Joseph Cotten

Joseph Cotten

出生 : 1905-05-15, Petersburg, Virginia, USA

死亡 : 1994-02-06

略歴

Joseph Cheshire Cotten (May 15, 1905 – February 6, 1994) was an American actor of stage and film. Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original productions of The Philadelphia Story and Sabrina Fair. He is associated with Orson Welles, leading to appearances in Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Journey into Fear (1943), for which Cotten was also credited with the screenplay, and The Third Man (1949). He was a star in his own right with films such as Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Love Letters (1945), Portrait of Jennie (1948), and The Third Man (1949).

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参加作品

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Self (archive footage)
As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The Other Side of the Wind.
Too Much Johnson
Augustus Billings
This film was not intended to stand by itself, but was designed as the cinematic aspect of Welles' Mercury Theatre stage presentation of William Gillette's 1894 comedy about a New York playboy who flees from the violent husband of his mistress and borrows the identity of a plantation owner in Cuba who is expecting the arrival of a mail order bride. The film component of the performance was ultimately never screened due to the absence of projection facilities at the venue. Long-believed to be lost, a workprint was discovered in 2008 and the film had its premiere in 2013.
Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film
Self
A short documentary about the Making Of Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943).
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
(Archive footage)
Welcome behind the closed doors of a Hollywood that only a select few will ever get to see -- a Hollywood of tragic lives and tragic deaths. Some of the worlds brightest stars are hiding deep, dark secrets that - once revealed show a life of unhappiness, heartbreak and torment that has been so carefully hidden behind the glamour and glitter of the big screen. See the true lives behind some of Hollywoods most iconic stars and learn why, for some, it was as if the act of dying itself was a final performance.
The Survivor
Priest
When a 747 crashes shortly after take-off, the sole survivor is the pilot. Virtually unhurt, he and the investigators look for the answers to the disaster. Meanwhile mysterious deaths occur in the community and only a psychic, in touch with the supernatural, can help the pilot unravel the mystery surrounding the doomed plane.
The House Where Death Lives
Ivar Langrock
A nurse goes to a house to care for a crippled old man. Then people in the house start being murdered.
天国の門
The Reverend Doctor
Harvard graduate James Averill is the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., when a battle erupts between the area's poverty-stricken immigrants and its wealthy cattle farmers. The politically connected ranch owners fight the immigrants with the help of Nathan Champion, a mercenary competing with Averill for the love of local madam Ella Watson. As the struggle escalates, Averill and Champion begin to question their decisions.
Casino
Ed Booker
Mike Connors is a suave gambler who owns a floating hotel/casino which takes a turn when the passengers are stalked by a saboteur during the casino ship's maiden voyage.
The Hearse
Walter Prichard
A schoolteacher moves into her deceased aunt’s house in a small Californian town, and is harassed by unfriendly locals and a mysterious hearse.
Churchill and the Generals
Gen. George C. Marshall
The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.
Guyana: Crime of the Century
Richard Gable
This horrific dramatization of the Guyana tragedy traces the steps of Reverend Jim Jones, a highly charismatic, but profoundly paranoid clergyman, who after years of evangelism and good deeds, begins his own church in the mid-western United States. When Jim Jones becomes increasingly obsessed with the belief that the CIA is "a wicked enemy" who is out to get him, he emigrates with his congregation to Guyana, where he plans to create a utopia. But Jim Jones' utopia consists of a society where he demands his followers turn their minds, bodies and possessions over to him, one that is rife with orgies, physical violence, mental torture, and sexual abuse of children and adults. Ultimately, Jim Jones' paranoia reaches a fevered pitch that culminates in him taking savage action against his own congregation. (VCI Home Video)
Tales of the Unexpected: Edward the Conqueror
Edward
Elderly marrieds Edward and Louisa discover a stray cat in their garden. It reacts so positively to Louisa's classical piano playing that she is convinced the cat is the reincarnation of Franz Liszt. Edward grows tired of her obsession and decides to get rid of the cat.
Concorde Affair
Milland
A reporter tries to stop the crash of an aircraft after uncovering an airline's plot to save their business by sabotaging Concorde flights and have them decommissioned.
Island of the Fishmen
Prof. Ernest Marvin
After their prison ship sinks in the Caribbean, a group of prisoners and a doctor wash ashore on a seemingly deserted island. They soon discover a strange couple, who invite them to stay at their house. While the prisoners plan an escape, the doctor does some investigating, and soon finds out just what the pair are really doing, and why the prisoners keep disappearing mysteriously.
The Perfect Crime
Sir Arthur Dundee
The death of a multinational company’s chairman induces the three candidates for the chairmanship to plot against one another for control of the business.
Caravans
Crandall
This epic adventure-drama based on James Michener's best-selling novel concerns a young American embassy official who is sent into the Middle-Eastern desert to find the missing daughter of a US Senator. The young woman has left her husband, a Colonel in the Shadom - she was his number two wife - and has opted for the lifestyle of a nomadic tribe. When the diplomat locates the girl he joins the caravan and attempts to persuade the girl to return.
Last In, First Out
Foster Johnson
A woman on a train becomes the center of attention when she is mistaken for a spy by opposing factions who are traveling on the same line.
Return to Fantasy Island
Simon Grant
A second feature-length pilot film for the wish-fulfillment series sees six lucky people having their dreams fulfilled on the luxury resort island. Career woman Margo Dean's assistant, Lowell Benson, hopes to romance her; Brian and Lucy Faber want to see the daughter they gave up for adoption; Janet Fleming, who lost her memory on her honeymoon, wants to relive it to cure her amnesia.
エアポート’77/バミューダからの脱出
Nicholas St. Downs III
「大空港」から始まった「エアポート」シリーズ第3弾。ハイジャックされたジャンボ機が“魔のバミューダ三角海域”に不時着。次第に沈んでいく機体からの決死の救出劇を描くパニック映画。
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State
A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam War between Dell and the then President's most trusted advisors.
A Whisper in the Dark
The Professor
Martino is a young child who claims to have an invisible friend called Luca. His parents assume it is just a game, but strange things start to happen.
Mysteries of the Gods
Narrator
William Shatner explores the theory that the U.S. government is involved in a cover-up of visiting alien spacecraft. Based on a book by Erich von Däniken, this documentary contains evidence of extraterrestrial life here on earth. Proof discovered through photographs taken by scientists and evidence of actual voyages found by archaeologists.
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
Dr. Joseph Francis Condon
Fact-based story of the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr., son and namesake of the famed pilot, and ensuing trial of accused and convicted killer, Bruno Hauptmann.
'F for Fake' Trailer
Self (archive footage)
An unreleased 9 minute trailer for F for Fake directed by Orson Welles as promotional reel for the film's American release.
Timber Tramps
Greedy sawmill mogul
A tough, hard-drinking Alaska logging foreman likes fighting only slightly less than working.
Syndicate Sadists
Paternò
A biker's brother is killed while investigating the kidnapping of a young boy, the byproduct of a war between two crime families. The biker vows to get revenge by finding the kidnapped boy and destroying the two families.
A Delicate Balance
Harry
In their nice Connecticut home, Agnes and Tobias have grown used to the imperfection and fragility of their marriage. Quietly nursing their grief over the death of their son, they get by well enough together. Agnes' boozy sister wanders in and out, and they allow anxiety-stricken friends to move into an upstairs room. But, when their daughter, Julia, shows up announcing her fourth divorce, long-repressed emotions come to the surface.
F for Fake
Self
Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.
ソイレント・グリーン
William R. Simonson
2022年、今から約50年後のニューヨークには人口が膨大したことによって食糧難が起こっていた。人々は1週間に1度、政府が配給する「ソイレント・グリーン」と呼ばれるウェーフェース状の食料で命を継いでいたが・・・。
The Devil's Daughter
Judge Weatherby
A young girl whose mother had sold her soul to Satan when she was born is told by Satan that she must marry a fellow demon.
The Scopone Game
George
An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the card game scopone with destitute Peppino and his wife Antonia.
処刑男爵
Baron Otto von Kleist / Alfred Becker
A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom the Baron had burned at the stake. Peter reads aloud the incantation that causes Baron Blood to return and continue his murderous tortures.
Doomsday Voyage
Captain Jason
A political extremist on the run after assassinating a corrupt politician, poses as a French sailor in hopes of fleeing the country.
The Screaming Woman
George Tresvant
A wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking the grounds one day she hears the screams of a woman coming from underneath the ground. Her family, however, refuses to believe her story, and sees the incident as an opportunity to prove the woman's mind has snapped so they can take control of her money.
Lady Frankenstein
Baron Frankenstein
Dr. Frankensteins' daughter, who is in love with the aging lab assistant Marshall, continues with her fathers experiments and attempts to transplant Marshall's brain into a new body to prolong his life.
City Beneath the Sea
Dr. Ziegler
A group of 21st-century colonists inhabit an underwater city called Pacifica. Originally intended as a purely scientific installation, the U. S. government wants to stash all its gold reserves from Fort Knox there, along with a fantastic new radioactive element. The brother of Pacifica's returning former commander plans to steal the gold and on top of that, the city faces destruction by an asteroid from outer space!
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Dr. Vesalius
Famous organist Anton Phibes is horribly disfigured in an automobile accident while rushing to the side of his sick wife and presumed to be dead. Once Phibes learns that his wife died on the operating table, he is convinced the doctors are responsible and begins exacting his revenge on all those involved.
Do You Take This Stranger?
Dr. Robert Carson
A social climber/con artist schemes to inherit one million dollars by trading identities with a dying man.
Assault on the Wayne
Admiral
The U.S. submarine Anthony Wayne is underway for a top-secret mission. Onboard is a highly classified device that will give the Americans a decided nuclear advantage. The entire mission and the secret technology are threatened when the sub commander discovers his crew has been infiltrated by enemy agents. The commander is charged with trying to protect the device while ferreting out the enemy agents. Compounding matters is the state of the commander's physical and mental condition, which is being questioned by his crew.
The Grasshopper
Richard Morgan
A British Columbia teenager dreams of show business but winds up as a call girl in Las Vegas.
Cutter's Trail
General Spalding
The Marshal of Santa Fe returns home to find his town almost wiped out by Mexican bandits and enlists the help of a young Mexican boy and his mother to track them down.
トラ・トラ・トラ!
Henry L. Stimson, U.S. Secretary of War
1941年12月8日の日本軍による真珠湾攻撃の全容を、日米合作オールスター・キャストで映画化した超大作。
The Lonely Profession
Martin Bannister
Private investigator Leo Gordon is hired to trail Karen Mendaros, the mistress of a reclusive billionaire. When they meet, Gordon and Mendaros hit it off and check in at a motel. Gordon wakes up the next morning and discovers that Mendaros had been murdered during the night. Gordon opens his own investigation of Mendaros' past in an attempt to determine who killed Mendaros and why he's been set up as the fall guy.
緯度0大作戦
Capt. Craig McKenzie / Cmdr. Glenn McKenzie
海底油田の調査隊が遭難し、謎の潜水艦アルファー号に救助される。調査隊の三人が連れていかれたのは、海底に作られた平和な理想郷、赤道と日付変更線の交差する“緯度0”であった。一方アルファー号の艦長を生涯の仇敵と狙うマリク博士は、その平和なユートピアを破壊しようと画策した。アルファー号に救助された三人は、マリクの本拠地に乗り込んでいく。だがそこは、凶暴な巨大ネズミや合成獣グリフォンの跋扈する、アンチ・ユートピアだった……。
White Comanche
Sheriff Logan
William Shatner plays two roles: cowboy Johnny Moon and his ruthless Indian twin brother, Notah. Notah likes peyote and gets the crazy idea that he's the Comanche messiah sent to lead the Comanche nation against the white man but more specifically the dusty desert town of Rio Hondo. Moon, estranged from his brother, decides to stop Notah either by words or by bullets.
Split Second to an Epitaph
Dr. Ben Stern
In the second "Ironside" movie, the Chief has his spine jolted during a hospital encounter with a narcotics pusher, not only raising the possibility for an operation that might cure his paralysis but also putting him in jeopardy because he can identify the man who had just shot a guard.
Petulia
Mr. Danner
An unhappily married socialite finds solace in the company of a recently divorced doctor.
Gangsters '70
Destil
An elderly gangster just released from prison plans one last job, and gathers a small crew to do the job, but the plan goes sour when one of the crew betrays the details of the operation to a rival gangster.
Alexander The Great
Antigonus
An historical film that follows the life of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian king that united all ancient Greek tribes and led them against the vast Persian Empire. Alexander conquered most of the then-known world and created a Greek empire that spanned all the way from the Balkans to India.
Jack of Diamonds
Ace
The protégé of a famous cat burglar reluctantly agrees to join forces with a lesser criminal in the daring heist of several famous jewels from a seemingly impenetrable vault.
黄金の棺
Colonel Jonas
南北戦争終結直後のアメリカ。南軍の再興を目指すジョナスはその資金を得るため、3人の息子たちとともに北軍の現金輸送車を襲い、大金を強奪。追っ手の目を欺くため、彼らは葬列の幌馬車隊を装い、奪った金を棺の中に隠して逃走を図る。
Some May Live
During the Vietnam War U.S. decoder Kate Meredith is plagued with guilt when her correspondent husband coerces her to pass information to him and the Viet Cong.
Brighty of the Grand Canyon
Jim
At the turn of the century in the Southwest, Brighty the wild burro accompanies his friend, a prospector named Old Timer, on a hunt for gold. A claim jumper robs the pair of their strike, killing Old Timer in the process. Brighty then sets out on a quest -- befriending a mountain lion hunter along the way -- to bring Old Timer's murderer to justice in this drama based on the best-seller by Marguerite Henry.
The Oscar
Kenneth Regan
An amoral lowlife accidentally stumbles into an acting career that sets him on a trajectory to Hollywood stardom. But everyone on whom he steps on the way to the top remembers when he is nominated for an Oscar and he runs a dirty campaign in an attempt to win.
The Tramplers
Edith Wickett
After the war of secession, the aging Cordeen, who owns thousands of acres in Texas, rules his numerous and quarrelsome sons with an iron hand. He sends them out to deal with the threat of the representatives from the North. However, not all the sons share their father's unlimited hatred for the Northerners and they find it increasingly difficult to obey his despotic commands. To add to the family's unrest, a prodigal son decides to return to the fold, provoking two other sons to down tools and leave. Cordeen, outraged, pursues them and tries to kill them. An absurd family feud ensues, prolonged by the participation of the entire Cordeen family.
The Money Trap
Dr. Horace Van Tilden
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 Great Sioux Massacre
Major Marcus A. Reno
Colonel Custer (Philip Carey), an outspoken believer in fair treatment for the Indians, is ousted from his post and forced into retirement. Fueled by ambition when a Senator Blaine (Don Haggerty) convinces him to run for President, Custer decides to upstage General Terry (Frank Ferguson) at Little Big Horn.
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Drew Bayliss
An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
Hollywood and the Stars
Narrator
NBC's pioneering documentary series, produced by the David L. Wolper Production Company, in association with United Artists Television. Each 30-minute show concentrated on a Hollywood genre, film or legendary star. This series ran from September 30, 1963 until May 18, 1964, and many of its individual episodes were released into the home gauge market in shortened form. Certain episodes would focus on films being made at the time, notably Preminger's The Cardinal and Huston's Night of the Iguana.
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Self (uncredited)
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s.
ガン・ファイター
John Breckenridge
退役軍人ブレッケンリッジはメキシコを離れ、カリフォルニアでの新生活を決意。だが、千頭の牛をテキサスに運び、金に換えるためには人手が必要で……。ロック・ハドソン、カーク・ダグラス共演による雄大なるウエスタン。
The Angel Wore Red
Hawthorne
A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer.
From the Earth to the Moon
Victor Barbicane
Set just after the American civil war, businessman and inventor Victor Barbicane invents a new source of power called Power X. He plans to use it to power rockets, and to show its potential he plans to send a projectile to the moon. Joining him for the trip are his assistant Ben Sharpe, Barbicane's arch-rival Stuyvesant Nicholl, and Nicholl's daughter Virginia. Nicholl believes that Power X goes against the will of God and sabotages the projectile so that they cannot return to earth, setting up a suspenseful finale as they battle to repair the projectile.
黒い罠
Coroner (uncredited)
国境の町に拡がる陰謀を描いたW・マスターソンのミステリ小説を、O・ウェルズが脚色・監督したフィルム・ノワールの傑作。 メキシコ国境の小さな町で起こった車の爆殺事件。偶然にも現場を目撃したメキシコ政府の特別犯罪調査官ヴァルガスは事件の捜査に乗り出すが、アメリカ側の担当者であるクインラン警部はヴァルガスの介入を露骨に拒否。だが上司の命令で、クインランはやむなくヴァルガスと共同捜査を開始する……。
The Edge of Innocence
Robert Rainey
An unscrupulous criminal lawyer falls in love with a wealthy widow and becomes involved with her brother's disappearance and murder.
The Halliday Brand
Daniel Halliday
Sheriff Halliday doesn't approve of his children dating or marrying half-breeds and his blind hate threatens to alienate his whole family.
The Killer Is Loose
Detective Sam Wagner
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies teller Leon Poole as inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. Poole begins his plans to get revenge when he escapes his captors.
The Bottom of the Bottle
Pat 'P.M.' Martin
An alcoholic escaped convict asks his Arizona lawyer brother to help him cross the Mexican border.
Special Delivery
John Adams
Complications ensue when a U.S. diplomat discovers that he has a baby on his hands and an undercover gal in his arms.
Having survived a plane crash in the jungle, Henty finds a fortress-like home in the middle of nowhere, belonging to the affable Mr. McMaster. The latter doesn't want Henty to leave.
A Blueprint for Murder
Whitney 'Cam' Cameron
Whitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also harbors serious suspicions about her. Her husband, Cameron's brother, died under mysterious circumstances, and now that the death of her stepchild, Polly, has been attributed to poisoning, he suspects that Lynn is after his late brother's estate, and killing everyone in her way.
Egypt by Three
Narrator
Three tales of life on the Nile River reveal love and vengeance, religion and deception. Each atmospheric vignette offers an eye-opening take on the culture, attitudes and religion of the Middle East. First, a knife thrower's affair threatens his mistress. Then, the plague tests a band of pilgrims journeying to Mecca. Finally, two con men learn a lesson at a Coptic church.
ナイアガラ
George Loomis
すっかり観光気分を味わせてくれる。会社の慰安に遅い新婚旅行を兼ねて瀑布を訪れた若い夫婦。本来泊まるはずのロッジには、別の夫婦客がいた。夫(J・コットン)は気分が悪くて寝ている、と告げた妻モンローは買物に出かけたはずなのに...。
The Steel Trap
Jim Osborne
Joseph Cotten plays an assistant bank manager who steals $1,000,000 from the safe late on a Friday and then plans to flee to Brazil over the weekend.
Untamed Frontier
Kirk Denbow
The Denbow family denies access across their land to homesteaders. To evade a murder charge, Glenn Denbow marries Jane, the only witness who's in love with him. But the woman favors the settlers...
Othello
Senator (uncredited)
When a secret marriage is planned between Othello, a Moorish general, and Desdemona, the daughter of Senator Brabantio, her old suitor Roderigo takes it hard. He allies himself with Iago, who has his own grudge against Othello, and the two conspire to bring Othello down. When their first plan, to have him accused of witchcraft, fails, they plant evidence intended to make him believe Desdemona is unfaithful.
The Man with a Cloak
Dupin
Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals. The alcoholic man is badly crippled and slowly dying, but this doesn't stop the forthright lady from pushing him to change his will to include his estranged grandson so that he can help out the struggling French Republic. Unfortunately, the dying man's conniving housekeeper and butler, already planning murder to get the money themselves, overhear her and begin plotting her demise.
Peking Express
Michael Bachlin
A group of refugees fleeing Chinese Communist rule via train are beset by a gang of terrifying outlaws.
Half Angel
John Raymond Jr.
Nurse Nora Gilpin plans are to marry building contractor Tim McCarey and settle down. But one night a sleepwalking Nora slips into a provocative dress and goes to the home of startled lawyer John Raymond, for whom she doesn't care much during the day. She does not reveal her name and he cannot figure out where they have met, but they spend several hours together until she gets away before John notices.
September Affair
David Lawrence
An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren't on the plane. This gives them the opportunity to live together free from their previous lives. Unfortunately, this artificial arrangement leads to greater and greater stress. Eventually the situation collapses when they come to pursue their original, individual interests without choosing a common path.
Walk Softly, Stranger
Chris Hale aka Steve
A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter.
Two Flags West
Col. Clay Tucker
A group of confedarate prisoners is sent to a unionist fort in the west to help the local garrison to fight the indians.
Beyond the Forest
Doctor Louis Moline
Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.
山羊座のもとに
Sam Flusky
In 1831, Irishman Charles Adare travels to Australia to start a new life with the help of his cousin who has just been appointed governor. When he arrives he meets powerful landowner and ex-convict, Sam Flusky, who wants to do a business deal with him. Whilst attending a dinner party at Flusky's house, Charles meets Flusky's wife Henrietta who he had known as a child back in Ireland. Henrietta is an alcoholic and seems to be on the verge of madness.
第三の男
Holly Martins
映画史に燦然と輝く名作として知られるキャロル・リード監督の傑作サスペンス。第2次大戦後のウィーンを舞台に、謎の死を遂げた友人の真相究明に奔走する男の姿を描く。 第2次大戦後のウィーンに、アメリカから友人ハリーを訪ねてやってきた作家ホリーは到着早々、ハリーが事故で死んだと知らされる。不審に思ったホリーは、事件の真相究明を決意。事故現場にいた3人のうち、身元の確認がとれない“第三の男”とは…。 イギリスの作家グレアム・グリーンの原作・脚本を、名匠キャロル・リード監督が光と影を効果的に使った映像美で描いた不滅の名作。アカデミー撮影賞、カンヌ映画祭グランプリ受賞。
Portrait of Jennie
Eben Adams
A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.
Our American Heritage
Narrator
Public service featurette shown in connection with the 1947-1949 biannual nation-wide tour of the Foundation Freedom Train, a government-endorsed campaign to "re-sell Americanism to Americans."
The Farmer's Daughter
Glenn Morley
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.
白昼の決闘
Jesse McCanles
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
Love Letters
Allen Quinton
When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing marries the girl, confesses one night he didn't write the letters and ends up with a knife in his back. The writer of the letters fell in love with the woman he wrote to and wants to become her second husband even if she did murder husband number one. Singleton doesn't remember the murder or anything about the first 22 years of her life as Victoria Remington. Then at her second wedding she wonders why she said "I take you, Roger," instead of "I take you, Allen."
I'll Be Seeing You
Zachary Morgan
Mary Marshall, serving a six year term for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough from prison to visit her closest relatives, her uncle and his family in a small Midwestern town. On the train she meets Zach Morgan, a troubled army sergeant on leave for the holidays from a military hospital. Although his physical wounds have healed, he is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and is subject to panic attacks. The pair are attracted to one another and in the warm atmosphere of the Christmas season friendship blossoms into romance, but Mary is reluctant to tell him of her past and that she must shortly return to prison to serve the remainder of her sentence.
Since You Went Away
Lieutenant Tony Willett
While husband Tim is away during World War II, Anne Hilton copes with problems on the homefront. Taking in a lodger, Colonel Smollett, to help make ends meet and dealing with shortages and rationing are minor inconveniences compared to the love affair daughter Jane and the Colonel's grandson conduct.
ガス燈
Brian Cameron
イングリッド・バーグマンがアカデミー主演女優賞を受賞した、ジョージ・キューカー監督のサスペンス映画の古典的名作。美術・装置賞も受賞。共演はシャルル・ボワイエ。 叔母を何者かに殺されて傷心のポーラは住み慣れたロンドンを離れ、イタリアで暮らすことに。やがて月日が流れ、結婚したポーラは、夫と共に相続した叔母の家で新婚生活を始める。ところが、ロンドンに戻ったとたん、次々と不可解なことが起こり、ポーラは精神的に追い詰められていく…。主演女優のイングリッド・バーグマンにオスカーをもたらした、サスペンス映画の古典的名作。アカデミー美術・装置賞も受賞。
Hers to Hold
Bill Morley
Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin plays Penelope Craig, the starry-eyed daughter of wealthy Judson and Dorothy Craig (Charles Winninger, Nella Walker). Developing a crush on much-older playboy Bill Morley (Joseph Cotton), Penelope stops at nothing to land the elusive Morley as her husband. Highlights include Durbin's renditions of "Begin the Beguine" and the "Seguidilla" from Carmen, and a captivating sequence that includes highlights from Durbin's earlier films, presented as home movies!
疑惑の影
Charlie Oakley
カリフォルニア州サンタローザ。その街で家族と共に平凡に暮らす長女チャーリーは、突然やって来た叔父に秘密の匂いを嗅ぎとる。やがて二人の探偵が現れ、チャーリーは叔父に未亡人殺しの疑いがかかっている事を知る。明るい日常生活の中でチャーリーひとりが、叔父が殺人犯かどうかの疑惑にさいなまれていく…。
Journey into Fear
Screenplay
An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.
Journey into Fear
Howard Graham
An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.
The Magnificent Ambersons
Eugene Morgan
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
Lydia
Michael Fitzpatrick
Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed splendid and destined for happiness, but in each case, Lydia realizes, the truth was less romantic, and ill-starred.
市民ケーン
Jedediah Leland
新聞王ケーンが、“バラのつぼみ”という謎の言葉を残して死んだ。新聞記者のトンプソンは、その言葉の意味を求めて、生前のケーンを知る人物にあたるが……。様々な人物の証言から、新聞界に君臨した男の実像が浮かび上がる、斬新な構成と演出で評判を呼んだ、ウェルズ弱冠25歳の処女作。
Seeing the World, Part One: A Visit to New York, N.Y.
A sightseeing portrait of New York, with lively narration taking the viewer aboard the New York elevated and subway trains. Then the view from the windows becomes slightly abstracted, the voice of the commentator becomes uncertain. Featuring Joseph Cotten (credited 'Cotton') Virginia Nicholson Welles, John Becker and Edwin Denby.