List of the best James Cardwell movies: The Devil on Wheels(1947), Sweet and Lowdown(1944), Voice of the Whistler(1945), Robin Hood of Texas(1947), He Walked by Night(1948), The Fighting Sullivans(1944), A Walk in the Sun(1946), Tokyo Joe(1949), Canyon Passage(1946) ... ...
Drama
USA
1947
67 Minutes
James Cardwell Darryl Hickman Noreen Nash Terry Moore Damian O'Flynn Lenita Lane William Forrest Sue England Bob Arthur
A teenager involved in illegal car races runs a pedestrian over in a hit-and-run case where the victim turns out to be his mother.
Musical
USA
1944
76 Minutes
James Cardwell Linda Darnell Jack Oakie Lynn Bari Allyn Joslyn John Campbell
bandleader musician brother manager singer beautiful girl spirited cheeky chicago household train station military academy stage new york city show business big-band music maturing family jealousy mistaken identity
After their annual free concert at Chicago's Dearborn Settlement, Benny Goodman and his band are packing up to move on to their next engagement at a military camp, when a kid, Tony Birch, ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1945
60 Minutes
Fred
Richard Dix Lynn Merrick Rhys Williams James Cardwell Tom Kennedy Gigi Perreau Frank Reicher Martin Garralaga
The 4th film of the Columbia series based on the CBS radio program, "The Whistler", finds wealthy John Sinclair, with no health or friends, being advised by his doctor to take a long ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1947
71 Minutes
Duke Mantel
Gene Autry Lynne Roberts Sterling Holloway Adele Mara James Cardwell John Kellogg
gene autry sheriff accomplice gang leader partner boyfriend lighthearted confident texas boardinghouse shop town hideout ranch bank robbery deception betrayal false accusations hostage situation singing
A gang of bank robbers arrive at Gene's ranch. Gene winds up chasing them around the west.
Crime, Drama
USA
1948
79 Minutes
Sgt. Chuck Jones
Richard Basehart Scott Brady Roy Roberts Whit Bissell Jack Webb James Cardwell Robert Bice Reed Hadley John McGuire Lyle Latell
thief sergeant police chief forensic expert informant gripping suspenseful dark los angeles street police station sewer crime justice violence pursuit escape rivalry 1940s
This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.
Drama
USA
1944
111 Minutes
George Thomas Sullivan
Anne Baxter Thomas Mitchell Selena Royle Ward Bond Bobby Driscoll Addison Richards Edward Ryan Trudy Marshall John Campbell James Cardwell John Alvin
brother soldier sister mother father wife emotional tense patriotic iowa household guadalcanal ship world war ii siblings death patriotism great depression u.s. navy rise
The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and of World War II and their eventual deaths in action in the Pacific theater are ... See full summary »
War
USA
1946
117 Minutes
Dana Andrews Richard Conte Sterling Holloway John Ireland George Tyne Lloyd Bridges Herbert Rudley Norman Lloyd Steve Brodie Huntz Hall James Cardwell
soldier nazi sergeant gutsy tense italy beach countryside bridge dangerous assignment world war ii quest discovery 1940s
During WWII, a platoon of American soldiers trudge through the Italian countryside in search of a bridge they have been ordered to blow up, encountering danger and destruction along the way.
Drama
1949
88 Minutes
Humphrey Bogart Florence Marly Sessue Hayakawa Alexander Knox Jerome Courtland Gordon Jones Teru Shimada Hideo Mori Charles Meredith Rhys Williams Lora Lee Michel
pilot ex-wife husband daughter crime boss club owner suspenseful melodramatic patriotic tokyo nightclub government building law office airplane postwar japan expatriates blackmail war crime marriage fatherhood
A GI (Humphrey Bogart) in postwar Tokyo smuggles war criminals for a blackmailer (Sessue Hayakawa) who has kidnapped his daughter.
Western
USA
1946
92 Minutes
Dana Andrews Brian Donlevy Susan Hayward Patricia Roc Ward Bond Andy Devine Rose Hobart Halliwell Hobbes Lloyd Bridges Stanley Ridges Dorothy Peterson
shop owner fiancée banker gambler best friend love interest spirited wild powerful oregon saloon frontier general store cabin portland, ore. romantic dilemma love triangle old west frontier life crime
Businessman Logan Stuart is torn between his love of two very different women in 1850's Oregon and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.