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Tag Archives: John Garfield
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 »
Out of the Fog (1941) Anatole Litvak, Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Thomas Mitchell
In Brooklyn, fishing is the hobby of the workers Jonah Goodwin and Olaf Johnson and they use to fish every night in their old boat. Read More »
Gentlemans Agreement (1947) Elia Kazan, Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield
Philip Green is a highly respected writer who is recruited by a national magazine to write a series of articles on anti-Semitism in America. Read More »
Force of Evil (1948) Abraham Polonsky, John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. Read More »
Flowing Gold (1940) Alfred E. Green, John Garfield, Frances Farmer, Pat O’Brien, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Johnny Blake, dodging the law on a false murder charge, gets work in the oil fields. His boss and friend Hap O’Connor turns on him when Johnny and Hap’s girlfriend Linda fall in love. Read More »
Dangerously They Live (1941) Robert Florey, John Garfield, Nancy Coleman, Raymond Massey, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Dr. Michael Lewis treats Jane, a mysterious woman claiming to be a British secret agent on the run from German spies. Read More »
Hollywood Canteen (1944) Delmer Daves, Bette Davis, John Garfield, The Andrews Sisters, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Two soldiers on sick leave spend three nights at the Hollywood Canteen before going back to active duty. Read More »
He Ran All the Way (1951) John Berry, John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The uptight and dumb small time thief Nick Robey and his partner and only friend Al Molin steal $10,000.00 from a man, but the heist goes wrong. Al Molin is killed by a policeman and Nick shoots him in the spine. He hides out in a public swimming pool and meets the lonely spinster Peggy Dobbs in the water. Nick uses Peggy to lie low. He offers a ride in a taxi to her and she invites him to her apartment, where she introduces her family to him. When Nick discovers that he killed the cop, he decides to use Peggy’s apartment as hideout to wait the police manhunt cool down. When Nick finds that Peggy loves him, he invites her to leave town with him and asks her to buy a used car. However, Nick cannot trust anybody and believes Peggy has betrayed him.
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The Breaking Point (1950) Michael Curtiz, John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Fishing boat captain Harry Morgan charters his boat. Due to strained finances, he is none too careful as to whom he does business with. Real trouble erupts when Harry hires out his boat to transport four men who turn out to be criminals on the lam from a racetrack heist.
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The Fallen Sparrow (1943) Richard Wallace, John Garfield, Maureen O’Hara, Walter Slezak, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
A former Spanish Civil War prisoner, John McKittrick arrives in New York to find the truth behind the death of his friend Louie Lepetino. He finds himself being chased by Nazi agents who want an item he has brought back from Spain and cannot give up. When another of his friends is murdered, McKittrick realizes that he cannot trust anyone around him – not anyone.
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