8 Movies Directed by Victor Fleming

Red Dust

Red Dust

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1932-10-22

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

83 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (2530 Reviews)

Director:

Victor Fleming

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

John Lee Mahin (screen play)

Wilson Collison (from the play by)

Fullplot:

Conditions are spartan on Dennis Carson's Indochina rubber plantation during a dusty dry monsoon. The latest boat upriver brings Carson an unwelcome guest: Vantine, a floozy from Saigon, hoping to evade the police by a stay upcountry. But Carson, initially uninterested, soon succumbs to Vantine's ostentatious charms...until the arrival of surveyor Gary Willis, ill with malaria, and his refined but sensuous wife Barbara. Now the rains begin, and passion flows like water...

Captains Courageous

Captains Courageous

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1937-06-25

Languages:

English, Portuguese

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

117 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

(6299 Reviews)

Director:

Victor Fleming

Cast:

Writer:

Rudyard Kipling (novel)

John Lee Mahin (screen play)

Marc Connelly (screen play)

Dale Van Every (screen play)

Fullplot:

Harvey Cheyne is a spoiled brat used to having his own way. When a prank goes wrong onboard an ocean liner Harvey ends up overboard and nearly drowns. Fortunately he's picked up by a fishing boat just heading out for the season. He tries to bribe the crew into returning early to collect a reward but none of them believe him. Stranded on the boat he must adapt to the ways of the fishermen and learn more about the real world.

The Good Earth

The Good Earth

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1937-08-06

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

138 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (3321 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Talbot Jennings (screen play)

Tess Slesinger (screen play)

Claudine West (screen play)

Pearl S. Buck (based upon the novel by)

Fullplot:

The story of a farmer in China: a story of humility and bravery. His father gives Wang Lung a freed slave as wife. By diligence and frugality the two manage to enlarge their property. But then a famine forces them to leave their land and live in the town. However it turns out to be a blessing in disguise for them...

The Great Waltz

The Great Waltz

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1938-11-04

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (722 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Gottfried Reinhardt (original story)

Samuel Hoffenstein (screen play)

Walter Reisch (screen play)

Fullplot:

In 1845 Vienna, Johann Strauè II - Schani to his friends - would rather write and perform waltzes than anything else, this at a time when a waltz is not considered proper society music. After he is fired from his clerical bank job because of his preoccupation with composing, he decides to follow his passion and form an orchestra. After some famed opera singers, including Carla Donner, hear his music, they expose Schani's music to the masses, to royalty and to music publisher Julius Hofbauer. As such, Schani becomes the toast of Vienna. With his new found musical fame, Schani's life, which includes his work in the European Revolutions, changes. He becomes torn for his love for his loving and faithful wife Poldi Vogelhuber and his more emotionally passionate but somewhat destructive love for Carla Donner, who herself is involved with Count Anton Hohenfried.

Test Pilot

Test Pilot

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1938-04-22

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

119 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

(1388 Reviews)

Director:

Victor Fleming

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Vincent Lawrence (screen play)

Waldemar Young (screen play)

Frank Wead (original story)

Fullplot:

Jim Lane is a test pilot, whose professional life is dangerous, and whose personal life compensates for that danger by fast living and recklessness. As such, he lives from paycheck to paycheck, and is often in debt, but knows his lucrative job will eventually get him out of those debts. On a coast to coast record attempt speed flight, Jim's plane, the Drake Bullet (named after the company's owner), hits some mechanical problems and Jim is forced to make an emergency landing on a farmer's field in Kansas. The farm belongs to the Barton family, whose straight talking daughter, Ann Barton, falls for Jim, and visa versa. They impulsively decide to get married and live in New York. Jim's sidekick and mechanic, "Gunner" Morris, doesn't know if Jim and marriage go hand in hand, both because of the type of person he is and his profession. Ann too soon learns that she plays second fiddle to Jim's work, she referring to the sky as Jim's mistress. Ann also truly comes to understand the dangers of Jim's work, he who is often required to push the planes beyond their physical limits. With each flight, Ann fears that she will become a widow, as she has seen it before with the wives of Jim's colleagues. Can Jim and Ann's marriage survive the many pressures stemming from Jim's life as a test pilot?

Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1940-01-17

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

238 min

Rated:

G

IMDB Ratings:

8.2 (194570 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Margaret Mitchell (story)

Sidney Howard (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie.

The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1939-08-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

102 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

8.1 (262132 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Noel Langley (screenplay)

Florence Ryerson (screenplay)

Edgar Allan Woolf (screenplay)

Noel Langley (adaptation)

L. Frank Baum (from the book by)

Fullplot:

In this charming film based on the popular L. Frank Baum stories, Dorothy and her dog Toto are caught in a tornado's path and somehow end up in the land of Oz. Here she meets some memorable friends and foes in her journey to meet the Wizard of Oz who everyone says can help her return home and possibly grant her new friends their goals of a brain, heart and courage.

Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1949-04-15

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

145 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (1803 Reviews)

Director:

Victor Fleming

Cast:

Writer:

Maxwell Anderson (play)

Maxwell Anderson (screenplay)

Andrew Solt (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In the Fifteenth Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen years old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army and conquerors Orleans. When her army is ready to attack Paris, the corrupt Charles sells his country to England and dismiss the army. Joan is arrested, sold to the Burgundians England and submitted to a shameful political trial in Rouen castle.

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