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Directed by John Ford,
Stuart HeislerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Action,
Adventure,
RomanceThemes La fin du monde,
Seafaring films,
Météorologie,
Prison films,
Transport films,
Catastrophe climatique,
Disaster films,
American disaster filmsActors Dorothy Lamour,
Jon Hall,
Mary Astor,
C. Aubrey Smith,
Thomas Mitchell,
Raymond MasseyRating70%
As a passenger ship sails by the bleak ruins of a deserted island, Dr. Kersaint (Thomas Mitchell) blows his former home a kiss. When a fellow passenger asks him about the place, he tells its tragic story, segueing into a flashback. , 1h28
Directed by Stuart HeislerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Transport films,
Aviation films,
Political filmsActors Humphrey Bogart,
Sessue Hayakawa,
Alexander Knox,
Teru Shimada,
Florence Marly,
Harold GoodwinRating62%
After World War II, ex-serviceman Joe Barrett (Humphrey Bogart) returns to Tokyo to see if there is anything left of his pre-war bar and gambling joint ("Tokyo Joe's") after all the bombing. Amazingly, it is more or less intact and being run by his old friend Ito (Teru Shimada). Joe is shocked to learn from Ito that his wife Trina (Florence Marly), who he thought had died in the war, is still alive. Believing her to be dead, Joe inadvertently deserts her and she has divorced Joe and is now married to Mark Landis (Alexander Knox), a lawyer working in the U.S. Occupation HQ. She has a seven-year-old child, Joe's daughter Anya (Lora Lee Michel), born when Trina was in an internment camp after Joe's departure from Japan just before Pearl Harbor., 1h30
Directed by Stuart HeislerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
ActionThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Political films,
United States Armed Forces in filmsActors Tony Curtis,
Frank Lovejoy,
Mary Murphy,
Skip Homeier,
Eduard Franz,
John DoucetteRating57%
In late October 1943, a battalion of US Marines have landed on Choiseul Island to create a diversion for the impending Allied invasion of Japanese held Bougainville Island., 1h26
Directed by Henry King,
Fred Zinnemann,
John Sturges,
Don AlvaradoOrigin USAGenres Drama,
AdventureThemes Films about animals,
Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Vieillesse,
Mise en scène d'un poissonActors Spencer Tracy,
Harry Bellaver,
Don Diamond,
Don Alvarado,
Tony Rosato,
Mauritz HugoRating68%
Spencer Tracy is the Old Man, a Cuban fisherman who tries to haul in a huge fish that he catches far from shore., 1h42
Directed by Stuart HeislerOrigin United-kingdomGenres War,
Adventure,
RomanceThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Political filmsActors Linda Darnell,
Tab Hunter,
Donald Gray,
John Laurie,
Hilda Fenemore,
Peter ButterworthRating59%
When a hospital ship strikes a mine during the Second World War, the only survivors are Lieutenant Elizabeth Smythe and Corporal Michael Dugan, who become marooned on an island in the South Pacific, where they slowly bond. Their relationship is complicated by the arrival of a third person, a survivor of plane crash., 2h22
Directed by Raoul WalshOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Action,
AdventureThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
Political filmsActors Errol Flynn,
James Brown,
James Brown,
George Tyne,
George Tobias,
William PrinceRating72%
A group of United States Army paratroopers led by Captain Nelson (Errol Flynn) are dropped into Burma to locate and destroy a camouflaged Japanese Army radar station that is detecting Allied aircraft flying into China. For their mission, they are assigned Gurkha guides, a Chinese Army Captain and an older war correspondent (Henry Hull) whose character is used to explain various procedures to the audience., 1h51
Directed by Nicholas Ray,
Don Alvarado,
Gary NelsonOrigin USAGenres DramaThemes Films about families,
Transport films,
Films about automobilesActors James Dean,
Natalie Wood,
Sal Mineo,
Ann Doran,
William Hopper,
Rochelle HudsonRating75%
Behind the opening credits, the film opens on a suburban Los Angeles street with teenager Jim Stark (Dean) drunkenly lying down on a sidewalk. He is arrested and taken to the juvenile division of the police station for "plain drunkenness". At the station he meets John "Plato" Crawford (Mineo), who was brought in for shooting a litter of puppies with his mother's gun, and Judy (Wood), who was brought in for curfew violation (she was wearing a bright red dress with matching lipstick and was mistaken for being a streetwalker). The three each separately reveal their innermost frustrations to officers; all three of them suffer from problems at home:, 2h8
Directed by Irving Rapper,
Don AlvaradoOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Films about religion,
Transport films,
Films about Jews and Judaism,
Road moviesActors Natalie Wood,
Gene Kelly,
Claire Trevor,
Everett Sloane,
Carolyn Jones,
Martin MilnerRating61%
Marjorie Morgenstern is a student at Hunter College and the girlfriend of an eligible young man, Sandy Lamm, who attends her family's synagogue. Her parents are happy with her choice of mate, and her mother Rose Morgenstern (Claire Trevor) tells her father, Arnold (Everett Sloane), that she hopes the two kids marry., 1h23
Directed by Max Ophüls,
Howard Hughes, Jr.,
Mel Ferrer,
Preston Sturges,
Stuart HeislerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
CrimeThemes Seafaring films,
Transport filmsActors Faith Domergue,
George Dolenz,
Donald Buka,
Joseph Calleia,
Robert Warwick,
Hugo HaasRating60%
In 1825, in the village of Pietranera in French-controlled Corsica, hot-blooded maiden Colomba della Rabia (Faith Domergue) wants her brother Orso (George Dolenz) to avenge the murder of their father by the powerful Barracini family. Despite being a lieutenant, Orso is a man of peace and reason who opposes the Corsican practice of vendetta and revenge; he is more interested in courting the beautiful English aristocrat, Lydia Nevil (Hillary Brooke), who is vacationing on the island with her father, Col. Sir Thomas Nevil (Nigel Bruce)., 1h40
Directed by Allan DwanOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Action,
HistoricalThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Political films,
United States Armed Forces in filmsActors John Wayne,
John Agar,
George Tyne,
Forrest Tucker,
Adele Mara,
James BrownRating69%
Tough-as-nails career Marine Sergeant John Stryker (John Wayne) is greatly disliked by the men of his squad, particularly the combat replacements, for the rigorous training he puts them through. He is especially despised by Private Peter Conway (John Agar), the arrogant, college-educated son of an officer, Colonel Sam Conway under whom Stryker served and admired, and Private Al Thomas (Forrest Tucker), who blames him for his demotion.