List of the best Martha Scott movies: Strange Bargain(1949), Cheers for Miss Bishop(1941), One Foot in Heaven(1941), Our Town(1940), Hi Diddle Diddle(1943), In Old Oklahoma(1943), When I Grow Up(1951), The Desperate Hours(1955), Adam: His Song Continues(1986), Ben-Hur(1959), Sayonara(1957), The Turning Point(1977) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1949
68 Minutes
Georgia Wilson
Martha Scott Jeffrey Lynn Harry Morgan Katherine Emery Richard Gaines Henry O'Neill Walter Sande Michael Chapin Arlene Gray Raymond Roe Robert Bray
In order to cash-in a life insurance policy, a failing business owner asks one of his employees, who has financial woes of his own, to aid him in disguising his suicide into a robbery-murder.
Drama
USA
1941
95 Minutes
Martha Scott William Gargan Edmund Gwenn Sterling Holloway Sidney Blackmer Mary Anderson Dorothy Peterson
teacher suitor friend student emotional melodramatic small town college nebraska teaching romance friendship aspirations transformation love discovery sacrifice 1930s
Dedicated Midwestern teacher Ella Bishop is distressed when her fiancé runs off with her vixenish cousin Amy. After Amy dies in childbirth, Ella is left to care for Amy's daughter Hope.
Drama
USA
1941
108 Minutes
Fredric March Martha Scott Beulah Bondi Gene Lockhart Grant Mitchell Moroni Olsen Harry Davenport Elisabeth Fraser Frank Thomas Jr. Laura Hope Crews Jerome Cowan
preacher wife son daughter choir director chauffeur tender positive inspiring church house parsonage denver ontario, canada iowa family faith christianity sacrifice transformation
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
Drama
USA
1940
90 Minutes
Emily Webb
William Holden Martha Scott Frank Craven Fay Bainter Beulah Bondi Thomas Mitchell Guy Kibbee Stuart Erwin
milkman editor stage manager professor husband wife emotional sad amusing grover's corners new hampshire garden wedding cemetery small-town life america love transformation growing up love
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century.
Comedy
USA
1943
72 Minutes
Janie Prescott Phyffe
Adolphe Menjou Martha Scott Dennis O'Keefe Pola Negri Billie Burke June Havoc Walter Kingsford Marek Windheim Eddie Marr Paul Porcasi
When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer... See full summary »
Western
USA
1943
102 Minutes
John Wayne Martha Scott Albert Van Dekker George "Gabby" Hayes Marjorie Rambeau Dale Evans Grant Withers Sidney Blackmer
In 1906, on Oklahoma's Indian lands, a cowboy fights for oil lease rights against a greedy oilman while a pretty schoolteacher steals both men's hearts.
Drama
USA
1951
80 Minutes
Mother Reed
teen boy grandfather father mother troubled youth emotional moving positive house attic coming of age diary family history maturing childhood teen angst discovery growing up transformation 1890s
"When I Grow Up" is an uncharacteristically modest film from producer Sam Spiegel (during his "S. P. Eagle" years). Bobby Driscoll plays a young boy who feels neglected and misunderstood at... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1955
112 Minutes
Eleanor "Ellie" Hilliard
Humphrey Bogart Fredric March Martha Scott Arthur Kennedy Dewey Martin Gig Young Mary Murphy Richard Eyer Robert Middleton Alan Reed Bert Freed
criminal prisoner father mother son daughter tense thrilling emotional indianapolis house home invasion escaped criminals hostages family stand-off escape love 1950s
Three escaped convicts move in on and terrorize a suburban household.
Drama
1986
95 Minutes
Gram Walsh
Daniel J. Travanti JoBeth Williams Richard Masur Martha Scott Paul Regina Belinda Montgomery Robert Gunton Sam McMurray
Having lost a son, the Walshes (Daniel J. Travanti, JoBeth Williams) move to Washington to lobby in behalf of other missing children.
Adventure, Drama, History
USA
1959
203 Minutes
Miriam
Charlton Heston Jack Hawkins Stephen Boyd Haya Harareet Hugh Griffith Martha Scott Sam Jaffe Cathy O'Donnell
friend slave sister prince jesus emotional touching desert jerusalem judea revenge betrayal showdown freedom assassination escape revenge rise sacrifice 1st century
After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
Drama
USA
1957
147 Minutes
Mrs. Webster
Marlon Brando Red Buttons Miiko Taka Miyoshi Umeki Ricardo Montalban Martha Scott James Garner
pilot military officer soldier wife girlfriend emotional melodramatic japan military base interracial romance love korean war military forbidden love sacrifice 1950s
A US Air Force major in Kobe confronts his own opposition to marriages between American servicemen and Japanese women when he falls for a beautiful performer.
Drama
USA
1977
119 Minutes
Adelaide
Shirley MacLaine Anne Bancroft Mikhail Baryshnikov Leslie Browne Tom Skerritt Martha Scott Antoinette Sibley Alexandra Danilova Starr Danias Marshall Thompson James Mitchell
mother ballerina womanizer husband daughter brooding emotional melodramatic passionate new york city oklahoma ballet jealousy family regret resentment rivalry sacrifice 1970s
When her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family.
Drama, History
USA
1956
220 Minutes
Yochabel
Charlton Heston Yul Brynner Edward G. Robinson Anne Baxter Yvonne De Carlo Debra Paget John Derek Cedric Hardwicke Nina Foch Martha Scott Judith Anderson
prophet slave god jew ruler moses inspiring spectacular emotional profound melodramatic egypt red sea desert redemption religion exile escape sacrifice rise
Moses, an Egyptian Prince, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1974
107 Minutes
Charlton Heston Karen Black George Kennedy Efrem Zimbalist Jr. Susan Clark Helen Reddy Linda Blair Dana Andrews Sid Caesar Myrna Loy Nancy Olson
pilot stewardess airline employee air traffic controller passenger boyfriend campy tense emotional thrilling airplane airport washington, d.c. los angeles cockpit plane crash flying disaster rescue communication
A 747 in flight collides with a small plane, and is rendered pilotless. Somehow the control tower must get a pilot aboard so the jet can land.