List of the best Vincent Sherman movies: Mr. Skeffington(1944), Old Acquaintance(1943), The Young Philadelphians(1959), Harriet Craig(1950), The Hasty Heart(1949), The Damned Don't Cry(1950), Nora Prentiss(1947), The Hard Way(1942), All Through the Night(1942), Adventures of Don Juan(1948), The Unfaithful(1947), In Our Time(1944) ... ...
Drama
USA
1944
145 Minutes
Director
Bette Davis Claude Rains Walter Abel Richard Waring George Coulouris Marjorie Riordan Robert Shayne John Alexander Jerome Cowan Dorothy Peterson Peter Whitney
beautiful woman stockbroker army recruit suitor husband wife emotional moving sad dinner party bedroom household vanity world war i marriage concentration camp blindness secret sacrifice love
Popular and beautiful Fanny Trellis is forced into a loveless marriage with an older man, Jewish banker Job Skeffington, in order to save her beloved brother Trippy from an embezzlement charge.
Drama
USA
1943
110 Minutes
Director
Bette Davis Miriam Hopkins Gig Young John Loder Dolores Moran Philip Reed Roscoe Karns Anne Revere
writer author husband daughter lover melodramatic playful united states house jealousy success book publishing divorce friendship rivalry forbidden love wretched excess revenge 1920s
Old friends Kit Marlowe and Millie Drake adopt contrasting lifestyles: Kit is a single, critically acclaimed author while married Millie writes popular pulp novels.
Drama, Gay & Lesbian
USA
1959
136 Minutes
Director
Paul Newman Barbara Rush Alexis Smith Brian Keith Diane Brewster Billie Burke John Williams Robert Vaughn Otto Kruger Paul Picerni Robert Douglas
lawyer mother sweetheart alcoholic boss' wife birth father melodramatic fiery striking brash philadelphia house courtroom law office korea moral dilemma adultery social climbing blackmail korean war
A promising lawyer tries to handle his social and professional problems while climbing the ranks in Philadelphia.
Drama
USA
1950
94 Minutes
Director
housewife husband assistant cousin widow tense fiery disturbing emotional city family home office united states domestic life manipulation sabotage jealousy rivalry fall 1920s
Harriet Craig enjoys the married life but constantly tries to control those around her. She does not trust her husband, Walter, without checking up on him.
Drama
UK
1949
99 Minutes
Director
Ronald Reagan Patricia Neal Richard Todd Anthony Nicholls Howard Marion-Crawford Ralph Michael John Sherman Alfie Bass Orlando Martins
nurse scottish person soldier doctor patient touching uplifting melodramatic military hospital burma death world war ii terminal illness military acceptance transformation discovery 1940s
In the final days of WW2, in a M.A.S.H. unit in Burma, a severely wounded corporal watches in dismay as fellow soldiers pack-up to return home but a caring nurse and five remaining soldiers bring him solace.
Drama
USA
1950
103 Minutes
Director
beautiful woman mobster accountant husband thug son melodramatic brooding uneasy intense texas small town family home new york city california desert social climbing betrayal new life schemes
A New York socialite climbs the ladder of success man by man until a life among rich gangsters gives her what she thought she always wanted.
Crime, Drama
USA
1947
110 Minutes
Director
Ann Sheridan Kent Smith Herman Brix Robert Alda Rosemary DeCamp John Ridgely Bob Arthur Wanda Hendrix Helen Brown Rory Mallinson Harry Shannon
husband wife daughter doctor singer mistress melodramatic passionate san francisco doctor's office nightclub new york city household adultery deception love triangle guilt running away schemes forbidden love
A nightclub singer inspires a doctor to fake his own murder, leading to plenty of complications.
Drama
USA
1942
109 Minutes
Director
Ida Lupino Dennis Morgan Joan Leslie Jack Carson Gladys George Faye Emerson Paul Cavanagh Leona Maricle Roman Bohnen Ray Montgomery Jacqueline Wells
singer sister band leader dancer somber sad dark broadway theater stage new york city small town sister relationship fame success singing love triangle rise fall 1940s
Embittered, ambitious Helen Chernen sees an opportunity to escape her drab small-town life by becoming a 'stage mother' to her musically-talented younger sister.
Drama
USA
1942
107 Minutes
Director
Humphrey Bogart Conrad Veidt Kaaren Verne Jane Darwell Frank McHugh Peter Lorre Judith Anderson William Demarest Jackie Gleason Phil Silvers Wallace Ford
spy gambler nazi singer partner thrilling charming new york city murder espionage nazism gambling mystery adventure 1940s
Runyonesque Broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of Nazi saboteurs.
Adventure
USA
1948
110 Minutes
Director
Errol Flynn Viveca Lindfors Robert Douglas Alan Hale Ann Rutherford Raymond Burr Romney Brent
nobleman queen don juan king duke engaging passionate spain palace love loyalty royalty showdown palace intrigue schemes rivalry adventure 16th century
The great lover Don Juan comes to the assistance of his queen.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1947
109 Minutes
Director
Ann Sheridan Lew Ayres Zachary Scott Eve Arden Jerome Cowan Steven Geray John Hoyt Peggy Knudsen Marta Mitrovich Douglas Kennedy Claire Meade
A Los Angeles socialite kills a man while home alone one night and claims he was an intruder she did not know. It seems like a clear case of self defense until the story hits the papers and people connected to the dead man come forward.
Drama
USA
1944
110 Minutes
Director
Ida Lupino Paul Henreid Nancy Coleman Mary Boland Victor Francen Alla Nazimova Michael Chekhov Marek Windheim Ivan Triesault John Bleifer
aristocrat count american wife antique dealer rousing emotional warsaw, poland estate wedding world war ii class distinctions love nazis invasion royalty love sacrifice rivalry 1930s
It is early 1939 in Poland when Mrs. Bromley and Jennifer come to buy antiques for her business in London. Jennifer meets Count Stephen and they wine, dine and see the sights though out the... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1950
91 Minutes
Director
Virginia Mayo Gordon MacRae Edmond O'Brien Viveca Lindfors Dane Clark Ed Begley
While recuperating from wartime back injuries at a hospital, veteran Bob Corey is visited on Christmas Eve by a beautiful stranger with an even stranger message.
Comedy, Western
USA
1961
99 Minutes
Director
Debbie Reynolds Andy Griffith Steve Forrest Juliet Prowse Thelma Ritter Ken Scott Isobel Elsom Rodolfo Acosta Timothy Agoglia Carey Tom Greenway Eleanor Audley
widow mother sheriff rancher gambler criminal cheeky campy spirited new york city arizona ice cream parlor hideout new life courtship frontier life motherhood kidnapping rivalry love
In 1911, a widow with two children leaves New York City for territorial Arizona and becomes a ranch hand and later gets herself elected sheriff. A gambler and a rancher become rivals for her affections.
Crime, Drama
USA
1957
88 Minutes
Director
Lee J. Cobb Kerwin Mathews Gia Scala Richard Boone Valerie French Robert Loggia Joseph Wiseman Harold J. Stone Adam Williams
business owner gangster father son teamster henchman brutal fiery powerful factory new york city organized crime labor union family oppression change of heart violence fall revenge rivalry
The struggle of a lady's garment workers' organization to unionize a New York clothing sweat shop; the owner of which is determined to keep the union out of his business at any cost.
Drama
USA
1941
73 Minutes
Director
Geraldine Fitzgerald Thomas Mitchell Jeffrey Lynn Mona Maris James Stephenson Jonathan Hale David Bruce Thurston Hall Mary Gordon John Eldredge Hardie Albright
dying person husband wife gallery owner doctor professor dark gripping united states courtroom jail studio murder forgery morality wrongfully accused execution investigation fall wretched excess
An elderly professor, suffering from an aortic aneurism, confronts the problem of what to do knowing that he only has a few months to live.
Drama
USA
1960
143 Minutes
Director
After WW1, Zeb and Thor start a cannery business in Alaska but eventually they drift apart with Zeb becoming unscrupulous and Thor becoming involved in Alaskan politics.
Comedy
USA
1946
89 Minutes
Director
Joan Leslie Robert Hutton Edward Arnold Ann Harding Robert Benchley Dorothy Malone Richard Erdman
soldier journalist wife father-in-law mother-in-law army buddy playful amusing tender wisconsin house newsroom bar marriage life after wartime jealousy domestic life love rivalry 1940s
Married life isn't as blissful as either Dick or Janie had hoped. Dick is hired to write filler for his father-in-law's newspaper, but is never allowed to prove his real worth. Janie has to... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA
1951
107 Minutes
Director
Joan Crawford Robert Young Frank Lovejoy Eve Arden Janice Rule Lurene Tuttle Howard St. John Ellen Corby Morgan Farley Virginia Gibson John Qualen
congresswoman secretary college president photographer daughter old flame confident lighthearted amusing washington, d.c. college office dormitory auditorium college life romantic dilemma values father/daughter relationship power struggle unrequited love
Congresswoman Agatha Reed returns to her alma mater for commencement, although she's more interested in renewing her romance with an old flame who's now the college president. Their ... See full summary »
Horror
USA
1939
62 Minutes
Director
Wayne Morris Humphrey Bogart Rosemary Lane Dennis Morgan John Litel Lya Lys Huntz Hall Charles Wilson Vera Lewis Howard C. Hickman Olin Howland
news reporter actress mad scientist undertaker doctor campy creepy suspenseful united states city hotel newsroom laboratory murder science gone awry investigation reporting mystery discovery 1930s
A hotshot reporter and a young doctor team up to investigate a series of grisly murders and a mysterious sample of synthetic blood.
Crime, Drama
USA
1934
60 Minutes
Black Mike
Richard Barthelmess Ann Dvorak Helene Lowell Helen Chandler Harry Tyler Henry O'Neill Robert Barrat Vincent Sherman Eric Wilton Robert McWade Paul Hurst
A gambler hides out for some gangsters in an old lady's house. Later he's arrested for murder but the old woman provides him with an alibi by saying he was with her on the night of the murder.