Arthur Shields Movies

An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

Genre: Romance

Cast: John Wayne

A young boy trades the family cow for magic beans. Ascending the beanstalk with the butcher who sold him the beans, he faces the giant terrorizing...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bud Abbott

Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: George Raft

In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Tommy Morton

In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dan Duryea

On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Sydney Greenstreet

After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Sydney Greenstreet

On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be...

Genre: Western

Cast: John Wayne

A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Spencer Tracy

A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Walter Pidgeon

The story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey from their boyhood in Pennsylvania through their rise, their breakup, and their personal reunion.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tommy Dorsey

When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bette Davis

Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Judy Garland

Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Greer Garson

When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.

Genre: Action

Cast: Edmund Gwenn

Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: George Sanders

Director Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature—shot entirely on location in India—is a visual tour de force. Based on the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nora Swinburne

A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gregory Peck

After burning Rome, Emperor Nero decides to blame the Christians, and issues the edict that they are all to be caught and sent to the arena. Two old...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fredric March

The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Wayne

Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claudette Colbert

A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.

Genre: Western

Cast: Stephen McNally

The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bonita Granville

Following World War II, a woman tries to help her fiance understand his son's traumatic experience as a G.I., during which he lost a leg and was...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Phyllis Calvert

A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Dennis O'Keefe

Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.

Genre: Crime

Cast: George Raft

Marine Sergeant James O'Hearn is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion, theft, scandalous conduct and destruction of property in...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Burt Lancaster

A girl owns a horse, and hires a boy as a trainer. The horse enters a race and is injured. The boy takes job at another stable and is semi-seduced by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lloyd Bridges

In the late 1800s, Miss Pilgrim, a young stenographer, or typewriter, becomes the first female employee at a Boston shipping office. Although the men...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Betty Grable

Fictionalized account of events leading up the famous nude ride (alas, her hair covers everything) of the militant Saxon lady.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maureen O'Hara

Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling...

Genre: Family

Cast: Roddy McDowall

A young woman discovers she is the daughter of the infamous Dr. Jekyll, and begins to believe that she may also have a split personality, one of whom...

Genre: Horror

Cast: John Agar

The Lionians, a tribe of lion worshippers, make a desperate attempt to find a cure for the mysterious disease plaguing their village. Their Chief...

Genre: Action

Cast: Lex Barker

An American Infantry officer assigned to a cloak-and-dagger role in Rome uses homing pigeons for outside contact, with humorous results.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charlton Heston

Two 19th-century sailors jump ship only to discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Dana Andrews

After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. All of them are available for adoption and at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Greer Garson

The agent of an absentee landlord resorts to underhand means in order to evict tenants from land that could be more profitably used for cattle....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Brian Magowan

Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Barry Fitzgerald

An Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Laughton

A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Pat O’Brien

Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to find their...

Genre: Western

Cast: Clark Gable

Sponsored by The Protestant Film Commission, this religiously-affiliated tale centers around citizen Henry Wood (played by Oscar winner James Dunn...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Dunn

Sherlock Holmes gets the clues he needs to solve a murder, and to prevent another one from occurring, when he finds out that a doctor owns a...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Arthur Shields

In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rosalind Russell

A swashbuckling Irishman opposes French agents during the Napoleonic wars.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the...

Genre: War

Cast: Don Ameche

An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Robert Mitchum

Sylvanus Hurley is a swindler who's been swindled: he's been given a deed to a large plot of mangrove swamp in the out-of-the-way community. So he...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Robert Cummings

Frank and Joe Hardy are the sons of Fenton Hardy, a famous private detective. Finding everyday life at home in Bayport dull, the boys hope their...

Genre:

Cast: Tim Considine

A returning GI searches for the wife who left him and gave away their son.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Joan Leslie

A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebellion.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Errol Flynn

Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together. Flip...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Errol Flynn

Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Linda Darnell

This Crime Does Not Pay entry focuses on fake spiritualists. A mother is worried about her son, who is missing in action. Over time, she gives a con...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dorothy Adams

An orphan trains a racehorse so he can win the money to build a new church.

Genre: Western

Cast: Richard Basehart

Writer Kenneth Magee has bet that he can finish a story at rural resort Baldpate Inn, now closed for the winter. The owner has given him the "only"...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Phillip Terry

Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Van Heflin

A Newfoundland fishingboat comes to the aid of a wrecked Danish sailing ship and tows it to a small village, but eventually the captain of the...

Genre: War

Cast: Dana Andrews

American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Irene Dunne

Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mickey Rooney

Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation films in this bio of an aviation pioneer, John Montgomery (Glenn...

Genre: History

Cast: Glenn Ford

A remake of the 1927 horror film "The Wizard". Dr. Larry Forbes arrives in a remote French village to visit his fiancée who lives with her...

Genre: Horror

Cast: J. Carrol Naish

In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tyrone Power

Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Joan Crawford

Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Greer Garson

A code expert working for Naval Intelligence is assigned to decode enemy messages despite his desire for active duty.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lee Bowman

An out of work racehorse trainer is adopted by the daughters of a wealthy breeder and trains a cast-off horse for the big race of the season.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bill Williams

An ex-gambler helps a beautiful widow, and becomes involved with a murder, secret agents, and saboteurs.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Diana Barrymore

When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Tyrone Power