12 Angry Men (1957), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), The Ox-Bow Incident (1942), The Lady Eve (1941), My Darling Clementine (1946), Mister Roberts (1955), Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), Il mio nome è Nessuno (1973) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Henry Fonda movies.
Storyline: Two innocent men are wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The fiance of one of them convinces a police detective of their innocence, and together they try to find the real killer before the men's execution date.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, film noir, courtroom, wrongful conviction, suspense, social justice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Madcap debutante Melsa Manton finds a body in a deserted house. Of course, the police don't believe her. Stung by Peter Ames's front page editorial decrying her "prank," Melsa enlists seven fellow debs to help her investigate. The wisecracking young ladies proceed to run circles around the police, the suspects, and the press.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: comedy, mystery, romance, crime, female lead, 1930s, new york ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent this occurrence, Hitler orders an all out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp. "The Battle of the Bulge" shows this conflict from the perspective of an American intelligence officer as well as from a German Panzer Commander.
Plot Keywords: war, history, world war ii, battle, military, action, drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cowboy John O'Hanlan (James Stewart) is surprised to learn that someone's left him a business in Cheyenne, Wyo. He sets out to claim it -- and is shocked to discover that it's a brothel. Madam Jenny (Shirley Jones), who runs the place, is dismayed when O'Hanlan wants to close it down, but his plans are derailed when he finds out that a local customer has beaten Jenny. He kills the man in a shootout, and then must protect himself and the girls from the dead man's vengeful clan.
Plot Keywords: western, comedy, buddy film, lighthearted, social satire, period piece, american west ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Mary Donnell was married at sixteen to a gangster and soon widowed. She works for unhappily married lawyer Lloyd Rogers. A client's son Jack elopes with her, but his father tracks them down and has the marriage annulled. Mary has a son. Unaware of this, the father remarries; his new wife is crippled in an auto accident. The lawyer, now dying, tells Mary he has left her money for her and her son, Rogers' widow suspects her husband may have been the father. Jack's ruthless father , upon learning that he is the grandparent of the child, threatens legal action to gain custody, but his son wants no part in separating little Jackie from his mother. Further, he reasserts his love for Mary and promises he will ask his now handicapped wife, Flip, for a divorce so that Jackie will have a real family. He instructs Mary to pack her belongings and get Jackie ready to leave so that the three can start a new life together. Before Jack has a chance to inform his now-handicapped wife, Flip, of these stunning developments, Flip pays an unexpected visit to Mary's apartment. To Mary's surprise, Flip makes a heartfelt, selfless plea for her to take Jack and make him happy as (in her words) she could no longer do. Mary is so struck by the offer and by Flip's true love for Jack, that she not only decides to cancel her plans to reunite with Jack, but also to ask Jack to adopt Jackie and, along with Flip, give him a 'proper' life in society. Jack enters the apartment and, in a whispered chat with Mary, is prevented from telling Flip that he ever had any intention of leaving her.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, classic, black and white, hollywood, 1930s, female lead ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Susan Miller (Gene Tierney) works as a shopgirl but fantasizes about one day being rich. One afternoon, she meets Maybelle (Spring Byington) and Warren (Laird Cregar), two con artists on the lookout for a pretty girl to join their marrying-for-money scheme. Susan agrees to join them, and soon the three have set their sights on John Wheeler (Henry Fonda), a mathematician with a fondness for boats. Susan realizes he's not a millionaire, but falls for him anyway, causing trouble with her partners.
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, drama, crime, mistaken identity, con artists, 1940s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's Homecoming weekend at Midwestern University, the weekend which will culminate with the big game between Midwestern and Michigan. Homecoming marks the return for the first time in six years of alumnus All-American Joe Ferguson, whose world is all about football and especially his place in it. Mild-mannered English Professor Tommy Turner is able to handle the thought of Joe's return to campus as the ex-boyfriend of Tommy's wife of six years, Ellen Turner née Stanley, who is temperamentally more like Joe than him. Tommy knows that Ellen loves him, the reason he doesn't mind the thought of Joe. The weekend starts off well enough for Tommy in that he believes he is being promoted from associate to full professor, which if be the case would be much earlier than he or Ellen had expected. However, it comes to his attention that Michael Barnes, an idealistic student of his who is also the editor of the campus' literary magazine, has written an editorial for the upcoming edition of the magazine denouncing what he considers the fascist policies of the Ed Keller led Board of Trustees, who have gone on a Communist witch hunt among the faculty, and praising who he considers principled Tommy, as Tommy is planning on reading to his English Composition class a letter written by anarchist Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Tommy admits the fact that Michael has written is true, he regularly reading what he considers documents of good writing by non-professional writers, regardless of content or the author, as he is also planning to read to his class a document written by Abraham Lincoln. Frederick Damon, the Dean of the English Department, wants to stay out of the fray and what he knows will be the wrath of the powerful Keller about the editorial and Tommy's intended actions. Tommy has to decide what to do, he reading the letter which would jeopardize his life at Midwestern. Through the weekend, he also sees what he thinks is more clearly Ellen's kinship to both him and Joe, she who would be better off with his competitor than him. What Tommy decides to do may not only affect his position and his marriage, but also the life of Ellen's younger sister Patricia Stanley as two men vie for her affections: Michael and the team's star fullback, the dimwitted Wally Myers.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, drama, campus, marriage, intellectual, social satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This movie tells the story of Eva Lovelace, a girl who comes to New York City in order to become a great actress. With hard work, she succeeds in working at a theatre and finally gets her chance on stage after a great deal of changes and difficulties.—Volker Boehm
Plot Keywords: musical, drama, romance, broadway, remake, hollywood, color film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On a ski trip, rich, idle Peter Kirk pursues and falls (literally) for Helen Hunt, M.D. After a courtship of hypochondria, she agrees to marry him on the condition that she continue to practice medicine. But will jealous Peter be able to reconcile himself to his wife's seeing male patients?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, drama, black comedy, marriage, misunderstanding, jealousy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: College sweethearts Julie and Ives have planned to marry. Their plans go amiss when Julie meets a weak writer and runs off to marry him. After her husband dies, she's left in Paris, penniless and with a daughter to support. She decides to return to her home town with the intent to renew her romance with Ives. His family and a scheming co-ed vow to avert a reunion of the two...—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, classic, black and white, american film, 1930s, romantic comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jonathan Street is a struggling composer when he meets and marries Annette. The problem is that Jonathan was drunk and does not want to be married. Annette does go with him to Paris and does the cooking and cleaning. To get his music published, Annette takes it to Paul and he is won over - by her voice and not the music. So he manages her career and she becomes a star as an opera singer everywhere she goes. Since Jonathan cannot sell anything he writes, he leaves Annette and that makes Annette sad as she wants only to be his wife.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, 1930s, black and white, classic hollywood, music competition ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A new Navy officer (Gary Cooper) leads recruits on an untested steam-powered patrol boat dubbed the USS Teakettle.
Plot Keywords: war, navy, comedy, military, submarine, training, chaos ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Following the closing arguments in a murder trial, the 12 members of the jury must deliberate, with a guilty verdict meaning death for the accused, an inner-city teen. As the dozen men try to reach a unanimous decision while sequestered in a room, one juror (Henry Fonda) casts considerable doubt on elements of the case. Personal issues soon rise to the surface, and conflict threatens to derail the delicate process that will decide one boy's fate.
Plot Keywords: courtroom drama, suspense, black and white, moral dilemma, legal, human nature, prejudice ...
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