List of the best John Hodiak movies: Somewhere in the Night(1946), Love From a Stranger(1947), Ambush at Tomahawk Gap(1953), Mission Over Korea(1953), Battleground(1949), The Harvey Girls(1946), Night Into Morning(1951), The Sellout(1951), Desert Fury(1947), Sunday Dinner for a Soldier(1944), Ambush(1949), On the Threshold of Space(1956) ... ...
Crime, Drama
USA
1946
108 Minutes
veteran singer mobster amnesiac love interest police detective dark dense cool los angeles apartment lounge hospital amnesia mistaken identity theft murder investigation crime mystery
George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, while trying to track down his old identity, he stumbles onto a 3-year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1947
81 Minutes
John Hodiak Sylvia Sidney Ann Richards John Howard Isobel Elsom Frederick Worlock Ernest Cossart Philip Tonge Anita Sharp-Bolster Billy Bevan
A newly married woman begins to suspect that her husband is a killer. Even worse, she soon comes to believe that she will be his next victim.
Western
USA
1953
73 Minutes
John Hodiak John Derek David Brian María Elena Marqués Ray Teal John Qualen
apache bandit con man gang leader gory sultry thrilling brooding cool raw wild west desert raids bandits lie indian life western films adventure discovery escape
An innocent cowboy convicted with three robbers, fresh out of Yuma Territorial Prison, travels with them to get a share of their hidden loot.
War
1953
85 Minutes
pilot brother wife girlfriend best friend captain tense cheeky emotional japan airplane korea air field tank base camp korean war flying discipline duty recklessness
War
USA
1949
118 Minutes
Van Johnson John Hodiak Ricardo Montalban George Murphy Marshall Thompson Jerome Courtland Don Taylor Bruce Cowling James Whitmore Douglas Fowley Leon Ames
mexican-american soldier general nazi chaplain inspiring patriotic thrilling europe belgium battlefield world war ii military bravery battle of the bulge underdog adventure sacrifice 1940s
True tale about a squad of the 101st Airborne Division coping with being trapped by the Germans in the besieged city of Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in December of 1944.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1946
101 Minutes
Judy Garland John Hodiak Ray Bolger Preston Foster Virginia O'Brien Angela Lansbury Marjorie Main Chill Wills Kenny Baker Selena Royle Cyd Charisse
waitress restaurant manager saloon girl saloon owner cowboy uplifting charming playful new mexico saloon restaurant wild west love letters deception romance restaurant business train travel rivalry love 1880s
On a train trip West to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley (Judy Garland) meets a cheery crew of young women travelling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop.
Drama
USA
1951
86 Minutes
professor friend widow student girlfriend wife moving solemn college hotel berkeley, calif. grief alcoholism suicide attempt loss salvation fall wretched excess 1950s
Berkeley university professor adjusts (using alcohol) to tragic fire deaths of wife & son.
Crime, Drama
USA
1951
83 Minutes
Walter Pidgeon John Hodiak Audrey Totter Paula Raymond Thomas Gomez Cameron Mitchell Karl Malden Everett Sloane Jonathan Cott Frank Cady Hugh Sanders
editor sheriff lawyer son-in-law police officer tense emotional united states city small town corruption injustice showdown police brutality newspapers city vs. country revenge rivalry 1950s
During the 1950s, a small-town newspaper editor and a state assistant attorney-general fight corrupt local officials from one rotten county.
Western
USA
1947
95 Minutes
Lizabeth Scott John Hodiak Burt Lancaster Wendell Corey Mary Astor Kristine Miller William Harrigan James Flavin Jane Novak Ana Camargo
The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1944
86 Minutes
Anne Baxter John Hodiak Charles Winninger Anne Revere Connie Marshall Chill Wills Robert Bailey Bobby Driscoll Jane Darwell Billy Cummings
sister brother grandfather soldier suitor orphan airy patriotic charming florida small town house market life during wartime war effort love family patriotism world war ii love
A poor family in Florida saves all the money they can in order to plan something special for the soldier they've invited to Sunday dinner. They don't realize that their request to invite ... See full summary »
Western
1949
89 Minutes
Capt. Ben Lorrison
Robert Taylor John Hodiak Arlene Dahl Don Taylor Jean Hagen Bruce Cowling Leon Ames John McIntire Pat Moriarity Charles Stevens Chief Thundercloud
prospector beautiful woman soldier cavalry captain apache thrilling tense arizona territory apache lands desert mountain kidnapping journey ambush love triangle native americans quest rescue rivalry love
A scout (Robert Taylor) woos an Army captain's (John Hodiak) sweetheart (Arlene Dahl) while looking for her sister, kidnapped by Apaches.
Adventure
USA
1956
98 Minutes
Maj. Ward Thomas
Guy Madison Virginia Leith John Hodiak Dean Jagger Warren Stevens Martin Milner
captain wife lieutenant pilot doctor major gripping tense florida air force base balloon mountain air force space travel experiments car crash daunting task quest sacrifice 1950s
Scientist is sent to investigate a faulty ejector seat, then sent into space to test it, showing an assortment of human weaknesses and strengths. Basically this is about the human predicament and drama, not space.
Adventure
USA
1951
78 Minutes
Brecan
Clark Gable Ricardo Montalban John Hodiak Adolphe Menjou María Elena Marqués J. Carrol Naish Jack Holt Alan Napier George Chandler Richard Anderson
trapper native american warrior native american woman beautiful woman friend spirited emotional wild west wilderness interracial romance culture clash exploitation marriage confrontation survival forbidden love rivalry transformation 1830s
Trapper Flint Mitchell and other mountain men from the Rendezvous join forces to enter virgin trapping territory but must contend with a resentful Blackfoot chief.
Drama
1950
104 Minutes
Spike Romway
Greer Garson Walter Pidgeon John Hodiak Leo Genn Cathy O'Donnell Reginald Owen Anthony Bushell Richard Gale Peter Finch
mother army officer architect husband daughter doctor melodramatic inspiring tender england postwar britain mother/child relationship family marriage terminal illness love sacrifice discovery 1940s
A dying woman (Greer Garson) hides her fate from her husband (Walter Pidgeon) and family in postwar London.
Crime, Drama
1951
101 Minutes
District Attorney Louis Barra
Spencer Tracy Pat O'Brien Diana Lynn John Hodiak Edward Ciannelli James Arness Yvette Duguay Jay C. Flippen
suspect lawyer alcoholic daughter prosecutor shopkeeper intense suspenseful moving intricate new york city street office courtroom market crime criminal justice system capital punishment bribery alcoholism
A former district attorney takes on a murder case that he hopes will salvage his career, but it tests his ethics.
Drama
USA
1944
96 Minutes
John Kovac
Tallulah Bankhead William Bendix Walter Slezak Mary Anderson John Hodiak Henry Hull Heather Angel Hume Cronyn Canada Lee William Yetter Jr.
survivor nazi civilian military officer emotional tense atlantic ocean boat world war ii survival deception confinement rescue quest 1940s
Several survivors of a torpedoed merchant ship in World War II find themselves in the same lifeboat with one of the crew members of the U-boat that sank their ship.
War
USA
1950
98 Minutes
Kellar
Spencer Tracy James Stewart Sydney Greenstreet Valentina Cortesa John Hodiak Lionel Barrymore Gilbert Roland Roland Winters Richard Loo Lester Matthews Ian MacDonald
journalist adventurer editor government agent girlfriend old friend gritty tense california alcatraz island ship malay peninsula jungle plantation world war ii secret mission friendship patriotism island life smuggling
Newspaperman Royer convinces government officials of a plan to obtain rubber by smuggling it out from under the Japanese. Carnahan is let out of prison to help.
War
1948
112 Minutes
Col. Edward Rayton Martin
Clark Gable Walter Pidgeon Van Johnson Brian Donlevy Charles Bickford John Hodiak Edward Arnold Marshall Thompson Richard Quine Cameron Mitchell Clinton Sundberg
military officer reporter politician pilot patriotic somber engaging military base england world war ii horrors of war aviation dangerous job discovery transformation 1940s
A U.S. general (Clark Gable) and his superior (Walter Pidgeon) take heat for sending bombers to Germany to destroy aircraft plants.
Musical, Comedy
1943
102 Minutes
Roy Hartwood
Red Skelton Eleanor Powell Richard Ainley Patricia Dane Sam Levene Thurston Hall John Hodiak Butterfly McQueen Marjorie Gateson Andrew Tombes
broadway star cleaner actor fiancé socialite amusing charming emotional intricate store nightclub theater hotel marriage of convenience infidelity class distinctions impersonation sabotage unlikely romance underdog
An assistant tailor (Red Skelton) courts a New York dancer (Eleanor Powell) and exposes wartime spies.
Drama
1943
67 Minutes
Frank Morgan Richard Carlson Jean Rogers Porter Hall Robert Barrat Donald MacBride Walter Baldwin Andrew Tombes Olin Howland Chill Wills Irving Bacon
A Supreme Court justice on a duck-hunting foray becomes involved in serious trouble with the citizens in a small town.