List of the best Irving Reis movies: Enchantment(1948), A Date With the Falcon(1941), Crack-Up(1946), The Big Street(1942), The Falcon Takes Over(1942), Hitler's Children(1943), The Four Poster(1952), Roseanna McCoy(1949), Three Husbands(1950), New Mexico(1951), Weekend for Three(1941), Dancing in the Dark(1949) ... ...
Romance
USA
1948
102 Minutes
Director
David Niven Teresa Wright Evelyn Keyes Farley Granger Jayne Meadows Leo G. Carroll Philip Friend Shepperd Strudwick Henry Stephenson
general soldier american woman love interest pilot emotional melodramatic london house world war ii jealousy loneliness regret love transformation 20th century
Uncle Rollo finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love, Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last days. However, the appearance of his ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1941
63 Minutes
Director
George Sanders Wendy Barrie James Gleason Allen Jenkins Mona Maris Victor Kilian Frank Moran Russ Clark Ed Gargan Eddie Dunn Alec Craig
private detective fiancée police officer scientist twin thug suspenseful thrilling emotional taxi hotel room apartment nightclub new york city street missing persons wrongfully accused schemes marriage investigation
Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when a mystery girl, Rita Mara, asks for his aid in disposing of a secret formula for making ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1946
93 Minutes
Director
Pat O'Brien Claire Trevor Herbert Marshall Ray Collins Wallace Ford Dean Harens Damian O'Flynn Erskine Sanford Mary Ware Harry Harvey Robert Bray
art expert psychiatrist police detective reporter coworker museum director intricate uneasy manhattan, n.y. art museum train police station set-up forgery art drugs investigation shady dealings mystery discovery
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?
Comedy, Drama
USA
1942
88 Minutes
Director
Henry Fonda Lucille Ball Barton MacLane Eugene Pallette Agnes Moorehead Sam Levene Ray Collins Marion Martin William T. Orr George Cleveland Vera Gordon
A busboy in unrequited love with a nightclub performer grows closer to her after she is paralyzed in an attack by her gangster boyfriend.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1942
63 Minutes
Director
George Sanders Lynn Bari James Gleason Allen Jenkins Helen Gilbert Ward Bond Anne Revere Hans Conried
detective escaped convict inspector sidekick ex-girlfriend reporter melodramatic thrilling suspenseful new york city office club graveyard street murder investigation blackmail deception missing persons ransom unlikely allies
The Falcon and reporter Ann Riordan try to solve a string of murders after an ex-wrestler, released from jail, goes looking for his girl friend.
Drama
USA
1943
83 Minutes
Irving Reis Tim Holt Bonita Granville Kent Smith Otto Kruger H.B. Warner Lloyd Corrigan
professor student nazi hitler youth bishop bleak brutal emotional germany school labor camp church world war ii nazism patriotism political intrigue growing up rivalry escape 1930s
This lurid exposé of the Hitler Youth follows the woes of an American girl declared legally German by the Nazi government.
Comedy
USA
1952
103 Minutes
Director
husband wife writer cheeky cool moving new york city bedroom household marriage ambition writing parenthood infidelity war love rise quest 1930s
Adapted from the prize-winning Broadway play that featured two people and a four-poster bed, in which the couple enacts their marriage, from its day in 1897, until he dies, some time after ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1949
100 Minutes
Director
Farley Granger Joan Evans Charles Bickford Raymond Massey Richard Basehart Gigi Perreau Aline MacMahon Marshall Thompson
young man young girl father rival brother love interest dark gripping tense kentucky west virginia woods house church feud family hostages romance murder hatfields vs. mccoys
The saga of the Hatfield-and-McCoy feud is romanticized in Samuel Goldwyn's Roseanna McCoy. Newcomer Joan Evans stars as the title character, whose elopement with Johnse Hatfield serves to ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1950
79 Minutes
Director
Emlyn Williams Eve Arden Howard da Silva Ruth Warrick Vanessa Brown Shepperd Strudwick Robert Karnes Billie Burke Louise Erickson Jonathan Hale Jane Darwell
dead person poker player friend wife husband lover cheeky spirited witty heaven house bedroom small town infidelity afterlife secret relationships marital problems sex revenge
When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands, with whom he regularly... See full summary »
Western
USA
1951
76 Minutes
Director
Lew Ayres Marilyn Maxwell Andy Devine Ted de Corsia Lloyd Corrigan Robert Hutton Raymond Burr Jeff Corey
cavalryman chief judge colonel dance hall girl abraham lincoln fiery unrestrained patriotic melodramatic new mexico territory hut battlefield desert american indian wars race relations moral dilemma retribution peace treaty harassment
A cavalry captain has great difficulty keeping the peace between his tyrannical colonel and an Indian chief bent on revenge.
Comedy
USA
1941
66 Minutes
Director
husband wife unwanted guest maid friend waiter witty cheeky amusing frenetic house dining room parlor bedroom marriage manners mix-up friendship houseguest arrogance
A young married couple's weekend is interrupted by the arrival of a brash, loud-mouthed acquaintance of the wife, who knew her before her marriage. He immediately proceeds to turn their ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1949
92 Minutes
Director
William Powell Betsy Drake Mark Stevens Adolphe Menjou Randy Stuart Lloyd Corrigan Hope Emerson Walter Catlett Don Beddoe
actor actress studio head assistant publicist airy lighthearted los angeles hollywood, calif. new york city theater movie studio grauman's chinese theatre fame redemption reconciliation filmmaking comeback theater production fall
Conceited actor Emery Slade, on a mission to recruit a Broadway star for Fox, picks unknown Julie Clarke instead.
Mystery & Thriller
1941
67 Minutes
Director
George Sanders Wendy Barrie Allen Jenkins Nina Vale Gladys Cooper Edward Brophy Arthur Shields Damian O'Flynn Turhan Bey Eddie Dunn Lucile Gleason
detective thief socialite sidekick pretty woman the falcon crafty playful suspenseful new york city apartment building office nightclub morgue bar robbery murder secret identity fraud investigation
The first in the "Falcon" series finds the amateur detective and ladies' man on the trail of jewel thieves.
Drama
1948
94 Minutes
Director
Edward G. Robinson Burt Lancaster Mady Christians Louisa Horton Howard Duff Frank Conroy Lloyd Gough Arlene Francis Harry Morgan Elisabeth Fraser Walter Soderling
contractor veteran son emotional uneasy america lie family dysfunction confession world war ii discovery fall 1940s
A World War II veteran (Burt Lancaster) exposes his father's (Edward G. Robinson) sale of defective aircraft parts.
Comedy
1947
95 Minutes
Director
Cary Grant Myrna Loy Shirley Temple Rudy Vallee Ray Collins Harry Davenport Johnny Spencer Don Beddoe Lillian Randolph Veda Ann Borg Dan Tobin
playboy judge teen girl psychiatrist district attorney boyfriend cheeky hilarious california high school courtroom nightclub sport tournament love triangle sibling rivalry misunderstanding innocence hero worship forbidden love growing up
A judge (Myrna Loy) orders a playboy (Cary Grant) to date her infatuated teenage sister (Shirley Temple) to cure the girl's crush on him.