List of the best Mark Robson movies: The Harder They Fall(1956), The Inn of the Sixth Happiness(1958), Bright Victory(1951), Peyton Place(1957), My Foolish Heart(1949), Bedlam(1946), The Seventh Victim(1943), From the Terrace(1960), Phffft!(1954), Isle of the Dead(1945), Roughshod(1949), I Want You(1951) ... ...
Drama
USA
1956
109 Minutes
Director
Humphrey Bogart Rod Steiger Jan Sterling Mike Lane Max Baer Edward Andrews
sportswriter boxer promoter immigrant con artist dark gritty boxing ring new york city boxing corruption deception fixed game rise fall sacrifice 1950s
An ex-sportswriter is hired by a shady fight promoter to promote his latest find, an unknown but easily exploitable rising star from Argentina.
Biography
USA
1958
158 Minutes
Director
Ingrid Bergman Curt Jurgens Robert Donat Ronald Squire Athene Seyler Richard Wattis Noel Hood Joan Young
innkeeper military officer love interest mandarin spirited emotional china small town mountain england inn daunting task romance culture clash war rescue escape love 1930s
A tenacious British woman becomes a missionary and runs an inn for travelling merchants in China during the Japanese invasion and the tumultuous years leading up to the Second World War.
Drama
USA
1951
97 Minutes
Director
Arthur Kennedy Peggy Dow Julie Adams James Edwards Will Geer Minor Watson Jim Backus Joan Banks Nana Bryant Marjorie Crossland Richard Egan
military officer sergeant soldier young man fiancée african-american profound emotional battlefield north africa hospital american south philadelphia law office world war ii injury racism tolerance romance going home
After he gets blinded by a German sniper's bullet in 1943, Sergeant Larry Nevins begins the long and painful road to recovery.
Drama
USA
1957
157 Minutes
Director
Lana Turner Hope Lange Arthur Kennedy Lloyd Nolan Lee Philips Terry Moore Russ Tamblyn Betty Field David Nelson Mildred Dunnock Diane Varsi
stranger widow drunk daughter friend doctor melodramatic passionate intense new england small town forest lake courtroom mother/daughter relationship small-town life sex rape friendship trials
A peaceful New England town hides secrets and scandals.
Drama
USA
1949
98 Minutes
Director
Dana Andrews Susan Hayward Kent Smith Lois Wheeler Jessie Royce Landis Robert Keith Gigi Perreau Karin Booth Todd Karns Philip Pine Martha Mears
old friend wife alcoholic daughter old flame mother bleak melodramatic brooding new york city party house connecticut first love divorce world war ii loveless marriage mother/daughter relationship friendship sacrifice
After being visited by an old friend, a woman recalls her true love, the man she met and lost years ago.
Horror
USA
1946
79 Minutes
Director
Boris Karloff Anna Lee Billy House Glen Vernon Jason Robards Sr. Joan Newton Richard Fraser Ian Wolfe Leland Hodgson Elizabeth Russell
manager patient government official patron protégé intense dark suspenseful mental institution london mental illness imprisonment corruption revolution rescue escape 1760s
Nell Bowen, the spirited protege of rich Lord Mortimer, becomes interested in the conditions of notorious St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum (Bedlam). Encouraged by the Quaker Hannay, she tries... See full summary »
Horror
USA
1943
71 Minutes
Director
Tom Conway Kim Hunter Jean Brooks Hugh Beaumont Erford Gage Isabel Jewell Marguerita Sylva Evelyn Brent Mary Newton Jamesson Shade Eve March
young woman sister psychiatrist husband cult member brooding eerie new york city greenwich village apartment investigation missing persons occult siblings murder satanism mystery quest fall escape
A woman in search of her missing sister uncovers a Satanic cult in New York's Greenwich Village, and finds that they may have something to do with her sibling's random disappearance.
Drama
USA
1960
144 Minutes
Director
Paul Newman Joanne Woodward Myrna Loy Ina Balin Leon Ames Elizabeth Allen Barbara Eden George Grizzard Patrick O'Neal Felix Aylmer Raymond Greenleaf
careerist socialite sweetheart financier magnate business partner melodramatic passionate fiery gripping new york city pennsylvania mansion bedroom park social climbing adultery scandal career vs. love ethics
An ambitious young executive chooses a loveless marriage and an unfulfilling personal life in exchange for a successful Wall Street career.
Comedy
USA
1954
91 Minutes
Director
Judy Holliday Jack Lemmon Kim Novak Jack Carson Luella Gear Donald Randolph Donald Curtis Arny Freeman Eddie Searles
husband wife best friend woman actor mother hilarious touching apartment club restaurant street city marriage friendship divorce dating dance love rivalry
While pursing new companions, a former married couple keep running into one another all over town.
Horror
USA
1945
72 Minutes
Director
Boris Karloff Ellen Drew Marc Cramer Katherine Emery Helene Thimig Alan Napier Jason Robards Sr. Skelton Knaggs Sherry Hall Ernest Dorian Erick Hanson
general reporter peasant nurse eerie emotional tense island hotel woods house plagues war love paranoia supernatural metamorphosis mystery 1910s
On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people, a superstitious old peasant woman, suspects ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1949
88 Minutes
Director
Robert Sterling Gloria Grahame Claude Jarman Jr. John Ireland Jeff Donnell Myrna Dell Martha Hyer George Cooper Jeff Corey Sara Haden James Bell
cattle rancher younger brother sheriff ex-convict friend dance hall girl engaging melodramatic spirited thrilling california trail ranch mountain american west ranchers siblings escaped criminals ambush murder
Three escaped convicts, planning revenge, search for rancher Clay Phillips who, on the way to Sonora with a few horses, stops to help four saloon girls stranded by the roadside.
Drama
USA
1951
102 Minutes
Director
Dana Andrews Dorothy McGuire Farley Granger Peggy Dow Robert Keith Mildred Dunnock Ray Collins Martin Milner Jim Backus Marjorie Crossland Walter Baldwin
veteran father son mother girlfriend gripping emotional united states household small town disillusionment korean war young love draft ethics sacrifice temptation cold war
In 1950, small-town Americans try to deal with military conscription.
Action
USA
1955
98 Minutes
Director
Richard Widmark Mai Zetterling Nigel Patrick George Cole Donald Wolfit Joseph Tomelty
soldier refugee sergeant pilot orphan thief brooding crafty germany berlin war vulnerability heist gold salvation love sacrifice adventure temptation 1940s
Sgt. Joe Lawrence is an American Army officer who falls in love with a refugee trying to raise enough money to move a group of German orphans to South America, where they can start life ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1953
90 Minutes
Director
Gary Cooper Roberta Haynes Barry Jones Moira MacDonald John Hudson Mamea Matatumua Ezra Williams George Miedeske Donald Ashford
An American drifter comes to a remote Polynesian island controlled by a Puritanical missionary and turns the social life of the island upside-down.
Drama
USA
1967
123 Minutes
Director
Barbara Parkins Patty Duke Sharon Tate Paul Burke Tony Scotti Martin Milner Charles Drake Alex Davion Lee Grant Naomi Stevens Robert H. Harris
secretary singer actress attorney husband sister melodramatic fiery unrestrained new england new york city law office stage studio broadway friendship addiction marriage drug addiction suicide
Film version of Jacqueline Susann's best-selling novel chronicling the rise and fall of three young women in show business.
Comedy
USA
1971
105 Minutes
Director
Rod Steiger Susannah York George Grizzard Don Murray William Hickey Steven Paul Pamelyn Ferdin Pamela Saunders C.C. Whitney
A family reacts to the return of the patriarch who abandoned them seven years prior.
Action
UK|USA
1954
91 Minutes
Director
ship captain businessman woman whaler suspenseful rousing antarctica ship airplane murder conspiracy love triangle expedition investigation mystery revenge love 1950s
The captain of an Antarctic whaling ship falls overboard in mysterious circumstances and his daughter, aided by a sympathetic American, decides to investigate the accident.
Romance
UK|USA
1957
78 Minutes
Director
Ava Gardner Stewart Granger David Niven Walter Chiari Finlay Currie Jean Cadell Jack Lambert Henry Oscar Viola Lyel Jaron Yaltan
beautiful woman husband friend chef mother father sultry cheeky emotional amusing london sea island boat love triangle shipwreck jealousy career vs. love friendship marriage
When shipwrecked on a deserted island, best friends Philip Ashlow and Henry Brittingham-Brett compete against each other for the affections of the only woman available, Philip Ashlow's neglected wife, Susan.
Drama
USA
1944
67 Minutes
Director
Bonita Granville Kent Smith Jean Brooks Glen Vernon Vanessa Brown Ben Bard
The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
Ireland|USA
1979
88 Minutes
Director
Robert Shaw Lee Marvin Linda Evans Maximilian Schell Joe Namath Horst Buchholz Michael Connors Claudio Cassinelli Kristina Nel David Hess Günter Meisner
russian russian general cia agent agent spy kgb agent thrilling engaging suspenseful gripping milan milan, italy train swiss alps plot disaster dangerous mission spying natural disasters terror
Soviet KGB General Marenkov defects to the Americans and together with his CIA handler Harry Wargrave they plan an operation meant to reveal the KGB agents in Europe.
Action
1966
127 Minutes
Director
Anthony Quinn Alain Delon George Segal Michèle Morgan Maurice Ronet Claudia Cardinale Gregoire Aslan Jean Servais Maurice Sarfati Jean-Claude Berq Jacques Marin
captain general guerrilla fighter countess gritty melodramatic vietnam algeria prison camp battlefield vietnam war algerian war imperialism romance battle sacrifice love 1950s
A French paratrooper (Anthony Quinn) and his men go from defeat in 1950s Vietnam to honor in Algeria.
Mystery & Thriller
1969
108 Minutes
Director
Carol White Paul Burke Mala Powers Scott Hylands James Sikking Walter Brooke Matilda Calnan Gene Lyons Dennis Patrick Barry Cahill
expatriate ex-lover husband doctor fbi agent thrilling tense dark san francisco hotel abortion stalking insanity new love pregnancy rivalry escape 1960s
A crazed San Francisco photographer kidnaps his British ex-girlfriend's (Carol White) baby because of her past abortion.
Mystery & Thriller
1943
69 Minutes
Director
Richard Dix Russell Wade Edith Barrett Ben Bard Edmund Glover Skelton Knaggs Tom Burton Steve Winston Robert Bice Lawrence Tierney Dewey Robinson
sea captain seaman girlfriend deck hand captain suspenseful chilling somber ship murder dark secrets sailors sea wretched excess underdog rescue sacrifice 1940s
No one believes a third mate (Russell Wade) complaining of sadistic treatment by a psychotic captain (Richard Dix).
Crime, Drama
1950
99 Minutes
Director
Charles Vidor Dana Andrews Farley Granger Joan Evans Robert Keith Paul Stewart Mala Powers Adele Jergens Harold Vermilyea John Ridgely
son mother priest boss mortician bleak eerie slum church redemption poverty murder mother/son relationship revenge fall discovery 1950s
A parish priest (Dana Andrews) whose predecessor was slain extracts a confession from an angry young man (Farley Granger).
War
1954
103 Minutes
Director
William Holden Grace Kelly Fredric March Mickey Rooney Robert Strauss Charles McGraw Keiko Awaji Earl Holliman Richard Shannon Willis Bouchey Cheryl Callaway
pilot wife military officer dark tense aircraft carrier military base tokyo north korea sea of japan horrors of war korean war aviation sacrifice transformation 1950s
Recalled to duty, a lawyer (William Holden) leaves his wife (Grace Kelly) and goes to Korea to bomb bridges for an admiral (Fredric March).