Mary Donnell was married at sixteen to a gangster and soon widowed. Read More »
Tag Archives: Henry Fonda
Blockade (1938) William Dieterle, Madeleine Carroll, Henry Fonda, Leo Carrillo
A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Read More »
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) John Ford, Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver
In Revolutionary America, Gil Martin takes his new wife Lana back to his farm in upstate New York. Read More »
12 Angry Men (1957) Sidney Lumet, Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room Read More »
The Boston Strangler (1968) Richard Fleischer, Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Read More »
My Name Is Nobody AKA Il mio nome è Nessuno (1973) Tonino Valerii, Terence Hill, Henry Fonda, Jean Martin
Jack Beauregard, once the greatest gunslinger of the Old West, only wants to move to Europe and retire in peace Read More »
Fort Apache (1948) John Ford, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple
In John Ford’s sombre exploration mythologising of American heroes, he slowly reveals the character of Owen Thursday Read More »
Spawn of the North (1938) Henry Hathaway, George Raft, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour
Two Alaskan salmon fishermen, Tyler Dawson (skipper of the “Who Cares”) and Jim Kimmerlee of the “Old Reliable,” are lifelong pals. Read More »
The Big Street (1942) Irving Reis, Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Barton MacLane
Little Pinks is in love with a nightclub singer named Gloria. But it is a unrequited love as she does not know that he exists. Read More »
Advise and Consent (1962) Otto Preminger, Franchot Tone, Lew Ayres, Henry Fonda
Robert Leffingwell is the president’s candidate for Secretary of State. Read More »
Jesse James (1939) Henry King, Irving Cummings, Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly
The railroads are squeezing farmers off their land. When a railroad agent kills their mother Read More »
There Was a Crooked Man… (1970) Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn
Charm, intelligence and success in criminal career doesn’t prevent Paris Pitman Jr. to start doing ten years in prison Read More »
The Mad Miss Manton (1938) Leigh Jason, Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene
Madcap debutante Melsa Manton finds a body in a deserted house. Read More »
Madigan (1968) Don Siegel, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens
Policemen Bonaro and Madigan lose their guns to fugitive Barney Benesch. Read More »
Spencer’s Mountain (1963) Delmer Daves, Henry Fonda, Maureen O’Hara, James MacArthur
Clay Spencer is a hard-working man who loves his wife and large family. Read More »