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Tag Archives: Victor Fleming
The Good Earth (1937) Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming, Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, Walter Connolly
The story of a farmer in China: a story of humility and bravery. His father gives Wang Lung a freed slave as wife. Read More »
Mantrap (1926) Victor Fleming, Ernest Torrence, Clara Bow, Percy Marmont
A sexy young manicurist living with her older backwoodsman husband in a small Canadian town finds herself attracted to a young Read More »
Gone with the Wind (1939) Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell, Drama, History, Romance, War
Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Read More »
The Wet Parade (1932) Victor Fleming, Dorothy Jordan, Lewis Stone, Neil Hamilton, Drama, History, Romance
Sprawling story of Prohibition set against two families and how they are affected by booze. Read More »
They Dare Not Love (1941) James Whale, Victor Fleming, George Brent, Martha Scott, Paul Lukas, Drama, War
When the Clouds Roll by (1919) Victor Fleming, Douglas Fairbanks, Albert MacQuarrie, Kathleen Clifford, Action, Comedy, Romance
The comfortable and amiable Daniel Boone Brown, a resident of New York’s water front, becomes the victim of a mad scientist’s psychological experiments. Read More »
Joan of Arc (1948) Victor Fleming, Ingrid Bergman, José Ferrer, Francis L. Sullivan, Biography, Drama, History, War
During the Hundred Years’ War, peasant girl Joan of Arc (Ingrid Bergman) hears voices instructing her to save France from the English. Read More »
Adventure (1945) Victor Fleming, Clark Gable, Greer Garson, Joan Blondell, Drama, Romance, Comedy
A rowdy, womanizing merchant marine, leader of an eccentric crew of misfits and drunks, is almost killed by a Japanese torpedo strike. Read More »
Reckless (1935) Victor Fleming, Jean Harlow, William Powell, Franchot Tone, Drama, Musical, Comedy
Wealthy Bob Harrison buys all the seats in the theatre to watch Mona Leslie’s musical by himself. He loves her, her agent Ned Riley loves her. Conflict ensues.
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Bombshell (1933) Victor Fleming, Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Lola Burns is at the top of the pile in Hollywood. But life ain’t easy, what with her father and brother always hanging around for handouts Read More »
Test Pilot (1938) Victor Fleming, Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, Drama, Romance
Jim Lane is a test pilot, whose professional life is dangerous, and whose personal life compensates for that danger by fast living and recklessness. Read More »
Red Dust (1932) Victor Fleming, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond, Drama, Romance
Conditions are spartan on Dennis Carson’s Indochina rubber plantation during a dusty dry monsoon. Read More »
The Great Waltz (1938) Julien Duvivier, Victor Fleming, Luise Rainer, Fernand Gravey, Miliza Korjus, Biography, Drama, Music
In 1845 Vienna, Johann Strauß II – Schani to his friends – would rather write and perform waltzes than anything else, this at a time when a waltz is not considered proper society music. Read More »
The Virginian (1929) Victor Fleming, Gary Cooper, Walter Huston, Mary Brian, Western
Molly Wood arrives in a small western town to be the new schoolmarm. The Virginian, foreman on a local ranch, and Steve, his best fiend, soon become rivals for her affection. Steve falls in with bad guys led by Trampas, and the Virginian catches him cattle rustling. As foreman, he must give the order to hang his friend. Trampas gets away, but returns in time for the obligatory climactic shootout in the streets.
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