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Tag Archives: King Vidor
Japanese War Bride (1952) King Vidor, Shirley Yamaguchi, Don Taylor, Cameron Mitchell
Korean War veteran returns home to rural Salinas, California with his new Japanese wife, whom he met at a war hospital. Read More »
The Stranger’s Return (1933) King Vidor, Lionel Barrymore, Miriam Hopkins, Franchot Tone
Miriam Hopkins plays Louise Starr, who gets divorced from her husband Read More »
Bird of Paradise (1932) King Vidor, Dolores del Rio, Joel McCrea, John Halliday
A young man falls overboard and is saved by a beautiful Polynesian girl. Read More »
Hallelujah (1929) King Vidor, Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney, William Fountaine
In a juke joint, sharecropper Zeke falls for a beautiful dancer, Chick Read More »
Beyond the Forest (1949) King Vidor, Bette Davis, Joseph Cotten, David Brian
Rosa Moline is bored with life in a small town. She loves Chicago industrialist Neil Latimer who has a hunting lodge nearby. Read More »
The Patsy (1928) King Vidor, Marion Davies, Orville Caldwell, Marie Dressler
An awkward teenager hopelessly in love with her elder sister’s boyfriend tries to make him notice her. Read More »
The Texas Rangers (1936) King Vidor, Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie, Jean Parker
Jim Hawkins and Wahoo Jones are stagecoach robbers who head to Texas to find Sam McGee, their partner. Read More »
The Crowd (1928) King Vidor, Eleanor Boardman, James Murray, Bert Roach
Born on the fourth of July, 1900, the future holds unlimited potential for newborn John Sims. Read More »
Bardelys the Magnificent (1926) King Vidor, John Gilbert, Eleanor Boardman, Roy D’Arcy
In the court of French king Louis XIII, a courtier named Bardelys carries with him a grand reputation as an irresistible ladies’ man. Read More »
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor (1973) Richard Schickel, Sydney Pollack, King Vidor
King Vidor is unusual in the series “The Men Who Made the Movies” in that of all the directors, as a person. Read More »
Show People (1928) King Vidor, Marion Davies, William Haines, Dell Henderson
Colonel Pepper brings his daughter, Peggy, to Hollywood from Georgia to be an actress. Read More »
Wild Oranges (1924) King Vidor, Frank Mayo, Virginia Valli, Ford Sterling
Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Her grandfather fled there for political reasons. Read More »
Our Daily Bread (1934) King Vidor, Karen Morley, Tom Keene, John Qualen
John and Mary sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Read More »
Stella Dallas (1937) King Vidor, Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley
Working-class Stella Martin marries high-end Stephen Dallas and soon they have a daughter named Laurel. Read More »