List of the best John Garfield movies: Body and Soul(1947), The Breaking Point(1950), Pride of the Marines(1945), Force of Evil(1948), He Ran All the Way(1951), Nobody Lives Forever(1946), Dust Be My Destiny(1939), They Made Me a Criminal(1939), Castle on the Hudson(1940), The Fallen Sparrow(1943), Flowing Gold(1940), Dangerously They Live(1942) ... ...
7.6/10
Drama
USA
1947
104 Minutes
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.
7.5/10
Drama
USA
1950
97 Minutes
An otherwise moral captain of a charter boat becomes financially strapped and is drawn into illegal activities in order to keep up payments on his boat.
7.3/10
Biography
USA
1945
119 Minutes
Albert A. "Al" Schmid
John Garfield Eleanor Parker Dane Clark John Ridgely Rosemary DeCamp Ann Doran Warren Douglas Don McGuire Tom D'Andrea Rory Mallinson Mark Stevens
soldier fiancé nurse emotional gripping south pacific hospital pearl harbor battlefield world war ii blindness injury love sacrifice 1940s
Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wife.
7.3/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1948
78 Minutes
Joe Morse
John Garfield Beatrice Pearson Thomas Gomez Howland Chamberlin Roy Roberts Marie Windsor Paul McVey Tim Ryan Sid Tomack Georgia Backus Jan Dennis
lawyer brother gangster investigator secretary rival dark tense new york city bank numbers racket family corruption greed investigation temptation rivalry fall 1940s
An unethical lawyer, with an older brother he wants to help, becomes a partner with a client in the numbers racket.
7.1/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1951
77 Minutes
Producer
John Garfield Shelley Winters Wallace Ford Selena Royle Gladys George Norman Lloyd Bobby Hyatt Clancy Cooper Keith Hetherington Renny McEvoy Dale Van Sickel
thug young woman mother father police officer accomplice intense gripping city poolside house robbery hostages murder love escape pursuit love 1950s
Nick and his partner Al stage a payroll holdup. Al is shot and Nick kills a policeman. Nick hides out at a public pool, where he meets Peg Dobbs. They go back to her apartment and he forces her family to hide him from the police manhunt.
7.0/10
Romance
USA
1946
100 Minutes
Nick Blake
John Garfield Geraldine Fitzgerald Walter Brennan Faye Emerson George Coulouris George Tobias
con artist ex-girlfriend criminal widow partner soldier emotional cool new york city california hideout pier con game romance one last job crime forbidden love escape 1940s
Ex-GI Nick Blake gets involved in a scheme to fleece a rich, young widow, but finds himself falling for her, much to the displeasure of his racketeer cohorts.
6.9/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1939
88 Minutes
John Garfield Priscilla Lane Alan Hale Frank McHugh Billy Halop Bobby Jordan Charley Grapewin Henry Armetta Stanley Ridges John Litel Moroni Olsen
ex-convict daughter foreman newspaper owner photographer robber emotional gripping suspenseful prison farm stage diner bank injustice on the run romance alcoholism heroism death rise
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading ... See full summary »
6.8/10
Drama
USA
1939
92 Minutes
John Garfield The Dead End Kids Claude Rains Gloria Dickson May Robson Billy Halop Barbara Pepper Ward Bond Ann Sheridan
boxer manager grandmother girl detective teen boy dark gripping positive new york city apartment train arizona ranch investigation mistaken identity impersonation delinquency reform boxing
A boxer flees believing he has comitted a murder while he was drunk.
6.8/10
Drama
USA
1940
77 Minutes
Tommy Gordon
John Garfield Ann Sheridan Pat O'Brien Burgess Meredith Henry O'Neill Jerome Cowan Guinn "Big Boy" Williams John Litel Margot Stevenson Willard Robertson Edward Pawley
gangster prisoner warden girlfriend rival attorney brooding fiery confident passionate sing sing correctional facility new york state cell yard courtroom prison life organized crime egoism rehabilitation jailbreak
An arrogant mobster, sentenced to a long prison term in Sing Sing, becomes a changed man when given a chance by the fair and progressive warden.
6.6/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1943
94 Minutes
John `'Kit'` McKittrick
John Garfield Maureen O'Hara Walter Slezak Patricia Morison Martha O'Driscoll Bruce Edwards John Miljan John Banner Hugh Beaumont
prisoner beautiful woman police officer nazi doctor engaging tense thrilling new york city spain arizona espionage murder nazism escape discovery mystery 1940s
In 1940, a former prisoner is determined to find the killer of the New York Police Lt. who helped him escape from a Nazi torture camp in Spain.
6.6/10
Adventure
USA
1940
82 Minutes
John Alexander, Johnny Blake
John Garfield Frances Farmer Pat O'Brien Raymond Walburn Cliff Edwards Tom Kennedy
fugitive foreman friend girlfriend enemy police officer uneasy thrilling united states small town oil field household bar oil murder love triangle loyalty running away jealousy escape
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.
6.5/10
Drama
USA
1942
71 Minutes
Dr. Michael "Mike" Lewis
John Garfield Nancy Coleman Raymond Massey Moroni Olsen Lee Patrick
agent doctor leader spy henchman chilling disturbing intense patriotic grand central station ambulance hospital house delicatessen espionage kidnapping impersonation torture deception romance
Dr. Michael Lewis treats Jane, a mysterious woman claiming to be a British secret agent on the run from German spies. Ultimately convinced, Michael helps Jane escape and with her attempts ... See full summary »
Fantasy
1944
112 Minutes
Tom Prior
John Garfield Paul Henreid Eleanor Parker Sydney Greenstreet Faye Emerson Sara Allgood Isobel Elsom George Tobias Edmund Gwenn
pianist wife steward reporter reverend sailor bleak dreamy emotional london apartment limbo ship world war ii air raids death suicide judgment supernatural discovery
A ship sails on with a cynical newsman (John Garfield), a suicidal couple (Paul Henreid, Eleanor Parker) and others who are dead but don't know it.
7.5/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1946
113 Minutes
Frank Chambers
Lana Turner John Garfield Cecil Kellaway Hume Cronyn Audrey Totter Leon Ames Alan Reed
drifter femme fatale district attorney lawyer restaurant owner tense suspenseful passionate diner courtroom california beach car justice ambition murder affair temptation forbidden love fall
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
7.5/10
Drama
USA
1941
90 Minutes
George Leach
Edward G. Robinson John Garfield Ida Lupino Alexander Knox Gene Lockhart Barry Fitzgerald Stanley Ridges David Bruce
fugitive captain writer woman doctor dark gritty gripping ferry ship cabin deck boat insanity seafaring sadism writers blindness escape escape
After being fished out of the sea by a sealer, three fugitives find themselves prisoners of the ship's brutal skipper who refuses to put them ashore and they hatch an escape plan during a crew mutiny.
7.3/10
Drama
USA
1946
125 Minutes
Joan Crawford John Garfield Oscar Levant J. Carrol Naish Craig Stevens Tom D'Andrea Peggy Knudsen Paul Cavanagh
benefactor violinist husband pianist emotional melodramatic raw stage new york city obsessive love music alcoholism wealth poverty forbidden love rise temptation 1940s
A classical musician from the slums is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
6.9/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1941
93 Minutes
Ida Lupino John Garfield Thomas Mitchell Eddie Albert George Tobias Leo Gorcey John Qualen Aline MacMahon
tailor cook daughter gangster auctioneer dark melodramatic brooklyn, n.y. pier ocean courtroom friendship extortion organized crime father/daughter relationship marriage conspiracy rivalry temptation escape
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
6.6/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1949
106 Minutes
Tony Fenner
Jennifer Jones John Garfield Pedro Armendáriz Gilbert Roland Ramon Novarro
revolutionary sister student spy police officer suspenseful engaging cuba house university bank cemetery political repression protest resistance terrorism assassination tunneling revenge adventure
In 1930's Cuba, a bank clerk and an American mercenary assist a revolutionary group in a plan to kill the President but the Cuban Secret Police chief and the dictator's military complicate the plan's execution.
6.9/10
Romance
USA
1938
90 Minutes
Mickey Borden
Claude Rains Rosemary Lane John Garfield Lola Lane Priscilla Lane Gale Page Jeffrey Lynn Frank McHugh May Robson Dick Foran
musician father daughter composer suitor aunt melodramatic small town household hospital music family love triangle marriage rivalry love 1930s
Adam Lemp, the Dean of the Briarwood Music Foundation, has passed on his love of music to his four early adult daughters - Thea, Emma, Kay and Ann - who live with him and his sister, the ... See full summary »
6.3/10
Drama
USA
1942
105 Minutes
Daniel Alvarez
Spencer Tracy Hedy Lamarr John Garfield Frank Morgan Akim Tamiroff Sheldon Leonard Donald Meek John Qualen Allen Jenkins
homeless person poor person migrant worker drunk beautiful woman uplifting witty southern california monterey, calif. jail beach romance inheritance friendship money love rise 1940s
Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.
7.0/10
War
USA
1943
124 Minutes
Aerial Gunner
John Ridgely Gig Young Arthur Kennedy John Garfield Charles Drake Harry Carey George Tobias Faye Emerson
pilot soldier gunner sergeant father mechanic thrilling intense airplane california hawaii philippines world war ii aviation battle death quest 1940s
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
7.0/10
Biography
USA
1939
132 Minutes
Gen. Porfirio Diaz
Paul Muni Bette Davis Brian Aherne Claude Rains John Garfield Gale Sondergaard Donald Crisp Gilbert Roland Louis Calhern Grant Mitchell
emperor empress president rebel soldier napoleon iii tense emotional mexico france government offices mansion democracy government power struggle breakdown benito juérez maximilian i quest fall
Louis Napoleon III takes advantage of the American Civil War to circumvent the Monroe Doctrine and expand his power by helping Emperor Maximillian Hapsburg to add Mexico to his empire.
6.5/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1939
110 Minutes
Michael `'Mickey'` Borden
Priscilla Lane Rosemary Lane Lola Lane Gale Page Claude Rains Jeffrey Lynn John Garfield Frank McHugh May Robson Dick Foran Eddie Albert
father daughter sister widow fiancé doctor emotional somber household hospital wedding engagement pregnancy adoption matchmaking music death discovery love rescue
Three of the four musically inclined daughters of Adam Lemp, the Dean of the Briarwood Music Foundation, are settling into their lives as wives, but not all is well. Thea Lemp has long ... See full summary »
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