Raoul WalshFilmography

A Distant Trumpet

Crew: Director

Actors: Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette, Diane McBain, James Gregory, William Reynolds

Synopsis: Troy Donahue stars in this drive-in quality "B"-Western from the Warner Brothers backlot, directed by veteran director Raoul Walsh. Donahue is U.S. Cavalry Lieutenant Matt Hazard, who arrives at Fort Delivery on the Mexican border of Arizona for a new assignment. Kitty Mainwaring (Suzanne Pleshette Read More

Esther and the King

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Joan Collins, Richard Egan, Denis O'Dea, Sergio Fantoni

Synopsis: Just over a decade before she would gain fame and some fortune as Alexis Carrington in television's Dynasty series, Joan Collins starred as Esther in this melodramatic, routine Biblical story. The setting is Persia in the 4th century BC, as Esther comes to the attention of the recently widowed Read More

Marines, Let's Go

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Tom Tryon, David Hedison, Tom Reese, William Tyler

Synopsis: This is a straightforward, unexceptional story about a platoon of Marines taken out of battle in Korea for some R & R in Tokyo, and then sent back to the front lines again. The four men are stereotypes found in many war stories: the simpatico country boy, the intellect though not overtly so, a Read More

A Private's Affair

Crew: Director

Actors: Sal Mineo, Christine Carère, Barry Coe, Barbara Eden, Gary Crosby

Synopsis: A trio of energetic young men try to put on a good show for their Army camp, in this lightweight comedy by Raoul Walsh. Luigi (Sal Mineo just risen to stardom), Jerry (Berry Coe), and Mike (Gary Crosby) are in boot camp when they are presented with a chance to represent their unit in competition Read More

The Naked and the Dead

Crew: Director

Actors: Aldo Ray, Cliff Robertson, Raymond Massey, Barbara Nichols

Synopsis: Despite an ad campaign wherein RKO Radio congratulated itself for its "guts", this long-delayed film version of Norman Mailer's bestselling WW2 novel The Naked and the Dead still had to pull most of its punches (especially when it came to four-letter words). Aldo Ray heads the cast as sadistic Read More

The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw

Crew: Director

Actors: Kenneth More, Jayne Mansfield, Robert Morley, Ronald Squire, David Horne, Henry Hull

Synopsis: Kenneth More portrays a British gunsmith who travels to the American West. After winning a rigged poker game, More is appointed sheriff of Fractured Jaw, a wide-open town where law officers are plugged and planted on a regular basis. He befriends hard-bitten saloon gal Jayne Mansfield, who doesn't Read More

Band of Angels

Crew: Director

Actors: Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Poitier, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Patric Knowles

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Robert Penn Warren, this Southern potboiler stars Yvonne DeCarlo as Amantha Starr, the daughter of a wealthy Louisiana plantation owner. When her father unexpectedly dies, Amantha discovers that her father was deep in debt and the family is penniless, and she is forced to drop Read More

The Revolt of Mamie Stover

Crew: Director

Actors: Jane Russell, Richard Egan, Joan Leslie, Agnes Moorehead, Jorja Curtright

Synopsis: Set in the early '40s and directed by Raoul Walsh, The Revolt of Mamie Stover stars Jane Russell as Mamie, a San Francisco prostitute who is run out of town just as the second world war has begun to intensify. Mamie (Russell) settles down in Hawaii, hoping to start a new life. Though her prospects Read More

The King and Four Queens

Crew: Director

Actors: Clark Gable, Eleanor Parker, Jo Van Fleet, Jean Willes, Barbara Nichols

Synopsis: The King and Four Queens was the first (and last) project from Clark Gable's own production company, GABCO. Gable stars as Western fugitive Dan Kehoe, who hides out in a small ghost town. Here he whiles away his time with the town's only inhabitants: Ma MacDade (Jo Van Fleet), matriarch of the Read More

The Tall Men

Crew: Director

Actors: Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan, Cameron Mitchell, Juan Garcia, Emile G. Meyer

Synopsis: Clark Gable and Jane Russell star in this rugged widescreen western, exquisitely photographed by Leo Tover and directed by veteran action expert Raoul A. Walsh. Gable plays Ben Allison, who with his brother Clint (Cameron Mitchell) journeys to Montana in search of gold. They come upon wealthy Read More

Battle Cry

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman, Nancy Olson, James Whitmore, Tab Hunter

Synopsis: Adapted by Leon Uris from his own novel, the film follows a group of World War II marines, from Basic Training to Battlefield. Major Van Heflin knows that his men are spoiling for a real fight, but must make do with the desultory skirmishes assigned them by the Brass. All this changes with an Read More

Saskatchewan

Crew: Director

Actors: Alan Ladd, Shelley Winters, Robert Douglas, J. Carrol Naish, Hugh O'Brian

Synopsis: Saskatchewan is a "northern" starring Alan Ladd as tight-lipped Canadian Mountie Sgt. Thomas O'Rourke. He rescues Grace Markey (Shelley Winters), sole survivor of a Sioux uprising, and the two of them set out across the treacherous Saskatchewan terrain to safety. To keep himself and his companion Read More

Sea Devils

Crew: Director

Actors: Yvonne De Carlo, Rock Hudson, Maxwell Reed, Denis O'Dea, Michael Goodliffe

Synopsis: Victor Hugo's Toilers of the Sea was none too faithfully adapted for the screen as Sea Devils. The hero is Guernsey-Island smuggler Gilliat (Rock Hudson); the heroine is glamorous British spy Drouette (Yvonne de Carlo). Set during the Napoleonic wars, the plot finds Gilliat and Drouette trying to Read More

A Lion Is in the Streets

Crew: Director

Actors: James Cagney, Barbara Hale, Anne Francis, Warner Anderson, John McIntire

Synopsis: In 1945, James Cagney, through his independent production company, bought the rights to a lurid novel by Adria Locke Langley, concerning the rise of a Southern demagogue, loosely based on the political career of Huey Long. By the time the film finally went into production and was released in 1953 Read More

Gun Fury

Crew: Director

Actors: Rock Hudson, Donna Reed, Philip Carey

Synopsis: Originally shot in 3-D, Gun Fury opens with wealthy rancher Ben Warren (Rock Hudson) and his fiancée Jennifer Ballard (Donna Reed) aboard a stagecoach bound for California. Having recently fought in the Civil War, Ben is looking forward to returning to a peaceful life with his soon-to-be wife. Read More

Blackbeard the Pirate

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix, Keith Andes, Torin Thatcher

Synopsis: Robert Newton exhibits absolutely no shame in his portrayal of the title character in Blackbeard the Pirate. If you thought that Newton's "Arr, matey"s got out of hand in Treasure Island, wait til you see this one. The plot concerns the efforts of the British admirality to bring Blackbeard to Read More

Glory Alley

Crew: Director

Actors: Ralph Meeker, Leslie Caron, Kurt Kasznar, Gilbert Roland, John McIntire

Synopsis: Authentic New Orleans locations enhance the overall enjoyment of the prizefight melodrama Glory Alley. A mere few seconds before a championship bout, Socks Barbarrosa (Ralph Meeker) decides to throw in the towel so far as his boxing career is concerned. Socks' friends, family and handlers assume Read More

The World in His Arms

Crew: Director

Actors: Gregory Peck, Ann Blyth, Anthony Quinn, John McIntire, Andrea King, Carl Esmond

Synopsis: Gregory Peck and Anthony Quinn play two seal-hunting rivals in this adventure film set in the days when Alaska was a Russian territory. Peck is adventuring seafarer Jonathan Clark, who falls in love with Russian Countess Marina Selanova (Ann Blyth) while the countess is in San Francisco fleeing an Read More

The Lawless Breed

Crew: Director

Actors: Rock Hudson, Julie Adams, Mary Castle, John McIntire, Hugh O'Brian

Synopsis: The Lawless Breed is based on the exploits of Texas bad man John Wesley Hardin, played here quite convincingly by Rock Hudson. The film takes the Cecil B. DeMille approach of condemning evil by showing as much evil as the censor will allow. After nearly an hour of unrepentant perfidy, Hardin Read More

Captain Horatio Hornblower

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty, Terence Morgan, Denis O'Dea, James Robertson Justice, Moultrie Kelsall

Synopsis: Gregory Peck stars as the title character in this swashbuckling saga of the high seas based on C.S. Forester's novel. In 1807, Hornblower is given a special assignment by the British Navy: he is to deliver a supply of weapons to El Supremo (Alec Mango), a Latin American rebel leading an uprising Read More

Distant Drums

Crew: Director

Actors: Gary Cooper, Mari Aldon, Richard Webb, Ray Teal, Arthur Hunnicutt

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Florida's Everglades, Distant Drums stars Gary Cooper as Indian fighter Quincy Wyatt. At the height of the Seminole wars, Wyatt leads a small group of soldiers into the Everglades to offer resistance. Along the way, they rescue Judy Beckett (Mari Aldon), one of several white Read More

Along the Great Divide

Crew: Director

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Virginia Mayo, John Agar, Walter Brennan, Ray Teal

Synopsis: Raoul Walsh injects his expected artistry in the otherwise journeyman western Along the Great Divide. Feeling responsible for his father's death, marshal Kirk Douglas seeks redemption. He gets his chance when he saves murder suspect Walter Brennan from a lynch mob. The grateful Brennan accompanies Douglas Read More

White Heat

Crew: Director

Actors: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Steve Cochran, Margaret Wycherly

Synopsis: In later years, James Cagney regarded White Heat with a combination of pride and regret; while satisfied with his own performance, he tended to dismiss the picture as a "cheap melodrama." Seen today, White Heat stands as one of the classic crime films of the 1940s, containing perhaps Cagney's best Read More

It's a Great Feeling

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Bill Goodwin, Irving Bacon

Synopsis: Billy Wilder's future partner I.A.L. Diamond concocted the storyline for this Dennis Morgan/Jack Carson/Doris Day tunefest. Morgan and Carson, Warner Bros.' answer to Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, appear as themselves. Attempting to line up a director for their next picture, the boys find themselves Read More

Colorado Territory

Crew: Director

Actors: Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Dorothy Malone, Henry Hull, John Archer

Synopsis: Though not acknowledged by contemporary reviewers, Colorado Territory is a westernized remake of the 1941 crime drama High Sierra. Raoul Walsh, director of the earlier film, returns to helm the remake, doing a grand job on both occasions. Joel McCrea stars in the Humphrey Bogart role, playing a Read More

Silver River

Crew: Director

Actors: Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Thomas Mitchell, Bruce Bennett, Tom D'Andrea

Synopsis: Love leads a man to his most evil deeds and forces him to change his ways in this Western. After being handed a dishonorable discharge during the Civil War, Mike McComb (Errol Flynn) becomes a professional gambler and follows a path of ruthless action to get what he wants. After moving out West Read More

One Sunday Afternoon

Crew: Director

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Janis Paige, Don DeFore, Dorothy Malone, Ben Blue

Synopsis: This third film version of James Hagan's stage play One Sunday Afternoon was directed by Raoul Walsh, who helmed the second adaptation (1941's Strawberry Blonde). This time around, songs have been added to accommodate the talents of Dennis Morgan and Janis Paige. Morgan stars as Read More

Fighter Squadron

Crew: Director

Actors: Edmond O'Brien, Robert Stack, John Rodney, Tom D'Andrea, Henry Hull

Synopsis: Excellent Technicolor photography, principally in the aerial scenes, is the main asset of the cliché-ridden Fighter Squadron. Set in the months just prior to D-Day, the plot zeroes in on Marjor Ed Hardin (Edmond O'Brien) leader of a squadron of fearless combat pilots. In keeping with the Read More

Stallion Road

Crew: Director

Actors: Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Peggy Knudsen, Pat Brady

Synopsis: Veterinarian Ronald Reagan contracts anthrax from treating diseased cows in this horsey melodrama from Warner Bros. In fact, Reagan's dutiful Dr. Larry Hanrahan is so busy with the cows that he completely ignores a summons from lady horse breeder Rory Teller (Alexis Smith) to treat her Read More

Cheyenne

Crew: Director

Actors: John Alvin, Bruce Bennett, Monte Blue, John Compton, Tom Fadden

Synopsis: A mysterious crook by the name of "The Poet" is robbing Wells Fargo stages and creating havoc in the Old West. The sheriff is having no luck discovering the desperado's identity; when he comes across James Wylie (Dennis Morgan), a gambler who is running from the law in Carson City, he blackmails Read More

Pursued

Crew: Director

Actors: Teresa Wright, Robert Mitchum, Judith Anderson, Dean Jagger, Harry Carey, Jr., Alan Hale

Synopsis: Chased by a posse to a remote cabin, Jeb (Robert Mitchum) is joined by his fearful wife Thorley (Teresa Wright), awaiting the arrival of the men tracking them, as they try to reason out what has gone wrong in their lives. Jeb can't remember anything about his early childhood except for a horrible Read More

The Man I Love

Crew: Director

Actors: Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King, Martha Vickers, Bruce Bennett

Synopsis: Ida "Don't mess with me" Lupino takes a job as a singer in Robert Alda's seedy Santa Monica nitery. Lupino ignores Alda's advances to cultivate a romance with pianist Bruce Bennett. Alda uses his connections with the Mob to break up the relationship--and also, hopefully, to break up Bennett into Read More

The Horn Blows at Midnight

Crew: Director

Actors: Jack Benny, Alexis Smith, Guy Kibbee, Allyn Joslyn, Margaret Dumont, Dolores Moran, Reginald Gardiner

Synopsis: Though Jack Benny made a cottage industry out of joking about the purported rottenness of his 1945 vehicle Horn Blows at Midnght, the film is in fact a delightful comedy-fantasy-certainly not Benny's best film, but far from his worst. While dozing off during a radio broadcast, studio musician Read More

Salty O'Rourke

Crew: Director

Actors: Alan Ladd, Gail Russell, William Demarest, Bruce Cabot, Spring Byington

Synopsis: The tumultuous world of horse-racing provides the backdrop of this drama. Directed by Raoul Walsh, Salty O'Rourke features the exploits of luckless gambler Salty O'Rourke (Alan Ladd) and his pal Smitty (William Demarest), who are indebted to a bookie and deeply in need of a fast dollar. Desperate Read More

Objective, Burma!

Crew: Director

Actors: Errol Flynn, Henry Hull, William Prince, James Brown, George Tobias

Synopsis: A few corny moments aside, Objective Burma must rate as one of the best combat films of WW2. Errol Flynn stars as Captain Nelson, who leads a hardy band of paratroopers behind enemy lines in Burma, for the purpose of destroying a Japanese radar station. Their mission accomplished, Nelson and his Read More

Uncertain Glory

Crew: Director

Actors: Errol Flynn, Paul Lukas, Jean Sullivan, Lucile Watson, Faye Emerson

Synopsis: Uncertain Glory finds Errol Flynn atypically cast as French criminal Jean Picard, a craven coward whose many misdeeds have earned him a date with the guillotine. Detective Marcel Bonet (Paul Lukas) intends to see that Picard keeps his appointment with the executioner, despite the fact that there's Read More

Background to Danger

Crew: Director

Actors: George Raft, Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Osa Massen

Synopsis: Eric Ambler's intriguing novel Uncommon Danger is brought down to a Republic serial level in Warner Bros.' Background to Danger. George Raft, who always seems miscast, plays an American undercover intelligence agent operating in Turkey. Sultry Osa Massen passes on some valuable secret papers to Raft Read More

Northern Pursuit

Crew: Director

Actors: Errol Flynn, Julie Bishop, Helmut Dantine, John Ridgely, Gene Lockhart

Synopsis: The fact that star Errol Flynn had been recently embroiled in a real-life rape trial only served to increase the box-office "pull" of Warner Bros. Northern Pursuit. Flynn is cast as Canadian mountie Steve Wagner, assigned to track down and capture downed Nazi pilot Hugo von Keller (Helmut Dantine) Read More

Gentleman Jim

Crew: Director

Actors: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale, John Loder

Synopsis: Maybe Errol Flynn was never the war hero that he often played, but he was a capable boxer, and Gentleman Jim makes full use of this skill. Flynn stars as Jim Corbett, the 19th-century American pugilist who introduced "scientific" methods to bare-knuckle boxing. Originally an office clerk, Corbett Read More

Desperate Journey

Crew: Director

Actors: Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Arthur Kennedy, Raymond Massey, Sig Rumann, Pat O'Moore

Synopsis: In this, one of many World War II propaganda films of the early 1940s, Errol Flynn is one of five RAF pilots to survive a crash-landing in occupied Poland. They are relentlessly pursued by Nazi officer Raymond Massey, who despite his erudition and poise comes across as one of the densest men on Read More

They Died With Their Boots On

Crew: Director

Actors: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Charles Grapewin, Regis Toomey, Gene Lockhart, Stanley Ridges

Synopsis: Though history is distorted almost beyond recognition in Warner Bros.' They Died With Their Boots On, audiences in 1941 ate it up like cotton candy. In the gospel according to Warners, General George Armstrong Custer (Errol Flynn) is neither an arrogant fool nor a rabid Indian hater. Instead, he Read More

The Strawberry Blonde

Crew: Director

Actors: James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth, Jack Carson, Alan Hale

Synopsis: Strawberry Blonde is the second, and by far the most well-regarded, of the three film versions of James Hogan's play One Sunday Afternoon. James Cagney stars as Biff Grimes, a turn-of-the-century dentist married to onetime suffragette Amy Lind (Olivia de Havilland). A former convict, Biff has Read More

High Sierra

Crew: Director

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Arthur Kennedy, Joan Leslie, Alan Curtis

Synopsis: In a manner of speaking, Humphrey Bogart had George Raft to thank for his ascendancy to stardom: after all, if Raft hadn't turned down both High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon, Bogart might have continued playing second-billed gangsters to the end of his days. Adapted from W. R. Burnett's novel by Burnett Read More

Manpower

Crew: Director

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, George Raft, Alan Hale, Frank McHugh

Synopsis: Manpower was Warner Bros' latest reworking of 1932's Tiger Shark, with power-company linemen substituting for tuna fisherman. While repair some downed lines in a heavy thunderstorm, Hank McHenry (Edward G. Robinson) saves the life of his best pal Johnny Marshall (George Raft). While Johnny emerges Read More

They Drive by Night

Crew: Director

Actors: George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Gale Page

Synopsis: They just don't make 'em like They Drive By Night anymore. This slam-bang Warner Bros. attraction stars George Raft and Humphrey Bogart as Joe and Paul Fabrini, owners of a small but scrappy trucking firm. The film deftly combines comedy with thrills for the first half-hour or so, as the Fabrini Read More

The Dark Command

Crew: Director

Actors: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Walter Pidgeon, Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes

Synopsis: Set in the years leading up to the Civil War and its outbreak, Dark Command tells a fictionalized version of the story of William Clarke Quantrill, the schoolteacher-turned-renegade, whose raids -- ostensibly on behalf of the Confederacy -- turned Kansas into a charnel house. John Wayne plays Bob Read More

The Roaring Twenties

Crew: Director

Actors: James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane, Jeffrey Lynn, Gladys George

Synopsis: Based upon an idea by Broadway columnist Mark Hellinger, The Roaring Twenties opens during World War I as doughboys Eddie Bartlett (James Cagney), Lloyd Hart (Jeffrey Lynn), and George Hally (Humphrey Bogart) discuss what they will do when the war is over. Bartlett wants to go back to repairing Read More

St. Louis Blues

Crew: Director

Actors: Dorothy Lamour, Lloyd Nolan, Tito Guizar, Jerome Cowan, Jessie Ralph

Synopsis: Dorothy Lamour had been playing "sarong girls" long enough to parody her screen character in 1939's Best of the Blues. Tired of portraying jungle princesses, a temperamental Broadway star (Lamour) runs out on her manager (Jerome Cowan) and joins a Mississippi showboat under a phony name. Read More

College Swing

Crew: Director

Actors: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Martha Raye, Bob Hope, Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis: It's hard to go wrong with such stars as Bob Hope, Burns & Allen, Martha Raye and Edward Everett Horton, and College Swing doesn't-go wrong, that is. The film begins in 1738, when a pact is drawn up between the Alden family and a highly respected Colonial college: If any female member of the Read More

When Thief Meets Thief

Crew: Director

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Valerie Hobson, Alan Hale, Jack Melford, Anthony Ireland

Synopsis: Directed by Raoul Walsh, When Thief Meets Thief chronicles the story of two ex-partners in crime who have fallen in love with the same woman. When cat-burglar Ricky Morgan (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) gets emotionally involved with one of his victims, Glory Fane (Valerie Hobson), he doesn't realize Read More

O.H.M.S.

Crew: Director

Actors: Wallace Ford, John Mills, Anna Lee, Grace Bradley, Frank Cellier

Synopsis: Raoul Walsh, best remembered for his rough-and-tumble action pictures, made this film on a rare loan-out to a British studio. Jim Tracey (Wallace Ford) is an American gangster who, while on the run from the law, flees to England, where he joins the British army by posing as a Canadian. Jim and his Read More

Hitting a New High

Crew: Director

Actors: Lily Pons, Jack Oakie, Eric Blore, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard

Synopsis: In this musical, a nightclub singer (Lily Pons) secretly aspires to sing at the Met. To help her, her agent (Jack Oakie) decides to dress her up as "Ooga-Hunga, the Bird Girl" and send her off on a merry chase of an influential opera lover (Eric Blore) who has gone on an African safari. When he Read More

Artists and Models

Crew: Director

Actors: Jack Benny, Ida Lupino, Richard Arlen, Gail Patrick, Ben Blue

Synopsis: Jack Benny had one of his first starring film roles in this breezy comedy with plenty of music. Benny plays Mac Brewster, an advertising man trying to hold on to his biggest client, a silver company run by Alan Townshend (Richard Arlen). Elsewhere in the office, Paula Sewell (Ida Lupino) longs to Read More

Spendthrift

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Henry Fonda, Pat Paterson, Mary Brian, June Brewster, George Barbier

Synopsis: Spendthrift gives the modern viewer a pretty good idea how Hollywood planned to "mold" the image of new star Henry Fonda. The Lanky One is cast as a profligate, polo-playing playboy, married to a beautiful but superficial heiress (Mary Brian). They divorce, and the wife gets all the money. But the Read More

Big Brown Eyes

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Joan Bennett, Cary Grant, Walter Pidgeon, Isabel Jewell, Lloyd Nolan

Synopsis: Joan Bennett is a manicurist who becomes a newspaper reporter. She joins forces with jaunty detective Cary Grant to get the goods on a particularly vicious insurance racket. Bennett unwittingly puts her life in danger by dating a supposedly above-board socialite (Walter Pidgeon) who is actually Read More

Klondike Annie

Crew: Director

Actors: Mae West, Victor McLaglen, Phillip Reed, Harold Huber, Lucille Gleason

Synopsis: Mae West butts heads with Victor McLaglen in Raoul Walsh's Klondike Annie, but the real victor was the Legion of Decency, whose censorship strictures transformed a saucy and spicy gumbo into something closer to chicken noodle soup. West plays Rose Carlton, the kept woman of Chan Lo (Harold Huber) Read More

Under Pressure

Crew: Director

Actors: Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Florence Rice, Marjorie Rambeau, Charles Bickford

Synopsis: Directed by Raoul Walsh, Under Pressure tells of the competition between the crews employed to excavate a complex network of tunnels ranging from Brooklyn to Manhattan. Shocker (Edmund Lowe) and Jumbo (Victor McLaglen) are two such rivals, and the trouble really begins when they both fall for the Read More

Baby Face Harrington

Crew: Director

Actors: Charles Butterworth, Una Merkel, Harvey Stephens, Eugene Pallette, Ruth Selwyn

Synopsis: Directed by Raoul Walsh, Baby Face Harrington features actor Charles Butterworth as Willie, a meek clerk who unintentionally gets involved with the mob when he misplaces two thousand dollars from the life insurance policy he was forced to cash after losing his job. While searching for the missing Read More

Every Night at Eight

Crew: Director

Actors: George Raft, Alice Faye, Frances Langford, Patsy Kelly, Jimmy Hollywood

Synopsis: Alice Faye, Frances Langford, and Patsy Kelly play three humble factory workers (with a Hollywoodized wardrobe beyond the budget of any genuine factory girl) who occasionally sing together for the fun of it. They harbor dreams of becoming famous, but the prospect isn't likely until bandleader George Raft Read More

Sailor's Luck

Crew: Director

Actors: James Dunn, Sally Eilers, Sammy Cohen, Frank Moran, Victor Jory

Synopsis: While U.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan (James Dunn) is on leave in San Pedro, he unexpectedly falls in love with the beautiful Sally Brent (Sally Eilers. Though Sally (Eilers) promises to be faithful after Jimmy (Dunn) ships out to San Francisco, Jimmy becomes jealous. Furious at the news that Sally has Read More

Going Hollywood

Crew: Director

Actors: Marion Davies, Bing Crosby, Fifi D'Orsay, Stuart Erwin, Ned Sparks

Synopsis: Reportedly at the request of Marion Davies herself, Bing Crosby was borrowed from Paramount for the MGM Davies vehicle Going Hollywood. Der Bingle plays a struggling crooner who falls in love with Davies, a French teacher in a girl's school. He rises to fame and fortune in Hollywood, leaving Read More

The Bowery

Crew: Director

Actors: Wallace Beery, George Raft, Jackie Cooper, Fay Wray, Pert Kelton

Synopsis: In this rough-and-tumble action comedy, Chuck Connors (Wallace Beery) and Steve Brodie (George Raft) are friendly rivals on New York's Bowery in the 1890s. Connors owns a fancy tavern and looks after a streetwise kid named Swipes McGurk (Jackie Cooper), while Brodie is a daredevil willing to do Read More

Wild Girl

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Bret Harte's story Salomy Jane's Kiss provided the basis for a play (by Paul Armstrong and a number of films, including 1932's Wild Girl. Set in the High Sierras at the end of the Civil War, the "wild girl" of the title is Salome Jane Clay (Joan Bennett). Rather tomboyish and determined, she isn't Read More

Me and My Gal

Crew: Director

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Marion Burns, George Walsh, John Farrell MacDonald

Synopsis: In this wisecracking comedy, Dan Dolan (Spencer Tracy) is a cop whose beat is the New York waterfront. Dan has a soft spot for Helen Riley (Joan Bennett), a sharp-tongued waitress at a cheap diner, while her scatter-brained sister Kate (Marion Burns) is in love with Duke Castage (George Walsh), a Read More

The Man Who Came Back

Crew: Director

Actors: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Kenneth MacKenna, William Holden, Mary Forbes

Synopsis: The popular screen romantic team of Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell shocked and surprised their fans in the ultra-melodramatic The Man Who Came Back. Based on a 1916 stage success, the film atypically casts Gaynor as Angie, a San Francisco nightclub chanteuse who degenerates into drug addiction. Read More

The Yellow Ticket

Crew: Director

Actors: Elissa Landi, Lionel Barrymore, Laurence Olivier, Walter Byron, Sarah Padden

Synopsis: Based upon a much-filmed play by Michael Morton (which may in turn have been based upon a story by Frank Harris, The Yellow Ticket is also an indirect descendant of the opera La Tosca. In pre-Revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant girl named Marya Kalish (played by Elissa Landi) has reason to Read More

Die Grosse Fahrt [German Version]

Crew: Director

Actors: Theo Shall, Marion Lessing, Ullrich Haupt, Sr., Arnold Korff, Anders VanHaden

Women of All Nations

Crew: Director

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Greta Nissen, El Brendel

Synopsis: Flagg and Quirt, the eternally bickering "friendly enemies" introduced in Lawrence Stallings' WWI play What Price Glory, were at it again in 1931's Women of All Nations. Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe reprise their screen characterizations as pugnacious, girl-crazy marine sergeants Flagg and Read More

The Big Trail

Crew: Director

Actors: John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, El Brendel, Tully Marshall, Tyrone Power, Sr.

Synopsis: The first "epic" western of the talkie era, The Big Trail is motivated by a hero's search for the murderer of his father. Twenty-three-year-old John Wayne, hitherto limited to bit parts, was thrust into the difficult leading role, a young mountaineer put in charge of a huge California-bound wagon Read More

Hot for Paris

Crew: Director

Actors: Victor McLaglen, El Brendel, Polly Moran, Lennox Pawle

Synopsis: In this romance, a none-too-bright sailor (Victor McLaglen) takes a trip to Paris, not realizing he had just won the multi-million dollar prize in a horse lottery. The lotto officials send an agent (Ed Brendel) to find the young sailor and deliver his prize, but he runs away believing he was Read More

The Cock-Eyed World

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Lili Damita, Lelia Karnelly, El Brendel

Synopsis: This sequel to the enormously successful silent film What Price Glory reunites director Raoul Walsh with stars Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe. As in the earlier film, McLaglen and Lowe are cast respectively as Flagg and Quirt, those ever-brawling U.S. Marine sergeants. With WWI but a dim memory Read More

In Old Arizona

Crew: Director

Actors: Warner Baxter, Edmund Lowe, Dorothy Burgess, John Farrell MacDonald, Fred Warren, Henry Armetta

Synopsis: Warner Baxter, sporting a black mustache and a musical-comedy Mexican accent, stars as the Cisco Kid, the "Robin Hood of the Old West" created by O. Henry. Edmund Lowe co-stars as Cisco's "friendly enemy" Sgt. Mickey Dunne, the role that was originally to have gone to Raoul Walsh. Both men are Read More

Me, Gangster

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: June Collyer, Don Terry, Anders Randolf, Al Hill

Synopsis: Me, Gangster was director Raoul Walsh's third 1928 film -- and, according to some historians, the blueprint for such future Walsh crime dramas as Me and My Gal, The Roaring Twenties and White Heat. Told in the form of a diary, the story details the rise and fall of gangster boss Jimmy Williams Read More

Sadie Thompson

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Blanche Frederici, Gloria Swanson, James Marcus, Raoul Walsh, Charles Lane

Synopsis: Rain, the famous John Colton-Clemence Randolph theatrical adaptation of Somerset Maugham's short story about religious hypocrisy, was such a "hot potato" in 1928 that the Hays Office, Hollywood's self-appointed censorship bureau, would not allow the play to be filmed under its original title. Read More

The Red Dance

Crew: Director

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Charles Farrell, Ivan Linow, Boris Charsky, Dorothy Revier

Synopsis: Based upon The Red Dancer of Moscow by Henry Leyford Gates, The Red Dance is a silent film (released with a synchronized score, to take advantage of the commercial allure that "sound" added to films in 1928) that paints a picture of Russia before, during and after the Soviet Revolution. Tasia Read More

The Monkey Talks

Crew: Director

Actors: Olive Borden, Jacques Lerner, Don Alvarado, Malcolm Waite, Raymond Hitchcock

Synopsis: The play The Monkey Talks by Rane Fauchois, which was an international sensation, became one of the silent era's more unusual dramas. Jacques Lerner, who played Fano on-stage, reprises his role. Pierre (Don Alvarado) is spurned by Maisie, a circus performer (Jane Winton). After she runs away with Read More

Loves of Carmen

Crew: Director

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Don Alvarado, Victor McLaglen, Nancy Nash

Synopsis: Dolores Del Rio and director Raoul Walsh took on Prosper Mérimée with this sumptuous silent film produced by William Fox and originally tinted lavender. Del Rio was, of course, the gypsy cigar factory worker caught between two men: the bullfighter Escamillo (Victor McLaglen) and the soldier Don Read More

The Wanderer

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Jether (William Collier Jr.), a young man of Old Testament days, tends his father's sheep and longs to visit the big city. A caravan passes his way, and one of its members, Tisha, a priestess of the pagan goddess Ishtar (Greta Nissen), is attracted to the sheepherder. The wicked Tola (Ernest Read More

What Price Glory?

Crew: Director

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Dolores Del Rio, William V. Mong, Phyllis Haver

Synopsis: From the minute it opened on Broadway in 1924, Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson's gritty WWI comedy-drama What Price Glory? was a center of controversy. Prudes and blue-noses condemned the play for its explicit language, while a group of politicians tried to bring about a federal action to Read More

Lady of the Harem

Crew: Director

Actors: Greta Nissen, William Collier, Jr., Louise Fazenda

Synopsis: Lady of the Harem was based on Hassan, a play by James McElroy Flecker. It all begins when the Caliph of Kornassah (Sojin) sends his minions out to find him more gold and more women. His henchmen return with gorgeous blonde captive Pervannah (Greta Nissen), whose sweetheart Rafi (William Collier Jr Read More

Lucky Lady

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Greta Nissen, William Collier, Jr., Marc MacDermott

Synopsis: Another of Raoul Walsh's "lost" silent films, Lucky Lady stars Gretta Niessen as the title character. Convent-bred to assume her position of nobility when the time comes, Princess Antoinette (Niessen) plays hooky from school one day to attend a theatrical performance. Here she meets a handsome Read More

East of Suez

Crew: Director

Actors: Pola Negri, Edmund Lowe, Rockliffe Fellowes, Noah Beery, Sr.

Synopsis: The exotic Pola Negri is given the role of a half-English, half-Chinese girl in this drama based on W. Somerset Maugham's play and directed by Raoul Walsh. In spite of the illustrious names attached to this production, however, it was a weak film which did justice to none of them. When Daisy Read More

The Thief of Baghdad

Crew: Director

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Snitz Edwards, Julanne Johnston, Anna May Wong, Charles Belcher

Synopsis: Douglas Fairbanks is at his most graceful and charismatic in one of the classic silent films of the 1920s. As the thief of Baghdad, his movements are dance-like -- nothing like the athletics he performed in most of his other films. In this Arabian take, the thief ignores the holy teachings and Read More

Lost and Found on a South Sea Island

Crew: Director, Producer, Screen Story

Actors: House Peters, Pauline Starke, Antonio Moreno, Mary Jane Irving, Rosemary Theby

Synopsis: Starring veteran leading man House Peters, this Raoul Walsh-directed silent melodrama was filmed on location in Tahiti. Peters played Captain Blackbird, who, on the island of Pago Pago meets lovely Lorna (Pauline Starke), a white girl promised by an evil trader, Faulke (eorge Siegmann), to Chief Read More

Kindred of the Dust

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Miriam Cooper, Lionel Belmore, Ralph Graves, Eugénie Besserer

Synopsis: This sentimental melodrama (adapted from the novel by Peter B. Kyne) was the last silent film that director Raoul A. Walsh made under the auspices of his own production company. His then-wife, Miriam Cooper, stars as "Nan of the sawdust pile," who is victimized by a man who wed her illegally. She Read More

Oath

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Miriam Cooper, Conway Tearle, Anna Q. Nilsson, Henry Clive

Synopsis: When Miriam Cooper read William J. Locke's Idols, she begged her husband, director Raoul Walsh, to make a film of it with her in the lead. Playboy Hugh Coleman (Conway Tearle) is disconsolate when he discovers that Irene Lansing (Anna Q. Nilsson) is engaged to his best friend, Gerald Merriam Read More

Serenade

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Miriam Cooper, George Walsh, Rosita Marstini, James Marcus, Josef Swickard

Synopsis: This slow-moving, romantic adventure was certainly a family affair -- the director was Raoul Walsh, the star, Miriam Cooper, was his wife, and her co-star, George Walsh was Raoul's brother, who had recently left the Fox Studios. The story supposedly came from Maria del Carmen by Felin y Condina Read More

From Now on

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Raoul Walsh directed his brother George Walsh (Fox's answer to Douglas Fairbanks) in this crime drama. Dave Henderson (Walsh) is an orphan who receives an inheritance from a wealthy man. But Dick is both naive and wild, so some bookies manage to relieve him of his money. When he realizes that they Read More

Strongest

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Author Georges Clemenceau, who was known as "the tiger of France," adapted his own novel to the screen while recovering from an attempt on his life. Harle (Harrison Hunter) pays far more attention to the factory he owns than to his wife Claire (Florence Malone). She finds a sympathetic soul in Read More

The Deep Purple

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Director Raoul Walsh made a very busy version of the melodrama by Paul Armstrong and Wilson Mizner. But even if he tries to stuff too much into six reels, the acting by star Miriam Cooper (who was also Walsh's wife) stood out. Cooper is Doris Moore, a country girl who is conned by two crooks Read More

Should a Husband Forgive?

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Even though Ruth Fulton (Miriam Cooper) has been raised around horses and horse racing, she is a very naive young girl. It is only by luck that she manages to evade the grasp of more questionable men and wind up with John Carroll (Vincent Coleman), a nice Southern boy. But John is scarred by the Read More

Evangeline

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: According to her autobiography, Dark Lady of the Silents, film star Miriam Cooper brought the idea of filming Longfellow's poem to her then-husband, director Raoul Walsh. She also claims that she originally had little desire to play the title character -- but of course, she wound up in the lead Read More

I'll Say So

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When America enters World War I, New Yorker Bill Durham (George Walsh) tries to enlist, but is rejected for having flat feet. He then gets in a fight with a street corner pacifist and through this meets Barbara Knowles (Regina Quinn). Barbara's guardian, it turns out, is a German spy, who travels Read More

Every Mother's Son

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: While director Raoul Walsh's film was released after World War I, when audiences had grown tired of the subject, the way he approached it is notable. It's refreshingly devoid of propaganda and there are no cliched evil Prussians to be found. It's the simple tale of a mother (Charlotte Walker) who Read More

Woman and the Law

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Slowing down a bit from the previous year, in which he directed six films, Raoul Walsh turned out only five pictures in 1918, the second of which was The Woman and the Law. Based on the then-notorious "Jack DeSaulies Case," the film is divided into two halves. In the first portion, the audience Read More

Prussian Cur

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Both director Raoul Walsh and his wife, actress Miriam Cooper were embarrassed to be involved with this propaganda picture, but they had to follow the edicts of the studio (Fox) that employed Walsh. It does have one point of interest, however -- Captain Horst von der Goltz, who plays the villain Read More

On the Jump

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this propaganda film, athletic silent star George Walsh plays reporter Jack Bartlett, who interviews President Wilson (Ralph Faulkner) regarding the Fourth Liberty Loan. The story never appears in the paper, however, because its new owner, Otto Crumley (Henry Clive), is pro-German. So Jack Read More

Betrayed

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: One of the most overused titles in the history of films, Betrayed was affixed to this early effort from director Raoul Walsh. Miriam Cooper, who at the time was married to the director, stars as Mexican peasant girl Carmelita Carruti. Not the brightest of senoritas, Carmelita falls in love with Read More

The Honor System

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This socially conscious, well-wrought silent drama made an earnest plea for prison reform over two decades before it became a national cause. The film's message still remains powerful today. In order to truly understand the subject, director Raoul Walsh and his buddy Jack Pickford actually stayed Read More

The Silent Lie

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After her marriage to director Raoul Walsh, actress Miriam Cooper -- one of D.W. Griffith's stable of actors -- thought she would retire from the screen. But she wound up performing for her husband in many films over the next several years. A number of them -- The Honor System, for example -- were Read More

The Conqueror

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The oft-told story of Sam Houston's emergence as the "father" of Texas was given an expensive and expansive treatment in the Raoul Walsh production The Conqueror. William Farnum, Fox's Number One male screen attraction, was well cast as General Houston, as was Jewel Carmen as the hero's Read More

The Pride of New York

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This melodrama was one of a long stream of propaganda pictures released by filmmakers during World War I. Even so, the robust tone of war films was well-suited for director Raoul Walsh and his brother, the highly athletic George Walsh. Kelly (George Walsh) is the brawny son of a builder who loves Read More

This Is the Life

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Though no longer a Broadway favorite, Adele Farrington still had what it took to buoy the three reels of Mutual's This is the Life. Based on a series of Saturday Evening Post stories by Charles E. Van Loan, the film casts Farrington as flighty society matron Mrs. Addie Gribble, who becomes Read More

The Innocent Sinner

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Directed by Raoul Walsh, this silent romantic drama follows the love life of Mary Ellen Ellis (Miriam Cooper), a country girl who has fallen for urban cad David Graham (Charles Clary). Mary (Cooper) is quickly drawn into David's (Clary) life of crime and debauchery after she comes to stay with him Read More

The Serpent

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Raoul Walsh both wrote and directed this typically bosom-heaving Theda Bara melodrama about a Russian peasant girl who is violated by a lecherous Grand Duke (Charles Craig). In classic Bara style, the girl turns into a blood thirsty femme fatale and destroys not only the nobleman, but his entire Read More

Blue Blood and Red

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Having completed 13 features in the calendar year 1915, Raoul Walsh took it easy in 1916, directing only three films. The first of these was Blue Blood and Red, which Walsh also produced and wrote, reserving a juicy leading role for his actor brother George Walsh. Expelled from Harvard, wealthy Read More

Pillars of Society

Crew: Director

Synopsis: With Pillars of Society, director Raoul Walsh fulfilled his three-picture commitment for the year 1916. Adapted from the 1877 play by Henrik Ibsen, the film starred Henry B. Walthall in the principal role of Karsten Bernick. Like most of Ibsen's "problem" dramas, the story was predicated on the Read More

Regeneration

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: One of the finest films of the pre-1920 era, The Regeneration was the first truly important directorial effort by Raoul Walsh. Spanning several years, this remarkable social document traces the life and times of Irish-American "child of the slums" Owen Conway (Rockliffe Fellowes), who grows up to Read More

The Birth of a Nation

Actors: Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mae Marsh, Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Ralph Lewis

Synopsis: The most successful and artistically advanced film of its time, The Birth of a Nation has also sparked protests, riots, and divisiveness since its first release. The film tells the story of the Civil War and its aftermath, as seen through the eyes of two families. The Stonemans hail from the Read More

The Dishonored Medal

Synopsis: This tragedy is set in the Algerian desert and begins as a selfish French Foreign Legion officer abandons the native girl he impregnated. Now all she has left of him is the Legion of Honor medal, he gave her. She dies during childbirth and her son is raised by a gentle old Algerian. He too has a Read More

Sands of Fate

The Little Country Mouse

The Second Mrs. Roebuck

Sierra Jim's Reformation

The Great Leap

Synopsis: One year before her "great leap" off a mountaintop in Birth of a Nation, Mae Marsh was cast as the leading lady of The Great Leap. Marsh and Bobby Harron play a pair of young lovers, whose families are engaged in a long-standing feud. Despite the admonishments of their parents, the two continue to Read More

The Availing Prayer