List of the best Stuart Heisler movies: The Glass Key(1942), The Biscuit Eater(1940), Journey Into Light(1951), The Lone Ranger(1955), Blue Skies(1946), I Died a Thousand Times(1955), Among the Living(1941), Island of Desire(1952), Tulsa(1949), The Monster and the Girl(1941), Chain Lightning(1950), Beachhead(1954) ... ...
Crime, Drama
USA
1942
85 Minutes
Director
Brian Donlevy Alan Ladd Veronica Lake Bonita Granville Richard Denning Joseph Calleia William Bendix Frances Gifford Donald MacBride Margaret Hayes Moroni Olsen
political boss government official adviser daughter brother gangster dark suspenseful engaging tense office mansion cabin hospital countryside apartment murder corruption blackmail loyalty
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
Drama
USA
1940
83 Minutes
Director
Billy Lee Cordell Hickman Richard Lane Lester Matthews Helene Millard Fred S. Toones
Two little boys have faith in a dog they name Promise, so much faith that they enter him in the championship trials for bird dogs. The favorite is Georgia Boy bred and trained by the boys' ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1951
87 Minutes
Director
Sterling Hayden Viveca Lindfors Thomas Mitchell Ludwig Donath H.B. Warner Jane Darwell John Berkes Peggy Webber Charles Evans Marion Martin Everett Glass
A minister embittered by his wife's suicide turns away from God. He ends up among the bums of skid row before he finds meaning again through the love of a missionary's blind daughter.
Western
USA
1955
86 Minutes
Director
Clayton Moore Jay Silverheels Lyle Bettger Bonita Granville Perry Lopez Robert Wilke John Pickard Beverly Washburn Michael Ansara Frank de Kova Charles Meredith
rancher governor indian sidekick cavalryman the lone ranger rousing thrilling patriotic texas range indian territory law and order land wars battle frontier life adventure pursuit quest 19th century
Wealthy rancher Reese Kilgore aims to grab silver-rich Indian land by skilfully pitting Indians against settlers but the suspicious territorial governor sends The Lone Ranger to investigate.
Musical, Romance
USA
1946
104 Minutes
Director
Bing Crosby Fred Astaire Joan Caulfield Billy De Wolfe Olga San Juan Mikhail Rasumny Frank Faylen Victoria Horne Karolyn Grimes
singer dancer showgirl fan radio host amusing lighthearted playful dance hall nightclub radio station hospital singing dance jealousy love ambition rivalry temptation sacrifice
An ex-dancer and New York radio star narrates his love story for a band singer who loved a self-centered man who was unable to commit to his nightclub business or his family.
Crime, Drama
USA
1955
109 Minutes
Director
Jack Palance Shelley Winters Lori Nelson Lee Marvin Earl Holliman Perry Lopez Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez Lon Chaney Howard St. John Ralph Moody Olive Carey
After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before retiring - by robbing a resort hotel.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1941
68 Minutes
Director
Albert Van Dekker Susan Hayward Frances Farmer Harry Carey Gordon Jones Jean Phillips Ernest Whitman Maude Eburne Frank M. Thomas Harlan Briggs Archie Twitchell
A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble for his identical twin brother.
Romance
UK
1952
103 Minutes
Director
Linda Darnell Tab Hunter Donald Gray John Laurie Russell Waters Hilda Fenemore Brenda Hogan Diana Decker Sheila Chong Peggy Hassard Michael Newell
In 1943, an Allied hospital-ship is sunk by the Japanese in the South-Pacific where a nurse and a Marine become marooned on an island abandoned by natives.
Action
USA
1949
90 Minutes
Director
Susan Hayward Robert Preston Pedro Armendáriz Harry Shannon Ed Begley Jimmy Conlin Paul E. Burns Lloyd Gough Roland Jack Chief Yowlachie Pierre Watkin
rancher oil baron daughter emotional powerful oklahoma oil field ranch revenge death oil betrayal wealth greed fall rise rivalry 1940s
In Tulsa, after a rancher dies during a feud with a major oil company, his daughter, driven by revenge, starts digging for oil herself.
Horror
USA
1941
63 Minutes
Director
Ellen Drew Robert Paige Paul Lukas Joseph Calleia Onslow Stevens George Zucco Rod Cameron Phillip Terry Marc Lawrence Gerald Mohr Tom Dugan
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
Drama
USA
1950
94 Minutes
Director
Humphrey Bogart Eleanor Parker Raymond Massey Richard Whorf James Brown Roy Roberts Morris Ankrum Fay Baker Fred Sherman
pilot old flame inventor friend business owner inspiring gripping airplane hangar alaska washington, d.c. germany heroism guilt redemption aviation love quest rivalry love 1950s
Former World War II flying ace Matt Brennan takes a position as a test pilot for a commercial aircraft corporation and bumps into his old girlfriend, Jo Holloway, who now works as a receptionist for the company.
Drama, War
USA
1954
90 Minutes
Director
Tony Curtis Frank Lovejoy Mary Murphy Eduard Franz Skip Homeier John Doucette Alan Wells
marine planter daughter enemy sergeant major intense gripping thrilling pacific ocean island jungle world war ii espionage survival courage daunting task quest rescue underdog
In 1943, in the wake of the Allied amphibious landing on the Japanese-held Bougainville Island, four Marines are sent to scout the location of Japanese minefields.
Drama, Documentary, War
1944
42 Minutes
Director
William Broadus Clarence Brooks Norman Ford Carlton Moss Clyde Turner Bertha Woolford
The history of and contributions made by black Americans in the armed forces from the Revolutionary War to the 1940s.
Drama
1947
103 Minutes
Director
Susan Hayward Lee Bowman Marsha Hunt Eddie Albert Carl Esmond Carleton Young Charles D. Brown Janet Murdoch Sharyn Payne Robert Shayne
singer songwriter secretary daughter agent pianist emotional melodramatic nightclub radio station hospital hotel apartment alcoholism custody kidnapping marital problems fall transformation wretched excess
A nightclub singer (Susan Hayward) turns alcoholic after quitting her career to marry a rising singer (Lee Bowman).
Western
1956
94 Minutes
Director
Tab Hunter Natalie Wood Skip Homeier Eduard Franz Earl Holliman Claude Akins Ray Teal Frank Puglia Hal Baylor Tyler MacDuff Rayford Barnes
love interest rancher cattleman enemy brother henchman passionate thrilling tense wild west ranch range murder redemption justice on the run romance revenge escape love
A young man (Tab Hunter) and a part-Mexican girl (Natalie Wood) hide from a cattle baron's son (Skip Homeier) and killer henchmen.
Fantasy
1942
80 Minutes
Director
William Holden Ellen Drew Brian Donlevy Rod Cameron Porter Hall Nydia Westman Montagu Love Jimmy Conlin
Gen. Andrew Jackson (Brian Donlevy) and other historical ghosts rescue a bookkeeper (William Holden) framed for embezzlement.
Drama
1949
88 Minutes
Director
Humphrey Bogart Florence Marly Sessue Hayakawa Alexander Knox Jerome Courtland Gordon Jones Teru Shimada Hideo Mori Charles Meredith Rhys Williams Lora Lee Michel
pilot ex-wife husband daughter crime boss club owner suspenseful melodramatic patriotic tokyo nightclub government building law office airplane postwar japan expatriates blackmail war crime marriage fatherhood
A GI (Humphrey Bogart) in postwar Tokyo smuggles war criminals for a blackmailer (Sessue Hayakawa) who has kidnapped his daughter.