List of the best Art Smith movies: Native Land(1942), In a Lonely Place(1950), Letter From an Unknown Woman(1948), The Next Voice You Hear(1950), Ride the Pink Horse(1947), Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid(1948), T-Men(1947), Manhandled(1949), Body and Soul(1947), Mr. Winkle Goes to War(1944), Brute Force(1947), Rose of Cimarron(1952) ... ...
Drama
USA
1942
80 Minutes
Harry Carlyle
Art Smith Paul Strand James Hanney Fred Johnson Mary George John Rennick Amelia Romano Houseley Stevenson Howard da Silva Vaughn King Tom Pedi
farmer union organizer klansman sharecropper grocer paul robeson brutal inspiring intense factory united states rural community congress civil rights labor union free speech racism activism work underdog
Paul Robeson narrates a mix of dramatizations and archival footage about the bill of rights being under attack during the 1930s by union busting corporations, their spies and contractors. ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1950
91 Minutes
Mel Lippman
Humphrey Bogart Gloria Grahame Frank Lovejoy Carl Benton Reid Art Smith Jeff Donnell Martha Stewart Robert Warwick Morris Ankrum William Ching Steven Geray
lover screenwriter dead person detective agent engaging dark gripping hollywood, calif. police station nightclub love unusual behavior murder investigation fall mystery 1940s
A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.
Romance
USA
1948
90 Minutes
John
Joan Fontaine Louis Jourdan Mady Christians Marcel Journet Art Smith Carol Yorke Howard Freeman
pianist young woman husband son servant somber moving vienna family home hospital opera house apartment unrequited love betrayal affair dueling letter writing forbidden love discovery quest
A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember, who may hold the key to his downfall.
Drama
USA
1950
82 Minutes
Fred Brannan
James Whitmore Nancy Davis Gary Gray Lillian Bronson Art Smith Tom D'Andrea Jeff Corey
Over a period of a week the voice of God is heard on radios all over the world.
Crime, Drama
USA
1947
101 Minutes
Bill Retz
Robert Montgomery Wanda Hendrix Thomas Gomez Andrea King Fred Clark Art Smith Richard Gaines Martin Garralaga Rita Conde Iris Flores Edward Earle
young man gangster federal agent teen girl mexican criminal tense raw dark new mexico small town festival hotel carousel crime extortion vengeance investigation murder quest
WW2 veteran Lucky Gagin arrives in a New Mexico border-town intent on revenging against mobster Frank Hugo but FBI agent Bill Retz, who also wants Hugo, tries to keep Gagin out of trouble.
Fantasy
1948
89 Minutes
Dr. Harvey
William Powell Ann Blyth Irene Hervey Andrea King Clinton Sundberg Art Smith Hugh French Lumsden Hare Fred Clark Jimmy Logan Mary Field
middle-aged man wife mermaid psychiatrist vacationer amusing winsome offbeat moving touching boston caribbean midlife crisis mermaids jealousy fantasy paranoia adventure discovery love
A Bostonian (William Powell) and his wife (Irene Hervey) winter in the West Indies, where, fishing, he catches a mermaid (Ann Blyth).
Crime, Drama
USA
1947
96 Minutes
Gregg
Dennis O'Keefe Alfred Ryder Mary Meade Wallace Ford June Lockhart Charles McGraw Jane Randolph Art Smith Herbert Heyes Jack Overman John Wengraf
Two US Treasury agents hunt a successful counterfeiting ring.
Crime, Drama
USA
1949
97 Minutes
Detective Lt. Bill Dawson
Dorothy Lamour Sterling Hayden Dan Duryea Irene Hervey Philip Reed Harold Vermilyea Alan Napier Art Smith
quack writer secretary private investigator wealthy woman insurance investigator uneasy dark suspenseful intricate psychiatrist's office boardinghouse restaurant laundromat pawn shop murder investigation frame-up robbery nightmares psychiatry
The secretary to a phony psychiatrist finds herself caught up in the murder of a patient's wife and realizes that her life is also in danger.
Drama
USA
1947
104 Minutes
David Davis
John Garfield Lilli Palmer Hazel Brooks Anne Revere William Conrad Joseph Pevney Lloyd Gough Canada Lee Art Smith
father boxer promoter mother gritty rousing boxing ring hospital slum corruption death honor rise underdog 1940s
A talented boxer's young career hits difficult terrain when an unethical promoter takes interest in him.
Drama
USA
1944
80 Minutes
McDavid
Edward G. Robinson Ruth Warrick Ted Donaldson Bob Haymes Richard Lane Robert Armstrong Richard Gaines Walter Baldwin Art Smith Ann Shoemaker Paul Stanton
bank teller army recruit orphan mechanic wife endearing amusing bank japan army camp heroism duty patriotism world war ii marriage underdog adventure rise sacrifice 1940s
Wilbert Winkle, a henpecked, mild-mannered, middle-aged bank clerk and handyman, finds himself in the midst of battle in the South Pacific.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1947
98 Minutes
Dr. Walters
Burt Lancaster Hume Cronyn Charles Bickford Yvonne De Carlo Ann Blyth Ella Raines Anita Colby Sam Levene Howard Duff Art Smith Roman Bohnen
prisoner warden guard wife criminal dark gritty prison doctor's office prison escape illness violence escape quest 1940s
At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard.
Western
USA
1952
72 Minutes
Jack Buetel Mala Powers Bill Williams Jim Davis Dick Curtis Bob Steele Lane Bradford Bill Phipps Alex Gerry Lillian Bronson Art Smith
young woman girl beautiful girl native american native american chief rousing patriotic outlandish engaging united states cherokee strip native american reservation death of parent missing link life search beauty growing up love quest
A white girl raised by Indians sets out to find out who murdered her adoptive parents.
Drama
USA
1948
133 Minutes
Ingrid Bergman Charles Boyer Charles Laughton Louis Calhern Ruth Warrick Roman Bohnen Stephen Bekassy Ruth Nelson Curt Bois J. Edward Bromberg Michael Romanoff
Illegal refugees lead dark lives in pre-World War II Paris.