Morris Carnovsky Filmography

The Gambler

Actors: Starletta DePaur, James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton, Morris Carnovsky, Jacqueline Brookes

Synopsis: James Toback made his screenwriting debut with this taut drama, loosely adapted from the story by Dostoevsky. Axel Freed (James Caan) is an intelligent and well-respected professor of literature at a noted New York university, who uses great writing as a springboard for examining moral and Read More

A View from the Bridge

Actors: Raf Vallone, Jean Sorel, Maureen Stapleton, Raymond Pellegrin, Carol Lawrence

Synopsis: A View from the Bridge is set in New York, but the alleged political undesirability of playwright Arthur Miller dictated that this film be lensed in France. Director Sidney Lumet shot the film in both English and French, with the English version sounding more recited than acted at times. Raf Vallone Read More

The Second Woman

Actors: Robert Young, Betsy Drake, Florence Bates, Morris Carnovsky

Synopsis: In the vein of Spellbound and Rebecca comes this 1951 film noir from director James V. Kern. Robert Young stars as Jeff Cohalan, a successful architect who is tormented by the fact that his fiancée was killed in a mysterious car accident on the night before their wedding. Blaming himself for her Read More

Cyrano De Bergerac

Actors: José Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince, Morris Carnovsky, Ralph Clanton, Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: Recreating his stage role, Jose Ferrer stars as Edmond Rostand's Cyrano, a 17th-century French cavalier, poet and swordsman whose prominent proboscis is the subject of many a duel. Cyrano is madly in love with the beautiful Roxanne (Mala Powers), but assumes that she'd never love him back due to Read More

Western Pacific Agent

Actors: Mickey Knox, Sheila Ryan, Kent Taylor, Morris Carnovsky, Robert Lowery

Synopsis: Despite its title, Western Pacific Agent is a contemporary crime melodrama. Kent Taylor stars as a railroad detective, assigned to track down an elusive robber-murderer. The audience knows from the outset who the culprit is (hotheaded Mickey Knox, who delivers an astonishingly vicious Read More

Thieves' Highway

Actors: Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb, Barbara Lawrence, Jack Oakie, Millard Mitchell

Synopsis: Thieves' Highway is set in San Francisco and the surrounding countryside. Richard Conte plays Nick Garcos, an American GI who returns from WWII to find that his father Yanko (Morris Carnovsky), a produce trucker, has lost the use of both legs because of a fight with crooked truck driver Mike Read More

Gun Crazy

Actors: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger, Morris Carnovsky, Anabel Shaw

Synopsis: The definitive Joseph H. Lewis-directed melodrama, Gun Crazy is the "Bonnie and Clyde" story retooled for the disillusioned postwar generation. John Dall plays a timorous, emotionally disturbed World War II veteran who has had a lifelong fixation with guns. He meets a kindred spirit in carnival Read More

Saigon

Actors: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Wally Cassell, Douglas Dick, Luther Adler, Morris Carnovsky

Synopsis: One of the great onscreen romantic pairings, Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, ended with this romantic adventure film, their fourth cinematic collaboration. In Shanghai after WWII, veteran pilots Larry Briggs (Ladd) and Pete Rocco (Wally Cassell) are dismayed when informed that friend Mike Perry (Douglas Dick Read More

Siren of Atlantis

Actors: Maria Montez, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Dennis O'Keefe, Henry Daniell, Morris Carnovsky

Synopsis: Siren of Atlantis is the third movie version of Pierre Benoit's fantasy novel L'Atlantide, first film in 1921. Jean-Pierre Aumont and Dennis O'Keefe star as Foreign Legionnaires Andre and Jean, who while on a routine mission in the African desert stumble upon the sunken city of Atlantis. Once Read More

Man-Eater of Kumaon

Actors: Sabu, Wendell Corey, Joanne Page, Morris Carnovsky, Argentina Brunetti

Synopsis: East Indian actor Sabu heads the cast of the location-filmed Man-Eater of Kumaon. While the film's romantic plotline is carried by native couple Naraian (Sabu) and Lali (Joanne Page), the main story concentrates on the regeneration of American society doctor John Collins (Wendell Corey). Despite Read More

Joe Palooka in the Knockout

Dishonored Lady

Actors: Hedy Lamarr, Dennis O'Keefe, John Loder, Morris Carnovsky, William Lundigan

Synopsis: In this drama, Madeleine Damien (Hedy Lamarr) is a successful magazine editor with a free-spirited private life, but a number of failed relationships and years of burning the candle at both ends have taken their toll and Madeleine is suicidal and on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Her Read More

Dead Reckoning

Actors: James Bell, Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky, William Prince, George Chandler, Charles Cane, Wallace Ford, Marvin Miller

Synopsis: In Dead Reckoning, Rip Murdock (Humphrey Bogart) recites the film's plotline to a priest in the confessional. Murdock and Johnny Drake (William Prince) are Congressional Medal of Honor recipients, en route to Washington by train. Drake hops off and disappears, leading Murdock on a hectic manhunt. Read More

Miss Susie Slagle's

Actors: Veronica Lake, Sonny Tufts, Joan Caulfield, Ray Collins, Billy De Wolfe, Bill Edwards

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Augusta Tucker, the provocatively titled Miss Susie Slagle's is actually a leisurely, sentimental story set in a turn-of-the-century boarding house. The title character, played by Lillian Gish, is the house's landlady, catering exclusively to young doctors and nurses in Read More

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, James Craig, Frances Gifford, Agnes Moorehead, Morris Carnovsky

Synopsis: An earnest rural melodrama set among Norwegian immigrants in Wisconsin, Our Vines Have Tender Grapes is a slightly updated version of George Victor Martin's 1940 novel. Edward G. Robinson stars as Martinius Jacobson, a farmer devoted to his wife Bruna (Agnes Moorehead) and precocious Read More

Rhapsody in Blue

Actors: Robert Alda, Joan Leslie, Alexis Smith, Charles Coburn, Julie Bishop, Oscar Levant

Synopsis: There's slightly more fancy than fact in this lavish film biography of legendary American composer George Gershwin, but oh! That music! Director Irving Rapper had wanted Tyrone Power to play Gershwin, but Power was still serving in the Marines, so Rapper had to settle for Robert Alda--who isn't Read More

Cornered

Actors: Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Nina Vale, Micheline Cheirel, Morris Carnovsky

Synopsis: Canadian WW II pilot Gerard (Dick Powell) intends to track down and kill collaborationist Marcel Jarne, the man responsible for the wartime death of Gerard's French wife. The trouble is, Jarne has never been effectively identified by the authorities -- and in fact could be just about anyone whom Read More

The Master Race

Actors: George Coulouris, Osa Massen, Stanley Ridges, Carl Esmond, Lloyd Bridges, Nancy Gates

Synopsis: The Master Race argues persuasively that, although it appeared that the Nazis would lose WW2, it was foolish to assume that Hitler's legacy would not insinuate itself into the postwar era. Nazi bigwig Von Beck (George Coulouris) arrives in a small Belgian village on the eve of its liberation by Read More

Address Unknown

Actors: Paul Lukas, Carl Esmond, Peter Van Eyck, Mady Christians

Synopsis: A plot revealed through the correspondence between German-American businessman and his Jewish partner, Lukas, the German-American, returns to Germany during the early Nazi years and gets caught up in the racist philosophies. He goes to the point of denying even his partner's daughter, who is Read More

Edge of Darkness

Actors: Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston, Tom Fadden, Judith Anderson, Nancy Coleman, Helmut Dantine

Synopsis: The Norwegian resistance to the Nazi occupation of their country inspired several wartime films from Hollywood, including this Warner Bros. production, filmed in and around Monterey, California. In October 1942, a German observation airplane discovers a seaside village named Trollness where the Read More

The Russian Story

Synopsis: The Russian Story is actually several stories-in fact; snippets from 25 different Soviet documentaries were bundled together within this film's 68 minutes. Subtitled A Film Cavalcade of a Thousand Years of Russian Heroism, the picture is an unabashed paean to the USSR, which was then one of Read More

The 400 Million

Actors: Morris Carnovsky, Alfred Ryder, Robert Lewis, Sidney Lumet

Tovarich

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer, Basil Rathbone, Anita Louise, Melville Cooper

Synopsis: Two members of the Russian monarchy pose as French servants while hiding the Czar's fortune. This unlikely plot is at the core of this successful 1937 Hollywood comedy-drama starring the French-born Charles Boyer as Prince Mikail Alexandrovitch Ouratieff. The prince and his wife, Grand Duchess Read More

The Life of Emile Zola

Actors: Paul Muni, Gloria Holden, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut, Robert Warwick, Donald Crisp

Synopsis: The second of Paul Muni's biographical films for Warner Bros., the Oscar-winning The Life of Emile Zola is by far the best, even allowing for the dramatic license taken with the material. When first we meet French novelist and essayist Zola, he is starving in a Parisian garret with his painter Read More