For the love and respect of his daughter, a crime boss reconsiders his involvement in the extortion racket he’s built. Read More »
Tag Archives: Walter Huston
The Beast of the City (1932) Charles Brabin, Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is fighting gangster Sam Belmonte. Read More »
The Light That Failed (1939) William A. Wellman, Ronald Colman, Walter Huston, Muriel Angelus
Dick Heldar, a London artist, is gradually losing his sight. Read More »
American Madness (1932) Frank Capra, Walter Huston, Pat O’Brien, Kay Johnson
It’s the 1930s, the Depression era, and the Board of Directors of Thomas Dickson’s bank want Dickson to merge with New York Trust and resign. He refuses. Read More »
Swamp Water (1941) Jean Renoir, Irving Pichel, Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter
A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. Read More »
Night Court (1932) W.S. Van Dyke, Phillips Holmes, Walter Huston, Anita Page
Judge Moffett is as crooked as they come and the Board of Judicial Corruption is after him. Read More »
Hell Below (1933) Jack Conway, Robert Montgomery, Walter Huston, Madge Evans
On leave in Italy, Lt. Tommy Knowlton falls in love with Jean Standish, who’s not only married, but is the daughter of his submarine’s commander. Read More »
The Woman from Monte Carlo (1932) Michael Curtiz, Lil Dagover, Walter Huston, Warren William
The wife Lil Dagover of a French battleship captain Walter Huston falls for a young officer Warren William. Read More »
Ann Vickers (1933) John Cromwell, Irene Dunne, Walter Huston, Conrad Nagel, Drama, Romance
During WWI, Ann Vickers, a humanitarian who is just starting the adult phase of her life Read More »
Abraham Lincoln (1930) D.W. Griffith, Walter Huston, Una Merkel, William L. Thorne, Biography, Drama, History
Brief vignettes about Lincoln’s early life include his birth, early jobs, (unsubstantiated) affair with Ann Rutledge, courtship of Mary Todd, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates Read More »
Dodsworth (1936) William Wyler, Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Drama, Romance
A bittersweet tale of the increasing estrangement of a retired automobile tycoon and his wife. Read More »
The Shanghai Gesture (1941) Josef von Sternberg, Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Victor Mature, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance
A young woman, Poppy, out for excitement in Shanghai, enters a gambling house owned by “Mother” Gin Sling, a dragon-lady who worked herself up from poverty to buy the casino. Read More »
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) Michael Curtiz, James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Biography, Drama, Musical
A musical portrait of composer/singer/dancer George M. Cohan. From his early days as a child-star in his family’s vaudeville show up to the time of his comeback Read More »
The Criminal Code (1931) Howard Hawks, Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes, Constance Cummings, Crime, Drama, Romance
A wily D.A.(Brady) gets a 10 year conviction of a young 20 year old (Robert Graham)who he knows killed a man in self defense. Read More »
Edge of Darkness (1943) Lewis Milestone, Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston, Drama, War
It’s two years after the Nazi’s invasion of Norway and in a small fishing village that is headquarters to 150 German soldiers Read More »