19 Movies Starring Glenn Ford

Gilda

Gilda

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1946-03-15

Languages:

English, Spanish, French, German

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (18491 Reviews)

Director:

Charles Vidor

Cast:

Writer:

E.A. Ellington (story)

Jo Eisinger (adaptation)

Marion Parsonnet (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Just arrived in Argentina, small-time crooked gambler Johnny Farrell is saved from a gunman by sinister Ballin Mundson, who later makes Johnny his right-hand man. But their friendship based on mutual lack of scruples is strained when Mundson returns from a trip with a wife: the supremely desirable Gilda, whom Johnny once knew and learned to hate. The relationship of Johnny and Gilda, a battlefield of warring emotions, becomes even more bizarre after Mundson disappears...

The Mating of Millie

The Mating of Millie

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1948-03-08

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

87 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (310 Reviews)

Director:

Henry Levin

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Adele Comandini (story)

Louella MacFarlane

St. Clair McKelway

Fullplot:

Man tries to help a woman trap a husband so she can adopt a child, but he falls for her himself.

The Big Heat

The Big Heat

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1953-10-14

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

(15410 Reviews)

Director:

Fritz Lang

Cast:

Writer:

Sydney Boehm (screenplay)

William P. McGivern (Saturday Evening Post serial)

Fullplot:

Dave Bannion is an upright cop on the trail of a vicious gang he suspects holds power over the police force. Bannion is tipped off after a colleague's suicide and his fellow officers' suspicious silence lead him to believe that they are on the gangsters' payroll. When a bomb meant for him kills his wife instead, Bannion becomes a furious force of vengeance and justice, aided along the way by the gangster's spurned girlfriend Debbie. As Bannion and Debbie fall further and further into the Gangland's insidious and brutal trap, they must use any means necessary (including murder) to get to the truth.

Blackboard Jungle

Blackboard Jungle

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1955-03-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (5978 Reviews)

Director:

Richard Brooks

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Richard Brooks (screenplay)

Evan Hunter (novel)

Fullplot:

War veteran Rick Dadier is one of three new teachers hired at North Manual High School, an inner city boys school. This is his first teaching assignment, which he needs to support himself and his insecure pregnant wife, Anne. Despite Principle Warnecke's assertions to the contrary, Dadier quickly learns that the rumors of student discipline problems at the school are indeed true. The established teachers at the school try to counsel the newcomers, all inexperienced in such situations, as how best to handle the rowdy students. Regardless, Dadier tries to exert discipline in his class, which provokes a violent response. Dadier believes the student leaders against him are Artie West, but more specifically Gregory Miller, who he thinks uses the fact of being black as a means of racial provocation. Dadier has to decide either to leave and teach at a "real" school, or stay and figure out how to get through to his students. If he decides to stay, he has to figure out who the real disruptive influences are, especially as they have resorted to attacks of a personal nature that affect especially Anne.

Interrupted Melody

Interrupted Melody

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1955-07-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (662 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

William Ludwig

Sonya Levien

Marjorie Lawrence (based on her life story by)

Fullplot:

Marjorie Lawrence (Eleanor Parker) crowds her life with excitement and achievement from the day she leaves her Australian home and goes to Paris to study voice. After a triumphal debut at the Paris Opera she becomes famous overnight, and her debut at the Met in New York establishes her as one of the great singers of her time. With all her dreams come true, tragedy strikes in the form of infantile paralysis and she faces a life of confinement to a wheel chair. Although she reaches the depths of despair, she manages through the love and devotion of her husband, Dr. Tom King (Glenn Ford), she begins to build a new career by singing to servicemen who, like herself, are confined to wheel chairs.

Trial

Trial

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1955-10-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

105 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (585 Reviews)

Director:

Mark Robson

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Don Mankiewicz

Don Mankiewicz (novel)

Fullplot:

The story of a murder trial where a Mexican boy is accused of the death of a Caucasian girl. The two-faced attorney (Arthur Kennedy) who takes the boy's case is only interested in defending him so he can exploit his Communist-backed organization for their own underhanded purposes. He and his organization bring in an idealistic law professor (Glenn Ford) who agrees to represent the boy in court.

The Violent Men

The Violent Men

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1955-01-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

96 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

(1477 Reviews)

Director:

Rudolph Matè

Genres:

Western

Cast:

Writer:

Harry Kleiner (screenplay)

Donald Hamilton (based upon a novel by)

Fullplot:

A Union ex-officer plans to sell up to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancee, but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled owner and the outfit's bully-boy tactics make him think again. When one of his hands is murdered he decides to stay and fight, utilising his war experience. Not all is well at Anchor with the owner's wife carrying on with his brother who anyway has a Mexican moll in town.

The Teahouse of the August Moon

The Teahouse of the August Moon

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1956-12-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

123 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (2345 Reviews)

Director:

Daniel Mann

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

John Patrick (screenplay)

Vern J. Sneider (book)

John Patrick (play)

Fullplot:

This comedy-drama is partially a gentle satire on America's drive to change the world in the post-war years. One year after World War II, Captain Fisby is sent to the village of Tobiki in Okinawa to teach the people democracy. The first step is to build a school -- but the wily Okinawans know what they really want. They tell him about their culture and traditions -- and persuade him to build something they really want instead: a teahouse. Fisby has a hard time breaking this news to his superiors.

3:10 to Yuma

3:10 to Yuma

Basic Info:

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

92 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (13665 Reviews)

Director:

Delmer Daves

Cast:

Writer:

Halsted Welles (screenplay)

Elmore Leonard (story)

Fullplot:

After outlaw leader Ben Wade is captured in a small town, his gang continue to threaten. Small-time rancher Dan Evans is persuaded to take Wade in secret to the nearest town with a railway station to await the train to the court at Yuma. Once the two are holed up in the hotel to wait it becomes apparent the secret is out, and a battle of wills starts.

Don't Go Near the Water

Don't Go Near the Water

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1957-12-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

107 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (420 Reviews)

Director:

Charles Walters

Cast:

Writer:

William Brinkley (novel)

Dorothy Kingsley

George Wells

Fullplot:

On a small island in the South Pacific, the Navy's P.R. department is spending WWII without getting near a ship. Lt. Max Siegal is the Second in command to a clueless Commanding Officer who believes Sea Duty to be the worst punishment he can give one of his men. Siegal has to keep the foreign correspondents happy, keep his Commander out of trouble and figure out a way for one of the enlisted sailors to date the lady Lieutenant of his dreams - all while convincing a certain island schoolteacher that he's the man for her.

Cowboy

Cowboy

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1958-03-26

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

92 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (1643 Reviews)

Director:

Delmer Daves

Genres:

Western

Cast:

Writer:

Frank Harris (book)

Edmund H. North (screenplay)

Dalton Trumbo (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. Soon, though, the tenderfoot finds out life on the range is neither what he expected nor what he's been looking for...

The Sheepman

The Sheepman

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1958-05-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

85 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (1568 Reviews)

Director:

George Marshall

Genres:

Western

Cast:

Writer:

William Bowers (screenplay)

James Edward Grant (screenplay)

William Roberts (adaptation)

James Edward Grant (story)

Fullplot:

A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears with his stock: a herd of sheep, which he intends to graze on the range. The horrified inhabitants decide to run him out at all costs.

It Started with a Kiss

It Started with a Kiss

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1959-09-04

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

(414 Reviews)

Director:

George Marshall

Cast:

Writer:

Charles Lederer (screenplay)

Valentine Davies (story)

Fullplot:

Air Force Sgt. Joe Fitzpatrick meets and marries a beautiful model, Maggie Putnam, on the eve of being shipped off to Spain. When the new Mrs. Fitzpatrick waits to join her husband, she promises him in a letter "the most wonderful surprise that could happen to two people." Joe naturally assumes that she's pregnant, but the surprise turns out to be a fabulous new car that he won in a raffle. His new bride and car win him the scorn and jealousy of Spain's most famous toreador, not to mention the suspicions of his commanding officer.

Cimarron

Cimarron

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1961-03-24

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

147 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (1773 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaWestern

Cast:

Writer:

Arnold Schulman (screenplay)

Edna Ferber (novel)

Fullplot:

The epic saga of a frontier family, Cimarron starts with the Oklahoma Land Rush on 22 April 1889. The Cravet family builds their newspaper Oklahoma Wigwam into a business empire and Yancey Cravet is the adventurer-idealist who, to his wife's anger, spurns the opportunity to become governor since this means helping to defraud the native Americans of their land and resources.

Pocketful of Miracles

Pocketful of Miracles

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1962-02-15

Languages:

English, American Sign Language, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

136 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (4063 Reviews)

Director:

Frank Capra

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Hal Kanter (screenplay)

Harry Tugend (screenplay)

Robert Riskin (based on a screenplay by)

Damon Runyon (story)

Fullplot:

Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a basket of apples, is as much as part of downtown New York as old Broadway itself. Bootlegger Dave the Dude is a sucker for her apples --- he thinks they bring him luck. But Dave and girlfriend Queenie Martin need a lot more than luck when it turns out that Annie is in a jam and only they can help: Annie's daughter Louise, who has lived all her life in a Spanish convent, is coming to America with a Count and his son. The count's son wants to marry Louise, who thinks her mother is part of New York society. It's up to Dave and Queenie and their Runyonesque cronies to turn Annie into a lady and convince the Count and his son that they are hobnobbing with New York's elite.

The Courtship of Eddie's Father

The Courtship of Eddie's Father

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1963-03-27

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

118 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (1754 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

John Gay (screenplay)

Mark Toby (based on the novel by)

Fullplot:

Eddie thinks it is time for his father to remarry. However, in his opinion his father's taste in women leaves much to be desired. He believes the girl next door would be a far better choice...

Dear Heart

Dear Heart

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1965-04-16

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

114 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (798 Reviews)

Director:

Delbert Mann

Genres:

Comedy

Fullplot:

Single and alone, Evie arrives in New York for the annual Postmasters' convention. Staying at her hotel is a womanising salesman newly promoted to his marketing department and trying to adjust to having become engaged. When his path crosses Evie's, she wonders if this is finally the man for her, while her ways just seem to annoy him. At least to start with.

Fate Is the Hunter

Fate Is the Hunter

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1964-10-16

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

106 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (890 Reviews)

Director:

Ralph Nelson

Cast:

Writer:

Ernest K. Gann (book)

Harold Medford (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Airliner crashes near Los Angeles due to unusual string of coincidences. Stewardess, who is sole survivor, joins airline executives in discovering the causes of the crash.

Happy Birthday to Me

Happy Birthday to Me

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1981-05-15

Languages:

English

Countries:

Canada

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(4956 Reviews)

Director:

J. Lee Thompson

Cast:

Writer:

John C.W. Saxton (screenplay)

Peter Jobin (screenplay)

Timothy Bond (screenplay)

John C.W. Saxton (story)

Fullplot:

Virginia Wainwright is a spirited young woman who has returned to a private school having survived a deadly accident and regenerative brain surgery. She is proud that she belongs to the Top Ten - the school's inner circle with the best students - and attempts to resume a normal life. But her friends are falling prey to a grueling series of murders, and soon there will be no one left to attend her 18th birthday party. Could it be her? Striving to rekindle the memory of her nightmarish accident, Virginia suffers from memory loss and traumatic blackouts. We soon learn the horrible truth behind her accident and what is going on before her birthday party...

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