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The Glass Key

The Glass Key (1942) more movies like this

directed by Stuart Heisler
featuring Brian Donlevy, Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, Bonita Granville, Richard Denning, William Bendix

Dashiel Hammett's The Glass Key, a tale of big-city political corruption, was first filmed in 1935, with Edward Arnold as a duplicitous political boss and George Raft as his loyal lieutenant. This 1942 remake improves on the original, especially in replacing the stolid Raft with the charismatic Alan Ladd. Brian Donlevy essays the role of the boss, ...

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I Died a Thousand Times

I Died a Thousand Times (1955) more movies like this

directed by Stuart Heisler
featuring Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lori Nelson, Lee Marvin

I Died a Thousand Times is a scene-by-scene remake of the 1941 crime-drama classic High Sierra. Jack Palance steps into the old Humphrey Bogart role as Roy "Mad Dog" Earle, the ageing bank robber who intends to pull off one last heist before retiring. Sprung from prison by likeable crime boss Big Mac (Lon Chaney Jr.), Earle is commissioned to ...

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Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman

Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947) more movies like this

directed by Stuart Heisler
featuring Susan Hayward, Lee Bowman, Eddie Albert, Marsha Hunt, Carl Esmond

A woman struggles to reassemble her broken life in this drama that features Susan Hayward in her first starring role. The woman started out as a night-club singer, but abandoned her career after marrying a budding radio star. At first she does everything she can to insure his success, but when he finally hits the big-time, the woman finds herself ...

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Tulsa

Tulsa (1949) more movies like this

directed by Stuart Heisler, Stuart Hiesler
featuring Susan Hayward, Robert Preston, Pedro Armendáriz, Lloyd Gough, Chill Wills

Tulsa was, in 1949, the most elaborate production released to date by the Eagle-Lion corporation-though all evidence, especially the technical credits, suggests that the film was put together at Universal-International, then merely distriibuted by Eagle-Lion (who made a fortune at the box office). The film traces the matriculation of the sleepy ...

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The Lone Ranger

The Lone Ranger (1956) more movies like this

directed by Stuart Heisler
featuring Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels, Lyle Bettger, Bonita Granville, Perry Lopez

The Lone Ranger was the first of two Technicolor theatrical features based on the popular TV series of the same name. Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels, stars of the video version, essay the roles of the Masked Rider of the Plains and his faithful Indian companion Tonto. This time around, our heroes take on evil rancher Reece Kilgore (Lyle Bettger ...

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Along Came Jones

Along Came Jones (1945) more movies like this

directed by Stuart Heisler
featuring Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, William Demarest, Dan Duryea, Frank Sully

Gary Cooper added "producer" alongside "star" on his resume with this light-hearted Western about a mild-mannered cowboy (Cooper) who drifts into a small town with his sidekick (William Demarest). Naturally, he's mistaken for a notorious highway robber (Dan Duryea), although he can barely handle a gun. His impersonation of the menacing gunman ...

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The Star

The Star (1952) more movies like this

directed by Stuart Heisler
featuring Bette Davis, Sterling Hayden, Natalie Wood, Warner Anderson, Minor Watson

An actress who once knew the heights of fame is forced to confronts the depths of defeat in this show business drama. Margaret Elliot (Bette Davis) was once one of Hollywood's great stars, but as she edges into her 50's, both her career and her life have reached an unfortunate crossroads. Margaret hasn't worked for several years, her marriage has ...

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Beachhead

Beachhead (1954) more movies like this

directed by Stuart Heisler
featuring Tony Curtis, Frank Lovejoy, Mary Murphy, Eduard Franz, Skip Homeier

Set in the Philippines during WWII, this suspenseful and realistic war drama chronicles the courage of a unit of US Marines as they try to save a plantation owner/Allied spy and his beautiful daughter from the Japanese who have taken over a densely jungled island. The spy has crucial information to relay so the Marines must hurry. Unfortunately, ...

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Blue Skies

Blue Skies (1946) more movies like this

directed by Stuart Heisler
featuring Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Joan Caulfield, Billy De Wolfe, Olga San Juan

Jed Potter (Fred Astaire) is a popular radio personality who was once a famous dancer. He also used to be friends with Johnny Adams (Bing Crosby) until they became rivals for the affections of Mary O'Hara (Joan Caulfield). Jed lost out when Johnny and Mary got married, but life hasn't been too rosy for the couple since; Johnny's career in business ...

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Tokyo Joe

Tokyo Joe (1949) more movies like this

directed by Stuart Heisler
featuring Humphrey Bogart, Alexander Knox, Florence Marly, Sessue Hayakawa, Jerome Courtland

One of the less famous Humphrey Bogart films is this 1949 drama about post-war guilt and remembrance. Bogart plays U.S. airman and war hero Joe Barrett. During the war, he believes, his wife Trina (Florence Marly) died in a Japanese concentration camp. But when Barrett returns to Tokyo and the bar named Tokyo Joe that he used to own, he discovers ...

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The Hurricane

The Hurricane (1937) more movies like this

directed by John Ford, Stuart Heisler
featuring Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith, Thomas Mitchell

Framed in a flashback related by doctor Thomas Mitchell, The Hurricane is in essence the story of a struggle between individual freedom and colonial oppression. Jon Hall plays Terangi, a tempestuous native of the French-controlled island of Manakoora. After marrying childhood sweetheart Marama (Dorothy Lamour, saronged as usual), Terangi takes a ...

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Dallas

Dallas (1950) more movies like this

directed by Stuart Heisler
featuring Gary Cooper, Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Raymond Massey, Leif Erickson, Barbara Payton

With Dallas, Gary Cooper revived his long-dormant association with westerns. Cooper plays ex-Confederate officer Blayde Hollister, who rides into Dallas in search of the men who killed his family and stole his land. Because he is considered to be an outlaw by the authorities, Hollister is compelled to switch identities with U.S. marshal Martin ...

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The Burning Hills

The Burning Hills (1956) more movies like this

directed by Stuart Heisler
featuring Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, Skip Homeier, Eduard Franz, Earl Holliman

The plot of The Burning Hills is motivated by revenge, which only a few years earlier had been on the Motion Picture Code's no-no list. Cattleman Trace Jordan (Tab Hunter) seeks retribution for the murder of his brother, killed at the behest of cattle baron Joe Sutton (Ray Teal). Before long, however, it is Jordan who is being pursued by Sutton's ...

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Among the Living (1941) more movies like this

directed by Stuart Heisler
featuring Albert Dekker, Susan Hayward, Harry Carey, Frances Farmer, Gordon Jones

One of the eerier chillers of its period -- and one of the best ever to come out of Paramount -- Stuart Heisler's Among the Living is a strange and compelling mix of social drama, horror film, and suspense thriller. The story opens with the funeral of Maxim Raden, the patriarch who was pretty much responsible for building up the town that bears ...

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The Lone Ranger: Outlaw's Trail (1954) more movies like this

directed by Stuart Heisler

The adventures of radio hero the Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore) and his faithful sidekick Tonto (Jay Silverheels) came to life on the small screen in this 1949-1957 western series. In this episode, the duo attempt to get a homesteader and a rancher to make amends with each other. Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide

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