordura (1959) more movies like this

directed by Robert Rossen
featuring Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth, Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Richard Conte, Michael Callan

Gary Cooper stars in one of his final roles in They Came To Cordura, Robert Rossen's moody study of the thin dividing line between heroism and cowardice. Cooper plays Major Thomas Thorn, a U.S. Army officer in the expedition into Mexico against Pancho Villa. Because he hesitated during a moment of decision in a battle, he has been labeled a coward ...

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Act of Violence (1949) more movies like this

directed by Fred Zinnemann
featuring Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Phyllis Thaxter, Mary Astor, Berry Kroeger

An unusually disturbing noir from a director better known for more mainstream fare like High Noon and From Here to Eternity, Act of Violence focuses on a WWII veteran haunted by his past. A film that was close to the director's heart, he said that it represented "the first time that I felt confident that I knew what I was doing and why I was doing ...

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Possessed (1947) more movies like this

directed by Curtis Bernhardt
featuring Griff Barnett, Joan Crawford, Monte Blue, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Geraldine Brooks, Nana Bryant, Stanley Ridges

We first meet Joan Crawford, star of the moody flashbackfest Possessed, wandering aimlessly through the city streets, moaning "David....David." She goes to pieces in public and is rushed to the mental ward, where a team of psychiatrists try to find out who she is and where she's been. Who she is is a practical nurse, hired by Raymond Massey to ...

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