For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes nightmarish. She observes Nicholas' troubled relationship with his tenant farmers, as well as with his daughter, to whom Miranda serves as governess. Her relationship with Nicholas intensifies after his wife dies, but his mental imbalance threatens any hope of happiness.

I'll Be Seeing You

1944

English

7.1

♡ 8

72%

George Cukor Director

Earl Johnson as Dog Owner

Margaret Bert as Mother of Boys

Walter Baldwin as Train Vendor

Joseph Cotten as Zachary Morgan

Mary Marshall, serving a six year term for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough from prison to visit her closest relatives, her uncle and his family in a small Midwestern town. On the train she meets Zach Morgan, a troubled army sergeant on leave for the holidays from a military hospital. Although his physical wounds have healed, he is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and is subject to panic attacks. The pair are attracted to one another and in the warm atmosphere of the Christmas season friendship blossoms into romance, but Mary is reluctant to tell him of her past and that she must shortly return to prison to serve the remainder of her sentence.

Syncopation

1942

English

6.3

♡ 4

38%

William Dieterle Director

Adolphe Menjou as George Latimer

Sonny Bupp as Newsboy

Frank Jenks as Smiley Jackson

Walter Baldwin as Tom Jones

A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.

Cry of the City

1948

English

7.2

♡ 9

93%

Robert Siodmak Director

Tom Moore as Doctor

Robert Adler as Man

Richard Conte as Martin Rome

Walter Baldwin as Orvy

Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he'll do anything to protect her. How many others will he drag down to disaster with him?

Cheyenne Autumn

1964

English

6.7

♡ 9

60%

John Ford Director

Karl Malden as Capt. Wessels

Carleton Young as Carl Schurz's Aide

Walter Baldwin as Jeremy Wright

Victor Jory as Tall Tree

A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne.

The Bride Wore Boots

1946

English

5.9

♡ 2

15%

Irving Pichel Director

Forbes Murray as Judge #2

Diana Lynn as Mary Lou Medford

Minerva Urecal as Minor Role

Walter Baldwin as Mr. Hodges - Postman

A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

1946

English

7.4

♡ 7

100%

husband wife relationship

noir

Romance

Lewis Milestone Director

Ann Doran as Bobbi St. John

Walter Baldwin as Dempsey

Amzie Strickland as Nightclub Patron

Darryl Hickman as Sam - As a Child

Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect combination to dominate the corrupt city of Iverstown at will. But the unexpected return of Sam, after years of absence, deeply disturbs the life of the odd couple.

To Each His Own

1946

English

7.6

♡ 7

81%

Mitchell Leisen Director

Louis Jean Heydt as American Officer

Roland Culver as Lord Desham

Sidney D'Albrook as Man at G.A.R. Hall

Walter Baldwin as Sam Foreman

During World War I, small-town girl Josephine Norris has an illegitimate son by an itinerant pilot. After a scheme to adopt him ends up giving him to another family, she devotes her life to loving him from afar.

The Devil Commands

1941

English

6.1

♡ 3

60%

Edward Dmytryk Director

Cy Schindell as Karl

Harrison Greene as Mr. Booth, Bakery Proprietor

Walter Baldwin as Seth Marcy

Kenneth MacDonald as Sheriff Ed Willis

A story about a scientist who is obsessed with communicating with the dead.

The Harder They Fall

1956

English

7.5

♡ 11

100%

Mark Robson Director

Jan Sterling as Beth Willis

Walter Baldwin as Boxing fan at Dundee fight

Roy Jenson as Fighter

Frank Hagney as Referee

Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch and a glass jaw. Exploiting Willis' reputation for integrity and standing in the boxing community, Benko arranges a series of fixed fights that propel the unsophisticated Moreno to #1 contender for the championship. The reigning champ, the sadistic Buddy Brannen, harbors resentment at the publicity Toro has been receiving and vows to viciously punish him in the ring. Eddie must now decide whether or not to tell the naive Toro the truth.

Unconquered

1947

English

6.9

♡ 7

86%

native american tribe

Romance

Western

Cecil B. DeMille Director

Chief John Big Tree as Indian

Raymond Hatton as Venango Scout

Walter Baldwin as Villager

Trevor Bardette as Villager Beside Garth at Ft. Pitt Siege

England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of Virginia, whose inhabitants begin to hear and fear the sinister song of the threatening drums of war that resound in the wild Ohio valley.

Kings Row

1942

English

7.5

♡ 3

100%

79%

based on novel or book

Sam Wood Director

Betty Field as Cassandra Tower

Frank Mayo as Conductor

Walter Baldwin as Deputy Constable

Scotty Beckett as Parris Mitchell -

Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.

Tennessee Johnson

1942

English

6.5

♡ 3

100%

William Dieterle Director

Regis Toomey as Blackstone McDaniel

Walter Baldwin as Captain Reporting Shooting

Lloyd Corrigan as Mr. Secretary

Dane Clark as Wirts

The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early life. During the Civil War, Johnson stays a staunch Unionist and upon Lincoln's reelection in 1864, becomes his Vice President. After Lincoln's assassination, Johnson becomes the President and became the first U.S. president ever to be impeached.

Christmas in Connecticut

1945

English

7.3

♡ 7

89%

Peter Godfrey Director

Dennis Morgan as Jefferson Jones

Joyce Compton as Mary Lee

Walter Baldwin as Sheriff Potter

Frank Jenks as Sinkewicz

While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth's bucolic Connecticut farm with her husband and child. But the column is a sham, so Elizabeth and her editor, Dudley Beecham, in fear of losing their jobs, hasten to set up the single, childless and entirely nondomestic Elizabeth on a country farm.

For Me and My Gal

1942

English

7.0

♡ 5

100%

Busby Berkeley Director

Walter Baldwin as Bill

Keenan Wynn as Eddie Milton

Addison Richards as France Doctor

Nestor Paiva as Nick

Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.

Frontier Marshal

1939

English

6.6

♡ 2

62%

Allan Dwan Director

Jack Kenny as Barfly

Walter Baldwin as (scenes deleted)

Tom London as (scenes deleted)

Ward Bond as Town Marshal

Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

Murder, He Says

1945

English

6.9

♡ 8

69%

George Marshall Director

Barbara Pepper as Bonnie Fleagle

Helen Walker as Claire Matthews

Peter Whitney as Mert Fleagle / Bert Fleagle

Walter Baldwin as Vic Hardy

Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing. Visiting the hillbilly family of Mamie Fleagle, Pete begins to suspect that she and her two sons have murdered the surveyor. Pete then believes that Mamie is slowly poisoning wealthy Grandma Fleagle, who has put a vital clue to her fortune in a nonsensical embroidered sampler.

Framed

1947

English

6.9

♡ 8

55%

Richard Wallace Director

Walter Baldwin as Assistant Manager

Martin Garralaga as Cafe Janitor

Gene Roth as Detective

Edgar Buchanan as Jeff Cunningham

Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.

The Long, Long Trailer

1954

English

7.0

♡ 7

55%

78%

based on novel or book

Vincente Minnelli Director

Norman Leavitt as Driver

Edna Skinner as Maude Barrett

Keenan Wynn as Policeman

Walter Baldwin as Uncle Edgar

A newly wed couple, Tacy and Nicky, travel in a trailer for their honeymoon. The journey is a humorous one that could end up destroying their marriage.