List of the best Louis Jean Heydt movies: Sleepers West(1941), Roadblock(1951), The Big Sleep(1946), Stranger at My Door(1956), The Great Moment(1944), The Great McGinty(1940), Spoilers of the North(1947), Raiders of Old California(1957), Test Pilot(1938), The Badge of Marshal Brennan(1957), They Made Her a Spy(1939), Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo(1944) ... ...
Crime, Drama
USA
1941
74 Minutes
Everett Jason
Lloyd Nolan Lynn Bari Mary Beth Hughes Louis Jean Heydt Edward Brophy Don Costello Ben Carter Don Douglas
Mike Shayne tries to distinguish criminals from red herrings as he escorts a surprise witness via rail to a high profile trial in San Francisco.
Crime, Drama
USA
1951
73 Minutes
Harry Miller
Charles McGraw Joan Dixon Lowell Gilmore Louis Jean Heydt Milburn Stone
insurance investigator partner beautiful woman racketeer gangster bank robber melodramatic suspenseful solemn train house office crime dangerous job bank heist opposites attract love discovery love temptation
Honest LA insurance detective Joe Peters becomes corrupt after falling in love with sensual gold-digger model Diane.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
1946
114 Minutes
Joe Brody
Humphrey Bogart Lauren Bacall Martha Vickers John Ridgely Louis Jean Heydt Elisha Cook Jr. Regis Toomey Sonia Darrin Bob Steele Tommy Rafferty Dorothy Malone
philip marlowe father daughter bookseller casino owner dense thrilling intricate gripping los angeles mansion casino bookstore murder mystery love blackmail vice mystery love
Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.
Western
USA
1956
85 Minutes
Sheriff John Tatum
Macdonald Carey Patricia Medina Skip Homeier Stephen Wootton Louis Jean Heydt Howard Wright Slim Pickens Malcolm Atterbury
Chassed by a posse, bank robber Clay Anderson, traveling under an assumed name, takes refuge at a farm owned by a preacher and his pretty young wife.
Biography
USA
1944
83 Minutes
Dr. Horace Wells
Joel McCrea Betty Field Harry Carey William Demarest Louis Jean Heydt Julius Tannen Edwin Maxwell Porter Hall Franklin Pangborn Grady Sutton Harry Hayden
The biography of Dr. W. T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.
Comedy
USA
1940
82 Minutes
Tommy Thompson
Brian Donlevy Muriel Angelus Akim Tamiroff Allyn Joslyn William Demarest Louis Jean Heydt Arthur Hoyt Harry Rosenthal Libby Taylor Steffi Duna Esther Howard
bartender political boss secretary man hilarious cheeky outlandish bar city prison police corruption marriage impersonation ambition family transformation rise fall love 1930s
Dan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics, but he endangers it all in one crazy moment of honesty.
Drama
USA
1947
66 Minutes
Inspector Carl Winters
Paul Kelly Adrian Booth Evelyn Ankers James Millican Roy Barcroft Louis Jean Heydt Ted Hecht Harlan Briggs Francis Macdonald Maurice Cass Neyle Morrow
When the Alaska fishing season ends, a crooked cannery owner, who owes a huge delivery of salmon to a Seattle company, manipulates local Natives, who have unlimited fishing rights, into illegally selling their catch to him.
Western
USA
1957
72 Minutes
Judge Ward Young
Jim Davis Arleen Whelan Faron Young Marty Robbins Lee Van Cleef Louis Jean Heydt Harry Lauter Douglas Fowley Larry Dobkin Bill Coontz Don Diamond
father judge settler wife sergeant captain brash thrilling spirited southern california house courtroom small town wild west land grab frontier life military justice law and order old west
At the end of the Mexican-American War, a crooked U.S. Cavalry Captain and his men force a captive Mexican officer to sign the deeds to his vast lands and large hacienda over to the Captain.
Adventure
USA
1938
118 Minutes
Benson
Clark Gable Myrna Loy Spencer Tracy Lionel Barrymore Samuel S. Hinds Marjorie Main Gloria Holden Louis Jean Heydt
pilot mechanic wife boss gripping melodramatic kansas farm airplane aviation friendship alcoholism bravery adventure sacrifice 1930s
Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.
Western
USA
1957
76 Minutes
Colonel Donaphin
Jim Davis Arleen Whelan Lee Van Cleef Carl Smith Harry Lauter Marty Robbins Douglas Fowley Louis Jean Heydt
gunslinger marshal cattle baron son pretty woman brooding engaging wild west small town restaurant fake identity showdown law enforcement corruption redemption rivalry transformation 19th century
A pseudo-marshal, a local doctor and the town sheriff must join forces to battle a greedy cattle-baron whose herd, locally sold, is contaminated with a contagious disease.
Action
USA
1939
69 Minutes
Gillian
Sally Eilers Allan Lane Fritz Leiber Larry J. Blake Charles Halton Theodore von Eltz Pierre Watkin Addison Richards Louis Jean Heydt Spencer Charters Alec Craig
woman reporter brother colonel politician gang leader engaging suspenseful washington, d.c. café washington monument car death espionage teamwork investigation sabotage deception quest revenge
When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits.
War
1944
138 Minutes
Lieut. Miller
Spencer Tracy Van Johnson Robert Walker Phyllis Thaxter Scott McKay Robert Mitchum Don DeFore Stephen McNally Louis Jean Heydt Leon Ames Paul Langton
colonel captain lieutenant pilot wife patriotic rousing tense japan china ship naval base air raids survival world war ii stranded heroism bombing quest rivalry
Lt. Col. James Doolittle (Spencer Tracy) leads B-25s off the USS Hornet's deck on a 1942 mission to bomb Japan.
Comedy
USA
1945
70 Minutes
Douglas Walker
Wally Brown Bela Lugosi Alan Carney Anne Jeffreys Sheldon Leonard Frank Jenks Russell Hopton Joseph Vitale Ian Wolfe Louis Jean Heydt Darby Jones
Two bumbling press agents must search for a zombie to fulfill a commitment to their ex-gangster boss's new nightclub or face the consequences.
Crime, Drama
1959
72 Minutes
Rod Balcom
Cameron Mitchell Elaine Edwards Robert Strauss James Brown Ted de Corsia Grant Richards Richard Karlan Frank Gerstle Sidney Clute Louis Jean Heydt Steve Roberts
Western
1950
83 Minutes
Charles Ford
Wendell Corey Macdonald Carey Ward Bond Ellen Drew Herman Brix Bill Williams Anne Revere Edgar Buchanan Lois Chartrand Louis Jean Heydt Barry Kelley
outcast outlaw brother major mother thief gritty tense missouri farm town bank train household jesse james american civil war robbery brotherhood betrayal frank james
An Army major (Ward Bond) hunts Frank and Jesse James (Wendell Corey, Macdonald Carey), partners with the Younger brothers after the Civil War.
Adventure
USA
1941
133 Minutes
Errol Flynn Fred MacMurray Ralph Bellamy Alexis Smith Regis Toomey Allen Jenkins Craig Stevens Herb Anderson Moroni Olsen Addison Richards Louis Jean Heydt
pilot doctor best friend surgeon girlfriend intense fiery engaging airplane san diego hospital laboratory aviation medical experiments navy surgery research death discovery quest
A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a steep dive.
Western
USA
1950
109 Minutes
Barbara Stanwyck Walter Huston Wendell Corey Judith Anderson Gilbert Roland Thomas Gomez Beulah Bondi Albert Van Dekker John Bromfield Wallace Ford Blanche Yurka
childhood friend father daughter bad boy gambler rancher dark tense sultry melodramatic ranch new mexico family home wild west town father/daughter relationship family dysfunction jealousy love triangle power struggle
A firebrand heiress clashes with her tyrannical father, a cattle rancher who fancies himself a Napoleon, but their relationship turns ugly only when he finds himself a new woman.
Musical
USA
1939
100 Minutes
Nelson Eddy Virginia Bruce Victor McLaglen Lionel Barrymore Edward Arnold Guy Kibbee Charles Butterworth H.B. Warner Raymond Walburn Dick Rich Trevor Bardette
tycoon rancher son love interest henchman spirited uplifting small town ranch newsroom office house railroad ethics impersonation deception ranchers land dispute quest adventure
Railroad owner Jim Knox uses everything to get the land he needs for his new railroad cheaply. Everybody hopes, that Steve Logan ends his regime, but he allies with Jim Knox. Nobody knows, ... See full summary »
Adventure
USA
1947
117 Minutes
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Maureen O'Hara Anthony Quinn Walter Slezak George Tobias Jane Greer Mike Mazurki Sheldon Leonard Alan Napier John Miljan Glenn Strange
sinbad concubine lord assassin friend sailor spectacular outlandish emotional ship island palace auction house middle east basra, iraq treasure harems seafaring mythology royalty
In medieval Persia, during the rule of Caliph Harun-Al-Rashid, Sinbad the Sailor boasts about his latest adventures to his friends.
Drama
USA
1940
79 Minutes
Geraldine Fitzgerald Jeffrey Lynn Gladys George Gale Page Spring Byington Johnnie Davis Henry O'Neill John Litel Gloria Holden Johnny Downs Eve Arden
A maternity ward, staffed by sympathetic nurses, serves mothers-to-be from all walks of life. These include a happy mother of a large family; a secretly-married teenager who thinks their ... See full summary »
Drama, History
USA
1951
87 Minutes
James Craig Barbara Payton Guy Madison Barton MacLane Craig Stevens Tom Fadden Robert Osterloh Taylor Holmes Robert Easton Lewis Martin Peter Brocco
southern belle military officer soldier husband best friend major melodramatic thrilling suspenseful georgia plantation mountain railway american civil war friendship betrayal doomed romance espionage military occupation rivalry
Two old friends find themselves on opposite sides during the Civil War in a desperate battle atop an impregnable mountain.
Biography
USA
1943
85 Minutes
Pat O'Brien Ruth Warrick Robert Ryan Leon Ames Russell Wade Bruce Edwards Richard Martin Robert Bice Virginia Brissac Lew Harvey Bud Geary
football coach soldier war hero son wife priest patriotic rousing worcester, mass. college europe battlefield duty world war i football family sports frank cavanaugh quest transformation
Coach Frank Cavanaugh returns to college football after World War I, then gradually goes blind.
Mystery & Thriller
1939
75 Minutes
Sidney Toler Cesar Romero Pauline Moore Victor Sen Yung Douglas Fowley June Gale Douglas Dumbrille Sally Blane Billie Seward Wally Vernon Charles Halton
An illusionist (Cesar Romero) helps the Chinese detective (Sidney Toler) find a killer blackmailer at a San Francisco fair.
Musical
USA
1954
176 Minutes
Judy Garland James Mason Jack Carson Charles Bickford Tommy Noonan Lucy Marlow Amanda Blake Irving Bacon Hazel Shermet James Brown Lotus Robb
actor actress emotional engaging touching hollywood, calif. movie set aging actors love ambition alcoholism love sacrifice transformation 1950s
A film star helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.
Biography
USA
1957
110 Minutes
John Wayne Maureen O'Hara Dan Dailey Ward Bond Ken Curtis Edmund Lowe Kenneth Tobey James Todd Barry Kelley Sig Ruman Henry O'Neill
pilot mechanic wife rival director powerful patriotic confident florida military base hospital hollywood, calif. injury navy aviation filmmaking world war ii family transformation sacrifice
A biography of Navy flier-turned-screenwriter Frank W. "Spig" Wead.
Biography
1940
103 Minutes
Edward G. Robinson Ruth Gordon Otto Kruger Donald Crisp Maria Ouspenskaya Montagu Love Sig Ruman Donald Meek Henry O'Neill Albert Basserman Edward Norris
doctor scientist colleague wife fascinating inspiring powerful egypt germany laboratory medicine syphilis tuberculosis scientific experiments diptheria discovery rise rescue sacrifice 1880s
The story of the renowned bacteriologist whose years of research yielded such medical triumphs as a cure for syphilis.
War
1943
88 Minutes
Randolph Scott Noah Beery Jr. Alan Curtis Grace McDonald J. Carrol Naish David Bruce Peter Coe Robert Mitchum Richard Lane Rod Cameron Sam Levene
colonel soldier lieutenant enemy brash patriotic thrilling military base hawaii island world war ii teamwork strike training japan quest rise 1940s
A Marine colonel (Randolph Scott) and his hand-picked men raid Japanese-held Makin Island during World War II.
Other, Comedy, Drama
1949
94 Minutes
Loretta Young Celeste Holm Hugh Marlowe Elsa Lanchester Thomas Gomez Dorothy Patrick Basil Ruysdael Dooley Wilson Regis Toomey Mike Mazurki Henri Letondal
nun bookie songwriter artist soldier heartwarming amusing positive new england new york city world war ii hospital postwar america religion culture clash quest transformation 1940s
Two French nuns (Loretta Young, Celeste Holm) in New England raise funds for a children's hospital in a town called Bethlehem.
War
USA
1945
135 Minutes
Robert Montgomery John Wayne Donna Reed Jack Holt Ward Bond Marshall Thompson Paul Langton Leon Ames Arthur Walsh Donald Curtis
lieutenant naval officer sailor general gripping spirited rousing boat philippines naval base bataan corregidor world war ii pt boat general douglas macarthur revenge rescue underdog 1940s
A Navy commander fights to prove the battle-worthiness of the PT boat at the start of World War II.