Frank Chambers (John Garfield) is a drifter who stops at a rural diner for a meal, and ends up working there. Read More »
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Daughters Courageous (1939) Michael Curtiz, John Garfield, Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Read More »
Castle on the Hudson (1940) Anatole Litvak, John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, Pat O’Brien
Mobster Tommy Gordon isn’t worried about being sentenced to Sing Sing prison Read More »
Humoresque (1946) Jean Negulesco, Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant
Paul Boray comes from a working class background. He has been interested in the violin since he was a child Read More »
Between Two Worlds (1944) Edward A. Blatt, John Garfield, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet
Several people are killed in a London air raid. They each awake aboard a strange ship Read More »
East of the River (1940) Alfred E. Green, John Garfield, Brenda Marshall, Marjorie Rambeau
Troubled youths Joe and Nick Lorenzo grow into very different men: Joe a small-time hoodlum Read More »
Pride of the Marines (1945) Delmer Daves, John Garfield, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark
Married couple Jim & Ella Merchant set up their single friend Al Schmid on a blind date with Ruth Hartley. Read More »
The Sea Wolf (1941) Michael Curtiz, Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, John Garfield
Humphrey van Weyden, a writer, and fugitives Ruth Webster and George Leach have been given refuge aboard the sealer “Ghost,” captained by the cruel Wolf Larsen. Read More »
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) Busby Berkeley, John Garfield, Claude Rains, The ‘Dead End’ Kids
Johnnie is a boxer. The same evening he won the world championship, he is charged for the murder of a reporter and is taken for dead. Read More »
Saturday’s Children (1940) Vincent Sherman, John Garfield, Anne Shirley, Claude Rains
Pretty Bobby Halevy loves Rims Rosson, a dreamer and inventor without much going for him. Read More »
Blackwells Island (1939) William C. McGann, John Garfield, Rosemary Lane, Dick Purcell
In a fictional version of true events at the New York prison of Blackwell’s Island in 1934 Read More »
Air Force (1943) Howard Hawks, John Garfield, John Ridgely, Gig Young
On December 6, 1941 nine B-17 bomber set off on a flight from San Francisco to Hawaii. Read More »
Four Daughters (1938) Michael Curtiz, Claude Rains, John Garfield, Jeffrey Lynn
Adam Lemp, the Dean of the Briarwood Music Foundation, has passed on his love of music Read More »
Body and Soul (1947) Robert Rossen, John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks
Charley Davis wins an amateur boxing match and is taken on by promoter Quinn. Read More »
Destination Tokyo (1943) Delmer Daves, Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale
Made during World War II, this chronicles a voyage of a U.S. submarine on a secret mission to the very shores of Japan. Read More »