Born 1912 in Mississippi, USA. Attractive Hollywood ‘crusading hero’ Dana Andrews was a star of the 1940s who achieved his peak in Laura (1944), A Walk in the Sun (1945), The Best Years of our Lives (1946) and Boomerang (1947). Theatre-trained, he went to Hollywood in the 1930s under contract to Samuel Goldwyn, making his screen debut in The Westerner (1939). After a series of romantic leading man roles, he became an excellent character actor.
Filmed on location at the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona, Kit Carson is an action-packed Western based on the story of a real-life 19th-century scout and...
Very loosely based on a true story, Gene Tierney plays Belle, daughter of a Southern aristocrat. When the invading Yankees take over her land, she vows...
Wartime drama set aboard the USS Corsair, a submarine on active duty. Against his wishes, Ward Stewart (Tyrone Power) is made executive officer and given just...
Nightclub performer Danny Kaye became a star with this, his first feature film. Based on the Eddie Cantor vehicle Whoopee! (1930), the story follows hypochondriac elevator...
Westerns in the ’50s frequently contained the message that Americans and Native Americans must live in harmony together, and Comanche is a fine example of the...
One of novelist Evelyn Waugh’s most vicious satires, set among the last resting places for people and animals in Hollywood. Morse comes to Hollywood to visit...
William Wellman kept his eyes on the prize to make great western The Ox-Bow Incident, promising two more films to Darryl Zanuck, sidestepping a producer who...
Water Brennan snagged his third Academy Award for his role as tempestuous Judge Roy Bean (‘The Only Law West Of The Pecos!’), in this lavish Sam...
Daisy Kenyon is a typical love triangle with a typically strong cast and Preminger’s touch for tension. Joan Crawford has been carrying on a love affair...
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt was the last American film of the great Fritz Lang, this melodrama has a nerve-wracking premise: urged on by his prospective father-in...
In The Satan Bug Richard Basehart plays Dr Hoffman, a mad, rich scientist who infiltrates a top-secret laboratory and steals a deadly virus that can wipe...
At the age of 13 Fredric March was producing his own plays, but on leaving high school he worked in a bank before World War I...