Glenn Ford

Glenn Ford

出生 : 1916-05-01, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

死亡 : 2006-08-30

略歴

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Glenn Ford (May 1, 1916 – August 30, 2006) was a Canadian-born American actor from Hollywood's Golden Era with a career that spanned seven decades. Despite his versatility, Ford was best known for playing ordinary men in unusual circumstances. Description above from the Wikipedia article Glenn Ford, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.    

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参加作品

Final Verdict
Rev. Rogers
A trial lawyer risks losing his family and career when he defends a client who he knows to be guilty as charged.
Raw Nerve
Captain Gavin
A race car driver has visions of the victims of a serial killer before their demise and tries to get a skeptic police detective and an ambitious reporter to help him find the killer.
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
Self
Border Shootout
Sheriff Danaher
Young rancher Kirby Frye is appointed deputy in a small town tyrannized by ruthless Phil Sundeen, the son of one of the founders of the town.
Casablanca Express
Major Gen. Williams
It is 1942 and the conflict between the U.S. and Germany is getting heated, U.S. Intelligence soon discovers that the Natzis are planning to capture Winston Churchill. In order to protect him they send commando Al Cooper to guard Churchill who is going by train to Casablanca where he will meet with Roosevelt and Stalin.
My Town
Lucas Wheeler
A series of vignettes based upon an imaginative girl's unique outlook on her community.
Happy Birthday to Me
Dr. David Faraday
Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a gruesome set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts due to a freak accident one year earlier. We soon learn the truth behind her accident and what is going on...
Great White Death
Narrator
Glenn Ford appears in and narrates in this mondo style documentary about the search for the Great White Shark.
スーパーマンII/冒険篇
Jonathan Kent in Opening Montage (archive footage) (uncredited)
パリのエッフェル塔がテロリストに占拠された! 取材に向かっていたロイスを救うため、クラークはスーパーマンに変身して、仕掛けられた核爆弾を地球圏外へ放り投げた。しかしその爆破は思わぬ結果を引き起こした。故郷クリプトン星を追放され、ファントム・ゾーンに閉じ込められていたゾッド将軍ら3悪人を自由にしてしまったのだ。超能力を利用して地球征服を企む3人。ロイスとの愛を実らせるため、一度は超能力を捨て、普通の人間になったクラークだったが、危機に瀕した世界を前に、3悪人の企みに立ち向かう──!
復活の日
President Richardson
1982年、東ドイツの研究所から猛毒ウイルスMM-88が盗まれた。ところが盗み出したスパイの乗った飛行機はアルプス山中で事故に遭い、ウイルスが蔓延した地球は、南極にわずかな人類を残して滅亡する。その生存者の一人、地震研究者吉住は、さらに大きな危険が近づいていることに気づく。アメリカ東部に大地震がおきる可能性があり、それは核ミサイルの発射を誘発するものだった。
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
Himself
Ernie Anderson narrates this look at the making of Richard Donner's blockbuster 1978 film. Behind-the-scenes footage, as well as scenes from the film, reveal just how audiences were able to "believe a man can fly." This program features interviews with key cast and crew.
The Gift
Billy Devlin
A sailor (Gary Frank) on Christmas leave visits his boozing, one-legged father (Glenn Ford) and dreamer mother (Julie Harris) in 1950s Brooklyn.
Day of the Assassin
Christakis
Treasure hunters from around the world race to Mexico after a Middle Eastern luxury yacht explodes, sending a Shah's fortune and mysterious document to the bottom of the ocean.
Beggarman, Thief
David Donnelly
In this sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man," moviemaker Gretchen Jordache, the until-now unseen sister, strives to pull the family together after the murder of brother Tom and the disappearance of brother Rudy by first reestablishing contact with her soldier son, and then patching things up with her sister-in-law, Kate, Tom's widow.
The Hollywood Clowns
Narrator (voice)
Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history.
The Visitor
Det. Jake Durham
An ancient intergalactic warrior arrives on Earth to put a stop to a demonic child's plot to reproduce Satan's next generation of evil.
スーパーマン
Pa Kent
誰もが知っているアメコミのヒーローを巨費を投じて復活させた超娯楽作。素朴な田舎を背景に少年時代のスーパーマンを描いた、郷愁に満ちた序盤からデイリー・プラネットの記者として活躍する本編に入っても、暖かみを伴った面白さは一瞬たりとも揺らぐ事は無く、悪の天才レックス・ルーサーの陰謀を食い止めるクライマックスまで一気に見せきる。
Evening in Byzantium
Jesse Craig
While the prestigious Cannes Film Festival goes on around him, American movie producer Jesse Craig struggles to develop a pitch-worthy thriller about a terrorist plot. Before long, Craig becomes concerned that a shocking act of real-life terrorism already may be underway. Meanwhile, radical actor Bret Easton works in cahoots with a group of extremists to coordinate the hijacking of a trio of passenger planes in a devastating, multi-city nuclear attack.
Police Story: No Margin for Error
Deputy Chief Walter Hayes
Two policemen are suspected of excessive violence and causing two deaths. The investigation brings to light, little by little, the whole truth.
The 3,000 Mile Chase
Paul Dvorak / Leonard Staveck
Secret courier Matt Considine accepts the mission to escort chief witness Dvorak and his wife from San Francisco to a trial in New York. They have to cover 3,000 dangerous miles, because the drug mob wants to kill them at any price.
ミッドウェイ
Rear Admiral Raymond A. Spruance
太平洋戦争が開戦して間もない1942年の4月18日。突如、米空母ホーネットより発艦したB25が日本に襲来し東京を初めとする主要都市が被害を受ける。被害は少なかったとはいえ連勝中の日本軍にとっては痛手であった。広島にいた山本五十六は急遽友永丈市や南雲忠一を召集し真珠湾攻撃で打ち漏らした敵空母を沈め、それに合わせてミッドウェー諸島を占領しハワイ攻略に結びつけるMI作戦(ミッドウェー海戦の略称)を発案。直ちに4隻の空母からなる機動部隊と戦艦を筆頭とする主力部隊を編成しミッドウェーに進撃した。
Long Way Home
Rev. Tom Holvak
The Holvak family house the escaped convict named Craw that the son befriends. Reverend Holvak's faith is tested and young Ramey faces a choice between a friendship and his family.
Punch and Jody
Peter 'Punch' Travers
When a woman dies in a car accident, her former husband (a traveling circus worker) learns that his wife was pregnant when she divorced him many years earlier. The now teen-aged daughter enters his life. Can they form a relationship?
The Greatest Gift
Rev. Holvak
Reverend Holvak, a weak rural preacher from the 1940s, fights stiff-necked church deacons along with a violent, bullying sheriff whilst protecting his loved ones.
The Disappearance of Flight 412
Colonel Pete Moore
Colonel Pete Moore (Glenn Ford) is commander of the Whitney Radar Test Group, which has been experiencing electrical difficulties aboard its aircraft. To ferret out the problem, he sends a four-man crew on Flight 412. Shortly into the test, the jet picks up three blips on radar, and subsequently, two fighters scramble and mysteriously disappear. At this point, Flight 412 is monitored and forced to land by Digger Control, a top-level, military intelligence group that debunks UFO information. The intrepid colonel, kept in the dark about his crew, decides to investigate the matter himself.
Santee
Santee
Jody Deakes joins up with his father after many years, just to discover that his dad is part of an outlaw gang on the run from a relentless bounty hunter named Santee. Jody is orphaned soon after Santee catches up to the gang, and follows Santee in hopes of taking vengeance for his father's death. Instead, however, Jody discovers that Santee is a good and loving man, tormented by the death of his young son at the hands of another outlaw gang. Santee and his wife take Jody in and a father and son relationship begins to grow. Then the gang that shot Santee's son shows up. The film was produced by Edward Platt of Get Smart fame. It was one of the first motion pictures to be shot electronically on videotape and then transferred to film.
Jarrett
Sam Jarrett
A private investigator specializing in fine arts tries to track down some missing rare Biblical scrolls TV Drama - Glenn Ford, Anthony Quayle, Forrest Tucker
The Marshal of Madrid
Sam Cade
A gang of smugglers headed by an oil dealer are brought to justice by a lawman.
Sam Cade
Sam Cade
Sam Cade was the first feature-length "movie" put together from episodes of Cade's County, the early '70s series starring Glenn Ford as a modern-day sheriff in Madrid County, CA. In the first half, directed by Marvin Chomsky, Cade finds himself targeted for assassination when he's scheduled to testify in the trial of a mob kingpin -- what he doesn't know is that the assassin is one of his oldest friends (Darren McGavin), who is romancing another old friend (Loretta Swit) with a troubled past and using Cade's determination and his investigative skills to set him up for a hit. In the second half, directed by Richard Donner, Cade gets a tip that the mob has planned an assassination on a retired crime boss (Edward Asner) living in the county, who is so bull-headed and distrustful of the law that he won't accept any help or provide any information on who the killers might be, even though he's putting his own daughter (Shelley Fabares) at risk.
The Brotherhood of the Bell
Prof. Andrew 'Andy' Patterson
A successful professor has his life disrupted by a secret from his past — in his college days he became a member of a powerful secret society, and now the society has a job for him.
Heaven with a Gun
Jim Killan
Jim Killian arrives in a small Arizona town hoping to establish a peaceful life as the local preacher, but he soon finds himself in the middle of a feud between sheep ranchers and cattlemen. Leloopa, a young Native American woman, pleads for Killian's help after her shepherd father is hung by Coke Beck, the vicious son of the head cattle rancher. Killian must weigh his actions carefully lest he perpetuate the cycle of retribution and revenge.
Smith!
Smith
When the Indian Jimmyboy is accused of murder of a white man, he flees onto the ranch of Smith, who's well known for his tolerance for Indians, since he was raised by the old Indian Antoine. Smith helps Jimmyboy against the mean Sheriff and promises to speak for him in court, thus persuading him to surrender himself to the police.
The Dean Martin Christmas Show
Self (uncredited)
A Classic Holiday Celebration with Dean and Friends.
Day of the Evil Gun
Lorn Warfield
Two men on a desperate search to save a woman only one of them could have!
The Last Challenge
Marshal Dan Blaine
An upstart outlaw baits a legendary gunslinger, now a marshal in love with a saloon keeper.
大いなる砲火
Tom Wolcott
During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison and head for the Mexican border. Along the way, they kill a Union courier bearing the news that the war is over. Keeping the message a secret, the captain has his men go on and they soon find themselves in a battle with the Union search party who also is unaware of the war's end.
Rage
Reuben
Small-town doctor bitten by rabid dog, races the clock to get to the city and receive treatment.
パリは燃えているか
Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley
名匠ルネ・クレマンがオーソン・ウェルズ以下超豪華オールスター・キャストで撮り上げた戦争大作。連合軍の反撃が始まっていた1944年夏、自由フランス軍とレジスタンスがパリを奪還し、解放するまでを描く。
Hollywood My Home Town
Ken Murray narrates his 16mm home movies shot over 35 years in Hollywood.
The Money Trap
Joe Baron
A cop turns to crime to keep his spoiled sexy young wife happy. When the money starts coming in his partner was in on the action.
The Rounders
Ben Jones
Ben (Glenn Ford) and Marion (Henry Fonda) are two cowboys who make a meager living breaking wild horses. Their frequent employer Jim (Chill Wills), who always gets the better of them, talks them into taking a nondescript horse in lieu of some of their wages. Ben finds that the horse is un-rideable, he comes up with the idea of taking it to a rodeo and betting other cowhands they cannot ride it.
Dear Heart
Harry Mork
A lonely Ohio spinster hopes to find romance when she travels to New York City for a postmasters' convention.
不時着
Sam McBane
A man refuses to believe that pilot error caused a fatal crash, and persists in looking for another reason. Airliner crashes near Los Angeles due to unusual string of coincidences. Stewardess, who is sole survivor, joins airline executives in discovering the causes of the crash.
Hollywood Without Make-Up
Self
A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood.
Love Is a Ball
John Lathrop Davis
Etienne makes a good living out of marrying off poor but titled young men to rich but untitled young ladies. Millicent is now in his sights on the Riviera, and Grand Duke Gaspar is the bait. But what if Millicent starts to fancy planted chauffeur John instead, and Gaspar takes a shine to Etienne's secretary Janine?
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Tom Corbett
Although he's only seven, Eddie's got it all figured out. He wants his father, a widower, to get remarried — to the girl next door. Unfortunately, she's not one of the women that his dad's been dating.
追跡
John Ripley
A man with an asthmatic voice telephones and assaults clerk Kelly Sherwood at home and coerces her into helping him steal a large sum from her bank.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Julio Desnoyers
Karl from Germany and Marcelo from France emigrated to Argentina and became brothers-in-law. Karl soon returned to Germany to serve in the army. Marcelo and his children Julio and Chichi became Argentinean citizens but later returned to Paris. Karl became a general with a son (Heinrich) in the SS and in WWII he got a high job within the occupation administration in France.
Pocketful of Miracles
Associate Producer
Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a basket of apples, is as much a part of downtown New York as old Broadway itself. Bootlegger Dave the Dude is a sucker for her apples -- he thinks they bring him luck. But Dave and girlfriend Queenie Martin need a lot more than luck when it turns out that Annie is in a jam and only they can help: Annie's daughter Louise, who has lived all her life in a Spanish convent, is coming to America with a Count and his son. The count's son wants to marry Louise, who thinks her mother is part of New York society. It's up to Dave and Queenie and their cronies to turn Annie into a lady and convince the Count and his son that they are hobnobbing with New York's elite.
Pocketful of Miracles
Dave 'The Dude' Conway
Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a basket of apples, is as much a part of downtown New York as old Broadway itself. Bootlegger Dave the Dude is a sucker for her apples -- he thinks they bring him luck. But Dave and girlfriend Queenie Martin need a lot more than luck when it turns out that Annie is in a jam and only they can help: Annie's daughter Louise, who has lived all her life in a Spanish convent, is coming to America with a Count and his son. The count's son wants to marry Louise, who thinks her mother is part of New York society. It's up to Dave and Queenie and their cronies to turn Annie into a lady and convince the Count and his son that they are hobnobbing with New York's elite.
Cry for Happy
Harue
Army photographers on leave in Japan take over a geisha house.
Cimarron
Yancey 'Cimarron' Cravat
The epic story of a family that's involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush in 1889.
The Gazebo
Elliott Nash
TV writer Elliott Nash buries a blackmailer under the new gazebo in his suburban backyard. But the nervous man can't let the body rest there.
It Started with a Kiss
Sgt. Joe Fitzpatrick
While on leave in New York, a serviceman both weds a chorus girl and wins a red convertible in a charity raffle. Both his wife and the car turn out to be problematic.
Torpedo Run
Lt. Cmdr. Barney Doyle
A submarine commander is on a relentless pursuit of a Japanese aircraft carrier in the South Seas during World War II.
Imitation General
MSgt. Murphy Savage
An officer poses as a general after the death of his commanding officer and inspires his troops to victory.
The Sheepman
Jason Sweet
A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears with his stock: a herd of sheep, which he intends to graze on the range. The horrified inhabitants decide to run him out at all costs.
Cowboy
Tom Reese
Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. Soon, though, the tenderfoot finds out life on the range is neither what he expected nor what he's been looking for...
The Day Called X
Narrator
Portentously portrays the evacuation of Portland, Oregon, when threatened by a nuclear attack on its state-of-the-art civil defense system.
Don't Go Near the Water
Lt. J.G. Max Siegel
Madison Avenue-trained Navy men handle public relations on a South Pacific island during World War II.
3:10 to Yuma
Ben Wade
Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's gang is racing to free him.
The Teahouse of the August Moon
Captain Fisby
An Okinawan translator introduces U.S. occupation forces to the joys of local life.
Operation Teahouse
Self
Short promotional film for "The Teahouse of the August Moon". The cast and crew are shown arriving in Japan and being welcomed by the Japanese, and then shown in various clips around the set The location shooting is done at Nara, where a small town is constructed on approximately 11 acres of land. Local villagers watch the filming. MGM is praised for using Japanese locations, promoting international relations, etc. The short wraps up with construction of the Teahouse set and a clip of the feature film to show the result.
The Fastest Gun Alive
George Temple / George Kelby, Jr.
Whenever it becomes known how good he is with guns, ex-gunman George and his wife Dora have to flee the town, in fear of all the gunmen who might want to challenge him. Unfortunately he again spills his secret when he's drunk. All citizens swear to keep his secret and support him to give up his guns forever -- but a boy tells the story to a gang of wanted criminals. Their leader threatens to burn down the whole town, if he doesn't duel him.
Jubal
Jubal Troop
Jubal Troop is a cowboy who is found in a weakened condition, without a horse. He is given shelter at Shep Horgan's large ranch, where he quickly makes an enemy in foreman Pinky, a cattleman who accuses Jubal of carrying the smell of sheep.
Ransom!
David G. 'Dave' Stannard
A rich man (Glenn Ford) stuns his wife (Donna Reed) and town with a televised threat to his son's kidnapper.
Have Faith in Our Children
Himself
Glenn Ford introduces his wife Eleanor Powell, who asks viewers to contribute to the Variety Club's efforts to help blind babies and their families.
Trial
David Blake
A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters.
Interrupted Melody
Dr. Thomas King
Interrupted Melody is the inspirational filmed biography of world-renowned Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence. She’s a foremost Wagnerian, equal to the vocal and physical demands of the composer’s oeuvre. And she’s a beacon of triumph to anyone who fights back when personal tragedy strikes.
Blackboard Jungle
Richard Dadier
Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students' interest in education, challenging both the school staff and the pupils. He is subjected to violence as well as duplicitous schemes.
The Violent Men
John Parrish
A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled owner and the outfit's bullying tactics make him reconsider. When one of his hands is murdered he decides to stay and fight, utilizing his war experience. Not all is well at Anchor with the owner's wife carrying on with his brother who also has a Mexican woman in town.
The Americano
Sam Dent
An American Rancher takes a small herd of Brahma bulls to Brazil where he has sold them for a small fortune. There, he finds himself in the middle of a range war......and in love. His concern, who are really his friends and who are his enemies
Human Desire
Jeff Warren
Jeff Warren, a Korean War vet just returning to his railroad engineer's job, boards at the home of co-worker Alec Simmons and is charmed by Alec's beautiful daughter. He becomes attracted immediately to Vicki Buckley, the sultry wife of brutish railroad supervisor Carl Buckley, an alcoholic wife beater with a hair-trigger temper and penchant for explosive violence. Jeff becomes reluctantly drawn into a sordid affair by the compulsively seductive Vicki. After Buckley is fired for insubordination, he begs her to intercede on his behalf with John Owens, a rich and powerful businessman whose influence can get him reinstated.
City Story
Narrator
When teen-ager June Kinney is arrested, Warner Anderson, the pastor of a local church she once attended, has her released in his charge. She tells the pastor she doesn't come to church because the congregation is too cold and unfriendly. Realizing that she has spoken the truth, the pastor tries to inject new life into the church and brings up the idea of widened community services before the church board. There is opposition, at first because of the cost, but they vote to give the new plan a chance.
Appointment in Honduras
Jim Corbett
On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett, an American carrying money for a Honduran counter-revolution. Denied permission to land in Honduras, Corbett releases the prisoners and with their aid hijacks the ship. They land, taking the wealthy Sheppards as hostages, and start the arduous trip upriver to Corbett's rendezvous, meeting jungle hazards
The Big Heat
Det. Sgt. Dave Bannion
Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.
Plunder of the Sun
Al Colby
An American insurance adjuster, stranded in Havana, becomes involved with an archaeologist and a collector of antiquities in a hunt for treasure in the Mexican ruins of Zapoteca.
The Man from the Alamo
John Stroud
During the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen by lot to help others' families) but is too late to accomplish his mission, and is branded a coward. Since he cannot now expose a gang of turncoats, he infiltrates them instead. Can he save a wagon train of refugees from Wade's Guerillas?
Time Bomb
Peter Lyncort
When a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call for bomb expert Peter Lyncort to diffuse the situation, unaware that he has explosive problems of his own.
Affair in Trinidad
Steve Emery
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.
Young Man with Ideas
Maxwell Webster
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
The Green Glove
Michael 'Mike' Blake
In World War II France, American soldier Michael Blake captures, then loses Nazi-collaborator art thief Paul Rona, who leaves behind a gem studded gauntlet (a stolen religious relic). Years later, financial reverses lead Mike to return in search of the object. In Paris, he must dodge mysterious followers and a corpse that's hard to explain; so he and attractive tour guide Christine decamp on a cross-country pursuit that becomes love on the run...then takes yet another turn.
The Secret of Convict Lake
Jim Canfield
After a group of convicts escapes from prison, they take refuge in the wilderness. While most of the crew are ruthless sociopaths, Jim Canfield is an innocent man who was jailed under false pretenses. When Canfield and his fellow fugitives reach an isolated farming settlement where the men are all away, it creates tension with the local women. Things get direr when rumors of hidden money arise, and Canfield discovers that the man who framed him is part of the community.
Follow the Sun
Ben Hogan
A biographical film of Ben Hogan, from his start as a golf caddy to being considered one of golf's greatest players.
The Redhead and The Cowboy
Gil Kyle
Gil Kyle finds himself caught up in the politics and unrest of the American Civil War and soon gets himself framed for a murder. His only alibi is Candace Bronson, who is aiding the Confederate cause and has left the territory to deliver a vital message about a Yankee gold shipment. So he sets off in pursuit, running into desperados, government agents, and guerrilla fighters, who are more interested in profit than ideals. Written by Alfred Jingle
The Flying Missile
William A. Talbot
A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.
Convicted
Joe Hufford
A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.
The White Tower
Martin Ordway
Mountain climbers in the Swiss Alps mull over past problems while trying to conquer a perilous peak.
The Doctor and the Girl
Dr. Michael Corday
Dr. Michael Corday, a recent graduate of the Harvard Medical School, is the son of Dr. John Corday, an eminent New York City surgeon who has a tendency to continue to direct the lives of his grown children. The daughter, Fabienne, runs away from home, and Michael, after first following his father's advice of being callous to the point of cruelty toward patients, changes when he falls in love with a patient, marries her and sets up his practice on the lower East Side in New York.
Mr. Soft Touch
Joe Miracle
When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WWII hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the club's safe and hides in a settlement home, while the mob is on his tail.
Lust for Gold
Jacob 'Dutch' Walz
A man determined to track down the fabled Arizona gold mine known as The Lost Dutchman has an affair with a married treasure hunter, whose pursuit of the mine has lead her to double-cross her husband.
The Undercover Man
Frank Warren
Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal to seek information, but is frustrated when all he finds are terrified witnesses and corrupt police officers.
The Return of October
Prof. Bentley 'Bass' Bassett Jr.
A wholesome girl believes her new racehorse, October, is the reincarnation of her favorite uncle, Willie.
The Loves of Carmen
Don José
Gypsy Carmen drives men wild in 1820s Spain, especially the dragoon Don Jose.
The Man from Colorado
Col. Owen Devereaux
Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of them has had deep-rooted psychological damage due to his experiences during the war, and as his behavior becomes more erratic--and violent--his friend desperately tries to find a way to help him.
The Mating of Millie
Doug Andrews
Self-sufficient in life and successful in business, prim and proper Millie McGonigle wants just one more thing, a child. When she asks to adopt orphan Tommy Bassett, but learns that she will first have to have a husband, Millie turns to her neighbor, Doug Andrews. Though he has no interest in marriage, Doug offers to help Millie find a husband by transforming her into a beautiful and exciting woman, one who catches the eye of two eligible bachelors, including the orphanage's president.
Framed
Mike Lambert
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.
Gallant Journey
John J. Montgomery
Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation films in this bio of an aviation pioneer, John Montgomery (Glenn Ford.) In 1883 he built a practical glider despite the opposition of his friends, who thought he was crazy, and of his family, who were afraid that his dreams of flying would hurt his father's political ambitions. He pursues his education at Santa Clara University where the Jesuits lend a helping and understanding hand. An earthquake destroys what appears to be a working model for an airplane, but a gold-sorting machine Montgomery invented, and then neglected, promises to provide for his financial needs to keep working on his aircraft until he gets involved in costly lawsuits defending his invention.
A Stolen Life
Bill Emerson
A twin takes her deceased sister's place as wife of the man they both love.
ギルダ
Johnny Farrell
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
Destroyer
Mickey Donohue
Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.
Screen Snapshots (Series 23, No. 1): Hollywood in Uniform
Himself
Actors are seen in their new roles as military men during WWII: Robert Stack displaying his remarkable skill as an artillery training officer; Tyrone Power as a Marine drill instructor; Rudy Vallee leading a military band; and Glenn Ford in the everyday grind of a Marine private.
The Desperadoes
Cheyenne Rogers
Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town's crooked banker. They plan to have the bank robbed after emptying it, and when Willie's choice for this doesn't show in time, he gets some local boys to do it. When his man does turn up he decides to stick around, as he is pals with the sheriff and also takes a shine to Willie's daughter Allison. This gives the bad men several new problems.
Show-Business at War
Self
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
Guadalcanal Diary
Marine Extra (uncredited)
Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.
Flight Lieutenant
Danny Doyle
A disgraced pilot determines to regain the respect of both his son, now a test pilot for the Army, and the men he once flew with.
The Adventures of Martin Eden
Martin Eden
Author writes about his experiences sailing at sea, struggles to get his work published.
Go West, Young Lady
Tex Miller
A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.
Texas
Tod Ramsey
Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. When they do meet up again, they find themselves on different sides of the law. This leads to the increasing estrangement of the two men, who once thought of themselves as brothers.
So Ends Our Night
Ludwig Kern
An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.
Blondie Plays Cupid
Charlie
The Bumstead family is off to see relatives in the country when Blondie runs into Charlie and Millie, an eloping couple needing her help.
The Lady in Question
Pierre Morestan
When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.
Babies for Sale
Steve Burton / Oscar Hanson
A determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a ruthless adoption racket.
Men Without Souls
Johnny Adams
A prison chaplain (John Litel) rescues a young convict (Glenn Ford) on a misguided mission of revenge.
Convicted Woman
Jim Brent (Reporter)
A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.
My Son is Guilty
Barney
Honest cop Tim Kerry struggles to keep his son Ritzy from becoming involved in a crime ring.
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
Joe Riley
New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Arizona.