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John Cromwell

John Cromwell

Elwood Dager Cromwell, known as John Cromwell, was an American film and stage director and actor. His films spanned the early days of sound to 1950s film noir, when his directing career was cut short by the Hollywood blacklist.

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Movies Made By John Cromwell (40)

A Matter of Morals (1961)

Alan Kennebeck is unable to accept a brief, realistic romance for what it is. Eventually it leads to his complete moral downfall. Triggered by the factory official Eric Walderman, being a sadistically suave conniver and villain, who babbles a Nietzschean c ...

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The Scavengers (1959)

A former smuggler finds his missing wife in Hong Kong. Marion has fallen in with a bad crowd and is involved with narcotics and stolen government bonds, requiring Stuart to extricate her from her woes. ...

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The Goddess (1958)

A woman adored by the people around her ultimately struggles to be happy with herself. ...

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The Racket (1951)

The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the force, and his loyal patrolman, Johnson, take on the violent Nick. ...

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The Company She Keeps (1951)

A lady con artist sets out to steal her parole officer's fiance. ...

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Caged (1950)

A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison. ...

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Night Song (1948)

A socialite pretends to be poor and blind in her plan to help a blinded pianist. ...

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Dead Reckoning (1946)

War heroes Rip Murdock and Johnny Drake are sent to Washington, D.C, to receive top honors for their service. Johnny, seemingly terrified by the publicity that awaits him, jumps off the train and later turns up dead. Suspecting foul play, Rip begins diggi ...

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Anna and the King of Siam (1946)

In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King. ...

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The Enchanted Cottage (1945)

A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than love. The romantic spirit of the cottage, however, o ...

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Watchtower Over Tomorrow (1945)

Short documentary film about the Dumbarton Oaks plan and the proposed formation of the United Nations. ...

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Guest in the House (1944)

Evelyn, an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor. There she meets and falls in love with his brother, Douglas, who is happily married to Ann. Evelyn then sets forth to break up the happy marriage and win the ...

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Since You Went Away (1944)

In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughters. ...

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Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942)

Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Benjamin working for him as a bonded servant. While he believes the lad was born out of wedlock and so cannot claim the inheritance, he is taking no chances. B ...

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So Ends Our Night (1941)

An anti-Nazi refugee on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence. ...

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Victory (1940)

A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats. ...

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Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States. ...

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In Name Only (1939)

A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife. ...

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Made for Each Other (1939)

A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship. ...

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Algiers (1938)

Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko has become a resident and leader of the immense Casbah of Algiers. French officials arrive insisting on Pepe's capture are met with unfazed local detectives, led by Inspecto ...

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The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)

A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bri ...

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Banjo on My Knee (1936)

A young husband leaves his river shantyboat community in Pecan Point, Tennessee and travels to New Orleans in search of his runaway wife. ...

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To Mary - with Love (1936)

Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keeping them together. ...

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Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)

An American boy turns out to be the heir of a wealthy British earl. He is sent to live with the irritable and unsentimental aristocrat, his grandfather. ...

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I Dream Too Much (1935)

Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evening, the couple marries. Sincerely falling in love, Jonathan encourages the talented Annette to sing — yet when his own attempt at an opera fails, Jonathan ...

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Jalna (1935)

A young poet, accompanied by his new bride, returns home to his large family at their Canadian farm. ...

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Village Tale (1935)

The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love very unhappy. ...

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The Fountain (1934)

Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned British officer, is paroled to the castle of Baron Von Leyden and finds living there, but now married to German officer Rupert Von Narwitz, his childhood sweethe ...

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Of Human Bondage (1934)

A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both. ...

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This Man Is Mine (1934)

The seemingly happy relationship between Tony and Jim is threatened when his manipulative, seductive former fiancee visits. ...

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Spitfire (1934)

Dirt-poor mountain girl Trigger Hicks is a loner. Her faith-healing is mistaken for witchcraft by the community. She falls for an engineer building a dam, who protects her. ...

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Ann Vickers (1933)

After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again. ...

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Double Harness (1933)

After tricking him into marriage, a woman tries to win the love of her philandering husband. ...

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The Silver Cord (1933)

A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She immediately sets to work at sabotaging their marriage as well as the engagement of her younger and weaker son. ...

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Sweepings (1933)

Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the business to his three sons and daughter, but has to deal with their lack of interest or aptitude. ...

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The World and the Flesh (1932)

During the 1917 Russian revolution, a group of artistocrats find themselves in the custody of a brutal Communist revolutionary. He lusts after one of them, a ballerina, and gives her an ultimatum: give in to him or her friends will face the firing squad. ...

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Rich Man's Folly (1931)

The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth to their son. ...

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The Vice Squad (1931)

A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes. ...

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Unfaithful (1931)

In this society drama set in contemporary England, a noblewoman pretends to be an adulteress in order to protect her sister-in-law, who actually is. ...

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Scandal Sheet (1931)

Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife. ...

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Movies Starring John Cromwell (7)

A Wedding (1978)

Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as the Corelli Italian connection is suspect, security guards watch the gifts rather over-zealously, and Din ...

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3 Women (1977)

Two co-workers, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship after becoming roommates. ...

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Top Secret Affair (1957)

A publisher uses her magazine and charm to derail a general on the Washington fast track. ...

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The Arena (1956)

Arriving in Washington, a freshman senator gets an experienced advisor who warns him not to continue a heated feud with his state's senior salon, held over from his father. But later in a drunken jag, he blurts out secret evidence that can end the career o ...

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The Company She Keeps (1951)

A lady con artist sets out to steal her parole officer's fiance. ...

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Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States. ...

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Ann Vickers (1933)

After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again. ...

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