A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.

Juarez

1939

English

6.9

♡ 4

71%

William Dieterle Director

Mickey Kuhn as Agustín de Iturbide y Green

Gilbert Roland as Colonel Miguel Lopez

Martin Garralaga as Negroni

Jason Robards Sr. as (uncredited)

The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.

Abraham Lincoln

1930

English

5.7

♡ 11

75%

D.W. Griffith Director

Edgar Dearing as Armstrong

Henry B. Walthall as Colonel Marshall

Jason Robards Sr. as Herndon

E. Alyn Warren as Stephen A. Douglas / General Grant

A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865.

Born to Kill

1947

English

7.2

♡ 7

83%

75%

Action

based on novel or book

san francisco, california

Thriller

Robert Wise Director

Walter Slezak as Arnett

Jason Robards Sr. as Conductor

Harry Harvey as Divorce Lawyer

Martha Hyer as Maid

A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

1948

English

7.2

♡ 7

86%

76%

advertising executive

H.C. Potter Director

Jason Robards Sr. as John Retch

Myrna Loy as Muriel Blandings

Ian Wolfe as Smith

Robert Bray as Workman

An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with problems.

Isle of the Dead

1945

English

6.4

♡ 4

90%

Mark Robson Director

Jason Robards Sr. as Albrecht

Skelton Knaggs as Andrew Robbins

Boris Karloff as Gen. Nikolas Pherides

Ellen Drew as Thea

On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people—a superstitious old peasant—suspects a young woman of being a vampiric demon.

Step by Step

1946

English

6.3

♡ 3

Phil Rosen Director

Jason Robards Sr. as Bruckner

Anne Jeffreys as Evelyn Smith

Addison Richards as James Blackton

Harry Harvey as Senator Remmy

Marine veteran Johnny Christopher meets and is immediately drawn to beautiful Evelyn Smith one day on the beach. Evelyn's new job as secretary to a U.S. senator in California soon brings unexpected intrigue and trouble for her and Johnny. The machinations of a sinister group of Nazi spies lead to mysteries and mistaken identities, and the two soon find themselves framed for murder!

The Last Days of Pompeii

1935

English

6.4

♡ 5

38%

Ernest B. Schoedsack Director

Alan Hale as Burbix

John T. Murray as Pilate's Servant

Jason Robards Sr. as Tax Gatherer

Edwin Maxwell as The Augur - a Pompeii Official

In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by his son's Christianity and the eruption of Vesuvius.

The Howards of Virginia

1940

English

6.0

♡ 1

52%

Frank Lloyd Director

Jason Robards Sr. as Backwoodsman

Terry Moore as Neighbor Girl

Mary Field as Susan Howard

Irving Bacon as Tom Norton

Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the Colonial forces in their fight for freedom against England. Matt will meet Jane's father in the battlefield.

The Crusades

1935

English

6.5

♡ 4

100%

richard the lionheart

War

Cecil B. DeMille Director

Jason Robards Sr. as Amir / Slave in Saladin's Garden

Ramsay Hill as John - Prince of England

Addison Richards as Sentry

Harold Goodwin as Wounded Soldier

King Richard the Lionhearted launches a crusade to preserve Christianity in Jerusalem.

Damaged Lives

1933

English

4.7

♡ 4

sexually transmitted disease

syphilis

venereal diseases

Edgar G. Ulmer Director

Jason Robards Sr. as Dr. Bill Hall

Marceline Day as Laura Hall

Harry Myers as Nat Franklin

Harrison Greene as Policeman

An extramarital affair leads to a young couple contracting venereal disease.

A Game of Death

1945

English

6.0

♡ 6

95%

Robert Wise Director

Jason Robards Sr. as Captain

Audrey Long as Ellen Trowbridge

Edgar Barrier as Erich Kreiger

Gene Roth as Pleshke

A shipwrecked Don Rainsford washes up on a homicidal big-game hunter's Caribbean island where the madman hunts human prey for his personal island habitat.

Dick Tracy

1945

English

5.9

♡ 5

39%

William Berke Director

Mickey Kuhn as Junior

Jason Robards Sr. as Motorist

Trevor Bardette as Prof. Linwood J. Starling

Anne Jeffreys as Tess Trueheart

Detective Tracy rescues Tess Trueheart and Junior from a killer called Splitface.

Dick Tracy vs. Cueball

1946

English

5.9

♡ 4

37%

Gordon Douglas Director

Jason Robards Sr. as Captain

Frank Mills as Drunk

Trevor Bardette as Lester Abbott

Robert Bray as Steve

A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac.

Dick Tracy's Dilemma

1947

English

5.8

♡ 5

22%

John Rawlins Director

Harry Harvey as Donovan

Jason Robards Sr. as Hawks

Sean McClory as Officer Dillon

Frank Mills as Sailor Outside Blinking Skull

Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and several murders, all linked to a huge thug who wears a hook in place of his right hand.

Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome

1947

English

6.1

♡ 8

39%

John Rawlins Director

Jason Robards Sr. as Bank Officer

Harry Harvey as Humphrey - Bank Guard

Sean McClory as Officer Carney

Robert Bray as Sergeant

A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.

The Woman Condemned

1934

English

4.4

♡ 4

Dorothy Davenport Director

Mischa Auer as Dr. Wagner

Lola Lane as Jane Merrick

Jason Robards Sr. as Jim Wallace

Louise Beavers as Sally - Jane's Maid

When a radio star is found murdered in her home, everyone assumes that the mysterious young woman discovered with her is the culprit — everyone, that is, but newspaper reporter Jerry Beall, who sets out to prove her innocence.

Bedlam

1946

English

6.8

♡ 6

90%

Mark Robson Director

Harry Harvey as John Gray

Jason Robards Sr. as Oliver Todd

Ellen Corby as Queen of the Artichokes

Ian Wolfe as Sidney Long

London, 1761. St. Mary's of Bethlehem, a sinister madhouse, is visited by wealthy people who enjoy watching the patients confined there as if they were caged animals. Nell Bowen, one of the visitors, is horrified by the deplorable living conditions of the unfortunate inhabitants of this godforsaken place, better known as Bedlam.

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The Howards of Virginia

The Crusades

Damaged Lives

A Game of Death

Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy vs. Cueball

Dick Tracy's Dilemma

Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome

The Woman Condemned

Bedlam